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Dear Voice,
 I'm delighted
with the uniform proposal. The sooner the better. Could it have pockets
please? And be comfortable without restricting movement? I like to look
fairly presentable at the institution where I work when I interview
parents, but I also like to be able to run freely with the children.
I wonder if culottes that look like a dress is the answer? Also, could
the summer uniform be sleeveless, for greater comfort?
I'm eagerly
awaiting for the day the uniforms go on sale.
Helen Story
Berkeley
Sisters,
A uniform
for the women in WLM would simply be substituting one restriction for
another. The problem is not current fashion per se, it's the rigidity
with; which it is prescribed by the fashion industry. We are not liberated
unless we can choose freely between hair shirt and a sequined dress.
We must fight conformity, not-develop our own.
Toby Silvey
Chicago
Sisters, (?????),
Please send
my wife stuff you....might have which approaches the political through
the domestic--hangups of women. I've tried but I think other women can
do it best. Thanks.
Fraternally,
Paul Resstucia,
Quebec
Dear Paul,
We will gladly
send your wife some "stuff" as soon as you send us her name.
---Ed.
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NATIONAL NEWS (Continued from p.
9)
Radical
Women in Boston, New York and other cities joined with NOW and a Boston
Welfare Mothers' group in a demonstration of support for Bill Baird
on October 18 in Boston. Baird is director and founder of Parents' Aid
Society, a Long Island birth-control clinic and abortion referral service.
He faces a possible 10 years in jail for displaying publicly a birth-control
device and distributing foam to unmarried women at a 1967 Boston University
lecture (Doctors' prescriptions for married women are the only legal
source for contraceptives in Mass.) His case is currently on appeal
before the Mass. Supreme Court.
After years
of resistance, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission has finally
ruled that in at least some areas women are entitled to the same rights
as blacks under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. As of November 30,
1968, the EEOC has ruled that newspapers can no longer list job offers
separately by sex. We'll be eager to see how vigorously this is enforced..
Rosalyn Baxandall and Cindy Cisler join a Parents' Aid
picket of St. Patricks Cathedral to protest the Pope's ban on birth
control. The sign says: "Why Should Male Clerics Rule Female Bodies?"
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