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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-14

battling Reddy, thu. New York feathsrweisht
and Frankie Britt OF New Bedford. Mass, are
10 meet in a twelve-round bout IN Boston to-
nisht. Mel Coosan. the BROOKLYN lightweight.
Weish's title before the Br!ton was stopped by
Benny Leonard, boxes Freddy Yelie In another
tests.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-14

Harry Kilburn,, Little Italy bantam. now
away with the Third Infantry. ekpeetG to ar
rive home on a short furough in a fsN days.
During his vacation Kilburn Is anxious to slip
on the mittens at a local club. He picks Bobby
Mccain for return bout.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
LABOR NEWS.

The report of the committee on APP
prentices, which was the special order
Of business at the meeting of Columbia
typographical Union, No. 1e1, last
Sunday, was adopted after several
minor amendments. The newspaper
committee of the union and the book
and job committee were instructed to
endeavor to procure its acceptance by
the employers of the respective
branches Of the trade.
Five journeymen and two appren-
tees were admitted into Columbia
typographical Union at it's February
meeting.
Twenty-Five dollars has been donated
by Columbia Typographical Union. No.
1o1. to a fund being raised for the pur-
pose of establishing schools for tuber-
cular children in the District of Column
bia.
Ernest E. Wear of Columbia Typo
graphical Union. whose application for
admittance to the "Union Printers
Home has been approved. has been un-
able to return to Westminster from New
York city because Of serious illness.
Frederick NJ P. Montague. member
of Columbia Typographical Union, has
been admitted into the Union Print.
ers' Home The action on his apphca>
ton was taken at the meeting Of the
union last Sunday.
At the meeting of Columbia Typo
graphical Union, No. 101, last Sunday
In Typographical Temple rosclutions o.
respect for Capt Henry T. Brian. late
deputy public printer, were passed
Copies Of the resolutions have been SAINT
to the relatives Of the deceased. 80
Painters and Dscofaters' Union. Local
No. aeS. held . special meeting In
Painters Hall, 9Th and q streets, laak
Friday night and revised the union'b
bylaws. -.
Plate Printers Union, LOCAL No. Z b
- held ice February meeting TuA16A1
night in typographical Temple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

department of dentistry of the Uni.
versfty of Pittsburgh. was recent
visitor at the chapter house OF Psi
Omega fraternity.
Psi omega has announced the pleds.
ing OF Messrs. WooltI and Genessee OF
the freshman class.
Dr. Griffin Frazier. dental school. Is.
has successfully passed the examtna-
ton for dentist in the United states
Navy. 49,
lambda Chapter of the Phi Sigma
Kappa fraternity has nine members in
the University Coast Artillery Com
pany and there are prospects that two
more will join.
of Sigma Chi at Columbia University,
recently spent a few days at the local
chapter house.
W. H. Wright attended the meeting
of the grand council of omese Tau
there he was a guest of Beta Chapter
at Cornell.
Delta Phi Chapter of Sigma M re-
Gently gave a formal dance at the
chapter house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

after the manner OF pastels. with short
strokes and dry color. One OF lady.
with dark hair and eyes and wearing
dark Dress is peculiarly significant
and engaging, and. in time OF execu-
ton it is the latest, being but just I'm
ished. Miss sweeny also shows two or
three portraits in oils. among which Is
a study of a young girl with red hair.
which is fine in tone and beautiful sur
face texture.
The Society of Washington Artists
exhibition, which opened in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art Last Wednesday. Is
rather disappointing this year, the
best of the painters falling somewhat
below their standard and much Of the
work shown being rather feeble and
immature. But this will happen at
times. and it is possible that the local
work suffers somewhat by comparison
with that by the more distinguished
out-of-town artists shown in the Cor
coran Gallery's recent biennial exhibit
ton. The exhibition. however. will be
found to hold its own in merit with the
exhibitions of similar character held
by the artists of Buffalo, and even of
Chicago. This is an artists showing.
and there is reason for pride as well as
criticism. 1t is well for the washing
measure their strength. and for the
public to see what they are doing.
If the decision of the artists jury of
the Corcoran Gallery in the recent ex-
hibition mystif1ed the public when it
gave highest award to a painting by
Arthur B. Davies, what must be the
effect of the decision of a similar jury
which awarded first honors in the
Pennsylvania Academy to a painting
by George Bellows that has even less
in loneliness to commend it? The
Davies picture was odd and not easy to
comprehend. but the Bellows picture is
clumsy and vulgar. 1t Is called "A
Day in June" and pictures groups Of
women on a green lawn which has as
background -foliaged trees-an
ideal scene made coarse and ugly
through transcription. The majority
of the figures are misshapen, few have
faces and those that have show fea-
lures somewhat misplaced. But what
cares the artist for that? He Is con-
cerned with color relations, with set
ting down essentials. with interpreting
be alive is not necessarily to live, and
there is danger, as Alfred Noyes point
ed out. of mistaking the superficial
facts of death for the truths of life. of
throwing away beauty for ugliness.
The new art, which parades under
the name of cubism. or futurism. or
what you will. Is an effort to cast aside
Gripping convention, to find new modes
of expression. to pass, as 1t were. to
other spheres 1t makes manifest a
dissatisfaction with things as they are,
which is natural enough and healthy,
but 1t has nothing to offer: and. failing
to find adequate expression, raves
madly.
1t is well enough to wish for formless
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

Helen Reimer, Mary Fischer. Geraldine
Bachenheimer. Elizabeth Wilson. Abra-
ham Lichtman. Gilbert st. Clair and
Anthony Cavalierf.
Members of the February. 1917. grad
uating Gloss of Business High were
guests of the Business High School
Alumni Association at a recent dance
at the Arcade. Robert c. Tracy, vice
president of the organization, delivered
a brief address of welcome. Joseph 6.
McGarraghy was chairman of the COM
mittee in charge.
Theodore Smoot was the principal
speaker at the Washington birthday
anniversary exercises at Eastern High.
Bryan, Rosemary Arnold. Vivian Michael.
Alice Wells, Helen Loudenslager and
Marion Reynolds
. Is 4 +
The Madison Bulletin issued by pupils
at the Madison Night School, is appear
ing regularly this year.
n 4 Il y
Those taking part in the exercises
at the Takoma Park School commence
rating the birth of Washington in
cluded kemper Nelson. Charles Ayers.
David Ftnlay. Kathleen Serwener, Hell
enc Smith. Mary Garrett and Catherine
Paravano. Miss 1. r. Meloy was in
charge.
G. W. U. Notes.
Miss Alma Barker Of Teachers COL
lege has left the university.
DR.. A. w. Kenner. Medical School, '15.
has been assigned to active duty in the
United States Army Medical Corps.
DIR. E. X. Stratton. Medical School. '1s.
has been appointed a resident physician
at the Soldiers Home Hospital.
DR.. Sterling Taylor. Medical School,
'16. is attending the Navy Medical
School.
been appointed an inferno at Elmer
gency Hospital.
The Girls Glee Club Of the department
of arts and sciences is rehearsing Fri
days, under direction of Mrs Otis
SWEET. for a. concert to be given in the
spring.
Frank F. Ford. Law School, 10. has
been reelected attorney Of Kalamazoo
county. Mich.
The fund being raised for the erection
Of law school building now totals
nearly $4,000.
The annual banquet of the Columbian
George Washington Law School Assoc
citation will be held probably in the
early part of April.
The Enosinian Literary and Debating
Society has elected officers as fellows:
son. secretary: Homer e. smith. treas
urer: William Qilligan. critic; William
A. Ahlagren, librarian and reporter; Os-
car H. Lindow, editor Of the News ana
Bee, the official organ of the society,
ana George H. Muirling. sergsant.at.
arms.
Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stock
ton. U. s. N, retired, president Of the
university, and Martin Augustine
Knapp, member Of the board OF trustees
Of the university, have been appointed
directors Of oaliAudet COLLEGE.
DR.. H Edmund Friese1l. dean. Of the
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France is considering various meas
ures whereby her production in the
comm year
France Urging Big m ay be n
creased Peas
Crop Production. ants all over the
land are urged by the government to
produce to the maximum. In every
branch of business endeavor economy
is the watchword. The pleasures of
the people are restricted that there
may be a greater supply of necessities
to safeguard against untoward events
France has felt and will continue to
feel the pinch. With the same spirit OF
enthusiasm and determination that has
marked Frances every course since the
war started this country is setting
about to see that there be no loopholes
through which the enemy might be
able to force an unwelcome peace.
Italy's economic situation, If dis
patches are to be believed, is anything
but enviable. Prices of every COM
of years. There is keen suffering
among the lower classes of people. The
winter has been particularly severe,
owing to the scarcity of coal. Food is
selling at soaring figures. and only
the wealthy classes are able to obtain
supplies even approximating what they
received before the conflict started.
Government officials are struggling to
keep the people content with their lot.
and so far are succeeding. reports that
dissatisfaction on the part of the peo-
Pile might force separate peace to the
contrary. Italy is largely dependent
upon her imports. and Britain has
promised to furnish her these in rea-
Eonable quantities. That the Germans
hope through their submarine activi-
ties in the Mediterranean to curtail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
Marking Lucky Days.

From the London Chronicle.
In throwing a piece of chalk after his
men for luck as they poured into the
enemy's trenches, the Irish colonel was
but reviving a superstition which dates
back to the ancient days of Thrace. whore
the custom originated Of marking lucky
DAYS with white stone and unluclty
win a black one. In its early youth
Rome adopted the custom, and although
chalk, not being indigenous, WAS chiefly
known, as its name, Creta, implies, AZ an
import from Crete. It was generally used
for the marking Of lucky days. Accord
ing to Horace the marking was done with
chalk for good and coal for bad luck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
IN THE SCHOOLS
u CREST GRANT, first teacher of
=. freehand drawing at the Nc
. Kinley Manual Training School

ana now at one OF In6 anneAeS
Of the High School of Com
MERGE in New York, visited Tech and
new Central High Wednesday. Both
annexes of the school are under d.
rection of former Washington teachers.
Mr.. Grant being the head of one and
J. D. Minnick in charge of the other.
4 u = =
DR.. willard 8. Small. principal of
Eastern High School. attended the in
North Carolina Arts and Mechanics
College of Raleigh. N. c., Thursday.
Dr.. Small represented his college
have formed a glee club under the di-
rection of Mrs. Frank Byram. The
formation Of = string orchestra is be-
Ing considered:
At q meeting OF the general organi-
zation council of Business High recent
ly. Harry Boteler was named commits
sioner Of public order and Miss Ida
Holm assistant.
Chester La Toilette gave a violin re-
cital at Eastern High School Monday
morning. He was accompanied on the
piano BY Miss A. Cassellman. Both
Mr.. La Toilette and Miss Cassellman
u y =
Field and staff officers of the High
School Cadet regiments held q dance
at the Raleigh Hotel Wednesday even
ing.
= Z = =
1.-THE Ethical IDEAL was the subject
Of an address by DIR. Abram Simon be-
fore the third and fourth year pupils
of Western High School Wednesday.
+ 4 4
Qualifications needed by men who
handle the credit business Of merchan-
disc establishments were discussed by
John r. Moore in an address at Busi-
ness High School Wednesday. This
was one Of a series of addresses be-
ing delivered at Business under the
Auspices Of the Washington Association
OF Credit Men. He urged that certain
phases Of credit business should be
known to all men in the business field.
4 4 = =
1.-The Political and Civic Development
Of Washington" was the subject Of an
address, delivered by E. c. Branden-
hurr. president Of the Washington
Board Of Trade. before pupils Of Bust
ness High Wednesday.
+ 4 4 4
Americas Washington. and WASH
ington's America" was the subject Of
an address by Loufs ottenbefg at the
Grover Cleveland School at the patri-
otic exercises Dednesday. Pupils taxi
ing part In the celebration included
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
recent lighting.

Prices are high, but not as high as in
Germany. There is a keen scarcity. of
certain kinds of foodstuffs already, but
this scarcity is declared to be insig-
nifcant when compared to the things
that Germany is forced to do without
Nevertheless, the British. not caring to
be caught mapping, prepare to safe
guard every economic channel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

expression, but until it is found. why
not use good forms? Why perpetuate
ugliness and deformity? To wish to re-
turn to fundamental things is well
enough. but should not be taken as eS-
cuse for vulgarity. Where it will end.
none can foresee. Some say the malady
Is passing. but others foresee its spread.
Paris. yearning for sensation. gave heed
to these mad men" before the war be-
gan. but since that time it has stood
in no need of these kinds of horrors.
France, the most artistic nation in the
world. has proved herself the bravest.
1t is to the gardens Of life. full Of
beauty and sweet perfume, that strong
Art flowers In these eardens-the art of
the painter. the sculptor. the poet, the
musician-and the world has need of II.
To the honest seeker for truth all
open. but he who destroys what he
cannot restore assumes a terrible re-
sponsibility.
Through the cooperation of Archer
M. Huntington Of the Hispanic Society
Of America the Corcoran Gallery Of
Art has arranged to exhibit the col
lection Of tapestries from the Royal
Palace Of Pardo loaned by the King of
Spain. now on exhibition at the Span
ish Museum, New York. The collection
will come here about March 10 and will
be shown in the same room in the gaf-
lery in which for some time the Clark
loan collection was exhibited.
The tapestries are scenes from thu
daily life of the times which they rep
resent and were made at the royal man.
ufactory at Madrid.
A head of a child modelled by Mrs.
May Howard Jackson of this city has
recently been placed on exhibition in
the lower loan room Of the Corcorau
Gallery Of Art 1t is an admirable piece
of work. we'll constructed. nicely mod
eled and expressive and ii takes Its
place well among the works in this gal
1ery by sculptors of more experience
and greater reputation.
An exhibition of industrial art will
be held in the. Arts Club Of Washing.
ton from March. to H. This will COM
prise exclusively the work of WASH
ington craftsmen and nonresident
members Of the club.
=.
The Mary Smith prize for the best
work by a woman resident of Phila-
delphia shown in the annual exhibition
of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts has just been awarded for paint
ing by Miss Elizabeth F. Washington.
entitled Winter" Miss Washington
Is the daughter of the late George
Lafayette Washington. greatgrandson
Of the eldest brother of our first
President. She was represented ia
the Corcoran Gallery's biennial ex-
hfbition by painting entitled The Old
Stone House." and showed in the Water
Color Clubs recent exhibition a minia-
ture of Abdul BAHIA. the Persian philos-
opher and mystic.
LEILA MECHLIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
Russia's Position
Hard to Analyze.

great privations during the present
winter. while the Russian troops at the
front have in a measure been forced
to subsist on the plainest Of fares be-
cause of the lack of adequate and
quick transportation to all points OF
the empire.
The Russian government under the
spur of its allies is rushing economic
and military preparations SO that they
may be perfected in time for the COM
ing summers campaign, and they are
succeeding, according to advices from
Petrograd.
Russias agricultural resources are
limitless, and the same cereal and live
stock shortages that might prevail in
other warning nations are hardly pos
sible in Russia if the government sue
ceeds in perfecting it's distribution
system. The Slavic problem now as OF
yore is transportation of such stuffs az
are produced.
But few dispatches pertaining to the
food situation are received from Tur-
key, but as Turkey. as this country has
vast sections of cereal producing land,
her problem. in case she uses her own
stores and gives no assistance to Ger
many and her other allies. SHOULD not
be great. There is no way OF telling
at the present moment how great have
been the calls on the Turkish larder
from Germany.
Bulgaria unquestionably has SUFFERED.
inasmuch as she has called upon the
central powers for financial as well as
economic assistance. which the Ger.
mans have been ready to give IN 40 far
as they have been able. Bulgaria re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

The exhibition of water colors and
Oil paintings by Miss Bertha E. Perrie
and Miss Elizabeth sawtelle at the Arts
Club. 2017 I street, Is as delightful
little show as one will hnd in a long
days Journey. The pictures almost
without exception are colorful. fresh,
effectively interesting and we'll paint
ed, and Of few collections of cotem-
porary work can as much be said.
Miss Perrie has always been a sound
painter. holding fast to the best tradi-
tions and seeking truth. Her work has
been very sincere and genuinely good.
But this exhibition manifests another
inherent quality which may in the past
have been overlooked, and that is
charm. Her pictures are not only good,
they are likabIe, and without yielding
anything in artistic worth. Here is
good draftsmanship. cultivated sense
Of color, compositions well composed,
values nicely related and command Of
medium-those things which go to
make UP. work Of art. and yet pic
emily attractive. In themselves the
subjects are not always lovely, but
through interpretation they have be
come 80. The artist has passed on her
less well trained, less skillful she
would not have been able to so well
convey her message.
The places she has pictured are far
terror Of a church in Montreuil, and an
interior OF the cathedral at Sienna,
Mont Saint Michel charming tran
scription. beautifully rendered-and a
fountain in Rome. There are scenes in
our own New Hampshire hills and Of
Gloucester SChO0narS
turing the last Miss Perrie is peculiar
ly successful. Her boats are not mere
ly painted ships" but well built and of
the sea, and they sail or rest in water
that is wet and limpid, surrounded by
air heavy. ofttime. with northern fog.
Miss Sawtelle, too, has pictorial
sense and an appreciation OF the sig
nificance of form and color. Her out
door Market is delightfully."- colorful
and we'll seen, and many of her other
works have excellent artistic feeling. In
oils she paints with breadth. but also
with reserve. and her water colors are
likewise skillfully handled. The exhi-
bition continues to March 2, and will
amply reward the visitor.
In the Moore galleries collection of
oil paintings. pastels, red chalk draw
ings and miniatures, by Miss Sarah
Catherine Sweeny. is on view. Among
the pastels are portraits Of Mrs. Lam
sing. wife of the Secretary Of State;
Justice Mccoy and Dean Myers of Ha-
vana. There is an attractive drawing
of Miss Peggy Baker. daughter of the
Secretary of war and Mrs. Baker, and
several interesting pastel portrait
sketches Of little boys and babies, each
made at a single sitting of not more
than three hours. The miniatures are
not done in the usual style, but rather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
transportation One
of Germany's Problems.

the shortage of rolling stock. There
has been vast deterioration in the train
service through the central powers in
the past year. and now that the Ger
mans are using every available car
rier for troop transportation The rail-
road question is sure to be a great
determining factor in the final settle
ment of Germanys economic situation.
While the railroads deteriorated. the
traffic on rivers and canals of the CEN
trail powers increased proportionately;
but. owing to winter weather cond1-
tions, ice forced a suspension In this
traffic the oast two months.
The food problem of the central pow
ers evidently is greater than at any
previous stage and. although more than
roo 900 prisoners of war have been set
about TO til the fields, it is declared
that the lack of intensive methods
surely will ne noticed in vastly cur
tailed returns. German officialdom ad-
mits that there can be no hope of the
food situation growing better. If it
can be maintain in its present status
there is hope of finishing the war.
Agricultural folk are warned of dire
results should they fail to perform
their mission.
For the first time in many years Eng
land Is considering a tarin on imports,
the main objects being the encourage
ment of the agricultural population to
maximum effort. at the same time
eliminating luxuries from the lists of
imports. England, though discounting
the results of the Germans submarine
campaign up to the present juncture.
is not so fully confident that her eco
homie life in the future will not be
gravely menaced and her cause in this
war hazarded through the widespread
destruction of her mercantile shipping.
She at least is preparing for the worst,
though protesting the belief that the
worst never will come. English peo-
pies and all possessions included in
the British empire are being urged to
strain every effort to keep the economic
standard up to the highest notch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

this traffic in economic stores between
Italy and Great Britain is unQues-
toned. But at the present moment 1t.
would appear that Great Britain Ia
succeeding reasonably well in main
tanning an unbroken stream of needed
supplies to her lesser ally.