Show I l 1 r I and VO MAN 1 J I A Weier the Shall t i n W RM N NN N w w w w r i i i K 0 w i C J y i t Equality of the I Sexes Impossible ibl e o of f I w wa a At Because of Age Old Immutable Laws o of 4 Human Conduct Says Famous Novelist and anul Modern t. t Emancipated Woman a Failure in in Her New Freedom i A s w w w w S w 19 f. f By James M. M Neville n 1 T THE HE called so-called emancipated daughters of Eve have plunged into r mans man's realm of business and sport They have acquired a super super- ti tidal ial parity by adopting the vernacular the outer guise and more f conspicuous traits of men I But they will have to progress several steps before they can l lower i L the barrier that has separated the sexes for ages and which has r remained to this day as the subtle universal incompatibility between the sexes v Woman has been obsessed by the singular delusion that love is all said Rex Beach famous as a sportsman and still more famous r as a writer of virile novels in which the shifting standards and changed i r- r economic status of the modern girl have played no small part And until their viewpoint is changed the battle of the sexes as the movie titles term it will go on and on t The fundamental difference be between veen the sexes continued the theauthor author of The Spoilers and The Mating Call is that man is car car- ried along by many ambitions and andE E hobbies striking lustily through the surge of life with a thousand shifting goals Woman floats passively pas pas- in the warm backwaters craving caresses and concerned with marriage and its problems Woman has one interest love f Man has fifty He is driven by several that are as attractive as love adventure sports business In other words the great failure of the called so-called emancipated modern girl is that she fails to meet man on his own footing simply because she has carried her old sex obsession along with her rr more or less intact Until she is free of that she can never be free from the told servitude that has bound women k since time immemorial Seated in a spacious hotel lobby at Palm Beach and garbed in the usual L LI ill I MI In sport the average 5 there girl are plays a game for display and not for the games game's sake but b m merely rely as a chance to show off 4 r This famous American or Rex Beach ead is termed an unquenchable optimist by his Jis r friends for Je he y t believes es e that people n l V 4 a y v nc i lug 1 1 1111 1 a 1 Few v w women a m e n plunge t head heels into Nail head o over er into their h. h jobs Johs as men do II I l ul Failing in love a woman considers her e J job simply f. f r a compensation fa for re- re J HI 1 l spinsterhood d 4 ii f I IIII II r 2 But men en are impersonal I everyday very day dayI finds them stepping au out in ques quest of the e days s 's adventure adventure- Id i. I-i.- I ma king a S' S sale Ia dosing closing a deal a. a breaking kin yester- yester tar 11 1 1 d. d days day's score s k ti 3 Man about romance j has fity interests to ui id l one many 1 i h t tE 1 aJ Ik Il J tr V Vi it i t i c Lr Ii M C E- E r t i But obsessed d b by the del delusion l I fr 1 women are lon f I t. t 4 it 1 Ii Ia tb that t love ove is all 11 F Failing I to a land her herC ar i she ehe wIthout utterly dIversIty F man IS a 1 t l C II W j-al j 4 I f dIll 1 I I 1 1 i t rt of interests I a r l w t 1 i v But man plunges into everything every every- U 6 thing he does mot motivated by a sheer desire to win win and make a areal real game of it r are constantly Improving in every N L y- y y 1 k l white flannels md and sport coat his rugged features tanned by sun on Florida fairways fair fair- ways Rex Beach would have felt more at home talking ot of golf golt or fishing Just that day he had with a 75 for forthe forthe the Artists and Writers Association golf goll tournament and was Vias rumored as a fa favorite favor favor- vor- vor ite for the cup over Grantland Rice sports authority and defending champion appeared with the Invitation that the card Rex Beach join the gang In room Before accepting the famouS writer expressed his views more in detail de de- tall tail That Invitation brings up a a. point point he he continued a contrast between the male and female point of view It If you yell were ere to listen listen-In on the fragments of conversation COD conversa- tion from the gang gan In there Ill I'll bet t it would touch on politics sport radio aviation avia- avia tion that golf Isn't a a. sport you know its It's a and disease all sorts of diverting subjects I doubt I if any ot of them would mention their wives or their affairs with the fairer sex Men have too many interests interests in- in to talk of their romances romances The Tho writer paused and looked around the lobby His cler cle gray blue eyes es centered centered cen- cen on a group of women playing bridge across the lobby What do you think those women are talking about Their golf round today the Interesting books they've read the influence of aviation or other current topics of the day I doubt it very much They are talkIng talking talk talk- Ing about mutual acquaintances for all the world orId like village housewives ot of a pre emancipated age They will finally end up by talking of sex In its different phases including the terrible gossip about a girl they know her latest heart affair or another friends friend's expected baby This will go on for hours I do not mean this as an indict indict- NOW ment There is no more use comparIng comparing Ing the Interests of men and women than there Js is to n forming a cOmparison between a trim yacht and the lie Ile de France Both have their points and their limitations Im I'm just explaining the ancient differences between the sexes In a word the emancipated emancipated eman- eman Eve of today suffers from the ancient illusion that love Is all And when her crop fails taUs that of getting her man manin in marriage she Is utterly without a a. reserve reserve re- re of diversity of interests serve a a. Man has so many varIed Interests that he outstrips the modern girl who for all her gestures In seeking n a career and living her own life Ufe Is just as restless and dissatisfied dis- dis satisfied as her pre emancipated sisters It is too bad that modern girls cannot make the last tast hurdle of emulating the Inner spirit of man of acquiring his adventurous spirit and loving the game ot of life for no other reason than the fun of it For the average woman life is liable to be one petty day after another one placidly pleasant year after another They desire desira security and comfort and they never forget their personal aims But life is entirely different sort of thing to the tho we wet rounded rounded m man n. n Every day promises new things and he steps out In the morning mornIng morn morn- Ing with eyes bright In anticipation of the days day's adventures making a sale closing a a. deal breaking yesterdays yesterday's score He HeIs Heis Is always seeking and finding Women use up their nervous energy on little things that m men n just refuse to think about They have different kinds of minds that's all But it doesn't Iud ledd to closer harmony between the sexes My friends call caU me an unquenchable optimist In my opinion people are getting better in every way They have a higher regard for themselves and for others They are as a group more given to decency and fair play without the guarded es that marked an earlier day The frankness between the boys and girls of the much discussed younger generation will wUl tend to bring the opposite sexes closer in friendship and andall all the amenities which make social In- In not only endurable but very pleasant on the whole The world orld not only moves but it Is happily moving In Inthe inthe the right direction with education blood and environment conducive to a more compatible relationship between men and women HOWEVER the barrier has not been lowered Have you ever seen a real man at home In a of women Have you ever noticed the guarded remarks of men and women on a a. mixed party In comparison with a sewing circle and stag party Quite different Indeed No use trying to explain it It just exists I will not play golf with a a. woman forthe for tor the same reason that I will not employ one as secretary It Is because the womans woman's attitude Is not In harm harmony ny with mine To generalize the qualities of mind spirit and ego In a man are such that he lives In an entirely realm than a woman they have different drives different objectives In business and sport you see these motivating forces in a alight light that clashes with ith that of the man determined to plunge headlong Into everything every every- thing he does To men sex is nothing but a casual motive having Its time and place which Js Is neither on the golf links nor in the business office But women are more likely to play it up to the exclusion ot of all else They frequently use it as a free pass to their own ends In sport the average girl plays a game for display not for the games game's sake but merely as a chance to show off In business few women plunge head over heels Into their jobs as men must do to succeed And men know that women cant can't be advanced to executive positions positions po- po as a class Falling Failing to have c some someone someone one fall in love Jove with them they consider their jobs simply as compensations for fora a reluctant spinsterhood I know an capable girl who is a subordinate In a a large office om e. e She complains that in the last year younger men have been promoted over her head to positions which she might have filled The reason is obvious ob Men know that women omen as a group cannot make disinterested disinterested disinter disinter- ested decisions that personal factors and petty jealousies are likely to govern their acts The majority of women lack Jack a sense of proportion As Rube Goldberg the famous cartoonist pointed out Women for that reason never ne make good humor humor- They think ot of the effect before the cause commented Goldberg They are not subtle No person who relies on physical physical cal effect can have a sense of proportion And any woman who tries to acquire traits Is as bad ns as a a. man who Is effeminate Women cant can't be humorists humorists' because they cant can't get away from the personal element And I heartily agree Like Goldberg I do not want them to go back to the theold theold old servitude Im I'm p perfectly willing to have them decorate business offices and the fairways if they remember their limi- limi In their own sphere they are w wt wr t r charming and I have no objections whatsoever what what- Instead of working havoc OC in offices by stressing their physical attractions I would like to tee ce young women utilizing their latent intellectual powers In such an event the barrIers between the sexes would bt bd lowered with resultant re re- freedom in the relationships of man and woman But I am inclined to tobe tobe be pessimistic about the probability of a aday aday day to come when women play sports forthe for tor the games game's sake when they rise to heights of impersonal business ability when the they will be thinking more about what they can give rather than what they are going to get when hm they will not demand deman 1 clothes jewels leisure and luxury either as a a. bait for quarry or symbols of victory in the chase This can no more be expected of the fair sex than that one should demand a peacock to become a barnyard rooster or a tiger to change its stripes All of this Is a blanket generalIty with the reservations which any broadminded broadminded broad broad- minded man must make to the thousands of women exemplified by the Amelia Ear Ear- harts and Glenna Colletts who are arc excluded excluded ex- ex from the mass There are also alzo mothers and wives ives and sweethearts who have in the way of devotion gentleness self sacrifice and heroism exceeded mans man uttermost powers Indeed it Is Womans woman's soaring capacity for greatness in this so- so called emancipated day with every field open to them which makes womans woman's common com com- mon failings tragic Through no fault or of her own woman has lived up to the present in a narrow world restricted more or less to seeking a a mate and combining all all' her forces to that that end Throwing off the old shackles the modern girl has acquired a neW bodily freedom and all fields of endeavor are open to her But it if she persists in clingIng clinging cling cling- Ing to old habits of thought while adoptIng adopting adopt adopt- Ing mans man's superficial traits she is doomed to a life of futility defeating her own ends I would like to see girls of today take tak mans man's interest in a thousand and andone andone one things b besides ides cultivating romances Rex Beach practices what he preaches While he admits that sex Js is one of the compelling forces In life Ufe he is interested in so many things that he can take it for what It Is worth Moreover er he looks exactly like the man who would have novels about the ice and snow ot of Alaska Big bronzed and hearty he tips the scales at pounds Not an ounce of It is fat He Js is interested in fishing and golf golt According to Grantland Rice he is one of the long hitters ot of the ancient game amateur or pro ne He nas a afine afine fine golf swing with a straight left arm that matches Bobby Jones Jones' said Rice AFIER months of grinding away at writing In New York I find that several months In the open with writing on the side gives me a a. wonderful new lease on life Weeks out In the sun with witha a little farming and a t little golf golt help ideas to come more easily Rex Beach said he took up writing as asa asa a career because he wanted to be rid of the necessity of Working for some one else re enforced by the assurance that he could make it a a. remunerative profession 1 I studied to be a lawyer he sal but never ne practiced After mining in Alaska I returned to Chicago at the ago of 21 and started looking for a permanent jOb While loafing around my brothers brother's office my imagination was fired by the knowledge knowledge knowl- knowl edge that a a. friend of mine had sold a story story-on Alaska for the sum of 10 That started me If money came that easily I might as well try some short stories So I scribbled a dialect story sent it to the leading magazine of the day arid and got back a check for 50 Immediately Immediately Im- Im mediately I pulled out some stationery and wrote some more J JAHer After AHer I had sold several stories I decided de- de that I was too lowbrow So I wrote several flowery stories carefully worked over and polished up They came with an inquiry from the editor as to 0 what had happened to me Then I went back to my old style and have had no dIfficulty selling stories since Even the early rejected manuscripts later late found a a. home While in New York Rex Beach liven atop a skyscraper Why be a slave sla to ones one's possessions he queried One spends So a youth accumulating accumulating things that are a a. burden to care for I can be perfectly at home In a hotel room and am trying to convert conert my wile wife to that sort of life 4 till Led Leder |