"We are teachers and we are women," she continued. "I have thanked Mr. H. G. Wells for his insistence on the importance of education. Now I must denounce him for a great disservice td the women's cause. He has recently published a novel called "Brynhild," and speaking through the mouth of Brynhild he finally decides that no public work, no career, no profession is really worth while for a woman—her only satisfaction will be achieved in the bearing of children, We have never denied that the bearing of children and their successful upbringing is a fine achievement, But we assert and reassert that every sphere of activity must be open to women—that the fundamental right to choose and so to be a free agent is as much a necessity for life for women as men. Years ago a fine woman, Olive Schreiner, made a challenging cry to the world in her book Woman and Labour" We claim all labour for our province,' she exclaimed, and we would echo her cry in these days."
Miss Teece, who has been seriously ill for some time, travelled from her home- in Manchester against her doctor's orders to deliver her presidential address, She will return home to-day Dr. A, C. Edwards, principal of Swansea University College, who joined in the civic welcome to the conference, maintained that the future safety of democracy was much more in the keeping of elementary-schoo! teachers than in that of any other group of people.
One of the most essential qualities for the rising generation, he added "is the possession ofa greater interest in public affairs, especially relating io social problems, and more appreciation of the obligations of citizenship. It is in your power to sow the seeds and cultivate the growth of those ideals.
Mr, T. J. Rees, Director of Education for Swansea, welcomed the conference in Welsh.
I think, he said, "that our English friends should have the opportunity of hearing the language which tradition regards as the language of the Garden of Eden, and which, we are informed on the best ecclesiastical authority, is going to be the language of Paradise.
Mr, Rees thought that this was the first time that the union had held its conference in Wales.
No, shouted several delegates, we were at Cardiff.
Oh, Cardiff, retorted Mr. Rees, Cardiff is not in Wales. Cardiff is merely a cosmopolitan village about forty miles east of us. It is the capital of everything else but Wales-
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