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Fivendly . shots! at Kaesong

North Korean and American cameramen take friendly “shots”

at each other during truce talks in Kaesong.

Peoples of the world

will be glad when the real shooting stops and these are the only
kind of “shots” swapped by anybody, anywhere.

Gov't surplus 11 times
Abbot's budget guess

OTTAWA

When: Finance Minister Abbott brought down his budget on
April 10 this year, he told Canadians, as he added heavier tax bur-
dens to pay cheques via direct surtax, sales and excise taxes, that he
would just scrape through the year with a surplus of $20,000,000.

In the first three months of the fiscal year beginning April 10,

Cash welcome
so are subs

There was a young man of Tahiti
Who thoughi he’d* subscribe to
the PT

He said, “Is it better
To write them a letie
Oy have them send some one to
mee! me2”’

The young man who dropped
into the Pacific Tribune office
wasn’t from Tahiti; he was a
logger from the Queen Charlotte
Islands. “The paper is doing a

‘good job, so here’s a little dona-
‘tion to help out,” he said, and

plunked down ‘$100. i

So much for good news. On
the other side’ of the lédger is
the faci that this week the num-
ber of new subs and renewals hit
a new low of only

‘Something must! be done, and
quickly. True, more press clubs
are now taking weekly bundles
of papers, which is a healthy
sign. But first of all we need
those precious subscriptions.
Everybody has at least one
friend who is not yet getting the
PT regularly. Sign him up! Let's
hit that modest target of 40 subs
per week. We can do it if only
our press clubs—all of them—

gel cracking on this most impor”

tant peace work,

Abbott’s ‘surplus was 11 times
that surplus—exactly $336,400,00.
It is expected to go even higher

as the income tax war surcharge ~

goes into effect from July 1.

Announcement of the huge
surplus is expected here to great-
ly increase demands that the
government use this $4,000,000 a
day surplus to pay subsidies on
foods agd other essential commo-
dities in order to bring down the
cost of living. ;

The surplus comes despite the
fact the government spent $109,-
100,000 more in the three months
of this fiscal year than last—
mostly on war preparations.

Direct taxes against incomes
took~ $255,800,00 during the
period, an increase of $79,400,000.
Despite the tremendous increase
in corporation profits, taxes on
big business did not yield as
much as on personal incomes, the
total being $230,700,000 in the
quarter, an increase of $88,100,000.
The new sales and excise taxes
of 15 and 25 percent put on by
Abbott yielded an increase of
$68,100,000. That includes the ex-
‘tra tax on cigarettes, refriger-
ators, radios, motor cars, etc.

Abbott forecast on April 10 that
he would take $870,000,000 from
the taxpayers in direct levies,. At

_ the present rate of payment, the

personal income tax figure will
be well over the billion-dollar
mark by the end of the year.

\ The question being whispered
in the corridors of government
buildings here is: ‘How can a
man be so wrong. so often and
still hold his job?” Last year

Abbott budgeted for a surplus ~

of $15,000,00, but by the end. of
the fiscal year had a surplus of
$203,000,000, 13 times the fore-
cast. This year, he is piling up
a surplus of tax money at the
rate of $4,000,000 a day, which,
if maintained, could yield a year-
end surplus of $1.4 billion — 73
times the forecast!

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Preparations for the Third World Festiva

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Youth delegates
arrive in Berlin

BERLIN

1 of Youth and Students for Peace which opens

here August 5 continue with sweeping enthusiasm throughout the world. Every day hundreds of young
delegates are arriving in Berlin by air and train.
Hundreds of United: States youth, who will not be able to join the broad American delegation

to Berlin, are planning to “‘be there
This set-up consists of sending,

messages of greeting and gifts
tagged with the name of the
sender, to specific youth and
groups of other countries who
will attend. For example a group
of young actors in New York
have contributed to buy a special
leather binder to hold scripts of
plays’ which will be presented to
a group of young Soviet actors.

A good-sized Canadian delega-
tion has already arrived.

The Vietnamese delegation to
the Festival will inclfide at least
20 young people from that coun-
try, among whom there will be
young, heroes of labor and heroes
from the front who have distin-
guished themSelves in recent

battles in North Vietnam. They °

are eagerly looking forward to
meeting the French delegation in
Berlin. i ‘

Young people of the _United
Shoe Works of Burg, in the Ger-
man Democratic jRepublic, are
hard at work preparing gifts for
the foreign delegations. They.
will present a complete set of
volley-ball equipment to the Is-
raeli youth, as a gesture of peace
and international understanding.
They are also making 30 pairs of
shoes for young delegates from
British Guinea.’

The Swiss. youth have collected
more than 500 pounds of choco-
late for the Korean people in
honor of the Festival. The Swiss
youth will send the chocolate to

anyway” through a unique scheme of “corresponding ,participation.

- Youth of the’World Meet in Berlin

Korea through the International
Red Cross and will present: the
Korean delegation with the re-
ceipt.: /

From Persia, the Students’ Or-
ganization of the Teheran Uni-
versity has sent its warmest
greetings to the International

Festival Committee, stating: “We
are coming -to the Festival of
Youth and Students to greet our
friends and to renew our prom-
ise to fight side by side with all

young people animated by love of
under the slogan of |

mankind,
‘Maintenance of Peace’.”

Worldpeace council calls
for new peti

tion efforts

HELSINKI

The Executive of the World Peace Council meeting in Helsinki July 21 acclaimed the initial

victory won by the spirit of negotiation over the spirit of force in Korea.

It is the will of the peoples

which has secured these talks, the statement said. Their vigilance and sustained effort is necessary to

ensure that the negotiations are fruitful and secure a peaceful settlement.

This could bring to an end

the sufferings of the Korean people who have bought their right to live’ so dearly, and would demonstrate

to the rest of! distressed human-
ity that a peaceful solution to the
conflicts tearing the world apart
can indeed be found. f

At the opening session of the
executive meeting, the chairman
of the World Peace Council, Pro-
fessor Frederic Joliot-Curie, de-
livered an important report on
the campaign for signatures to
the Berlin Appeal for a Five
Power Peace Pact.

“Tt is evident,” Professor Joliot-
Curie declared, “that the cam-
paign’ for such an appeal which
demands nothing less than the
conclusion of a Peace Pact be-
tween the five most responsible
powers—that is, for the ending

of the nightmare which is at pre-
sent haunting the great majority
of mankind—it is evident ‘that
the campaign for such a highly
important and far-reaching ap-
peal must become a very great
success.

“The great results we are ex-
pecting require that all peace
partisans give of their very best.

The number of signatures to the
appeal of the World Council
must be a concrete proof of the
greatness of this action. But in
order to make this campaign
the success we want, it is nec

sary to plunge deeply into the

_significance of the appeal which

* is its object. Only in this condi-

tion will the partisans of peace
succeed, through just and well-
founded arguments, in enlight-
ening and guiding on the real
way to peace all those who un-

CUT PE eo

Peace petitioners will
be on streets Saturday

Vancouver peace petitioners
will be out on street corners
again this Saturday, seeking
to boost the totfil of more
than 65,000 signatures to the
World Peace Pact petition al-
ready collected in B.C. f

On Saturday, August 11, ‘a
special canvass in memory of
the thousands who died at
Hiroshima just six years ago,
will be held in the city.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 3, 1951 — PAGE 12

_ gloomy and

til now have stood aside, thos®
on whose minds the adversary
has succeeded in impressing
sterilizing confu-
sion. :

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“J: am thinking,” Professor
Joliot-Curie continued, “of the
millions of honest people, who
are still far removed from US:
but without whom we cannot be

certain of being able to impose -
In this campaign, the

peace.
question is not—and this is the

exact meaning of the first para~ °

graph of the appeal—primarily
one of undertaking discussions 0
the opinions that different people

'may hold regarding the reasons

for the danger of world war. We
have to make it clear that, inde
pendently of these opinions, our

appeal corresponds to the will to
witness the spirit of negotiation
triumph over solutions by Vi" _

lence.” year:

(Editor’s note: The first para-
graph of the Peace Pact Appeal
reads: “To fulfill the hopes for
peace cherished by millions
throughout the world, regardles®
of their views as the the reaso?

for the danger of world war.--”)