The Washington times., 1925-06-09
With The
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Invention Has Liberat-
ed Woman, Making
Her an Auto
Driver
|Annexes New Equality
nv nONATn McnOIIGAL.
EAnnexes New Equality.
By DONALD McDOUGAL.

The two inventions that have
made the biggest splash In human
affairs since the steam locomo-
tive, are the typewriter and the
automobile.
They've probably made bigger
splash than the locomotive did.
The railroad opened up the In.
terror of the country tract Of
land 1900 200 miles in extent
helped the soldiers drive out
the Indians and make homes for
some scores of millions of white
people In their place.
1t gave civilization larger fled
to play In, but it didn't change the
rules Of the game. It left half
the adult population chained to
the cook stove. just as before.
The railroad made room for more
cook-stoves and provided more
chains, and that's about all 1t die.
The Kaiser's classification of
kuchen, kinter and ,kirche as the
total OF woman's activity was left
whole and unblemished, just as
it came out Of the Middle Ages.
y American enterprise added the
typewriter to the list, when 1t
was discovered that girl could
pound one as well as g. man
perhaps a little better, and GER
tainly cheaper.
Chains were heard swapping
all over the country, and many
a crewIess cook-stove mouldered
in red ruin on the junk heap.
Woman's emancipation was the
first important document to be
written by the new tangled con-
traption, and she wrote 1t. her.
self. But not on paper.
There began woman's competi-
ton with man on his home
grounds, and she had to know
the game from a to z. And that
wasn't enough.
She had to know stenography;
bookkeeping, (which meant ac-
countancy; which meant mathe-
matics, and law and economics.
And those things spelled uni
versity.
The hundred years opposition
Of the college collapsed when she
stepped into the registrars Of
flee with a certificate of quail
fication in her brief-case and
check for years tuition in her
hand.
And the bifurcated branch Of
society watched her escape from
the scuIIery with amusement,
surprise, hostility, helplessness,
indifference, all the way to APP
prevail and e. new respect. Now
she does as she darn pleaseS, and
you can go cook a prune il you
don't like 1t, because there's plenty
that do.
When it came to stirring
things up, and overturning estap-
lished iAiQuities, the doughty lit.
tie typewriter had 1t all over the
ponderous locomotive.
Then seme the automobile and
made the typewriter loolA like a
harem-guard.
Let me drive" size begged.
go on" says Brother, what
do you know about MACHINERY
Get down from there and let
me under the wheel" she says.
land well find out
Brother had to admit that as
driver Sis was there. To operate
car, especially In city streets. re-
quires intuition, quick-wittedness
decision based on correct impulse.
and these are feminine traits
She won her spurs as a driver.
and with them came further
emancipation. AS co-user of
the road with Brother, she gained
certain equality that no legal
status could give her, and Mrs.
Grundy cannot take away.
If your tire blows out, or your
engine goes bad for six-hour's
delay, you get back six hours late,
and that brings you home at 8 in
the morning instead Of 8 at
night. And it's as likely to hap
pen to Sis as to Brother.
Mrs. Grundy found that out.
long ago, and she's quit innuendo-
ing about il. the old bag,