6 Funceford Packs Forum Musician Favors Teen-Age Clubs “Juvenile delinquency is the result of economic causes. Delinquency grew out of the depression, and out of bad hous- ing conditions. Those who try to blame jazz or jitterbugsing for youngsters’ troubles are simply evading the issue. There - is no more immorality in jitterbugssing than there is in the old-fashioned waltz—and certain- ly less than in the cheek-to-cheek type of dancing in style after the last war.’ This is the opinion of Jimmie Lunceford, who brought his fam- ous i7-man band to Vancouver for a one-night stand at ithe Forum this week. “The. deciding factor is not what type of music young people hear, but where they hear it. I believe that the best type of clean, healthy entertainment can be provided by Teen-Age Clubs, where high school kids are al- lowed to dance the way they want to the music they want, but where careful Supervision is elose at hand,” he said. Certainly the man whose band ranks among the top half dozen as judged by experts today has a golden opportunity to “watch- the kids on their own grounds,” as Iuuneeford himself puts it. At ‘the Forum he was greeted by the citys most unrepressed and en- thusiastie audience, five-thousand strong, who crowded around the band stand and stood tirelessly throughout the four-hour pro- gram, greeting each fine solo -performance with an ovation and, eritically meeting the few weak spots in the program with stony People’s Bookstore silence. Not many of them had come to dance, although the champion jitterbugs, in zoot suits, watch chains, skirts and Sweaters that - made Lunceford’s brown busi- ness suit seem strangely conser- vative, performed in the two empty sections of the floor at either end. Lunceford music, the majority seemed to agree, was “strictly listening music.” _In the intermission, while mu- Sicians were resting up after the arrangement of Blues in the Night made famous by the band on reeordings, Lunceford told me a little about the type of music he plays. “Jazz can no longer be dis- missed lightly,’ he stated em- phatically. “As authentic folk music it has won for itself a place in the heart of America. AS a music medium with tremen- dous possibilities it is winning the respect of the most learned -men and women of the music world. “Jazz has a past. Its develop- ment follows the development of American history. It grew close to the times, close to the people. But jazz not only has a past, it has a future. And I’m predicting that that future will be a very in- teresting one!” he declared. by Sactalism and Lhe 9 f ‘dy, / HEWLETT JOHNSON DEAN OF CANTERBURY 25 Cents A. Scientific Socialist Series Pamphlet Published by Progress Books MArine 5836 NOW .AT 420 West Pender Street Vancouver, B.C. Chinese women students on their way to care for con- valescent soldiers in a hospital attached to their uni- versity. The campus was moved 1,000 miles into the in- terior of China where they could continue their studies despite the war. Browder Makes Amity Proposal NEW YORK.—At the convention last weekend which saw the U.S. Communist Party dissolved and the Communist Poli- tical Association established in its stead, and the full force of the U.S. left-wing movement thrown behind the reelection of President Roosevelt, Communist Leader Earl Browder offered a plan for close U.S.-British cooperation in the postwar period. “The main reason why the British cling so stubbornly to their obsolete colonial system is not to be founda in the sup- posed innate conservatism or incapacity. for change in the British character,’ he said. “Rather it must be seen in the fact that the British can see available no other instrument to avoid being overwhelmed by the gigantic forces of American capitalism. In a world of free markets as between nations, and bereft of their colonial monopoly, British capitalists cannot envisage successful com- petition with their American rivals. “This is an old fear of the British, but it has been multi- plied a hundredfold by the spec- tacular expansion of the Ameri- ean productive plant during the war. Unless this well-founded fear of British capital can in some way be allayed there is not the slightest prospect to dissolve the Anglo-American rivalry that Is impeding the war effort, that blocks a common _ strategy in Asia, that prevents the formula- tion of any concrete long-term policy common to both countries. “T venture to suggest,’ Browd- er continued, “that Britain and America must arrive at an agreed economic policy for the joint development of the world markets on a huge scale, ten times the size of prewar mar- kets, based upon the rehabili- tation of devastated lands and the industrialization of the un- developed countries of Africa, Asia, the Near East, latin America and Europe. “Since this requires free and independent peoples every- where, the colonial system must be dismantled as quickly as possible; but as the colonial sys- tem is Britain’s main reliance for a ‘place in the sun,’ Britain must receive compensation by being guaranteed a proportion- ate share in these markets, and the play of free competition must be limited by this agreement, which cannot be ‘subject to con- stant_ revision—by (the Ameri- can) himself.’ “Without such a Britain, as the economically weaker power, will under no circumstances surrender or re- lax her historical claims to colonial monopoly. And that would mean for America and for a large part of the world that the perspective for a vast increase of economic coopera- tion would vanish. Failure to arrive at some such agreement must eventually result in de- feating the hopes of Teheran.” Keynoting the party’s national convention, Browder said that President Roosevelt’s retirement now “would be a disaster for our guarantee “country. “Our enemies in the war would be encouraged to new efforts, our allies in the war would have deep misgivings, and our own country would be launched upon an unchartered sea of uncon- trolled factionalism,” he said. “That is why the demand for Roosevelt to succeed himself has Swept the Democratic Party so completely as to silence even most of the disloyal Democrats who have sabotaged the presi- dent's program. That is why the labor movement is almost unani- mously demanding Roosevelt as candidate. That is why ‘Republi- cans for Roosevelt’ clubs are springing up all over the eoun- try. 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