A CALL TO WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1922, Page 4

A CALL TO WOMEN.

CHANCE TO SAVE HUMANITY. NEED FOR BROTHERHOOD. Since the war it was the tendency, especially among women, to deteriorate, and at the present time there was a great call to the women of the worm to save humanity, declared the Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Averill), when speaking to the girls at St. Mary's School, Stratford, yesterday afternoon. Everyone, he said, was grasping at their rights and forgetting their duties and responsibilities. Instead of people criticising those things with which they did not agree they should inquire into them, and their criticism would probably fall to the ground. What was needed most in the world was the spirit of fellowship and brotherhood. There wa* a tendency to slip back into the system of cliques and divisions, which we had hoped the war would break down. We needed something more of the spirit of the trenches. It was a mistake to excise the German language from our educational system, he added. If it was necessary to use the German language it was necessary to employ a German, and this was largely responsible for the peaceful penetrations of the Germans before the war. Important as ancient Greek and Roman history might be, he thought it would be better if the children were taught the ways and habits of the present day and neighboring nations, so that they could be understood. This was one of the great ways in which the national hatred and warlike spirit could be broken down.