Walker, 30, alias Nancy Morris, who sports his hair long and wears feminine clothing, has been sentenced in a Lawrence Circuit Court to 2 to 14 years at the State Prison. on a forgery charge.

Therefore, the public will probably acquiesce to a bill making it a punishable offense to wear clothing of the opposite sex "with intent to deceive." This is what the Senate in Hawaii did, according to the HONOLULU ADVERTISER. The trouble is that there must be a distinction between criminal and noncriminal intent. The fact that someone wears drag does not mean that they have criminal intent to mislead someone. If they do have criminal intent, then isn't there already a law to cover such acts? No lawmaking body has the right to dictate what clothes we wear. It does have the right to see that laws are not broken by people because they can hide their identity under skirts, or pants, as the case may be.

The PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE tells us that the Federal Drug Administration has accused a firm of distributing products contaminated by a powerful sex hormone which caused harmful effects in young boys and girls. It causes feminization in young boys, and early internal physiological development in young girls. This information is interesting in that it leads many people to continue to question just what does cause sexual characteristics, preferences, and to allow that there may be physical factors and that maybe it isn't just seduction by dirty old men that causes boys to be homosexual or tv shows, or comic books, or lack of father images.

NORTH OF THE BORDER

And from Toronto comes the demonstration that a newspaper can report a sexual subject with reason

and not emotion. The TORONTO TELEGRAM reports that Gail Kirsh, a 20-year-old Grade 3 school teacher at Bayview Heights Public School was barred from her classroom because she was quoted as saying that pupils with homosexual and other personality problems do not get proper treatment because teachers are not trained to deal with them.

Bob Blackburn, columnist in the same paper commented: "Life seems to be getting pretty tough these days for people who publicly recognize the existence of sex. Maclean's Magazine fired Pierre Burton when pressure was brought to bear over a straight-talking article on what I suppose might be called puppy-sex. CTV cancelled his TV program with Helen Gurley (Sex and the Single Girl) Brown, under pressure from people who hadn't even seen the show. And now, Miss Kirsh... I can't figure out whether she was being punished for having an idea, or for expressing it. It would appear that the safe course for a teacher would be to avoid having any ideas, and most certainly, if that is impossible, to avoid being found in possession of one. The school principal was quoted as saying Miss Kirsh's comments were 'ridiculous.' There seems to be some ill-feeling toward her for suggesting that there are kids with homosexual tendencies in the school.

"Well, I'll bet there isn't a grade school of any size anywhere that doesn't have some children with homosexual tendencies. The public schools I went to certainly did. I didn't know then what their problem was, but in retrospect it becomes painfully obvious, and subsequent events, some of them tragic, bear out the diagnosis.

"As I recall it, the homosexuals were regarded with some distaste