The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-17
women DOMINATE,
E|NSTE|N IS RIGHT,
SAY Professors
Two Local Educators Give
Views of Mems Place;
Woman Replies.

are very unfortunate. You are
dominated. Your life is not your
own. Every thought and action
is dominated by your wife, or mother,
or sweetheart. or some woman,
stein, of relatively fame. said SO
of the men in the. United States
and he has two Washington pro
lessons who agree with him.
Professor Elnstein was right In
saying that women dominate the
entire life of America, according to
Professors Russell Kern and John
Metcalf, of the faculty Of George
Washington University. y
Another thing j have observed,
said Einstein, in detailing his i'm
pressions OF America on his return
home lis that the women dominate
the entire life Of America.
Womcn's Playthings.
THE men interest themselves in
nothing except work. They think OF
moth ing but work-and to an ex
tent that / Rave never seen else
where As for ire rest Of the men,
tasy are nothing >ut the little play
GsgH OF the won who spend their
money reckIessly and veil themselves
in q mist OF extra yagance."
'.EinsI Elm Is right, said Professor
general sociolosy at George Wash
ington. Its that the men give and
produce what the women want.
II have heard men in every phase
OF commercial life make that state
uent. oh we don't want it our
selves; it's the women have
heard big clothiers in Peacock alley
who were almost shabbily dressed
themselves. say that.
Look at the moving pictures
Who produces them? It's not the
women. It's the men. but it's the
women who 90 to the movies and
for whom the men make them. Isn't
tit
Its the men who make the
women's clothes, set the fashions.
workers. They do work hard and
give themselves up almost entirely
to work. as Einstein says, but they
do 1t for the women. The women DOM
mate In this respect.
"Of course, he couldn't have meant
that women dominate the life of
America in that they control politics,
run the business affairs Of the nation.
He couldn't have meant II In that sense
of the word, because women are not
producers. They live off what the
men produce. And the men keep their
noses close to the grindstone for them.
Women have not yet reached the stage
of proficiency, but they are coming
TO 1t. l think that Is the cause of
the present unrest among women.
las for the men being the play dogs
Of the women who spend their money
recklessly," continued Professor Kern,
there are such men, that Is true.
Just go to the fashionable resorts and
you will see them. Mere idlers. But
they constitute only a very small mi
nority.
1.-THE women do everything that is in
vogue or the fashion," said Einstein.
I'm that way they throw themselves
on the Einstein theory. They enthuse
over it, although they do not under
stand it,"
II have noticed these women, my
SELF continued Professor Kern.
They take UP every fad that comes
along. They fill the colleges, even
crowd out the real students, as hap
pened at Columbia University. They
come in every day and listen to the
professors. but / don't think they un-
derstand what they mean. / have
watched their faces often, and that is
the impression ] got
Prof. John Metcalf, head Of the de-
partment Of psychology. gave his
Views: Yes. / think IT is true" he
said, reflectively. Women do DOM
mate the life of America. think 1t
is probably the effect of woman suf-
frage."
Miss Helen Coolidge. assistant prin.
cipal of the new Central High School.
said: "Oh these men, l don't believe
in general statements. The women
do and do not dominate tho life Of
America. Some women do and others
don't. 1t is also true that some men
are hard workers and others are not.
Lets see now. how long was Prof
Ttnstein in the United States?"
About thre months she was told
Wei. I hardly think he could form
his IMPRESSIONS of America in that
ebert time At any rate let us take
them for wbai they are worth.
y would Ger 'nly not agree that
women live ott fla men," continued
Miss Coolidge 1T It. would make
them mere para sit"L I think the
womer IN tnis country are pro-
ducers. 7 Guess Einstein is used to a
different I'VE Of women in Europe
than he found N this country. and Is
a little puzzled.