VANCOUVER’S MUSIC

AL MONOPOLY BROKEN

tural history of Vancouver,

months,

_ €and that even if they decided on
& truncated and emasculated*con-
cert series under the guidance of
& motley array of dubious con-
ductors, there was nothing the

has been exposed and laughed
out of court.

'The Buckerfield Society is now
On its way out. There is no cure
for pernicious anemia, and even
the information that one of its
conductors had married a grand-
niece of Lord Kitchener, and that
another was a favorite guest-
_ artist in Havana, will not pro-
long its feeble life.
: i Ss
THE CONCERTS so far an-
nounced by the B.C. Philharmonic
Society promise to be the most
- exciting and musically satisfying
events that have ever‘taken place
in our city.

The appointment of Jacques
Singer as the director of the new
‘Society is gratifying but of sec-
ondary importance. It is the re-
cognition that only a permanent
conductor can weld a body of
“heterogeneous players intoéa co-
chesive musical instrument that
‘matters, and the promise it con-
tains that we shall not again
have to submit to the frustrated
antics of a bevy of travelling bag-
men. -

Not the least benefit that will
rue fromr the appearance on
the scene of the B.C. Philharmonic
Society is the possibility it pre-
‘Sents for full-time employment

_ The fumbling and evasions of
the officers of the Buckerfield
y Society during recent
their preposterous as-
sumption that they were the ar-
biters of our orchestral destiny,

‘musical public could do about it, -

of the orchestral players. With
adequate public support for the
new venture it may well be that
during 1951452 the musicians of
Vancouver will be able for the
first time to earn a decent living.

During this period of war in-
flation and rising living costs the
cultural life of Canada will suf-
fer grievously, along with educa_
tion, health, old-age pensions and
all those social and cultural ser-
vices which help to make life
bearable.

BRITISH CRITIC REDRAWS SIR HENRY MORGAN

Here is one chance for
the people to act in defiance of

New philharmonic society offers
lively challenge to old s

ANNOUNCEMENT of the for-
mation of the B.C. Philharmonic
Society under the musical direc-
_ tion of Jacques Singer is an event
of primary importance in the cul-

ymphony

our American overlords and their
local train bearers, who would pre-
fer guns not only to butter but to
all the other pleasant amenities
of life. :

By supporting the B.C. Philhar-
monic Society we shall not only
make a gesture which will be
richly rewarding in itself, but one
that may go far to ensure the
continued existence of our city
as a cultural metropolis worthy
of comparison with the major
musical centers of the continent.
—J.G,

GUIDE TO GOOD READING
You can’t jail ideas,
declares Eugene Dennis

THIS SEPTEMBER marks the thirty-first, anniversary
of the Communist Party of the United States. Now. at this
most critical moment in the drama-packed life of that party
its imprisoned general secretary, Eugene Dennis, provides
through his ‘book, Ideas They
Cannot Jail (International Pub-
lishers) an exposition of the truth
that although Marxism has been
damned incessantly and banned

Many people, to this day, have
no idea why Eugene Dennis ig in
jail, what the Un-American Act-
ivities Committee actually is, the
nature of the two counts in the
indictment of the Communist

repeatedly for over one hundred
years, it has not been refuted:

«

Buccaneers placed in new light

as guerillas of the high seas

WRITING IN the London Daily
Worker to note his disappoint-
ment in a new biography of Sir
Henry Morgan, Philip . Lindsay’s
The Great Buccaneer, T. A. Jack-
son, noted British author and cri-
tic, places the buccaneers in a new
historical perspective.

Jackson writes:

.

We all know that the buccane-
ers were tough with hearts as
hard as their lives; that they had
no morals, drank rum and did not
always wash their hands before
meals. But to seize every pretext,
to dwell in unsavory detail upon
every incident real or imaginary
of voracity, cruelty, drunkenness
and debauchery, is neither real-
ism nor art, nor even good sense.

Yet Sir Henry Morgan is im-
portant because he was not only
outstanding among buccaneers -
accepted by them as an admiral
- but as a governor of Jamaica’

and commander of the land and
Sea forces of that island. (He was
knighted by Charles II on his ap-
Pointment. to these offices.) 2

Philip Lindsay doesn’t attempt
to analyse the historic and econ-
omic background. It suits his plan
better to treat Morgan’s promo-
tion as merely a departmental
wangle in which the doubloons
looted from Panama (out of which
Morgan is alleged to have cheated
his associates) were the sole deter-
minants,

His failure to grasp the issues,
arises from his inability to per-
ceive the distinction between a
buccaneer and a plain Pirate.

Be *
HISTORICALLY, the distinc-
tion begins with a claim of the
Spanish monarchy not merely to
the possession of “all the Ameri-
cas” but to an absolute monopo-

ly-control of all the trade to and
from their American possessions.

*

By this time Spain, as the lead-
ing Catholic power in Europe, was

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involved in counter-revolutionary
war against Protestantism in Ger-
many, the Low countries, and
later England. beer

The raids led by Drake Haw-
kins, Raleigh and the rest into
the “Spanish Main” were pirati-
cal in form. But, in essence, as
in the eyes of those who took a’
hand in them, they were a speciés
of revolutionary partisan warfare
against the “common enemy of
mankind.” —

Eventually the “religious” war
burned itself out, and a formal
peace was established by Spain
and Britain, France and Holland.
But by then raiding the Spanish
Main had got to be a sort of vest-
ed interest — especially with the
“buccaneers.” ‘

These had been, originally, men
— crews of shipwrecked vesseis,
prisoners escaped from the Span-
iards, etc.— who hunted the wild
cattle in Haiti and San Domingo.

The flesh they dried in the sun, ”
or in wood-smoke, to make “bou-
‘can"|—\from which their name
derives. Naturally they were at
constant feud with the Spaniards.
A formal. peace meant little to
them.

This was especially the case
with the French Huguenots, who
had a good case for refusing to
recognise any peace negptiated
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The English and Dutch found no
difficulty in sharing their point
of view.

Thus the buccaneers were ori-
ginally the sea guerillas who
maintained revolutionary war
against Spain, after peace had
been signed in Europe.

* * *

The “pirates” who came later
—and grew out of the progres-
sive degeneration of the buccan-
eers — did not confine themselves
to attacks on Spanish ships and
possessions. They preyed at large
upon any ship in sight.

The transition was made when
in 1701, the governments of all
States having possessions in the
West ' Indies‘’— Spain, England,
France, Holland and Denmark —
agreed to use their power to put
down the evil, as it had become,
of “privateering.”

In a short time the “pirates”
were driven from the Spanish
Main to refuge in Madagascar.

Morgan held a privateer’s com-
mission from the governor of
Jamaica, and (apart from plun-
dering Spaniards and bilking his
associates) had sound ideas about
developing Jamaica’s sugar trade.

Philip Lindsay is too set upon
‘making Morgan indistinguishable
from Blackbeard to bother about
a little matter like sugar — even
though this is what made Jamaica

so important for the British Em-
ire,

ON ae SCREEN
Honest picture
of Indian life

LET’S BEGIN With a conden- —
sed quotation: “My bible tells me
all men are brothers, It Says noth-
ing about Pigmentation.”

Surprisingly Broken Arrow lives
up to this.

An Indian chief (Jeff Chandler)
is depicted ag having integrity,
humanity and mentality equal to
- if not above - those of the white
hero (James Stewart). And most
of his tribe are shown as men of
honour and dignity.

But not all the Indians are hon-
ourable-no more are all the Ameri-
cans-and it is through treachery
that the hero’s Indian girl-wife
(exquisitely portrayed by Debra
Paget, without artifice) is killed.

This is not the only scene which _
is deeply moving. The simple pag-
eantry of the Indian wedding, par-
ticularly, is beautifully done, See
this and take the family,

Dennis’ Ideas They Cannot

party’s national committee and
the manner in which Judge Med-
ina conducted the trial. This mass
ignorance is necessary to the
frame-up’s Success; to break
through this fog is to guarantee
the frame-up’s smashing. Dennis’
book provides the reader with an
instrument to penetrate that fog.

Readers of this book will under-
stand that which must be under.
stood today, namely, as Dennis
made clear in 1946, “anti-Com-
munim, if it is not combatted and
overcome in time, can ravage and
destroy the most powerful of
modern nations.” They will grasp
the political and economical reali.
ties linking the effort to illegalize
the Communist party with the
“still more hideous crime” as Den-
Nis pointed out in August, 1948, of
plotting to subject “the Ameri-
can people to the force and vio-
lence of fascist dictatorship, and
the peoples of the world to the
force and violence of atomic war-
fare.”

They will see that Dennis warn--
ed in 1948, “The attempt to brand
as treason the patriotic struggle
for peace threatens the suppres-
Sion of all movements in defence
of the people’s living standards
and democratic rights,” and they
will find explained the indissoluble
unity between the crusade for
peace and all other movements
seeking a decent way of life,

The reader will understand that
a fascism-aspiring ruling class will
be stopped from launching an
“atomic war by the people’s re.
sistance, only by the peoples im-
posing peace. To the fascist-
mind Hiroshima is glory—Hiro-
shima where at 8:15 am., August
6, 1945 there were 76,000 houses
and 312,000 men, women and
children, while a second later, 8,400
houses remained and but 136,000
maimed and burned human beings
existed,

The nature of fascism itself and
its emergence as a simultaneous
reflection of a divided labor move-
ment and the weakness and in-
Stability of capitalism is made
clear by Dennis so that the reader
will understand “the crying need
of the hour”—anti-fascist unity.

This’ volume, then, answers a
“crying need of the hour” for it
deals clearly, simply and directly,
from the Communist viewpoint,
with the central isues of today. In
Shelley’s words, Dennis

“... stands amid the silent dun-
geon depths :
More free and fearless than the
trembling judge,
Who, clothea in venal power,
strove
To bind the impassive spirit . ’.’

_He has shown that neither le-
galistic illusions nor fatalistic and
pessimistic attitudes will do since
both result in passivity. Organiz-
ed, united militant mass anti-fas-
cist activity—this is the theme of
Jail,
here at the

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