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PAGE ti - WAYERLOO CHRONtCLE, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26. 1983 Second Class Mail Retttstratiort Number 5540 Porn lies. The distinctive buttons worn by participants in the K-W Status of Women's weekend conference said it all. While portraying women in a degrading light, pornography not only gives an inaccurate and insulting picture of women, but ol human relationships in general. Bor nie Diamond, founding member of the Ottawa-based Coalition Against Media Pornography, who spoke at the conference Friday evening, shocked her audience with a series of film clips depicting scenes of rape, torture and murder. But equally disturbing were the statistics she provided revealing the massive size and influence of the pornography industry. Figures showed, for example. that the industry grosses about $10.5 billion annually, more than the movie and music industry combined: that approximately 200 hard-core and 260 child pornography magazines are available in North America and that children as young as three years of age are forced to take part in pornographic movies. Diamond recommends a multi-faceted approach to dealing with the pornography problem. everything from writing to local MPs demanding stricter obscenity laws to organizing boycotts of local stores who carry pornographic material. But, she said. the key is involvement. The pornography industry has in her words been allowed to "flourish" too long, aided by our lack of resistance. op a local level, municipal governments should strictly supervise the sale and distribution of pornography, said Diamond, requiring licences for businesses who handle such material and enforcing regulations on how it can be displayed. Establishments dealing only in pornography should be off limits to minors. Similar actions by city governments in Ottawa and recently in Cambridge have proven successful. As Diamond pointed out, until now our laws have done much to protect the rights of racial minorities but have been slow to provide equal safeguards for women. Our society may profess a commitment to ensuring dignity and equality for all of its citzens but, until it provides some protection for women under its laws governing hate literature, which porn surely is, then it's difficult for that commitment to be taken seriously - especially given the thriving nature of the porn industry today. Where do the summers go? I know where the winters go. They go on and on and on. But Canadian summers seem to pounce out of a frigid spring. flourish like an exotic plant. and wither and die two months late‘r. It's time that our civic leaders and local residents reaffirmed their commitment to women's equality - with their involvement in this worthwhile cause and with action. As Diamond said, "It's a question of human rights." I was looking forward to this past summer. Lots of golf. swimming. loafing. reading, a good visit with my grandboys. and arriving back at school for the last four months before I quit - tanned. fit, keen. Planned to do some fishing, a lot of walking, and some traveling, probably to the Maritimes. Well. as Casey Stengel of the old Brooklyn Dodgers used to say, "Wait till next year. We'll murder the bums.“ _ I've played golf twice. despite the beautiful weather. because I haven't had a leg to stand on: my right one Next year I'm going to have it sawed off at the ankle and a tin foot implanted. as the great Douains Bader did, when he lost both legs h g nyhag accident. pt some tsrtifieiat Action needed published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener, Ont, BILL SMILEY WaIertoo Chlomcte omce M, located m the Hum! Nancy and Whale Law Ofhce Bulldmg (real entrance. upoev noon Partuog at the rear _ ot the ()0an Open Monday to Fnaay 900 a m to 5 00 p m address correspondence In Waterloo "tore " Br!) tit E , Waterloo, Ont N20 UA'. telephonr Hui 2'00 ones, and went back into combat as a fighter pilot. Next summer. Cm going to swim every day at one of the great beaches in Canada. even though I have two perforated ear- drums. I'm going to the Maritimes if I have to hitchhike. Cm going to catch a trout if I have to resort to a stocked pond. Ican't whine too much. I did have a good visit with the arandboys. l have a new one now, He used to be Balind, but the kids at school teased him for having such a funny name, so he forthritthtly changed it to Ben. And Ben he is now Not many people change their name at seven. I also did a lot of reading and loafing, preferably at the same time But it's hard to do both at once when your wife is talking ceaselessly about how she has stopped biting her fingernails. how she is planning to lose weight land sneaks down in the middle of the night and eats four butter tarts), what happened at her summer course in music. and how many trip bills Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbell established 1854 Farewell to summer r-" is written Its JUST A auT veeuua,‘ or couabgASUT I‘VE. GOT Arum/H THIS AWuw-MT/ wow» 15E Wired 3 Pornography is not artistic fare, but purely a product to make money. are coming in against a rapidly shrinking bank account I'd planned to do some work on The Jungle - the bushes around our property. Too hot. The Jungle is creeping closer every day, and I would not be surprised any day now to see an orangoutan leap from one of the oaks onto the roof, Late summer was saddened a bit by the death of Ted Reeve. the great old sports writer and athlete. He was tu, and some reporter friends said he had at least four There have been diversions. of course. The street on which we live was invaded by a construction crew about mid-August, and they will Yinish about the end of this week, Tim! keeps one on one's toes. There's nothing like the growling of a bulldozer outside your bedroom window ft 7 gm. It's a grand summer operation, though. for elderly gentlemen. kids and house- wives with nothing better to do. than stand around and supervise a bonstruction job, "o Bonnie Diamond, speaking at a conference porn sponsored by the K-W Status of Women. a: terminal illnesses about 20 years ago. A huge hunk of bone and gristle, with a great broken beak of a nose and hands like a couple of gnarled frying pans, Ted Reeve was a gentle man and a gentleman, except when he was clobbering somebody with a lacrosse stick. or pounding an opposing lineman into pulp, First time I met him was in the Toronto Men's Press Club, where he was wont to hold court with a collection of cronies I walked in, a complete stranger. ordered a beer and sat alone. Within five minutes. Ted beckoned me over to join the group Every time I met him thereafter. he'd wave me over. He didn't even know my name. but called me "Wiarton." because I knew a Stevie Stephenson from Wiarton, against whose father Ted had playvd lacrosse six decades ago. "DIrtiest la Crosse player I ever met, but one of the 3:5": " th 'g"--"-""?"----:"'"","""""),., i JOB \NTERVIEWS TODAY Yak CHNRMu-ISHI? - SEE PAGE 3 'otat00ru? H YD R2