New-York tribune., 1922-10-25
Harvey Spoofing IN Denying
Souls to Women, Verdict Here
ANNE Hurst Calls His Attitude the Old sCorned Beef
ana cabbage One; Lardner Agrees With Him,
Dut ministers Say Commandments Work for All

Ambassador Harvey's spseeh az the
authors Club, London, on afIave wom-
en- Souis I" has raised storm OF COM
ment locally. In his talk MIR. Harvey
declared that there is need for new
Ten Commandments for women, since
there is no recognition in the decalogue
of possession by women Of souls or In
herent rights. and that the command
ments applied only TO men.
Most of the authorities on woman
interviewed yesterday were Of the cpin-
ion that Mr.. Harvey was only fooiing.
Fannie Hurst was inclined to view the
ambassadors statements as indicative
OF the attitude Of man toward woman
for the last 1000 years, which she de-
scribed as being sort of "spare ribs
and cabbage combination"
All men have felt" Miss Hurst said,
that woman was a spare rib, SO far
as her place in the worlds affairs was
concerned. while spiritually she has
been about as important as q cabbage.
That state of mind Is an old one.
Thousands Of years ago the Persians
had no equivalent for the pronour.
She Even to-day the tarial service
is written for men. The terms sculp-
tress,. authoress and all the other
| 'esses' are modern. Gradually women
!; are revising the Scriptures or rather
the Interpretation of the scriptures, oy
revising the male mind. MFR. Harvey
expressed in his speech Just the con-
dition which women are lighting when
they. champion emancipation. This
world Is man-made affair, slow to
recognize woman as an individual. As
to whether woman has a soul--what
Is soul, anyway? ! don't see that
women are any less ethereai than men. y
Send Them to Jersey, Lardner Suggests
Ring Lardner, Of Great Neck. T.. T..
| knows what soul is, and he is posi-
tive that woman is wholly devoid Of
! one.
II is Mr.. LaYdner's opinion that is
wouldn't do much good to revise the
Ten Commandments, for women would
| break them anyway, he says. He rec
I ommends that all the women In the
world be killed off or sent to New
Jersey. He says he thinks Mr.. Harvey
is perfectly right
Sally James Farnham, the sculptor
vey, that the Ten Commandments anpiy
only to men, but she Is wholly content
| to have this remain SO. She expressed
I herself as glad to be relieved Of the
responsibility Of observing the rules,
and said:
my favorite In ths Bible was Moses.
for he was the only man who broke an
| ten commandments at once"
| Magistrate Jean Norris, who has had
opportunity to study women's souls on
he judicial bench, declared that she
would not dignity Mr.. Hsrvey's re-.
marks with a reply.
| Il was indignant when first read
his speech" she said. "but later / con.
sidered the whole business highly ab-
| surd."
| Clergynaen were tolerant Of Ambas-
sador Harvey's interpretation Of the
Scriptures. The Rev. Father John o.
Belford, Of the Church Of the Nativity.
Brooklyn, said that the apparent dis.
regard Of women in the Bible was "dis-
covered more than eighty years ago
and has been picked up every few years
| since"
Taking Mr. Harvey seriously ne
said, 81 should say he has lost sths
! point Of the scriptures, which speak
of man as genus and not as a sex.
There is not the slightest need to re-