As We See ae a might be a very good idea if, at the end of their daily screeds on _ the vagaries of “our best of all possible adopt that captivating windup of the _Yadio ‘thrillers, where they inform the listeners that “all characters in this _ Play are purely fictitious, and have no resemblance to persons living or dead.” That would certainly apply to about _ Ninety percent or more of the guff that fills the pages of our “free press.” ke, for instance, the periodical blurbs issued by the big departmental stores _ ©n how to “make life pleasant for Mother.” With Sonia Hudson at the bat for the Hudson’s Bay, it goes Something like this: “However, thanks _ to modern inventions, Mother doesn’t ‘HAVE (emphasis Sonia’s) to spend all Summer working around the house. There are literally hundreds of new ‘Products on the market, ranging from automatic washers to “no-cook” pud- dings, ‘that are designed to cut her _ Blve ‘her more leisure time.” ae let us set aside the disturbing _ thought that we ‘have helped to kill _ Off some 600,000 mothers and children during the ipast two years in Korea _ 4nd have a look at these new gadgets that make life “easier” for Mother at home, Gas and electric ranges, equipped With an “absentee cooking” arrange _ Ment so that Mother doesn’t even have . to bother hanging around the stove, at the HBC from $250 up. With “other ‘having to substitute beans for Potatoes and sawdust-filled sausages for Meat, a mere $250 and up will take Tt away ‘from it all. And in Korea, Sawdust-filled sausage, to say nothing ©f the fancy stove with tthe fancy ntee cooking” timer devices. ae To give Mother a real holiday ‘this Summer, according to the HBC mother- « Suen fridge at’ least. These sell at Tound $280, but if Mother prefers a tn ser one 'to pack in a week’s cooking is ; advance (and thus be able 'to laugh “at the hot weather we haven’t got) € 11 cubic foot models come at about _ 979. Should Mother be ai really ener- pee woman who wants a lot of “ab- “€ntee cooking” done ahead of sched? : a can have a nice big fridge up It would seem that out of considera- ; 0" for Mother, we have diverted a of essential war material to provide €r with an up-to-date stove and fridge a Make her life easy—plus of course © 800dly supply of bombing planes to sf her, depending upon locale. These itter, of course, are not listed in nia’s HBC make-life-easier-for-Moth- ? formula. : : eu the range and fridge can be added i oe new “Sunbeam” radiant toaster, y uch sells at only $39.95. “All you be is drop in the bread” and the toaster 0@s the rest. | in India( during which we of the West- ; World ‘told the Indian people we a “of “aaa supply them with a little little matter'of cannon fodder), show- that some fifty mililon mothers were tant, Vegetation because they had no read. Obviously the new “Sunbeam” HR ter at only $39.95 (just why the Wo. pared off that last nickle is be- aaa us) would ‘be quite superfluous ~~ Such mothers. woe tother “answer to a prayer for the ™Man whose family likes fried foods” : —by ian McEwen Worlds,” ‘the commercial press were to | _ Working hours to the minimum, and - eve. Indonesia and elsewhere, mil- ‘Ons of mothers don’t even have the | _ Saving devices, she should have one — _, A recent survey of famine conditions — D € wherewithal to make bread, . ‘Povided they cooperated with us on Ompelled to feed thetr children offal. is the “Fryrite,”?.a new-fangled fryer with thermostatic controls that goes for a mere $37.50. Here again is some- thing. of,a social poser; while the moth- ers of Korea fry. with Yankee napalm bombs, scores of thousands of mothers in ‘Canada are also in an economic quandary. With Ottawa pursuing a foot-in-mouth (policy, designed by Wash- ington to fry everyone who refuses to _pay homage to Wall Street, Canadian mothers are finding the problem of what to fry much more difficult than | what to fry it in. There is no end to the mechanical doodads Sonia drags out of her HBC emporium to make life “easy” for Mother. New style washing machines that do everything except reach out and ‘take your shirt off for laundering —at “only $439.50”; new ironers that makes the job “almost a pleasur Hi ps -almost, but not quite, and very moder- ately priced. . Gone are the days of darning socks — ‘that ‘beautiful picture of Mother stitching away of an evening, keeping the household on an even keel mean- time. We live in a fast age. ‘A yard of “Bondex” hot-iron tape, and presto, the toe and heel is encased in a nice . rubbery, smelly substance of synthetic. fibre and gasoline. If it takes the skin off your heel, just remember it is de- signed to make “life easy” for Mother, and big profits for the chemical trust. We can readily agree with Sonia that every mother ... and we ‘say every mother, should have all ‘these labor and life-saving devices, and many “more. But in this dog-eat-dog profit- gouging system, in which the HBC stands out as one of its foremost pion- eers in Canada, scores, of thousands of mothers in our own country are at their wits end daily, ‘trying to make a fifty-cent dollar meet the family needs. Social welfare researches in Canada . point up the realization all too clearly, ‘that all these modern labor-saving in- ventions to make life easier in the - home, remain far outside the reach of the great majority of Canadian work- ‘ing class mothers who can only read these commercial ‘press sales blurbs ‘beamed upon “giving Mother a ‘holi- day” with a mixture of cynicism and contempt. This thing we call “Abbott's austeri- ty,” which puts fifty cents of our tax dollar into war, is the prime reason why so many of our mothers, aside” from being unable to buy an “absentee cooking” set are rapidly becoming un- able to buy the barest necessities to ‘preserve normal health standards. The “free enterprisers” seeking to cash in ‘on every sacred ‘human émotion, want to “save” Mother (at a profit to them- selves) with an “absentee cooking” pot, “minus the chicken. And, in the case — of other’ mothers who are sceptical of — our formula for Mother’s “happiness,” | with napalm bambs, high explosives, and germ warfare—also at a. fat profit to themselves. - : ‘The bulk of us Canadians, our moth-— ers included, will only find real happi- ness when we can build that kind of people’s unity which will put the “free enterprisers” and their political hacks into a political pressure cooker and turn on the ‘heat. Then, and then ‘only, will Mother be able to have a holiday, without reference to HBC bargain basement blurbs! | ease, “Methinks the Lady doth protest too much.” : - ging for those interested in hiding the rial Dy Slander . TS St. Laurent government has stated that it does not intend to “prosecute” Dr. James G. Endicott for his expose of the germ warfare horrors perpetrated against the péoples of Korea and China by the Yankee war gangsters and their dollar-subsidised satellites. To do so, it states, would be to “make a martyr” out of Dr, Endicott. ; 3 Moreover, and according ‘to the same politicians and their press, the Com- munists are supposed to be just itching for such “martyrdom.” Therefore, we'll — fool them. : forte Such official magnanimity is literally overwhelming. It is also smug, hypo- critical balderdash—doubletalk of the lowest order from the highest sources in the land. It fools no one, Communist or non-Communist, capable of seeing through the ‘thin veneer of ruling class pretense—of the excuses of imperialist warmongers, masquerading as “democrats” and harbingers of “peace.” _ . For tthe past two years the daily press has maligned, smeared and slandered Dr. Endicott with a technique that would make the late Dr. Goebbels blush with envy. On ‘his visit to People’s China the daily papers have sunk to a new and unimaginable low in the art of smear and distortion. Justice Minister Garson and External ‘Affairs Minister Pearson have both added their voices to this chorus ~ of intimidation, threats, smear and slander, publicly through the medium of a — ee? press, and in ‘the House of Commons behind a shield of parliamentary immunity. , Now ‘they are not going to “prosecute” Dr. Endicott because that would “make him a martyr,” but instead they “try” him in the daily papers through a barrage ‘of slander and invective. As the Bard of ‘Avon might have said in this _ These statesmen and their press have a valid reason for not “prosecuting” — Dr. Endicott in a Canadian court of law where the principles of democratic pro- infamy—and responsibility—of germ cedure and the laws of evidence still prevail. Tt would be highly embarras- : : : ae warfare in Korea to have the facts set Labor should act ts ; forth by Dr, Endicott established by - {With indeeert “haste: the > Liherdl nimpeac ‘witnesses! | ape ster eee elt pasate te peasetars oe Te me, Social Credit MP’s, has ratified the could hardly be. depended upon to : tadne in. a verdict wnbieh would hol he 5. re ee ee eee more damming to the accusers than to. ithe accused. Hence no “martyrs,” gentlemen. We haven't quite lived down the hanging of Lount and Matthews in 1838, nor the verdict that vindicated the Rev. A. E. Smith and presented Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford “Iron Heel” Bennett as ‘the arch-crim- — inal in the eyes of the (Canadian people “in 1934! Thus, instead of carrying out a- full scale inivestigation of his charges against Yankee war atrocities in Korea as proposed by Dr. Endicott, let us give the daily press the green light in slandering and maligning a '‘Can- adian citizen. In that, at least, they are adepts, and it is so much less em- barrassing than having the matter dragged into court—because under a democracy, capitalist courts are still ‘something of a liability to imperialist . ‘warmongers. ; The reason therefore of not wanting to “make a martyr” out of Dr. James | 'G. Endicott, is the fact that during the process, the verdict would not absolve, ' but on the contrary, incriminate the warmongers in ‘tthe foulest crime of our day—that ‘of resorting to germ and - bacteriological warfare against human- ity, a crime outlawed by all. civilized states and nations. , me ‘the demand for four-power negotia- Pacific man army officered by former Hitler generals. 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