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Woman's world

To bare or not to bare

By ROSEMARY SMALL

F anyone wants to look at

women in topless swimsuits,

he need only go to the beach-
es of the Socialist countries,
where plenty of women take off
the top half of their bikini to
sunbathe.

_ Whether the women are
young or old, nobody raises an
eye-brow — and why should

they, anyway?

To start getting hysterical
about nudity or semi-nudity on
the beach seems to me ridicu-
-lous. Remember the terrible
outcry’) almost 20 years ago
about the bikini, and the idea
of women going around show-
ing their navels?.— yet today
nobody. thinks anything of it.

- However, to extend the prin-
ciples to evening dresses is a_
different question.

’ The firm who made the first
topless dresses in Britain have
now admitted that they only
did it as a joke; but in the mean-
time at least two other manu-
facturers have announced that
they are taking the thing ser-
iously and producing designs
for autumn.

“If it does turn out to be more
than a silly-season gimmick
(which I doubt), who’s going to
wear it?

. I should think that fewer than
ne woman in 1,000 would be
aither physically comfortable or
aesthetically beautiful with her
“preasts bare and unsupported.

The few who could get away
with it would only serve to em-
phasize an idea which is all too
prevalent in our society — that

that sells fashion,

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Transparent top, left, is called Venus. The topless suit
on the right is called Black Eve.

the main function of a woman
is to be sexually provocative.

It fits in with the “image”
cosmetics,

etc.: a woman must be young,
she must be beautiful she must
be a sex-symbol — or nothing.

—British Daily Worker.

HE FOLLOWING rules for
clerical staff in a Sydney
firm were published in an

Australian newspaper in 1852.

1. Godliness, Cleanliness and
Punctuality are the necessities
of a good business.

2. On the recommendation of .
the Governor of this Colony, -

this firm has reduced the hours
of work and the Clerical Staff ©
will now only have to be pre-
sent between the hours of 7
a.m. and 6 p.m. weekdays.

3. Daily prayers will be held
each morning in the main office.
The Clerical Staff will: be pre-

4. Clothing must be of a so-
ber nature. The Clerical Staff -
will not disport themselves in —
raiment of bright colors, nor
wifi they wear hose, unless in

good repair.
5. Overshoes and_ top-coats

may not be worn in the office .

but neck scarves and headwear
may be worn in _ inclement
weather. :

6. A'stove is provided for the
benefit of the Clerical Staff,

coal and wood must be kept in ©

the Jocker. It is recommended
_ tat each member of the Cle-

te

rical Staff bring 4 pounds of
coal each day, during cold
weather.

7. No member of the Clerical
Staff may leave the room with-
out permission from Mr. Rog-
ers. The calls of nature are per-
mitted, and the Clerical Staff
may use the garden below the
second gate. This area must be
kept in good order.

8. No talking is allowed dur-
ing business hours:

9. The. craving for tobacco,
wines or spirits is a human.
weakness, and, as such, is for-
bidden to all members of: the
Clerical Staff. ©

16. Now that the hours of
business have been drastically
reduced, the partaking of food

| Clerk's Utopia—1852 style

is allowed between 11.30 a.m.
and noon, but work will not in
any account cease.

11. Members of the Clerical
Staff will provide their own
pens. A new sharpener is avail-
able on application to Mr. Rog-
ers. ,

12. Mr. Rogers will nominate
a Senior clerk to be responsible
for the cleanliness of the Main
office and the Private Office and
all Boys and Juniors will re-
‘port to him 40 minutes before
prayers, and will remain after
closing hours for similar work.
Brushes, Brooms, Scrubbers and
Soap are provided by the own-
ers.

13. The New Increased
Weekly Wages are .as_here-
under detailed...

Junior Boys (to 11 years) 1/4 ~

Boys to (14 years) 2/1
Juniors ; 4/8
Junin clerKsq. 8/7
Clerks 10/9

Senior clerks, after 15
years with the owners ... 21/-

The owners hereby recognize
the generosity of the new la-
bor laws, but will expect a
great rise in output of work to
compensate for these near Uto-
pian conditions. ©

‘side by \\ cam
JS. Wallace.

_ Mourn, mothers, you who know how sweet
They were, the blossom-colored feet
That in our dusty pathways yet
No print had set és
So that the world will hardly mark
Their little track in to the dark
Only for one the baby feet
Have left earth incomplete. .
: 5 Marcarer L. WOUm

I WROTE THE Moscow News in my unspeakable e.
writing and they couldn’t answer the question 1 0S
‘Now, using a typewriter, I’m going to ask the 7 |
Embassy . . . or should. I, since they have so @ ish
their hands? Perhaps the Canadian—USSR_ Friem
Society on Avenue: Rd., Toronto.

What I want to know is what is the deati a
among the Nenni, Chukchi, Eskimos and other Pe,
who sit on the other side of the Arctic round table ©
us, most particularly from our Eskimos.

These peoples now have two story houses ling
electricity. They have heads of reindeer running ee
thousands in: some collective farms. Egg-shell boats |
been scrapped and replaced by whaleboats,
schooners and 500 ton seiners: all operated by the
people themselves, “oe

ry ike

All agree our Eskimos also take to machine
seal to its escape hole when they get a chance ~
chance against the Gentlemen Adventurers Tradin&
Hudson Bay? (Profits last year: $10,728,000—up, Une te

None: So the state of our Eskimos and the dealt
among our Eskimos is a national disgrace. The Ii ow
pectancy of the average Canadian is 67+. Do yO"
what that of the Eskimo is?

' Twenty-nine years.No, that is not a mistake: 29

And the World Health Organization of the be
Nations says that every second Eskimo child be f
Canada dies before it reaches its first year. Some og
society women have only one public concern: abd
humane way to kill cats. You and I are concerned
the most humane way of killing cats too but eve?”
about keeping people healthy and happy.

That’s especially important in the case of thé a .
mos: only through them or their successors can the *
be made a flourishing part of Canada. .
That’s the Communist line?
More power to them. :

_ It can’t be uspeakable because Willie Gallachet ~
about it in a letter I got from him yesterday. BY Bow
this venerated friend of Lenin reads the Trib care
so carefully he’ll snort at the “venerated.”

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July 17, 1964—PACIFIC rripuNe— gt