Show --The Salt Lake Tribune Monday June 271988 A15 Pests Assault Freedom With Litigious Attack on Private Clubs Chicago Tribune Service With the Supreme Court's 0 decision upholding New York's law requiring private men's clubs to admit women final mopping-u- p operations have begun in the y mission under way none will be permitted to survive A sympathetic press has portrayed the litigious pests bringing these suits as heroic battlers for equal rights but something else is afoot: envy resentment and ideology what George Will describes as "a bullying attempt to break another sphere of private association to the saddle of IEI--- L search-and-destro- LA ' '' K‘ ' oYDN! SO INS i Ii " i I' I E ' i WI SJPRZonc avaRs oft 1111 - ' - If - AI 1i 7 l7k ' ' I s A's 7 re t'''4116) 1 41 9ks - f 4:3 ( 1 I- I': - 7' -- qt V I ' 'S - 4 - II - i 4h-r-g-g 0 - ft 41 i i 5 7‘ 46 6 - ilk ----ii t 4 wroo- '- ' ii lack C Landau Men Only? Courts Thinning Out Ranks of This Exclusive Club Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON — Men's groups krere wise to just stay silent in re$ponse to the Supreme Court's decision upholding a New York City law that requires large private professional and business clubs to admit women as full members : While the decision has been reported as a women's rights case in fact the court upheld the entire New York City test-cas- e law which bans discrimination based on race sex religion or ethnic origin in private professional clubs if they are "sufficiently public" in nature serve food have regular dues and have more than 400 members The high court found that these ' all-ma- large business clubs — with club houses meals and other services — can provide "important opportunities" to women and minorities "to participate in the business and professional life" of a city Certainly the ruling will mean that within five years political pressure from the women's movement will result in similar local or state laws opening up most conventional men's downtown professional-typ- e clubs all over the nation to qualified women members and to members from differing ethnic and religious backgrounds g In many places even women probably will be admitted After all retired businessmen keep cross-sectio- Haynes Johnson III -- S IT -: s cl Drought Shows Mother Earth Needs Tender Loving Care Washington Post Service WASHINGTON — Outside the window where I write at home the graceful branches of a magnificent old elm tree are withered and the leaves are turning brown The same is true of other elms that add beauty and distinction to sections of north-WeWashington They appear to be dying Whether they are casualties of the heat wave or of some unconnected insidious blight I am not competent to judge I just know they are a depressing sight The news of the moment is not encouraging either We are in the midst of something more than an early summer heat wave We are also experiencing a record drought The combination of the simultaneous blows from nature is devastating Across the land crops are burning in the fields rivers and lakes are drying up water tables are dropping even the mighty Mississippi has shrunk to its lowest recorded levels River traffic is at a standstill Nothing moves A stean:Joat captain sounding the way you imagine Mark Twain would d have talked — wry drawling sharp — tells a network news interviewer that he's never seen anything like it He's been on the river Since 1941 he says A Midwestern farmer shown standing in a field of stunted crops in another televised scene echoes the thought He reaches down picks up a handful of powdery topsoil and lets it trickle through his fingers to the parched earth No he's never seen anything like this Not in his lifetime Shades of the dust bowl Similar stories abound and are dutifully reported: Nature strikes America reels st r '0 L' to' e- - low-keye- v- - 111 Lis ng rsz ewlPpMn Then inevitably predictable stories begin to appear This is not just a blow from nature they say this calamity is being produced in part by man On National Public Radio a NASA and climatologist is interviewed but withal gives a matter-of-fagloomy report Yes he says they seem to have evidence that the greenhouse effect is at work That is the theory that the earth's atmosphere is warming because of the buildup of carbon dioxide that traps heat in the Earth's atmosphere and prevents it from escaping into space This in turn is the price of manmade pollution: automobile emissions burning of fossil fuels coal and oil depletion of the forests and so on According to their computer models he says the 1980s are going down as the warmest period since globai surface temperature records began to be kept a century ago Four of the highest annual average temperatures already have been recorded in this decade This year will add the fifth For years these doomsday stories about the greenhouse effect and its supposed but unproven dire results — the ozone layer the polar icecaps the new desert forming — have appeared as regularly as the change in seasons And just as regularly I have relegated them to other summer stories such as the ritual sightings of "Nessie" the Loch Ness Monster and "Chessie" the Chesapeake Bay clone At the least this current climatological episode ought to remind us of two things: Man is capable of fouling his own nest in this case the Earth We fail to pay attention to our environment at our peril all-mal- e thirrgIir119 kids Clothing 051814101IMISIZ0 IKB IIM 1 fp' I vi I ' : Mtalgtall 1071W 7200 S (Just East of Lionel Playworld) 255-425- r :: ( 0 il 1 1 ip 113) INCLUDES BASICS AND The LATEST WIONS tit against women But they also lieved in the "separate but equal" doctrine for blacks and in no rights for resident aliens Those days are gone Women are now an integral part of our business academic and professional life at every level That does not mean however that they will necessarily be made a part e life at social and athletic of a to be every level Such a case has-ldecided be- 0 i: iii: ty-gi- air ) ) Lo"-'7"A'-0- N1‘ ALL ToPS SLEEFWeAR ES ALL 1 si:i ' -"-1 J' -- OVERAie7LS ' - 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as 20 members and in a Jaycees organization In both cases the legal key was not size or dues or services It was whether the main goal of the club — professional association — would be significantly damaged by admitting women And both times the Supreme Court said it would not It is certainly true that the men who passed the First Amendment and later the Fourteenth Amendment believed they had a right of : necti'lzf -9679 -7- SAM Ise)i21 7 all t Az o!' s Mover) c os 11" f i aatt 4 9 Cgartgercua 1 t el n These include Geneva Steel Co paid the ex- penses for the team so they could have the opportunity to compete Dr Robert Fineman a geneticist at the University of Utah donated his time to come to Albion and coach the team on the subject of birth defects which' was the national topic Because of the efforts of Geneva: Steel and Dr Fineman the students were able to go to Michigan and corn- pete They finished in the top 15 out of 46 teams But more than that they got to meet other students from allover the United States and Canada plus they learned a great deal about birth defects Businesses and indi-- : viduals are going to be called oh more and more to support worthy: educational programs We thankGe- neva Steel and Dr Fineman for lead- ing the way SUSAN HUtT Sandy ' 1 al Iiir When one Washington club with a large congressional membership was opened to women the biggest inconvenience was that the men had to wear bathing suits in the swimming pool The Supreme Court decision also presumably will lead to admission of women as members in their own right in another sector of large private clubs: the suburban country clubs Except for their golf courses and tennis courts they differ very busilittle from the downtown-typ- e ness club and are frequently as important for business contacts There are two constitutional keys to the Supreme Court's decision as outlined in Justice Byron White's opinion: first that the club admits a of the business general community so that sex race and ethnic background have little practical significance in the suitability of a member second that the club — as stipulated in the New York law — is not so small or intensely selective as to be "distinctly private" and does not discriminate based on some religious or ethical value that is covered by the First Amendment right to choose one's club associates men's Presumably an women's club club or an would escape the law's strictures if based on some religious doctrine (women are excluded from the priesthood and in orthodox Judaism women cannot be full members of the congregation) With large professionally based clubs being opened up and small religious clubs having restricted membership there is still a gray area: a whole assortment of organizations whose futures are questionable 11-1- 5 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 1 2 their memberships in such clubs al convention at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from June name signature and address Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others Writ ers are limited to one letter every 10 days Preference will be given to short typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name All letters are subject to condensation Mail to the Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box O : Education in Utah is in big trouble But all is not lost If all Utahns pull together we can get the job done Everyone will have to be involved from major businesses to individuals Recently a group of students at Albion Middle School won the state competition in Future Problem Solving They were invited to go to the nation- Forum Rules The Shriners of El Kalah Shrine Temple have recently done one of their things that they always seem to do so every well The have provided enthe good wholesome family-typ- e tertainment of the annual El Kalah Shrine Circus Bill A Bayes a past potentate of El Kalah Temple and the general chairman of the circus committee told me that over 10000 passes were issued without charge so that the physically handicapped the mental 6: 4 Led Way Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full Proud Shriner A 44 -- -It a01 ‘sv : f It - - ' ' ' I II --- ? ' Apr r' '' t a I r -1 ''' s tve Nn p - &gook& 1 N 114 r444:t lf I iterp retarded senior citizens and underprivileged children of Utah could attend at least one of the six performances of the circus either in Ogden or Salt Lake City Mr Bayes also said there were up to 75 people confined to wheelchairs in attendance at each of the performances and that on Saturday morning the circus went to the Shriners Hospital and Primary Children Hospital and performed at each hospital for the kids One more reason the writer is proud to be a Shriner GEORGE R ANDERSON ly Helen Bailey Evans letter (Forum June 18) told volumes in only lines five and one-haOur city council and mayor seemingly have not figured out why downtown is going nowhere but down We cannot shoehorn malls into every little space in the city and expect downtown to remain viable We can rail and carry on until doomsday about "Salt Lake City in the Year 2000" and "Utah A Pretty Great State" and have architects and city planners ad nauseam but still find business will not stretch to all the garish little malls and downtown too So I echo "Why Downtown" when there is a mall right around the corner? RITA MARTIN 1 - 113FI:N Vaktila I - - ' 11 : 'ticluii Ill' - t- i -' Palk Forum Don't Need eEin 71005 am ‘ I 1KNxki 001r t n e The k'''O'sN)1bahK‘s 7 - ga MS 5 Tiatr tJ -- Why should the 999 percent of us who do not belong to men's clubs care about these little redoubts of privilege being coerced into conformity with the ideology of the age? Because watching these clubs forcibly "reformed" we are witness should the Maryland Legislature? As disquieting as the remorseless drive to force every private institution into some UN-lik- e racial gender and ethnic mold is the pmerty of intellect and paralysis of will xhibited by club members when defending their own privacy and freedom Distinguished jurists such as for- -' mer Attorney General Griffin Bell and Associate Justice Anthony Ken- -' nedy have been forced to recant and resign from private clubs America's WASP establishment which formed these clubs routinely excluding Catholics Jews blacks women and everyone else except Proteswealthy white Anglo-Saxotant males may have been a lot of things: it was not gutless it was not it was not lacking in confused about its prerogatives and rights and it would not have been routed and scattered by Gloria Allred or some busybody little Or wellian agency called the "DC Com mission on Human Rights" Tribune Readers' Opinion - IS k at) B wished Those excluded however were free to form their own clubs which then proceeded to exclude others In Washington when country clubs like Congressional and Chevy Chase did not admit Jews Jewish leaders created Woodmont for the Jewish elite Unable to integrate DC's Metropolitian Club journalists left and formed Federal City Club and then set up their own rules of exclusion Nor is there anything inherently I ' ' k ties excluding whomever they 1 ' ' wrong about seeking to socialize with those with whom one shares interests background or beliefs Returning from Mecca after conversion to Islam Malcolm X wrote: "I tucked it into my mind that when I returned home I would tell Americans this observation that where true brotherhood existed among all colors where no one felt segregated where there was no superiority' complex no 'inferiority' complex — then voluntarily uaturally people of the same kind felt drawn together by what they had in common" If freedom means anything it means the right to associate with whom one chooses Exactly whose rights are violated when lobbyists businessmen congressmen and presidents get together for a round of golf and a round of drinks laughs and lies at Burning Tree? The mothers wives daughters and girlfriends of these men do not apparently believe their men are engaging in immoral activity why g admitted - NA ''s an self-evide- time ' cPhaatn Intolerance is driving this assault intolerance of diversity and distinction a feline intolerance of any institution whose governing rules do not conform to a crabbed feminist ideology ("Momma make the boys let me in the tree house') Here truly is the mindset of the inquisition a secularist inquisition to be sure but an inquisition nonetheless The heretic whose neck must be bowed or broken is the unreconstructed white male who enjoys the company of other males without wo the state" At its best the civil rights movement was about expanding freedom the freedom of 20 million black Americans The assault on the clubs however is about constricting freedom the freedom of association the freedom to choose the friends with whom one wishes to spend his leisure rd ii1 B u' ing another successful assault on privacy and freedom by what Albert Jay Nock called "Our Enemy The State" America was once a country where when men (and women) put down their tools or their pens they could join with "their own kind" — whether WASP Jewish Catholic anarchist Irish Italian right-winshut Confederate or Black Muslim out the outside world form their own clubs associations and fraterni- men being present and who even worse has erected chapels to his heresy called the Union Club the Century Club the Cosmos Club and the Burning Tree Country Club For the orthodox humorless harridans of the feminist movement to be truly happy these temples to disbelief must each and every one be razed to the ground That the white male is the heretic to be humiliated and "converted" is One does not see feminists suing college sororities to open their doors to male athletes at say Maryland and Michigan State or demanding that Smith College's tax exemption be taken away until men are 1---' 9-- A Ai A ntm mst mmno -- eaorrea10Ma1M APr1 - |