Nothing could be more natural than that the vote on the 12 greatesi American women should be followed by a similar vote on the 12 greatest American men, and the former was scarcely completed before the latter was under way While the voting for men and that for women had, of course, certain features in common, the points of dissimilarity were more conspicuous than those of agreement. Voters for women had a much easier task than voters for men and, generally speaking, they did their work better, being on the whole less given to mistaking conspicuity for greatness. The worst that can be said regarding any of the unsuccessful woman nominees is that they were not merely obscure, but absolute nonentities, and while their nomination was indicative of a peculiar conception of greatness on the part of those responsible for it, it surely involve ed a less distorted view of greatness than the nomination among the men of "Billy" Sunday, the evangelist; "Babe"? Ruth, the baseball player; '"Pussyfoot" Johnson, the prohibition lecturer; and Eugene ¥. Debs, who has just been let out of prison, after a long confinement for treasonable utter-
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