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Evening star., 1919-03-13
Open Discussions for the Treaty.
This is taken from news story:

This is taken from news story:
Senator Borah gave it as his opinion
that the Senate stands ready to aban-
don the traditional policy of consider
ing treaties in secret session and
throw the doors open to the public
when the treaty containing the league
Of nations reaches the Capitol. There
has been too much secrecy in the prep
aration of the treaty, he declared, and
predicted the American people would
not tolerate secret diplomacy in the
Senate. Republican leaders, such as
Senator Lodge, share Senator Borah's 5
opinion"
The Idaho senator, encouraged by
his receptions in the east, which have
been extremely cordial, is On the eve
Of making a western tour, extending
across the continent. His one subject
wiil be the league Of nations. He finds
the public greatly interested in it. He
J. greatly interested in it himself. He
expects to continue stumping for sew
,eral months.
Mr. Borah's voice will reach q great
many people. He is one of the most
popular and effective speakers in the
country. Notice of an address by
him In the Senate crowds the galleries.
He has now a subject much to his lik-
ing; and he handles it with marked
fsankness.
Let US hope that, wherever he goes,
Mr.. Borah, after giving his views on
the subject of the league, may declare
for open discussion in the Senate when
the treaty now in course of prepara-
&ion is presented there for action, and
explain the Importance of the propo-
lGition.
The proposition is very important.
Very great interest would have been
taken in the matter if no controversy
had arisen over the league. Even
then, owing to the unusual character
of the treaty, the public would have
feH an unusual curiosity about every
sshisg relating to the instrument.
But now curiosity is greatly increased
by the sharp differences of opinion
that have developed between the Presi
dent on the one side and his critics
On the other as to the meaning of the
league the President has in mind, and
Whist, if adopted as a world policy, it
VIII accomplish. In the short space
Of few weeks this subject has come
- overshadow all other subjects.
II would be mistake to close the
eenate's doors at such time on such
. subject. Every senator should be,
&atd we may assume is, willing to de-
liver his views in the open: and the
opportunity should be afforded. In
deed, many of them have already done
ee.l< And while the topic is likely to
be larger after the peace conference
has acted, it yet is not likely to ex-
pand TO point where secrecy in this
day of publicity would find any sort
Of justification.
Evening star., 1919-03-13
No Hostility.

Members of a citizens association
at a meeting the other night urged
the District Commissioners to accept
the sum of 100000 rendered by Wash
ingtonians to the local government for
the maintenance Of street cleaning op-
erations, and adopted resolutions to
the effect that the Commissioners are
"morally bound to take judicial notice
of the manifest hostility of the Con-
gress just adjourned to the interest
of the inhabitants of this community"
This is not discreet expression. Fail
ure of the street cleaning appropriation
was not due to any hostility on the part
of Congress toward the District, how
ever the interests of the National Capt.
tai have been neglected recently on
Capitol Hill. The failure of funds for
District purposes was not peculiar to
Washington. 1t affected many other
interests. 1t hit the government far
harder than it did the District. 1t
was due to a jam of bills in the clos
ing hours of the session There may
have been bad management, but there
was no hostility. Whether the Dis
trict Commissioners can accept the
proffered fund or not, they will GER
tainly not take any notice of the fail
ure Of Congress to appropriate for the
Districts needs other than to urge i'm
mediately at the opening of the extra
session the prompt passage of an emer-
gency appropriation. Meanwhile the
citizens can do something to relieve
the situation by abstaining from
throwing refuse into the streets and
possibly by themselves having the
pavements in front Of their dwellings
and business places swept daily.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

beyond recognition, stopping points
have been altered and the whole street
car situation revolutionized. 1t is time
the rules were revised. But with all
the revisions possible and practicable
there remains one plain necessity, and
that is to provide more cars and run
them more dependably in order to
carry the much greater number of peo-
pie requiring daily transportation
Evening star., 1919-03-13

The announcement thas President
Wilson was entertained by moving pic
tures on board the George Washington
implies delicate but handsome com
pliment to ex-Secretary McAdoo's pres
ent association with the films.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

Mr.. George Creei expressed some
curiosity as to whether the news of
his severance of connection got
through with the other news. There is
apparently such thing as a censor
being "hoist with his own petard"
Evening star., 1919-03-13

Senator Knox is inclined to question
whether President Wilson can follow
up his cablegram to Paris, that the
American people are behind the league
of nations as the proposition stands,
with conclusive verifcation.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

To the rapidly increasing response
bilities of the Post Office Department
Is added the handling of the extraordi-
mary mail now being received by
United States senators.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

The ex-kaiser manages to contem-
plate the fighting in Berlin with the
calmness of man who has decided to
remain neutral.
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The attempt to promote German
opera in New York did not 60 so far
as to invite DR.. Muck to lead the or
chestra.
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Ciemeneeau is reported SO well on
the way to recovery that he can sit up
and take notice with extraordinary
alertness.
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The fact that Senator Borah did not
attend the White House repast will
not prevent him from making a long
series of after dinner speeches.
Evening star., 1919-03-13
SHOOTING STARS.
By PH1LANpEa JOHNSON.
Promoting Geniality.

Promoting Geniality.
"Do you expect to save money by
gardening this yearf"
Hadn't thought Of that" replied
Mr.. Crosslots. "But the garden makes
things more cheerful. Every time the
man who sells me vegetables comes
around and looks at it he has a good
laugh"
Evening star., 1919-03-13
A Sad Situation

Everything you touch turns to
gold!"
"Yes," exclaimed Midas. at is most
embarrassing. How am l ever going
to make out a correct income tax re-
turn!"
Evening star., 1919-03-13

1t will be some time before Berlin
resumes her boasts of being the most
precisely governed city in the world.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

New England towns that are now
voting "wet" are regarded as simply
making futile attempt to backslide.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

The senatorial round robin does not
impress Paris as heralding balmy and
tuneful spring.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

As candidate for punishment Eu-
gene Debs is being taken more seri-
sously than he ever was as a candidate
for President.
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Baltimore is being watched for boot
leggers with designs ON Washington.
The police favor system of collecting
at the source.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

Northern New Jersey is now con-
cerned about strike ON the trolley
lines. Why should the patient com
muter suffers
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Work necessarily follows relaxation.
February was full of holidays. In
March comes the income tax return.
Evening star., 1919-03-13

One way to cast a chill over any
diplomatic assembiage is to offer sug-
gestion that Bernstorff be present.
Evening star., 1919-03-13
A PARODY.

The heights by prices reached and kept
Were all attained by sudden fight:
They started while a nation slept,
And simply went up overnight.
Evening star., 1919-03-13
Making a Stand.

"Charley, dear" said young Mrs.
Torkins, "what is thiss"
"It's my income tax blank"
"WeH, Pm going to throw it right
out of this house. Some Of the Ian
guage you were apparently reading
from it is entirely unfit for our poll
parrot to hear"
Evening star., 1919-03-13
Imitation.

lmtatlOn.
The imitation "di'mond"
Was invented long ago;
But the imitation jewel
Has a curious sort O. glow.
You know it isn't real,
And it doesn't seem worth while,
For it has an empty iuster
Like an imitation smile.
An imitation flower
Plays sad and lifeless part,
And pitiful deception
Lies in imitation art.
But the saddest demonstration
OF hypocritie wiIe
u the phosphoresesat flicker
I. 0f an imitatien. smilea
Evening star., 1919-03-13
Since Crimson GuIch Went Dry.

Since Crimson GuIch Went Dry.
"There's no kick to this beverage
whatever" said Three Finger Sam.
"Not yet" replied Cactus Joe.
''You're supposed to furnish the kick
yourself when you step up to pay the
check"
Arizona republican., 1919-10-06

 necessity tits today There such shortage of places for folks
   savings owning and at the esamet time valuable tnnent is made. Valley mabe while in the value of adds further profit the time of sale another without build Consult the tserson ewhoo their rvicesto
  United States and should afford home.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26
The PictorialLaureate of
Aviation in French Art

Lieutenant Henri Fares paintings of
battles in the air were shown first in
New York, when they were brought 20
this country last year. but they are
welcome on second visit. They have
just been placed on exhibition again
at the Anderson Galleries, where they
will be on view for three weeks, the
proceeds of the exhibition going to the
Fatherless Children of France. They
return to us after having rendered
good service to the patriotic funds for
which they have been displayed
throughout the country under the aus
plces of the French Military Mission
They have merits which the public has
appreciated, and the painter in his ad
dresses has only enhanced interest in
his work and in his noble cause. He is
an artist and, even more, historian:
The fascination of this collection Of
pictures lies less in matters of tech
nique. of aesthetic charm. than in the
amazing vividness with which it places
before US some of the strangest phe-
nomena of the war
We say "strangest" because while
we have grown accustomed enough to
the aeroplane to take the spectacle of
a fight over New York almost as q
matter Of course, there is still some
thing very nearly incredible about the
dramas depicted by Lieutenant Fare.
These paintings are souvenirs OF
actual experience, they are the work
OF man who learned to make the air
something like his natural element.
and he gives his scenes the color and
movement of new world. The flying
machine as he draws it is machine
going day by day about portentousLy
romantic and picturesque business. 1t
is more than strange, it is eerie, but
what makes the pictures remarkable
is their fusion of this bizarre element
with an atmosphere of compelling
truth We have seen aviation studies
that reminded one of nothing so much
as of the tour de force. Lieutenant
Farre impresses US not as man OF
imagination or of pictorial audaclty,
but as realist of the utmost SINGER
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26

Continued on page tlceipe
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26
The AFFAIRS OF THE AMERICAN ARTIST

produce an easel picture. Another art
ist has explained that he found it more
profitable to leave it to dealer to
handle" all his works. From rea-
sons of this kind the Academy shows
have for years been weakened. The
absentee has largely been re-
sponsible. But the jury also has to
bear part of the blame. point which
Mr.. Low confirms in his allusion to
the generosity of the Academy" and "a
most lenient standard" He has him
self been known to shock his col
leagues by declaring, with his belief
in the honesty and liberality of juries,
conviction that they are not always
governed by intelligence. That is the
cold truth. The Academy is undoubt-
edly there. to recognize budding talent.
But that is only one of its functions.
1t is even more important that it
should weed out merely stupid pic
lures, that it should keep down. at any
rate, the mediocre material which, as
we have said, smothers the representa-
tive works. In the maintenance of
higher standard lies the solution of
the problem.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26

as to the Academy's function If that
junction was to register the state Of
American art, why did it so often fail
to do this in a clear and Interesting
manner? The explanation was haz-
arced that representative works were
smothered in q mass Of mediocre mate
rial. A leading Academician. Mr.. VIII
II. Low. took up the theme. Bv an
accident his letter was mislaid and
only the other day came to hand. But
Its interest has not faded. 1t is surely
desirable to know the Academic point
Of view as we'll as the non-Academic.
and especially at this time should the
following communication be welcomes:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There is a moral to be drawn
from the article by MIR Royal Cor
tlssoz entitled "Ihe Academy RI
vailed by Thirty Artists" which the
author seems TO nave neglected to
make clear. Though Mr. CoYtissoz
is too honest critic to DIN in the
chorus OF Misrepresentation which
constitutes the chief activity of
minor critics Of our locai press. he
questions why the Academy SO often
fails in its function Of registering
the state Of our current art in as
chosen canvases now on exhibition
al the Macbeth gallery succeeds in
doing.
The answer would appear to be
obvious, since the thirty painters
under consideration are virtually all
members Of the Academy Of Design,
whose membership would permit the
multiplication Of exhibits to about
ten times this number were it pos
sble to hold an Academy exhibition
without any outside representation
whatsoever-an exhibition whose
merit, venture to say, would sur
prise our public and probably silence
much of the adverse criticism to
which its successive exhibitions are
now SUBJ bjected. 1t is the abstention
Of the members themselves from its
exhibitions that is the weakest link
in the chain OF American art which
the Academy has welded together
during the many years Of its exist
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26

ence! Granting that all the artists
thus associated who are now active
IN their profession are not of equal
merit, and that all have not achieved
full confirmation from the public of
the honor of the choice bestowed
uDon them by the members of their
own profession, it would be difficult
to scan the rolls of Academy mem
bership and find a notable name in
American art lacking, as it would be
for lesser number. more conversant
with the inner life of our art, to find
among those elected at any period in
the history of the Academy any one
whose distinction was not justified
by the technical and artistic merit
OF his work.
To organize and hold an exhibition
to which none but work by members
would be admitted would put by tenn
porarily one of the chief purposes of
the Academy, the early recognition
of talent outside its ranks, since in
every exhibition about two-thirds of
the work shown is contributed by
'outsiders" This element of it's ac-
tivity might be easily suspended in
one Of the two exhibitions held year
~. if by this time the generosity of
the Academy in maintaining for the
past ninety years an exhibition, open
to all, Of merit established by q
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26

member of the jury Of selection for
the forthcoming exhibition as to the
quality of the work sent in this year,
ne shook his head doubtfully. but his
expression changed as he said, I'VE
have not looked over the 'exempts'
yet, and of course it is these which
bring up the niard of the whole
show The 'exemlts" are the works
by members whose contributions are
not submitted to the jury, a privilege
which IN their extreme liberaiity
some of the beneficiaries of the rule
would see abolished, forgetful of the
lowering of the standard which
would ensue if artists of we'll estab-
Jeopardize their hard-won position
by submission of their work to
jury which, however liberal, however
honest, is yet to be burdened with
the weight of fallibility that is never
altogether absent from contempo-
raneous Judgment.
such an lll-judged movement would
tend to weaken the exhibitions which,
from too loosely established stand
ards have less than their possible
merit already. Al present, owing to
the limited facilities which the me-
tropolis of our country affords for
the exhibition of current art, about
three hundred and fifty works over
crowd the galleries whore the Acad-
eny exhibits. Automatically the
number of doubtful works would be
eliminated by an exhibition restrict
ed to the works of its members. The
experiment should be tried. for 10
any one conversant with the status
Of our art no such exposition Of its
merits has ever been made An ex-
hibition like that at the Macbeth GAL
lery could, by few substitutions, be
gathered from almost any exhibition
of the Academy and gain in i'm
portance, as does the exhibition in
question, by spaced hanging and
proper surroundings.
1t is well known fact that the
exhibitions in other cities, which our
critics so frequently praise at the
expense of our Academy exhibitions,
make most effectual use of these last
by choosing their more important
pictures, almost without exception,
from the works by members of the
Academy.
The obvious moral of all this would
be to bring together restricted ex-
hibition of this character, without a
jury of selection, for which the eX-
enpt privilege OF the members and
association of the Academy provides,
and if it be rash to calculate, by the
tenfold multiplication of thirty.
mathematical certainty of superior
ity to any exhibition we have ever
seen of American art to the exact
degree Of the sum, it is quite within
reason to assert that its artistic re-
suit would surprise even those who
consider that they have an exact
knowledge OF the status of our
American art. WILL II. LOW
Lawrence Park, Bronxville, n. y.
Greater solidarity on the part of the
Academicians, which Mr.. Low urges,
would undoubtedly be beneficial. In
season and out OF season we have
pleaded for it. When we have asked
a distinguished Academician why he
had no painting in the exhibition of
the moment. he has replied that he was
too busy on & mural decoration 10
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26

most lenient standard, was suffi-
clently recognized to permit mo-
mentary lapse in its large charity.
1t is doubtful, however, if svch ac-
tion would not be misinterpreted
for the legend of the conservative
Academy and its approval Of the
Herod-likc ferocity of its juries OF
selection have been firmly fixed in
certain minds. This despite the com
mon experience, oft repeated to some
of those who have been long and
frequently selected for the work Of
the jury, when some one of the
younger and most radical artists,
scarce recovered from the surprise
at the ease with which he has forced
the academic portal is constrained
to declare that though, as in youth
full duty bound, he has "kicked'
against the Academy jury, he finds,
when serving upon it. that it is lib
eral and absolutely honest. This in
passing. it may be said. is the reason
too often for the conditions noted bv
Mr.. Cortissoz when Representative
works are smothered in q mass of
mediocre MATERIAL For there is not
a shadow of doubt that the chief
merit of our Academy exhibitions is
given by the works there shown by
the members of the institution. ONLY
few days ago, inquiring from
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26
The Ideas of the Secession
And of the Academy
By Royal Cortissoz

The recent announcement of new
orsAnisation of artists, having its
or;vju in dissatisfaction with the poll
.;ss of the Academy of Design, in
.tSntly brought back memories of the
t.sious secession of 1877. 1t was in
~ year that the Society of American
et+sists was founded, to give the
voHnger, more progressive painters a
.sance for the exhibition of their
xorks which the Academy was 10th to
grsnt. The new body functoned ad-
nirably for years. Then its shows
hsran to look more and more like the
shows of the Academy, and in 1906
The secessionists came formally back
into the fold. All the members of the
Society became members of the Acad-
envy and the present writer recalls
the dinner at which the pact was
sealed as an occasion on which every
body concerned was entirely content.
Ie.was love feast if ever there was
one. Are we to witness by and by
similar swinging of the pendulum?
there is passage in one of Matthew
Arnold's ESSAYS which is not inapposite.
Missing over the prodigious richness
u Catholic literature in the British
Museum he speaks of the extraordi-
nary powers it implies. In spite of her
tendency to burn him, he says, the
man Of imagination will always be
Yeturning to the bosom of the Church
Of Rome. Well, the man of imagina-
tion is sometimes magnihcently reso-
lute in his abstention from the Acad-
emy, but, on the other hand, as the
Incident Of the Society OF American
Artists shows, the Academy has a way
Of lasting, the secession has a way of
reverting to old paths. We shall see
what happens in this new case-and
in the mean time it is to be remem-
bered that it took nearly thirty wears
for the old society to renew its first
allegiance.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26
e first exhibition will be opened
Calendar of Exhibitions

American antique
and modern furnitu
AT Alliance Of tion Of texti
nnord Galleries, paintings
Prominent
bourgeois Gallery paintings
Blanchard
Church House. s-Exhbi-
Of Serdun
NoHy, East Fory-eventh sreet-Exhbition
Baroness erneln
Daniel Gallery, strcetExhibin of
Paintings
Dadensng Galleries.
'sS by lnness, Wyan, Bakeock and Murphy.
Enrich CaleryRare etchngs by FrankB
erare Gallery. American
r's sereens by Robert Winthrop Chaner
'"ef Club Exhibition Of bookbinding beginning
October
heanedy Go, Of
Warrington
heppel Gallery Hntzelman
@S' ~ Ellie Nademan drawings BY Boardman Robinson
me Lantern $50 paintings by
temporary artiss
~ '"e' - 49,
oann Agency, 81 artists
"s fe'srs"n and paintings arts
sn' box Gallery AZ Warrington colors by
ssafr Bsrnath