‘Our way of life’

In a desperate effort to hold together her family of five child-

ren, Mrs. Marie Kerwin, of Chicago, a widow, kas offered to “marry any man who will give us a good home.” Mrs. Kerwin,

shown with two of her unable to meet a rent boost.

children,

was evicted when she was.

FILMS AND PEOPLE

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‘Oliver Twist’ scandalous film

PROTESTS AGAINST the ae Arthur Rank movie Oliver > Twist have soared since Albert Deutsch reported from London that it “contains what is probably the worst caricature of a Jew ever to be depicted in an English speaking movie.” Deutsch urged action to prevent the exhibition of the Eng- lish picture for these reasons:

The Dickensian character Fa- gin is a “life-size reflection of the classic caricature of the Jew with searcely an element lacking.” He is portrayed in “all his sinister ugliness — with a _ tremendous hooknose that dominates his fa-

cial features, flanked by greedy’

fish-eyes; the alien with scraggly beard, wearing a flat, broad- rimmed black hat and filthy, flap- ping Kaftan.”

On top of that Fagin speaks with a “thick gutteral accent, He lisps, leers, wheedles and prances. He seduces others to do his dirty work. He corrupts everything and everyone he touches.”

Such a creature, Deutsch said,

“can contribute seriously to the sediment of group hatred and hostility already ever-abundant in our jittery world, a sediment that could be stirred up dangerously te voleanic eruption at a critical moment.”

WELL, IT WON’T BE long now till the civic elections roll around. It seems such a short time since Effie Jones’ fighting campaign for low fares almost put her in the city hall, and if we all get out and work, our city can have its

first woman and most progressive mayor for decades next year.

Over a recent radio broadcast in which the announcer was in- terviewing women on their views as to whether a woman should be mayor, one woman gave her opinion that it would be an ex- cellent idea, but doubted if the men would “have enough sense to vote for a woman”. Well, I. think that out of the 19,000-odd who voted for Effie Jones in the last election the majority were men, and they voted for her not because of her sex but because of what she was fighting for.

The way the voters’ list is now compiled disfranchises thousands of women because they lack the required’ property qualifications or cannot show proof of joint ten- ancy. Not only that, but some of- ficials at the city hall make it so difficult to get on the list that many give up in disgust.

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WHEN WE WENT down to reg- ister we were told, “Only one ten- ant can register.” But we had made sure from the first month that both: our names were includ- €d on rent receipts. So, after the necessary cards had been filled Out, signed and sworn to (or at) We were advised. that the Court of Revision might want’ to ques- tion us further, j

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The following week we received |

separate notices that we would have to appear before the Court of Revision to provide further in- formation on either the day we

Teceived this notice or the follow- ing day between the hours of 10

a&m.; and noon or 2 p.m. and 4 P.m.—otherwise our applications

Would be rejected. As it happened, —

I was down with flu, but I stag-

8ered off, the next day, determin- €d to assert my domestic right,

€ven if the entire city council Came down with the flu.

The Court of Revision took one look at the assorted infants who Were escorting us, and after hast- ily glancing through our rent re- Ceipts while I prevented little John from toppling out of the window

- 8nd the two girls from making

Sticky advances (those all day Suckers!) on the Non-Partisans,

they informed us that we would

AHEM

Biggest candy bar

THE WORLD'S biggest candy bar. went on display at San Francisco recently for the kids to look at—none of ’em got so much at a bite, and with today’s prices cutting down their candy rations, that was reaily adding insult to injury. However, they could console themselves ‘ with the fact that it’s going to kids in Europe who presumably would not be asked to state their pol- itics before getting a piece.

The confection, 12 feet long, 834 feet wide, 2 feet high and weighing 4,800 pounds, was dis- played for a week before being turned over to a relief organ- ization for distribution to Euro- pean orphans this Christmas.

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both be eligible to vote this De- cember. q

I asked why such short notice.

was given applicants to attend the hearings and was informed that 95 percent of those register- ing never show up at, the Court of Revision and therefore never get on the voters’ list. It!s evident that it is made as irksome and in- convenient as possible for tenants to get on the voters’ list, and the slightest excuse suffices for re- jecting applications. * * * : THE LATEST of big, bad land-

lord stories is the one concerning ‘the Central Mortgage and Hous- ing Corporation.

They have threatened to send maintenance crews to remove baby pens from the lawns. surrounding West Fourth and Broadway apartment housing projects. Tenants have properly pointed out that fhey are living on the busiest thoroughfares in Kitsi- Jano and would be the first to be accused of negligence if they al- towed the tiny tots to roam at

will. ‘ ‘ :

Evidently the Corporation is afraid the pens might devaluate the property and might be mis- used. In other words, property is valued higher than life.

I can only say that I wouldn't want to be a member of any crew that attempted to take those

pens away.—B.G.

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THIS IS THE vicious film Rank wants to circulate in Canada and the U.S. That it was made at all suggests the influence on British movie-makers of the* Labor govy- ernment’s reactionary policy to-

ward the Jews of Palestine. (Bev-~ :

in, as you know is a notorious anti-Semite). How quickly they have forgotten the gas chambers of Buchenwald and Auschwitz and Belsen and the slaughter of six million Jews.

The New York Board of Rabbis’

understood that, when they wired Eric Johnston, president of the “Motion Picture Producers’ Asso- ciation of America, urging him to use his executive powens to pro- hibit the British film from cast- ing its “terrible anti-Semitic sha- dows in American movie-houses.”

Even the conservative Anti- Defamation League of B'Nai B’Rith charged after seeing a preview of the picture that it cari- catured the Jew as a “bawdy, un- derworld character” and would Gamage the whole fight for jus- tice for the Jewish people. At the same time the League made it clear that it had no intention of picketing the film if it was re- leased. This will have to be* done by groups that take anti-Semitism more seriously than the Anti- Defamation League. ei * * *

IN CANADA, wheré the film has already opened, Rabbi Abra- ham L. Feinburg, spokesman for the Jewish Community Council of Toronto, said Oliver Twist’s por- trayal of Fagin looks and sounds

like a product of Nazi Germany

with the Streicher trade-mark.”

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The mounting protests have temporarily stalled opening of the picture. The latest is that the pic- ture may be “watered down” in

some manner before hitting Am-.

erican screens, perhaps with an explanatory preface or re-editing

or re-shooting certain sequences. .

Oliver Twist cost Rank $1,600,000

CHILD CARE

Fear of the dark:

He needs the revenue from Ame- rican theatres to enable the film | to Show a profit, the reports say.

But those who have seen it in- sist that the only way to make Oliver Twist acceptable to most Canadians and Americans is to eliminate the anti-Semitism. — DAVID PLATT.

A ‘READER WRITES: “My child of three and a half years was perfectly content to sleep in the dark entil he overheard adults discussing another child who sleeps with

a night light. my mind, whether he is really frightened or merely making de- mands.” «

There are several possibilities in this situation. Perhaps ‘he never had any fear of the dark until he found out another child has such fears. Using his own baby logic, it may occur to him that if Jimmy is frightened, there is something to fear. There is also the possibility that he has always been uneasy in the dark, but did net appreciate the solu- tion to his problem until it was presented. Then, too, he may simply be fascinated by the novel- ty of the idea:

Since you are not certain, and since there is no harm in a dim light in his room, it seems to me

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Shall we give in to him?

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it would be wiser not to take the chance in further frightening him.

Night fears in the pre-school child are very real, Parents are always astounded at the vivid incidents these tiny people can conjure up. A child, however, isn’t always certain that they are imaginary, and often confuses the real and the unreal. At night the shapes and shadows can become particularly menac- — ing

A frightened or worried child reeds reassuring, not arguménts and pep talks. If the child finds — comfort in a small light, or the hall light left on, it’s a very small inconvenience. —VERA MORRIS. _

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This air force pilot and her sisters perform reconnaissance ani communications missions.

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