WOMEN AT WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 271, 18 January 1918, Page 15

WOMEN AT WORK.

The women of the London Local Council have been very active in an organised effort to prevail upon the Government to grant furloughs to the few remaining men of the first Canadian Contingent, who have already served three years on active service. Judge Mclnnis, of the Vancouver Judicial District, has established a precedent for Canada by appointing a woman, Mrs \Y. 11. Griffin, President of the Local Council of Women, to a tribunal for the carrying out of the Military Service Act. Other members of the Board are: Judge Grant, Police Magistrate; H. C. Shaw; K. H. McVeity, former President of the Trades and Labour Council; Laughlan McLean, and ex-Alderman J. I). Byrne. Five States in America have eleven women in their State Legislatures, Washington has one, Montana two, Arizona three, l tah has four, and Oregon one. WOMEN POLICE. In England in last July there were 612 police women, distinct from women patrols. Their training consists of drill, attendance at Police Courts to learn the procedure of the Court, first aid, lectures on Acts relating to women and children, patrolling, and domiciliary visiting. The Police Report says: “We are able to report many cases where the police women have given instructions and advice to women, who will come gladly to a fellow-woman for help, but who would not be induced to apply to the male police. Wc think that the existence of a large force of trained police women throughout the country would tend to dispel a great deal of the ignorance shown by women of the laws affecting women and children, and would act favourably on the protection of children.” Rescue work is a speciality of the police woman, and many sad cases have been attended to by them. Miss Roberta McAdams has been elected a member of the Alberta Legislature by the soldiers’ vote overseas. Miss McAdams went to England with the Ontario Base Hospital, and there she evidently earned the gratitude of a powerful electorate.

At a grea: party Convention held at Winnipeg, women delegates sat for the first time in Canada.

Mrs J. 11. Mac Gill, who has recently been appointed assistant to the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Vancouver, is a well-known journalist. She has turned her attention to reforms and investigating laws which relate to women and children.

In Seattle lately, in a case where a photographer was charged with displaying indecent pictures in his window, the Deputy Pr»s°cutor insisted that haif the jury should be women.

The municipal suffrage for women in the Cape Province has been *xtended, allowing women to sit on Municipal Councils.

The King of Italy has honoured Lady Helena Gleichen and Mrs Nina Hollings, joint commandants of one of the radio-graphic un ts maintained in Italy by the British Red Cross, by presenting them personally with the Italian bronze medal for valour.

At the annual meeting of the Queensland National Count il of Women, Mrs E. B. Harris, Vice-Pre-sident-at-Large of ihe Australasian Women’s Christian Temperance Union, was honoured by being elected President, and Mrs W. H. Carvosso and Miss Griffith Vice-Presidents.

When Russia appointed her Count il of Sixty-one to prepare Russia’s Con stitution. Women’s interests were represented by a woman, Dr. Schischkina Yavein, head of the Russian Woman Suffrage Association. In this matter darkest Russia has once more beaten our own most enlightened Empire.

Many visiting Commissions have visited America since her entrance into the great war. French, English, Italian, and Russian all came and went, but the very significant feature was this, that the Russian was the only Commission to include women in its ranks.

The Detroit: College of Medicine and Surgery, after fifty years of “male exclusiveness,” decided at a recent faculty meeting to admit women to their courses-

Miss Jeanette Rankin made Iter maiden speech when moving an amendment to the Administration’s Food Bill, proposing that “the Secretary of Agru ulture shall, far as is practicable, engage the services of women for tin* work herein provided for.” Her speech was convincing, and the amendment w s carried unanimously. All parties in the House gave her a great ovation, both when she rose and when she sat down. It is admitted that Paris post women can deliver more mail and faster than postmen.