The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-21

no YOU hear that sound OF things
| rcndmg. crashing smashing
- BE not alarmed, oh tmld soul
II is not the final yatacNsm Of the
end Of the world as some suppose II
is merely the noise that tomcn are
making in their effort to become hu-
man beings
Women have been many things dur
ing the history OF the world. Ihey
have been beasts OF burden and toys.
They have been slaves and queens. hey
have been martyrs and SAINTS. hey
have been devils and pin-icathcrcd an
gel, Bur they have never been JUST
plain. ordinary human beings with an
ordinary human beings right, and PRIV
ilcgcS and pcrqulSitcs.
And that's what women desire more
than anything else on earth, mat 5
what they aspire to--thatS what they
are determined to have--thatS "nat
they arc fighting for Hence th's
rumpuS :,
Woman doesn't want to he hound
down by shacklcS any longer S,he 5
weary oi being nothing but dresSed'up
doll She doesn't want To- perch up on
pedestal Neither does she desire 10
wear a halo about her head OF to Sprout
wings. She Just wants to JOG along
in the middle OF the road OF HE side
BY sidc,with man, neither his interior
nor his superior suffering and ENJOY
ing. working and playing as he does
lust being a human being such as he is
That's all that this much discussed
feminist movement means when you get
down to the very essence OF II. IL 5
lust the struggle that women are max
ing Tor human-bclnghood IT'S tragic
when YOU look at it in one way. IT'S
pro,c,quely humorous wher YOU view It
from another angle. for all that the
most advanced woman asks for her sex
+, what /, accorded the male sex as IN
ITS alcnablc birth right
4 boy i, born a human being, but
hi, sister has to achieve this blessing
With tears and blood II she l' ever
lucky enough to win II at all. Inc
mere accident OF sex sets her apart IN
a pariah class. wheyc she has no rights
"a, a human 'being.and only such PRIV
ilcges as she caHSan by finding favor
IN mans eyes.
The most curious and pathetic thing
about the whole feminist revolution;
that fills 50 many worthy people with
terror and despair, is that women are
asking for nothing that men have not
always had, and that they are repre-
hcndcd Tor doing exactly the same
things for which men have been can
uonilcd for doing Between George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson,
| fighting against taxation Without rep
rescn,ation. and Susan b. Anthony and
/ l.ucretia Mott. there is no difference
in principle or patriotism. 1t IS merely
the difference OF sex that gave ono tht
right in public opinion, to gloriousl,
resis, tyranny. and made the other the
| laughing stock OF cheap wits because
she presumed to suppose that a womar
was a human being and had rights
Locus consider some oi these an
archistic doctrines 81 sfc new wFaar
party which are sending the cold shy.
rrs up and down so many splnes. II
YOU do, YOU will he surprised at tive
things. First, that women ask just
plain common human rights, and sec
ondly that anybody has the arrogance
10 dispute with them their right to these
rights For be 1t observed, that nc
woman. in asserting her heirship ,c
| all the ages, has ever once even ex'
pressed the desire go ourtall her broth
er's inheritance She only wishes tc
share his liberties with him.
The first thing that women asked II
their efforts TO become human beng
was a righ, to an education 1t seemed
To a woman that the good Lord mus
have known that He was about whei
He endowed female with intelligence
Also. 1t seemed probable that lie woul,