The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-25
IS Men MIG
Ian NEEDED TO
GUIDE WOMEN?


Consolidated Press Correspondent
Copyright, 1922. BY The Argus)
Washington. D. c., Oct 26.-
Women are such docile creatures
and are so accustomed to obeying
man-made laws through all the cen
turtles, that there is no occasion for
Ambassador Harvey to get excited
over the need of . new decalogue
especially devoted to the shall
nots" of the weaker sex.
This is the answer Of the women
| of America to their ambassador at
the Court of st. James. 1t is virtu-
ally the unanimous opinion of the
spokesman of all the women's or
ganizations centering here. Some
T! Of the women are inclined to be-
lieve that Mr.. Harvey was humor-
GUS in his declarations before the
Authors club in London.
"And that is not safe thing to
do before an English audience"
smiled Mrs. Minnie Fisher Gun
ningham of the League Of Women
Voters, today.
Calls Him Columbus"
| Women have been obeying the
Ten Commandments for the last
thousand years or so and it is a
late date to talk about changing
them now said Mrs. Harriet Tay-
llor Upton. 1.-THE deliberate failure
of the tenth commandment to for
bid coveting thy neighbor's hus-
band implies a positive permission
to do so, is the discovery of this
new Columbus, voyaging in the old
Testament" continued Mrs. Upton.
But before the women have a
chance to think of all that they
have missed in the coveting line,
Mr.. Harvey would have some writ
er chap get up a new set of COM
mandments for the special benefit
Of women. He's worried about
their souls. Let the women worry
about their own souls and the dis
ordinations against them in the
bible. Men have been discriminate
ing against US all they could, heav-
en- knows.
"For instance, one of the miscon-
ceptions we have had to deal with
is the popular idea that all the
head angels are men, and the less
er or flying ones are women. Not
that l ever want to be the kind oil
angel to dawdle through eternity
playing a harp. Besides l do not
believe that angels as they are pic,
tured by the early artists could
ever really fly.
1 George Is Too Kind.
. ut was kind of Ambassador Har.
, vey to point out in his speech thai
there is no basis for the clerica'
assumption that woman was Great
ed from mans rib to show her in.
feriority, which he says is soil
!, tary legend.
II am inclined to agree with Mr.
: Harvey that there is a serious
omission in the fourth command
ment, which orders the heads o.
, households not to work on the
: Sabbath. Nor thy son, nor thy
. daughter, nor thy man-servant, mol
thy maid-servant, nor the stranger
. within thy gates while Thy wife
is apparently deliberately left out
! for of course some one had to ge1
: the Sunday dinner, even in biblica
/ times"
But Mrs. Upton does not agree
with the ambassador when he de
clares that women are not held &C
countable under the Mosaic Law
J for violations of the command
| ments such as the one Thou shall
{ not steal" since he believes tha
: Thou" refers exclusively to tn,
t head of the family. which O.
, course, is the husband.
! Even il Colonel Harvey did sa,
3 all that is attributed to him." add
r ed Mrs. Cunningham, sis it LEST
5 majestic to say that that doesn'
prove it?'