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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand June 24, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 3 How The Libs and The Feds Plan to Spend Your Money BY PHYLLIS SCIILAFLY If you thought the womens libbers would be satisfied when they got $300,000 of Federal money to spend to promote International Womens Year, you were Refer complaints on sex discrimination to the appropriate Federal agency. 7) Make recommendations to the President and to other Federal agencies relating to improving the administration of programs affecting women. 8) Assure through appropriate recommendations that the United States participation in international organizations entail the full participation of women. 9) Receive and review reports by Federal agencies having sex discrimination enforcement and investigative powers. 10) Develop model legislation to enhance the status of women and their integration in the administration of Federal programs. 11) Report annually to the Congress and to the President on the progress of Federal agencies in advancing the status of women. 6) ' wrong. If you think they will be satisfied when and if they receive $5,000,000 of Federal money for International Womens Decade, you will be just as wrong. The libs and the Feds are a dynamic duo when it comes to big ideas to spend our money and control our lives. They now have hatched a new plan to parlay their year and their decade into a permanent Federal ajgency from which they can run our lives, change our attitudes, and restructure society. They are promoting a new ripoff of our tax dollars called die National Center for Women. The National Center for Women Bill, S. 2913, which is designed to bring this about, is sponsored by Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.) and Senator Charles' Percy (R., 111.) This bill would set up a new Federal agency with wide authority, both direct and indirect, over all Federal agencies. The stated purpose of the Center is to coordinate, monitor, and evaluate Federal agency programs having impact on women. With women comprising 51.7 percent of our population, it is hard to conceive of any program not having an impact on women. The scope of the National Center for Women Bill in terms of regulatory power and Federal funding is practically unlimited. If passed, it would become the vehicle to the attainment of womens lib goals with tax money, and the enforcement of womens lib goals through F ederal power. Administrative Power the National Center for Women would be established as an independent agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government, headed by a presidentially appointed Administrator to be chosen on the basis of her demonstrated commitment and record of accomplishment toward enhancing the status of women, as well as experience and training. Within the Center there would be a National Board of Advisors composed of eleven, members, four of whom would be from Federal, state or local governmental offices concerned with the status of women. This opens the way to load the board with members of the various Federal and state Status of Women and Commissions, which are about 95 percent pro-li- b S. 2913, A. pro-ER- The functions of the board would be:' (1) to maintain liaison with all state, local, national and international organizations and agencies, both public and private, concerned with the status of women, or monitor-- ing or administering programs affecting women; and (2) to review and make recommendations to the Administrator concerning all general matters arising in the administration of this Act. The following bureaus and functions would be transferred to the National Center for Women: 1) National Commission on International Womens Year. 2) Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Wo- men. 3) Interdepartmental Committee on the Statu? of Women. 4) Womens Bureau of the Department of Labor. 5) Womens Action Program of HEW. 6) Womens Rights Program Unit of the Civil Rights Commission.' In order that the Administrator may execute all the purposes of the Act, she is given full authority to spend money, prescribe regulations, receive donations for the Center, enter into contracts, fix salaries of Center personnel, buy and sell property, and pay per diem and travel expense for persons who are not employees. More important, the Administrator would be empowered to hold hearings, administer oaths for the purpose of taking evidence, issue subpoenas to compel witnesses to appear and testify and to compel the production of documentary evidence. The Administrator is further authorized to secure information, estimates, and statistics relating to the work of the Center from any branch of government, state or political subdivision. The Administrator may hire the services of experts and consultants. In the event that the Administrator encounters a refusal to obey a subpoena issued by the Administrator, she may request the Federal District Court to issue an order requiring compliance therewith. Any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. The bill establishes within the Center an Intergovernmental Task Force on the Status of Women, the membership of which would include one official from each Federal executive agency, the Director of Federal Womens Programs of the Civil Service Commission, a member of tne Commission on Civil Rights, ana a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The purposes of the Task Force are: (1) to assist the Administrator in monitoring Federal programs; (2) to develop procedures to ensure that Federal agencies will implement programs to assure equal rights and responsibilities to women; and (3) to coordinate all Federal programs to carry out the purposes of this Act. Under Section 7 of the Act, all Federal agencies are required to review regulations, policies and pro-- . cedures in order to determine whether or not they are consistent with the purposes of the Center, permit the full participation of women, and are designed to ensure that women are given equal opportunity in the administration of all programs. The language of this Section is very similar to the language of the civil rights legislation, which led to employment quotas being imposed on business. S. 2913 provides an d authorization for the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1977 through 1981. open-ende- 7) Functions of the Secretary of Labor adminis- tered through the Womens Bureau of the Department of Labor. Functions of the Center In order to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Center is empowered to: 1) Review, monitor, coordinate, and evaluate all Federal agency programs which have an impact on women. Maintain a clearinghouse on information of Federal, state, and local public agency programs which are of interest to women. 3) Publish and make available any statistics or research relevant to women, gathered by any Federal agency, together with an analysis made by the Center. 4) Conduct educational projects and research including holding conferences to improve the condition of women. 5) Cooperate with Federal, state, and local public on the agencies, including state and local Commissionsand acStatus of Women, in coordinating programs tivities on behalf of women. 2) , By Middle-of-the-ro- favorite J Organization of the Center Under MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Rational and Purpose The language of S. 2913 asserts that Federal programs for women are' frequently overlapping ana uncoordinated. As a result, women frequently do not benefit from public programs on an equal basis with men and are not fully integrated into the professional and policymaking positions in the Federal Government. The bill asserts that there is a need to create a central coordinated mechanism on the Federal level to implement the relevant portions of the World Plan of Action adopted by the United Nations World Confer-nec- e Womens Year. To fill this alleged need, S. 2913 proposes a National Center for Women to review, monitor, and coordinate Federal programs to insure that they promote fairness and equal opportunity for women as well as men, to serve as a clearinghouse to provide information on public programs and legislation of interest to women, and to recommend to the President and to Congress proposals to improve the status of women. The United Nations World Conference Womens Year 'referred to in S. 2913 was the UN conference . Continued on page S Larry Wilcox the is ad of those, position especially in the field of politics, who do not want to be considered too extreme. It was popularized by one of our popular presidents. The term seems to fit the quotation in the Bible, "I know thy works, that . thou art neither cold nor hot.. ..So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. (Rev. 3:15, 16) In other words, it is a position taken by people who .have no strong conviction or do not wish to express one. It is a position which can easily be described as being half right and half wrong. Perhaps, for some people, being half right and half wrong is a comfortable position to hold. However, the greatest religious and ethical teachers of the past have invariably expressed the attitude that it is better to try to be right all of the time. Compromise in favor of that which is wrong has never been a theme of these leaders. Today religious, many leaders, and political educational, seem to favor compromising with true principles instead of taking a strong stand for that which is right. Our country was conceived on principles taught in the Bible and our free enterprise system grew out of the rights guaranteed by the constitution based on these principles. The results obtained using these principles cannot be understood without consideration of the forces of good and evil, or right and wrong. One of the laws of physics states, uFor every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. To paraphrase this, for every force of any kind there is an opposing force of another kind. When good is assumed to be a force, evil is the opposing force. .When the term is defined as 50 good and evil it is more easily 50 understood. Now it is possible to include other opposing ideas or forces, such as freedom slavery, in the same frame of reference. If a person is 100 free, he is 00 slave. If he is 50 free, h? is also 50 slave. If he is 00 free, he is middle-of-the-ro- ad slave. 100 There have been many governments instituted since the beginning of history. Several have had a high degree of freedom when they were organized, -but as time freedom was- invariably limited until slavery became the lot of the great majority of their passed citizens. The shift toward slavery. Continued on page 11 |