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What do the United States Chamber of Commerce,
organized labor and Bert Parks have in common?
You'll never guess, so we'll tell you - these strange
bedfellows are all opposed to the women's liberation
movement. The chamber disseminated its opinion on its
official stationery, George Meany blabbed labor's views to a
reporter, and Parks, chief barker for Atlantic City's annual
Battle of the Bosoms, libeled the ladies in a magazine article.
All three have urgent economic reasons for maintaining the
sexual status quo, but Parks' problem is more immediate
since his job is at stake. Parks' specialty is maneuvering a
mammiferous multitude about a stage in Middle America's
version of the Oriental slave market, the Miss America
Pageant.
He does not sell the merchandise, of course, just displays
it, so the perspiring gentleman in the third row is left with his
bid stuck in his throat and the young lovelies return home to
torment the boy next door.
Parks was mighty upset when the liberation lassies
pointed out the type of game he is running. He described his
detractors as "rather disgruntled young ladies."
"A psychiatrist would have a ball with them," he said.
"Somewhere in their background, someone must have
disappointed them awfully badly. Maybe it's their home life
or their physical appearance. And ! have grave doubts about
their sexuality.
"Sixty-eight dollars is a lot of money, but it includes
thirty issues of 'Weekly Reader' and riot insurance."
"All ! know is one of them used to play left end for
Notre Dame. That's not exactly our idea of a feminine
woman, if you've ever looked at them, there's not much
chance of their ever becoming real human beings, much less
an attractive Miss America."
Goodness gracious, Bert, how you do go on! Those are
mighty ungentlemanly words for a fellow who is trying to
combat unisex. If you are going to perpetuate the myths that
allow you to peddle flesh in millions of living rooms, you're
going to have to be nice to all women, not just the
well-constructed robots who help your sponsors sell hair
spray and deodorant.
You remember, Bert, it all started in the Garden of Eden.
Adam was reading a good book .... improving his mind -
when Eve appeared and started pestering him. He told her to
shove off, but she kept after him until he took a bite out of
the apple.
One bite did it. He never picked up the book again but
his unimproved mind was busy working out an arrangement
with his new-found playmate.
"Look, Eve," he said, 'TII light your cigarettes, open
doors for you and carry out the garbage. All you'll have to do
is bring me one of those apples whenever I want one."
Then he took her picture, sold it to Playboy, and the
roles of the sexes in commerce were established.
Another attempt to end the senseless slaughter in
lndochina was shot down in flames Tuesday when the Senate
rejected the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to the 1971
military procurement bill. -
The amendment would have forced withdrawal of all
United States troops from Vietnam by cutting off the money
to finance them.
voters two years Iater.
February 29, 1972, was the cut-off date set by the
amendment for withdrawal. That is one month shy of four
years from March, 1968, when Presidential Candidate
Richard Nixon, seeking votes from war-weary voters,
promised that he had a plan to end the war.
Four years and thousands of bodies later, the American
people will undoubtedly still be getting words, words,
words...
We thought that mass communications, the automobile
and universal education had caused the demise of the country
bumpkin, but apparently there are still some out in the
brush.
The tribulations of one such fellow from Shelton were
outlined in the following story from a Seattle newspaper.
"A man 'tourist' from Shelton, Wash. and two friends
become acquainted with two of Seattle's slickers Thursday
evening. The three get into a car occupied by the two to
discuss the purchase of a brick of grass. The slickers agree to
drive the tourist to a place where he can buy tile grass, but
stipulate that his two friends must not come along. When the
car arrives at the 3500 block on First NW, the two men
indicate that they have reached their destination. They ask
their victim for $180 with which to go and make the
purchase. He gets out of the vehicle first and the two men
drive off at a high rate of speed."
Intrigued by the item, we called the newspaper that
printed it - The North Central Outlook - and asked the nice
lady on the other end of the line where they got the story.
"From the police report," she answered. "When the guy
who was trying to buy the marijuana saw his $180
disappearing in a cloud of exhaust fumes, he went to the
police station and filed a complaint."
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
technical training will get more a code for submission to the next
Five initiatives to the recognition from the next session.
Legislature already are on file, a Legislature. But if so, it would be The proposed departmental
new record. The seacoast at the expense of graduate regulations for factory-built
management measure will boostprograms in universities andhousing would adopt the national
the total to six. colleges, uniform mechanical code, uniform
The largest number filed The Legislature's Joint plumbing code, and the national
previously was four, which Committee on Higher Education electrical code.
occurred in 1938 and again in already appears to be leaning in A hearing, originally
1960. the direction. Its chairman, Sen. scheduled for last week, was
Those on file so far include Gordon Sandison, Port Angeles, is postponed to give industry
one labeled by the Seattle calling for a review of the entire representatives more time to
Liberation Front, its sponsor, as a concept of higher education, to study them. The hearing will be
"war on taxes;" one "directing" meet demands of the future, held Within 90 days.
the Legislature to amend the It is his view that in the The 1970 Legislature gave
constitution to permit use of coming 10 years there will be responsibility for regulating
gasoline taxes for mass transit; much more demand for a construction of modular homes to
two different measures to legalize well-trained plumber, electrician the Department ot Labor and
dog racing, and a litter control or medical para-professional than Industries.
bill. a philospher or a sociologist.The Municipal Committee
Of the 34 initiatives to the He believes that the 1971 so far hasn't resolved a
Legislature filed in previous years, Legislature will review manpower controversy over which agency
seven have been certified. Two needs in appropriating money for should administer a state uniform
were enacted into law by the higher education. Many seem tobuilding code.
Legislature without further ado, doubt the demand for more No Tax Bite
though one subsequently was tied
• i In most areas where Gov, Dal
~E¢~ ~6~o~'dW ta~~ 'fff~grar~
We're trying to contact the fellow; someone sold us a
little machine that makes twenty-dollar bills from one-dollar
bills and we'd like to talk to him about an investment.
Mailing Address: Box 430, Shetton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.00 per year in Mason County,
in advance -- Outside Mason County $6.00
The other five were referred
to the people in the following
election without action by the
Legislature. Of the latter, three
were approved and two, were
rejected.
Plumber Or Sociologist?
There appears to be a good
chance vocational education and
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay could not go on.
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Page 4 ' Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, September 3, 1970
Editor, The Journal:
Please grant me space to reply
to last week's three sets of
comments. Sounds like your
amplification of the complaints
were somewhat overdone.
The experience represented a
tornado rather than a tempest and
if it were in a teapot it must have
been a huge one with the lid
blasted clean off by the noise.
The worst sufferer was the wife of
one of our most respected citizens
now recovering from two
operations whose living room
and bedroom face the building so
there was no escape for her.
As to the Darigold attitude
- here are excerps from their
letter. 'Thanks for writing us
about the problem. We certainly
can sympathize and you can be
sure that we would feel the same
as you do if we lived in your
neighborhood. Our Mr. Kennedy
discussed this with Mr. Gay and
assures me that there will be no
more of this disturbance. If you
have any reason to write us again,
don't hesitate to do so. Signed C.
W. Broughton.
As to Mary's comments - the
neighbors justly complained of
the constant traffic of cars and feet
at front and back doors not only all
day but at all hours of the night
with wonderment of such
activities.
As to Gerald's letter that we
Editor, The Journal:
I would like, to comment on
the wonderful job done by the
people at the Mason County Fair.
There is a lot that is done
behind the scenes that is not
readily visible. It takes a lot of
planning and cooperation. Also,
without the young people who
helped, I am sure that the fair
graduate programs.
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New regulations for
factory-built or "modular" homes
proposed by the Department of
Labor and Industries could
bolster the possibility of the 1971
Legislature enacting a uniform
building code for all construction.
The Legislature's Municipal
Committee, headed by Senator
Gordon Walgren is preparing such
looms largest as a controversial
issue, Republicans have been able
fear and do not respect the new
bearded generation who have
been taught to think. Too bad
they were not taught the
satisfaction derived from the
profits of a good day's work in
self-support instead of the freely
doled out food stamps and other
doles that they receive as their
right.
A year or so ago a group
discovered my ranch house, broke
open the doors and the proceeds
from m/ antiques went for
pot-pills. Two weeks ago when
asked two o, 3,our group to move
on account of sewer trouble I
found all the furniture removed.
When I went to recover it, it was
thrown out and down the stairs at
me with language as strong as the
pitch that broke many of the
articles. It was told me that a
group before moving out of our
neighborhood, smeared the walls
with soot, clogged "the drains and
the gas burners with breakfast
food.
How would you like this,
Editor Gay?
When they are ready to clean
themselves up, take their places as
self-supporting, mature useful
citizens with respect for
themselves and for the property
and comfort of others - then
they need no longer be worried
about our attitude toward them.
Ethel B. Dinning
Thanks to the youngsters with
their horses, cows and other
exhibits, and a special thanks to
the young man who carried on at
the horseshoe-pitching courts. He
did a wonderful job and a hard
one.
A well-done to all who
worked so hard so that everyone
could enjoy it.
Rickard T. Sebnettler
Editor, The Journal:
Recently, there has been
placed on West E Street, at the
end of Callanan Park, a sign
reading "Slow - Children". We
would like to thank the National
Bank of Mason County for
donating the signs and hope
people will be reminded of the
many children who play in this
area, as it is a park area.
When people see the sign, our
hope is they will slow down in
their cars, as many vehicles go by
each day.
Editor, The Journal:
In response to the letter in
last week's Journal, "Forced to
conform," I think it should be
pointed out that human nature, at
best, is very conducive to
open-mindedness and
free-thinking. However, the forces
working against it seem to
outweigh those working for it.
The best way to be heard is
not to heave rocks at the
apathetic silent majority, for they
are not only mute but deaf as"
well. Neither is working through
said "channels" the answer.
Marching, picketing, throwing
rocks, striking and carrying guns
are all part of the game played by
the older generation. We will not
be heard by playing their game
their way. We will only pacify
them.
I do not wish to imply, either,
that everyone in the "over thirty"
bunch is wrong and that all those
under thirty, the probation
generation, are right. I have met
some very out-front people well
over thirty, which gave me
renewed hope. I have also met
some of the biggest phonies, who
were well under, which renewed
mY anxiety.
The SILENT silent majority,
as well as the more vocal branch,
seems to be sitting back
comfortably thinking that the day
of the "New Left" will pass. I
must remind you that while you
laugh, smirk, condemn, ignore
and suppress, thinking our ideas
and dreams will be put away as
to avoid primary fights among
legislative candidates.
But there are exceptions. Rep.
Marjorie Lynch, Yakima, is being
opposed in the Republican
primaries because she supported
the Governor's program.
In King County's 30th
District, one of Rep. Paul
Barden's opponents for the
Republican nomination is basing
his campaign on the fact that
Barden voted against the tax
proposal.
Compromise Lost
Optimistic legislators, who
thought they had reason to hope
the Washington Environmental
Council would drop its plans to
sponsor an initiative to the
Legislature on seacoast
management, aren't optimistic
any more.
All hopes of a compromise
faded when an expected division
over the issue within the council
¢ailesd.to materialize. ," , '
It isn't known when the
measure will be filed, or what it
will provide until the final draft is
completed. -
There are also bus stops in
the area during the summer for
the swim bus and during the
school year for the children who
no longer cross Highway 101
from this side of the highway, so
please "Slow" for the "Children".
Mr. & Mrs. Duane Nault
Mr. & Mrs. Jim German
Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Burhman
Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Mork
Mr. & Mrs. Bernie Lang
Mr. & Mrs. Ken Linderman
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Dye
Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Arnold
childish things at the magic age of
21, we are rapidly approaching
the day when we will by far
outnumber you as members of
the voting population.
You will then have to play
our game, our way. I would think
you would lend me a more
understanding and compromising
ear. Someday you may be begging
for mine.
The "legal machinery with
which to carry out reforms" does
not exist, for college students as
well as high school students are
regarded as children to be guided
and controlled. Perhaps the most
important "lesson" learned while
trying to work for change within
a school system is how
bureaucracy works.
Ken Kesey, author of "One
Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
and "Sometimes A Great
Nation," addressed the Vietnam
Day Committee's anti-war rally at
Berkeley with the idea that the
only way for them to protest the
war was to turn their backs on
"the whole damn thing," not to
put themselves on the level of the
establishment and play its game.
No, throwing rocks is not the
answer because the silent majority
cannot hear the sound of
shattering glass or human
outcries. But perhaps it is not too
much to hope that they may be
able to see thousands of backs
turned against their society and
their game, which we refuse to
play.
Wendy Bolender
Editor, The Journal:
As a worker in the
Democratic booth at the County
Fair I would like to answer Art
Pagel and Sue Lemagie.
I wanted to work at the
booth to help my candidate's
cause, and made inquiries as to
what procedure to follow. I found
that I had to contact the
chairman of the booth to
volunteer my services. This I did,
and was assigned a shift. This
procedure was open to all who
wanted to work in the booth.
A list of all the workers was
posted on the walls of the booth,
and the names of Art Pagel and
Sue Lemagie were not listed.
While in the booth I passed out
the materials of all candidates,
whether I was for or against them.
I admit that the Maxie
balloons were hard to keep track
of. as many youngsters were
quick to take advantage while I
was busy talking to someone -
what kid doesn't like a balloon or a
colorful bumper sticker?
Editor, The Journal:
After reading letters and your
editorials, 1 would like to say
thank you. sir, for renewing not
only the faitb of the young, but
mine, in my age group. By your
kindness, you "made them feel
that you, for one, judged them
not by the things you saw on the
outside, but what was inside.
Mrs. Dinning, 1 am sorely
disappointed in you. You have
called me friend and stated that
you have faith in God, yet you
defile the names of these young
people whom God created. (It is
surprising God didn't give up in
disgust on our age group, but He
is striving to improve in our
young ones.) My son is the
drummer in this band, and I am
more than proud of him and his
group for their ambition, honesty
and open minds.
This same age group is
fighting and dying so that you
and I, Mrs. Dinning, are allowed
to write letters such as these. 1
don't like long hair, but that
doesn't make it wrong. I think if
my son is man enough to stand
up and fight in Vietnam for
eighteen months, he is man
enough to stand up and groom his
Editor, The Journal:
Thanks, Mr. Editor. Thanks
for printing it the way it was.
It's too bad that when a group
of young people have the
incentive to go out and really
work for what they want to do, a
group of the so-called older
generation won't even take time
to find out what is really going
on, before they start to criticize
and make trouble. If any of these
people had bothered to talk with
the boys they would have found
out that they have been working
very hard for many months to get
the band going.
They are a group of boys who
are very serious about their music.
They all had jobs, saved their
money to finish buying their
equipment, sold their cars and
bought a bus which they fixed up
so they could save on living
expenses and transportation while
on the road. They were having a
hard time finding a place to
practice because as you know
people seem to be skeptical of
anyone who has long hair, grows a
beard and plays music a little too
loud at times.
Thanks to you, Mr. Editor,
you came to the rescue and let
the boys use the old Creamery if
they lived up to certain
stipulations. The boys worked
hard to clean up the building.
They kept the visitors down and
saw to it that their music stopped
by 10 p.m.
My husband and I went
over to the Creamery three or
four times while the boys were
there and did not find anything at
any time that remotely resembled
Editor, The Journal:
As many people in our town
know, the Multi-Service Center of
Mason County is a place for
low-income people to come for
help.
As a low-income person, I
was introduced to the
Multi-Service Center last
September and through the center
I have received the hope that I
had lost.
I am now attending Olympia
Vocational Technical Institute
and by spring I will be able to
help myself.
Until this help qame, the
Our -society ts
rule of law, and
as one of
democracies in the
we accept this rule,
years we have
government
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system whiC
reform, and
freedom to
work together to
way of life bY
rules.
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