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" - 7 fl _ e I"? if, H _ - __ I __ 1 I . - N . r C l 38---THE LONDON FREE PRESS, Wednesday; Nov: ' l968 F , _ - T I .. a c a k I f . Canada needs a mass injection 0 women _ . 95- -r-, '::.\v_'>.x..:m;;<_* terk _ _ _ f., , _ .L-r-t- ' Itit!tr'i'/lir' S h . l d I / . .sl@ villlllllll.$Bltrmt? A. -'r)" l e, says t. Cat Cl n nes a e rman , F By 'iirarhrirAmi CRARTER& But it will be a long, time ination and women's rcsponsh have to pray to God whoever marry are doomed yet we are _ , 'of The Free Press, \ before they forget. , Joilities in Canada. SHE is," you wonder how railroading these girls into _ I _ Mrs. Sabia, an alderman for Last week she announced much more militant one can marriages which can only be _ 1ryTRsoLL,rDe..1tety to 1six years in St. .fattarlnts, she would run for mayor in be. heading for disaster. the.54th convention of theLon- past na.ti.oneypresi,dtr,1,t of the her town. "Nobody1hink's I'm "Canada needsa mass in- "Did you know that her don Area Women s Institutes University Women's Club, and going to win, but I'm damned jection of women into public mother, has nothing to say a weren’t too sure who Mrs. M. founder of pe Committee for. well going‘to try," she said. life and the whole social struc- about whether she should be ‘1 J. (Laura) Sabra of St. Catha- the Equality of Women in Mrs. Sabia says she is not a ture. The royal commission on married under Ontario law?" ‘9 rmes was before she spoke .C.a.na.da, gave one of her ‘sock militant feminist but when she the status ii women can't do Mrs. Sabia said she ap- Tuesday afternoon. it to 'em' speeches on discrim- ended her address with "we'll anything but make recommen- proves wholeheartedly of the s-------.------ _--.-----------------'" --F..--., ---eHe---" e-e--.--.-----------.---..-- - dations." new divorce laws but wonders . l Things will only get done it how they would work if they I a body of women move to had been written by women. I force implementation of its "A woman.farft get a di. l suggestions she said vorce, even if she has been “It there’were 60 Women in deserted for 10 years, if she can’t find the brute. Now the ' _ the lllloulfe ot Common: there question is before the supreme woulc” i] a .31 9“. 'ir",e,l,g,,e,i'. court, but the fact remains, ma e, S e sal meme wom- women don't write legisla- _ I L:_,_:ii_iIllll 1lilltll Illlllliirilit Women have the power of e " lrAiM8NMtllI the vote but they don't get in- SiIlllill Illlllltiiil'illillillilllll valved. she said. ’- , Ilia 'SalliiS32r:elllyl,qllll "We 'have to stop closing , , ' E Ill.. I" ‘ ' ._-;'"L.-gj our eyes to problems. We are Ilq 'ar,F::C"1NqIl,Ml tl,, told in school the end-all of I tll F , __ / "en-. .,i':i,,?;s: everything is marriage and . , 3 , . V _ 1aei"gt,', women are pushed into tradi- T “a a f}. tionally feminine roles. When . "l'ic'jirr"' _iil,tiii:ty; '_ I we get to university it gets Nee ecraft To 88 Next Course l, _. it,” 7 g " worse. There are quotas on _ ' "% how many girls can enter cer- . I _ . (tii3rtCritiiii, V tain courses-there needs to For Lakeside women S Iristitute . ' "/k'2t;t,i,'?Pl,'ltr,ri'i':'r' V be some investigation." ' & ' "r/ir,':,, tir. This is the year for human . ERhttgtii'iiiiiit(t:i7ir"ia - : rights-=yAutseuwL.LaIc..wrtiJ. i The Lakeside Women's Instr. t9? There was tap dancing by . ', , , 'irili:8Aill...'y?/:,5'f'y:s I . B , . iccomes_oiof our earsand, ' tute met Dee. 4th in the Orange Klm McLeod, and solo by Frank I i Tg" , . . I nothing will happen until we i Hall with the president Mrs. McLeod; readings were from ' m“; _ =ltrtMill cliayigclhe rnin.dcpCtpep," N Alin Stewart presiding. Follow- Mrs. Mary Gregory, Mrs. EVEN? Action is so delayed, she 5 ing the conventional opening, Monteith and Mrs. Jas. Morri- MRS. LAURA SABIA said, "hut. a study without. ad , roll call was answered with the son. The demonstration on , tion is futile." I. presentation of gifts for Oxford Christmas gift wrapping was by q . . Mrs. Sabia' said women have V County Home. London Area Mrs. Clayton Kew. Courtesy re- en to become more inyolvt.d to find out about what is going convention report was given by marks by Mrs. Chas. Holden yy] knowledgable about Poli- on in Canada. “How'many of ' Mrs. Jared Vining and Mrs. were followed by singing "God . I "ei, ‘k d if you have read the Hall-Dennis I Alan Stewart gave County Con. Save the Queen." Christmas j h 03111301}: as e mil 1i.vj.yj, rer.oort on education? They are ference report. Mrs. Leman party lunch was served at the f 'a1hei1/dicil,ur,1Q)ll"e “a? going to take us back to the 1 Harris expressed thanks on be- table with many candles in the _ l! C . g one 'P/Pl scly.rol, only it will . . . einors of the Toronto stock ex- b lit 1 f ' _ " . Ch t tt I . . ea tle anciei now. half of the ladies who took the ns mas se Ing. chanae I'd be a lot ha let' it . ' rse "Baking With Yeast" l a . , . pp On Dec. 2 the people of ft. ._ cou , women were allowed to buy a Catharines will be choosing ' ver y.1d presented the letylers,.Ps. I seat on the floor. . their next mayor and who ( Risdon and Mrs. Vining with a "They tell you women are knows at the rate Mrs Sabia I gift. Twenty ladies attended disturbing on the stock ex- c., '."' A i the bakin class The next 4-H - . , IS going, some day the whole _ B _ - change flo 0 1 --th at s why of Canada may be deciding ', course will be on Needlecraft. _ . they're not allowed there." whether she should be the 1 Mrs. Jas Morrison began the' These old prejudices must , . . . 9 , . ' _ . next prime minister': . Christmas program with a read. go; she said. ing.. Mrs. Bryant Sutherland l The minimum age for mar- conducted the Christmas Carol _ riage. in Ontario for a girl is sing-song. "My Christmas Wish" 16, but if she is 13 and preg- [ "et-G"'," was read by Mrs. Erie Kittmer. nant she can he married with 'i' An instrumental by Mrs. Leman her father's consent, she said. . , - Harris was followed by current l "We know statistically that events by Mrs. Rhoda Vannat- 95 per cent-of 16-year-olds that‘ . m