- A merica ffewisk Pedalled Carter t 5689 CUPTON ARMOR - CINCINNATI 10, OHIO PAGE NINE plEpErnorrIt_; ww±(iiRoxicL6 :1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 13 Ir) ., : Pen Silbert De Chicago _. . , 51 _______ . -- Artist, ilear', 3 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 ,, ,,• hr,,,,,ht rho' Doughboy and Jew. -- - By JUDITH ISH.K1SHOR -- It 'ailc heeded the '1111 , PE- N BIGGER & BETTER BUILT 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 I" • • ■ .1-4.04I, !oat over noun - I „„„ t ,,,i to 1„.. 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, 000 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 N1 ,1 in tile field of art. But ,I. , h i „,k i At the agt. „f 12, I felt ••., ,„ g„ ,„ 0,1,,,,, M y „, 0 , her ii .„,i mg fast. \Vc him' al'''". 1 rt'al'hl'. 1 I don't setoff tin 111 ill the City, Of 1" . 1 10 Ill 1 of lack et i ,intidenet. in 1. 111 .. “ 1 . 01.11, 1 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. "mod find out what is missing. And while i• my brother's contribu- •ni, th ,,ley're ey're just right for out II ,, , rir, VACUUM CLEANER , I said. "Haw 1,,,,,,.. this slat' of open-mindedness has . long did you t ions -.in stopped, and I found niy- Po ,,,.. • r tLTS Till Cat1LT . 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 - the TeXIIS and :1 seeing eve. upon the artistic young- months in lu theMachine l'un tilere alai that tout enough for me. . 1100r 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 011 1110110 critical 14 rommunitivs, then ht. can A 010r11 1 11. sacrifice" had not been exacted ofI rump- That was the beginning of another = safely return to America. America I I Ne111I0001, " (11.1 1 ! " 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- ATTACHMENTS 'flint has been the experience of knee! I ducked, and ran along the , weien't quite atom '. hear, were CLEANER NO EXTRA CHARGE every = lien Silbert -"lien Silbert de Chi- ground like it rabbit. And ev LAFAYETTE BUILDING 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 Phone Cadillac 0321 of the strung youth of America front all right." ' non, of fit's. Emanuel Statute], a i . iiii h y „., iittii hart. they found his work, When -You must have been weleonie, , „. „ who made it her = Nlitut•ice Itolial, the t•e , spected-• , I itiorinur ol. . 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 30' Higher Vacuum I at Stars, Roebuck's. 13ut the alo- . of the growing Mdividuality "t ri wont hor ble. I hated it, just Hernia and acids I had to use in the "It ,„t „, 1, i„. 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 OP 4 St i e : ti, th year. ago at the Steelier galleries, it o e young violinist, 0Co 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 1521 BROADWAY 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 2630 ERSKINE STREET • registered at the National Arad- ' emy of Design here, And then, al• most at Once, came the war. Melrose 2587 "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 00,101116,10111111 las - "Your painting has none of the identification have been determined I 11 ' Goias 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 Glendale 8335 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 504 PENOBSCOT BUILDING Mui .1115 :ell alM ON'S!. piness of life. for its simple beauty, tremendous good mining their own 4612 WOODWARD AVENUE GENERAL JOB PRINTING its playfulness and grace. They do people and in the world. What they Cadillac 0317 if lift up the spirit, and give one com- represent Is sorely needed in both CADILLAC 4692 fort for ninny cares." directions. 5 2 4 RANDOLPH STREET Branch. 1667 E•a1 Grand Boulevard it of Sib ' 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 - 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 - 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. I One of his landscapes is a whirl - I I BERGIDIEF1. ER, Pr. p 'f washing and elothes lines, in the DISAPPONTING angle of ar. 1,-shaped farmhouse. Tile Wainscoting, Ceilings, Floors, Fire- = The toe in the center. the ulethes- 1= 7 I hate found sea-sickness v ery =- - props, the sheets, hate a gaiety. a 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- 2719 ST. AUBIN AVE., Near GRATIOT HAMILTON AVE., at LOUISE. nine ry-go.routul afire the eye of to die you 467 W. FORT 16375 Lyons. artist surprised them. The same i ,f arrested !notion and inner Phone Melrose 4013 Iliehlarl P21.1, Phone Randoloh 6617 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. . = yellow leaves, drawn up in front of I (Sank. 71a.) Residence, Melrose 6947-R Arlington 3770 !Id-roofed cottage. One could , .===-.- . I know where the shoe pinches s teerth t moment ago they were — — • .1h_ doing a stilt-dance-that at any me. 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