The Washington times., 1922-10-27
TRAGEDIES
FREQUENT
'sINCEvVAR
psycho-AnaIyst Says Woman
Intends to Enforce Single i
Standard Of Morals.
BY ANDRE TRIDON, Ph. D.,
Amertca's Foremost Psycho-Analyst and
author OF -Psycho- Analysis and
Love" and Other Standard Books
on Psyeho- Analysis.

s
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-The
path Of the male transgressor l.
swept by bullets these days ant
at each turn on her path his &C
complice may be confronted with
various weapons, reyolvers, knives
and even hammers. Wives kill
the faithless husband and his mis-
tress; mistresses who have beer
forsaken punish their betrayer
by death. Not day passes bu.
the press chronicles another one
kof those tragedies. ..-.
Many Murder Trials.
This country today, is amazed by
the number of murder trials, where
In a5woman is the slayer, reach
ing from coast to coast. .ra..
At Los Angeles we have the trial
OF Mrs. Clara Phillips, charged with
beating her alleged rival in low
to death with hammer. At Cleve.
land there Is al love-murder trial
IN The Champion woman case. At
Philadelphia we find a wife-Mrs
Rosier-fighting to escape the elec-
trio chair for killing her husband
and his stenograp pher. At New
Brunswick we find The greatest
n.ui der mystery in many wears
the Hau-Mills affair. involving a
well.to-do minister and one of the
poor Out evidently attractive to
him) women of his flock. as the
outgrowth of an accentuated case
Of Illicit love.
Peggy BeaI, we find. who flew
her. perfect lover at Kansas City,
Is freed by a jury IN a few hours.
At Hackensack, N. j., a movie III,
rector and a youns girl are quick
lv liberated by a jury which de
laerated the killing of a man who
seduced the girl and violated the
mans wife.
\ The United States was once the
and of lands where the, passion
sme," as the French call 1t, was
Grdly ever to be observed. except
| Perhaps in the foreign slums ,wnere
some jealous woman disfigured heI
rival with a razor thrust or few
ounces of acid. 10 ~.
What does this mean and what
has brought about this change? I'd
both for the better and the worse
I will show in this series of three
studies, written especially for the
Washington Times, that 1t is the
result Of the rapid evolution OF
modern woman since the war.
Modern woman has learned the
/. cheapness of human life. She haf
pulled Man, the God, from his
pedestal and expects him to live uI
to a single standard. She mas
abandoned her meek and resign d
attitude. She Is more individual
and more idealistic. In some cases
however, too rapid adaptation tc
new conditions has made her moro
neurotic.
The war has robbed death Of It's
thrills and human life Is no longer
TO us the sacred thing 1t was. The
wears 1919 to 1922 have witnessed q
wave OF murder for profit which Is
unprecedented In the history OF
modern nations. Men began TO play
the game of death. Women followed
But the war taught women other
things too. During the war women
did everything men had done until
then: they drove ambulances, they
manufactured ammunition; they
fought in the Russian trenches, and
one of them, Hungarian. held ar
arfbassadorial post. Women did not
k6know they couid do all these things
md do them well and their conceit
grew rapidly. y,
Man, the wonder. man. the god
began TO shrink In size and stature
and woman asked themselves. NOR,
or less sarcastically, why he hat
been so long lording it over then