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WOMAN QUESTION IS PART
OF THE SOCIAL QUESTION
Newspapers are still making ■
irieui deal of the statement of
l>r. A. Lindsay Wynkoop that
girls or women who become moth
ers in war time without the for
maiity of marriage have made bs
great ■ sacrifice for the race as
the man who gives his life for
the country.
IV. Wynkoop li tlt• * chairman
of the eugenics department of the
congress of the Parents' and
Teach* is' Association.
I>:\ Wynkoop'i remark is usual
ly coupled with tii>' silly story
from Russia that the soviet of
Saratov has made all marriage Il
legal and that women In Saratov
are supposed to add to the popu
lation to the best of their ability.
The children are to be brought up
by the "state"—"the state of Sara
tov"—until they are 17 years <>f
age ( and women giving life to
twins will receive a national gift.
So says the story.
The tali-, however, bears the
earmarks of an invention, says
the Milwaukee Leader. To be
.rin with, there is no such thine
is the "state of Saratov." Some
'•nterpn.sinir yoong reporter who
had lately read Plutarch, evident
ly thoutrht he had a good chance
'o knock the Bolsheviki. He sim
ply translated into modern news
naper language what Plutarch
tells us about the laws of Ly
corgoa, the Spartan king. And
then the reporter claimed that it
is happeninp in Saratov.
The laws of Lycurgos permit
ted the Spartan citizen to allow
the use of his wife to any other
citizen who desired to have chil-
Vlren- by her, if he, the husband,
was satisfied. According to Plut
arch, many a husband, who for
ome reason or another had no
•hildren of his own, would invite
a friend whom he thought likely
to procure for him fine and pood
'ookintr children, Into his home
without he or his wife losing
•aste.
In fact, when the Spartans laid
siege to the city of Messene, this
was practiced on a large scale by
>rder of the Spartan government.
The youngest and strongest citi
zens were sent home for that pur
pose.
The other Greeks ridiculed that
Spartan custom. They called the
Spartan women Phoenomeridea
'bare-thighed), thereby denoting
chat the Spartan women were al
ways ready for any husband.
But the malicious Russian story
has some background.
We have read in the press a
great deal of late—about poly
gamy which is to be encouraged
in Germany after the war, an<l
also about "war babies" in Eng
land and France during the war.
\ll these report! mean practically
the same thing1. They give ex
pression to the deep worry of na
iens now at. war, how to make up
ror the terrific losses of human
ives.
There can be no question that
nantal relations will undergo a
■■••cut. change after the war. While
nonojramy will always be the rule
imorif.': white civilised nations —
women will enjoy far greater
rights in the future than they do
now.
Such a change would come any
way after the economic question
—that is, the question of the
daily bread for everybody — had
been settled. The world war,
however, may result in the wo
man's question becoming a part
of that "social question," by which
term we denote the economic side
of the labor question.
The woman's question (which
THE CO-OPERATIVE NEWS
everybody thought would have to
wail until the XXI. century) may
thus lie solved together wiih the
labor question l>y the present gen<
ci ation or i>y the next.
We very much doubt, then fore,
whether modern women will com
ply with the wi i; of the Ruling
classes and become simply ■ ma
■h!nei of reproduction and multl
plication. We doubt this foi the
following reasons:
The ruling classes of nil civiliz
ed countries are concerned in the
increase of population only—be
cause they want plenty of war.l'
worker! and soldiers.
Modern women will not take
kindly to that idea, whose main
exponent in this county is Theo
dore Roosevelt.
Modern women will be mindful
of the thought of Thoreau: "The
only excuse of reproduction is im
provement. Beasts merely prop
agate their kind, but the offspring
of noble men and women must he
superior to themselves as their
aspirations are."
And is it possible for the av
erage proletarian parents to ac
complish this while the capital
ist system lasts?
We ire not considering the
moral side of the question. Every
epoch since the dawn of civiliza
tion has had its own code of
morals. And SO will undoubted-
ly the next epoch have its own
code.
Nevertheless, we would advise
our readers or friends not to do
any pioneering on that field. Pio
neering is hard business every
where and at all times. And it
is nowhere harder than in the
field of so-called "morals."
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BUTTONS
(By CARL SANDBURG.)
I have been watching the war map slammed up for adver
tising in front of the newspaper office.
liuttons —red and yellow buttons—blue and black buttons —
are shoved back and forth across the map.
A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,
Climbs a ladder, yells a joke to somebody in the crowd,
And then fixes a yellow button one inch west.
And the yellow button with a black button one inch west.
(Ten thousand men and boys twist on their bodies in a red
soak along a river edge,
Gasping of wounds, calling for water, some rattling death in
their throats.)
Who by Christ would guess what it cost to move two but
tons one inch on the war map here in front of the news
paper office where the freckle-faced young man is laughing
to us? •
ANTS, BEES
AND APES
A MERE REFLECTION
"Move onward, working' out the
brute,
And let the Ape and Tiger die."
These, lines of Tennyson always
seemed to me to libel the tiger;
men hate the tiger mainly be
cause they fear him; but he has
many virtues. He only kills
when he's hungry and never wages
war. Come to think of it only
three classes of sentient beings
ever wage war; the Ants, the
Bees and the Apes. No other
creatures ever think of going out
to fight in hordes.
If you consider the quality of
condition common to these three
■lasses of creatures and unknown
outside them, jou will assuredly
find the true and primal cause of
war. The Ants, Bees and Apes
all own property; for this cause
myriads of ants go forth to battle
and die nobly it) tens of thou
tands; put your hand in a bee's
hive and every bee in it will fight
iml die for the piled-up golden
booty the winged thieves have
accumulated. And for stores of
gold we men, too, will fight to
the death and expend and waste
mote than we pan ever hope to
gain in the ' fratricidal struggle.—
Pearson's Magazine.
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