Show Hokum For Females One of the greatest hoaxes of the present Congress is the so-called so equal rights amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment for women PRACTICALLY every newsman newsman newsman news news- man and member agrees that no one knows what wh-at effect adoption of the amendment would have Some of the leading legal experts in the nation such as Sam Ervin NC D-NC and Harvard law professor Paul Freund say adoption of the amendment would open a pandora's box of troubles and confusion Ervin says t the h e amendment would destroy laws which make it the males male's duty to support a wife and children alimony laws and child custody laws Jaws FREUND AND others say it would endanger the existence existence existence exist exist- ence of all sorts of institutions institutions institutions including private girls' girls and boys' boys schools Others say that the many advantages and special privileges privileges privileges of the American fe- fe male admittedly the most favored in the would world-would be eliminated for women could be given no special treatment under the law Jaw DESPITE THESE doubts and the feeling of many that whatever Congress does the amendment has little chance of adoption since it must be ratified by three fourths of the states there have been few on Capitol Hill with the political courage to objectively objective objective- ly analyze the bill Unfair or discriminatory laws including labor laws should of course be repealed on the other hand the American American Ameri Ameri- can female enjoys a number of special protections and dif- dif which should not be nor can any law make the two sexes identical or needful of identical protection AS CONGRESSMAN Emanuel Emanuel Emanuel Eman- Eman uel Celler NY D-NY said recently recent recent- ly There is no equality except except except ex ex- ex- ex in a cemetery There is ismore ismore ismore more difference between a amale amale amale male and a female than between between between be be- tween a horse chestnut and anda a chestnut horse I |