Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-30
WOMAN SURGEON DECLARES WORLD HAS
BECOME INTOLERANT OF INTOLERANCE
DR.. Kate w. Baldwin
Foresees End of Sex
Discrimi in a tion in
: Worlds Business
Regards Talk of Su-
periority as Meaning
less--Believes Birth
Control a Certainty

TTYPAT1A. daughter OF Theon. the math.
IL ematician, stood in the massive lecture
hall Of ancient Alexandria. teaching the
doctrines OF Plato and OF Aristotle. In
the streets outside the hall awaited long
rows OF handsome vehicles for the cultured
folk inside.
Hypatia was the exponent Of free think
ing Her comments on the writings OF
Apollonius. her lectures on philosophy and
her teachings Of the sciences of the day.
had attracted wide attention. She had be-
come the leader OF thought In the most
Intellectual and cultured city OF all time.
But there were those who were opposed
20 free thinking" There were those who
would defend the morals" Of the times
those who sad. These lecturers and
street speakers ought to be done away
with-driven out of the country This
woman is changing the most cherished
ideas OF all our people. woman's place
Is In the home y
SO Hypatia was taken from the temple
OF learning. dragged into the streets, stripped
naked and dragged about the city Her
corpse was cut to pieces and the flesh
scraped from the bones and thrown into a
fre Thus did intolerance bring the death
OF woman. and with II the end OF philos-
ophy and learning; thus were ushered In
the dark ages. and thus woman took her
''place In the home" II was the crucihxion
tion.
Dr. Kate W. Baldwin one OF the few
Philadelphia women members of the Amer.
ican College OF Surgeons, a member OF the
Clinical Congress of Surgeons, the first
woman interne In a Philadelphia hospital
and a member Of the general surgical stan
of the woman's Hospital, believes that to-
day. with woman returned to her political
rights, has come the resurrection" OF pro-
gressive thinking. and consequently progress
sive action.
SCOFFS AT SEX DOMINANCE
In her Office at 1117 Spruce street today
Doctor Baldwin. a small. very active, quick.
thinking woman, sat dreaming of the past
and Of the destiny of her sex. She had
been scurrying about from clinic to clinic
for several days. gathering ideas from the
worlds most noted surgeons. who were
IN Philadelphia attending the Clinical Con.
gresS
NO" she said. 'T do not believe that
woman will transcend man in the science
and art of surgery. This talk about the
superiority of woman over man and Of man
over woman is all bosh light and airy,
cheap and meaningless talk There Is no
dividing line between the thought and ac-
tivities of woman and man. We must con-
slider the individual and not the sex. The
sexes must supplement and help each other
they must intermingle in accordance with
the dictates OF mind ana ambition or the
Individual members.
'If woman for instance feels that she
is fitted to practice surgery. that is what
she should do. And she should not be
crcumscribed by those who would hold
progress back by reminding her that she
is a woman--that this profession is ex-
clusvely a mans profession and that that
profession is exclusively woman's.
People who think like that she con-
tinued. forget the place that woman held
and the rights that woman had in the an
cient times when art and literature and