Correspondence.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 277, 18 July 1918, Page 11

Correspondence.

(The Editor is not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.)

(To the Editor.) Dear Madam, —Don't you think it would be delightful to have a separate infant school for each large school ? Wouldn’t it be gratifying to have a beautiful room for each class of thirty small children, and, if we only h.*d adequate floor space in each room, what marches and games we could have indoors on wet days, and how convenient the floor area would be for little dramas, charades, and other alluring educative occupations! I should like chairs for very small tots, because these would be more comfortable, and a baby covld love a chair much more easily than a form which holds five other babies, and can’t be moved about. Then, dear Mrs Editor, if a really good train 'd teacher were found for every class, what stories could be told just at the right time! With what definiteness of aim eac h lesson could be taught! Think of the joyous response of the babi°s, and what a glad, happy time the little darlings could have. Wouldn’t it be splendid if something could be done for the benefit of the tiny tots so that they might have th/? most joyous and helpful time it is possible to give them P Joy is like beautiful <-.unMiine which has been stored up and is laughing its way out again into the world, making everything sweeter and more wholesome Dear Mrs Ednor, will vou ask the authorities to do some hing more for the babies? They will be sure to listen to you and do what vou ask. I am, etc., KIT A.

(To the Editor.) Dear Madam,- Mrs Atkinson’s letter in your last issue, re i solutions (, and 7 drawn up in connection with the recent Women’s Protest Meeting, is calculated to create an impression unwarranted by facts. May l briefly explain that it was brought to our notice the evening before the meeting that a small section of women in ended to oppose strenuously anything that they consider'd refleted injuriously on the methods of the police or on the magisterial attitude towards the Kelburn case. As the main object of the protest meeting was the exposure of a legal system whic h sanctions a double standard of morality, and which imposes punishment on women only for an offence in which man and woman is equally involved, Lady Stout decided not to jeopardise the object of the meeting by an insistence on the discussion of an unpopular side issue, whose withdrawal would not be inimical to the principle

at stake. At the eleventh hour, therefore, she tactfully withdrew r< s >!utions 6 and 7, thus avoiding the hysterical outburst from polic e supporters. There was no time before the mooting to communicate with the various women’s societies throughout the country, explaining whv two resolutions were eliminated, but they were informed afterwards. Vo society, however, would be likelv to slavishly adopt all .the resolutions suggested. As a matter of fact, there were some who, while in agreement on the main points, diff red slightly on some point of detail, and accordingly reconstructed the resolution so as to embody the difference. We may rest assure d that no resolution was carried anywhere without careful consideration b' ; ng first given to it by those thinking women who are battling for the uplifting of humanity and the observance of the Golden Rule. —I am, etc., L. A. HAVER SON.