Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-28
WOMEN REPLY To
HARVEY'S COMMENT
!. ON commandments
BY MARJORIE TAYLOR
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1927

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-Women
are such docile creatures and are so
accustomed to obeying man-made
laws through all the centuries, that
there is no occasion for. Ambassador
George Harvey to get excited over
the need of a new decalogue espe-
cially dvoted to. the "shalt not'' of
the weaker SEX
This. is the answer Of the women
of America to their ambassador at
the court of St. James. 1t is vir-
tuaIly the unanimous opinion of the
spokesman of all the women's or
CARNATIONS centering here. Some
of the women are inclined to believe
Mr.. Harvey was humorous in his
declarations before the Authors
club in London.
land that is not safe thing to
do before an English audience"
smiled Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunning
ham, of the League of Women
Voters today.
women have been obeying the
Ten Commandments for the last
thousand years or so and it is late
date to talk about changing them
now" said Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton.
1.-THE deliberate failure of the
tenth commandment to forbid covet-
ing thy neighbor's husband implies
positive permission to do so, lis
the discovery of this new Columbus,
voyaging in the Old Testament, >"
continued Mrs. Upton. But before
the women have chance to think
of all they have missed in the covet-
ing line. Mr.. Harvey would make
some writer chap get up a new set
of commandments for the special
benefit of women. He's worried
about their souls. Let the women
worry about their own souls and
the determinations against them in
the Bible. Men have been discrimi-
mating against us all they could,
heaven 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 lesser, or
flying ones, are women. Not that
1 ever want to be the kind of angel
to dawdle through eternity playing
harp. Besides, I do not believe
that angels as they are pictured by
the early artists could ever really
fly. IA.
"It was kind of Ambassador Har-
vey to point out in his speech that
there is no basis for the clerical as
sumption that woman was created
from mans rib to show her inferi-
GRITTY, which he says is a solitary
legend incorporated in Genesis to
maintain an existing and clearly
unjust custom.
81 am inclined to agree with Mr..
Harvey that there is a serious omis-
sion in the fourth commandment,
which orders the heads of house
holds not to work on the Sabbath,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor
thy man servant, nor thy maid SER
want, nor the stranger within thy
gates while thy wife is apparent
ly deliberately left out, for, of
course, some one had to get the
Sunday dinner, even in biblical
times"
But Mrs. Upton does not agree
with the ambassador when he de-
clares that women are not held ac-
countable under the Mosaic laws for
violations of the commandments
such as the one "Thou shalt not
steal,'' since he believes that thou"
refers exclusively to the head of the
family, which, of course, is the hus-
band.
Gwen if Colonel Harvey did say
all that is attributed to him." added
Mrs. Cunningham, els it lese
majestic to say that that doesn't
prove it?"