Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
BY THOMAS r.. MARSHALL,
Former Vice President OF the
United States.


Former Vice President OF the
United States.
TINE world has passed in the
last four years from a well
ter of war into a weller
of fwords. Every phase Of
the wars aftermath, every phase
of the peace, has been discussed
and rediscussed. What caused
things to be as they are; how
they might be better; how even
yet they can be rectified; why we
should and should not forgive the
war debt; how atrocities would
have been prevented If we had
accepted a mandate for Armenia
and what boat we would be in
IL the mandate had been accepted;
why Wilson was right and why
he was wrong; what good CIemen-
ceau has done and what evil he
has wrought-these and a hun
dred collateral questions have en-
gagged our thoughts and made us
vocal. II not for the advertisement
OF few murders and of college
cinema, From Wife to Wife and
Back Again. or How l Failed in
Judgment of Women" we might
have become groggy In an attempt
to reach a conclusion about world
affairs.
So strenuous have been events
or our political life combining do
round consideration of the plea
of our American women for full
equality as soothing as a sedative.
Be II known. IL is neither through
desire nor purpose to enter into
controversy with the National
Woman's Party that ! write this.
i we'll realize how easy IL is to
fiercer sex. That man is not wise
who fails to don kid gloves. pref
erably white, when handling the
new demands of women for un-
qualified equality In law, conduct
and thought.
/ am distinctly in favor of re-
Taxation from the attempt to solve
the problems of life, death and i'm
mortality as applied to nations. To
divert the mind for a time from a
serious question to a frivolous one,
or even TO another serious cues
ton. is to send it back to con-
sideration of the first question
rested and refreshed. Any respite
is bound TO be beneficial.
Aside from it's proposition that
women ought to be admitted to the
priesthood. the pronouncement of
the National Woman's Party as a
statement of principle probably
meets no grave objection in the
minds of right-thinking men. And
As to their admission to the priest
MOOD, the women themselves will
no doubt remember that the state
does not seek to influence the laws,
ordinances and customs of re-
ligious denominations. The Ku
klux Khan, IL one may believe
what he reads, is partially engaged
in this work now. If so, that is an
other reason why the invisible en-
pre- Will not survive. After TWEEN
ty-seven years of married life I
would not say that a woman could
not do anything to the ACCOMPLISH
ment of which she sets her head
and jaw. But / am doubtful
whether she will ever persuade the
Pope to bestow on her the priyi-
leges of the confessional. This,
however, Is immaterial, for with
developments of the radio II will
soon be unsafe for man to think
of anything he does not desire his
wife TO know all about. Science
promises to accomplish what
philosophers. religious teachers
and Legislators have been unable
TO bring about-a single standard
of morals.
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Sight is lost of the fact that the
emergence of woman, not from the
legal status, but from the real
status OF a femme covert to a
femme sole, was not brought about
primarily by legislation. She came
into her own from a legislative
standpoint after she came into her
own from the ethical standpoint.
Justice and fair dealing have been
enlarged in the consideration of
her problems more by judicially
made than by legislatively made
law. The courts as a whole have
never had square deal upon the
question as to whether they were
governed by precedent or whether
Trey tossed precedent to the winds
when confronting the day of finer