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New-York tribune., 1919-10-26
The New Group of Painters.
Sculptors and Gravers

The most promising element in the
situation is the evident good humor
prevailing on both sides. Last winter
and in the spring, when there was a
good deal of talk about dissension with
in the membership of the Academy, it
appeared to the onlooker as though a
certain amount of bad blood was newt
able. The arguments over the reforma-
ton OF the Academy's jury system had
some lll-soundng echoes Now these
have been silenced. Mr.. Watrous, the
secretary of the Academy, was quoted
IN The Tribune last Thursday as saying
There is plenty of room for both or
ganlzatons. Speaking for the Academy,
am sure we wish the newly formed
society good luck" And from the new
society, the "American Painters, Sculp-
tors and' Gravers," we have received
his statement:
1t has always been said Of every new
society OF artists that it was formed to
combat the Academy will be said OF
this society-but this society was formed.
as every new society generally has been
formed. without taking the National
Academy of Design into consideration at
all. 1t Is neither a radical nor a con-
.eryatise society. 1t is an entirely in
dependent society Of artists VINO have felt
q the school or the camp which begot it
mat the message Of work of art, in
other words. is more important than the
ansuage IN which il is couched. Thus
mere will be found in the present ex-
aioltlon examples in languages altogether
iorelgn to each other as languages, but
Perhaps purely as languages. for they are
AKIN IN the quality of the message in
mat sensitiveness which makes for indi-
viduality
Indeed, if this society con,bats any
thing al ali. It combats the idea of the
presminence of any school Of art over
another Il has grown in membership
slowly from an initial body Of perhaps
snse or six men. There has never been
a. any time in the short history Of the
s0'y sVcie'y any Jury or any system resen-
bang the jury system. Men we're invited
20 become members Of the society, were
invited to Judge their own works and to
send the result OF this judgment to the
INST exhibition. assured that it would be
paced he forty-odd members hold each
oeaes IN mutual respect, and while the
membership Is not SO large as it will
fs'ehsuaily become. the present men,
s's want II 70 become it is believed by
ZEN .aem 70 present 2 perhaps more diversified
. sssume OF the range of American art
man has heretofore been given Most Of
= anr exhibitions have been held within the
svenas OF certain movements or certain
'caook This one shuts its eyes to
ssaoos' u i believed. in order TO better
be able 20 preserve art
ne first exhibition will be opened
:. the GiEnpel and Wildenstein gallery
'arNovemper / Besides paintings and
I sealp,ures there viii be water colors,
p1s'eis and other drawings Forty-six
ssas's vii be represented and the list
.nnistakaoly contains the names of
..ne men Of talent When the exhibi-
: ,.;a, I'm mas been closed IN New York it
VIII De taken 20 Rochester, Buffalo
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26

ity. His work, as we have said, has
little charm. If he has been stirred
by the glorious beauty of his cloudland
he has not interpreted il in terms of
design and color in their turn beauti-
tul. But Of the authenticity of his
backgrounds. blue sky and billowing
clouds, there can be no question. In
the quality of illusion these pictures
are mastery. We feel that they muss
register perfectly. too. the special
silhouette and movement OF the aero
plane in action. The battle episodes
celebrated in them, all exciting and
some Of them tragic, have Il curious.
uncanny naturalness. We attribute it
to no Inventive adroitness, bat. rather
TO strong powers of observation. The
sky lighting of the war is, in q word.
brought before US as in a mirror. So
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26
The Academic Point of
View on Exhibitions

Last winter, toward the close Of the
season, there was an excellent collec-
ton of pictures by thirty American
artists shown at the Macbeth gallery.
In the discussion Of them in these
columns the show was described as
constituting a miniature Academy, and,
apropos, some questions were asked
New-York tribune., 1919-10-26

Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis and very
possibly two or three, more cities.
Upon an enterprise like that of the
American Painters. Sculptors and
Gravers the public is commonly sup
posed to look with benevolent interest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
arrest EVifhout Detention

Here and there there were ar
rests. But what came of them?
How many bartenders are now in
jail for selling liquor? The saloon
gentry has escaped virtually I'M
scathed. A bartender hailed into
court paid $50 in fine and was re-
leased with judicial warning to
commit no further violations. The
saloonkeeper who employed the bar
tender was not gathered in the
tolls If by any chance he was
brought to court he offered the in
genious explanation that he didn't
know what his bartender was do
ing. That this was the result of
a preconceived plan seems evident
from the fact that the bartender
who faced judge in the morning
was invariably back on the job at
night
Under these circumstances the
ancient demon again became men,
Der in good standing. Operators
Of cabarets and revues who had
been crying bankruptcy in June
merely cut down their shows and
took in as much as $3.50 a high
ball The contradiction in fact was
obvious to every Broadwayite. The
cafe proprietor declared he was
forced to cut down his revue be-
cause of prohibition-many Of the
cuts ranging from 81 900 to $4,000
week-when as matter of fact
he was getting twice as much for
highball as ne ever received be-
fore and was selling an inferior
product.
AS an answer 20 this the pro-
prietor claims that he sells only to
his friends and that his patronage
has been UNNECESSARILY reduced
particularly among out-of-towners
because of the generally accepted
theory that prohibition is fact
AS to the first it is significant that
any one who has the right look
could, up torast Tuesday, be served
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

with hard liquor in any one of a
great number Of cafes in the down
town theatrical section and the out
lying districts of New York. The
friend" business has been apocry-
phal and overdone. AS to the sec
ond claim, those who visit New Y ork
from out Of town-and there are
100000 a day-have invariably
been shocked at the open traffic in
liquor in New York City, although
some Of them not to the extent that
they have not gayly participated in
the unexpected boon. The expires
sion Of a famous surgeon visiting
the recent convention of surgeons
at the Waldorf Astoria was that he
was dumfounded by the open man
ner in which the liquor traffic was
conducted in New York, and that
he had particularly observed that at
banquets and dinners the usual
quota had not been diminished.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Little Change

Therefore, when the dry wave hit
New York in midweek, with the re-
port that Colonel Porter was bur
nishing his arms for target practice,
there was no change at all in New
fork's appearance so far as the bars
Of its leading hotels were concerned,
save that 2.75 beer was not served.
In the saloons, cafes and on the
roof gardens there still was among
drinking men the will to gaiety and
the desire to procure strong drink on
the 20. T." but it could not be done.
There was nothing to be but sober.
AS one bartender said: "If you see
drunken man now he isn't drunk.
He's druggedw He meant that any
one who showed the effects Of liquor
had undoubtedly been served inferior
NufF by q bootlegger.
1t was noticeable that the usual
glow Of good feeling on the roof gar
dens and In cabarets and the rather
happy intimacy between the player
and the spectator were lacking and a
man who operates two roof gardens
made the outright statement that on
the basis Of last weeks prohibition
me roof gardens might IS we'll lock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

Some Of the byproducts II this
situation have been amusing For
one thing it has made necessary al
increased vigilance in dealing with
walters. If the proprietor main
tanned his traffic on friendly
basis no such nice distinction de-
TERED the waiter. Walters began
setting themselves up in business.
They obtained whiskey of doubtful
pedigree and confdentially advised
the customer that he could be served
on cash basis, whatever the atti-
tude Of the cafe might be toward
the customer and prohibition. in
this manner, wherein the waiter
evaded the checker and sold his own
booze for cash and profit, the cafe
became d victim Of negative fraud
at the hands Of its own help. Some
walters tinessed this practice to the
extent that miniature serving trays,
with slots to hold small whiskey
glasses, were secreted In their coat
pockets 1t is needless 70 add that
the oblging waiter received d salts
factory sum for his doubly deceiv-
ing service.
Bellboys likewise profited by boot
Logging, and in some Of the very
hotels that prohibited liquor traffic
investigation proved bellboys were
on the quiet getting as much as sl5
a quart for rye and Bourbon whs
key. Good Scotch was, as it has
always been, almost priceless.
Such had been the spectacle In
New York during the alleged dry
wave, and which lasted up to the dc
feat Of the Presidents veto on the
Nolstead act last Tuesday. What
ever has been the situation in other
towns and cities, this metropolis has
taken its liquor stand in its own
hands, and on the basis, with some
notable exceptions, Of business as
usual
Last week when the President.
veto was overridden by both houses
Of Congress affairs took anothc-
turn. At the time the Retail Liquor
Dealers Association was in session.
and the word went forth that moth
ing containing more than one-nalf Of
l per cent Of alcohol in volume
should be sold. The word Of the as
ISOLATION is law, and the lid was
actually clamped on, at least among
the six thousand association mem
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

PROHIBITION is still paramountly a
sport and so accepted by the drink
ing men if not the dealers in the
greatest city on the face of the
earth.
A chronological study of the eff
fort seeking to exterminate the
ancient demon establishes more of
farce than tragedy, more of hard
drinks than soft, so far as New
York City is concerned.
There have been. in effect, three
different stages Of prohibition in
New York since July 1. The first
was the approximately dry state
from July ! to 10, the second the ap-
proXimately wet stage from July 10
to October 20, and the third the ex-
tant approximately ''bone-dry' pc
Rod which has obtained since mid
week, on the advice Of William D.
Hirst, counsel for the liquor inter
ests.
How does New York look dry7
That is a question difficult to an
suer, because New York has not
been genuinely dry at any time
isn't even now, since men can still
mix their own drinks-and all that
passes as prohibition is, in sense,
more apparent than real. 1t might
be better to ask how New York looks
wher it is specifically or at best
only nearly dry.
All summer the bars of the big
hotels have been the most conspicu-
Gus examples Of the dry state. They
still are. Instead of the noisy hum
that now and again breaks into
boisterousness under a wet regimen
these bars have been models of
decorum and sobriety; for the most
part, quiet as the hotel writing room.
1t is not necessary for the oldest
inhahitant 10 recall the far-famed
cocktail hour. Any one can do that.
Now the cocktail hour is gone
Shot" as some put it. Whatever
else there was in the thin glass and
its orange-speckled content, appar-
emily there was something that made
for conviviality and stimulated con-
versatjon for without the cocktail
the Cocktail hour" has vanished.
Bartenders seem to recall that a few
brave souls tried to perpetuate this
celebrated Broadway hour without
the regular ammunition" but it
has not worked out. Attendance fell
off, Just as it has between the acts
during the theater hours, The hotel
bar has become distinctly second in
Importance to the cigar stand, once
It's adjunct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

the advent Of wartime prohibition,
there was naturally nothing to as
tonish the eye after last midweek.
It is rather an erroneous opinion
that a few days, a week or even a
month of "bone dry" prohibition can
greatly alter the appearance Of
any city. Habit leads the drinking
man into his regular haunts, even
though he is not served as usual, and
there is, as consequence, no great
change in the looks Of any saloon,
however chastened it may be in
spirit.
For two weeks after the wartime
prohibition Of July l went into eff
feet New York City was dry. The
big hotels took the lead in this di-
rection, and most of them have since
stood pat on dry policy. There
have been capitulations. Up to last
week one we'll known hotel which
displayed large placards, "No in
toxicating liquors sold here" prob
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
At Last Prohibition Clamps the Lid On Tigl

up and go out Of busincss-unless
and here is the point that has been
outstanding since July /, the spec
.ator had remembered to bring his
flask. The flask dodge is one that
the Anti-Saloon League has yet to
deal with.
But New York has been outwardly
sober since last July and since none
but the bars that were willing to
take a chance and pay if caught
have been selling hard stuff" since
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Seeking Quality

1t was this situation that made
of prohibition game that any one
could play. The game became in
the end matter not Of finding
places where hard stuff was sold
that was easy-but of finding a
place where there was an estab-
hshed quality IN the output. The
New Yorker mad become soured on
taking drink of synthetic" head
achy booze merely for the pleasure
of beating the game. He must have
good booze.
A certain party of convivial souls
TAXED from Times Square to a
saloon on 125th Street to quaff what
were said to be a few of the final
remaining drops Of genuine Scotch
in New York. The price was as
cents a drink, a saving over White
Way costs Of a sufficient amount TO
more than pay the taxi bill, in addi-
ton to being assured the genuine
thing in drink
A certain restaurant on Sixth
Avenue has gained more fame than
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

pie. The events
of the last week,
which has been a
hectic one, have
given more deini-
ton to the rules of
the game and
have cramped the
style of some Of
the players, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

PROHIBITION, so far as New
York City is concerned,
l. seems to be game that can
be played with considerable
easure by a large number of PEG
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

ably considered these signs in the
hight OF ornamentation. At any rate.
hard drinks were going over the bar
DAY after day and night after night
Tor the asking-and the paying.
This hotel was not alone; it only
happened to be more conspicuous.
There are great many others which
have adopted the public policy of
ION with the Dance" and the private
policy of on with the drinks.
Intelligence Service
BY July Is the average saloon
keeper and cafe proprietor had ar
rived at the conclusion that if the
government intended to take active
enforcement measures it was max
ing a mighty poor job Of it. The
intelligence service that is main
tanned by the liquor interests could
find no obstacle in the way of re-
Stunning the sale Of liquor to friends,
claiming that as a matter of alb
stract justice they had right to do
this.
In consequence the sale of hard
stuff was resumed in all the five
boroughs Of the greater city. The
amount of caution with which the
goods were dispensed depended en-
tirely upon the personality of the
proprietor. If he took a don 't-give-
a-damn attitude he served whiskey
openly and at advanced prices to
any one and found the traffic so
profitable that the investigator will
discover cases of saloOnkeepers try
ing to buy back casks of whiskey
from customers to whom they sold
them the last week in June If the
customer were persuaded to put back
into common circulation the liquid
treasure he had stored in his cellar
it may be assumed he did so at a
nice profit
Not every saloon sold to all com
ers. In fact, most Of them VIC
lated the law on the basis Of friendly
connections, the deduction being
that the keeper never had so many
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

ever It could In ordinary channels
by letting it be known that drinks
are TO be had at all hours and that
the quality iS of pre- prohibition
quality This cafe, in consequence.
has done landoffice business. The
liquor is all that its owner claims
for it, it is served without any
mysterious hocus- pocus; and as "a
result the cafe has kept all Of its
old customers, in addition to adding
more new ones than it can accom-
modate. This patent violation has
been almost laudable in its above
the -boardness; yet nothing had been
done about it.
To instance even the majority of
the places, many of them old INST
tutions, where liquor might have
have been had up TO last Wednes-
day, would consume no end OF
space. 1t suffices TO say that from
July ID 10 OcloDer -S7-WheN the
word went out from the Retail
Liquor Dealers Association to
clamp on the lid-no thirsty man
could in all faith presume to say
that he was imposed upon by prohi-
bition conditions as they have been
worked out in New York " there
has been imposition it has been in
the matter of quality. not of scare
NV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

friends in his life as he has had
during the past three months.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

chautauqua this year will return to
the home site on the outer circle of
Roundup Park, corne" Court and
Matlock streets. The grounds COM
mittee has searched diligently for n
more central location. and long hoped
20 secure permission to use tho south
west corner of Pioneer Park, near the
old academy site, but having failed
in that. the only locations available
1re that used last year, corner OF
Webb and Market streets. and the
Roundup site. The latter IS deemed
q accommodate a much larger NUM-
ber of people than the former, and is
hence selected. The tent requirements
are 100 by 147 fee., and therefore
there are few grounds now vacant
which are large enough.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
Editor Now Rich Ranchcr.

Burt Huffman, one time editor of
the Pendleton East Oregonian bEt for
the past few years wheat grower and
general farmer in Alberta. Canada, is
IN Portland this week. Mr.. Huffman
is here in the interests of the Domin-
ion Wheat Growers association and
will remain several days. 1t is a far
cry from the editors chair to the pi-
lots seat on a hundred horsepower
tractor. but Mr.. Huffman is thorough
L. at home in either. In Yr~s newspa-
per days he was somewhat given to
he production of poetry, hut says that
the high price of grain bags and the
difficulty of getting sufficient help to
keep his farms going has sort O. put
TN end to his power of production
along that line" and crowded him
over into the coldblooded business
mems class. When asked about his
eamilY his answer was: somewhat
scattered. Daughter in France doing
war work. son still with the colors,
and Mrs. Huffman looking after thinSs
at home, but all well."-Oregon Jour
nal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

Good crowds have patronized the
city natatorium since it's opening two
weeks ago and the venture appears to
be on the road 10 another successful
season. Small boys. who are admit
ted free on all afternoons save Sat
urday and Sunday, make their rendez.
vous there and grown-ups are help
ing 10 make the plunge popular az
well. AT present the water is
changed each Thursday and the tank
cleaned.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

Election and the inaugural meeting
of the newly organized local No. 364,
union OF cooks, walters. mattresses
and soda dispensers. will be held in
Moose hall at $50 Monday evening.
The charter from the International
Alliance of Hotel and Restaurant Em-
pfoyes, which is affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. ar
rived last night. There are 80 char
ter memb bers here. The meeting Mon
day night will take up the schedule
Of working hours and pay and the
members will he addressed by Sandy
Mclean. secretary of the building
trades council, Jack Ross. president
of the carpenters union and Harley
Johnson, international organizer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
WIN Sell Tractor Starters.

Jack Jewett, formerly with the
Standard Oil Co. here, has opened Of
fices with the Leuer Auto Company on
Garden street for an agency for The
Christensen tractor starter The
starter he handles is declared to be
particularly adapted to the heavy
tractors In use in this section.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

Since four Sundays before Easter,
no Sunday has arrived that the Bap-
- church did not admit a now mem-
ber to the church. according to reS-
ords Kept by the Rev. w. RI. Cox,
pastor The number of new members
IN that period of time totals 80.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
o..w'. II. a. N. las Record.

The o.-w. II. 4 N. railroad has the
record so far for 'Np Accident" week
according to information received toi
day by T. f. o'Brien. local adepot
agent, out Of The 63 roads which
have reported, 80 had clear record.
while four reported seven accidents.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
Men from s1st DivIsfon Here.

Sixty one overseas men from the
32lst infantry. slst division. had
luncheon at the Red Cross canteen
today on their way tn Camp Lewis
fiom overseas. The men are under
the command or Lieutenant l.. b.
Roberts of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania.
They spent 30 DAYS in the yosges en-.
eagements and were in the Meuse
Argonne from November 10 No.
vember II.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
Knitting Wool statesmen Here

u. w. Love and c. l.. Waring. oi
salt Lake, are in Pendleton today IN
the interest Of the Logan Knitting
Factory. They are travelling by auto
through the farming districts and viii
leave for the ca At end tonight or to-
morrow. During the winter they at
tci.G the University Of Utah.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
Dan o'DonncIl Discharged.

Dan o'DonneIl, one OF the old
Troop d boys who passed through
with the t4sth field artillery Wednes,
day arrived In town this morning a
discharged soldier. He will spend 60
days doing recruiting Dat" for the gov
ernment. however. rhe boys were
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
Me. Troxel Rccclycs wo,d.

Mrs. J. T.. Troxel received word to-
day from Miss stasa T.. Walsh. PEN
dleton nurse who has been In over
seas service, that she will land in New
York during the first days Of July.
Miss Walsh has been visiting her
mother In ireland
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

George Perlnger has purchased
Dodge business car from the Pendle-
ton Motor Sales Co. to use on his
farms and for running to and from
town with supplies. Charles Wright,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

Adolph Rohrmnn returned today
from Oakland, California. where he
has been for the past year and half
attending the Polytechnic School OF
Engineering. He expects to return
there this fall.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

To attend the Christian church con-
vention being held in Milton, about 80
of the Pendleton members expect to
leave In machines tomorrow morning.
Machines making the trip plan to start
by O'Clock from the local church.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

II. C@Walser pleaded not guilty in
justice court yesterday to charge
OF operating n motor vehicle without
proper license and his trial will be
held at o'clock on Monday. July 7.