Evening star., 1932-01-21

II Of Of 100000 pesetas lsss,oo0l to to
for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of It's respective athletes
who will take part in the next Olympic
contests, to be held in California, in
the United States, next year. The
games will be held near the old Span
ish city of Los Angeles, which should be
an inspiration to our national con-
glory of Spain in what is now foreign
land. Selections will be made from
hundreds Of strong and agile sports
lovers who have been training for these
events for years, and some of the
triumphs will undoubtedly go to Span
ish contenders. for in prowess and in
trepidity Spaniards have never been
inferior to any other race.
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Frenchwomen's
Right to Work Defended.
LIE Matin, Paris-It Is claimed that
part Of the trend toward an unbal-
anced industrial state In France Is due
to the displacement of men by women,
not only in labor, but also in intel
lectual and professional pursuits But
what are the facts? OF late there has
been an energetic campaign In favor
OF more equal civil rights for women
with men in France Tabulations dis
tributed by interested agencies have
shown that in very recent days there
were seven women professors on the
university faculties of this country,
300 women practicing at the bar, about
1000 women doctors and 100000
women working as stenographers, clerks
and other assistants In the Offices Of
government.
If woman's primal sphere is the
home, and her function caring for the
family, 1t would not appear from these
figures that many have deserted their
traditional posts. There has been,
paradoxicslly enough, a persistent
clamor for higher feminine education.
Why stress this modern anomaly II her
only activities must be the domestic
and the maternal2 In italy the law
forbids the depriving of woman of her
employment and Of her salary for the
sole reason that she Is married Are
we to be less considerate in France?
In a country where there are five
and one-half millions OF women, either
spinsters, widows or divorcees-and
some, alas In still more pitiable sit
uatlon OF abandoned motherhood, not
to mention households where the SAL
ary is insufficient, or spent by the hus-
Daiiu Al CdodIcbS-S IL JuSI tIlhI tIlcSc
women, and their children, numbered
by the thousands, be condemned to
death by an interdiction against female
employment
We are Of those that think the first
right and duty as well as the greatest
joy, of married woman is to have
children, and that she should prefera-
bly, occupy herself with such cares and
privileges We think that 1t Is the duty
of husband to work and provide for
his family. But we believe, too, that
in this modern life these respective
ideals cannot invariably be adhered to
and that when circumstances defeat
or impede such natural desires, either
the man or the woman should have
the right to carry on In whatever
capacities are yet available for them,
for the preservation OF their moral and
material security.
1t is certainly not logical that in
such circumstances women of culture.
ability and character should be robbed
Of the opportunity to function in the
useful roles for which their qualifica-
tions have fitted them. Any woman
has the right to work when it is neces-
sary or expedient and that right is in
contestable the insouciances of an un-
charitable public Notwithstanding.