Almeria:1r 'apish Periodical Carter C111TON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO a/ PAGE THREE THE DETROIT • JEWISH CHRONICLE LETTERS OF PREMIER THREE BARS OF A SOLO DISCLOSE ROUMANIA'S STAND ON MINORITIES (Continued From Page 2.) Bratiano's Correspondence With Pres, LARGE SELECTION O Dining Room Suites 1 $375 to $650 in Genuine American Walnut are sure to please you. Prices will not be lower. In fact there are still indica- tions of advances. O O • O fiFIEDENBER WELFARE SOCIETY TO MAP OUT PROGRAM OF FUTURE ACTIVITIES FURNITURE HOUSE 913 - 17 Hastings 1 "A Store with a Conscience" 0=101=101=0==i0= 0=i0=0 Now Co afiov platilluity 8allan Woodward at Gratiot 00000 000000 knack of suddenly intruding upon the Wilson Describes Evasion of performance with a volunteer contri- Treaty Rights of Jews. bution of a few shrill notes, but Zar- fin, his teacher and seat-neighbor in II u c It a rest—Ex-Premier Bratiano the orchestra, savagely stepped upon his corns on these occasions and published one of his letters sent to sternly bade him be silent. "When President V1'ilson during the Peace I am time-expired and gone you can Conference. In this communication shrill your notes" Zarlin whispered Ire attempts to persuade President into his ear, "but until then shut upl" Wilson not to insist upon the para- And Chayim "shut tip" as bidden. graph guaranteeing minority rights. Only now and then Chayim, the un- In the flowery language in which he derstudy, would speak his secret heart usually expresses himself he prom- to Zarfin, his teacher: ises President \Vilson that the Jew- ''Our instrument is scarcely ever ish problem will eventually be solved. audible—never gets a proper chance— The solution, must not, however, be the orchestra might as well be with- forced upon Roumania. out it, for all you ever bear of ill" Meanwhile Bratiano delves some- But Zarfin was not sympathetic. ''A what into the history of the Jewish fat lot I care—one month more of problem. Ile says that after Rou- service and then goodbye 'waldhortir mania signed the Treaty of Berlin. The market-fairs of my home-town promising to give the Jews equal are already waiting for mel" You see, rights, she found a way how to evade Zartin was an earth-bound soul . . . this requirement of the compact. 'By Chayim rendered him lip-service in homage to his seniority, but in his busing front G•rinaily the railroad which that country held in Roumania heart lie despised hint . . . When, at last, the time-expired men for 3 much greater in- ice than the ac- went home, the regimental band was tual value, Roumania received the si- short five musicians. Four places were lent assent of the German government quickly filled with capable under- to her treachery. So spoke Bratiano, and he adds studies, but the new 'vraldhorn" was received into the band-fraternity with that if Roumania will now be forced to sign the paragraph guaranteeing a general shaking of heads. The sen- to ior musician openly jeered at him: minority rights, she will again at the 'Nu, Kugel, thou wilt parade as a so- proper time find a way of evading loist BOW! " he said, distributing the the obligation. For sufficitnt con- sheets of a new march to the mem- siderations Roumania will find a bers of the band, they snickered audi- Great Power to help her out of the bly, but Chayim did not resent this. difficulty. They made mock of his playing, but As far as the International Jewish 0 his existence, at least, was recognized Press Bureau has been able to estab- — by his colleagues, if not by the lish. President \Vilson did not reply bandmaster. The bandmaster was In the impudent cynical letter of this busy explaining to the drum some de- well-known anti-Semite. tail about the new march—he had neither eye nor car for Chayim. The tuning of the instrument s be- gan and the Ilerr Kapellmeister, grumbling and chiding, went front in- O strument to instrument assigning key notes: a "b" here, a "c" there. But '1'11,, Jewish \Vonian's N\'elfare Or- of Chayim he took no notice, and ganization of Detroit will hold an with a sharp pang, Chayim relapsed important meeting tdonday into his wonted nothingness. The .Npril 5, at the Beth David Synagogue, tuning of the instruments ceased and on \\*Miler street, between St. An- the march began. The outset was toine and Ileatibien streets. loud and tumultuous, all the instru The society composed of represen- nests Were playing. and Chayim gave tative Jewish women, meet regularly voice to his part now loudly, now in to study European conditions, partic- a dying whisper, just as the spirit ularly as they affect the Jewish wom- moved him: loudly, when he felt like en of rastern Europe. \\Ink pre- penetrating the tumult and reaching viously the meetings were devoted the unappreciative bandmaster's ear; principally to organization, it is timidly, when the consciousness over- planned at the forthcoming meeting whelmed hint that the orchestra had to map out a definite program of ac- :tally no need of bin and his instru- tivities that will result in mater,a, meat. In his bitterness of soul he aid for the Jewish W0111311 abroad. Among the speakers announced for thought: "I might just as well hold the niouthpiece to my lips without the Monday meeting are Rabbi A. E. uttering a single note, for all they Aishishkin and B. Goldstein, a well- known Jewish writer and editor. All would notice!" Toward the middle of the perform- Jewish women in the city who are in- ance there occurred a thing miracu - terested in the welfare of their sisters lous in its wild improbability: Chayim in European countries are urged to noticed on his score a "waldhorn attend the meeting. trio, and lie began to play the trio. And then, frozen stiff with astonish- ment, he noticed the tumult of sounds around him give way—the entire or was hushed—and he, Chayim Kugel, had to play a solo on the "wahlhorn," amid deadly stillness, with the eyes of au expectant world upon him! and Chayim, purple- faced, wild-eyed, transported with un- bearable pride and joy, blew jubilant- ly into his horn—not a sound but the thin, brazen, far-off sounding notes of the waldhorn—one bar—a second—a third—and then the crashing thunder of the orchestra sucked in his feeble piping, drowned the voice of his in- strument, and the march went on with its uproar. The color of his face changed from purple to white. His instrument fell out of his feeble grasp and to the floor. His antis fell to his side, and he, closed his eyes in the deadly ecstacy of n swoon. What of that? He had tasted life. His voice had hushed the voices of his mates—true, for three bars of a solo only—hilt he had been heard above the multitude. lie had silenced his scortiers, and, for a few seconds, im- pressed Ws personality upon a regi- ment of hearers. .And then, sinking hack into the maelstrom of furious, whirling sounds, lie became reab- sorbed, a nullity, a shadowy voice in the orchestra of life. They carried him front the platform in a faint. Gruff-voiced soldiers spoke of him with the tender concern of comrades. But he, Chayim Kugel, dd neither he ar their sympathetic utterance nor had lie any need of it—he had lteen a soloist, if for three moments oniy- he had lived. 00000000000 EASTER GOODIES Our Parisian candy maker, Thomas Misseas, has designed an unusual and truly novel as- sortment of Easter Candy Fantasies. 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