Show Will bill Modern Model ll Life Destroy oy America ica I Lack of Home and Family Ties Blamed c f tl Iw 1 p The fireside is going out of business believes believes- By Dr HORTENSE SE SAUNDERS NEA Service Ice Writer YORK Modem Modern Modem America Ame Is NEW destroying home life lire Just as fast and effectually as Is bolshevism So believes John Langdon Davies British lecturer and author who has just jest steamed In from abroad to tell us the worst about ourselves and our The future of or the world Is fore fore- foreshadowed foreshadowed shadowed In Russia Rusia and America he if them we must look says cays It U Is Ls to we are to see sec the women of or tomor tomor- tomorrow tomorrow row But Dut look at your our peril gentlemen for the lor for the view Isn't very rosy dominant male WilY A ADVANCED The nature of or modern industry and commercial life lIe in America is such that the home must be de- de destroyed destroyed only he goes on And the thc reason America Is more advanced in inthis inthis inthis England is be because be- be because because this matter than eay cause American industry and capital capital- capitalism ism have gone farther In will life than in ht England England will the rest of follow suit and so Europe Langdon Da sees the hearth put putout putout putout out ot or business not only as a medium of or warmth but as a symbol of our out family life Hie The Lares and have hate quit the job Today all Interests rests diverge from all amusements and all the hearth hearth all business he says The iron pipes of the steam radiator modern coun coun- counterpart counterpart counterpart ot or the open fire hold out no invitation to gather round and talk over the days day's events The cafeteria Is 15 the substitute for the family board CANT CAN'T WORK ORK INSIDE SIDE Women work outside the home so logically they cannot toll toil within They have difficulty getting sen servants ants for and factories work in these too can eRn offices Children are bundled Into schools and camps They are sent away aay to the movies modes and baseball games to dancing and motoring Family Fam Faro Family ily uy life tile cannot endure in a a. machine age age And with less family life lUe and al altered al- al altered institutions Davies Da foresees a greater change in hr men and women themselves and In their relationships For Instance he points out the wife with her own profession has a separate set act of or interests from her hus hus- band She is no longer the slave who stays put and who In her limited sphere keeps her family revolving about her Already men have reached the th th stage where other interests excel their Interest in women In this they re recall re- re recall recall call the knights of or the days of chival chival- chivalry ry who preferred horses and war var to women omen Today Toda they prefer cars and ana commerce And as war bored women with men in the feudal days so business Is 15 bor- bor borIng tag Ing them with men in modern modem Amerl- Amerl ca Just as troubadours came into vogue as oS a relief from knights in armor so writers lecturers and poets have line their vogue today as a a. relief relict from men in offices Whither then are we tending lending Here is ls Davies Davies' theory Finding themselves provided with the means to do what they like and finding their own sex better belter educated more alive emotionally and more imag Imag- imaginative ImagInative imaginative than men women women will con con- continue continue continue to progress and to de men until men become mere convenient robots WOMAN'S WOMANS DOMINATION TO TO BE RE Women will hill patronize and domin domin- dominate dominate dominate ate the arts and literature and reorganize social Institutions to suit them them- Instead of or hearing A wom wom- woman's womans womans woman's womans woman's ans an's place is in the home horne we shall hall hear A mans man's place is 15 in his office Finally the male will find himself hidden and forgotten beneath an on arti artl- artificial creation embodying all the traits trails that make him most convenient to his wife Just as man once made his wife a a. slave to suit his method of or life Davies himself by his living has uttered a a. protest With his wife wile and family he resides in a small Spanish town near Barcelona quite mated by English and American Ideals of or broken family ties Here he pursues his scientific and studies stu stu- studies studies dies and end wrote rote his book took A Short His His- History History History tory of Women which has caused him to feel so keenly on the subject of ot modem women and modem homes He does not see marriage becoming obsolete however no matter how bad things get CHANGE IN MARRIAGE As A a legal contract to safeguard rights and property it must endure is isa a ra John Langdon-Davies Langdon but as an economic relationship mar mar- marriage marriage marriage Is doomed to t radical changes he admits There will always ahlaS be mothers and children husbands and wh wires and the they will always be tied together by bonds of emotion The expression e of or this however hove will mil assume forms conditioned condi condi- conditioned conditioned by social convention and social necessity Since the position and future of cr women omen depends largely upon the char char- character character character acter of the family group we must ask ourselves honestly what Industrial capitalism or its Russian alternative communism is 15 likely to do to that group Then we can say something definite about our future |