SUMMER SCHOOL FOR MAGISTRATES AND CITIZENS
[To the Editor of the Sencrtvron.1 SIR,—We shall be very grateful if you would give us the hos- pitality of your columns to draw the attention of your readers to the Summer School for Magistrates and Citizens which is being held by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, at St. Hilda's Hall, Oxford, from August 25th to September 8th.
A very large proportion of the subjects which will be dis- cussed are of particular interest in that they deal with fresh legislation on matters still before Parliament, or with subjects on which special inquiries are being held. Thus, in the section dealing with the Administration of Justice (convened by Miss Margery Fry, J.P.) will be discussed : The Criminal Justice Bill, Legal Aid for Poor Persons, Penal Reform and Experi- ments in other Countries, Maintenance of Wives and Children and the Abolition of the Solicitation Laws. The lecturers include Dr. Hamblin Smith, W. Clarke Hall, Esq., J.P., Miss Eleanor Rathbone, J.P., and G. B. Bryson, Esq., J.P.
During the week also Lord Astor will speak on the Liquor (Popular Control) Bill, and Miss Eleanor Rathbone on Family Allowances. Professor Carr Saunders and Mrs. Stocks will deal with the problem of Population, and Miss Constance Smith with Women in Industry.
The second week will be mainly devoted to the discussion of Party Government and the Ideals of each Political Party. Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan will speak on the Ideals of the Conservative Party. Mr. W. T. Layton on the Ideals of the Liberal Party and Mr. Brailsford on the Ideals of the Labour Party. Dr. Marie Stopes will speak in favour of Birth Control and Dr. Isabel Pulteney against it, and Captain Reiss will lecture on Housing.
Men and women of every party and of every school of thought will be welcome ; rooms at St. Hilda's Hall may be engaged at £3 10s. a week. Application should be made to the Secretary, 15 Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W. 1, as soon as possible.—! am, Sir, &c.,
EVA M. HUBBACK, Parliamentary Secretary.
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