The Brussels Post, 1975-06-04, Page 2WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1975
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
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by Karl-Schuessler
Free to harrow the field for corn planting.
The women on the farm don't need to read
all those ads about women's year. She's
liberated. She's been liberated for years. She
knows what it's like to have equal opportunity.
Farm women have been helping their men on
the farm for years.
Why, way back in pioneer days, some not
only put their hand to the plow, but a few of
them put themselves in front. of the plow. A
few of them yoked themselves together and
pulled the plow.
When it comes to that other women's right
-- equal pay, for equal work — I don't know how
the farm Women are faring. Expecially after
that Alberta court decision*. When a woman
put in over twenty years on a farm with het
farmer husband and she wasn't given any
compensation for those years when they wee
divorced.
With . court decisions like the, the farm
women's liberations fell back fifty years,
But I have an idea. To get things started up
again. The farm women need some recogni.
tion. They need to get their names iii print.
And one of the first places to begin is right si
the barn. On the barn. In those big 00'
letters that say whose farm it is.
No More of this plain Robert Robinson
Carl Rose and SOn.
One man almost had it when he painted of
the barn "Al Morgan and ,
But that's not od enotigh. He Can,1
farther yet. Be more $pecifie. He can pdt Lot .
Rose and Wife or better yet - Carl add DorothY
Rose.
Now that's getting closer to the truth,
But how about a little closer?
Why Why ncit Dorothy and Carle Rose?
Yes.
Why not/
Most of the ladies I talk to in the city know
all about international women's year.
Especially the ones who work outside their
homes,
Arid even though a lot of them don't like the"
tat4i of a "woman's libber", they usually
insist on the same two things --at least as a
minimum for women's rights.
"All we want is equal -opportunity," they
say. The chance to take a crack at the same
jobs men do.
"All we want is equal pay for equal work".
The chance to make the same kind of money
for the same kind of work that men do,
Now the ladies have something there. Why
must their anatomy be destiny? Why must
their domain be Kinder, Kirche and Kuche?
It sounds better in German - dli those clicking
"K's". In English it comes off as children,
church and kitchen.
But once I get back home in the. country, I
find that most farm women barely take notice
of all this women's year fuss. Sortie of them
don't realite it's going on.
And why should they?
I figure farni women are liberated already.
Have you taken a drive out in the country
lately? And who do you see driving the
tractor? It's not always the farther. It could
well be the farmer's wife.
After she'S done the dishes and straighened
up the house, and hung out the wash and got
the kids off to school, she's a free Woman.
Free to till the garden and plant the seeds.
Free to attend to the !Mat litter of pigs.
Free to help in the barn with milking,
Free to let the COWS out to pasture.
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We all know that Canadians are an unfit bunch.
Awareness programs like participation and physical
fitness buffs like Prince Phillip are always telling us
so.
It's sad enough that our overeating and lack of
exercise causes us to have heart attacks or high blood
pressure at too early an age. But it's really tragic that
so many of ,sys, in a country filled with lakes and
rivers and bordered by oceans, don't know how to
swim..
Just how tragic was pointed out last weekend
when 18 people in Ontario died from drowning.
Three members of one family were drowned when
each in turn jumped in a pond to save a brother or
sister. Sadly, none of them knew how to swim..
According to the Ontario Red Cross, two out of five
people in this province can't swim. The Red Cross
thinks that's bad and so do we. "You've-got to learn.
There's no way you can go through a lifetime without
going near water," a Red Cross official says. ,And
he's right.
.Fear of the water should be conquered. It's just
logical that someday at least some of us will be in a
position where we.have to swim to save ourselves or
someone
Pools are springing up in backyards in the village.
People with more leisure 'time than they used to
hiave will spend more time at the beach.
The Red Cross operates water safety programs
throughout the province. They're soon launching an
advertising program aimed at the 15 to 25 age group,
which accounts for nearly 50% of all drownings.
If you can't swim and feel you are too old or too
fearful to try, please don't pass your attitude on to
your children. Make sure they get swimming
lessons. If worst ever happens you could be
depending on them to save you.
The Lions Park in Seaforth will offer this summer,
as it has been doing for nearly forty years, swimming
lessons for people of all ages:i There are swimming
lessons available year round now at the recreation
centre indoor pool at Vanastra. I
,
f you've thought
about learning for years, this year take the plunge.
If you're too shy for an organized program, try and
persuade someone to give you private lessons at a
beach or in a friend's pool.
Swimming, although it can be a lot of fun, is more
than recreation. Increasingly knowing how to swim
can be as important as life and death.
Learn to' swim arid therefore to protect yourself
and your loved ones this sumrn er. We want all our
readers around when the swimming season is over in
the fall. Hopefully then, we can report a province
wide decline in the number of deaths from drowning.
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