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in a life and death operation on the striker's 

 child when the light was cut off. The 

 child died. Is the Insurance Act to bring 

 about a state of things which will mean 

 that while there will be light there will be 

 no doctor.- And the nation's children will 

 die : This is what the doctors' arguments 

 and tacts must mean. 



The Chivalry ^'^s Ethel Henley does 

 of well to call the attention 



"Honourable" 4" »K 1 r 1 11 



Members. "^ '^"^ P"'^''^^' ^^^''^^'S'' ^'""^ 



columns <jf tlie Slandard, 



to the way our legislators are proceeding 

 with the White Slave Traffic Bill. On 

 passing its second reading, the J3ill, it will 

 be remembered, was entrusted to a Stand- 

 ing Committee of finally 82 members. 

 Miss Henley remarks on the fact that at 

 its seven meetings the attendances were 35, 

 42, 44, 41, 38, 36, 21. More serious than 

 the lack of attendance is the disposition 

 shown to increase the risks of innocent 

 women being entrapped into a worse than 

 living death, in order to diminish the risks 

 of some chance man suffering incon\ enience 

 from a false charge being made against 

 him. We are left to infer that if any 

 Honourable Member who appro\es this 

 course were given the option of himself 

 being apprehended on a false but odious 

 charge, or his sister being decoyed, violated, 

 and imprisoned in a den of loathsome 

 shame and suffering for the rest of her life, 

 lie would j)refer that his sister should be 

 sacrificed. Happily, chivalry is not en- 

 tirely dead even in the male electorate of 

 England, and the constituencies may be 

 trusted to deal with men who thus reveal 

 their standard of honour. A similar mea- 

 sure is now being introdiued into India. 

 \ccording to the Hon. \\', (\ .Maduc, in 

 I he Jiidiaii V'/wev — 



If the feasonalilf bcvcrities inlroduccil iiilu the Knijlisli l^iil |,a.| 



licTii anlicipalecl, the proceeding proposed under the Indi.ui 

 liiU might well have been m.ide more stringent. 



Any person reasonably suspected of making money over the 

 degradation of an imported woman may be arrested without 

 warrant, but bailed out, and, on production before the 

 magistrate having jurisdiction, be heard on his defence, and, 

 if convicted, deported ; and on repetition of the ofience, or even 

 for reappearing in India, be imprisoned with hard labour. 



The remark suggests the vast influence 

 for good or evil which the standard set by 

 the Home Parliament exerts abroad. Mr. 

 Madge expresses the hope that "when the 

 Bill is on the anvil, its penalties will be 

 made severer and more deterrent." He 

 says it is undeniable that European victims 

 are still imported into India, while the 

 trade in Japanese girls has grown apace. 

 He rightly adds that the importation of a 

 white woman into India aims a more deadlv 

 blow at British |)restige than any sedition. ' 

 Many suggestions have 

 been advanced for a fit- 

 ting memorial of our late 

 Chief. Several are already 

 realisation. The lai-gest 

 las the approval of a con- 

 siderable number of influential and repre- 

 sentative men and women, is now beint^ 

 made public. It is based on the fact that 

 in many towns in England, and also in 

 other countries, there is no properly super- 

 vised safe and sanitary hostel for wo.men 

 and girls. F'or men there are the Rowton 

 Houses and Workmen's Homes. This sad 

 omission lay heavy on the heart of our late 

 Chief. He summoned a conference on the 

 subject at his own home, and his interest in 

 it sustained the ])ioneers of the movement 

 which has now taken the form of the 

 National Association for \\'omen's Lodging 

 Homes. The promoters proceed : — 



IliL- internation.-il char.ic'er of Mr. Stead's work is well 

 known, and therefore it is propose.! to raise an inlern.ilional 

 memorial fund which will be available for founding lodging 

 liiiincs for women li> be walled the " .Sle.id Hostels. ' 



< )ftcn Ihe initial cost of starling a hostel is the grealesl obstacle 

 10 be overcome, as lo.al inicro^i can be obtained if ihig cost h 



"Stead Hostels." 



m [)rocess of 

 scheme, which 



