Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 301, 18 December 1922 — Page 16

AS& sixteen THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. 'MONDAY, DEC. 13, 1922.

WOMAN'S HOME RIGHT SUBJECT OF TALK BY FEMINIST LEADER Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, wife ot the former chief ot the United States bureau of chemistry, thinks that smoking is abdominable. Yet she upholds the right of a girl to smoke. She is fighting for the equality ol women in

all things.- She 13 a militant feminist She is the mother of two boys, eight

and ten years old. and it is her great

est ambition that they take a leading part in Christianizing the world. But

she believes In the basic right ot all

individuals to shape their own destinies, and she believes that girls as well

as boys are Individuals.

Just now she is one of the leaders

in the organization, the object of which is to remove the last remaining

discriminations against women in

American homes. Wants Equal Rights

The organization is the Home-Mak

er s Council of the National omans

Party This party is composed of women who are not aiming to enter professions, but 'who want the right to continue as home-makers on an equal

footing with the men.

"I had supposed", I told Mrs. Wiley, "that women were rather more of a

factor in American homes than men."

"They are possibly more important" she answered, "but their rights in many states are still almost negligible. I am not speaking merely of their property rights, although the legal discriminations are against them in this respect make It impossible in many places for them to function as they should. I talked with a woman from the south the other day. She is 'happily' married and very much in love with her husband, but he doesn't know that she is a person, and she could not make him think so except by nagging him or starting a fight. Appropriates Property "Because legally she is not a person. She had an estate before she wa married valued at $100,000, She had planned for years to devote this land to a specific charitable purpose. The other day her husband came home to dinner and nonchalantly announced

that he had sold it. He had a right

to under the law.

In that state, in spite of the nine-i teenth amendment, a married woman is still very much of a slave. Her work, her resources and her lifelong ambitions count for nothing. "But even in states where property rights seem to be equal, it doesn't necessarily follow that women have achieved equality. In these states a woman may leave her home, enter a trade or profession and have full say as to what she shall do with her salary. Her husband can't take that I mean the money which she has earned outside the home. But how about the money she has earned inside the home? If the man dies, the woman can command her legal share In his estate. But if he lives, she can't even command a salary. On a large percentage of the American farms today it is still the ridiculous practice for the wife to ask her husband for money with which to buy a new hat. Must Have Understanding "To manage any enterprise properly the manager must have a very definite idea of the financial resources at hand. A home-maker should have either a stated allowance or a definite percentage of her husband's income." It is not any personal discontent

which has brought Mrs. Wiley into

the feminist movement. She is there because she has strong convictions concerning things from which she does not personally suffer. That woman should have a right to vote was one of her lifelong convictions. Education is at present the main reliance of the Home-Makers Council. There is no talk as yet of a strike of farmers' wives or of any dramatic assertion of woman's equality. From Mrs. Wiley's standpoint at least the movement does not contain the slightest element of antagonism to men. "Our object," she said, "is to remove the elements of discord from the home Marriage between equals must, in its very nature, be a continual compromise. If harmony is to be achieved, it

must be through complete equality or not at all. So long as rights are un

determined they will be fought for. the harmony based on authority has

passed forever. Our real aim is more than an assertion of individual rights. It is the assertion of the most sacred right known to human history the right of a man and woman to become completely united in love. "Did you ever stop to think," Mrs. Wiley added, that millions of homes today are cursed with discord simply because the personality of the mother has been suppressed? Take - almost any case of a completely dominated woman and you will find a woman who is making life unbearable. She quits being a person and becomes a professional mother for life. , She babies her children. They are her life and she sees her life departing from her. She struggles to hold them as babies when they should be developing manly characteristics instead. She undermines their self-reliance. It is up to them either to rebel and break her heart or to succumb and to go down in utter uselessness. Either way. such a mother is hopeless. "What we should aim at," Mrs. Wiley continued, "is not to 'free'

woman from the great work ot bear

ing and rearing children but to save them from destroying themselves in the process. There is no reason why

any normal 'person's life should end at fifty. A woman at 50 should be look

ing ahead."

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