Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-15


wonan S superior moral sense makes
her more faithful than man, she is
also more individualistic than IS
man and reserves the right to follow
the man She loves, whether it is the
husband or some other man, DIR.
Charles Gray Shaw. professor of
philosophy at New York University,
told an assembly Of men and women
summer school students here.
one hears Il great deal about
the Superman but not much about
the supcrwoman, DR.. Shaw said.
=" In like manner, we observe car
toonS OF the cave man swinging his
citb over the head of the cave wo-
man, but there may be something
wrong viii; the picture. AS a mat
ip? of fact, women are more highly
lhllHiduated than men. Their deli!
cate race may not show long list
or towering personalities to comt
pare with the line of warriors, art
lists and statesmen produced by their
brothers; but the average woman
has more personality than the av-
crage man. This fact was never
t:uer or more striking than it is to
day in this age of flappers and
bOhbed hair.
" Nature gives individuality to
all organisms, so that no two peas
arc alike, no repetition in the ex-
act pattern of two leaves on the
same tree. Woman has taken ad-
vantage Of this and has kept her
natural individuality. Man has
elaborated a civilization which has
ever tended to obliterate individu-
aIity. But such male, man-made
civilization h;s 'nevcA made any
great appeal to women who have
done little else than tolerate and be
amused by it. The result has been
to allow women to preserve and de-
velop her natural individuality.
Women Live More
"The individuality of woman is
found in the privacy of her life in
cave or tent, harem or. boudpir.
The male mate who roamed abroad
had little idea of the thoughts fer
menting in the female brain. Man
may have thought more and done
more, but woman has lived more and
felt more deeply. Privacy has be.
gotten personality i'll the woman
whose thoughts were just as much
q part of her own nature as the
SPIDERS web is part of its body.
Woman is no social creature in
the sense that she, as is the case
with men, loved to be organized in
armies, factories, lodges, clubs and
unions. 1t is man who is the join
err who dread3 being different
from his fellows. Woman hates to
be the same as her sisters. She is
aged at discovering that some
other woman has dress of cut and
pattern like her own. AS a member
of any organization, woman is q
fish out of water. She may have
her woman S club, modelled on mas
culine lines, but in her heart she
knows that it is a ridiculous organ
ization. Her desire is to be free
and original. This appears i'll the
way she dresses.
In the important matter of NOR
ais, woman has always been her own
moral guide Women are actually
more than men, but they arrive at
moral results instructive without
appeal to any ethical code. Wo-
men are moral without being, ethi-
cal; that is to say, they are indl-
vidual in their habits. Where NOR
ais take on matrimonial form, wo-
man will be found more faithful
than man. Nevertheless, woman is
so individualistic that she reserves
the right to follow the man she
loves, whether it is the husband or
some other man. She may not ac-
tuallv break forth and violate her
vows, but she feels that she has the
private right so to do, If she
chooses. That which decides the
matter for her is her feeling of
love, which is her own, and which
is the best expression of her person
ality.
Honor and Honor
Woman s intrepid individuahsm
does not balk at the sense of honor.
But there is honor and honor. Mas
culine homer is only class morality,
the codes of doctors, lawyers, sold
iers and thieves. Women are not
so classed, hence women have no
social sense of honor. Feminine
honor is purely individualistic and
the woman as one who Is
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