Show i J ll Changing Codes I HE HE passing of of the double doub lei code coda if indeed indeed its e end d is in sight t imP imposed S d purity upon women more s strictly than upon i is s butone but jur one phase of a larg larger r change For th this s code ode was bali bal- bal i danced by another which imposed courage upon men more strictly than upon wom women n. n t s t t f Taken together t they ey reflect a simpler r and a ruder age m more ie r i or r less free from social diseases in in which men were in the saddle I brand and fought t each other face to face f for r the possession n of wives and r hildren From tl the e. e standpoint of r racial cial survival survival this differentiated V. V ode de worked fairly well welt for a family might get along if Jf the hus- hus J il i. i be beat t off intruders and the he wife or wives we were e. e faithful to him If the man was a coward he might night get no wife in the fir first t place or or a better man might take take her her from hi him Awhile e. e on the other f Jf t fand nd there w was s no strong hand hari to defend t the he nameless nameless children of of J loose iose woman 1 Th Thus s it happened men could be loose but not not c cowardly while omen could be timid b but t not loose t t k But social disease has changed th the picture in inon one way vay and the t f formation rm tion of large states and the establishment of civil ivil order and F 1 a factorY tory system have changed it in another For nc now now p patient tient i industry in- in f d. d tri and industrial l enterprise have partly taken the piece pace of of physical physical phys phys- ical kal strength and military courage and in much of of th the mans man's work of f today women can an often play an an equal part with with- men 1 And very much the sa same e is true of even warfare i itself s lf wi with li all aH its y complex modern machinery where one may not come come within many anY miles of his most most- destructive foe where t the e n worker v. ocr or the may count as much as the soldier and where nurses es' es and other women aides may maybe be p placed laced aced well within the danger i. i zone one Ina In a great modern war women are essentially combatants j and d not mere helpless prizes pr zes of f v victory jt r r r So the old order passes passes away and women get a a hearing J when they i demand that the law imposed upon them should be I imposed as rigorously upon men I I All this this is good But it must not be forgotten that it it- itis is never a mere question of fairness between ri men m men and women e It It is a a a matter of life a and d death and cod code WhIch they and any forgets the he children h n f il is- j vicious I and self US c 11 k t |