The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-23
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 90, 1920
But THAT'S THE HE'LL OF IT

But THAT'S THE HE'LL OF 1T
In well-written editorial Edit
johnson of the Oklahoman, strikes th
keynote of truth and gives utterdnc,
to indisputable fact when she allude'
to the manner in which the woman
who sins is made TO pay, while tn,
man, cloaking himself beneath th'
protecting wings of some religious or
ganlzauon. walks forth unostraciseC
by the society he has insulted, smiled
upon by the women, one Of whom
his vandalism placed without the
pale OF respectablity,
Miss johnson, dwelling upon tn,
manner in which The woman whit
admits her indlscretions, knowing at
the time such admission spells ruin
for herself, says:
when a woman admits her
guilt, usually she is willing to
take the consequences. She does
not commit the greater sin of
being the whited sepulchre. She
Is no: the hypocrite who cloaks
her sin with the church, with
philanthropic activities, with the
smirking pose of virtue. which in
the eyes of God, l believe, is far
more reprehensible than the sin
itself"
Unquestionaby Miss johnson writes
with her fingers upon the pulse Of
Public Opinion, and undeniably the
women Of the world will 90 on. after
having read the ladys editorial, just
as they have been doing for the past
several thousand years, with scowls
and ieers and insults for the weaker
members of their own sex; with
smiles and caterings and kowtowings
to the men whose hearts are so COR
lrupt. whose minds are so profligate,
whose instincts are so inherently de-
PRAYED and debased that purity Of
maid and sanctity OF wife make no
appeals TO any nobler impulses with
which the mothers who bore them
might have inoculated their beings
during the mysterious period of their
evolution. from chaos into creatures
Of Gods own image
Womans injustice to woman, wo-
mans inhumanity to woman, womans
Inconsistency has been in evidence
during all the countless years whose
story has been chiseled upon the
tablets which carry the worlds his
tory.
Had some other woman have lived
in the Garden of Eden. neighbor
TO Adam and Eve, at the time the
mother Of the human family hearken-
ed to the whlsperines of the serpent
and fell from the pathway of inno-
cent rectitude and unsullled virtue,
that woman would have counseled
Adam 10 sue for a divorce and then
set her own trap TO ensnare him.
It is an old saying. as old, almost.
MS Time. that the woman pays"
Were such q thing possible as TO add
TO u truth, tho saying might be
strengthened and made more express
siye by reverblfying it to read, "Wo-
man decrees that the woman shall
pay"
When the meek and lowly Nozar.
enc sat in Judgment upon the woman
who had been brought before Him
upon the morning after His night
spent in prayer upon the Mount Of
Olives, he read tho hearts, the minds
and the consciences, the souls Of the
men and women by whom lie was
surrounded, else Tie could not have
given utterance to the Christian words
which fell from His lips.
We are told that the multitude
brought this woman before Him, stat
ing that she had been taken in the
act Of adultery, an offense which the
law said should be punished with
death by stonng. No record shows
that the paramour was hailed before
the Master no record shows that
he was ostracised and cast into the
outer darkness by an outraged society.
Perhaps the knowledge that man
made laws were unlus. and made
quate prompted the Savior TO shock
the whIted sepulchrcs by whom lie
was encirced. by saying to the poil
and erriug and SHINING victim of
mans perfidy, Woman. 40 thy way
and sin no more" after having first
said TO those who sought the wo.
mon's blood Let him who Is with
out sin cast the first stone"
Sin Is as old as Time It came
20 earth with our first parents and
viii be here when Gabriel sounds
his trumpet on judgment morn. Tho
violation Of the seventh command
ment came with the creation Of spe-
oles oven before the Great Father
mn'e the oommandment, and all the
lows Of God. and an the man-made
l1ws have been inadequate to bring
about Tho elimination OF mans per-
ilv and woman's erring love. not
hAc'rae humankind Is inherently corr
rini M s'nful. but because upright
woman drcrscs that errng woman
sllll be hold amendable to the laws