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toward, the pieta'', ill my
1 nerd to
father'. last-dim books.
.c, , lor thoo, ;not cot them nut. and
!:l-I,• Oa m 1 , 11 I111 . wall. A 101 mother
w hole family to look!
• and on, i. I di, w the picture of a
i military otlrt, ,paulettes and all,
',', Ise's , ' our way. That Illiiile
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Doughboy and Jew.
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By JUDITH ISH.K1SHOR
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It 'ailc heeded the
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Ill, ..••, peel! -eat out to stout 1 or
all
del 1111 dial ()near Willie
a ware o f a
ottle.st tradition of Ameriva boo
aswe ll i n i ' d our neighloo load, to show nie what
hat I
is her youth" the fact r•ntains d
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hat slit. is young. As non*. a ch.% - Food-
that Env I hung around him
of life and sensibility that
crist
discovers
platitudes
have
an
den,
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amazing --a disconcerting waY of "lid"' Ill Ilw ' Idi g ht ""' t til '' "'". " I so faithfully that he gave me little
being true! America is young; and the ❑ tustic temperament.
1. ssons and ii I.a of good advice.
pinion
-You'll
fly'Iath".1A11,1 from him I found out about
nowhere is this more apparent than
are
grow-
please"
I'm
so
comfortable
in
these
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in tile field of art. But
,I. , h i „,k i At the agt. „f 12, I felt
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,„ g„ ,„ 0,1,,,,, M y „, 0 , her
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mg fast. \Vc him' al'''". 1 rt'al'hl'. 1 I don't setoff tin 111 ill the City, Of
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0 0111.110. I'I 0 II. but toy father wouldn't stop
t he stage
ourselt es. \Ye give a ready hear- Foy breeches and a khaki shirt 11111- 1110. An d iii)• older brother sent me
A
ing It foreiglarS ill the ilttellilit to log from th e war.
money from America. So I set out.
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find out what is missing. And while
i• my brother's contribu-
•ni, th
,,ley're
ey're just right for out II ,, , rir,
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said.
"Haw
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this slat' of open-mindedness has
. long did you t ions -.in stopped, and I found niy-
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ole America the golden
mart for a,", ii , t h ii „ ar r..
self III a strong city. without any
all ripe, developed art, it has eausell
"A year and a quarter. Three 31, ' , Y• Itut I teas accepted for the
her to turn a deaf ear and an nn
youngest
student
year
in
art
school
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the
TeXIIS and :1
seeing eve. upon the artistic young- months in lu theMachine l'un tilere alai that tout enough for me.
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Sters of America, whose seed falls
" Kith an inward thud- I wouldn't go back. A very
(wept
into cracks between the golden iiiIV-
out of the goodness of their
der, I recalled that On sectional of family,
A n paving-stones,
and
I
man-
man-
ing-shines.
heal
Is,
gore
sac
Shelter;
i ts high percentage of casualties ,
golden or grey, are hare of nourish the Nhiehine Gun Coi.ps is lightly aged to make a little money by
hood for green shoots.
car, yang bundles, and later on, giv-
known as "The Suiride Club."
,
,last, for some of the women
The wary young artist is he w
n th of the arinis• log
"At ie
d o day
pulls up his talent anil goes to
SATISFIES"
fore I ":" $I
"SERVICE
. st"d"t t"IiIh"
'Tat'
Paris w•hert. the soil i, fertile, the tire--*,, w front-line
fur
was very husky , for
toy t"""'"r''
ago.
order to ceast. tiring. And 1
without the
"In two and a half years I st ru t
the weeding-out process that
or.
said:
'oh,
captain.
I
don't
wanna
t.
hi.
can
„ terry. I
sure i re
"
His
laugh
as
he
through
the
live-year
course,
and
be shot totla).!
g wins :a
deal, if his that
artisticgift
1- told this was so jolly, so a rdent of 'let orned home. But there was noth-
most sensitive
and
plause.
life, that one felt glad the "supreme ing for im• there, and at the age of
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critical 14 rommunitivs, then ht. can
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sacrifice" had not been exacted ofI
rump- That was the beginning of another
= safely return to America. America
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TRADE IN
= will welcome him and be proud of ing his lilat.k hair, "that hour and life."
58.50 SET OF
YOUR OLD
= him.
••It is for et.e ryone " I said. "You
it half was the longest in my exit-
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'flint has been the experience of knee! I ducked, and ran along the , weien't quite atom
'. hear, were
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every
= lien Silbert -"lien Silbert de Chi- ground like it rabbit. And ev
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eago," as the French critics naively shell that burst I thought 'That
ler 1brotherr in
older
": joined
Y
dub him --so original, on expressive one'll get me!' liut 1 reached the •
and he 1 " brought
me to the
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of the strung youth of America front all right."
' non, of fit's. Emanuel Statute], a
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hart. they found his work, When -You must have been weleonie, , „.
„ who made it her
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a
plesuo
, to help out talented boys
,.
not to say drooled -art critic 3.1
from Russia. She paid for my lot-
L'Intransigeant gate it i his 'pill- tl, ill V ''''; 'i ti i itu t It i ' t lust
giit
iit e .!'"vh"- i , t ion at the At Institute of l'hicago,
ion that the art of Ben Silbert was ..
the: and I found a jolt polishing jewelry
a inieci‘ai, exampk, a ,i,.‘rinite proof , „..W . hat did you feel ;don't
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of the growing Mdividuality "t
ri wont hor ble. I hated it, just Hernia and acids I had to use in the
"It
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Anrit-an
art, Silbert knew thatevery'
ir
i, every' persi„, with a+
.: I 1 , ti ,e ,S Wade sores On my hands, so
the "(lidera I ,ahl, , tinet hates destrurtion,
But it 'that
I
I
his exhibit at ,t,h.
at the
lingers
got stiff and I
Guillaume.” wool° or a sticceSS. .-11111 rune up u „,1 (,,, ,,,,,body had t it t ,„ , ,-ouldn't hold brushes or crayons.
tost
when Albert Einstein, that n .
So I went through with it.
And
it
I
tired
myself
and
found another
versatile 34 scientists, wanted to hardened tai„ I l earne d a i nt o
Iol. iii the eoniniereial art 'muse of
come to his exhibit in Berlin. and
Unconsciously, :31r. Silbert had xi, ,„ , B o th. I was to sweep the
was prevemted from doing „",
s . "" , 1 Y so'w'n me the philosophy unduly' - fl,,..1 and rim et rands for S3 a
leg his art and invounting for its Ot el,! 'tilt it pleased III, The work
by" ' ever' '" I 'Il-Iffl. w ""'" ' w
apologized in a charming letter to fruitfulness' and humanity.
i ll, , w ii -1,3 hard
and I hail its of en-
•
the young artist-Silbert knew that brief, it is this: 'l'o he an artist, I met for the art school at night.
he had "arrived" and that i t one cannot he less than ii man. One i iii•iii:i,Ri,, one ,4 the engravers n u-
couldn't hurt hint to come hia,n,e) cannot hold one's self shove the licol that I was always poking
l o t
Again he wasllot mistaken. ills
around the reproduction plant, and
first exhibit in America, held four
"That reminds me of Ibivid one day he showed me the etching
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year. ago at the Steelier galleries, it
o e young violinist,
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ii
I fillieeSS. I 1111;811 to practice It HMI
aroused a chorus of approval in the
. "Ile as
w sent to play for took suer of my work hi the night
New York dailies that upholds and the soldiers. But he couldn't play school. Soon there was arose-hays'
amplifies the judgment of Paris. told
, i t . y him
them
\,itirt. withitut knowing what exhibit of tiny etchings at the
,
t
Ile
The next month saw Mr. sillier, f
going through.
school; three of them welt• taken
back in Chicago to display his work couldn't fiddle while they were fur the Chicago Society of Artists
' tin' critics of hi. "h"""' fighting. And as he was in a n out- of which I became ii member. All
ber
m
town,"
lyin g section , hi, Wan killed several this time I kept up my friendship
When I climbed the hill ern Staten lays after the armistice." Mr. Si'b with Mrs. Mandel, who was as gen-
Island, to the i lignilied, dilapidated hert nodded sympathetically.
erous with her sympathy and en-
,
"Well. ther
all over now, I couragement as she would have
tea r's
mansion in which fir. Silbert had
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elected to live, I met him on the reminded him. "T1.11 me about your been with linanvial help, if I had
terrace. Ile stepped down impul- life. Where were you born?" allowed it. But I couldn't. As soon
"In Gorki, in the Dnieper section. as I was earning $11 a week, 1
sively to the grass.
"Let's sit here," he pleaded. "It's near Nlogiley. It is '-he shrugged wouldn't let her pay my tuition fees
now
talk." ne.lirlifolly -"no, one entitle'. now
any longer. I had to stand alone.
easier to
"But where—" I began. Then say 'is' it was it little town of I enjoyed my feeling of indepoid-
about
5,000
people,
old-fashioned
it moult that I even sent
decided to abandon my notebook in
the Pale. My money to Russia to my parents and
faxor of a minimum of constraint. Jews living within and
I was the
I,' that poor family that helped me
It was a sacrifice worth while, for father wit,: a tailor,
he talk, expressively and freely. Youngest of three; but in spite of
Well, I \corked myself up in
In appearance, he is a hearty, his poverty, ht. tried to do his hest In - hies-a.
that I went to
Ve y, .'' r , 'kill's, and of the Dine I
squarely-built young assn. refresh- for me. Ile saw
ingly fret. from eccentricities or af- Choler at four, and kept up my in ,vas 2: I toe, earning $150 a week
fectations. At first sight, there is ligious education through the Ge- , i ,., , ❑ , commend:II artist. Than I
oks a very
nothing to be:lank the artist. But m:wall classes. though 1 w
' ''" ".' "tan't it- - Ili" 1 "1, 1"I'd• I
;ti first artistic Iran ;,,
had a ‘iSit at , 4. the golden paying-
:tam oil,. notices the short, intent poor stutlet.
r
as
i
van
11.111(.1111er
I
glir,
glances of he brown eyes, gland's ings, :is fa
"No, it wouldn't work. There was
4,. lilts of money, but nothing that I
d.
wanted to do. The firm was BM,
ireful to me. Three times I broke
away to go back to tip own art, and
I ach time they drew' tilt' back. Al •
, last, I made it eh ar that I meant
to leell'i . . Then they presented nit.
with a cheek for li:t1111. I boggled.
and they protested that this hall
nothing to do with the future, b ut
was moldy a Inaills for my services
in the past. Ve-e-ry nice of them!"
he sighed appreciatively.
"So I came on to New York and
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• registered at the National Arad-
' emy of Design here, And then, al•
most at Once, came the war.
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"When it was all over, and we
' were demobilized, I came back here
with a spirit absolutely deadened.
I seemed to care nothing for every-
thing 1 used to love. Fortunately,
that only lasted for a few months.
My purpose returned, and berame
yet store daring. I went to study minute they might draw. away and
leave the little house exposed, with-
in Paris.
TREASURER
"That seas the hardest tight of out its silver-bark curtail!.
my life," he went on slowly. "You
One ran see why Margaret
Can't imagine what that is--what Breuning of the New York Esc-
fierce competition what ripping-up nine Post says: "The work lot NO.
of one's pretenses! But for three Silbert speaks for itself and for
years I stuck it out. And just when him, It is a tielightful show' that
the struggle was hardest, my friend greets one. Both paintings and
Kaplan—the one who had always aquarelles have remarkable dual-
advised me to get back to my own ity." And why the New York Tillie.
work---eanie to join me in l'aris. has noticed that must of his work is
This was the turning point. We "painted with an enthusiasm that
.traveled for a while in Germany; inspires enthusiasm!"
arid there I painted nuts( of the
work I showed at my exhibit in the
Flechtheim Galleries, Berlin, and
Reform
later at nip Paris exhibit. And Si
I clinic through."
Some Jews of Reform Jewish
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las -
"Your painting has none of the identification have been determined
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spirit,"
I
said.
to
their present ioyalty tip spiritu-
I
"I'm glad y ou ' ve noticed that. ality inforeed by knowledge and
No, We hoer so much of poverty, conviction. If all devotees of that
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so much of grief and depression! phase of JeWinll life wen. thus dis-
Why not look for the natural hap- posed they would be a power fur
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its playfulness and grace. They do people and in the world. What they
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lift up the spirit, and give one com- represent Is sorely needed in both
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it of Sib
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There are other Jews, many of
That is the spiritual rout
heel's art, just as a liiVe Of form, them, whose Jewi,hness is a reform
It and it frank thought suave orig- born of ignorance and convenience.
inality are its technical root. One They were once orthodox either di- I
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at his pictures, and they are reedy or in lineage, but their orth 3,
to
too., such 11
odoxy was such
naive, winning, full of deli•ate
tinient. Ile loves to paint children. caricature of the owl thing, that
-
Here is a little German girl. with they ignorantly regarded them-
her insouciant nose and ethereal selves
selves as appropriately planed .
"god child" expression.There is ■ der the banner of reform. Htligi-
tiny, pig-tailed blontle, marching, ously they really need reforro in
innocent as a nursery rhyme, the sense of re-t'ormation.
Reform Judaism is not compati-
against a background of baby-blue
ducks. He t aeries the same aspect ble with ignorance and convenience
of playfulness into his ,till-lifer. ■ any more than orthodox!, is. :t•-
•
His oil paintings, however, often they (Ali subsist without knowledge
strike a deeper note, as in the par- and a willingness to make sacrifice
trait of his friend, Maxim Kaplan, I wish that glib professors e.f re
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but it is surprising with what in- form and gat•Itius potestant a of
he treats that sober DW- lirth011414y would tear this in mind
- Rev. Dr. Alexander Lyons.
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One
of
his
landscapes is a whirl
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angle of ar. 1,-shaped farmhouse.
Tile Wainscoting, Ceilings, Floors, Fire-
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hate
found sea-sickness v ery
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places, Sinks and Porches.
Verde Day or Night.
suppress.] flutter, to though they disappointing. At the very moment
hard Iseen playing there were a when you are the sickest and want
don't.--
Rey.
Dr.
Alex-
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HAMILTON AVE., at LOUISE.
nine ry-go.routul afire the eye of to die you
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artist surprised them. The same
i ,f arrested !notion and inner
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o laughter is shown on another can- , The house of learning is more
v., a row of slender birches with :sacred than the house of prayer.
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leaves,
drawn
up
in
front
of
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