Thoughts in a Post Office
HE morning programmes at 1YA are sometimes better than the printed page suggests. Now and then there is a good recorded taik, unlisted, such as one given recently by Caroline Webb as a tribute to Eleanor Rathbone, who died a few weeks ago. In England, where graduates have their own Parliamentary representatives. the universities have confounded popular superstition about their unworldliness by electing people who blow keen winds of: common sense through the problems of everyday life. There was A. P. Herbert, for instance, who forced England to laugh with him at the fantastic divorce laws-and to amend them. There was Eleanor Rathbone, Independent Member for the Combined Universities since 1929, who refused to believe that the country could not afford a higher standard of living for its lower-paid workers; and who insisted that both justice and expediency required that the family income should bear some proportion to the number of dependent children. For the greater part of her
working life she thrust forward the principle of family endowment with simple and devastating logic, and did more than any other one person to overcome the hostility and ridicule it met. Next month New Zealand mothers will collect their first universal family endowment payment. There may be a short queue in the post office and time for a few minutes’ reflection. That is the moment when Eleanor Rathbone might wish to be remembered.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 10
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237Thoughts in a Post Office New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 10
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