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The Southern Israelite Page 63 Wasserman The Great Story-Teller (Continued from Page 57) v 4nr.v-t. ller. He is this above all else ■i fabulist born. Many a time I have told him that he might have },h life sitting cross-legged on Kiva <lt* Schiavoni, or could even s jt in some Oriental market- telling stories—telling stories— i. t ) lt . people standing about him k and open-mouthed, listening . v. rv word. He knows how to im- them, and has at his command all .... aI -t- of tlie narrator as well as all art!tii-e- a term I do not hesitate • i)„e, for these little tricks also are . ml. 11<“ is the man who today can \ U ite a real novel of the finer manv ladies and gentlemen can v . the other kind. It is he who is something which actually not exi<t any more. For I have inv faith in the novel. Or, rather, ; iH'iie\e in its future: 1 believe that i- rmw at a critical point, that it may , .,-|op on a high plane, that most 1/inu' things will he done with it. it :t I no longer have much faith in the old novel. Vet Washerman's supreme gifts still ui.im' it |»o<>ible—more than possible: ruimphnnt. From a certain point of . v\\ lie i> a conservative artist—eon- Joy’s- Flower Sho/t ». E. JOY, l> >«..// \cn Year Will lie Happier U You Will Lot ■JOYS FLOWERS bring JOY” Columbus, (da. servative in his art, we must emphasize, lest the word create a false impression. For in other respects he is anything but that. He is a moralist, so that he cannot possibly be conservative. The intellectual elements of a great talent, the inherent urge toward the quality of dignity, the development of the spi ritual and the moral from the primi tive root—these phenomena common to all art are uncommonly and beautifully evident in his case. Early in his career he made use of the phrase which to him expresses the most evil and objec tionable, the most genuinely immoral element of life—“Die Tragheit des Her zens.” This expression is especially well chosen because it is to be taken in both the artistic and the moral sense; it was born in the heart of the artist. Emotional and psychic inertia is naturally hostile to nil art; against it all art must fight. “We would willing ly entertain people,” said Goathe, “if only they were more responsive to en tertainment.” This, translated into mor al phraseology, is the power of inertia with which our story-teller’s talent is constantly in conflict, from “Kaspar Hauser” to “Maurizius.” Recently I was told of a charateris- tic phrase which this man of fifty ut tered before a group of young people: ‘‘I am becoming more and more of a rebel.” What he meant is no irrespon sible revolutionary frame of mind, but an indentification of himself with his time, the will to live and serve. It is a fundamentally conservative revolt whose aim is the preservation of cul ture, the relief or attenuation of the dangerous tension now obtaining, in all domains, between unyielding material reality and that state of cognition which our spirit lias always reached—in other words, between inteleetual and material reality. Thus the revolt of Jakob Was- sermann is his struggle against the deadly menace of emotional inertia, against the “Tragheit des Herzens.” —Copywright 1921) by Seven Arts Fea ture Syndicate. Then there’s the one about the Scotchman who bought two loaves of bread for supper and then sat in f the subway waiting for the jam.— Hulla-Baloo. AT THIS WRITING The COLUMBUS ENQUIRER-SUN IS GAINING CIRCULATION AT THE RATE OF 40 NEW SUBSCRIBERS A DAY WITHOUT SOLICITATION R. C. JORDON President D. C. HUGGINS Sec.-Treas. FOR ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION The Outstanding Chevrolet of Chevrolet History —A Six in the Price Range of the Four! for Economical Transportation m £ CHEVROLET h SALES and SERVICE IMioiif* 11.12 1213 First Ave. GEORGIA AUTOMOBILE EXCHANGE Inc. Columbus, Gu. T. FRANK JOERG Manager V. L. ANTHONY Sales Manager Columbus, Ga. J. T. KNIGHT & SON, inc. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA knight Iron & Metal Co., Inc. Knight-Luttrell Iron Co., Inc. Birmingham, Ala. Atlanta, Ga. Knight Scrap Material Co., Inc. Savannah, Ga. Scrap Iron Scrap Metals Relaying Rails Write or Wire Our Nearest Office Before Selling