OUR " SURPLUS " WOMEN
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—With reference to the large surplus of women in the United Kingdom it may be well to consider that in Western Canada—that is, the three Prairie Provinces and British Columbia—there are roughly 200,000 more men than women, many of whom arc men from England and Scotland, now farming and particularly desirous of obtaining a wife but cannot. The Australian census will show a somewhat similar difference in the sexes. That this enormous number of women and men are doomed to celibacy is truly pathetic, not to say bad policy from an Empire settlement view, unless something is done, and that promptly, to remedy the matter.
The loss of so many of our fine young men in the War, I need hardly say, was calamitous; but thoughtlessly to waste an even greater number of our women is, to say the least, positively foolish, when a remedy could be found without serious difficulty. Mock modesty must be eliminated and the matter handled with plain business methods.—I am,
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