Show Must C Conquer Inferiority Complex Yet S Scholar holar Says I By HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer NEW YORK ORI July 30 Vom Womans Woman's Woman's Womans ns n's last lap in the race tot for Equality q Uty williman with willi man will be won when she conC conquers ers ersH H Her Het t Inferiority anci and fie titi longer a acknowledges man to be her oer superior superior superior-by by acts if not t bywords y This is the opinion Of t Jacob Ja oB Rich maff Hebrew w scholar who fwd hn has spent nt y years rs s searched th the Talmud Bible and iid ancient l s bt foOd and d has lias traced the progress of women as recorded by historians since the beginning of time v I FEW BRIGHT MIN S' S Up to the present women's pr progress pro gress g- g II ress was always that of a few Individuals individuals Indi indi- rather than as a seX sex A t few w brilliant flashes have lighted the dullness ss of the ages but there was rio ria steady flame to Illumine the thew w way ay yi he says i Man Ian has has' always treated treated weman woI wo- wo man maii with condescension and will I continue to do so as long as sh she stands for ft It The ancient Jews treat treated c women t tenderly and c with absolute condescension sion The fhe f fact tabt t th that t Jewish wom women women n notably S Sarah tah Deborah Huld Huldah h hand and Esther to IMd leadership ev evento even evento n to fo pr prophesy did riot not change the status of ot other woin n. n In the them writings of the TaIm Talmud d ds s several veral centuries s after rt t th the Old Testament Testament Test Test- ament ment w womans woman's mans man's position had riot not changed H Her r Wisdom w was s still lim lim- limIted limited io the spindle Th There r la is a ref reference refer refer- er r- r enc ence that thai a hundred women are riot not safe with on one one m man n because b cause one m man n can turn turn turna a hundred feminine heads GREEKS ALSO AV AVERSE I Nor were v r th the an ancient i nt Greeks for tor all th their lr cult culture re any more kindly disposed to W the fi rank and file of women n. n Socrates Richman recalled selected sele selected se le ted a wife who was short and thin in Hi th the d days ys when the prevailing prevailing prevail prevail- ing ng t taste ste In womanhood was talland t tall talland ll lland and stat stately l by fa l I choose of evil the l east ast possible amount Another Ath Athenian who inscribed d dov over ov r the tM d doof f of f his palace Let L Jet nothing evil p pass ss this way got a arise arise arise rise tt from ir no fio leSS tess of A tL celebrity th than n Diogenes n s who vh Inquired Then rhen d does es your wife get In Id Even more caustic was the reply of another gentl gentleman ni n of the old Greek school who upon learning g that his most formidable enemy was as dead replied with bitterness I IOli Oli Oh that he had married instead When a woman n Is beautiful enougH h her r sh shortcomings are overlooked overlooked overlooked over over- looked always in lri the old days as aswell well as n now w. w Kingdoms and pow power r have always come with comeliness DISCRIMINATION STILL History reveals strange contradictions contradictions contra contra- dictions too Richman points out There were matriarchies in ancient ancient an- an da days s 's ruled over entirely by women where women where the men amounted mounted to pra nothing Polygamy prevailed of course ourse but In some sections the procedure was reversed and p polyandry landry flourished But these were unique arid and isolated IS t d cases of feminine devel development iC Considering rl g the toe opposition women women women wo wo- men survived and the difficulty they had haq eventually gaining suffrage suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage It is not surprising that we westill westill westill still find discrimination m against wOmen wo women women wo men men In n U the fessl a Ih In the matter matter matter mat mat- ter of equal pay and equal representation se Women have e not only had to to mens men's opposition but the prejudices their own sex men on them Much of the humor ot or progress progress progress ress Is revealed in Richman's latest book ok Laughs from Jewish Lore The sense sens of f Which men have always declared women lack is ism b feeing being d developed velb d amusingly ari by women's social and industrial power pow- pow er eri r he went ent on Woman V oman has now arrived ved at the stage in her progress where here she ban oon laugh laugh because she is so well weir established d and so powerful I re repeat re- re peat she peat she e. e has only her inferiority Ire Ire-I complex to battle from Crom now on |