Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-27
SEX HELP WOMEN
 RULE, NOT VOTE Thus Sayeth 'Marse" Henry Watterson While Sojourn-
 ing in Gotham.
MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Dr. Anna Shaw Declares No Woman ObeyS Her Husband and "Obey" Should Be Eliminated From Cere.
 mony-Dr. Hall Differs.

New York, June 25.-"Am l feml- nist?' exclaimed Colonel Watterson, the "Marse" Henry of Kentucky, fam ous journalistic warhorse and politi- cal prophet; well, I've been fighting womens battles for nearly half cen tury, so I think I am entitled to-. be called a feminist in the best sense of the word. As for suffrage" and the colonel turned his rosy face toward the ocean which rolled at his feet on Brighton Beach, and locked not the least bit vindictive or unamiable, 'as for suffrage, we'll, it's justice is un questionable; it's eXpediency doubtful. For many years I have hammered at laws touching women in Kentucky. Now Kentucky women are better pro- tected than men. It would be sad thing to see women mixed into the political game; for their own protec- tion they are better out of politics. cannot help my conviction that the place for women is home. The bache Tor woman is calamity. She usually comes to scandal or suicide. I con- sider woman more powerful unarmed. Sex is their mighty weapon. The worst of men have a chivalry toward women. Women are born to civiliZe men," declared the colonel, "and on the home and on the status of women, depend the status of nation. Ameri- can womanhood is at higher stand ard today than ever. Yes" concludcs "Marse' Henry, as he rose to stroll on the shore, "after seventy-fve years of life and observation, I am firmly convinced that women are the back bone of human society-and bear their responsibility with credit"
 Two Views on Marriage Ceremony. No woman obeys her husband. No man with common sense asks his wife 1 to obey him." said Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the National Woman Sug- ! frage association and ordained min ister; therefore l think it is positive ly wicked to use this word obey in the marriage contract. It is spiritual | ly and morally wrong to encourage a woman to make a promise she knows in her heart she will not keep. She becomes fool and a perjurer at the same time. And I have been criticis- /, ed for cutting out of the marriage servlce till death do us part It has been said that I advocate atrial mar riages. But how do I or any other minister know whether the couple will be flying to the divorce court in year or two? We cannot look into the fu- ture." But Dr. Frank Oliver Hall of the church of the Divine Paternity
 holds different view on the matter
 "The good ship matrimony must have
 a captain" he said, 'and in nine cases
 out of ten the husband is the person
 to take command. He should be the
 head of the household. The American
 husband too frequently abdicates iron
 the position he should hold in his
 home and all sorts of evils result.
 imagine that much of the unruliness
 of the younger generation may be dut
 to the fact that the father and bus
 band cuts so poor figure in tht
 household. As for emitting the til death do us part portion of the cere mony-no, for it is the expression O
 an ideal. No minister would perform
 a marriage if he really believed tha , the contracting parties would resor to the divorce cou:.s within the year And despite the emotional unrest o the present, the promise holds goot
 of the majority of marriages" Dr Hall concluded with optimistic convic ) ton, ''If every marriage in America } were declared no marriage today , nine-tenths of the husbands and wives } would marry each other all over agair tomorrow"