The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-13
The Pulse of the Nation

! steal or bear false witness or covet,"
when all the time they didn't need to
do it because the Decalogue applies 'ex-
clusively to men," But "a special fe-
male decalogue such as the ambassador
proposes" would, the New Orleans Times
Picayune holds, ''be more difficult to
write than new state constitution, and
the chain of amendments sure tc be
grated on to the original text very
soon would cause the document to rival
the unbridged dictionary in size
But, the Newark News declares, 'if
Mr.. Harvey could not find any soul in
America, where is there any significance
in his opinion that women have no souls?
Has he shown himself competent to rec
ognize feminine soul if he saw it?" The
New York American however, feels con-
fident that the Authors Club will be
at least gallant enough TO satisfy the
learned Harvey with the authentic state
ment: Women have no souls; they are
souls. Men have souls-perhaps."
Distressing as the ambassadors ad-
dress may have been, it was not, the
New Orleans Item contends, IAN asser-
ton that the ladies lack souls. 1t merely
states that the sacred literature of the
ancient Jews and Persans did not credit
the ladies with souls And starting with
that premise, the Item proceeds in a
detailed and scholarly way TO dsprove
Mr.. Harvey's contention from the very
material to which he goes for support
To begin with, lit seems too bad that
the orator overlooked the fifth of the
Commandments-'Thc shalt honor thy
father and thy mother Here, surely, is |
a recognition of a womans right to hon. |
or, for it is not to be imagined that |
the Almighty commanded so superior |
a creature as man to honor any woman |
unless at least she was his equal in the !
- nTrB
the case becomes still for the soulful |
ness of the ladies if you carry it beyond !
the Jews and examine the conceptions |
Of the other Semitic peoples, who wor-
SHIPPED lots of gods at once. .
Wherever you find a god, you find
goddess too. There she was, right be-
side him, and sometimes overshadowing
Quoting the Zend Avesta, the Item points
put that ''the ambassador fares no bet
ter with the old Aryan lore than with
The Semitic for 1.-THE people who got Il
heir religion from the Zend Ayesta not Il
only recognized women as possessing Il
souls, but actually worshipped the souls
# women" And while it may be true
hat the ancient OrientaIs kept their
women 'in condition Of dependency,
'ervitude and inferiority," that fact
proves nothing about her soul or her
ack of one. The Christian world for the
most part, quite unmindfuI of Christian
loc&1Sue, has kept woman as far subject
o men as possible" but all Of that "by
10 means proves that men deny the poor
Kings a SOUL
However, in what one writer speaks
f as these days Of embattied femin-
sn1,' the New York Tribune is inclined
0 wonder II Colonel Harvey has not
done a real service in reminding man of
ne original plans and specifications by
Which the first woman was laid down.
Plainly she was designed as and through
many early ages continued to be a help
nate to man" If now she is growing
way from that masculine ideal, the
reatest labor saving device ever invent
d." it may indeed be due - her !, gsst-
nee that women must h ave souls E,it |
s matter CT fact, the T me in1sires
Why must they?" II