The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-15

t0'Su men now 10 brew.
Ihe snakes he drove a,cdy
were teetotGlers. they say
LeeiotaHerS, they say, MP boDs:
Ieetotdicrs, they sdVl"
30 much for Mr.. MAYNARD on vina
ana song. Now as to his views on
the third member OF the classic trim
lty--wuman,
woman" the poet said the other
day' Is the eternal anarchist and 1
am not anxious for her to conform
10 pattern and type. Men made laws
so That women might break them.
nc position now seems likely TO be
reversed"
The young man, you perceive. has
lhe courage OF his convlctions-as he
mad, a decade ago, when he was A
ohBlogdtlonal clergyman in Ver-
mont. In his second sermon he de-
lNered to that stald New England
congregation a discourse on fools
silly tools, stupid fools and damned
FOOLS" After that spiritual faux pas
he had To earn his living as a mill
hand, instead OF a minister, aud u-
timntely worked his way back to
England on cattle boat
over there he became q Catholic
and associated with Hiiaire Belloo
n
Cccil--in the editing OF the New
Witness Therefore II Is not surpris-
Ing that Mr.. Maynard's views on SUI
frage parallel those which the late
Cecil Chesterton expressed when he
visited America in 1915.
THE proper unit OF society," he
said. Is the family, rather than the
individual. A man should have a vote
FOR every member Of his family, IN
Guiding his vito. Every baby should
have "a vote TO ba exercised by It's
that a man with a wife and eleven
children ought to have twelve times
as much power in the state as
have.
- believe" says Mr. Maynard.
that the vote should be cast by
families, as the fumily, not the indi
viduhl, 10 the unit in healthy society"
And surely a family vote implies a
baby vote,
lie believes IN this procedure II the
vote means anything, which he says
II doesn't In England. And in Ches-
tertonian paradox he Gays; II am
against Woman Suffrage not on the
ground that II Is a case M crying for
the moon, but case OF moonshine-
Tue entrance OF women into politics
will mean that a dlscredited system
VIII nave q new lease OF Ire. AFTER
have refused TO waste my vRlIAlbis
time choosing between two oRndi-
dates, neither Of whom / want, and
have never once in my life voted al
an election. l don't want TO see
women wasting their still moro valI1
able time over the same utilities"
However, Mr. Maynard Is no Daniel
come TO Judgment on the sex. IT do
not profess" he laughed, Ito have
Tolstoy's knowledge. He once said Il
friend. Men do not understand
women, but l understand them. and
because understand them shall
never say what know until ma
grave Ia dug and have one foot in
my coffin. Then l would say II and
pull the soffin lid over me quickly"
81 conjecture without conclusion,
added the poet, what the teTrible
secret was which he never dared II
utter, and whether, II II were uttered
he would be afraid OF the fury OF men
or OF women"
Nevertheless. this clever young
man proved that, after all, he does
understand women pretty we'll, for he
concluded the Interview thus:
IL should like 10 say how much
have been struck with the number OF
pretty women there seem 20 be in
New York. and no doubt there are
still many women left who would
rather hear this than anything else. .