European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes february 1981 James Kilpatrick Era wont magically end sex Bias a delegation of women brighters turned up on Capitol Hill the other still lobbying hard for a dead amendment and a live with it has to be said that theirs is a futile the Laws they seek to alter arc beyond the parliamentary the dead of is the Long pending equal rights amendment to the the live Issue the Abid eternal Issue has to do with the statutes thai society and the marketplace Accord in a the Issue is Dis like the it has always been with the if it is a is mind we have come a Long Way from the relationships that were praised by the Early philosophers and the male is by nature and the female said and the one rules and the other is he May be said to be an inferior that same chauvinistic spirit runs through most of the worlds literature up to the present women were expected to be Obedi subservient and it is thy said to hold thy and keep within no the Mosi significant social his tory of our country in this Century is to be found in the struggle against invidious discrimination discrimination by and discrimination by at the last Federal agencies alone were administering More than 130 statutes and executive orders forbidding half of the states have their Walter a ears own Laws to prohibit few principles have been embraced More passionately by politicians than the principle of equal yet manifestly inequality would the equal rights amendment put an end to it i do not believe it for a to but this was the View pressed by elea nor president of the National organization for in her appearance last month before the Senate labor and human resources without ratification of the she sex discrimination at work will How so from its very inception Back in proponents of the Era have imag ined that the if it Ever were would accomplish More than it pos Sibly could the amendment would write into the Constitution this commandment Equality of rights under the Law shall not be denied or abridged by the United states or by any slate on account of but so far As a new order of sexual equal Ity is the language is constitutional amendments Are both sym Bolic and but they Are not self the history of the 14th Amend ment is in Back in the drafters of that amendment May have supposed they were assuring a new order of racial equal More than a Century the courts still Are struggling to define equal Protection under the so it would be with the Case by year by one tested statute at a judges would have to grapple with defining Equality of rights under the executive orders and constitutional amendments Are feeble instruments for altering fundamental human deep in the mazes of the labor department is an office of Federal contract compliance one of its functions is to enforce an executive order prohibiting sexual discrimination on construction the office at one Point fixed a women quota of percent of the work despite heroic recruiting efforts by building and despite a welter of training programs for no such quota has As a general propose it women choose not to be maybe things will be different in the fun perhaps a unisexual work Force will one Day take shape but dont hold your breath till it women can do some jobs better than some jobs As As and some jobs not As Well As and when the marketplace recognizes this it int its just the Way things c Universal press Syndicate Ronald the incredible shrinking woman ram ip61pi66uipakcesu66estedi most Federal programs will survive in some form president reagans lengthening budget hit list Doest mean All the pro Grams he wants Congress to Cut Are going to go he has Long argued they should go away from Washington while acknowledging somebody is going to have to pay the and somebody Means that Assumption was built into reagans original program for curbing Federal spend the billion plan he advanced nearly five years the idea then was to turn responsibility and revenues for Essen tial government programs Over to Levels of government closer to the voters and pre More attentive to their Reagan said As that the Feder Al government had failed to do the Job efficiently and it has Cre ated More problems in food Community and regional development and Revenue to name a Reagan said in Chicago on out of out of mind defending that plan in the Campaign that Reagan said he want suggesting such programs simply be scrapped to save what i proposed was a systematic Transfer of both responsibilities and re sources for these programs to state and local he now Many of the same programs were on the budget cutting Agenda Reagan recommended to Congress presume the philosophy is intact along with the target read that the presidents catalogue of budget cuts would represent the first step in what candidate Reagan said would be a gradual and phased Transfer of authority Over and Revenue sources to pay for to cities and he envisions some outright but in most the administration is seeking reduction in Federal spending programs that surely will have to be picked up budget cuts can sound As if we Are going to reduce government spending to a lower level than was spent the year Reagan said in his economic report to the this is not the the budgets will increase As our population increases and each year Well see spending to match he was talking about the Federal but the Rule is As True for state and local governments As for so the president has not discussed the shift of Revenue sources he suggested in that Early Campaign he is recommending 10 percent Federal income tax cuts in each of the next three but not with the idea of having it taxed away at other Levels of but City Hall or the suite House is going to need Money if Congress agrees to Cut Back federally financed a prime example the reductions in fed eral education Aid recommended by David reagans budget he proposes an overhaul of Federal school Aid to consolidate an assortment of 57 programs into a system of Broad to be spent the Way state and local officials think it is All the program involves about billion in currently budgeted Federal spend stockmans proposal would consolidate them and Cut them about 20 stockmans option paper forecasts opposition from education and civil rights each dedicated to separate pro Grams drafted to meet their former presidents Ford and Nixon both tried to get education Aid wrapped into sys tems of consolidated to Cut Federal red tape and and broaden the authority of local officials Over the use of the Congress Al though neither proposed the kind of cuts the Reagan team is reagans budget cutters warn that con Gressional reaction to their proposal will further be dampened by the reduction in aggregate funding for education Aid that already has been eroded by that an it might be possible to prune education spending to off set part of the Impact if the proposed cuts make it through but the pressure is in the other for higher school and if there is to be less available from there would have to be More Money available from property taxes or other state and local levies to make up the c associated press mar to