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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY. MAY 6,1981, PAGE 1 THE VOICE OF THE TURTIL by George Tauchman "Marriage, in the legal sense only, is a pur- chase. The buyer is the man ... he has acquired the exclusive use of his bride's vagina." June Callwood. "Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves." Brigit'.- Bardot. There's a strange mental dichotomy in people's minds in evaluating a person by sex. Throughout history men gladly fought to the death for the love of a woman, yet ancient Romans used to debate whether a woman even had a soul. Up until 1918, a Canadian statute on voting read "no imbecile, idiot or woman may vote" (in Alabama they'd say "no woman or nigger"). In Toronto today; John McCallum, (a male) publisher of a feminist paper, gets nasty phone calls from women! If there are two things that have dominated my own mind all my life, they are (a) questions and (b) sex (not necessarily in that order). It blows my mind when I ex- perience the endless avalanche of seemingly unanswerable questions on all imaginable subjects rushing at me incessan- tly. If I have given anyone the impression that I fancy myself as an oracle with a fund of abundant wisdom, I'd like to tell them right now that I consider my wisdom as a canoe tossed about in a raging ocean of innumerable questions. Just the same I'm bewildered by the high percentage of people who De-escalate war of sexes "Women could do the job quicker, more efficiently and with fewer words." It tends to put her in league with the feminists who sport such bumper-sticker slogans as "When God created man, she was only joking". Shouldn't we consider the virtues of de-escalating the battle of the sexes, cara mia? There are a couple of excellent new feminist newspapers published in Ontario: the U of T Women's Newsmagazine and another entitled "Breakthrough for Women". They can explain better than I how a fairer treatment for women would benefit all of society. In "Breakthrough", June Callwood cites the Alberta case of Irene Murdoch who in the 1940's "used money of her own to help her husband purchase farm property". Mrs. Murdoch furthermore worked herself half to death as a very heavy- duty farmhand for some thirty years and was paid only with bed and board. Her ultimate reward was that her husband eventually beat her so severely that she had to be hospitalized with permanent damage to her face and speech. Subsequently, the courts of our "just society", right up to the Supreme Court of Canada stripped Irene Murdoch of any claim whatsoever to the ranch that was morally more hers than his. Irene Murdoch now lives as a cripple on welfare while her husband has been richly rewarded for his "manhood". Only Chief Justice Bora Laskin dissented on this delivery of "justice" by the numerous "gentlemen"-judges involved in her case! And let's not even mention the disgusting or- deals our courts like to put rape victims through to this day. Gentlemen of North America, if we have any respect for our wives, mothers, daughters, sisters and lovers, let's give women's lib some serious consideration. Let's not be distrac- ted by the lunatic fringe feminists. McFadyen new librarian The Whitby Public Library Board announces the appointment of Mrs. Margaret McFadyen as chief librarian following the retirement of Mrs. Anne Hope-Brown. McFadyen will commence her duties on May 4 and Mrs. Hope-Brown will remain as Central Branch Head until further notice. McFadyen comes from the Central Ontario Regional Library System where she has for the. past several years served as co- ordinator of information services. She received her B.A. from McMaster University and her M.L.S. from Western and was for some years general referen- ce librarian at Oshawa Public Library before going to C.O.R.L.S. The library welcomes McFadyen to Whitby and looks forward to continued expansion of services under her direction. PRINTING AND OFFICE SUPPLIES 218 Harwood Ave.S. Ajax, Ontario THE 6831968 HEART FUND 'ît's a poor day when we haven'ti hclped a customer" THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF WHITBY SPRING CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN MAY 19TH TO MAY 22ND, 1981 1 Brush, hedging, tree branches, and other similar type material will be picked up during the Spring Clean-Up Week. The material must not be cut any longer than 21½2 feet in length and securely bundled. Loose material and longer material WILL NOT BE PICKED UP. 2. Household furniture, appliances, clothing, rubbish, resulting from the cleaning up of the grounds, or from MINOR household repairs, domestic waste materials such as pape!, rags. r.artons. packing cases and bottles wîll be picked up. 3. Collection will be limited to a combined total of NOT MORE THAN 12 RECEP. TACLES OR BUNDLES per dwelling unit. 4 Eact bundle or receptacle to have a gross weight of NOT MORE THAN 50 POUNDS. 5. The special collections apply only to dwelling units and DO NOT INCLUDE COM- MERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PREMISES. • Your co-operation is requested in having ail garbage out EARLY on your regular collection day, BECAUSE OF THE VICTORIA DAY HOLIDAY FALLING WITHIN THE SPRING CLEAN-UP WEEK, THOSE RESIDENTS WHOSE GARBAGE WOULD NORMALLY BE COLLECTED ON MONDAY, MAY 18TH, 1981, ARE REOUESTED TO PUT OUT THEIR REFUSE AND SPRING CLEAN-UP WASTES ON TUESDAY. MAY 19TH. 1981 R. A Kuwahara. P Eng. Director of Public Works @SMAWA,'SKI &SOT mmt. TUE&. $AT. 8~3 WED. THUR. MR lOllS.. 1E mLI EUYI TYPEWRITERS . ADDING MACHINES • CALCULATORS SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS are even dumber than I. In fact, I wish my readers would help me track down the answers to some of my zillion questions. For instance, why did our federal government appoint a minister responsible for the Canadian Council on the Status of Women who was a male? And even if they did have to appoint a man for it, why did it have to be a stumblebum like Lloyd Axworthy?! Laura Sabia, the noted crusader for women's rights, and I have a few things in common. We both: speak Italian, are over 30, are over a hundred (pounds in weight), are disap- pointed in Axeworthy, are columnists, and are feminists. The two of us differ in other respects, though, e.g. I do not nurse grudges against the opposite sex and I do not imagine that businessmen are "best suited to run the country". The ubiquitous tentacles of big business infiltrate our gover- nment with their vested interests too much already. Sabia should check with the majority of her sisters in the business world who "get the business" (from businessmen) in the job ghettos of secretaries, typists, fife clerks, recep- tionists, gophers, etc., not to mention the possible "ex- tracurricular duties" "laid" on them. These "women's" jobs are: dead end, low paid, monotonous, and about to be rendered obsolete by computerization. "I would like to think God was a woman," says Laura Sabia. Speaking of the "Heavenly Father" like this (and in past tense even) fails to impress me with Sabia's philosophical profundity. To an agnostic like myself, God is a big question mark with no need for sex organs of either gen- der, nor any other organ that may be essential to us mere mortal beings. I admire Sabia in many respects, but I regret her modus operandi as evidenced in some of those sayings of hers, e.g.