PLAN TALK .

World) in this country, during
the time he was director of the
National Conservatory in New
York. A great controversy raged
in musical circles following the
1 f 1
premiere of the work. The storm
are the meditations of
Two major works by Antonin had to do with the manner and
Mr. Segal at this New Year SymphonyNo. 5 in E Minor, will the degree to which the com-
was influenced by char-
suosed
to ive his mind Jew. be performed by the NBC Sym- position
I P
American music, that
acteristic
philosophical phony Orchestra, under the ba-
to
deep,
ishly
the music of the Indian and
thoughts on human existence and ton of Dr. Frank Black, on the is,
Negro. Time and reconsidered
on what it's all about and what
judgment of musicians, however,
can be done about improving it General
Motors
Symphony
of
the
Air, Sunday, Sept. 17 (NBS, 5 long ago vindicated the compos-
in the year to come.
p. m., EWT).
er, who explained his music
As he gets rushed along by the to In Carnival Overture, Dvorak "sought not to embody a literal
years, Mr. Segal feels he knows
version of native American mus-
less
and been
less what
all about.
brings to
life
the spirits
wild gypsy
He has
more it's
dreadfully
rhythms
and
gay
of his ic, but rather to interpret Amer-
confused every yoar during the native Bohemia. A carnival it is, ican music which most closely
glowing with the most vivid or- approached the folk song."
past 10.
chestral colors and moving swift-
Charles F. Kettering, vice
When he was younger he ly through wayward, wild and president of General Motors and
thought he knew all the answers.
bac- directing head of its Research
At this season he used to write syncopated
rhythms to a
chanalian climax-
Laboratories, will speak during
dissertations on the bright mean-
Dvorak wrote Symphony No.
ing of life to which the eyes of 5 in E Minor (from the New the intermission period.

of bread he ate, lest it fatten him Frank Black to Conduct
more . . . the time he was a
gleaming young, father wheeling All-Dvorak Program
the kids in the baby carriage.
Dvorak, Carnival Overture and

S UCH

By AL SEGAL

Just Rambling

awfully frightening, the was in Taft's time, or let's see
I T'S
way the years run away. It now, McKinley was president

see ms only yesterday that your then

111r. Segal was writing his piece
for last New Year and here's
another New Year twitching 111r.
Segal's ear and reminding him:
"Yes, Segal, another year', gone
and you aren't any younger, you
know."
For that reason Mr. Segal
doe sn't like New Years or birth-
days or any of the other anni-
versaries that admonish him how
short time is. When he was
young he used to look forward
to these memorial occasions be-
cause they brought good things
to eat and because the prospect
of having more years to his cred-
it looked good to a young snip.
In his youth the time between
one year and another always was
long; a year was 12 long months
and contained 365 long days.
But what's a year now. A year
seems scarcely more than the
time between Tuesday and Wed-
nesday.
Mr. Segal now counts time
ponderously by decades . . . The
30's .. the 20's . . . the 1910's.
Or he counts it by presidential
administrations. Yes, that was
the Hoover year, or, sure, thal

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Thu Legal Chronicle

Friday, September 15, 1944

Thus he tries to keep up his
respect for time. Otherwise time
would have no more spacious
grandeur than the grass that
withereth in the night. Thus he
kids his soul and comforts it
with a feeling that the speed of
time may not be so horrible after
((II.
Even then he has his doubts.
He looks at 10 years. Well, in
the last 10 years his children
grew up and were married and
went their ways and brought
grandchildren, as at the beginning
of his domestic life. It had been
like a quick circle. It seems no
time at all . . . Like morning,
noon and now it was toward eve-
ning—all in a day.
So when your Mr. Segal comes
to a New Year he just rambles
nostalgically around and babbles
like an old man looking back
with regretful eyes at all the
Junes he has lost . . . the pretty
girls who have faded away .. .
the times when he could stay up
all night and feel fresh in the
morning the time he was a
slender young man who didn't
have to trouble over each kite

Cantor and Mrs. David Katzman

of

Cong. Bnai Moshe

extend to the rabbis, officers and members of
Congregation Bnai Moshe; to the Vaad Harabonim;
to the cantors and to all Israel, their best wishes
for a Happy, Prosperous New Year

man seemed to be opening wider
and wider. Soon man's eyes
would see the full dawn and his
divine nature would be fulfilled
and he would understand all the
precious values.
But now Mr. Segal is like a
man working on a crazy picture
puzzle in which it is so hard to
get the pieces together so that
he may see what the picture is
like. And, in accordance with
the New Year practice, he at-
tempts to figure out what his life
is all about and properly to in-
struct the readers on the mys-
tical matter, his fingers grope in
confusion among the shattered
pieces of human existence.
The human race has been a
terrible disappointment. It seems
to learn nothing and forget noth-
ing. The dreadful punishment it
has suffered seems to have taught
it nothing and it keeps on chew-
ing old falsehoods and warming
up the old hates that helped to
get it into trouble in the first
place.
Its heart remains eaten by old
suspicions and its mouth spews
ancient malices and its vision is
cock-eyed by reason of timeless
envies.

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Primrose Benevolent Society

EXTENDS TO ITS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS

BEST WISHES FOR

A Happy and Victorious New Year
•

The Federation of Lithuanian Jews

Extend Best Wishes to All Members and the

Entire Jewish Community for a

A Happy and Victorious New Year

Chenstochover Ra joner Verein

EXTEND GREETINGS TO FRIENDS
AND MEMBERS FOR

A Happy New Year

Mogilover Progressive Aid Society

Extends Best TVisIies to All Its Friends and Members

for a

Happy and Victorious New Year

EAST SIDE WOMEN'S LODGE
BNAI BRITH

EXTENDS BEST WISHES TO ITS MEMBERSHIP
FOR A HAPPY AND VICTORIOUS
NEW YEAR!

T CAN march loyally as one,
as in brotherhood, on errands
of death but it breaks into many
hateful parts at the mountainside
that would lead it to a better
way of life.
It seems to learn neither kind-
ness nor compassion from its
pain. Mr. Segal used to write
that the human race surely
would learn compassion from its
agony; it would see that blood
of the brethren who were slain
was all the same, that the pain
of one was the same pain as of
the other.
In New Year dissertations, as
he tried to understand what liv-
ing meant, he guessed that be-
ing compassionate was the main

So your Mr. Segal is in no
thing.
mood at all to be a philosopher
who looks at life and expounds
its meaning at this season. He'd
rather keep on rambling arouncl
pleasantly . . . The way his
grandchildren have come up since
last New Year . . . Ellen is al-
ready in her second year in the
nursery school and is drawing
pictures that really look like
what she means to draw .. Jan
is already asking his mother to
play Mozart pieces and he not
yet three . . . Paul, the young-
est, knows railroad cars and can
tell a caboose from a locomotive.
Yes, time runs along and Mr.
Segal himself found a gray hair
in his head only the other day.
That's what a year does to a
man but then he couldn't corn-
plain; his mirror told him that
he was still so young-looking.
Only his contemporaries look old;
it's always the other guy who is
an old man.
In the midst of these happy
digressions Mr. Segal stops short
to let a New YeYar prayer come
up out of his heart. Well, any-
way, he thinks, it has got to be
a better world, on account of
Ellen, Jan and Paul and all the
other kids. For their sake some-
thing better must come out of
all this . . . "0 Lord God, show
us Thy will and open the eyes
of men that they may discern it
--for the sake of these children."
You see, it seems that Mr.
Segal guesses there is some hope
in the human race, after all.

FDR

-

I hope Americans

will figure out for
themselves addi-
tional payroll sav-
ings.

ZEDAKAH CLUB

•

Wishes to Takc This Means of EX pressing Its

Best Wishes for a Very

HAPPY NEW YEAR

to All Its Members and Friends

•

The Officers and Directors

of the

NEUGARTEN MEDICAL AID

(formerly the Neugarten Sunshine Club

take this means of extending Best Wishes to all its

'members and to the entire JewishCommunity

a Happy, Prosperous and Victorious

New Year.

THE JEWISH WOMEN'S EUROPEAN
WELFARE ORGANIZATION

Takes this means of extending greetings on the

New Year to all its members, friends and contributors.

The cooperation given us aids many needy orphans

in European countries to which funds can still be sent,

and in Palestine, Cuba and United States.

•

MRS. REBECCA KATZIN, President.

The Officers and Members of the

Bnai David Ladies' Auxiliary

Extend Their Best Wishes for a Year of Happiness
to the Officers and Members, to the Congregation
at Large, and to the Entire Community.

MRS. Z. NEEDLE, President.
SAM ZACK, Secretary.

The Wish of the

RODIN CLUB

to Its Members and to the Entire Community
is for
•

A YEAR OF GOOD TIDINGS

MRS. PAUL WINKELMAN, President.

