Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-28


viera. The organization Is called the
League of Women Victims Of Men!
UNDOUBTEDLY many millions OF
~ women in all countries could be
eligible, but how many ever would an
snounee to the world their eligibility?
And what dses the public association
hope to gain? ...
One can conceive Of individual women
who have suffered from outraged affec-
tions inviting the sympathy of rela-
itives or close friends. 1t is conceiv-
able that mothers whose children have
been abandoned would feel it legitimate
TO Join a group who were having re-
course to law. or working for better
laws, We can picture a group OF women
who suffered in marriage, because they
themselves were permitted to marry too
young and too ignorant, working out
some educational scheme by which girls
should be enlightened on certain brutal
and cruel types of men.
Yes, there are possible causes for
combinations of women. whose expert
ences, bitter and disillusioning, might
felt an urge to help others to avoid
the pitfalls into which they had fallen.
But apart from these rather obvious
things, what could feminine fighters
hope to achieve!
uOW many women are willing to
IL parade their personal sufferinss
before callous, or even worse, laugh
IL 10 o.f, oil
the requirement for membership is that
the candidate "has suffered from some
,perfidious male" The instigators claim
that fully ne-half the female sex has
so suffered! Perfdy suggests jlting
or abandonment surely no such man.
moth proportion of womankind has been
cast off by Its mate.
To our way of thinking, there is too
much stress laid on the sin of breaking
an engagement. Surely, it IS sane
and decent thing to halt marriage
before it Is too late, If one party dis
covers that it is Il mistake. Surely,
honor demands that a man refrain from
wedding girl he does not love. What
ever inconvenience or hurt vanity or
embarrassment is caused by a broken
Engagement is nothing compared with
the horrors of a loveless marriage. One
may argue that the man who ardently
woos, aud later coOls. is hck e, and
changes his mind, is blameworthy. 1t
may or may not be case 0f shallow
iickleness. But even II 1t Is, will such
II man make satisfactory husband!
THERE is, of course the rare in
i stance of man who actually
wrecks woman's life, By taking all
her best years, in long drawn out en-
eagement, only to abandon her. Many
n village has such couple. But these
sensational instances are not common,
md as women come to have more inter
ests, they will be less apt to mourn one
perfidious male for an entire lifetime.
Love Is not always 'wOman's whole ex'
istence 7"
Applicants also may be girls who are
twists or clerks. who have lost their
Jobs because their employers preferred
girls they ecu d hirt with. That is n
disagreeab,e situation, and doubtless
employees sometimes are embittered when
they learn that pretty face is pretera-
bic TO secretarial skin and efficiency.
But what can they do about 1t? No
organization can coerce business man
into employing secretaries whom he
does not want.
ME ARE skoptical as to the efficacy
wv Of any ''anti" society. Fighting is
a doubtful procedure except in the cause
Of some definite injustice to be righted
by a campaign of education and some
amended law. What can women as a
elaea do 10 spite men as q CLASSY Moth
-. There are too many in the ranks
q femininity who like men and are
5(nery with them
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