Evening star., 1922-12-30

The head Of the National Woman's
Party. Miss Alice Paul. announces
that before another century rolls BY
there will be a woman President Of
the United States. and she points to
that a. an ideal OF feminine progress.
Does Miss Paul not realize that there
would be neither novelty nor as
sured improvement in woman's status
found in making q queen OF America?
There have been woman rulers ever
since there have been men upon
thrones or as chieftains of tribes.
Solomon in all his glory found that
the Queen of Sheba had as much
power in her own realm as he had
in his. Cleopatra ruled Egypt Jointly
Ptolomy undertook to deprive her Of
power. she went out and capti~ated
Julius Caesar and returned with her
ally to overthrow Ptolomy. destroy
Caesar's seif-control and become the
head of the Antony triangle. The
world has had her Queen Esther. who
saved the Jews and hung their enemy.
Haman: her Borgias. her Catharines.
her Maid OF Orleans. her Victoria and
her Wilhelmina.
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Even the savages have their ANA
/ zon rulers, so why must Miss Paul
rise to startle America with the
prophecy that before 2023 we shall
be ruled by an Amazon or a queen?
That is old stuff and nonsense. What
IL we are? For better. for worse?
The world has also had her Grace
Darling and her Florence Nightin-
gale. her Red Cross nurses. her Sal
had your mother and mine. What Is
there new in Miss Paul's prediction? :?
It 10 only retrogression. But II shows
a queer ideal for womankind-that all
she can think Of in dignity and beau
| ty Of character and usefulness to fel-
, low men Is that woman shall be boss
and that the biggest boss job In the
feminized United States. with some
e4o Amazonian representatives. and 4e
Amazonian senator's up on Capito!
Hill to carry out her policies. and
snuh mere masculine statesmen.
OF course, then, the pretended com
plant" Of Representative Alice
Robertson that Congress had never
provided her with feminine cloak
room, where she might go out and
powder her nose. will be corrected
The whole big dome shall become
beauty parlor. The barber shops VIII De
relegated to the basement, IN place OF
that statue of three women caught
in a snowdrift, which now stands
there. winter and summer. as IL to
indicate that it is q cold day when
women get into the Capitol.
There are differing ideals Of life.
and there are various ideals OF the
two sexes 1t is not true that II the
foot shall say: Because / am not the
hand. / am not OF the body. and 1t is
no truer that woman must get down
where the foot Is. in order that she
NAV support the body polite, before
she can attain the crown that makes
her the equal of any other memoer.
Never has woman received the hohor
and respect that she is freely accord
ed in America; certainly never IN
country ruled by queen. ASK
Dutch woman. subject Of wilhelm!na
as she tuks in her harness httched
with canine fellow drauRht animal.
how she ranks alongside OF an Ameri-
can woman, even hundred years IN
advance Of an American Amazonian
presidentess. powder puff and all.
II would be supererogation TO con-
trast. further, the supreme glory OF
the true functions of woman. for
they do not lie merely in the restric-
tions OF her Observation-Disclosures as
that is-but in her influence upon all
the race. She is not merely q woman.
she is. indeed. in her fullest develop
ment. the summum genius OF the race
AS the addition of ad3ectives never
can enlarge the fullness OF noun.
hut each adjective restricts and mar
rows it, 80 the Paulites can only
carve and mutilate and restrict
American womankind and her dignity
By fancying masculine or anything
but womanly functions for her,
whether present or future.
We are closing the 1920 year after
tho birth Of Christ. and it Is nearly
1880 years since men were first called
Christians in Antioch, but one OF the
issues now before the United States
Senate is the charge made by Sena-
tor John Sharp Williams that most
Of the senator's are unbelievers." No
partisan charge has wrought 50 much
indignation and reputation among
the statesmen for a long time as that
fiing. given in the course OF the de-