Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-01
Written for The Georgian
BY REV. DR.. JOHN E. WHITE
Pastor Second Baptist Church.

a Ii the questions men talk
n about are minor beside the,
woman question. The Book
of Life, from Genesis to REVEAL
ton, is bound, beveled and i'm
printed by a woman.
The interests of womanhood
are the interests of humanity.
This explains the intensity of
the feeling engendered by the
woman movement.
Everybody knows that what
ever happens, good or i'll, to the
women is fateful for the race.
Come on, Mem
The woman movement. which
appears in the nature of an up
rising all over the world. is be-
lieved by many to make a turn in
the tide of history.
The feature most apparent is
the masculine helplessness in
front of it.
There are a few Mrs. Parting
tons of the male variety. but not
many.
A few gentlemen are sitting IN
the middle of the road "cussin,"
but most of the gentlemen are
waiting to see the procession in a
quizzical frame of mind. Bye and
bye the majority of men will fol-
low the illustrious example of the
leader of the French Commune.
He rushed into restaurant, but
was scarcely seated before he
leaped uR excitedly, looking at the
procession of the mob passing
the door
Let me CO." he cried. The
people are moving. am their
leader and I must follow them"
Feminism and Suffragism.
The air will clear before the
masculine mind somewhat when
men understand that the woman
movement is a wider and deeper
matter than the woman suffrage
movement. Most men and many
women confound them.
The noisy agitation OF the suf-
fragette is really an embarras-
ment to those profound expo
nents of feminism who fear the
neglect of the larger causes of the
female advance through over
emphasis on one of its phases.
Some pronounced feminists
have ventured to question wheth-
er the agitation for votes for
women should not be postponed
until the woman movement shall
reach its second stage.
The real movement. however,
will not suffer serious arrest
through the excessive suffragism
Of the hour. 1t will rather be
promoted by the divisions it is
provoking in the ranks of the
women themselves.
The suffragist movement
among women is to be encour-
aged. The assertive woman,
whether for suffrage or against
suffrage, is the interpreting fact
and the charging force upon
which the movement depends.
The women who are zealously
organized against votes for wom-
en- are merely feminists in con-
TRACTION and their influence is
manifestly stimulating to the con-
sciousness of female selfhood,
which is the handspring of the
woman movement
What Women Want.
When the opportunity of the
ballot is accorded to women, rs it
will be, the main object of their
movement will only be in process
of achievement. What women
really desire is the removal of the
arbitrary hxedness Of womans
sphere.
The protest is not against the
unkindness of man, but against
the assumption that she Is or
dained to be a creature of patron
age 1t is not against d rough
and cruel boss she revolts. but
against the idea, of having a boss
at all
The woman movement aims for
the leveling OF the sexes. It is
the uprising OF personality. 1t IL
the challenge of benevolent des-
potism.
The question is not that woin-
ans lot is bitter and hard, but
that she is condemned to a state
of favored subsection. The read
justment to be achieved is mental
rather than material.
The situation of woman as to
comfort is fair enough. II is the
attitude of the social mind which
regards her as a sexual non-edual
that is the trouble
1t 10 against the tradition of
masculine ownership that the
woman movement makes war.
The elemental principle Of indi-
vidualism is at work
l predict that the time will
come when the stigma of inferior
sex caste is removed and women
will of their own election sacred
ly cherish all those natural func-
tons and exclusive responsible
ties which mark her distinction