Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-24
Saws That Women
Have No Souls
Saws That Ten Commandments were
Written fro Men Only and women
Could COvet Others Husbands.
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London, Oct. 24.-"Haye woman
souls ?"
If they have souls there is no eyi-
dence of it in the Bible, according to
the Interpretation of Ambassador
George Harvey who addressed the
Authors Club here last night.
Colonel Harvey, on the promise
that women have no souls, deduced
that the Ten Commandments apply
only to men.
"The fact is, of course" he said,
chat women are not only bound by.
but freed, at last. by inference, or
'qnv obligation to observe the re-
ouirements Of our fundamental re-
ligiouS law"
He said there was no recognition
in the Decalogure Of the possession
of souls by women.
The Colonel suggested that the
Authors Club assume the RESPONSE
bility of writing list of Ten Com
mandments for women.
The Ten Commandments were
written exclusively for men," the
ambassador declared.
Harvey declared that the rib theo~
~ of the creation was a mere legend.
In bearing out his statement, that
the Ten Commandments did not ap-
nlv to feminity, Harvey said It for
bade men to covet their neighborS
wives. but did not forbid women to
covet their neighbors husbands.
The blame for one side application
was placed on Moses, whom Harvey
described as a handsome man VINO
had a lot of trouble from women
Harvey cited the fourth command
mant as evidence that the decaloguc
did not apply to women.
The commandment, he said, orders
All members of the household not TO
work on Sunday but the wife. No
mention is made of the wl1e' ne
pointed out.
Harvey said ne believed the
omission of "thy wife in the COM
mandment was deliberate because
rome one had to work on the Sabbath
Even the commandment "thou
shalt not steal" does not apply to
women. he said. Thou" in the COM
mandments applies exclusively to
tbe head Of the household, according
to his Interpretation.
The speech of the ambassador was
in his best vain as a light essaylst.
New York. Oct. 24.-Al men are
natural born polygamists, tha's why
the Commandments forbid them to
covet each others wives, Captain
Reba Crawford of the Salvation
Army. declared today.
Taking issue with Ambassador
Harvey who seems TO think women
are ignored in the decalogue because
they have no souls, Captain Craw-
ford pointed out that the contrary is
true--women are not forbidden to
sin because they are naturally in
clined to be good. Men are the wick
ed ones
"All men including those have
known in my % years, if they follow
ed their natural inclinationS, would
be polygamistS, said Captain Craw-
ford, who gained fame recently by
submitting to arrest rather than
quit preaching to save mems souls
in the bright light district of Broad
way.
"But the men are forced-most of
them-by law or necessity, to be
mOuogamists.
"Women are naturally monogram
lists.
1t is not necessary expressly to
forbid them to covet their neighbor'S
husbands because they are not natur-
allv inclined to such covetousness. ="
CAPTAIN Crawford said that Am
bassador Harvey had drawn his the
ory that women have no souls en-
tirelv from the Old Testament. When
the books of the Old Testament were
written. she said, practically all
men were polygamistS and that &C.
counts for the Scant mention made Of
women.
Miss Lucille Pugh. prominent wo>
man lawyer, sided with the Ambassa'
dor in so far as agreeing that man
and woman were created simultan-
eouSly and that woman was not
made out of mas ribs as an after
thought.