The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-25
No Women
on Gerard
Ruler List
BY MARTHA LEE

Here's something that should
prove not only interesting, but con-
versation- provoking to you women
Who'll feel feminine progress is on the
upgrade.
James w. Gerard, former am
bassador. to Germany, has COM
piled a list of sixty-four whom he
calls rulers in America" The names
include those who are rulers in the
nations economic, educational, po-
litical, financial, commercial, artistic
life.
And in that list of sixty-four
names, there is not one woman's
name included!
You probably will ague: but
who is James w. Gerard that he
should be criterion? He does not
know everything. He simply has
missed out some place"
Some Close TO Top
On second thought you will come
to the conclusion that although
women have made huge strides in
the past fifty years, they have not
usurped a single throne of man.
They are cluttering up the stairs
to the throne and some of them
are mighty near the top. But the
foremost people in the occupations
which were mans occupations to
begin with, still are members Of
the male sex.
When you stop to think that up
until fifty years ago, we women
we're not allowed to take our places
in public life in any capacity what
soever, VIC have done fairly well.
When you take into consideration
that up until that long ago women
we're not educated, excepting ON
very rare occasions, it is evident
we have done fairly we'll in as
similating the knowledge which al
lows us to take our places beside
men in industry in any capacity.
Men Design Homes
But the fact remains that an
overwhelming bulk of the designing
and constructing of homes is done
by men, even in this advanced year
of 1880 And the designing and
constructing of homes is just one
field I mention, because if women
were able to usurp men at all, they
should be able to do it in the field
they are, supposed to understand
best.
Here is something interesting
along that line of thought Al
though the homes have been in the
hands of women for centuries, all
household appliances and labor-s say
ing devices have been invented by
men. Although women are sup
posed to know, through association,
what would prove the most con-
venient arrangement of rooms, men
still are drawing plans for modern
houses where housework is made
lighter and unnecessary steps fewer.
That's just depression, but it goes
to prove something or other.
Many More Adaptable
Women have left the homes to the
makers of labor saving devices and
gone into the Offices and business
world. They have made rapid
strides. In many cases they have
turned out more efficient, more
adaptable, more successful than the
average man.
But never once, in any field, have
they assumed the leadership in that
particular line of endeaYor.
So it does not seem particularly
harmful that men, after centuries
of mental suppression, have allowed
us to peek into their fairyland. We
have not produced a MendelsSohn,
nor even a Gershwin. We have no
Kreisler, no Paderewski. no Sargent,
no Michaelangelo, no Ralph Adams
Cram, no Dresser, no Shakespeare,
not even a Eugene ONeill. Nor
have we produced a Teddy RooSe-
welt. a John D. Rockefeller.
Men still are in the first and high
est. chairs in their professions. And
some of us are climbing from the
mediocrity of many men to the
rarified atmosphere of few. Which
is neither to be sneezed nor quaked
at