_ Windsor woman:
Sees horrors
Of Korean war

TORONTO

Mrs. Nora K. Rodd of Windsor,
Wife of Roscoe S. Rodd, K.C., one
of that city’s leading barristers, is
touring Korea to observe at first
hand the result of a year of war

4nd bombing on Korean women
and children, it was announced re-
cently by the national office of
Congress of Canadian Women. She
1S a member of the national coun-
Cil of the Congress.

(A report from London May 23
Quoted Mrs. Rodd as saying she
had seen people sowing rice at
Night “as. during the day sAmeri-
Can planes machine-gunned peas-
ants working in their fields.”)

_ Mrs. Rodd is one of 17 delegates
Invited to go to Korea by the Wo-
men’s International Democratic
Federation. The party includes
delegates from Australia, Austria,
Igeria, Great Britain, West and
ast Germany, Cuba, the Soviet
Union, the United States, China,
Tance, Italy, Viet Nam and other,
Countries.

Tt is expected the delegation will
Spend several weeks ,in Korea
Pewee a documented study of the
ving conditions of women and
children under the ceaseless bomb-
ing by U.S. planes.

“Of the million people who were
Killed in the first eight months of
€ war,” the Congress statement
declares, “one-third were children.
One of the leaders of the Democra-
_ Ye Women’s League was burned
_ alive by troops under United Na-
Ons command and her ‘ody left
anging from a tree. These and
Many other facts reported to the
IDF by Mme. Che Den Zuk, Ko-
Tean minister of culture, prompt-
is the action to send a delegation
£ women from’ many countries to
See for themselves what is happen-
ne to the civilian population of
is unhappy land in order that the
t °ple of all countries may learn
© truth.”
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Evelyn Caldwell, the Vancou-
ver Sun’s “Penny Wise”, is having.
a fine time in war-torn Korea, Un- |
like General Douglas MacArthur,
she doesn’t sit amidst the ruins, re-
cite the Lord’s Prayer, and find
thing's “good for my, tired old
eyes.’ Penny scurries back and
forth in the ruins of Taegu, her
shop-worn eyes alert for bargains.

The Sun’s articles should be
titled: “Penny Wise—How Cheap
Can One Get?”

“A man with no legs, covered
with dirt. and begging pitifully,
shuffles along on his stumps,” be-
gins Penny’s story in last Tues-
day’s Sun. That’s what is known
as “human interest lead.”

After three more paragraphs in
similar vein, Penny Wise _ gets|
down to what is for her the im-

one million people — men, women
and children — have died on their
own soil. A boy interpreter ‘un-
earths such eye-opening bargains
for you that you wish you were in
the wholesale import business.”
“We wended our way there (to
the shopping district) by the in-
eviable jeep through the narrow,
tiny-shop-lined streets that never

portant thing in a country where|¢

Sun’s ‘Penny Wise’ goes shopping
for bargains amid Korean ruins

BY BERT WHYTE

have any sidewalks and where you which your mental abacus tells
barely miss running over a Korean you is something in the neighbor-
every couple of hundred feet,” ex-

hood of 25 cents, there being 6000
of the things to the $1.”

(Korean longshoremen in Pusan
work 12 hours, get one meal of
fish-heads and rice, and are paid a
wage of 1400 won a day).

“Incidentally, just before I went
to the market, I had occasion to
wash my hands at a spot where
there was no towel,” continued
Penny.
my bulging pockets, pulled out a
few thousand won, and dried them.
on that monetary paper towel.”

sense, no _ feeling.

you could buy white c»pper spoons,
for instance; quite large affairs
with Korean lettering on them
|standing for the five happinesses
|—happy eating, happy drinking,
jhappy living, happy loving and

PENNY WISE _

plains the Sun’s shopping expert.
She discusses an ash tray. It
costs something like 1500 won,

(happy bargaining, maybe?)

have become so poor they’ve had

$19,500 RAISED’

readers on

The Canadian Tribune, in a na-
itional circulation drive for 3,000
new readers, has added 2,334 names
to its subscription list during the
|past two months. The Pacific Tri-
/bune, which went over the top in
its financial campaign this spring,
raised $19,563 on a $17,500 objec-
‘tive, nevertheless has only receiv-
‘ed 1,007 subs since the beginning
of 1951. Time we pulled up our
socks!

Tim Buck, LPP national leader,
who played. a big role in the: Can-
adian Tribune drive, wired the PT
this week: “Hearty congratula-
.tions to Pacific Tribune and _ its
supporters. for, their magnificent
achievement in the 1951 campaign.
You have struck a mighty blow for
peace ‘and against the warmong-
ers,”

The strength of our blow against
the warmongers will be determin-
ed, in the final analysis, by the,
{number of people we sign up as.

Now let's sign up new

to sell every precious item in their
homes.”

Then Penny added the punch-
line that put the final touch to her
portrait of Korea—and herself.

“You feel like an awful heel try-
‘ing to get a shop owner to make
jeven lower the price of a long
/Korean pipe for which he didn’t
ask more than 50 cents in the first
place.” i

same scale

who have signed the peace peti-
tion, among the trade unionists in |
the camps and mills and factories. |

Our job is to introduce the paper to | Peace promotion

them, sign them up as regular
readers. |

:
Here are the standings of vr I§ theme urged

press clubs in‘the 1951 subscrip-

tion record: ~ ; | th
Greater Vancouver: North Van-. on you groups

|
couver, 44; West End, 39; Com-)
mercial Drive, 34; Victory Square, pyomote

|

World Peace,’ is the

28; Kitsilano, 24; Capitol Hill, 24; theme urged on all member organi-.
Fairview, 21; Norquay - Renfrew, zations participating in the Coord_|

20; Central Burnaby, 19; Grand- inating Committee

view, 18; Sea and Shore, 16; Mo- S

berly, 13; Biectrical, 14; Georgia, | Youth Groups, according to a pol-
18;' Hastings “East, 13; Ship and|icy adopted at the Committee’s
Steel, 10; Niilo Makela, 10; A. E. last annual meeting on May 19.
Smith, 9; Point Grey, 9; East End, |
4; Advance, 7; Halperin, 7; Mari-|
time, 7;. Vancouver Heights,. 7;
Seturcae: BY Pallgiig deedten [eat erowing sentiment Yor peace
4; Olgin, 4; NFLY, 3; Railway, 1; gion’, Canadians.

of the most significant

Waterfront, 1; Miscellaneous, 94

“If you hunted closely enough |
}you cguld find good pieces of very)
old Korean crystal, for the people|

“How Canadian Youth Can okay,
of Canadian!

The decision is regarded as one.

develop-'
‘ments in the move to broaden the.

r ; The theme for’
» | discussion ro action: is expected |

subscribers. It is no accident that Total, 537.
most of the active ‘fighters for | provinge: Nanaimo Area, 39;
peace in B.C.—the canvassers Who New Westminster, 34; Victoria, 34;
are getting the most signatures for For4 Langley, 21; Cumberland, 18;
the World Peace Pact petition, the) aipernis, 15; Steveston, 15; Trail,

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showed profif

jump in 1950

Last year BC Telephone secur-
ed an interim order followed by
a final order from the Transport
Board which brought in extra an-
nual revenue of $1,960,000 — all
taken out of the people’s pockets.
Phone users kicked at the boost in
rates especialy in view of the
poor service offered, but protests
were ignored.

Now BC Telephone is seeking

“So I dug my hands into another hike in revenue, resigned

to bring an extra million into its
coffers. Phone rates will increase
| from 30 to 85 cents, depending upon

There’s an old saying about no the type of service. F
Penny Wise |

blandly continues: “For 2000 wor|ness methods of the company is

An. investigation into the busi-
long overdue. Most glaring ex-
;ample of the manner in which BC

| Telephone fools the people is the
method of “milking” profits adopt-

ed by the parent drganization, An-
another one I just can’t remember.” |

glo-Canadian Telephone Company
of Montreal. BC Telephone has
‘contracts with Anglo, and pays ex-
;orbitant rates for goods and serv-
ices, thus reducing its own profit
figures on annual tsatements.

/ The company squawks long and
,loudly about its falling “rate of
profit” but keeps very quiet about
|last year’s jump in net profits. For
example:

In 1948 BC Telephone made a net
profit after tax of $794,070; capital
and surplus amounted to $10,82,-
| 298; and the rate Of, profit was 7.3
| percent.

| In 1950 the rate of profit drop-
ped to 6.2 percent; but net profit
| bounded up to $991,019 and cap-
| ital and surplus was $15,895,313.

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