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larger exhibitions of his work which
did not expose, half as well as this
cne, the strength and limitations of his
nrt The earliest of the paintings
shown is the "Mrs. Moore" dating
from 1884, a souvenir of that period
in which the precocious young artist
was putting into practice the precepts
of Carolus Duran. We know from the
beautiful "Madame Gautreau," now in
the Metropolitan Museum, how easily
the disciple could surpass the master
in taste as we'll as in technique, SIM
plifying his subject and thereby I'M
mensely increasing its charm. But in
the Mrs. Moore" he seeks to meet
Carolus on his own ground and the
result is astonishing, to say the least.
Never was Pelion more ostentatlously
piled upon Ossa. In this picture one
note" is crowded upon the next until
an appalling blare is produced. The
black robe of the sitter meanders IN
and out of color scheme IN which
satin covered furniture, red-velvet
hung walls and endless luxurious ac-
cessories make the most gorgeous OF
ensembles. If Sargent had gone on
3ainting this sort of thing he would
,ong ago have relapsed into the OBJ
scuritv of the Salonnier. What was it
that pulled him through? We can see
readily enough, by referring to the
Lady Eden" which was painted in
1906. Here the forid, hot tones of the
Mrs Moore" give way to the coolest
of harmonies. Red gives way to gray
and, what is even more to the point
dcxterity now has deeper knowledge
behind it. Look, for example, at the
later canvas there is infinitely more
yf constructive modelling, the forms
are handled with a frmcr grasp, and
by the same token, with a more per-
sonal, more distinguished touch The
contrast to which we have alluded is
indeed striking. Thayer, resting more
md more upon imagination, very
learly leaves technique to take care OF
tself. Sargent, who is simply like Gau-
Ter. q man for whom the visible world
xists, becomes virtuoso OF technique
nd as such, weaves a spell of his own
1t is, inevitably, an incalculable, un
even spell. The third portrait of his
hero shown is the one Of Preslden
Wilson painted recently lOI lHc Duplli
National Gallery. 1t illustrates th'
spell aforesaid in its lowest estate
That is TO say, Mr.. Sargent is perfect
competent on this occasion and per
fectly uninteresting. 1t is a good por
trait, but commonplace. There is in /
nothing of the crisp, spirited idion
which we recognize in the Lad,
Eden" For further initiation into tina
we must go to the curious little picture
which bears the title of "Princesi
Nouronihar" Nominally this is an il
lustration for page from Beckford
"Nathck." Actually it is just a sketci
Of two or three ladies reclining ami,
an Alpine scene, study of figures an,
draperies half hidden in grass, with
snowy, cloudy background disputinl
with them for the attention of the be
holder. Realism could no further G
than in this vivid snapshot. 1t has
companion piece in a picture of al
italian olive orchard, but the latter i
or much milder interest as an exercis
IN technical sleight- OF hand. IN thc AL
p1ne subject Mr.. Sargent fairly sur
passes himself as magician of tn
brush He enchants us, and he leave
us a little wistful. This exhibition
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like the Fantin-Latour and like the one
painted by the artist himself, in the
those traits in Whistler which incite to
praise. Wisely, also, there is included
a little sheaf of his drawings ex-
quisite study of poppies, lovely Vene-
tian note, and two or three gracious
impressions Of the figure These, and
the letters, with their dainty chirog-
raphy, bring US back to the true Whist
ler, the Whistler WHO was all for art
and the world we'll lost This is the
final atmosphere in which the exhibi-
tion is enveloped. The poseur is there
and the cruel wit. But we think first
and last of the man whose life was
dedicated to beautiful things.
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A Group OF Sargents

An odd contrast is afforded by the
exhibition containing the four Thay-
crs. 1t contains also some old ard new
canvases by his antithesis, Mr.. John
S. Sargent. We turn from one Of these
PAINTERS to the other aa from poetry
to prose, from imagination groping in
the dark to technical skill, knowing
just what it wants to do and how to
90 it. lncidently, we may add, the
Sargents form an extraordinarily il
Illuminating group. We have seen much
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the trees in the foreground with moro
care. But in his solicitude for academic
details he would have missed what Mr..
Ihayer has secured the very soul Of
the majestic mountain here portrayed.
Nonadnock is the subject, the mighty
structure at whose base this painter
has long made his home, and he paints
1t with the instinct of intimate knowl-
edge for its richest trait-the long,
pure, regal line Of its bulk against the
SKY. Study of that line will show how
consummately Mr.. Thayer can draw
when he chooses to do so. He is colorist
as well as draughtsman, playing with
all the virtuosity in the world with the
deep purple tones Of the mountainside,
the sharp whites on the snow-capped
heights to the right, the pale opales-
cence Of the narrow strip of sky at
the top of the canvas. Color counts
IN the wonderful evocation of true
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rounded out, OF creative impulse not
concIusively realized. But that the
impulse is there we cannot doubt. the
paintings as they stand are so rare
IN quality. so delicate and yet so
clearly persuasive in The imaginative
force they exert. They leave us with
the Old sensation of the poet, that
something fine has passed that way"
1t is the tribute which only great
artist can command His spirit touches
us, even though the work of his hands
seems for the moment hating, below
the high level Of bis conception.
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tion of intimate" paintings by Amer
lean artists makes one of the pleasant
est episodes of the season The pict-
ures are small, but this does not mean
that they are unimportant On the
contrary, the show seems TO have been
organized on the hypothesis that every
thing in it should have Some special
quality, and this standard has been
uncommonly well maintained. Mr..
Emil Carlson's "Still Life" offers
notable case in point. lie has done
more ambitious things, but never any
thing quite so fine as this delicate
study of grays and yellows. A similar
freshness and saliencc mark the con-
tributions of Mr.. c. W. Hawthorne
Mr.. F. c. Frieseke, Mr.. w. L. Metcalf.
Mr.. Robert Henri Mr. J. Alden Weir
and score of others They are full of
sparkle and spirit. The examples OF
deceased painters have been chosen
with. the same good judgment The
Sunlight Of the Sea" of Wins ow
Homer is a capital specimen. The
two Worlds Fair sketches by Twacht-
man are perfect souvenirs Of what
might be called his minor manner.
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Holiday shows of little things are
sometimes pretty thin. This one has
substantial value.
At the Red Cross Enrolment Station.
651 Fifth Avenue, there is an interest
ing exhibition of modern painting and
sculpture depicting the Child Life Of
Christ Amongst the contributors are
George Luks, Cecilia Beaux, Adolphe
Borie, Albert Sterner, Kenneth H. Mil
Ter, Leon Kron, Gerome Brush. h: l.
Quinn, Mahonri Young and Stirling
Calder. The Kingore galleries make
an exhibition OF war and peace" in
sculpture and painting, showing works
by James f. Fraser, 10 Davidson. Ar
thur Crisp, Chester Beach, Middleton
Manigault, Frances Grimes, Malvina
Hoffman and others. Paintings by Al
len Tucker are on view at the Whitney
studio. The Daniel gallery shows
water colors of naval activities, painted
by Thomas H. Benton, L. S. \. Al the
Babcock gallery an exhibition Of
American paintings illustrates the
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which shows to what heights his bril-
lance can rise, marks also the COM
narrow boundaries of his
art. Superb as far as it goes, it never
helcss fails to explore any of the
ipiritual regions which belong to the
Neat creative artist.
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Some Portraits of Whistler.
One of Them Hitherto
Unpublished

work Of Winslow Homer, Ralph A..
Blakelock, Homer Martin and Eastman
Johnson, Of Frederic Remington. r.
Irving Couse. Albert Groll and Williaui
r. Leigh, with divers other types Gov
ering broad period.
The late Governor Oliver Ames Of
Massachusetts, left an extensive col
lection Of paintings and other objects
Of art TIE pictures include three
examples Of George Inness and works
by other Americans. ". L. Picknell, W:
T. Richards, (. /. Weeks, W 7. Smed-
lee and R. ". Van Boskerck The for
cign pictures are mostly Of the modern
French and Italian schools. paintings
by Henri Lerolle. Jules Lefebvre, Gus
tave Jacquet and the like. Mancini.
Munkacsy and Ziem are also repre-
sented. The miscel laneous side of the
collection embraces Venetian glass
Sevres vases from the Mary J. Morgan
collection, furniture and rugs. The
entire mass of material viii be placed
on view al the American Art Galleries
on January II, to be sold a few days
later.
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FROM JEERS To TEARS

TNHE chief of the German naval staff
u Admiral Won Holtzendorff plaintively
iamonts that American transports do not
run according to a public time schedule.
that they have a fondness for fog banks
and an altogether too whimsical way of
selecting their ports of arrival anywhere
between Scotland and the Mediterranean.
We're sorry we can't be more open about
this business, but the Hun himself began
the hole-and-corner variety of warfare. and
il we have bettered the instruction he has
only himself to blame
Two years ago this very naval officer
prophesled that unrestricted submarine
warfare would bring England to her knees
within six months. Failure to make good
that forecast was followed by the predic.
tion that Uboats would prevent the trans
portation of Americas S army Today the
admiral is almost chastened and entirely
apoogetic in his admission that Every little
prospect of success is offered by the special
employment of submarines against Ameri.
can transports"
Confession of this victory of bona fide
sea power, Jointly welded by the United
States and Britain, over piracy is still more
SDeClllCdllN dndlSHeu III 1actS nafSnaled DN
Sir Eric Geddes. First Lord of the British
Admiralty. and Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Roosevelt. They have disclosed that
but one conveyed vessel in two hundred
falls a victim to the German predatory
campaign. adding that as America con
tinues her stride of naval construction the
percentage of loss will be greatly reduced
Up to the present we must thank Britannia
for twO-thirds of the protection to our
ships. AS this ratio goes down many more
opportunities will be provided for offensive
war on the U.boats.
America is hustling on a gigantic scale
to make this possible: Hog Islands first
ship will be launched next Monday. Some
fifty successors are promised before Jan.
uary and soon after that they are expected
to dip into the Delaware at the rate of
one a day. For the country as a whole
little more than that rate Of production
was established with the fortnight ending
July 25. when fifteen vessels were launched.
1t may be predicted that all these COM
ponents, present and to come, of the hugest
armada in history will be just as willy as
their older sisters in puzzling with their
devious and cloudy courses the pirate
chieftains. In another half year the tear
full Won Hotzendorff will be bewailing the
great superfluity Of foe ships well as
foe ports. The fashion in which Ger.
many's jeers have turned to jeremiads may
not precisely appeal to her limited sense
of humor, but our joy in the metamorpho,
sis is already becoming justifiably ex,
quisite.
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McLEMORE IN DRYDOCK

TT JEFF McLEMORE, who has just been
l. defeated in the Democratic primaries
for Congressman in the Seventh Texas
District, had had his way some eighteen
months ago vessels flying the Stars and
Stripes might be, as they in fact still are,
safely plying between Albany and New
York, Philadelphia and Wilmington, Mem
phis and New Orleans. San Francisco and
Sacramento and Buffalo and Duluth. But
not a spoonful of brine would have en-
crusted our shy fotilas.
The resolution which this spineless rep
resentative fathered in Congress was
tantamount to an acceptance of Berlin's
arrogant U-boat decree and virtually with
held from Americans the free use of the
seven seas. Following the richly deserved
defeat of his policy have come some of
Americas most glorious days upon the
ocean and an unparalleled development of
our fleet both in trade and war undertaken
in the righteous cause of freedom The
folly of McLemores act has been trium.
phantly proved by the success of the
counter course. The penalty for his en-.
deavors he has just paid in a complete
political failure.
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GARY SCHOOLS

WERE it not for the war the plans for
w the introduction Of Gary schools into
the public educational system of rhila-
delphia doubtless would have held the
eager attention of most of the citizenry.
There would have been meetings and
speeches and perhaps, public celebrations
when the experiment began in a small
way And if we did not have so many
other things to he concerned about. the
news that an extensive trial Of the Gary
system must be postponed would. be al.
most sad enough for the toling Of mourn
full bells. For in this case the war delays
a boon that has been watched for in vain
through centuries. The Gary system is
devised to make study pleasant. 4. 1t Is a
system for the painless acquisition of
knowledge 1t eliminates rod rush or
routine.
Your Gary child goes eagerly to school,
He isn't harassed by rules of iron and
the shadows of abstract truths which his
soul detests. Everybody who ever went
to an elementary school has felt that there
was something the matter with it-some-
thing terribly wrong somewhere. This
was the conviction inherited from carly
youth by the captains Of industry who
built the city of Gary, Ind, and set up
school system unhampered by any of
the rules of tradition. Being wise men,
they knew that all children are alive with
interest and curiosity. They felt that
knowledge packed into little girl or a
| little boy like potatoes in barrel isn't
| likely TO be of much service The Gary
| system, therefore is devised to make
| knowledge interesting, and it doesn't ask
| any pupil to pass sunny days in a bleak
| room with the hated company of dry
| formulae
Gary children learn. 1t appears, and
| they have a good time in pleasant en-
yironment where they are almost their
own bosses. Iteis a gracious idea.' And
! though the syAem as whole is still
/ regarded a. an experiment. It Is dspress-
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MORE TROUBLE IN THE AIR

WRITERS who are never happy unless
they are sad and others who believe
that the war will be won only through
written abuse of the Administration are
again confusing the public mind with dis
couraged outbursts about the reported
failure of the Haviland type of battle
plane in trials at the front.
The Haviland plane is the type now in
quantity production. If it had developed
serious defects the situation would have
been serious enough. 1t Is noticeable that the
faults attributed to the machine have not
been described or defined. General Per
shing has cabled asking that a great num-
ber of the Havland machines be rushed
to France in August. This would indi-
cate that structural defects which may
have been revealed in actual battle prac-
tice were of a superficial nature and that
the necessary changes already have been
made,
& The Liberty motor Americas Contribu-
tion to the science of war aviation, is now
looked upon as the best in the world. The
faults of the Haviland plane, therefore,
could not be with the engine.
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LINES TO A HOWITZER
By Crantland Rice
Lieutenant, ll5th Field Artillery, A. E. F.

TNILT up your long, black. ugly snout
L. And let it lift against the sky. Z Z
For when you bark your message out
We hear the roar of Freedoms cry;
We've done with Guibble and debate. ,
Here's where the Hun line looms in view.
And out beyond the call of fate ~
We've turned the answer back to you.
No one might call you, at your best,
A thing of beauty. pal Of mine; - &
Your low, squat form is hardly blest
With any grace that's near divine
You're not an ornament for home,
You'd never make an artist cheer,
But wheresoever I may roam =
I only hope that you are near. -
You're tupid-looking-if they will
trif1e dull and all of that; '..:
But when they want some distant hill
Turned into level ground--or flat
Or when they want some Hundred crew
Ground into sausage, near or far, 49,
My little bet goes down on you .a aa
Against whatever odds there are.
You may be sullen as they say, ,.~~-..,
A lop-eared crouch, or even worse, --
But when they need an open way
Before the doughboys start to curse;
Or where, beyond the massing men
They need some one to slam the lid.
We know We'll get the answer when .a
We turn and say-"Go to it, kid"
Copyright. 1918. by The Tribune Association.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
THE MAYOR ON WAR

MATER, murmurs Mayor Smith in what
" he means to be a gay and good
natured yet grave appeal for it's conserva.
ton, will not win the war And yet in
z the text of the formal appeal directed to
all sorts OF people. the lifted forefinger Of
Mr.. Smith is apparent and there is an i'm
plication that if we do not be careful with
the water the Kaiser may yet be king of
the world.
1t is the Mayors characteristic fault to
be indefinite, 1t pains him, though he
doesn't exactly say so, to see little chill.
dren in the tenement districts spraying
themselves at the fire hydrants. His gen.
erai admontion to manufacturers and
householders suggests lot of new sIo-
gans We may be asked to go bathless
and crush the Hun Endure heat pros
tratioR all ye little children of the poor
and Lelp to make the world safe for
defnocracyt
a Mater will not win the war. Neither
win talk. And before the world is finally
made safe for democracy there must be
kteat change in methods of municipal
ADMINISTRATION in America. Meanwhile
Mayor Smith isn't a convincing pleader
Z fof conservation. Had he been frank he
might have been more effective.
"ChlIdren," the Mayor might have said.
I've haven't been wise. We have been
slow. fearful, stupid at times and ineffi.
4 Giant We knew years ago that there
WQ1ldnf be enough water to go around.
We haye 'coIisidered the matter for years
ozfd yet we do not know what to suggest.
- have been too busy looking after our
,fjends to think deeply about the water
.txply- It Is your patriotic duty to en-
sppstroke If you will do this we
Dise to spare no sounding phrase to
~ war for ciyilization."
aopeal like this would have rune
~ children would know ipstinc-
osit was true. xhsy would re-
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AUGUST

THINE was when August lay in the cal
- endar's doldrums. Deeds may have
been dreamed, but very few were exc
cuted in the languors of that vacation
season. Generals Humidity and Heat held
eHNay.y Even now they still sum-
mon their battalions, but their demands
to stack activities are quite unheeded.
Such orders have been futile since 1914.
Then the Hun struck and sought to crush.
France bent, but did not break Britain
espoused liberty. Actions to establish free
dom, opposing ones to assert tyranny,
ragged for three subsequent Augusts.
Their magnitude, unmeasured by prece
dent, must yet pale before what may in
deed be the most terrific mont!l in history
Neither liberty nor oppression was ever
30 superbly armed.
The thirty-one days period which begins
tomorrow was named from the author
OF a world peace, Octavus Caesar called
Augustus If not, as civilians view him
today, entirely a model ruler, he at least
saved many things which right-thinking
humanity still cherishes and some of
which it seeks to retain.
In his time, too, the menace came from
the East. He crushed Antony, infatuated
with standards of Oriental despotism. He
preserved. certain republican institutions
to whose principles, more literally applied
we still adhere. He established order ant
a world peace. t,-..~
Pregnant with associations is the name
of August. Pregnant with deeds will b,
this summer Of 1918. The orifamme O
heroism, and it is TO be hoped of triumph
has replaced the lotus.
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ing to read the announcement ,of Dr. AL
bert II. Raub, associate superintendent of
schools, that we shall be unable to give 1t
a thorough trial before next year. The
extension of the Gary plan from the one
Philadelphia school in which it is now
being tried will be delayed till February.
1919, because of war shortage of mate
rial and money. The humane men who
wantto see education robbed Of its terrors
will have one more reason, therefore, to
detcst a much.hated Emperor of far
country.
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: READERS VIEWPOINT


To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger.
Sir-I read your editorial headed "Bonni-
WELL" and. If you please, / would like to
remark that the Judge is not depending on
the prominent Democrats to elect HIM
1t is the humble Democrats who know him
well. and whom he knows we'll. that will
elect Bonniwell as sure AS Well, you'll
see by the time November rolls around Just
how 1t will happen.
In the meantime, while the weather is
lot, let us try to keep cool. even IL we do find
other things besides the weather to tan
talize US. JOHN j. FLEMING.
Philadelphia. July 30
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What Do You KnoW?
QUIZ

!. Who was the Chevalier de Saint GeorHe?
2, What, in a military sense, Is o limo OF com
munlcatons?
3. Where Is Camp Greene?
4. Who IL George Sylvester Viereck? Er,
g. Name the author Of "The Gold Bux."
6. Where Is JaulEonne?
7. What Is the "Koelnische ZeitunE"S
8. Who Is General Mangin?
0. Who wrote the text Of the Declaration Of
Independence? .-
10. Who said; 81 have made ten people dis
contented and ono ungrateful."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
Winning
the War

The fuel administra-
Winning tion has Cancelled the
the War order under which
street lights were ex-
tinguished on Market and Broad streets to
save fuel" The half-dark streets were
considered dangerous. The fuel adminstra-
tion required two days to learn what almost
any one could have told it in two minutes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31

Philadelphia heat sufferers entitled
to any satisfaction they may derive from the
news that Arizona thermometers have lately
been registering l 06 degrees in Phoenix. We
always knew 1t was a fre-brd.
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George Sylvester vi
How II Works

George Sylvester Vie
How 1t Works reck, poet laureate of
the germaniacs in
America. who was secretly endowed by Bern
storff, confessed yesterday that the Kaiser
spent s5o,OoO,0o0 for propaganda in America
and got nothing" What the Kaiser didn't
get for his expenditures his soldiers are get
ting now in France
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31

The Hungarian newspaper Magyga-
roszaka reports that deaths in Budapest ex-
ceed births The theory that some of the
fatalities came from lockjaw seems tenable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31

Since wool disappeared from Germany
efficiency makes breeches out of propa-
Times. =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31

As matter of fact. the Germans ought
really be friendly to the policy of Pan
Turkey They do continually in their
vctimizing of that country
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More Power
to Them!

Perhaps the Czecho-
More Power Slovaks are going to
to Them! be the dark horses Of
the eastern situation.
They seem to have habit of getting over
the ground and doing something when they
get there.