The evening world., 1918-07-05
Women Mayors 5000 Years Ago
BY the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory

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DEMONSTRATIONS of tablets in the University of Pennsylvania reveal
the fact that women Mayors ere regularly constituted public
officials in Asia Minor 5000 years ago, and o a good many people
the news" comes as a great surprise.
We have been so accustomed to thinking of woman as mans silent
partner" it is really difficult for u Il look upon her in any other light
But with truth did Ida Tarber declare at a Suffrage meeting not long
ago. that the idea that history is a mans story alone is wholly erroneous
Erroneous indeed. Erroneous with a vengeancei
From the very beginning woman has taken her part IN sfrafrr she
has had a hand in every game that has been played. and a word in Just
about every diplomatic bout that has been staged Not always seen, not
ALWAYS down on the bill, but whether or the stage In plain view O hidden
shind the curtain. woman has eve managed to exert her powerful infiu-
eoc upon events
Directly o indirectly, openly o IN secret, by straight command or
BY roundabout suggestion, she has eontrived TO control the Cabinets that
have shaped the course of history
Was 1t not the mother of the oracchl rather than ue Gracoi them
selves that crushed the proud arstOcracy of one Eternal City and opened
the way for the reform which finally camel
Was 1t not Cleopatras ambition which led Antony to fight ue battle
u. made Augustus the Master of Romei In fact such wa. the importance
ceopatra's nose had been . ttne shorter the whole face of the earth
Everybody knows that Greece was the creator o., the thing Q call
Civilization that little Attca wal the heart OF Greece, that Athens was
the sol and centre of Attica. and that Atben, was practically summed N
in the nlusuious Pericles, but everybody does not know that Pe1cles got
most Of his big ideas and inspirations from Aspasia- the first real New
Woman
Coming down to modern times. where a We nnd a coterie of more
ihusrious names than that of Elizabeth of England. Margaret of Parma,
and the other Margaret Of Savoy, and the uncomfortable women who ruled
the CAPTAIN Court from Louis the Fourteenth straight down to the fall of
tho Bastle.
And when the Red Terror burst upon the world, how immense a the
part played therein by Sister Woman!
Not to mention Charlotte corday and Madam Roland. VI as n not the
women who led nearly all the movements from the famous march on
Versailles to the last bloody act of the Revolution
In nal oher Revolution, the immortal upheaval that resulted N
the establishment Of the United States of America did not woman act
we'll her partT'
Every newly discovered bit Of information concerning that an I'm
portant affair goes to show that in many ways the mothers, wives and
sisters of the Men Of 76' did their full share in bringing about the down.
fall OF King George and the founding of the great Republic.
quite right was Miss Tarbeil in telling her audience that history was
not a mans story alone"
The shamduiy bclated revelation OF the par, that woman h,. played
in history must be charged up to the fact that woman had d press agent
Man wrote the histories, and in his inordinate conceit he consciously or
unconscously put himself in the lmelght and left woman back in
The shadows.
But the tide is turning. and a 1T comes IN it is bringing the long
suppressed truth about womans contribution to the making of history.
Yes, woman has made history galore; but the work she has done In
this direction is small in comparison with what she is destined to do In
the coming time.