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American women equality under the Constitution, has passed us by. And so it goes; two steps forward and one step back. * ★ * During the upcoming year the International Women’s Year Comm ission in cooperation with local organizations will sponsor conferences in each of the fifty states. The purpose of these meetings will be to gather women’s opinions about their concerns, problems and hopes for the future. To Form a M ore P erfect Union... the IWY Commission Report, will provide the conference with an agenda and program guide. The cul mination of the state conferences will be a national convention of state delegates in Houston, Texas. The program as planned has enormous potential, but it remains to be seen whether it will be realized. * * * Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Juanita Morris Kreps, Secretary of Commerce, will be serving on President Carter’s Cabinet. Kreps was Carter’s second choice, accepting the post after Jane Cahill Pfeiffer turned it down. The designation of women to high level government positions is certainly a step in the right direction for which Carter is to be commended. Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that both positions have more potential than power and more cosmetic value than clout. Carter clearly had decided on filling certain posts with women and, as could be expected, the positions to which women have been assigned are the lowest ones on the Cabinet totem pole. Not for a moment, we may be sure, did the President-elect consider a female candidate for the Secretary of State or Defense. Moreover, Carter's scramble in search of "qualified women” and his complaints about the difficulty of find ing them served to confirm the prejudiced in their belief that such creatures-those qualified women-are scarcer than hen’s teeth. Secretary-elect Kreps answered Carter’s charge within minutes of her appointment to the Cabinet; she stated that: ”lt would be hard to defend the position that there are not a great many qualified women.” Carter had bemoaned the fact that women were reluctant to join government service because of personal reasons. The only woman who reportedly turned down a Cabinet position for personal, family reasons was Jane Cahill Pfeiffer. Among her con siderations were ten step-children, a recent cancer operation and the fact that she had been named as correspondent in her husband’s previous divorce. It seems probable that a qualified man, faced with these same problems, might have declined as readily as she did. Another salient point is that a good man is not so easily found. No one has suggested-al- though someone perhaps should-that Earl Butz, Wilbur Mills, Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon himself, not to mention the far longer list of less prominent male officials, cast doubt on the existence of ’’qualified men." The situation as re flected in Carter’s statements and the subsequent press coverage, however, did give the impression that when given the opportunity to serve, women cannot rise to the challenge. BETWEEN US AND THE TELEPHONE Lubov Kalynovych Let’s not be Pharisees While visiting my sister, her daughter and her grandchildren during the Christ mas holidays, a discussion arose concerning an advertisement which read: buy this product for ’’Giftmass”. At first we condemned such a primitivization of Christ’s birth, but finally agreed that even a primitive act such as gift-giving might have a deeper meaning if motivated by the idea of doing someone a favor, an act for his good, or even making a sacrifice for him. We had almost finished discussing the materialistic notion of ’’Giftmass" when the 14-year old daughter of my niece remarked: ”l wonder whether the fact that in our Church V* of the time of Sunday service is devoted to financial matters (cash contributions, making of ’varennyky’) also has a deeper meaning, or even, a need.” We digested this statement in silence. She continued: "Every year we hear a sermon about the Pharisee and the tax collector and every year the priest emphasizes that in his pride the Pharisee was not acting according to Christian principles. Afterwards we are forced to listen to long lists of people who contributed money for a pew, for a candle, etc. Do we come to Church for an hour to hear this?” We realized that this young girl was right. We tried to explain to her that these were sacrifices, gestures of good faith. To this she answered: ”l under stand that tax purposes require that we give our money in envelopes with names on them. But why publish lists of who gave what and when? Isn’t this a manifestation of our un-Christian ambition?" It is true that these lists are published for public encouragement. Listening about money affairs every Sunday does not nourish our Christian needs. Maybe, we of the older generation are used to this and accept it silently. But the younger In memory of the late Helen Lototska, Honorary President, Br. #2, Chester, Pa. donated *100.00 for the Museum Fund generation will not do so. Perhaps, this is why we lose the younger members of our parishes. Instead of fulfilling the needs of our spiritual selves in Church on Sunday where this should be our primary concern, we feed the Pharisaic ambitions of individuals. OUR FRONT COVER It is not for the first time that we are feat uring a sculpture by Mychajlo Cheresh- niowsky on our cover. (See no.10, 1972 and no.5, 1974) In the fifth issue of 1974 we wrote about his special interests and about the interpretation of women in his sculptures. For this reason we once again return to his works for our cover. Moreover, since that time two monuments done by the artist of the poetess Lesya Ukrainka appeared and in this way he merits the attention of our women’s journal. In the register of his works (if in deed he had kept one) the theme of the Madonna would be constantly repeated, with special emphasis on the gentle relationship of the mother to the child. There is a whole range of women’s heads НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, СІЧЕНЬ 1977 25
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