The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-12-09
And That's That

Edifor the NiSsourim: The assurance
with which you regularly announce L
page in your newspaper devoted entirely
10 women, is something which no person
OF intelligence can ignore. That women
are a class of beings who must be cared
for separately in any sphere Of interest.
was well known To the ancienis. but il
really seems that when As eminent an
organ Of opinion as the Miss0uriln alisns
itself with the unspeakable Truth. some
one ought TO hazard Il remark. whether
favorable or unfavorable. That. pre-
pose to do.
Usually il mas been held that women
unfortunately have no creative genius.
and so must be informed after their own
fashion. il they are To be informed u
all. do not understand why this state
should be called unfortunate" for it
ought TO have been enough 10 call wnnirn
different" Ii would have been exceed
ingly apt, and know Of nothing 80 ike
ly to approach their vanity after their
cwn fashion" Indeed, those persons who
called women unfortunate" we're guilty.
OF an error that conceivablv might de-
stroy the human race. need not repeat
that the condition Of women now. IL
always. includes that precious quality
known As dociliiy. which would certainly
be lost il women we're anything but 'un-
Fortunate" and which. once lost. would
dangerously curtail our numbers
IL is clear to the writer that one oh
servation more than any other would
support the contention that women do
not really have creative genius. ID j.
that women trust To instinct. but men
are governed by reason. Just a. order
becomes the greatest factor in material
operations. 80 reason underwriies all abe
ventures Of creative genius. Men have
always known the power of reason. and
have exercised ii. They have spcculalcd
and turned their speculations to account
But women have never veniured. ln the
Human Race the Derby has gone to the
men and the Handicap to women.
Uf course. women have had their ms-
Incnts in history. Someone much bright
cr than the present writer once said ihIi
women are either immoral or uninlrr-
esting. History has nothing To do with
the uninieresting. That most Of the
2lamorcus ladies' were queens or duchcs>-
es only proves that there must have hrcn
many as Interesting but still unknown. II
is part and parcel ol anoihrr rpistnm:
iliIi only poor man may be- cray; &C.
ccniriciiy is reserved ior the rich.
The first remarkable thing in history
has invariably bern the fact that iamru,
women srcccrded by their instincts. and
against them stand all the other charar-
iers-men. who have come inia their own
by a process that is more akin 10 hard
work. IL is delicate problem 10 decide
which human attribute makes the world
go round, but to this writer it apprar- 10
be creative genius founded on Il Kind
Of intellectual process that many m-n
in their time have possessed. but never
one woman.
One really shouldn't draw final con.
clusion here, becsilse women have, it is
true, operated under a ss-called haudi-
cap. Some say they have been re-.
pressed. But instincts are quite general
ly repressed. imagine thai il the
world had been run in any one genera
tion according to the will Of the average
woman most Of us would now be- doing
the horn-pipe in Mesopotamian galdr.
wondering what il was all about. Il
might even be worse than that. We
might have forgotten how to talk. Eui
that | doubt
Others, again, declare that the women
Of today are coming into their own. This,
Of course. is only u guess, and have as
much right to doubt il as the next one.
II women have shown any marked turn
ing toward the light" in this generation,
then they are in that unforiuns,e condi-
iion attributed TO emperors and poets:
their goodness is rarely appreciated I'M
Ill after they die. And il is So tragic
the thought Of woman dying, especially
a pretty one.