WOMAN'S WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 267, 18 September 1917, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORK.

WOMAN ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT. For the hrst time a woman has been allowed to s|>eak in the Swedish Parliament. The pioneer was Miss Kva Anden, LL.B., and a barrister, with an office of her own. She had been invited to speak on the demand of women with regard to the Govcrnnient's Bill concerning children born out of wedlock. WOMEN POLICE. The Colonial Secretary in Western Australia has decided to appoint two women |>olire on similar conditions to those in Sydney. Women hold the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington, Colorado, Idaho, and W voming. A Berlin report says that out of 571) branches of the metal industry in Rhineland and Westphalia, 352 have introduced woman's labour since the war. American railroads facing a shortage of clerks due to enlistment, have employed quite a number of women in the clearing houses and in car shop offices. Cannot New Zealand send her Minister of Railways and Genera! Manager over to the States for a few lessons on how to run our railways on business lines? They don’t encourage people to I ve in the suburbs and then refuse .1 train to take the girls home from business on the late night. South Carolina Medical College has decided to admit women students on equal terms with men. Manitoba is the hrst province in Canada to grant widows' pensions. Mother police in New York number 500. It is composed primarily of mothers, and is for the protection of young girls. They act as unpaid assistants to the regular police. Georgia has appointed the hrst woman probation officer. She is present at every meeting of the Juvenile Court, and decides whether young offenders shall have punishment or probation.

A Westport bank has appointed a woman teller. We believe this is the first appointment of a woman teller in the Dominion. Mrs Edith Roseerans has been appointed attorney for Blairstown township. Her husband is counsel for the county. Wyoming has elected a woman .is State Superintendent of Public I list met ion. Two women were chosen as members of the Board of Trustees of the State l Diversity, four women were elected county clerks, two county treasurers, and 18 county sui>erintende nts of schools. In a certain Chicago bank, having deposits of more than a million d >l- - the savings department is presided over by a woman. This department is run entirely under her dire< tion, and for all its additions and improvements she is sponsor. She manages all the advertising, the soliciting for accounts among big corporations, the placement of all the advertising in the press; in fact, nothing comes in or goes out, no question arises in the course of the operation of the large business of the day, but is carefully considered by her. It was a woman, Mrs Annette Adams, Assistant United States District Attorney, who made the Government’s closing argument in the case against Franz Bopp, German ConsulGeneral in San Francisco, for conspiracy to violate American neutrality. Fen the first time in the history of the Dental College of the Ohio State University a woman has been admitted as a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon Fraternity, Beta Chapter. The following resolution has been wired to President Wilson:—“Resolved that the members of the 1 Women’s City Club strongly urge the* Army Department to take* immediate steps to rid the army of the saloon and the prostitute. We believe, in taking this stand, we express the sentiment of the mothers o * the nation.” Canada has 30,000 women employed in army work as cooks, waitresses, motor drivers, and similar occupations.

Mrs John Corbin, Indiana, served as election officer, the first one in her county to do so. Mr Calder, speaking at a meeting of tlu- VE. Valley School Committee, said that after the ir experience of Mrs Begg and Mrs Arthur on the Committee*, they would advise every School Committee to have one or two ladies among its members. At a large meeting held under the joint auspices of the Birmingham Women’s Suffrage Society and the National Union of Women Workers, it was unanimously resolved to ask the Birmingham Watch Committee to consider wit).out delay the desirability of appointing wom ti police officers for their city, as had already been done with entirely satisfactory results in all other cities in the* Kingdom. “Whe n the Tariff Bill is introduced in Congress, I will study it to see if it means the protection of the workers, and if it does I will support it.” — Miss Jeanette Rankin. The Moscow University, the oldest and most authoritative university in the Empire, has decided to admit women students on the same terms as men. The United Kingdom now employs women .ts c onductors on the tube railways, and as lock-keepers. A woman has been placed in c harge of the electric lighting station at Bradc hurc h. Miss Jackson, aged iq, has defeated Mr Wilkinson, aged 51, in a ploughing match at Wainfleet, Lincolnshire. At Valley Centre, Kansas, the women are to rule for two years. They have elected Mayor and City Council, and propose* to show what women can do. The Mayor is a Miss, and the new Police Judge* is a Mrs. At De Soto, in the* same State, a woman was elected Probate Judge. The woman-power of the nation, properly organised, can give us the strength which will enable us to run the last lap and secure for ourselves and our children an honourabh* and lasting peace. Mr Neville Chamberlain.