European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 09, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Jesse Jackson monday june 9, 1980 Era Means human rights for human beings on May 10th. The Day before Mother s Day the National organization for women now organized a Broad based coalition that led a massive and dramatic March in Chicago focusing on the need for the Illinois legislature to become the 3fith stale 38 Are needed to ratify inc equal rights Amend ment Era. Despite this massive Effort it appears inc Issue is dead this year in the Illinois general Assembly. The failure to ratify the equal rights amendment is one of the Grent injustices of our Day. There is no logical or biological reason Why the debate around Era should continue any longer other than our Bond age to a network of bad habits misinformation antiquated Mil ions superstition exploitation and jut Plain stubbornness. The quest by women for self determination under Law is part of the broader human rights movement in this country and around the world. It is part of the process of the redistribution of Power which is ultimately Why it is resisted and of a new self appraisal that has been taking place Over the last two decades in particular. Each is saying in effect. I am somebody. I May be poor or Black or Brown or female or unemployed but i am Domebo  a person who feels that he or she is somebody will demand first class citizenship involving All of its privileges and response Bililis and demand in for others As Well. Some make passage of the equal rights amendment a complicated and difficult is sue. There is actually a very simple and fundamental premise underlining passage of the Era. That premise is. Human rights for human beings. No longer can we accept Superior rights for some and inferior rights for others but equal rights for All. Justice must be measured by one yardstick. Roles May differ by culture and Choice but equal Protection is a matter of Law. That is simple Justice. Our constitutional framework and the legislative and judicial bodies that write and interpret our civil Laws must catch up with natural Law. Sim ple Justice is a threat to the hardened arte Ries of the status quo. Which clings to the past by a combination of habit culture ignorance superstition and economic exploitation. As a generalization one of the major institutions opposing ratification of the equal rights amendment is the Church to is a sad commentary that the institution that should be in the forefront of spiritual and human renewal and liberation has been one of the Era s strongest opponents. Strangely enough though this is not an unusual pattern Down through history churches have often misused the Bible and i ecology to substantiate their position. The creation Story. Chiti a to Adam and t pc. Has been the victim of twisted theology and distorted scriptural exegesis that is interpretation. The mythology the essence or meaning of the Story. Adam and eve in the Gar Den of Uden is actually very instructive. Its motive is not to prove the superiority of men and the inferiority of women but rather to show the closeness and necessary interdependence Between Man and woman. That theological expression which depicts women coming from the rib of Man. Is depicting Man s and woman s utter inability to procreate the human race alone. That is not to argue that procreation is Man s or woman s Only function. Thus we  reject the notion of first class people women having to endure second class citizenship any longer. That notion is irreconcilable with civilized con duct. Any Man who would deny the person Hood of his Mother sister daughter and aunt needs to examine himself. Any woman who would Volunteer for or accept such stat us likewise needs to examine herself. Universal pre Syndicate Ira Eaker this is Mary. She s underpaid sexually harassed passed Over for promotion and stuck in a stereo typed role. She s also against the Era. Why she likes being treated s military can t do More with less7 capt. Arthur Fri Ecrickson of the Crew. Since the press had headlined president Carter s order to defense Secretary Brown telling military leaders to discontinue their remarks about inadequate military pay. Fri Ecrickson must have known that he was jeopardizing his naval career. He put the safely of his ship the welfare of he Navy and the Security of the country above his personal interests. There has been some unjustified speculation recently that the joint chiefs of staff have not protested strongly enough As the administration and Congress continue to Cut military pay and cancel requests for modern weapons. In this Case the chief of naval operations promptly supported his courageous Captain. Shortly after the Canisteo was declared unserviceable adm. Thomas b. Rayward no told an audience in Washington the Haemorrhage of Talent represented by the loss of mid Grade Petty officers and offi cers today is an Issue that sooner or later will become a National one. In my judgment it will be sooner rather than lat  All inc joint chiefs of staff have Testi fied before congressional committees about the dangerous erosion of military manpower both in Quantity and Quality. They gave the prime reason As reduced compensation and emoluments due to congressional action presidential pay Caps and inflation. The reduction in inc past three years is More then 25 percent. This process began As president Carter Early in his administration appointed a manpower commission the Zwick Board to determine How to reduce the Cost of Mili tary manpower. Subsequent congressional action and a presidential veto of a Bill to give additional pay to doctors the severest shortage have finally convinced military people that our present government is hos Lilc to their interests. As a result the present manpower Short age is acute. Sixty percent of army recruits arc below the poverty level and subsist on food Stamps by moonlighting on extra jobs or asking their wives to work. Recently. Gen. Edward c. Meyer. Army chief of staff proposed legislation to raise both the Quality and the Quantity of Mili tary manpower. He suggests that Congress pass a Law guaranteeing the Cost of a College education to All enlistees who Are High school graduates and who Complete a four year enlistment. He also proposes a College education for the children of All military people who serve 15 years or More. This proposal struck a responsive chord in my memory. In 1923. I submitted my resignation from the service when the army offered a year s pay to any who would re sign but withdrew it when the chief of he army air corps agreed to Send me to Law school. In i975, on a visit 10 Lackland fab Texas which gives six weeks Basic training loll air Force recruits. I asked Loof them who had enlisted immediately after graduation from High school Why they had taken that step. All replied. That s the Only Way w c have a Chance to gel a College  Congress has since continually reduced the appropriations for educational benefits to the military callously breaking its commitment to Many thousands of enlistees. The do More with less philosophy Loo often the answer of our military leaders to reduced budgets is Long since a bankrupt policy. 10 Gen. Ira c. Either William f. Buckley or. A literary War Lillian Hellman is. Mary Mccarthy the lawsuit filed by Lillian Hellman against Mary Mccarthy has brought commentary from All Over with everybody or mostly everybody deploring everything All Over the lot. To refresh the memory of those who do not follow literary wars it All began on Dick Cavell s program during an interview with Mary Mccarthy the novelist critic and scorpion. Cavell asked her opinion of Lillian Hellman and Mary Mccarthy gave in calling her a bad writer which she in to she is a moderately Good writer and adding. I said in some interview that every word she writes is a lie including and and the " this derogation was not quite up to inc Standard of invective one cup cols of Mary Mccarthy but let in go. Not Lillian Hellman who filed suit for iwo and a Quarter million on the grounds thai her professional reputation had been damaged and that she had sustained great men Tal pain and  among inc discussions of the Exchange was one by nor Man Mailer. It is the Sou pics bit of nonsense Norman has Ever write in and if he sues me fur saying this my Only defense will be to adduce of her silly things he has written and that would Lake up most of my time for the next year or two. Anyway Mailer said in his Niece begging the iwo girls to Call off inc a Cideila Lillian Hellman. Has spoken to our disappearing sense of Honor our individual and our National Honor. She is the Only artist of the 1950s whose remark before inc House committee on in Ameri can activities is unforgettable i will not Cut my con science to fit inc fashions of our time " thai quo Lalion has very nearly been substituted for inc oath of allegiance. Bui us reiteration this time around was too much for Thomas r. Brooks. He is a labor historian author of toil and  who writes a column for the social democrats Usa periodical new America. Brooks comment instead of taking miss Hellman seriously liberals ought to have hooted. After All. In 1938 she had signed a petition to quote the daily worker in support of the acc Cal Moscow trials of the trotskyite Buk Hin inc traitors she wriggled through the Stalin Hitler pact and the super patriotism of world War ii to support Henry Wallace for president in 1948. She found the progressive party comfortable enough to be an Active member of the executive committee in 1950 when Wallace quit in dispute Over the progressives pro soviet stand on the inva Sion of South Korea. In other words what Lillian Hellman specialized in during almost iwo bloody decades was precisely in cutting her conscience to fit inc whims of Josef Stalin. This Mary Mccarthy declined to do. Moreover the account of the quarrel Between the ladies Given by Herbert Mil gang of inc new York times is Mosi awfully misleading. Milnac traced the hostility to the Spanish civil War at this Lime. Miss Hellman was strongly on the Side of the Span ish loyalists. Miss Mccarthy sided with the George or Well faction which fell thai the loyalists were  to the Sovil  Brooks comment no of Leighl lies Here of course but Subtle distortions characteristic of big lie construction. No Mailer that miss Mccarthy s political associates were Ard Cully pro loyalist Hal Mcl fought for the loyalists Ini Spain was wounded and never headed a faction in his we. Homage to Catalonia Orwell s Book on Spain is a deeply moving tribute to the Spanish people who fought against fascism As Well As a profound criticism of the communist betrayal of Spanish democracy which is a a Sinish be  of Orwell s position on the what  t happen Hellman will lose. But Mccarthy vill have to pay about 20 grand in Legal fees and that u d