The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-23
FEMINISM NOT
 COMMUNISM IN DISGUISE
sWritten for the Interns'tiomaI News
 Service Rxr RGERX R E,K


 New York, Nov 16.-Beside the bright green door at Mo-: 112 Waver- ly place two cards flank the bell. On one is engraved Roger Baldwin" ]" Madeline z. Doty'' the other bit of pasteboard announces
 And by these signs shall you know them-the ultra modern husband and wife, whose love is no less deep and whose home is none the less well es- tablished because of the fact that the feminist wants more identification in her world than the s'and Mrs. that her careless husband would Scrawl on the hotel registers of the present day, if she'd let him. And to the apartment of this we'll known feminist and writer, Madeline Zabriske .Doty, we had come in search of comfort and information. We showed Miss Doty an article by one pr. Gustave Le Bon,~ member of the French Academy, and also member less academician fired off severQl sharp shots at woman and her do l ings these days, some few of which we quote below. | Feminism is danger to women, says the French psych ologist,' and nothing but communism in disguise something that will kill home life and endanger all love, particularly the maternal instinct.
 WHAT FRENCHMAN SAYS. In their absurdly outrageous fight for their rights women do not see that they have more to lose than to | gain by winning these rights" says | Doctor Le Bon.
 "They say, sVive la feminisrn,' but what is feminism'. They do not l know. But do.- It is communism | nothing more, nothing less! It is the gospel of. free union. Show them once what this, feninism really is and | not a suffragist would be left. l Marriage was instituted for one purpose-to oblige the man to con- | centrate his entire life to one woman Do they want to turn back the | leaves of the centuries to the days when they were like cattle in the scheme of things? No; certainly not
 but it is precisely there that feminisn | leads.
 | What says the code? The mar
 must aid and protect his woman. | When the woman shall be the absolute | equal of the man she will certainly no longer be entitled to aid and | protection; therefore, since marriage
 is for this purpose. alone there vii | be no more marriage. | What will happen? The woman | will find herself abandoned, and there | will ensue again the time of irrepar
 able outrage APARTMENT OF FEMINIST. We wondered if the, good Dd. Lt
 Bon had eyed been in feminist: apartment. Miss Doty's dwelhnt place is the top floor of an old house | The north light that enters the two
 windows of her living room touches | rows of open book shelves, the edge'
 of the fireplace, a soft-toned rug | deep-cushioned couched and some bit | of old mahogany. And upon enter
 ing we spied a neat little front room ! hung with pots and pans. The femIn
 isa's kitchen is in a most signlhcan
 position at the very front of tht , h ome. = t.
 Miss Doty announced1 that she ex pected Mrs. Pethick Lawrence;4g the | noted English suffragist and co-work CT of Mrs. PankhurSt. So we kneV
 that the foolhardy doctor of thu
 academy would be well routed be
 fore our visit ended.
 SAYS LIE BON IS WRONG.
 "Dr. Le Bon couldn't be any nor wrong than he is,'' began Miss Doty
 He has failed to grasp the meanin, l of feminiSm.
 First of all it means a wide eco
 homie independence for women. Tn
 problem before women is how to re
 concile this to home life. I believ | in the institution of the home. Tn future may bring different sorts o homes, but we all must have a. plac | for social life, a spot in which to b | alone and in which to have one I friends, not necessarily apart iron the husbands companions. | When my husband and I don agree on one of his friends or on on
 of mine, the verdict is: Ask him-o | her-the night I'm out Married or single, one wants
 home.
 | "But how is a woman to have
 and at the same time keep her eco
 homie independence. How shall Sh
 work away from her home and cor