The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-08-29
MRS. SCHUYLER
S A Y S
Fathers And Sons

just the Other day, an Italian
Canadian whose wife Is competing
in the Stork Marathon of our sister
Republic, made this significant
statement: "As long as we're hav-
ing boys we'll go right along hav-
ing children. Benito is the fourth
boy in a row. -. AS soon as we
have a girl We'll sign Off"
AS you might guess, little Benz
to is named for Mussolini, the boy
hero Of Italy. His father, who does
not want any more girls, is natur-
ally a great admirer Of the man
who had put the Italian woman
In her place.
In the animal world, and in all
non-patriarchal societies, the fe-
male is highly priced. In fact, of
so little value is the male among
some insects that as soon as pro-
pogation occurs the male is ell
minated. Among the bees. he is
driven out to starve and in the
cases of the scorpion, spider and
praying mantis, he is devoured by
his lady-love. l quote these delec-
table facts to show that nature is
not partial to the male as was
thought for many centuries when
the Queen" bee and Queen" ant
were constantly referred to in lit
III Ii M
Even today among many warlike
tribes in Africa, India, and in re-
mote sections of China, girl infants
are drowned or left to die. In So
called civilized Europe, the dicta-
tor countries are equally contemp-
tuous of girls. They do not yet
drown them, but perhaps death ia
preferable to lifelong inferior
treatment by parents and husband.
A society on the make" is always
harder on women, as are Germany
and Italy today. Every civilization,
once it is established, liberates wo-
men. When the Fascist states de-
clare their masculine values "eter-
nal" just put 1t down to bluff and
ignorance, Strict malearchy and
longevity do not go together.
Ironically enough, should Fascism
last, 1t will be at the cost OF re-
pudiation of all its principals Of
authority. Only the tribe engaged
in constant warfare and with little
or no property to inherit, can
maintain for long the masculine
ideal of force. Because women
live longer than men, in those
states where there is anything to
inherit, women soon come into
control of vast amounts of proper
ty. BY the second century
B. G.. they controlled two
thirds of the property in. Sparta,
that country which so thoroughly
aspired to be "for men only" That
was the end of the male stand
ards Of force, prudery and intoler-
ance there. Sparta bowed to the
rule Of more civilized states.
Men Apparently Not Naturally
Creators
Nothing of lasting value ever
survives a truly masculine state.
/ Sparta, after which Germany and
Italy are now fashioning them
selves, left posterity no works of
art, no literature, no scientific dis
covery, no new delights of living,
no written laws, but only a sterile
legend. While Egypt the longest
lived of all known civilizations,
and the one that has beQueathed
more to us in art of eternal mean
ing and dignity, the science OF
keeping time and the laws Of hor-
ticulture, the idea OF monotheism,
the Trinity, and the resurrection
of the body in religion, the first
philosophers profound poetry, civil
laws and geometry, the country
who showered these gifts upon
mankind knew and equality Of the
sexes not enjoyed in America even
today.
When the barbarian Greeks first
went to Egypt they were overawed
by its vast buildings, refinement OF
living (they had twenty-four kinds
of drink, dozens of kinds Of bread
and forty-eight baked meats), and
amazed by its treatment OF wo-
men. Going home they reported
that Egyptian husbands were hen
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