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—— - oo ec esters —— - = a oe 4 $5 am TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918 Woman Inferior to Man? _ Eleanor Gates Argues TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918 How the Presidents of the U. S. Have Carried The Worries of Our Wars ° WASHINGTON, Commander in Chief of Our Armies in the Revolution, Had His Troubles With Congress, Graft, Spies and Tories— ADAMS, in the Brief War With France, Had Factions to Reconcile—MADISON, in 1812, Fought an Unpopular War, Hampered by Pacifiats and Secession iste—POLK, in the War With Mexico, Was Weaker Than His Problema—LINCOLN, in the Civil War, Had Foes North and South and a Divided Coun- try to Reunite—M’KINLEY, in the War With Spain, Had the Handicapof Unpreparedness. By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) HIPYARD snarls, Congressional squabbles, anti-Administration cabals, pacifism, foreign spies, transportation muddies, railroads, munition supplies, obstructionists of every breed—these are a few of the problems that make President Wilson's job look like the hardest in all history. It és a job, of course, that calls for thirty hours’ work a day and for ninety hours of planning per night. It is probably the very toughest Job on record. But our country has never yet bad a war, big or little, | | Her Sex Equally Capable of Friendships, She Asserts —Woma 1| Has a Sense of Humor, Logical Brains and Is No | Gossip—Whatever Her Faults, They Are Due to Man, Who Inspired Them. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright. 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Everling World) RE women inferior to men? Even to-day there exists a sort of literary conspiracy {n sup- port of that contention, Eleanor Gates, dramatist and feminist, Points out in the first of a brilliant series of articles in the current number of Books and Authors, And here is the eet of men-made assumptions about women which Misg Gates finds at once most popular and most unfair? Women are incapable of friendships. Women have no sense of humor. Women have not logical brains Women are the gossips Women are gurious. Women are ignorant and empty-headed ELEANOR | | WOMEN DO NOT LAUGH AT JOKES | THAT ARE CRUEL : which did not throw upon the shoulders of the President an avalanche MEN Worse SN SET: hoe Daly wane Sr Seine eaeinen remorse : aig * sy er f e lage ce oa almost as great, in thelr way, as thone that Wilson \s GOSSIPS THAN Women are the vain sex, and all of them are afraid to tell their age. WOMEN Women are the spiteful sez. Women are the inconsistent, | Women are cowardly, Women are social climbers. Women are legitimate material for scorn when they seek to choose @ mate. WOMEN ARE VERY BRAVE Lincoln, of course, comes to mind first; with tho mighty problems that stamped upon his face and sow a melancholy that never was effaced. At the very dawn of Lincoln's Presidency, the Union aplit in two, And his life-problem was to piece It together again. Not only had he to face the open foe at the South, but the rank Copperhead and Ob- structionist and Pro-Slavery Party at the North. The draft was needful. Yot {t brought on bloody riots. Extremists of both parties were forever clamoring in his ears and pointing out a dozen divergent roads for his policy to travel. Assassination plots were rife. So were conspiracies to HEN I had finished reading the Jist 1 decided that the best refuta- tion probably could be obtained from Miss Gates herself. There- fore I went to her apartment at No. 106 Weet 55th Street and said to” kidnap the President DDED to all this was the harder problem of preventing European nations from forming alliances with the South against the Union. As knotty was the problem cf the “psychological moment" for declaring , the slaves free. By being too early or too late with the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln knew the document’s value would be destroyed. ‘The last and most tremendous problem of all was that of butiding up and welding the reunited country at the Olvil War's end. Lincoln was the blue-eyed, dynamic person I found there: “Please appear in defense of women. First of all do you believe they are Incapable of friendship, as you have found charged so often?” “Do you?” demanded Miss Gates. I don't, for one excellent reason—a woman friend of mine—and I said as much, “To-day there are the most wonderful friendships between women,” declared Miss Gates earnestly. “There may have been such friendships in the past, but for centuries thore were no women writers to serve as Press agents for their sex, and consequently there are no records of female Davids and Jonathans. “In the past too the competition between woman and woman was intense, Getting a husband was the only business permitted, and, from the nature of things, almost every woman was the business rival of almost every other. Nor did women know women as they do to-day. Their goings and comings were so ¢ircumsertbed; I remember that tn my great-grandmother's time it was a woman's boast that she only left her home'to go to church. Now that women know each other and need not Invariably fight for the possession of a male, they are loyally friendly. at work on that Herculean task when a bullet drove the solution into | ether ahd less capable hands, WOMEN ARK SPENDTHRIE TS’ Tho War of 1812 threatened to divide our country and forever to onky BECAUSM MOST THEMeTED ANG LEAST TAUGHT | wreck the Union. Not through the power of the foo, but through the | machinations of American factions. The war was unpopular from tho | ~_ Start. President Madison had not only the problem of fighting the in- vaders, but of keeping wholo sections of the United States from seced- ing. New England (though {t was the cradle of American liberty) openly hinted at secession if the war were pressed. Yankeo troops, sent | to invade Canada, halted at the torder, stubbornly rofusing to net foot | on foreign soil. Pacifists everywhere clogged the Government's move- | ments, The “Indian question,” too, was revived as an active war Jesue. | Madison was cursed as a coward and still more loudly cursed as a Mngoist. The army was in a wretched state of unpreparedness. During the Revolution, of course, there was no President. Put George Washington, as Commander-in-Chief, was assailed by practi cally every problem that now confronts Wilson. A Congressional cabal impeded bis every step. Opposition statesmen assailed him. He had to crush graft in a score of forms. He could not make people cut down their living expenses to help feed the army. Spies were everyw aes ‘(OMEN have no sense of humor.’ " ; ond clause of the indictment | “Women are charged with having no sense of humor,” she ex- plained, “because they do not laugh at all the jokes men find funny. It is true that women are too kind to laugh at the jokes that are cruel, that are lineally descended from the daye when physical deformity and pain were held -to be screamingly funny. Nor will women laugh at in decent Jokes. When to these two kinds you add all the senescent jokes Miss Gates took up the sec ore, | WomMEeEN ARE VAIN (sta vied with Tories to wreck him. As for preparedness—except WOMEN SHOULD becuse MEN make which the old-fashioned cartosnists still make about women themselves ong a few wise patriots it was a Joke PROPOSE i m®? THEM SO ‘ you have not left very much humor for amusing women ‘AFTER the Revolution was won and Washington came to the Presi- yes aa “As for the fIlogicality of women, it seems to me that they are re dency a new war problem staggered him. England was at war with ‘ f , | lentlessly logical, It {8 men, not women, who declaim on one page + France. A strong party in tho United States demanded that we take if Hin ani 5 saa Seng about the sin of birth control and on the next page write of starving sides in the confict. Washington refused, warning the country against — ——————— mend = — acamemiasinad ” - - a, children in our schools and bread-lines In our streets. It 1s men, not “entangling foreign alliances.” He was barely able to keep us out of s women, who scold women for being so careless as to do their marketing the war. And as a reward he was enccred at in the public prints as Mutteri ngs A bout Mu tts ’ by phone and then who deliberately gamble with the food of babies cowardly and ungrateful. In despair he said: And ft is women who always have upheld that crystalline piece of logic, “I have only once regretted accepting the Presidency. And that a the single standard of morality. Was every moment since I took office!” re. 7 r 4 Es 5 MEN are ” Wis euccessor, Jotin Adana, met with © like set of probleme éurine i It All Started With an Egg, Though Mutts Don’t Generally Come That Way eeyyyo Aa sew aoa pe ie, mie 2s, ele our very brief sea war with France, Again the country was rent into There Are Many Kinds of Mutts, and All of Them Are Not Four-Legged | We were thinking of all the etories involving reputations told to us factions, which Adama had to reconcile as best he coud, He was mak- Formerly Dogs in Sausages Were Accidental. but Now, Since the Kaiser ‘In strictest confidence” by men, and usually with the addendum, “Of ing very heavy weather of it when the war came to an abrupt end 5 5 ay % A |; course I only tell you this because you're too nice a girl to know so- through a change of rulerahip tn France. Began to Imagine Himself a Carbon Copy of Napoleon, They Are Occi- andan!! HB Mexican War gave President James K. Polk a series of prob- dental and May Reach America Despite the Chow Commish. | “It a girl does something which isn't pretty,” observed Miss Gates, lems thet threw himself and his whole political party out of power. > _ = | “every other girl hears of {t first from her brother—‘to protect her.’ For he was & politician, not a true statesman perl dealt Bi his BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. | But then, men are so clever in finding the correct motivation for their problems after the selfish fashion of an uninspired politician, The war Rye eres Ft i Co. (The New York Brening World.) We have enough mutts over here to supply a mutt convention and also | acts! was unpopular with the country at large. It was hard to make men Ta Food Administration is gomething like the amiab! wyesion IM GA apa Rene Ge OE Ge neeee tt ce tieee | hiererReniacd fate “Women used to be awful gossips, just as they used to be curious, enifst. It was harder to stir up a single thrill of national enthusiasm Agured that 4 wildcat's tad! was a handle and not a tall, After quadruped mutts here, but also the Kind who slisgle around gn two | {na petty sense, and ignorant. They gossiped and pried mostly be- The new-born war threatened to injure the prestige of Polk and of bis ,, ne srabbed the untamed foline’s tail like a BR. T, strap be | jegs, ‘There is the mutt who reverses telephone calla, the mutt who cause they WERE ignorant. They could not read and write for co party. He met this problem by trying to discredit bis political foes didn’t have anything left in his ropertoire for an encore. If he held {rons out your bunions in the subway, the bird who accuses the drug long, and therefore they talked more. Modern women take thelr gos- He did it by sending the other party's best man down to Mexico at the on to the tall Be 'wan a cooked goating aad! ff he laf go he was a gone clerk of making an illegal profit on the sale of a penny stamp, the fish | sip in the form of newspapers, magazines and books head of a ridiculously small force (about 4,000 men) to wage the war, gander, Hither way, he was sure to be nominated for the office, ‘The Who Stays in a telephone booth long erfough to pay rent and the mutt “Why should not women be spendthrifts? Are they not continually unsupported, against all Mexico. Thus the brunt of failure and of un. Chay Commish is that gente twin Srother since they grabbed the | wno oslebrates two OLEhAYS at the box bitice window whtte buying ous tempted to spend more money than they ehould by men who sell popularity would fall on this man and on his party Ss question by the tail, They can't Agure whether to assuayinate | sioKot . ‘ things? And women go often are not trained to handle money thriftily, The man he sent was Zachary Taylor, who proceeded to win a | “l tie Hens ov let ‘om Unger | All of us would probably be entitled to at least one booth in the | elther by their mothers or thelr husbands. eeries of brilliant victories against terrible odds. ‘These victories made He the Grub Bynidioate doesn't eancel the Nene’ careers they wit! Mutt Show, because if we don't mutt on one thing we are eure to mutt “T am perfectly willing to admit that women are more eager for Taylor @ national hero and buried Polk tn oblivion, ‘The opposition ala lee SAG ifthe Pood Moan Masascres ail the hang | 6. g, ‘The line forma on the right and first place goes to the the marriage ceremony than men, and I think that fact dectdedly to elected Taylor President by a huge majority. Chere wonts Be Any oy If'wo allow the hens to jay ea, tho cold mute who alwnyelcomen tate and asks the fellow neat thi head io? the the credit of women, They are the natural conservators of the race. You recall, don’t you, the problems that beset McKinley before and mabe S Une oil wrab Jere allan: We Wonk ath ame Ad AE 9 Hino to buy hin ticket, They do not think of momentary gratification, but of children and their @uring and after the Spanish War of 1898? Tirst, whether or not to BrOnInIN, Hend| from ng eggs we won't get any oltt The public — — ~ | protection yield to the popular clamor for war, and to sift justice out of a mass of ethene pias Bee eer ee en Ae OEE: The Inventor of the Reaper “If'women are the vain séx, it 1s men who have made them so conflicting testimony. Then he had to cope with a rank unpreparedness ae Ie eeu SWE Rite Groen toe Cena ema eee A , shai p . | Biologically speaking, the male should be vainer than the female, de- that sent men to the tropics in thick clothes and with damaged rations fi Nag 4 ce ames Te Hp i w a Bet ated sy A this t ime f world wide od |for many years, but McCormick, ea cause, biologically speaking, {t is his Job to please the female, not hers and bad hospital facilities.» Next came the wrangles between command eleouwas ifane't j RESO ere es seo mak AAS a pore ee eal aka Ho ae a ale tote autda | ‘2 please him. Only in human society 1s this rule reversed érs (as in the Schley-Sampeon controversy), which must be adjudicated. |v, nye venruasivttattes cat Wrong Derry. “They have:ouy ancien utidt adhe ne save Pia ieh caeenbiiicne cel ‘The taking of the military census and similar registrations have And, after that, the status of the Guba we had freed and of the Philip re ae "i ry fc f ike = i alos thewwungey je nani tote Gel ine aca: (onter carc i ndon exhibition in 1851 the Me-| Proved that men, as well as women, are afratd to tell their age, or do Pines we had bought. Ay in Lincoln's case, an assasin'’s bullet took | [scone have lwor ee NAN NNO ANGE HS ean (Carus Hall Steck n|Cormick and Hussey machines were| 0t lke to tell it.” the final settlement of these tangles out of McKinley's hands. . Re eatenitca in Walnut Grove, Va, 109 y o. given a competitive trial, and McCor- “Personally, | think it's 60 much wiser to tell one's age and then In other and lesser wars our Presidents have had other (and per dice die ek ; now ks Occidental. lhii4 father was a machinist and in-|mick was awarded the medal, At a| be congratulated on not looking it,” 1 remarked, and Miss Gates sald haps lesser) problems to fight. And #0 it must be while warfare en; | A watian teadora Baws y poleon, 4088 | ventor, and had worked for y¢ later trial, however, when Hussey was| she knew many women who agree with me. dures upon the earth, The glory of being a war President is a million iieoreruret out atti have been making | grain reaping machine, Wh ) ngland to demonstrate his machine “Women cannot be more spiteful than men repeatedly prove them: times pi by es pre ms that are well nigh above the power of un- out of a cotillon lew Lots of great men have b« t SSIES was twenty-one he took ene Avene: decided 18, Ale ake Me selves in politics,” she continued, “and inconsistency ts a human, not inspired human brains to solve. af P r . eaders. | father’s work and perfecte : Cormic! le i . . fei hear tia Se sabes faiieast catdacede ae mats spite sole of 1 " st art. And that's where they » Och patinn a eit Ae a machine and became famous asa phil-| * = trait veaven ; oe dent who makes fewest natural blunders-—ia the man wrom Manns | POE fea 4 i ot he water infested Atlant they haven't yet principles of the reapers of to-day. The j suthroplat et “ / women rave A quiver 0! Seen on came into Miss aaauen aa Temata arted to sausages. We atill think that a bloodhound first succesful reaper, howe A HAT FOR ZERO DAYS jates's beautiful voice as she repeat the question I think aie a a | should be at the end of a chain and not on the end of a We like | patented in 1826, by a Scotch | enc weaiher ta thle climate te| NO™meR are the bravest creatures in all the world,” she said tensely. M i Sil jeans “ak " our mutts here, but not cooked, A dog doesn't have t arit a yard |man, the Rev fe Hesil aaa th was! 7 See rien Gine bassin cur Look at the women flyers, Look at the’ ravers of ploneer New Eng- k W. | Menta were made from the silt into] of pedigree to } friends in America, Any kynine or muttoo cs not unt) 1894 that MeCormick y opalige rat nectebiad. jand and Western women; my own mother shot and killed Indians arine 1 orm whieh it was woven, It 19 used now-| pal in this country, Over in Philly, they think #o much of the pace colved a patent on his machine, in jnventet by ee preene of Mnnt| through the chinks of @ blockhouse, Look at the courage of mothers; Pecerciin Been tt armtionsierciae a ae een n®| mutt that they held a Dog Show just for syps, Any dog that had an |™APY ways An Improvement on the treat would mect this need. Attached| but, more than all, consider the silent, splendid endurance of the Mediterran whose proper| ‘The “pina” choosen a rock, to| *idree# oF Srandfat 8 barred from the works, Hyery shay. || ell ne. Ae tho ae re time Abrahan tg the sweatband at the back ts a} mililons of women who perform uncomplainingly and day after day name is "pinna,” but which is fanci-| which {t fastens itacif by apinning an| 2# ® Dum ten't @ bum tog, A ot of the mutts exhibited couldn't have | WAnGMN Tad manufactured x iearer woollen flap which fits into the grown] the atupidest and most monotonous work. » fully called the “silk worm of the! anchor. When prepared the anchor] Wen any hellotron: na for Mneage, but they at Wd lave snared Re tor. had aniaeed thé fe ie ican) and is invisihle when not necded, but “I Mke men,” Miss Gates ended simply. “I like women. But J wea.” It spins a fibre so beautiful ylelds glossy, yellowish threads, deli-| al! the honors for frien tiinoss, faithfulness and pal 5 machine which possessed great merit, (an - eee aia Asch oh Peels Tespect and admire women infinitely more than I respect and admire Mat in olden times only royal gar-cate in appearance but very strong. ‘This Mutt Ghow ts 4 good idea and New York aught hold one itself, ‘abe Hussey machive was most popular devs. . men.” lees ; 1