European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May 1985 columns William Buckley ideologues try to impose their views on language a colleague the other Day was aghast at seeing in in a piece he had written for a Small the word where my Friend in his manuscript had written he lakes seriously his responsibility for language that appears Over his and so telephoned to the editor and said in words less than entirely where do you get off putting chairperson where i specified chair Man she its just this you were diking about a to which he replied that it was just this namely that chairman and has done so for hundreds of equally to men As to which is so also of the word which in certain formulations is made in the image of is and he said to what right do you have to impose your preferred forms Over Given that i am the author of the piece to which she smiling to the extent this can be ascertained in the voice of someone coming in Over the that that was the style Rule of that and style rules now and newspapers Are entitled to have style rules that govern such matters As whether theatre can be spelled that Way or must appear As that is Plain House editorial but what happened to my of is that he was being indoctrinated into a the feminist As it Calls although it must be understood that the feminist movement is not necessarily a movement All Good or should come to the Aid there is no end to the lengths such impositions can or was he extreme reached by the National Union of journalists in great Britain about a recent experience i must inform most men and women who want to work in journalism need to join the Nuj because most newspapers Are closed shops in great the Story begins when a Terry a Newspaperman in Manches got into trouble with the Nuj for writing a Story in which he passed along the theory to quote the paraphrase of the London times Bernard women tend to concentrate on and encourage the part of them they think the for this offence against Equality he suggested that in some respects women comport themselves differently from men was officially his colleagues thought this very and decided to punish and amuse by designating him As the Manchester Branch Equality officer charged with hearing complaints alleging so a few weeks go and a complaint is brought against a colleague of Lovell when interview ing a football manager and his lady described the latter As As far As the complainant was the Case James Kilpatrick was open and the writer had violated clause 10 of Rule 18 of the unions disciplinary which for bids discrimination on among of Gen How because he had not described the mans even though he had referred to the Ladys Lack of in his Hughes was an absolute Model of he told the Nuj jurors that the reason he had referred to the subjects being braless was that indeed she was not wearing a More he promised you May rest he solemnly spoke that if the football manager had been wearing a hed have made it a Point to mention that kind of thing makes very Good but humor spelled Humour in England by the which is perfectly of Doest work when trafficking with All the defendant got for his pains was a portentous reply by the complainant i May have my own criticisms of aspects of Equality not least the severe problems in their implementation in the face of open contempt from some sections of the membership snore snore and the defendant was put on the Equality committee will keep its eyes on and if Ever he should make reference to a woman who had served As exit that writer from the National Here is an i direct it to Clare Boothe because she has been an ardent Champion of women rights throughout her but Luce is also an artist of refined literary add to All she knows How to manage i desire her to head up a committee of illustrious women writers to protest the lengths a movement is being taken in their the women committee to protest the vulgar nation of the women rights How is that for a title c 1985 Universal press Syndicate a Tomchik the Temple of doom Francis Doest live in the woodpile anymore this is our loveliest Spring in at least five but something has gone wrong Here in Tappahannock 1 am not thinking of the 1 am thinking of rabbits and groundhogs and they seem to have animal populations have a Way of going up and going if Man Doest get too much in the predators and disease and weather will Combine with rates of we observe pendulum swings when Deer Are on the one or an infernal on the maybe were simply at a Low Point in the i dont but two or three years driving the two Miles Down to the Woodville Post i could count 20 rabbits along the the Little ones were playing hide and seek in the ditch Banks and the big ones were sauntering along the you could observe half a dozen groundhogs in the same two Miles big Cigar sitting around in their in and last year we had a 6foot Jack Snake named Francis who lived in the Wood Francis Doest live there any the Chipmunk population is Way we used to have a House Covey of 15 to 20 but we Haven heard that unmistakable Bob White All we usually rent six Bluebird boxes this no the feeding stations have been taken Over by subway muggers in the form of a Phoebe turned up two weeks and then the Phoebe went Clifton who lives Down the has a theory about the he notes that the Hawk population is Way and he wonders about the consequences of Roadside theres no question about the they Are All Over the hovering in Silhouette like air planes on an identification and then gliding abruptly out of its True that every summer Crews Spray the Briers and honeysuckle on route but you  think so spotty an application of a herbicide would affect whatever the theres a kind of let Down in the Spring of the Dogwood and Redbud Are floating through the Woods As Pink and White As a corps de everything has burst into Leaf and Blos including a Rich crop of and it would be an altogether perfect Spring i never thought 1 would miss the rabbits and for normally we detest but i do miss wont you please come Home i mentioned this he is trying to tear our House and he May make it Tom who used to be news director for steel in Wash has a cottage across the this Flicker Al ready has demolished one Wing and half of his David Brinkley of Abc lives seven Miles Down the Road to while he is in Washington Mak ing a a couple of flickers Are taking out his window what these bullies have against the press i cannot but the press everywhere seems to be held in Low esteem and flickers will go with the they Are big with Black mustaches and Black bandanas they have neck Muscles As Strong As hawsers and their Pickas beaks Are As Sharp As Geoghegan is nailing patches All Over his place and Brinkley has ordered new window every afternoon 1 Hammer Back the boards Flicker has but i cant reach the gutters along the Hes trying to haul those its but not All is on the morn ing of april a Little after 7 a flight of evening grosbeaks came they were on their Way Back from i and looked very Snappy in their Black and yellow we have but not a pleated for no apparent Rea because the Winter Acorn crop was we Are overrun with skunks and raccoons Are but possums Are my wife saw a pair of red foxes the other evening she didst want to say they were but they were certainly Well so it it All evens eventually the Hawk squadrons will and if the Road Crews will just Lay off the maybe the Quail will my no sentimentalist thinks in crazy to miss the this she maybe Well get the lettuce before they c 1985 Universal press Syndicate