Varitas Letters / April 21, 1985

As one of the countless individuals who have waited for years for a telephone connection, I am outraged by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company’s decision to give In Touch Foundation (Veritas, Apr. 21) at least one trunk line so that Mrs. Valerie Rhoda and her kind can provide lovelorn Filipinos with advice of doubtful cultural relevance.

I have nothing against projects which harness the idle tongues of embassy wives and those Filipino matrons who feel that acceptance into the embassy women’s circle is a sign of having made it socially. But I see no reason why Mrs. Rhoda and her coterie of callers won’t use their personal phones when indulging in this presumably socially-relevant project.

Mrs. Rhoda and her volunteers should volunteer their own telephones. They shouldn’t thoughtlessly deprive the few individuals at the top of the PLDT list of telephones for which they have waited for years.

JORDAN 0. DY