New Britain herald., 1928-07-20
Wives? They Are
 Talks of Here
Miss Phillips Tells of the
 Various Types.

NeW OEloAues Soay ~ AAS eAs~sA whe puts his wife high on pedestal and gives her the chivalrous atten- ton of . knight of the middle ages is pretty much of . washout from the point of view of the wife.
 This rather startling remark comes i. from Miss Lena Madesin Phillips of New York. just reelected to her third term as president of the Ma tional Federation of Business and ! Professional Women's cluba
 Forget the squaw stuf." advises , Miss Phillips Abolish the pedestal of chivalry. Treat women like hu- man beings. And inside a genera tion you won't recognize this old world of ours" The reporter who was interview ing her asked what was the objec- tion to chivalry and pedestals. Miss Phillips explained: Like India, She Says "When a man marries 8 woman and puts her in a shrine and wor- ships her with elaborate chivalry and decks her with diamonds and makes her a literal prisoner of his home and his love and his children, that man in his own way Is like the hus- bands of the child wives of India of whom Katherine Mayo 90 recently wrete-the men who load the wrists and ankles of their women with all the gold and silver ornaments they can afford.
 "That man who, as he will tell you, puts his wife on a pedestal is mentally swelling out his chest and looking around at all the men and women he knows and saying: Look at me! Look at what I won! Look at the way I house her and load her with diamonds and furs!'
 ITO him that wife on . pedestal is just like . valuable painting or any other rich piece of property that tells the world how good his stand ing is. And the poor deluded man fatters himsclf that his wife finds him enough as her sole interest in the world!
 "Why, no one woman can be big enough to form the sole interest Of any mans life. And conversely. no one man can be big enough to fill the whole life of any one woman" "Womcn Human Beings"
 Women, Miss Phillips insists, want to be treated as human be- inas. receiving neither favors nor handicaps because of Meir sex.
 women arc not goddesses and they are not squaws." she asserts. They have their special function of child bearing as women. But aside from that, before and after and beyond that function. they are human beings, and they want men to treat them as such. There ia no sex in work. A business is business and profession is pro- fession, whether 1t be conducted by a man or q woman.
 This organization of business and professional women's clubs is not an end. It is merely a step It Is q step toward the day when woman lawyer will be . member o1 a bar association because she is lawyer-not a member of profes sional women's club because she Ii . woman. The day when a business woman will be accepted in a cham Der of commerce as . unit of tho community's business life with thu
 fact ot her sex having nothing in thu
 world to do with 1t.
 "We are headed toward the da!
 when tho T-adies' Auxiliary VII
 vanish from the earth.
 II hope. I believe, that the daugh
 ters of the women of this organiza
 ton of which have the honor t
 be president will be accepted a
 units of their communities. side b
 side with men. instead of being SC .e gregated into women's organization ,s merely because they were born girl r. instead of born boys"
 ye Miss Phillips chuckled that deer l. rich note of mirth that underlies tn a seriousness of her words.
 oi "This squaw stuff ought to hay ,e died long ago." she continued. "l ,e there is any question of who shout m do the heavy work. 1t seems to m
 the man should do 1t because Of hi