Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-11-12
WOMEN TO
AVERT WAR
In FUTURE
Hopes That Female
Emancipation Will
Sound Knell of War
Not Based On History
By Earle c. Reeves,

by Eafie v. Reeves,
London. Nov 12-In these days
of searching for means OF killing
warfare for all time, IL has been
predicted that the awakening OF
womankind and their growing
rights. powers and interests in
affairs will sound the death -kneil
OF war.
The election OF second woman
Member OF Parliament, Mrs. Win
tringham, has encouraged leaders
of the woman movement, to pre-
dict that woman's era has arrived
and that era will abolish war and
establish peace.
This declaration, In turn. has
brought to Bernard Shaw and his
sfemale OF the species theory a
aew and male ally. r. Raymond
Coulson has been delving into HIS
tory. and he fears that we must
not be too confident about women
ending warfare.
For neither history nor ex-
perience suggests that women are
less antagonistic by nature than
men" he writes.
"On the contrary there Is dis
quieting evidence that whenever
they have got the upper hand they
have been perfect Tartars.
Queen Hatasu a Warrior
"There was Queen Hatasu Of
Egypt. she dressed as warrior
and spent her whole life In war
and pillage. There was Boadicea
that determined fighter to whom
we have erected monument
which shows her driving chariot
Af war.
Joan Of Arc also assumed the
sword and breastplate. Catherine
OF Russia was perpetualiy organi-
zing raids on somebody or other.
Cleopatra played havoc among the
principalities and powers, set
everybody by the ears and drove
poor Marc Antony to do away
with himself.
''And Elizabeth of England was
so combatative that, added to a
constant itch for fights and con-
quests and the chopping off OF
heads, she had to relieve her vio-
lent temper by laying about her
among her courtiers, smacking
the faces Of dukes and giving earls
back handlers with her knuckies.
"Then there was her sister, a
notorious Mary, who had hun
dreds of her subjects burned at
the stake and whose name is al
ways prefaced by an unpleasant
adjective.
And one OF the most lurid pic
lures OF the French revolution Is
that OF the terrible women who
sat grimly knitting in view of the
guillotine as they watched the
heads roll off.
A Harsh Historian
"a harsh historian says that
women have been az the bottom
OF every war and disturbance
since the Siege OF Troy.
.It seems rather contradictory
that while man in general Is
denounced for his war-like pro-
cliyities the highest admiration
and affection OF women in the con
crete Is invariably bestowed or
the soldier and the blue-jacket---
the fighting man"
This is the sort of contentious
subject that may well start thou
sands OF supper table controver-
sizes. The good work might as
well be helped along. so this,
which did not occur to Mr.. Coul-
son, is added:
one week Miss Jane Addams
predicted to the International
News Service in London that the
women OF England and Ireland
would prevent the two nations
being thrown into war.
The next week, when a young
Englishman spat upon a Sim
Feln flag in Whitehall while the
''peace conference" was on it was
the Irish women, and not the men
folk, who mobhed him. Three big
policement saved him from a hoii-
day on a hospital cot.