Homely Remedy

Most members of the Woman's Club of Denver look as though they would be more interested in flower arrangement than in politics. Actually, they find the heady fumes of civic controversy invigorating, and for half a century have maintained a state of simmering indignation about everything from the lack of public bathhouses to the dangers of bars in residential areas. But for all that, Denver was startled last week at the club's newest proposal: Mrs. Gano Sentner, the club's parliamentarian, described it as complete castration for male sex offenders.

The idea, said 55-year-old Mrs. Sentner, "just grew up from sheer rage. I am just the channel through which the in dignation of our members and, I might say, our community flows." The club, she admitted, had not asked for medical opinion; the purpose of the announcement at this time was simply to start people thinking and alert the legislature as to what the club expected of it at the next session.

As she had expected, she met with some opposition last week. The Rocky Mountain News flatly called it "a step back toward barbarism." Mrs. Sentner was not dismayed.

"There will be some who will talk about the inviolability of the human body," the club conceded. "But what about the victims of these criminals? If the sex urge is such that the wretch, cannot control his impulses . . . let's save him from himself and the gas chamber . . ."

Added Mrs. Sentner: "Yesterday, my phone rang every five minutes . . . The response is 100 to i in our favor. If our club can't do this sort of thing to make the world a better place ... we have no right to existence."

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