Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — SCULPTOR TO DO HIS BIT [ARTICLE]

SCULPTOR TO DO HIS BIT

Will Turn Talent* From Modeling in Clay to Remaking Face* of the Wounded. Cleveland, O. —Max Kalish, Cleveland sculptor, is going to do his bit and it’s a strange bit, too. Kalish is turning his talents from creating face* in clay to remaking those of human beings. Kalish Is one of a small army of American sculptors who are going to the battle. front to help battlescarred veterans. They propose to remake the mangled features of the soldiers injured in battle. They caU these fellows plastic sculptors. They replace the missing parts of. the 'face with copper or papier mache'and then graft skin over it. Little is; known of the science in America and the sculptors are going to France shortly to learn the tine points of the art.