FIELD MARSHALL Mary Collins and the radical fem DouG COLLINS © get this straight ¢ movement are doliyheads, and as such worthy of study by shrinks. The latest proof is Collins’s lackwitted support of putting women in tke infantry. Once is tempted to have fun with idea. Someone should write a comic-opera on how the Canadian Girls’ Brigade stormed the beaches in Normandy, meeting the SS Death’s Head Division head-on and persuading them to lay down their arms and have a roll in the hay. However, Collins’s massive stu- Pidity and that of the human rights fools who issued this directive to the Canadian Disarmed Forces calls for the straight goods. As Gwen Landolt of the anti-fem REAL Women of Canada has stated, ‘‘The Warsaw Pact is laughing.”’ «fl, seems not to have dawned on my brilliant M.P. and asscciate minister of defence that women are different from men. They cry more often, for instance, and would have pienty to cry about al some future Dieppe.’’ Yes. Can you imagine the Girls’ Brigade locked in mortal combat with the Russians? Ivan would tape the lot without a second thought. Just ask the Germans what happened to their women when the Soviets moved in. None of this is to say that women can't pull a trigger as well as men. Or that they have less courage. Or are less inclined to ac- cept discipline. An anti-aircraft of- ficer who commanded a battery in London once toid me that the women performed at least as well the men and often bettez. I: is to ssy, though, that a bat- Ulefield is no place for girls. Would they be able to struggle through the mud of a Battie of the Somme? Would they be able to “‘yomp'’ 30 miles in a day over the hills of the Faikiands as the British infantry did, with 60lb. packs and weapons? There might be a half-a-dozen dykes who could do it, and that’s about all. If 1 am wrong aboui all this, why is it that women are not to be found fighting for the heavy- weight or even the bantam-weight championship of the world? Why is it that they don’t play Canzdian football? Why is it that men and women tennis players are divided according to sex at Wimbledon? For that matter, why don’t they rob banks, as men do? It's because they are not so strong and not so aggressive, that's why. And nature intended it that way. It seems not to have dawned on my brilliant M.P. and associate minister of defence that women are different from men. They cry more often, for instance, and would have plenty to cry about at some future Dieppe. In short, the shit, blood, filth and emotionai stress of a bat- tlefield are not for them. If they were, women would have been in armies from day one, whereas his- tory gives us a different story, Boadicca notwithstanding. One of the troubles with the human rights gang in Ottawa and their cronies in the radical fem movement is that they have never heard a shot fired in anger, much less experienced a Dieppe, a Dunkirk or a Stalingrad. From Max Yaiden on down, they are a crowd of innocents. The degree of their lackwit- tedness is to be seen in the ruling that while women may serve in the infantry, they may not serve in submarines. Why? Because subs are ‘‘self-contained combat units with no privacy for anyone, regardless of rank."’ What sort of privacy do they think there is in a fox-hole? In the freezing winter of 1939- 40, British infantry units were in positions in front of the Maginot Line for 10 days at a time. There were no latrines and No privacy. Frequently, you went do-do and wee-wee where you could, which was usually in the same hole you were lying in. That it was freezing helped a bit, but not much. Another great joke is that ac- cording to Mary Collins, the Ca- nadian Disarmed Forces are going to have to do some ‘‘conscious- ness-raising exercises'’ so that in- fantrymen can get used to infantry girls being around. I can just see the guys marching out to raise their consciousness. It wouldn't be the only thing they would raise. This farce is nothing more than another nincompoopish job- program undertaken by a dotty government in the knowledge that Canadian infantry will never again be called upon to do any fighting. Fighting is against the Charter of Righis @ PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY... requires professional help. “FREE” COPY OF OUR BOOKLET “ASSIGNMENT IN BANKRUPTCY,” AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST 291-9151 EVANCIC PERRAULT ROBERTSON 1.TD. (Actoms tho 2nd Naroers Baciga at Brentwood Mal at Wilingdon Ave & Lougheed Hwy. N bumany) THE STORY OF A COMMUNITY Display attracted thousands MORE THAN 20,000 people took a walk through the his- tory of the North Vancouver School District recently, when The Story of a Community was on display at Park Royal Shopping Centre and Capilano Mall. Some returned to go through the 10 modules representing education from the 1900s to the present and future. A few classmates were actually reunited at the site, reported school trustee Anne Macdonald, reporting to the North Vancouver School Board Tuesday night. The exhibition may be over, but the sights and sounds will live on in a video taped by project artistic director David Newman. Copies of the video may be made available in the future. The display, itself, has been dismantied and stored, but Mac- donald said it would continue to be used, in part, throughout the community. There has been interest in setting This Week's TURKEY DRAW WINNER By MAUREEN CURTIS Contributing Writer the display up in other locations, but the cost of moving the large collection of pictures, artifacts, memorabilia and tapes is pro- hibitive. The Story of a Community was produced by the School District, with the assistance of the North Shore Museum and Archives, numerous private corporations, 9 - Sunday, March 19, 1989 ~ North Shore News community organizations, and volunteers, such as Violet Jackson, Leona Dunse and Del Dunse, who put in many hours on a daily basis to make this massive undertaking a success. 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