The Washington times., 1935-05-23
Human Side of the News
By EdUin C.. Hill

the same remarks about his boss.
In Germany, Der Fuehrer has
slammed more than 100000
women back into the kitchen,
brilliantly educated professional
women among them. Women
have been driven from the arts,
professions and industry.
Under the Weimar Republic,
Germany had gone a long way
in extending political power to
women. These abstract holdings
crumbled like chalk before the
Nazi attack. Could this hap
pen in country where women
hold 10 per cent of the national
wealth?
It seems likely that there is
Staked out here a possibly
encouraging consideration of
the status and activity Of,
women in the face of a sweep
ing receSSive or reactive trend
in America, comparable to the
extremes Of European Facism.
While it is true that women
are instinctively conservative,
they are less easily steamed up
by inflammatory words and
symbols-main inducements to
political extremes-and there is
every reason to believe that, in
a crisis, American women would
be conservative in the generic
sense.
That is, they would be out
to conserve what they had and
that they would be resistant to
the gaudier fantasies of either
communism or facism. This
seems particularly plausible in
view of their control of the
national bank roll. The holder
of the heavier stakes usually
wants to let we'll enough alone.
FeminiSm, as we used to
write and argue about it, seems
pretty dead in this country.
Millenial prophecies of how en-.
lightened womanhood would
cleanse politics, once it had the
ballot, all came to nothing.
AS one might have known,
there's no creature more thor
oughly human than a woman,
and they split up on class in
terests, prejudices and tradi-
tional political affiliations just
as the men always have done.
But the suffrage run-around
was an epochal education and
liberation. And when the women
investors get out their hot state
ment about Women's financial
right, there's no outcry about
women'S place being the home.
HER FIRST INSTINCT
The field is wide open for in
telligent and spirited participa-
ton of women in anything that
interests them, and that seems
to be just what they are up to
and this time it is important.
Have women any aptitude in
fast rough and tumble finance?
That's something else again.
MaWruss, but one can't be sure.
I have a feeling that a shreWd
woman is just about as apt to
parlay thin dime into some
thing serious as the average
man, if you turn them loose to-
gether in the marts of trade.
OF course, her first instinct
is to sink it, but once they
think they see a chance to
scalp an eighth they're pretty
sharp gamblers. Take those old
mud hens of the early day
San Francisco mining exchange.
when Emperor Norton" was
encouraged in the illusion that
he ran the town and everybody
handed him gold pieces.
The mud hens" were old
crones who roasted in the gal
lery-croaking, rusty old vul'
lures they were-and every once
in a while one of them would
reach out and make a grand
slam which would bank the clev'
crest male operators on the
exchange. They were a great
crowd of women investors.
They cleaned up, but spent
most of their winnings on red
eye. And don't forget Hetty
Green, if you're figuring on
whether women know how to
take it-and keep it.
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