To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Srr,—Will you allow me, through the columns of your paper, to call attention of the American Woman's Club, the British Women's Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Woman's University and College Club, and any other body of organized women in Shanghai to a communication from the Shanghai Municipal Council, which was published in the Municipal Gazette, with reference to women: being eligible to election to the Council?
The Council sent out a. list (supposedly a full list) of all ratepayers who were eligible to office before the election.
I wrote and asked why no women's names were in the list. The answer was that women: are eligible and in "the future" (1) their names will be given.
I put the question mark after "future" to suggest the thought that if such names occur in the future lists, why not in the past? I want also to suggest that this fact, that the Council went over its list of eligibles and deliberately dropped out every woman's name, indicates that a woman should be on that Council to look after women's interests, since half of the world's population is women.
There are questions now, of vital importance to women, which can only reach solution by appealing to the "powers that be," and women should be a part of that power.
Cannot these various organizations unite in seeing that women's interests are guarded?
I am, etc., Marearer H. Por.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.