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SENATOR A.
SAM ERVIM jsyg^
WASHINGTON —Two versions of the constitutional amend
ment to give women equality of rights are before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, which is conducting initial hearingscn
thi« complex issue. Recently, the House-passed Equal Rights
Amendment won that body’s approval without hearings and
little more than a formal debate.
In truth, however, the House-passed amendment recites
in cryptical phrase, "Equality of rights under the law shall
not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
state on account of sex," and the fact is now dawning onthe
nation that those 23 words are so broad that no one can be
sure that any of our society's protective laws for women will
survive a court test if that amendment is adopted.
On August 21, 1970, I, therefore, introduced a substitute
amendment for the House-passed equality amendment to pre
serve reasonable legal protections based upon physiologi cal
ynd functional differences between men and women. I did
so because Ido not believe that the nation is ready to de
prive women of the countless necessary protections afforded
them under the legal fabric of our society.
I must confess that I am somewhat puzzled by the argu -
ments by some militant advocates of the House-passed Equal
Rights Amendment who urge that what they want is an amend
ment which will make men and women identical legal beings
and make all laws apply in exactly the same maimer toward
men women under all circumstances. This argument
seeks to ignore all differences between men and women, and
the rationale which created laws relating to abortions, preg
nancy, and rape.
Moreover, as Professor Paul Freund of Harvard Law School
says, the adoption of this House-passed Amendment will
"open up a Pandora's box of legal complications. " Consider
only the little thought out problems which will be fostere d
upon American women by a literal interpretation of the
House-passed Amendment and the plea that women should be
compelled to render compulsory military service and go to
the battlefionts in combat. This issue has been shunted aside
on the fallacious ground that perhaps it is a moot one if we
soon abolish the draft. Still the issue is a real one today and
all future ages when we must fulfill our military commitmats
We have not yet abolished the draft, and constitutional amend
ments cannot be judged by the prophesies of the day, but must
be reckoned with for all future ages.
Despite all the assertions of some advocates of the House
passed Amendment, I still adhere to the view that the over
whelming majority of women share my view that unfair le
gal discriminations against women should be abolished, but
legal protection based upon reasonable grounds should be
continued.
If militant supporters of the House- passed Ame nd m ent
could obtain their hearts' desire without having their sisters
robbed of their necessary legal protection, I would keep si -
lent. If such were possible, they would merely reap the fate
of those mentioned in the Apocrypha: "The y digged a wfell,
and made it deep, but fell themselves into the pit which they
prepared. " Unfortunately, the consumation of their hearts'
desire requires that millions of American women who do not
wish to be made identical legal beings with men in all re
spects would be dragged into the pit with them.
In my judgment, the Senate Judiciary Committee should
take time to review the proposed Amendment, and make
sure that the nation knows inhere it is heading before it sends
to the States any proposal of this nature.
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Traffic Bureau Created At Town Halt
(Cont'd from page 1)
volved citing a violator to the
district court. This would have
subjected the violator not only
to the prescribed SI.OO fine
Mass Screening Is Goal
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cial microphone the computer
listens to the heart sounds and
registers whether the sounds
are within normal limits or not.
A physician is the only one vho
can diagnose a child's heart
sounds and all children with
sounds outside normal limits
will be examined by a physi -
cian . Children in this pxograrq
with suspected heart dise a s
will be referred to an appro -
priate medical center for fur
ther investigation, at no cort
to the parent.
An objective of the Heart
Sounds Screening Program is
that, after two years of screen-
Sharing The
Responsibility
"Those who have encour -
aged hatred, militancy and
abuse of members of the es
tablishment must share the re
sponsibility for the rising num
ber of killings of police m ei\
in various parts of the country.
In several cases... particularly
ugly killings have struck down
policemen, sometimes more
than one in the same shootout.
In New York City... two po
licemen were brutally killed
in the same week—one shot
through the heart and the other
stabbed as he sat in his patrol
car... Unless the nation con
siders its peace-keeping offiaers
friends, to be helped and sup -
ported, there is little chanae
America will be a peaceful
ble society of order and pro -
gress."
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but to court costs in addition,
making the total fine, in effect,
$16.00. This seemed too
steep for the Town Board.
The new ordinance reme -
ing approximately 2 6,000
school children, a tested and
evaluated program be avail -
able for the mass screening of
children for heart disease in
the State of North Carolina. In
order to achieve this objective
the tab an area of Charlotte -
Mecklenburg County and the
rural areas of Watauga, Avery,
Mitchell and Yancey Counties
have been designated for the
program.
North Carolinians who may
wonder from time to timevhat
becomes of their Heart Fund
donations, will be seeing am
ple evidence of "money well
spent" in this vital program be
ing developed for the children
of our area.
£ WOMEN'S LIBERATION
mmmmmmmmmmjOHN j. synonm
Paul Ticer is a mate on an
American cargo ship that plies
between this country and the
orient. He is just back from
delivering a load of bombs to
our forces in Vietnam.
As every sailor since Noah,
this merchant-marine officer,
whenever the opportunity af
fords, goes ashore to see what’s
up.
That is how, a couple of
weeks ago, Ticer found him
self on Saigon’s Tu-Do street,
pushing into The Kingston Bar.
The Kingston is a commod
ious operation, to hear Paul tell
it, made popular by the thou
sands of Gls who have come to
know its recessed, dark comers
and the almond-eyed B girls
who sit as low-voiced vultures
awaiting them.
There is nothing remarkable
about the place, actually, not
per se - The Kingston has
counterparts all over America,
wherever there is a military
installation - nothing remark
able except those girls; how
they got there, and the life they
lead.
*****
Vietnam, more than most
places in the world, has pockets
of poverty. Whenever - which
is always there is a market
for fresh young things, girl
buyers fan across the country
side offering “loans” to hard-up
parents. Said loans to be repaid
by (alas) their dutiful daughters.
Thus the girls wind up in
Saigon, bespangled and enticing,
getting their percentage from
such sales as they make pay
ing off the “debt” of the old
folks back home.
And to hear the observant
Paul Ticer tell it, that pay is
remarkably lucrative, by orien
tal work-horse standards.
Trouble is, you see, the mon
ey the girls receive is in Viet
namese piestras and is not worth
a tinker’s dam outside the
country, and worth very little
within it. Its official Tate of ex
change is 118 to the dollar, but
any of the girls will give a GI
400 piestras “worth” for one
dies these shortcomings. A
Traffic Bureau is created at
the Town Hall, where the Town
Cleric will be empowered to
deal with violators, and collect
the prescribed SI.OO fine. The
Court costs may thus be avoi -
ded. If a car owner fails to
comply with a notice of vio -
lation his case will be cited to
thf» district court. Conviction
in this court will automatical
ly subject the violator to pay
ment of court costs in additiai
to the fine. This would make
a parking violation no laughing
matter.
The new ordinance also
prohibits the drinking of al
coholic beverages on the streets
of the town. This provision
will provide the police with
some legal weapon to cope
with the nuisance of having
cars parked interminably at
night with the occupants alle
gedly drinking beer. Beer cans
discarded for the town's clean
up force to pick up early the
next morning are evidence of
this dubious amusement.
green buck.
So, as the obliging little night
people accumulate American
dollars as they do the
heady ones invest their personal
share beyond the borders of
Vietnam; any sort of invest
ment. They buy unseen land in
Hawaii, for instance. Anything.
It is their hope, one day,
they will get to Never-Never.
Which isn’t likely.
Those not so smart, when
the work is done, closet them
selves behind the shuttered
doors of The Kingston Bar and
gamble away their money and
whatever is left of the night.
*****
Rather dreary, wouldn’t you
say? But that isn’t the extent
of it.
“Whenever an unknown Viet
namese male enters the joint”,
the big mate told me, “the
little ladies disappear like quail
in the brush”.
It seems the girls fear the un
known is Viet Cong “intelli
gence” making note of “sym
pathizers” - in which case the
“guilty”, in time, may find
themselves dangling from the
end of a noose. Either “in
telligence” or one of the Cow
boys.
Cowboys don’t work; neither
do they spin. Instead, they
prowl until they locate a “pop
ular” (i.e. money-making) B girl
and, having lassoed her, arrange
a little heart-to-heart. There
after, she will pay over to the
bully boy a sizeable share of her
earnings or she may find her
self, as some have found them
selves, beaten out of shape,
there in the alley, alongside her
“sympathetic” sisteVs.
*****
Such is the position in life
of certain women in the orient.
If this new American outfit,
Women’s Liberation, wanted to
be taken seriously, it seems to
me, they would open a Saigon
branch. Do that instead of dom&‘
what they did, louse up Mc-
Sorley’s Old Ale House, the last
male sanctuary in New York.