r~ ~- VVHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6. 1974. PAGE 3 Wrries of theWorking Wo man by Vil Mitchell Too many- Canodian wvomen feel guilty if they waflt a carcer outside the home. Most experts (usually meni) are busy telling us that we are being fulfilled rearing children, tcnding the home and rising (>ur creative energies for womany pursuits like sewing-, gardening, or gourmnet cook- ing. But what about those of us who hate digging in the dirt, don't know the first thing about a sewing pattern (and donlt want to) and can't stand the smells of herbs and spices. What about tihe wornen who had a career before marriage, the women wvho are fascinated with finanîces- and find the lirnits of taking care of the home and family just that - too limiting. Returning to work can be an exhiberating, rich exper- ience. We sit side bv side with men in college. make the same grades. read the same books. see the same movies. and vote foxr the samne politicians. FIow in the worId can we be expccted to stop our minds and retreat into the house because we change our iames? If you seriously are initerested ini working, sit down with y our hiusband. preferably after the kids are in bcd and tell him how you feel. Stick to your guns even if he argues, and raves. You are not a littie girl anymore. Your hiusband is ilot vour father and vou do Ixot owe him obedience at * the expense of your own nleeds. A grown woman must determine how to spend the rest of her life. But make sure before you take the plunge that its worth the effort. Don't feel guilty. You have nothing to apologize for. You are merely doing what nmen have been doing,,for centuries, using your mind and talents to the fullest., As Dr. Estelle Ramey. Professor of Endocrimology said, ~'They're treating our miiddle-class wornen as though they had a disease. Master's dcgree is a symptom. 'Intelligence ithe virus. Its absuird to puit a health onno hoi medication to duli ber brain tuntil her children are in school or she.gives up herseif". What a waste. Children adapt, to situations mutch more easily than adults. The situation of a working mother is flot so differ- cnt from thic stay-at-home as you may think. Most non-working mothers spend nearly as much time at the hairdressers. shopping, charity work, talking on the phone, playing bridge and housework as working ipothers spend in the office. Housewives neyer feel guilty for the time they spend in these areas. Your company is flot always as desireable to your children as y ou m ay think. You may be waiting with milk and cookies as the kids get home from sehool. Maybe they 1don't'really carc whether they are grected at the door because they would just as soon go outside and play with their fiends. do their hornework or listen to records. lt's nice to'have momn there to pour the milk and hang up jackets. but would it really stunt your child's growth if he had to do these things for himself? North American children are the most over-indulged. over protected and under-estimated children in the world. Vcrv little is expected of them. Is it that our low expectations of our children and their'ability to stand on their own two feet is one of the reasons for the present generation of of troubled youths? 1 Studies made by child expert, Benjamin Spock, have shown that Russian children whose mothers usually work, are more stable, self-relient. better adjusted and more mature than Arnerican children whose mothers lavish them with attention and spend their time worryîing about them. Dr. Spock said that Russian women are more sure of themselves as mothers than North American women. Child- ren could be self.suff icient if parents could just let them be and trust them more. WVhen a wonxan is freed from dependency. hcr marriage is either going to crumble or grow stronger. I can't couint the times l've heard wrimen say "My hiusband won't jet me", or "I don't want té dispîcase my husband by Working because he will make my life miserable", or 'mt so un- happy but my husband will 1not listen to' me". How can these be called aduit relationships? They are more like father-daughter or master-slave. If your marriage is sound, it will grow better. When he cornes home from the office, tired after an exhausting day, you will know what he means for you may have had a bard day at the office too. The man will not feel obligated to corne home and entertain his bored wife and it will relieve himn of some pressure. There will be a greater understanding of the other's moods and feelings. If you evaluate your life and try to direct it into more meaningful channels, in a few years you'll look back at your days of being only a house-wifc and mother and you'll wondei how you existed in such narrow confines. Mrs. Frances Schatzniann, 111 Bowman Ave.. Whitby, Schatzmann is a receptionist/secretary for Whitby lawyer is a good example *of 'a- happy wôrking wife. Mrs. Nigel Schilling. - Photo by Mike Burgess Nuclear Powe la the past decade. Ontario H-ydro has made a firm commitment to the evolution aild development of nuclear power as the most feasible. viable source of elcctricity. And in the proccss, Ontario has acquircd world-wide renown as the pioncer of nuclear power. As much a pioncer as the man who found Canada. Or the mca who made the first aircraft fly on that windy day at Kitty Hawk, or the Toronto doctor who came up with the polio-fighter we caîl the Salk Vaccine. Ontario Fydro's nuclear program, a total commitment * to a acw powcr source, is the safest. most feasible, inost efficient anywhere. Consider this: Use of electricity ini Ontario is expected to increase at a rate of about 77( per year until 1985. ln 1970, the total installed generatîng capacity country- wide was 40 million kilowatts and by the year 2-000 Canada could need about 300 million kilowatts of elcc- tricity - more than seven times as rnuch as in 1970. To satisfy this demand, Canada wilI need, ini the next tthrce decades, the equivalent of more than 100 nlew power plants the size of Ontario Hydro's Pickering nuclear station. As an alternative to conventional fuels -- such as ¶petroleum based products -- uranium can grcatly extend the useful life of the rcmaining coal, oil and gas reserves in this country and conserve these vital raw materials for future generations. Nuclear power stations are simply a new kind of steam.electric plant in which the heat to produce steam cornes from the splitting of atoms within the uranium fuel. The t urbi ne-generator part of the atomic plant is the same as an ordinary steam-electric plant and the pro- duct is identical - electricity. We are cxposed to a great deal of literature frorn thxe United Sta tes tind, las a result, it is easy ta confuse Aýmerican aald Canadiail nuclear standards ixd practices. There are some important differences. The Canadian -pu by Bihf Newman process uses natural uranium as fuel and the U.S. System employs enriched uranium. Conscquently, this results in major differences in the design and operating procedures for licensed nuclear power stations in the two countries. Safety is prime consideration in the design of every component and phase of CANDU - Canada's nuclear power system. Our standards dictate that people must be able to live beside a nuclear power plant for generations without ilI effects. And radiation, basically, is not a problem with the CANDU system. In fact, if a person were to stand at the boundary of such a plant continuously every day for a full year, he would receive only about I or 2 rnillirems (thousandths of a rem) of radiation. As a comparison, a construction worker on the S6th floor of a building would receive about 2 millirems more than a worker on the ground floor because of cosmic radiation. Every thermal power plant must dischargc waste heat to the environment. In Canadian plants, water frorn lakes or rivers is used as a coolant and returned directly to its source. Intensive studies of the effccts on lakes and rivers have proven. for example, that cooling water from two nuclear stations equals the heat of the sun on the surface of a lake for just one average day. At Ontario Hydro's Pickering plant, the temperature risc ini the coolant water bas caused a substantial increase in the number of game fish inhabiting the dischargc areas. A beneficial offshoot of the nuclear system. The CANDU systcm allows testing and repairing of e(juipment to be done without interruptiag operation of the plant. so that maintenance is not discouraged by the cost of shutdowns. No other systcm can make sLIch a boast. On the basis of CANDU's safety record and efficiency there appears to.be a good chance that llritian will adopt the nuiclear technology of CANDU. which xvas pioncered l» Onftario ldro., rallier than l)uyiag oliher systenis that have made serious representations to the United Kingdom in recent weeks. Pioneering takes a great deal of courage and determin- ation. 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