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August 20, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Writes to Parents

Prison Stockade for Axis Troops

Paratrooper Sgt. Marvin Chas.
Greenbaum, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph D. Greenbaum of 3741
Cortland Ave., who was in actual

U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo

SGT. M. C. GREENBAUM

Captured Italian prisoners of war in Sicily rounded up prepara-
tory to their transfer to prison ships, which will carry them to per-
manent prisoner-of-war camps. In Sick alone about 75,000 Italian
and German prisoners have now been captured. And 110,000 are
presumed to be among it4ssing, killed or wounded. Our fighters,
backed by your War Bonds, will bring victory. Keep our men con-
stantly supplied for the tough fight ahead.
U. S. Treasury department

combat battle with the U. S.
Army invading force in Sicily,
wrote his parents the following
letter from Sicily:
"July 24, 1943.
Sat. Morning.
"Dear Mom, Pop, Jerry and
Seymour:
"Am feeling. fine and am
• •
perfect health after two weeks
fighting in Sicily. I sure will AMERICAN CONDUCTORS
:
lish, Koussevitzky Russian anal
have some exciting stories to
A great deal of cant is w
tell when I get home.
Monteux French (although all of
"We flew from Africa to Sicily ten and spoken on the subject of them are American citizens) is
largely irrelevant from a musical
after dark. As we approached music, because it is abstract
the island of Siciy, German involved with emotions and le and viewpoint. When you hear an or-
planes attacked us and our flight itself to loose thinking. So /Ids chestra conducted by Toscanini
you conscious of "Italian"
suffered many casualties, but my times it is necessary to st
plane made it okay even though some simple and obvious facts I m ate
e e s - t conducting or of good conduct-
there were many Jerry bullets they get lost in the muddle of
What is this "American tradi-
going through it.
What
sloppy thought and talk.
tion" that Simon talks about?
"I was number one man to
One hears loud wails over
leave the plane. As I was only alleged scarcity of native c the Will an American form of con-
300 feet up I came down awful ductors on podiums of Americ on- ducting flower by itself if all
fast and landed in an orchard; orchestras. These loud cries all foreign conductors are removed?
just missed an almond tree by generally motivated by either are What is an "American-trained"
inches.
conductor? Does it matter that
or both—a dislike of things f
h e learns his baton technique
"I cannot write what happened eign or a laudable, but m
after we landed as it would dis- guided, desire to improve t is- from someone born here, or does
he it not matter more that he learns
close military information, but status of American music.
from someone who can teach him
it was plenty hot for awhile.
I am not concerned at the m
• "Right now we are chasing ment with the xenophobes in m o- what to do?
u-
If an "American tra d ition"
the Italians and Germans from sic; their influence is vicious a
one position to another.
must be combatted. I ant co ml of conducting arises, it will not
"The Italians do not want to cerned with those honestly inte 0- be because so•called foreigners
fight very much and many thou- ested in raising the standards r- are discouraged, but because the
sands are surrendering, but the American conductors, but w of intermingling of all the styles
h
Jerries put up a good stiff fight. approach the solution from t o brought here from abroad creates
"Yesterday was the first time wrong direction and thus end he something new on American soil.
I was able to take off my clothes with some mistaken ideas abo up Let's look at this business a
and wash up a bit.
a solution .
ut little more clearly. It is not Cl,
" The island is beautiful and
origin, but the individual that
4. Henry Simon, music critic
everything under the sun grows he New York newspaper P of counts. A talented musician is
here. I have to close now but will by horn I respect for his fort M, talented, no matter where he
write again when I get the rl ghtness and level-headed thin h- came from. The attempt to cre-
chance in another two or three n g about music, has fallen in k- ate a distinction between "native"
th is latter category in a recen CO and "foreign" traditions of con-
weeks, so (10 not worry.
"Love to all,
olumn in which he took issu t ducting is essentially meaning-
"Marvin."
w ith someone who had written e less. Could Simon, or anybody,
le tter to him. Said Simon:
a listen to an orchestra led by an
" . . . each of these men (for anonymous conductor and tell me
eign-born conductors) . . bring *- where the conductor was born,
he re a foreign tradition base s or even whether he is an Ameri-
Jr. Hadassah To Hold
on a foreign training and . . d can or foreigner?
Theater Party Aug. 25 an
Music does not operate like
ything like an American tradi •
ti on will never be developed be - physics. One does not make good
The Detroit Unit of Junior fo re more American-born an - American conductors by creating
Hadassah announces its first pub- tr
conductors have the op I vacuums. If every foreign-born
lie function of the season: a thea- po ained
- conductor in this country were
rtunity to conduct."
ter party on Wednesday, Aug.
banished today, the result would
I
think
that
Simon's
views
are
25, at the Shubert-Lafayette a reaction against the occasiona be not to develop American con-
Theater presenting Constance to
ductors, but on the contrary to
Bennett in "Without Love". sp ndency—not at all as wide destroy the fine examples that
Main floor tickets are being fa read as some may think—to alone can encourage and teach
sold at box office prices of $1.65. of vor foreign conductors because American conductors. You simply
the glamor of their European
Proceeds from the sale of these rep utations.
And like most reac- cannot enrich by destroying.
tickets go to the many Pal- tio
Let's keep in mind the one
Simon's goes too far to the
estinian projects of Junior Ha- oth ns,
er extreme.
essential fact that is so childishly
dassah, and the public is urged
simple as to be frequently for-
to obtain tickets for this play obv What is lost sight. of is the gotten: good music is good music;
ious—but
not
obvious
enough
in advance from the following: —f
talent is talent.
Miss Marion Apple, Northlawn twe act that the difference be-
en
schools
of
conducting
is
3026; Miss Alyse Geer, Tyler ver
5-4020; Miss Essie Kaplan, Town- bet y slight, but the difference
send 7-8711; Miss Blanche Kaf- bad ween a good conductor and a
BAY CITY NOTES
tan, Townsend 8-3171. is I one is huge. That Toscanini
talian by birth, Rodzinski Po-
A/C S amuel Rotberg has been
MICHIGAN RESORTS
graduated as an aerial gunner
from Fort Meyers, Fla., and has
been transferred to Sqd. 12, Flt.
FOR A DELIGHTFUL VACATION
57, Selman Field, Monroe, La.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Rotberg of 219 North
Sherman St.

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Pfc. Jay J. Kentz has been
transferred from Colorado State
College to the 420th Night Fight-
er Sqd., Kissimee, Fla. He is thci
son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Kentz of 237 North Van Buren.

Miss Ruth Hellner, who was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
B. Harrison at their Killarney
Beach cottage, has returned to
her home in Detroit, after spend-
ing a week here.

Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Hom-
burger left on Sunday for Frank-
fort, Mich., to spend a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Eliot !merman
are spending a week at Charle-
voix, Mich.

Preparations for Opening of American Jewish
I Conference Completed; Program Announced

NEW YORK (WNS) — The
terest entirely to post-war prob-
headquarters of the American lems and will disregard the im-
Jewish Conference this week an- mediate rescue program is shown
nounced that the Conference will to be completely unjustified, as
open in the auditorium of the a result of the proposed appoint-
ment of a special committee, con-
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York sisting of from 35 to 50 members,
City on Sunday afternoon, Aug. which will consider all problems
29 and will conclude on Thurs- related to rendering immediate
day, Sept. 2. The principal speak- help and rescue to the European
ers at the opening session will Jews," the announcement said.
be Henry Monsky and Dr. Ste-
The executive has decided to ex-
phen S. Wise.
tend to the accredited represen-
At the opening session, a rec- tatives of Canadian, Central and
ommendation will be made for South American Jewry an invi-
the election of a General Com- tation to attend the Conference
mittee of 50 to 55 members to as guests.
serve as a committee on com-
mittees. rules, procedure and co-
ordination throughout the session.
Further recommendations will in- JNF of America Cables
dude election of a nraesidium of
,
500000
fo Palestine
14 members, of which 10 are to
be named by the various groups NEW
YORK
— The
at the Conference on the basis sum of $500,000 (WNS)
was cabled
by
of 1 member in the praesidium
for every 50 delegates, and 4 the Jewish National Fund of

members at large.
America to Palestine for new
In order to assure that
committees which are to all the land acquisition, Dr. Israel Gold-
be elect- stein, president of the Jewish Na-

ed for the consideration of the t .
and of America, an-
various issues of the Conference
shall adequately represent the nounced today. This represents
membership of the Conference, a one of the largest single remit-
system of proportionate represen- tances made in recent years. A
tation will be recommended. Dele- total of $3,451,006.74 has been re-
by the Fund since October
gates will be given an oppor- mitted
1, 1942.
tunity to designate their affilia-
In announcing the remittance,
tions with any of the existing
groups or with groups that may Dr. Goldstein stated that there
be formed or to state that "des- has been an increase of over 40%
in the income from the tradition-
ignation is reserved."
al sources. It was also announced
"The fear expressed in some
sections of the press that th that the Jewish National Fund
,00 00 0 from
American Jewish Conference will has raied over $ 10,
its traditional fun d rsin
ai
g pro-
devote its deliberations and in- gram.

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