Friday, Mey 9, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Marc Chagall,
Modernist

Strictly Confidential

Senator Bilbo Repents
of His Anti-Semitism?

By DAVID D. SPIGLER

A

So Says a Report on His Plans
to End Opposition in Capitol

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
IS IT TRUE that Senator Bilbo has prepared a statement "repenting"
his anti-Semitism and is seeking to make a deal to end opposition
to his resuming his seat on Capitol Hill? ..
Dr. Henry Doubilet, one of the top surgeons in the U.S. and one
who takes an intelligent interest in communal affairs, is also an in-
ventor of surgical instruments. Notwithstanding his French name,
Henry, is one of our people . . .
esting to remember that it was
Sy Kenan, majordomo of the Weizmann who brought Silver
American Jewish Conference, is back to Zionist leadershilt . . .
giving his full time to the politi-
Dr. Albert Einstein (the one
cal work of who knows something about phys-
ZOA. The AJC ics) is quietly preparing a scien-
will find it hard tific treatise that will make plen-
to replace him. ty of noise in the applause of his
Maurice Sam- colleagues—a fellow up on his
uel's "The Web theory of relativity . .
of Lucifer" is
The other (lay Pierre van
holding its own Passel) %vaS sworn in as an
on the best- American citizen ... Judge Riv-
seller list . . . kin, who happened to be pass-
Rev. Ben ing on his application, said in
Richardson
'Richardson has court: "This country honors It-
P. J. Baron
finished a self by adding you to its citizen-
tome dealing with the subject of a ry." And so it does .. .
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Negro looking at Jewish history.
Dr. Albert Einstein, a violinist OUR RACISTS
who made a name for himself in THIS ISN'T A NICE STORY.
We tell it here because we be-
physics, attended a lecture the
other day on "Expression and lieve that, like the "Black Book"
Symbol in the Italian Madrigal." of Nazi atrocities, it drags Into
The lecturer was a musician who the spotlight a hideous thing
knows next to nothing about phys- which must be seen to be dealt
ics and is also named Albert Ein- with.
stein . The two Einsteins are old
In a poll taken by "Actor's
friends .. .
Cues", New York producers voted
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75 per cent against the Marcus
Heiman discrimination policy
EINSTEIN AGAIN
practiced in Washington's Nation-
NOW THAT the areas of dis- al Theatre. The Heiman position
agreement between Rabbi Sil- is "that the admission of Negroes
ver and Dr. Wclzmann are grow- to the National Theatre would be
ing larger every day—it is inter-
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Capital Letter

Bartley Crum Book
Arouses Washington

`Behind Silken Curtain' Makes
Strong Impression on Congressmen

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By WILL SHERMAN
WASHINGTON:
WASHINGTON: If there is any one thing in recent months which
touched the conscience of Washington on the Palestine
question it is probably the publication of Bartley Crum's book "Be-
hind the Silken Curtain." This correspondent has heard it discussed
at a dozen congressional luncheon tables—and half a dozen of the
most reactionary congressmen have voluntarily recommended to us
that we ought to read it.
Just what effect Crum's fasci- is still of course in doubt, "Sena-
tor Brewster pointed out.
nating story of the Anglo-Amer-
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ican mission will have upon
OIL MEN WORRIED
American policy in Palestine Is
OTHER REPUBLICAN voices
hard to tell. Coming at the same
will be heard on immigration
time as the debate on the Greek- within the next few weeks, and
Turkish loan, it is possible that the opponents of a sane Palestine
it will result in some highly de- policy Lee today worried sick.
Washington is always tne scene
sirable pressures upon the State of operations for many oil men—
Department and the administra- but in recent weeks the most im-
portant oil operators, who like to
tion.
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remain anonymous, have been
coming to the capital more fre-
ANGERED BY HANGUPS
quently. This is an obvious lick
IT APPEARS that a bipartisan to the Palestine problem because
group with a congressional nuc- much of the oil coming from the
leus will demand that the State Middle East is pumped through
the Holy Land. •
Department publicity proclaim its
Another thing that has them
position on the whole Palestine worried today is the emergence in
problem.
the public mind of the connection
What further action will be between the Greek-Turkish loan
and
the American oil holdings in
taken here is not now certain, but
Indignation is boiling up in Wash- Arab land.
Revelation that the Standard
ington. The execution of Dov Gru-
ncr was • a shocking thing to Oil Company of New Jersey and
Standard Oil Company of New
Washington.
York bought heavily into the
Senator Owen Brewster of Arabian-American Oil Company
Maine, a Republican long active just a week prior to President
in the Zionist cause, sounded an- Truman's proposal of the loans
other note which many Republican was something they had hoped to
members of Congress find parti- avert.
cularly persuasive when he spoke
(The fact is, of course, that the
of the idle land in Palestine and Arabian-American oil is valuable
the accomplishment of Jewish set- only if it can be piped out to the
tlers in "making the desert bloom." Mediterranean. It is worth bil-
Meanwhile, America goes on lions—if it can be removed. It is
spending millions of dollars to hoped by the Truman administra-
support thousands of refugees in tion and the merchants in oil that
the detention camps of Germany. preservation of the present Greek
"How long this must continue, and Turkish regimes will mean
as a result of the denial of Im- this oil can be removed for many
migration by the mandatory power, years to come.)

MAN STANDING upside down
on one hand and holding a
flag up with his feet, and a Rab-
bi, deep in thought, sitting beside
a samovar boiling in the snow. All
this amidst peasants at war on
one side and peasants at peace
on the other Is the art of Marc
Chagall, as depicted in his giant
canvas "Revolution."
Chagall has been criticised for
breaking with traditional art
forms of anatomy and perspective.
Nevertheless, the subject matter
of his art is often traditional in
concept, though presented in orig-
inal modernist forms.
After seeing some of his works
there is no doubt that Marc Cha-
gall is a Jew and an artist who
is proud of his Jewish back-
ground and steeped in the stories
of his people. In this sense he is
a traditionalist. But the manner
and form in which he adapts the
stories of his people and his na-
tive land to modern settings makes
him a leader among modernists.
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ClIASSIDIC FAMILY
CHAGALL WAS BORN in Vit-
ebsk, White Russia, July '7, 1887.
His family belonged to the Chas-
sidic school and it was thus that
he became steeped in the ways'of
orthodox Jewry and the stories of
Jewish life. As a lad he assisted
the cantor at the village syna-
gogue and was an outstanding boy
soprano—in fact, it was said that
his voice could be heard above
the entire congregation.
His natural flair for drawing
was displayed quite early in his
school work but he did not ac-
quire the ambition to become an
artist for a long time, as he had
never heard of the word "artist."
One day a friend looking at his
drawings described them as the
work of •a "real artist," and it is
believed that here the spark was
kindled. Soon he persuaded his
parents, poor though they were, to
let him study art for awhile.
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GRATEFUL TO FRANCE
AFTER LITTLE MORE than
two years in St. Petersburg, he
contrived to get to Paris by per-
suading his friend Leon Baskt of
the Mir Iskova (World of Art)
Society and the Diaghilev Ballet,
to take him along with the ballet
as painter of stage decors. But
when it was found that he knew
nothing of the techniques of paint-
ing stage sets he was discharged.
Later, Chagall was to become
one of the outstanding designers
and painters of stage sets for bal-
let, opera and drama in Europe
and America.
"I owe all that I have achieved
to Paris, to France," Chagall has
said, "whose nature, people, the
very air, are the true school of
my life and art."
Yet it is hard to say that he
belongs to any one school of art,
much less the French school. His
work has been described, in fact,
as being "as French as Borscht."
It was in Paris that he first
began to exhibit his paintings,
though the first major exhibition
devoted exclusively to the works
of this man who has been called
the most outstanding Jewish
painter of the era, took place in
Berlin in 1914.
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DOES MURAL IN SOVIET
FINDING HIMSELF on a visit
to Russia in that year, he was
forced to remain, due to the out-
break of war. His work at this
time was regarded as the first
steps to the revival of Jewish art
in Russia and Europe, long stifled
by Tzarist rule.
In 1918 he founded a free Fine
Arts Academy and Art Museum
in his native Vitebsk, and the
Granowsky Jewish State Theater
became one of the foremost in
the Soviet Union because of the
mural that he did for it.
With the fall of France, he
managed to come to the United
States where he has since en-
hanced the reputation that pre-
ceded him to this country He has
done sets for Leonide Massine'e
Ballet Theater and the Metro-
politan Opera, and his stage work
has been known to steal the show
from the performers.
But perhaps the most outstand-
ing thing about the artist Chagall,
now approaching his 60th birth-
day, is that his greatness lies in
the fact that he has never broken
with his Jewish background.

(A World News Servlee• Feature)

rage Thre ∎

Personal Problems

A Women of Worth...'

a Tribute to Mothers

Her Children Rise to Bless Her,
Her Works Praise Her in the Gates

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
THESE ARE THE generations of Sarah, daughter of Abraham, and
wife of Judah, son of Benjamin.
Sarah was the force in her family. She was mother, business
agent, clothes washer, bread baker and even father to her offspring.
The facts and her personality make it so. Her husband was away
from home too much, to have been a strong influence in his home.
Sarah had charge of the phys-
ical household. She made sure that cakes. She bought and koshered
the children were clean, warmly the meat. She chopped fish (only
dressed, fed,/ in
trout and whitefish) every Friday,
health. She was
as did every Jewish mother.
the spiritual di-
And she bore her children 10 of
rector of the
them.
home. She sign-
Education was Sarah's passion.
ed the report
She believed, however, that money
cards and noted
for education must be accompan-
their contents
ied by acceptable school work and
well.
conduct. There was no fooling
What we re
around in the classroom, no skip-
her working
ping school. The children feared
hours? She rose
the inevitable consequences of
at 5:30, getting
misbehavior and never tempted
breakfast start- Dr. Goldberg
Sarah.
ed for her husband already at the
One by one, the children at-
market. The house was warm. tended high school, normarschool,
When Judah came back with a university and even graduate
loaded wagon, breakfast was schools. For this great drain of
ready.
money, Sarah asked only the re-
Then she woke the children and ward that her family acquire
got them ready for school—clean knowledge.
and inspected, prayers said, bel-
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lies filled. She then opened the EVERY WORD COUNTED
store and waited on customers. S ARAH WAS NOT GIVEN to
Between times, dinner was read-
talk. Talk was idle, gossip was
ied, clothes washed, bread and sinful. Therefore, when Sarah
cake baked and the house cleaned. spoke, her children understood
• •
that her words were considered
DAY NEVER ENDED
and deliberate. This economy of
HER CHORES were unendng. She words was sound discipline, since
baked every piece of white each child knew where he stood.
bread ever eaten in the house. On
Her pleasures were the holiday
Friday, she made no less than 10 and family celebrations. Occa-
apple pies and several sponge
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Plain Talk

Pity the Poor in Spirit
Who Run From Selves

This Is the Story of a Mrs. XYZ
Who Was Rich, but Oh, So Poor

By ALFRED SEGAL
•
DOOR MRS. XYZ! I call her, Mrs. XYZ because it is never chari-
table to expose the poor by their given names, especially the
poor in spirit, who are the poorest of all.
Mrs. XYZ's husband is president of the National Widget Corp.
and everybody knows the immense profit that the widget Industry
produced in the recent year. National Widget Corp. earned $6.17 on
every share of its stock in 1948.
When Mrs. XYZ heard of Na- the Hetheringtons on the right
tional Widget's net profit, she and the Wallinkton's on the left
and the Dickinsons right across
turned to her
4iff
the 'street? They're all gone."
husband. "X,"
"So what?" asked XYZ. "We're
she said (she ct ,,,
Jews, too, aren't we?"
always addres-
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sed him affec-
tionately as X),
PLANS ARE READY
"X, isn't it
SHE HAD A NEW place picked
about time we
`' out already, she replied irre-
started to live
levantly. "We'll be the only Jews
better than we
for blocks around and that's
do?"
where we're going to move. It is
Not that there
Al Segal
out in Fairfield -Village."
w a s anything
the matter with the way the
Though XYZ was a respected
XYZ's had been living. They had man in the widget industry, where
house
and
they
had
even
big
the
his word was like law, he had
an elevator that carried Mrs. little to say at home. He bought
XYZ up to her bedroom on the the Fairfield Village house.
second floor. The elevator had
Mrs. XYZ considered all the
been put in to accomodate Mrs. many elements of her new hap-
XYZ's increasing weight. She said piness: The fact of their being the
she just couldn't carry it up- only Jews for blocks around. The
stairs.
fact that this was like a new life,
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with the old one about five miles
away in that Jewish neighborhood.
WANTS TO MOVE
MR. XYZ WAS, indeed, prompt The fact that their name didn't
to ask her: "How could we sound particularly Jewish and no-
body in Fairfield Village could
live any better than we do?"
ever suspect.
"What I mean," she explained,
As her mind gave itself pleas-
"is that people like us should live urably to all these happy circum-
in a better neighborhood."
stances, she suddenly became
"What's the matter with this aware of a cold chill up and down
her spine. It had to do with her
neighborhood?" XYZ asked.
"Well," she replied, "you couldn't remembering, all at once, the
be expected to notice anything the "Jewish Index," and she was
matter. All you can see is widg- thinking of the next issue arriving
ets." She said that if he could by mail in Fairfield Village.
The "Jewish Index" was the
take his eyes off widgets he would
have noticed how long ago the weekly newspaper in her town.
neighborhood had become prac- The XYZ's had been subscribers
tically all Jewish. Jews to the for years; it had followed them
left and Jews to the right . . . around to the various better and
"You remember when we had
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