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Should the Artist Ke In I niform? Dyersburg Cotton Products INCORPORATED Manufacturers of • SNOW SUIT CLOTH • GLOVE WRISTLETS • JERSEY CLOTH • MEAT COVERINGS • MISCELLANEOUS KNIT FABRICS Stilling Agents: A. C. Morgan & Co., 425 Fourth Ave., New York City Best & Donovan, 332 So. Michigan, Chicago, III. Jackson H. Miller Co., 222 W. Adams St., Chicago, III. FACTORY IN DYERSBURG, TENNESSEE W. B. DAVIS SONS INCORPORATED Manufacturers of fa Infants’ Anklets and Half Socks with Fidelity Tops fa Misses Anklets with Fidelity Tops fa Misses' Rib Hosiery and Sport Hosiery fa Infants’ and Misses’ Hosiery Mills in Alabama at FORT PAYNE ATTALLA GADSDEN TUSCALOOSA I Kill Ton's Non.: ) ehuili Menuhin, noted J,uish noli nisi, in the following interneu Cites his ideas on the role of the artist a:ul the Jewish artist in particular in the war effort. I lii llie bright, sunny living room high above Central Park, in which a child’s kiddie car was the most prominent object, the war seemed \cr\ far awav. On a grand piano in one corner of the room stood several vases of flow ers. filled with gladioli and roses. And next to the vases was a framed picture that has adorned thousands of concert programs here and abroad. The spacious room, which was just iinlidx enough to make it look "lived in. seemed a fitting setting for Ye hudi Menuhin, hut certain!) not a particular!) appropriate place to dis cuss tin* war nor. offhand, would one sa\ that Menuhin himself was a peTson that one would seek out to dis cuss militar) matters. ^ et that was inv purpose in seeing the young violinist, as I explained to him as he sat back after shooing one of his two youngsters from the room. \\ hat did he feel was the artist s place in the war effort especially a voting man such as himself who was of military age and presumably fit for service? .Moreover, what did he think should he the attitude of a Jew ish artist in the war situation at a time when anti-Semites in all parts of the countrv were seizing every oppor- tunitv real or fancied, mostly the latter to spread the ancient canard that Jews were cowards and shunned active participation in the actual inis- ery of warfare? \nd what did lie personallv plan to do? < /Veuve turn tit ftaf'f 2 i i Ykiu di Mkm IIIV MB [12] Tiik Southern Israelite