The Washington times., 1921-10-08


piety." The letter is four typewrit.
ten pages, but this point about piety
stands out in imagination. re-
member reading about Pious Anaeus
when ! was a boy struggling with
Vergil.
That was Filial Piety. I do not
know exactly what the brand of piety
is that I have offended in disagree
ing with the Woman's Party about
wholesome methods Of curing the
disabilities Of women.
Intellectually Impious.
The word In another form recurs
lower down. Says the professor:
Il charge you with being intel.
lectually impious in saying the things
you have said and in running coun-
ter to the Canons Of a genuine jour.
nalist."
II. next to being impious. there is
anything I hate II is running counter
to a canon. At another point in the
letter, however. achieve piety, but
II seems to be as bad as impiety.
The professor declares:
You begin and end your article
with statements to the effect that
this new movement will not get far.
/ consider that q pious wish"
This paragraph ends as follows:
You are either giving a snap judg-
ment or else you are a journalistic
scalawag."
On the whole, prefer the scalawag,
because I don't know what II meaSs,
and / am against snap judgments.
The postscript il proof enough that
the professor assault is in his opin.
ion OF a serious nature. II 10:
II have sent a copy OF this letter
to the National Women's Party and
have given them permission to use
II for whatever purposes they may
wish. II this letter appears to you
to be libelous and sending 1t to the
National Women's Party appears to
you to be a publication l shall be
glad to meet you in the courts at any
time you say"
Ready to Meet. -
will meet the professor in the Su-
preme Court OF the United States. at
$50 sharp, November 6. on one con-
dition, namely, that he is to pay all
the expenses for both sides. select the
attorneys and accept all the adver-
Using.
The school Of law of the University
Of North Dakota is not the only place
where my disagreement with the
Women's Party has produced discord.
A journalist for whom I have both
liking and respect makes a plea along
the line of chivalry.
i cannot see II. There Is nothing
more serious than the tendency OF
people to avoid hard. patient. educa-
tive work and rush to central Govern
ment for everything. When this gen
eral evil is accentuated by an ignor-
ance Of law which endangers all the
progress thus far made in safeguard
ing women in industry the peril is
serious enough to talk about.
And a group Of women whose very
watchwords are aggressiveness and
equality ought to be the last group
to show bad sportsmanship.
From Another Source.
The editor Of the Woman Patriot"
also gets after me, punching what
wrote about the Maternity Bill with
what I wrote about the proposed sex
quality amendment to the constitu.
ton. So bricks came from both d.
rections. This journalistic organ of
the Standpat Ladies Is edited by J. 8.
Eichelberger, who writes:
THE two amusing features are,
first, that this article for the alleged
Baby Bill comes SO soon after your
recent article against the new
amendment proposed by the Wom-
ans Party pickets as to suggest that
they might be q relaxation.
That your editorial conscience, self
acting or prodded by the well-known
double-action pressure system the
pickets have perfected, is boosting the
Baby Bill in humble. atonement for
lambasting the Equal Rights Amend
ment."
The said part Of the Sherlock
Holmes Tor rather Watson) discovery
is, that the small group Of leaders
of the Woman's Party are nearly all |
against the Maternity Bin, because
It recognizes a difference between men
and women.
When I was a boy, living In the |
country, used to stir up nests Of |
bumble-bees and then stand perfect |
lively still, hoping that after q while |
the angry bees would 60 away think.
ing l was dead.