New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-07-06


graphed among her experimental mi
of Chicago. e, , She says science
woman is merely a link between ma
Chicago. July 3.--Dr. Adolf He'll
born, the famous German anthro-
pologist. who recently declared that
woman is not Il human being but
a weird freak" part way 'twiSt
man and animal, is nothing but "a
man with a peeNe who has been
turned down by too many women"
Who says So A woman who
can pretty well match Dr. Hell
born himself with degrees, vari-
Gus honors and professional rec
ord.
The woman is DIR. Maude Slyc,
associate prof ssor in the medical
college of the University OF Chi
cago. Her autopsies performed
on nearly 100000 mice. togethe r
with years OF study OF mice habits,
have done more to further medical
understanding of the hereditary
phases OF cancer than any other
research work.
IF women are not human be
irgs. than the whole race is Oh
viously condemned, said DR..
Slye, pausing for moment before
the cage of her famous dancing
mice in her laboratory.
Il cannot speak in detail about
DR.. Heilborn's book because
| know only the reviews upon it
But speaking as woman rather
than a scientist, ] wonder how
many women have turned thai
man down.
says Science CoEtradicts
Turning scientific, however, DIR
Slye discussed the charge thai
I woman is merely the link between
an ape and a man.
Lets look at the lower form.
Of nature first she said. I'll
every branch of life you'll Away;
/ find that the female is exactly a.
good Il fighter and a provider al
the male, and sometimes better
This in spite of the fact that tn,
female is burdencd with the i'm
mediate production of posterity.
and the same laws of naturJ
are as true with the human form
of life as with any other TAer
would be a definite and ineNpl.Ain
able break in the theory of evolu
lion ii a different law should appl
to sen In the human specie.
so by absolutely scientiN
proof in the theory of evolution
and the discovered laws OF nature
woman is inherently mans cqua
and occasionally his superior
But what civilization has don
peculiarly TO women must b
watched. says DR.. sIyc.
I'VE have proof that the ANA
IONS We're huge in stature. fight
ers and prov jcrs. But from tina
time to this men have been sub
DUNG women. making them chat
tells and Slaves. denying then
physical and mental development.
Women have been used TO
nothing but the breeding of pos
terity and it has taken time an
tremendous effort to break ava
from the shackles men have i'm
posed. But We are doing it e,a.
day. We have begun. There is II
doubt about it,"
What Would a Man DO?
DIR. Slye smiled at this point.
al ihir1,ino of hn
son DIR. Heilborn makes bet~ee
male and female success in tn
fields of science and art" she cor
tinued. ''How absurd! Take
man, put him without four wall
give him eight children to bath
feed. teach and watch over. Civ
him the cooking to do for an il
ritable wife, demand of him
clean house. DO this to him ft
generation upon generation an
see how much accomplishment /
would have made in the field {
artsand sciences.
Il am not backing up my arg,
ment at this point with scientif
facts. But ! am personally cor
WINGED that he would see lit
endurance on the part of the ma
under such conditions, let alor
achievements in fields outside II
home, his own bailiwick in whic
he was incarcerated.
mo. going back to DIR. Hei
borns claim that women al
smaller boned, softer muscle
poorer-blooded than men. Ho'
then. do we get our fine strol
sons? After all. you know. II
boy gets so per cent of his il
heritancc from his mother, al
sometimes more. My mice he
In the laboratory teach me tha
Very often the male is complete
albino like his mother, though Il
father is entirely gray.
Child Half Of Mother
The child Is not only subje
to a SO per cent inheritance of /
mothers mental and physical e
h dowment. but is nourished al
. formed for nine months befo
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