Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-06-14
olvo FEDERATION At AMEs
UNoEp TO TAKE FIRST PLACE.
IN GOVERNMENT.
TOLD THEY CONTRIBUTE
sss LITTLE TO WORLD
Or. e. A. Ross Points Way 20 Upset
ting Of This Man Made World and
Building II Over to Suit Themselves
-NNomsn Held to Be Safer and saner
Than Pusnaeious Man.
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man made world. Despite woman suf-
frage and emancipation, women con-
tribute but nightly little to the ideas
of the world. While women are the
equal OF men in brains, they are far
behind in thinking. Men and women
are fundamentally different in that man
is pugnacious and always wanting 10
fight while wtmen are Humanitarian
and want to develop a soul IN business
and life. Now that women have the
ballot. they should upset this man.
made world and build il over to suit
their own ideas. Women are safer any
how to trust with the worlds problems
today than men.
These were some OF the high spots
in an address on This Man Made
World" given by DR.. f A. Ross. Of the
University of Wisconsin, in a talk Fri
day night before the Iowa Federation
of women's Clubs, in biennial session
here.
Even afterNheir emancipation. wo-
men contribute little to the stream OF
ideas which pour over US and deter
mine the DIRECTION and rate of the social
one-eight of the college and university
lectures, fifteenth OF the editorial
one in III sermons and one in 100 ar
guments in court ernanate from Am
ericon women.
HE would he bold indeed who
should declare that on the whole. one
twentieth OF the intellect uai fvUG %
the public reaches them thru the mind
OF women. Broadly speaking. the ideas
which determine our cyhoiCe emanate
from men.
Where there is no sex in mind,
this would not matter" said DR.. Ross.
''But there IS sex in mind, tho not
in intellect. The instructive equipment
OF the sexes is not the same. The most
marked difference is that the instinct
of pirgnacity is much stronger in males
while the maternal instinct rs char
acteristic Of females.
But in the process of social eyofu-
ton in which mankind now finds IL
self, the instinct Of pugnacity IS
snare, leading men TO strife and mutual
destruction Dr. Ross asserted. "On
the other hand, the maternal instinct
affords the basis for the humanitarian
impulse which alone can give soul 10
I the vast human aggregates being built
up IN our time by cheap transporta-
ton. trade and economic interdepen-
dence.
"women,s outfit OF instincts is very
much safer than mans for the stage OF
development We have entered upon.
Current thought is tinged by male pug
naeity. We can find it in the current
way of dealing with lawbreakers, o.
looking upon business as a game rath-
er than a form Of social service, the
warfare theory Of politics which leads
to Anything to win" and ITO the vic
tor belongs the spoils.'
Women ought to pluck up their
courage and do their own thinking If
they want to upset the traditional
thought in religion, ethics, government.
economics and sport that is so coiored
with masculine pugnacity.
Now that they have the ballot and
have joint responsibility with the other
sex for the social future. they ought to
vdistrust men made thought and en-
deavor to arrive. at ideas untainted by
instinct They ought to confde more
in the promptings of their own natures
and assume a more critical attitude
toward the deitverapces Of the male
mind"
State Censorship Of Movies.
State censorship of motion pictures
in Iowa was forecast when the civics
section Of the Women's Federated
Clubs Of Iowa in biennial convention
here loudly applauded Mrs. Guy K
Blanchard Of Chicago, chairman Of the
~ 30 he.
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
denounced the movie as a maker OF
criminals, recruiting place for vice and
the thing which is doing more to
undermine the morals of children than
any other one thing.
we must have state and national
censorship" declared Mrs. Blanchard!
Local censorship does but little good.
1t keeps the picture out of one town
but tire picture goes on TO another and
is shown there. The title can be
e changed Local operators can not help
saiidf they themselves are helpless Act-
ion must be strong enough to compel
manufacturers to make the proper kind
of pictures.
en- More Than 1000 at Banquet.
s3 One thousand and thirty nine wo-
men sat down to the banquet of the
federation last night at the college
gymnasium. This was perhaps the
largest number Of Iowa women ever
seated around banquet table at one
y time
Mrs. Beu1ah Wright Cornstock. for
/ mer dean of the college of oratory, Uni
\ vcrsity Of Southern California. gave
falk on LITERATURE of the Great War
mentioning the soldier poety in par
Il ticuIar.
Art for Us and for Our Children"
u waS discussed by Mrs. Pauline Palmer,
president OF the Chicago Society of
! Artists, in which she made a plea for a
state art commission, to regulate the
X erection of after-the-war minuments.
Mrs. Palmer emphasized simplicity as
the ken-note OF good art and Of good
& dress.
JULIA LATHR oP At AMEs.