The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-20
T 'oday
Twelve Greatest Women. Women Lack Choice. Pictures of a Prince. Women on Farms.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

voters WAnt a nst or the 11 greatest women In America but say they can not make the list-and they can't in deed. No one today could name even one of them.
 Three hundred and fifty-seven years before Christ, the bad tenn pered. wild. murderous daughter of erable the life of Philip. her new husband She danced naked, with snakes wrapped around her.
 Nevertheless she was the greatest !. woman Of that period. for she bore Alexander tho Great.
 Who in 1908, seeing tall, gaunt young woman going in and out of a windowless hut in Harden county, Ky. looking about for bears and In- dlans, keeping house on dirt floor, would have chosen her for what she was, the worlds greatest woman of that time. In that hut, one year later, she bore Abraham Lincoln.
 Ye shaI1 know them by their fruits. That applies to women as to fruit trees. A man is Judged by the work he does; a woman by the children she creates. The curious thing is that women are not satis- fled with that judgment. They admit that rhldias was greater than his greatest statue, but do not realize that Phidjas' mother was greater than he. The creator is greater than the thing created.
 There is, one unjust feature about woman's work. Man selects his ma terial for work Woman depends for results partly upon the sort of man she rnarries. and is not always al- lowed to choose. That is a handicap, that should be adjusted in some way. It will be adjusted in the end by women making the average man good enough. Once woman had to pick and choose among cannibals. Now usually the worst choice she makes is a noncntiry.
 Women that deny fundamental differences between men and women should consider the Vassar baseball game with college girls playing against their fathers. The fathers won. Could anybody imagine the mothers of college boys beating their sons at baseball? The idea is ridic- ulous. The power of woman goes first to creating the human race and then the civilizing of it. That ought to be a job big enough to satisfy even ambitious woman.
 Pliers risked their lives taking to London the earliest photographs of tile Prince of Wales in Egypt How foolish, We say. to risk life for pic lures of a youth that never did any thiug except come into the world In fortunate fashion. Then we recol- 5 1ocE tslat our filters rspad their lives carrying first photographs of The Dempsey prize fight and our demo- cratic scorn calms down. Alteration of a reigaing nonentity is a least more respectable than adoration of q prize fighter
 Flammarion, French astronomer, aged 50. says he can prove that the soul exists; that man has two bodies. spiritra. and physical. But the usual human being says: Thank you. l need no proof" We feel about the soul as Samuel Johnson felt when freedom of the will was discussed: sir, we know that the will is free ard that's an end of it."
 Human beings know from within that the soul exists and that's "an end to that" Let everybody in doubt read ''wordsworths Poem on Immor- taiity." He will know that the spirit within cometh from afar.
 Once statistics told you that of inmates of our insane asylums. the largest class was made up of farm CTS wives. On farms, alone, with nothing interesting in sight, mono- tcnous fields stretching in all direc- tons. no companionship, cooking, washing. mending, fer many. women found relief in insanity. Some would have said: Tt is the primal curse on women." Others would have said: Tt Is the fault of capital" that revolution was needed. But the farm life has changed; farmers wives no longer go insane as they did. and science. not revolution, has made the change.
 Telephones. washing machines, kerosene cookers. talking and singing machines. radio-and above all, au- tomobiles. have changed life coni- pletely. Many problems that seem unsolvable will be solved. each In turn, by human intelligence.
 rhe most important change will come when industry is made attrac- tive when every worker will like his work and when there will be more than enough for all. In that day. which is coming men will work, as they now play golf. from choice.
 Secretary Weeks thinks that primaries. enabling voters to choose and nominate their own officials, are highly dangerous. So they arc. vania or Indiana. But the primary suits tho people and MT. Weeks does not nelp his administration in sug- gestins tLat 1t will endeavor to kill inc nrimarfes