Oliver Twisted Editor, Pacific Tribune, Sir: I am very interested in the criticism that _ appeared in the Pacific Tribune ef the new Arthur Rank production, Oliver Twist. Though I agree that the picture fans some of the flames of anti- Semitism, I feel that this is not the way to handle the criticism. Fagin in the picture is as true a reproduction of the original as any of the other characters. He fits exactly to my conception of him: in the book, and comparing the original flustration in the book he stands in the film just as Dickens created him. Dickens has always been recog- nized as the first writer to ex- pose the conditions and corrup- tion of his time, and by his writ- ing to have done a great deal to- wards. eradicating the evils he portrayed. The Beadle, the board of gover- nors at the work house, the under- Classified A charge of 50 cents for each” insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column, No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. Oldtime Dancing : To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Bivery Wednesday and Saturday Hastings, Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates ‘er socials, weddings, meetings CROATIAN EDUCATION HALL available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. Dance, Clinton Ha:'— 2605 East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall is available for rent, MAstings 3277. BUSINESS PERSONALS General Insurance—_ Anywhere in B.C. LAURIE NOWRY 706-16 E. Hastings St. TA, 3833 ASH BROS. CARTAGE 516 West Seventh Ave. General Cartage ‘A. 0242 FA. 0469 SALLY BOWES— INCOME TAX PROBLEMS. Room 20, 9 East Hastings: MA. 9965. For Sale— 8 x ‘10 cocoa mat (Indian rug). Call TA. 2030. Swedish-Finnish Workers Club at 7.30 p.m. in Clinton Hall. What’s Doing?— _ Hallowe’en Social at John Goss Studio, 641 Granville St., Satur- day, Qctober 30, 8.30 p.m. Novel- ties, Floor Show, Dancing, freshments, everyone welcome. Auspices West End Club. -Ad- mission 50 cents. Refreshment Social— — To those convivial spirits in the organization who like to let down their hair, dance, sing, and what have you’ in company with their comrades, this message is ad- dressed. The Bill Bennett Club is sponsoring a Refreshment Social at the home of Lavon Tooth, 342 East 175th St., North Vancouver, Saturday, October 30. Only 25 minutes from city bus terminal. Re-* “Editor, Pacific Tribune, ‘hat taker’s, wife, Bill Sykes, the Art- ful Dodger all ruthless caricatures of their orig- and Fagin are inal counterparts and of all of them Fagin is one of the most humane. At least he treats his boys as his equals, teaches them _his own slippery game but takes the trouble to see that they are fed and gives them something to laugh at by his own ridiculous pantomime. Fagin’s philosophy would be: “In a world where everyone cheats, the only way to live is by cheating.” This he does without .the slightest pretense at all. And surely it is a far lesser sin to swindle and be honest about it than to do it under the cloak of respectability. Historically, it is correct to re- present Fagin this way, and at the same time to point out the reasons for doing sc. The Jewish people at that time were the vic- tims of sharp .discrimination. Society had created its own prob- lem child in Fagin and his kind. No, réligious chauvinism and false morals are to, blame, not Arthur Rank. The, critics of this film, to carry their criticism to its logical conclusion, should attack Dickens himself. But to be hon- est, they should analyse the rea- son for Fagin’s existence along with, the other characters. Criti- cism is due to the society that created these people, not to the makers of one of the very best films that has come from the Rank Studios. ANNE BROOKS. Vancouver, B.C. Move on, Mulligan Editor, Pacific: Tribune, Sir: May I suggest to Police Chief Mulligan, if he is not too busy playing “cops and robbers,” that there are plenty of things to keep his force busy without pestering a labor newspaper sales- man. On Saturday, October 16, 1948, I: was standing talking to a friend when up came PC “No. 342 and ordered me to move on. “Keep off my beat!” he said. Then a few evenings before I was waiting for my wife at Carrall Street station when up came PC No. 360, who- told me, “Skeddadle’—and I did! A few days before that the same PC 360 ordered me Away from Hastings Street to Cordova Street, so away I went. There I met another PC. I. was wearing. two sandwich boards, one for Ef- fie Jones, and one for “Old Age Pensioner.” This same officer said to me, “I wish I could take you up a back lane (why a _ back lane?) and take those trappings off you --- get onto Main Street.” meets last Friday of every month. | The same diligence applied to unsolved murders and bank rob- beries would, I am sure, be far more satisfying to citizens. A. F. WILBEE, SR. Vancouver, B.C. Not fit for pigs Sir: A capacity public meeting was held in Capitol Hill) Commun- ity Hall, Thursday, October 14, sponsored by the Capitol Hill Club of the Labor-Progressive Party. The generally voiced opin- ion of those attending was that the 100 percent fare increase on the Hastings East extension street erouS ways the BCER has in dealing with the people. This line, approximately one and a half miles in length, for the past 35 years, has charged an unjust fare of five cents; now an cutrageous ten-cent fare is charg- ed. In comparison, Fraser and Joyce are all longer lines than Hastings Street East and Exten- sion street car lines put together with far better service. These Extension cars are the most out-dated in North America, unsanitary, unheated, crates a farmer wouldn’t think of driving his pigs in, as one woman de- scribed them; The claim of the BCER that it has lost $85,000 in the past six months is a downright falsehood, when. one considers that the popu- lation in this area has almost doubled, with Relisys the same service given. This meeting elected a delega- tion to go to Burnaby Municipal Council to present the following resolutions. & 1. Demanding that: Burnaby Municipal Council implement the mandate from the people author- izing municipal ownership of our transportation system. 2. Demanding that Burnaby Municipal Council give an ac- count of the agreement between itself and the BCER in allowing Extension fare increases, 3. Demanding the Burnaby Mu- nicipal Council use its influence on the PUC in making provisions for reopening of a public hearing regarding fare structure and the power lines at Boundary Road. J. SAPACH, Secretary. Lochdale P.O., B.C. ¢ Seeing red Fiditor, Pacific Tribune, Sir: The news pages of the daily papers these days are about as crazy as some of the comic strips. I’m sure the publishers of the Vaneouver Sun, who proclaim their devotion to “tolerance and ‘freedom of thought,” must be suf- fering from hallucinations, for in one issue alone: I counted the word “Reds” 300 times. In an- other issue (Thursday, October 14, page 16) I came across this illuminating item: REDS SET NEW BOUNDARY PARIS, Oct. 14—(Reuters)—A farmer at Navilly, near Macon in southeastern France, has grown a potato weighing more than four pounds, No doubt the man was a Com- munist and was resolutely refus- ing to grow potatoes larger than | four pounds as part of a secret plot by the French Communists to sabotage the Marshall plan. The first thing we know, the paper will be getting its headlines jumbled up with its name and coming out as the Vancouver Red Sun. But I doubt if the editors sleep very well at night thinking up their scare headlines. ' BERT PADGHAM. Vancouver, B.C. ear line was another of the gen- EAST END TAXI UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 24-Hour Service Vancouver Fully Insured 613 East Hastings, New Soviet films From accounts meticulously roted in the diaries ° kept by ._ Nazi officials—SS leaders, members of the Gestapo, army officers—- Soviet film producers have brought the heroic story of the European anti-fascist liberation moyements to the screen. The picture, ' Diary of a Nazi, from which the scene above is taken, will be shown at the State Theater here this coming week, opening with a midnight preview Sunday. The second picture, The City That Stopped Hitler, is a fitting antidote to. the Nazi-style anti- Soviet propaganda now smothering press, radio and screen, for it re-creates the tense days when the defenders of Stalingrad were turning the tide of. victory for the Allies. GUIDE TO GOOD READING Guide to the USSR ITS AMAZING THESE can do. : DAYS what a bit of science Let’s consider the ‘iron curtain’ for instance. A swell gadget to keep the light of your eyes. But in these days of mechanical gadgets you only have to press the proper button and presto, the curtain rolls back so that all but the blind can see for themselves. William Mandel’s A Guide to the Soviet Union (Dial) is just the book to have if you want a fact a second to throw at those who know nothing about the lies and propaganda they repeat. This comprehensive work, providing all the essential facts and cover- ing the entire field of Soviet do- mestic progress and international relations, is probably the most solid book to be written since the Webbs’ huge volume—Soviet Science, a New Civilization. Mandel’s book even excels the Webbs’ monumental work in one way at least. For it is written in a terse simple style which makes it a pleasure to wade through serious reading at almost the speed of a detective novel. No review can possibly cover the range of information on the Soviet Union contained in its 500 pages—it is a book that must be read to be appreciated and then. retained on the bookshelf as an invaluable reference work. Originally priced much higher, it is now available at the People’s Co-op Bookstore in Vancouver, for only $2.50—M.M. PUBLIC LECTURE “A Marxist Looks at Culture” ‘By JOHN GOSS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 - 8 p.m. JOHN GOSS STUDIO, 641 GRANVILLE STREET Auspices: City Educational Committee LPP ARTKINO presents. SOVIET FILMS - State Theatre SUNDAY MIDNITE, 31 Cctober for One Week English titles, Russian dialogue PLUS SECOND FEATURE “THE CITY THAT STOPPED HITLER” ; The epic of heroic Stalingrad — All English narration ALWAYS MEET AT Excellent Acoustics THE PENDER AUDITORIUM ‘Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need _ DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS “Triple Mike P.A. System — Wired for Broadcasting 339 West Pender Street STANTON & MUNRO BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES Vancouver Office 501 Holden Building 16 East Hasting Street MArine 5746 Nanaimo Office Room 2, Palace Building, Skinner Street 1780 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 29, 1948—PAGE 10