Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — PERFECTS A NEW STABILIZER WOMEN ARE NEVER FRIENDS? [ARTICLE]

PERFECTS A NEW STABILIZER

WOMEN ARE NEVER FRIENDS?

•« - ' _ ■ New York Professor Announces Research Shows the “Term Is Masculine Only." New York.—Charles Gray Shaw, professor of philosophy at New York university, has devoted considerable time Jind effort in research work on the problem of “Can a woman be a friend, »nd, if not, why not?” Today he made public the results of his study. “She cannot.be a friend,” Professor Shaw announces, “for, although the word is given in both genders, the fact alone is masculine. The reason for this state of unfriendliness in woman is that to be a.friend a clearcut personality and a disinterested outlook on life are required. Woman lacks both of these. Woman is never a friend because she is never an individual, and to be an Individual one must stand alone. Woman is a planet —a satellite —well adapted to revolving around some, center, but not organized so as to stand alone. “Men’d clubs, of which they are so proud, are combinations made for killing time and fostering laziness. On the other hand, the woman’s club is an attempt to generate feminine friendship. It is a * hothouse Jtpr tender plants.”