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events concerned automobiles. Most
OF those who are now able to toddle
must remember the curious slowness
with which the automobile came into
its present reasonable shape. At first
the mind OF the designers chung to the
idea Of the horse carriage, and the
original cars were as like them as pos
sible. Some years before the war,
when the Bennett Cup Races were still
considered great sporting events,
blundered upon one of these competi-
lions in a remote part Of Belgium.
The cars. which were driven by anna
teurs, including one of the then young
Vanderbilts. were to race 600 or 500
miles over country roads. When the
racers finally came bounding by 1
confess was at first shocked by the
gaunt, skeletonized machines. They
were built exclusively for power and
not for show. They were rude but
strong. One of my Belgian friends.
much more pure" by instinct than 1,
exclaimed upon their beauty" I was
as disturbed as an academician at the
startling claim Of my friend, whom 1
knew to be sincere. Before the morn
ing ended, however, 1 had become a
convert. Never after that could 1 bear
to see an automobile that resembled
In any degree a horse carriage.
The second little lesson occurred In
1915 when I saw the thousands of
army motors in France that had been
manufactured in a great hurry and
with great science for pure" business.
They were simplified to straighter
lines than any 1 had seen in Amer
lea, and the French, with quick per-
ception, adapted the lines to the cars
for civilians. as soon as civilians were
found with sufficient funds to buy
them. But the point is that the au-
tomobile came into its real form
through stress, and not because of any
dreaming designers.
We are now fully launched into the
machine era. Even the congress of art
experts who met at the museum
few weeks ago took their heads
out of the sand long enough
TO admit this. The speakers made II
plain that objects made by hand will
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no longer be available for our citizens,
so costly has labor. under democracy.
become. The alternative they propose.
Is to teach the machines to do imita
tons Of hand-and-brain work.
But to the "purists" this seems a
compromise nothing short OF hypoc-
risy. Instead of making limitations
that deceive no one, the new school
Of designers would like to ape the
innate sincerity OF the machine; and
since we must have machine work
let us have it as purely and unaffect
eddy machinelike as possible. In that
way only, they feel, shall we arrive
at expressing our period. In that
way only will new forms develop,
founded on intense practically.
A few quotations from the last chap
ter Of the book which begins with the
admirable saying of Montesquieu:
"Ce qui fait les grandes beauties. c'est
lorsqu'une chose est telle que la
surprise est d'abord mediocre. qu'elle
Sc soutient, augmente, ct nous meme
ensuite a l'admiration" are in order.
"Purism," say these writer's, docs
not express tDe NdIldtlO1lS UuL lHt
inUdridnt. The work should not be
accidental. exceptional, impressionistic,
inorganic, prOtestdtre, picturesque, but
on the contrary, general. static, ex-
pressive of the inUdTtdnt."
"Purism should conceive clearly,
execute Loyalty. exactly. directly; it
turns away from troubled conceptions
and summary or tortured executions
art is above all in the conception"
Technique is but n tool humbly
at the service OF inspiration"
'Purism fears the bizarre and the
Original It seeks a pure element in
which to reconstruct organized pic
lures which seem to have been pro-
duced by nature herself"
1.-THE Purist does not mean by re-
turn TO nature a return to the copy
Ing OF nature"
"All liberties are allowed to art ex-
cept that of not being clear"
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NEWS AND COMMENT IN THE WORI

is too unlike what the public Is USED
to ut the Academy; but we congratu-
late the Academy for hanging 1t. II
represents wrestling match In the
courtyard of a Spanish or Italian inn,
and we would ask those who are
shocked by 1t to confess what vivid
sense II gives them Of the wrestlers,
the crowd, the place and the sunlight.
It is a pity that Mr.. Bayes has spun
an unintelligible pattern over the ng-
ures below. II would not matter II
the picture were a purely abstract
piece of design; but 1t is a very vivid
representation of actual human be-
ings. Otherwise you enjoy the ex-
pressive drawing and grouping OF the
figures, the device Of the great SMART
of sunlight crossing the middle OF
the picture, the manner In which the
whole is unified. Mr.. Bayes's learn
ing has ali come alive.
"As for other pictures Of the year
there are few or none except Mr.. Sar-
gents President Wilson This, by
piece of luck, Is probably the finest
portrait in the exhibition. Mr.. Sar-
gent, II anybody, should know an
American, and he has made the Pres
ident American all over, but without
any forcing of the note Of nationality.
One has the very feeling Of the eli
mate in his sharpness, clearness and
resolution. There is more will than
temperament, but idealism instead Of
Prussian ruthlessness. We see behind
the professor the LONELINESS of
tTT0cJa Gam of the New ENGLAND
farmer. 1t is a republicanism more
elegant than that of Lincoln, but not
less democratic. Certainly Mr.. Sar-
gent has profited by his rest from por-
trait painting" ,
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blinded, or temporarily so, each cling
ing to the shoulder of the one before
him, the line led by a Red Cross or
Derby; beyond their feet another strew-
ing of the gassed, unable to walk, and
between the legs Of the stumblers, far
away in the sunlight, may be seen a
game of football.
This is a prosaic description Of the
subject chosen by Mr.. Sargent; he
has added nothing to it. Neither in his
color. nor in his composition, nor in
the expressions of the faces does he
convey any hint that will strike the
real truth of this episode of war fur
Their home to the spectator than these
few lines can give. 1t Is the function
Of the artist to reveal. He is not a
merely complicated camera, II he can
not make or force the spectator to
recognize some great truth which the
unaided Imagination cannot conjure
up, he has failed. We may recognize
the enormous technical power needed
even to create in realism so large a
canvas, and do this the fullest Justice
yet regret an imagination not worthy
OF the power. Another large failure
which would be better in photograph
is Miss Anna Airy's The l. Press
Forging an 1s-inch Gum again lent
by the Imperial War Museum"
The Morning Posts critic writes:
I'VE do not agree with the pundits
who declare that British art has
reached a critical stage OF sleeping
sickness. They expect to find ge-
muses. as plentiful as are lawyers or
labor leaders. One swallow may not
make summer, but a masterpiece
by Sargent in Royal Academy exhi-
bition should be sufficient to brighten
the winter even of the dyspeptics dis
content. Besides, there are, as we
have seen, other gloom dispelling in
| fluences at Burlington House. Among
I the more charming OF these are Mr.
ID. Y. Cameron's landscapes April
Snows' and the Sounds OF Herrera"
ID. Y. Cameron as a gloom dispeller
is an item Of news. Mr.. Cameron paints
| strongly-he is more able as a painter
| than as an etcher-but when he takes
| a brush in his hand he is the famous
British Spleen personified. But It must
be as the Morning Post says.
The Times makes a most manful
| attempt. to praise the Sargent contri-
| buttons. but winds up in some uncer-
tainties. It says:
| THE picture of the year Is of
course Mr.. Sargents 'Gassed' G2O),
! lent by the Imperial War Museum. 1t
should be seen first from distance.
from the Sculpture Room. where 1t can
be seen alone. 1t is a picture which no
critic could pretend to Judge finally at
first seeing. The intention Is clear
at once. A train of soldiers, gassed,
blinded and bandaged, is led across the
canvas. no doubt from a clearing sta
ton to some place of rest. The ground
Is crowded with soldiers lying down
and also gassed. and there Is another
train moving on the right of the can
vas. Far behind are soldiers playing
football, and this background is kind
OF counterpart to the procession of
pain in front. The contrast is effective
at once and is expressed not merely in
the subject but also in the movement
and grouping of the figures. Further,
Mr.. Sargent has not spoilt the picture
by any unreal sentiment. But the
doubt arises whether his very way OF
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Notes and Activities
in World of Art

An exhibition of foreign handicraft
has been brought together by the Art
Alliance Of America with the aid OF
the Neighborhood Houses. The pur-
pose is to stimulate a demand for well
designed. hand made goods produced
in the United States.
The patrons include Mrs. John
Henry Hammond, Mrs. Luke Vincent
Lockwood, Mrs. Charles Cary Rum
sey, Mrs. Ripley Weisse, Mr.. Thomas
NcLane, Miss Irene Lewiston, Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney, Miss ]. N.
Cammann and the Consul-Genera1s of
France. Denmark. Italy, Norway, Per-
STA, Spain and Sweden.
The exhibition. which will be free
to the public, will be held in the GAL
leries of the Art Alliance OF America
from June 4 to June 81. Craftsmen
in native costume will be at work
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and shown at the Salon of the latter
year with five other magnificent paint
ings, two Of which. The Quarry and
the portrait of Nine. Crocq, form
part OF our present exhibition. or the
three others the Young Ladies' on the
Shores of the Seine belongs to the
city OF Paris and Is now exhibited at
the Petit Palais; the Roe Run Down
in the Snow and The Shores OF the
Loue' are in private collections in
Europe.
This very strong group of pictures
was Courbet's response to the reac-
tionary policy which had been adopted
at the Salon of that year. when the
rule which allowed the artists to elect
half the jury had been rescinded. This
had been done with the idea of purify
ing the exhibition OF the direful traits
which painting was then rapidly taking
on. NJ. Fould. a minister OF state, In
making a speech to the young artists.
accumulated the dangers which threat
ened- Art is on the brink of destruc-
tion,' he said, when abandoning the
pure and lofty regions OF the beautiful
and the traditional paths OF the great
masters It follows the teachings of the
new school Of realism and aims at
nothing but servile imitation of what
is the least poetic. the most vulgar in
nature
at astounds us to-day to conceive
how these pictures by the founder of
the new school of realism could arouse
the official ire. The realistic qualities
of the Gueymard are now hardly
noticeable; the subject is certainly al
together romantlc-one that Delacroix
might have chosen. 1t Is only IN the
insistence on the solidity OF the forms
and in the robustness OF the treatment
that the 'servile imitation which the
Realists practised shows itself"
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Mr.. Sargent's Ceased"
at the Academy

Mr.. Sargent gets off very lightly
with the London critics for his war
picture "Gassed." in the Royal Acad-
envy. The Sunday Observers man is
about the only one to look at It
askance-he says it's a '1arge failure"
but all the others chorus with the
words great" mobile" &c. The OBJ
scrue,'s opinion is this,
In this room hangs the Sargent
'Gassed,' lent by the Imperial War
Museum. 1t is a panel, not quite as
long as the huge John cartoon which
hung in the same place during the
Canadian War Memorial exhibition.
In the foreground lie the strewn bodies
Of the gassed men, with their eyes
bandagedi across the picture troops a
file Of other gassed cases. less evilly in
jured than those recumbent but .tso
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Nv HENRY MCBRIDE.

~ URING the past season there
have been several little hur.
- ries of excitement over false
attribuuons of dubious works OF art
70 we'll known American painters. IL
seems that these excitements increase
IN number and fury in direct ratio as
the prices of the artists increase. TO
,top the traffic in imitation master
pieces is impossible, but It would seem
AZ though something more might De
done to safeguard the public than Is
at present attempted.
have often thought Of a society,"
for instance, that would make a busi-
ness OF recording the works OF such
contemporaries who appear to De
likely to keep the interest Of another
generation. Even such a thing as
taking charge Of the effects of an
eminent artist at his death, and SELL
ing them, IL they must be sold, OFF,
cially. is a great help. The little red
stamp upon the Twachtman pictures
for instance, is a great help to con-
noisseurs: and the admirably exact
manner in which Durand-Ruel photo
Sraphed every item left by Degas
placed the entire art world under an
obligation and put decided chill upon
the Degas factories.
There are vexations and upcertain-
ties In the way Of any such society. Of
course, but they could be greatly sim
plified by those who could study the
problem professionally. 1t might even
be q welcome task for some OF our
academicians who have passed the age
of incessant creation and yet still find
n certain fascination in serving upon
committees.
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painting, of seeing, is suited to his pur-
pose in this work, whether his truth
of atmosphere, which is a habit with
him, Is not merely irrelevant. The
theme seems to demand to be treated
not enthusiastically but with more en-
phasis on the design and so on the
pure human interest. These figures,
as Mr.. Sargent paints them, are still
figures in IA landscape; as a great
Florentine, Andrea del Castagno. or
Masaccio. would have painted them.
they would be supreme over all their
surroundings. And they ought to be
supreme, because they are all the sub
ject OF the picture. Out Of this pain
the design should be made our criti-
cism. which might be withdrawn after
further seeing, is that 1t Is not
made altogether out of that; and that
the mind, therefore, is a little bewil-
dered and thwarted by the fact that
a theme so tragic does not master the
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The following is a copy Of a letter
that has just been sent TO the Presi-
dent IN France:
Honorable Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States,
Paris. France.
"Sir: A group OF Americans who
realize the importance OF art as a ma
uonal asset and who are deeply stirred
by the example of Great Britain,
France. Canada, Italy and Australia
In sending their best artists to the
front to create permanent national
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~ URING the past season there
have been several little fur
- ries of excitement over false
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(Which is here fitting says RiaD,
and he is looking at the audience in
stead of his opponents in the game,
who lean on the opposite side OF the
table. In the background at the right
is the sinister figure OF his evil genius
Bertram."
THE picture was painted in 1S56-57
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of THREE editions informing,
Evening and Sunday. the domi-
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at the right time for being read
with care by those then naturally
in the most receptive of moods.
Both Art Page text and art ad-
vertising are thoroughly edited,
with resultant missionary and
alluring effects, respectively. An
enticing visual appeal is always
OF moment when backed by in
teresting letter press and sun.
Elementary advertising tastefullv
presented-the latter suggestive
of the adage that goods we'll dis.
played are more than half sold"
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whole canvas. But, admitting all this.
Mr.. Sargent has treated a great and
moving theme wildly and without
making it ridiculous. and that ia a
considerable achievement.
I'VE doubt whether Mr.. Walter
Bayes's "Pulvis ct Umbra" (564) will
be one of the pictures OF the year. 1t
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20

osrsser sp opinion Z "a Aaamblea
y al CQneiliO, sasfsia
Pm cnapto q loe miembros do Ia Liga
ALI no hay muchQs requisites pero
los que hay eEtarl Havy bien defipidos.
G~ualqpieF Raci9n me yea eptegamente
independents nnede ipgresar 4 Ia Ii
ga a. dar guarantees de su bien inten.
ci0n v aila Assembled por dos terceras
pFftes dc bus lpiomibfQs deterlnina
adHndfiY tai g0bieruo,
Uno de los articulos PARTICIPATES es
tai vez 81 que trata de IA independent
Gin polftica de cada miembro de IL III
ga. Bajo este aTreglo aggression con
ira 81 territorio o Independence poll
tiea de un pals contra OtrO Sc prohibe,
El C0hcilio tiene derecho de determi-
Qte medios So 81 para pfotejer
a. que este a~menazad0. Pef0 entire
los miembros mismos en- case de d.
ficultad donde haya peligro de guerra
hay la es~tipulaci6n de que someternn
su case a arbitraje 0 a envestiEaci0n
del Concilio y no pueden comenzar
hostilidades hasta despues de tres me-
SEES de la decision por los ~arbitrados
o Ell reporte por ell COnoilio, Entire
H-A M
los miembros hay 81 compromise de
que en- tempo de dificultades entire
algunos de ellos 81 por diplomacfa no
pueden llegar q ningun ~convenio, a
cudiran a los poderes de arbitration.
~Situaciones ~arbitrables Sc c~onsideran
TODD 10 que tiene que yer con Ell modo.
de interpreter leyes internacionales,
0 tratados entire dos Q mas naoiones
Bajo este documento Ia naci0n que
ignore los derechOs de cualquier otra
nacion D insista eni haeer guerfa ten
dra que encontrarse con todas las ma,
clones que han firmado la Ligal Tai
vez Asta sea 10 que Ia Liga tenga Co
mo su prop6sito pfincipals--que es 81
hecho de destruir ell deseo de mostrar
Aggression y Ell deseo de adQuirir venta-
jas por 81 hecho de tener grandes ar
mas.
ri Pacto de la Liga de Naciones con
tiene veinte Y seis artlculos, cast to-
dos los que contiene Ell Pacto trata de
asuntos Intermediates pero especial
mente a las r~elaciones que puedan
abrogar guerra.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20
iNDlcAcIoNES De RICO
TERRENo -PETRoLlFERO.

AlamOgordO,-Cerca de tres soma
mas pasadas una hendedura Sc des-
cubri0 en- IA TERRA al pie de las mon
tanas de San Andres, wa La p~resente
la hendedura tiene mas de una milla
y media de longitud y cerca de tres
pies de ancho. Los visitantes que han
lido al lugar dicen que esta hendedura
no Sc le halla fondo y de que I'm pos
to de cereO fu6 tirado dentro de la
hendedura y no Sc pudo DIR que este
tocara fond0. Ge6Iogos de los cam
pos petroliferos locales del iugar han
investigate muy minnciosamente ell
asunto " recEsman que la hendedura
es causada por la enorme preston de
gases que hay debajo, y dicen que es-
tas hendeduras son muy comunes en-
los terernps petrolfferos de Mexico. Y
dc que estos terren0s dopde Sc encuen-
tran estag grietas estan prehados de
petr0leo.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20
ALGuNos PuNTos IMPoRTANTEs
EN- Ell PAcTo De LA LIGA
DE NACiONES.
para I'll Nuevo Mexicano)
Por l. 6. BernaI.

Mucho Sc ha escrito v SO ha dIchQ
acerca de Ia Liga de Naciones. 81
Sc jintara TODD 10 que SO ha escrito
ssobTe este asunto Y Sc compilara en-
forma de hbros, haria una collection
de tomos sumamente grRnde. FL CON
tinelte europeo tanto como los CONT
nentes ameTicanos han ~discufido esta
icnesllon peg ~ espaelp oe w ans, ~
emma, Alrlcs y uohue qulere sue nay
Rfensa IN 81 universe ~ Llsa ~ NE
clones na siao IN isma que pa oeNpAI
qQ erapoes espaclos en ias coinmnas
de ios perloalcos' VA Algal az Naeio'
nes = lraaq que aunH n p~opiaeioh
de emo aleances inteieetuaies "a
.conoce y sape que qulefe uecif
Por ser cosa que depende en- q apo
70 de las diferentes p~Oblaeiones on
taht0s phlses pafN wye tensa autoIF
aRa' 81 uitimamente es ~recnazaue
se haq imperative que los pHeDios se.
nan g fonuo los prmcipales detalies
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20

tlficar "a eDmieDda no u costaFIa al
estado mas que $4,000 en- yez de $780,
900 b $4,000 como 10 han asagnfado
algunos. ELIAS declaran que in die
De tempo seria tan solo necesariO
para concluif Ell asunt0 Ia campaAa
EN- IA capital del estad6 tue principal.
da EN- una reunion s~ufragista tenida
81 lufes pasado.
Maestro proyecto es 81 tener una
atendencia tan grande como nos sea
possible en- Ia reunion de AIbuquerque,p
dijo Ia Sra Rupert +. Asplund, rs
Ia tiene de ser Ia gran janta de- reu;
MON para movilizar las fuerzas de las
muleres de Nuevo Mexico detras del
drive de ratification. Las muieres de
Albuquerque estan hacienda una gran
preparation para la reunion " hafan
CAMPO en- hogares para todas las
Nisitantas
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20
Por e. Esaado
LA n LAS
ESCuELAS RuRALES.

La Universidad de Nuevo Mexico
esta hacienda I'm active esfuerzo este
aio por retener en- las escuelas a los
alunaios de los dfstritoss rurales. III
trabajo esta en- manos de Atanasio
Nlontoya, cuyos ~eficientes servicios
Superintendent de Eseuelas del
condado ade Bernalillo le ha dado I'M
reputation naeional. e
81 senior Montoya fue empleado por
81 Cuerpo de Regentes cemo I'm espe-
cialista en- eduhaci6nl rural, y bajo la
direction de la division de extension
al frente de la cual Sc e~ncuentra Ell
vice-presidente Hodgin visitara las CO.
munidades rilraies v presentara a O.
Has por medic de ~conferencias perso-
males y d~iscursos las potentes razo-
mes que hay para que I~ayjuyentud per-
manezca en- los estudiost &
Reconociendo Ell hecI6 de que 81
abandono de la escuel6 ocurre mas
en- los grades eIementales, las prin-
cipales actiyidades serAn dirigidas ha-
cia ese punto.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20
TERRIBLE TRAGEpIA PoR
UN ASSESSING Y SulcIDA.

Taoss-7M martes de la semana pa.
sada en- la paciflca poblaci6n de Ran
chos de Taos. Rubel Gurule, fue Ell
protagonista de I'M terrible asesina-
to y~.snicidio. Ell referido sujeto acri-
bill0 a balazos a la Sra. Maclovia Cor
'doYa. del mismo lugar, y despues Sc
dio un balazo asf misIno, ell cual le phi
'y6 de la vida. La desafortunada se-
nora recibio del revolver de Gurule
seis heridas.
Por n 10 haber nadie que p~resencia-
IA ell tragico asesinato, no Sc sabe 81
origen y motive que hubiera para que
este indiyiduo ~escOgiera tan abominar
bic proceder para priyar q auuella in
fliz de su vida y caisarse la destruc-
ci0n de la suya propia. Todo 10 que
Sc sabe es que existian relaciones ilf-
citas entire ambos.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20
EL EsrRENIMIENTo.

Muchos de los laxantes y purgantes
soIamente dan alivio temporal y deben
pDr 10 tantD usarse solamente con tai
fin, Cuando Quiera I'd. meicr permar
nente, tome las Tabletas de Cham
berlain y observe Embellishments las
instrncciones del paquete. No sola-
mente ponen estas tabletas a los in
t~estinos en- moyimiento .sino que ade-
mas meioran Ell apetit0 y Ii diges-
ton.
Pc yenta en- todas partes.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-11-20

En- estos monlentos terribies, en- que
"a humanidad entera se ha declarado
ep buelga del Nno al otro extreme del
orbe terraQueo, y en que hasta los as
trps han tenido su mitipcito para pro-
clamar oil paro general del Universe,
no es possible tener los neryios quite
tos. ", por mi parte, los siento que no
solo me brincan sino hasta que me
dan, a cada paso, saltos mortales.
10 primero que hago al amanecer,
es buscar lbs grandes diarios para yer
en- ellos cual es La huelga mas nueva.
X tan prontp leo que seAha declarado
81 paro por los banqueros, como que
estan holgando los tiradores de hasu-
RI O que hay strike entire las GALL
mas, pues . no p0nen hueyos o ponen
muy pocos,
Va so piden ocn noras de trabajo;
va sells y media: va seis y minutes.
Quien quiere que se le reconozca Ell
derech0 a hablar de mas: quien pide
que los de abajo tengan el dereoho
de abofetear a los de arriba y quien
sostiene como punto dc honor que los
de arriba deben poner ell pie en- la
tesla de los de abajo.
IN capital y eli trabajo Sc italian
frente a frente, y 81 las cosas siguen
como van. va q haber una serie de
cocolazos de que Dios o libre. A.
men.