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IiisnMu*3oI-theheirlan,andthesals,neyCromerjve-forl ■ — ~ — w —more than take orders. It happened 3,000 years ago in Egypt, Why shouldn’t it happen again? Women had all the rights then. They made the laws, carried on the business, wore plain clothes and cut their', hair short The men stayedat honie and got themselves up infine costumes.”Bight now, in 1930, says Dr. Tenenbaum, if you were to visit the right parts ot the world, you could find In practice today practically every type of marriage and familylife that history has known.For instance:In Sumatra when a man buys a wife, she. and her - children become his property, subject to inheritance by his heirs.! toIn Ceylon it is customary for one wife to have from four'to six husbands — often brothers.* * *One Sex Enslaves OtherDr. Tenenbaum points out that one sex can never dominate unless the other, automatically, becomes enslaved. That is why hethinks the situation is serious for.the United States today.’‘Our grandmothers,” he says, “were not so free as women aretoday, but what they had was assurance. They could inspire their husbands, give them courage. Now-4 , *adays women do not have that assurance, and they can not give it to men.’The woman who lives in luxury,age me in.•‘Broken homes provide, not only children for penal institutions, but men and women to fill institutions for the insane. The Increase in insanity today is astounding. Women lack adjustment to their surroundings, lack a feeling of security. Men lack security, too, because they can’t come home andI* relax.“We must find a way to benefit from the advantages and freedom we have today, and, at the same time, preserve the best of the old institutions, I do not mean that women should go back to baking bread and doing their own washing. What Is important is that ameans shall be found to preservo the spirit of the past.”aimendtrifr RAvera! ' Anva wttli t fraped SV for flooi its 1MsperT3theStcibratsarofStctBerA.and 1 1{
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Sandusky Star Journal
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 20, 1936
Page 13
Full Page
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Freie U.
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