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La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1919-10-25
Ell ANIVERSARIO
DEL DESCUBRIMIEN-
TO DE AMERICA

En- toda Espana Y la America
espanola fu6 celebrado con inu-
sitadO esplendor ell dia IL del
presente, aniversario del descu-
brimiento de America pOr Girls
t6bal Colon, la Fiesta de la Ra-
"a.
En- los Estados Unidos tam
bi6n es este dia de fiesta legal,
con el nombre de Dia de Colon.
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1919-10-25
LA LEGION AMERICANA

Fin su convention de Albu-
querque, la Legion Americana
eligi6 presidente del estado al
Sr. H. G, Baca, de Belen, deter
min6 establecer su cuartel ge-
neral, por un afio, en- Santa Fe,
" celebrar la pr6xima conven-
ci6n en- Roswell, ell aho entrante.
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1919-10-25
PUEDE PRESENTAR-
Sc Ell LITIGIO

SegGn ha declarado la Corte
Suprema de la naci6n, Nuevo
M6jico puede poner litigio a Co
dorado para determinar la vail
dez de las actuales lineas limi-
trofes entire ambos estados.
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1919-10-25
LA SALUD DEL
PRESIDENTE

Ha meioradO notablemente
esta semana ell estado de salud
del Presidente, a quien han per-
mitido va, por primera vez des-
de que Sc quebrant6 su salud,
sus medicos, despachar los asun-
tos del GObiernO.
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1919-10-25
ESCAPA DE LA CARCEL

La semana pasada escape de
la carcel de Mora ]. E. Sando-
val, a quien SO acusa de haber
robado un autom6vil,
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1919-10-25
SfGUfSTRO De UN AMERICANA

Washington, Oct. 23.-Ha 81
do secuestrado por unos bandi-
dos mejicanos ell Sr. William 0.
Jenkins, agente consular de los
EstadoS Unidos en- Puebla, poi
cuyo rescate Sc pide la suma de
$125,000.
En- ell verano pasado fue tam.
bien secueStrado ell Sr. jenkins
habi6ndose entonces pedido $25,.
900 por su persona, los que fue-
ron pagados, y al mismo tiempC
fu6 saqueada su hacienda situa-
da en- las inmediaciones de Il
ciudad de Puebla, asesinando los
bandidos al administrator Y lie
vandose un bOtin considerable.
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TO ADVERTISERS

We guarantee the largest cir
culatiOn Of any other weekly or
daily laical publication in New
Mexico.
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Notes ON Some Salient Master
pieces
pieces

London. And what country on which
to foreclose an artistic MORTGAGE" the
Allies might eXclaim, in tones not OF
revenge but Of retribution, as they sur
vey the collections from which they
have every right TO demand the last
farthirw. OF course, it isahard, so hard
penalty that as we turn the pages of
the catalogues the means of repay
ment seem almost unbelievable. We
have alluded to Austria. The gallery
rolled into one. We remember one
picture that by itself would make an
imperial indemnity, the great est. JUS
tina" of Moretto da Brescia, hut to
take this would only be to scratch the
surface The Italians are in tire
mendous form at Vienna; the Flemings
and the Early Netherlanders are no
less important, and, indeed, there is no
school, not even the Spanish, which
could not be strengthened by drafts
upon the city Of the Hapsburgs. Why
should not these drafts be mader On
what hypothesis of justice TO the van
Guished and to the conquerors-are
we to punish the Germans and he Aus
TRANS without eNacting from them
payment in kind for the works of art
they have destroyed? Fines of money
and economic disabilities we can i'm
pose upon them, but can these restore
what was burnt at Louvain? Can dol
lars replace the divine glory of
Rheims? Financial reparation can and
must be made, but this is only 1.-THE
of the payment due. Just as the
factories of Germany should be empticd
of their machinery until the factories
of France and Belgium have been
reequipped, so the museums of Ger
many and Austria should be empted
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The sum is easily worked out if we 90
through the catalogues, picture by pict-
IRE But that, obviously, would re-
CURE many pages of The Tribune, as
would any systematic digest of the
riches which Germany should Law unon
the peace table. All that we can do
here is to sketch, in the barest out
line, what those riches are.
word as to the origin of the Ger
man collections should be prefixed to
this sketch. There is loot among them
1t Is natural to infer, but this is GER
talnly not their special characteristic.
Indeed, the records have always point
ca to a certain aesthetic activity on the
part of the innumerable German
princes and grand dukes. They formed
collections from natural instinct
which was stimulated by aristocratic
example i'll the Latin countries. and
there is probably nothing in the land
which testiies more honorably to Ger
man culture as distinguished from Ger
man kultur than the numerous mu
seums, great and small Nor is there
better evidence Of the national thor
oughness IN organization than that
supplied by the most amazing gallery
Of them all, that at Berlin. We call
this amazing for the reason that while
1t is unquestionably one of the great
galleries of the world, it is but a
century old. 1t started with the pur-
chase Of the Giustineni collection in
Paris, IN 1875. The Sicily pictures
were added six years later. With adj
chtlons from the royal collections the
gallery was thus well launched, but it
has been in modern times that the
collection as we know it was formed
and 1t probably owes more to DR.. Bode
than to any other one man. There are
some amusing legends as to his admin
lstration. One of them, which is re-
garded as pretty firmly founded, cx-
PLAINS the formidable influence which
he was enabled for years to exercise
upon the market. A masterpiecc Of
great value would be for sale in Paris
or London. The directors of all the
European galleries would he on tenter-
hooks to buy it. DR.. Bode would carry
OFT the prize, having apparently unlim-
tied resources, making ,im an uncon-
querable competitor. According toy the
legend aforesaid, he was thus success
full because he had behind him, in the
first place, the Kaiser, and then the
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low GERMANY CAN PAY IN TERMS or ART

contamination Cannot it now be
brought about on the proper scene, for
the profit of the Belgians and thereby
of the world at large? And is not the
case of the Van Eyck typical of much
else through which Germany may be
compelled to make reparation?
In all the talk that is being poured
forth on the terms of peace to be
granted to Germany the question of
indemnities constantly raises the cues
ton of assets. The pro- German, of
course, argues that we must present a
small bill if for no other reason than
that Germany lacks the wherewithal
for the payment of a large one. Whcth-
er, as matter of fact, her natural re-
sources, such as mines, cannot be made
to counterbalance her deficiencies as to
cash in hand is n point for the special
list in such matters to determine. But
that she can make part payment in
terms of art to the tune of billion
or more we have not a moments
hesitation in asserting, and TO those
who have any doubt on the subject we
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was done to art. The Berlin museum
is glorious treasure house.
1t is magnicenty strong where in
the circumstances it could hardly have
been expected to possess any strength
at all-in the Italian school, The Prim-
itives are among the best to be found
outside OF Florence. and the great
names of Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Bellini
and Mantegna are superbly represented.
We recall these men especially -Man-
tegna in his "Cardnal Mezzarota," Bet
ticelli in both portraits and religious
subjects; and then there come back to
memory things like Sigrorelli's great
Pan" and later masterpieces, such as
Bronzino's wonderful "Ugolino Mar
telli.' Even among the lesser canvases
there are some jewels. There is, for ex-.
ample, the superb "Alessandre del
Borro," which for years was attributed
to Velasquez, and then got itself as
signed to the italian school, probably
the sculptor Bernini Whoever painted
1t, it is one of the immortal portraits.
That was Bodies gift, to secure the fine
thing. He slipped up occasionally, as
IN the case Of the notorious wax bust
Of English origin. the Flora" which
he is said still fondly to cherish as a
Leonardo. hundred thousand dollars
apiece, forsooth. We can fancy the
shrewd Bode himself smiling ruefully
over the proposition as he walks past
his Italians early and late his modest
but still admirable group of Spaniards,
and his quite resplendent Dutch, Elem
ish and carly Nctherlandish masters,
figuring what their fate may be at the
peace table. His Rembrandts alone. the
"Vision of Daniel" the "Susannah,' the
"Hendrickie Stoffels." the "Anslee and
His Wife," would seem to constitute the
proverbial "kings ransom And what
of the glorious Yer Meers, the Girl
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With Necklace and the Cavalier
and Girl" and the flashing examples Of
Halls, the similarly perfect specimens
OF Rubens and Van Dyck and the truly
kolossdl "Georg Gisge," Of Holbein.
What finally of the shutter panels of the
Alteration" of the Van Eycks? These
especially must wake strange thoughts
in Bode as he PAGES the familiar rooms,
perhaps thoughts of the days when, as
the kaiser's agent, he went to and fro
among the works Of art in overrun re-
gions, deciding which needed to be
"safeguarded." It must seem incred-
IDLE to him that any one should calmly
think of taking down these things from
the walls in Berlin and hanging them
up again in France and Belgium-un-
less, perchance, he can remember, also,
what he and his countrymen have done
in Belgium and France.
But let not the Germans fear that
their museum walls are to be utterly
denuded. Nobody would counsel that.
What we conceive, rather, as happen
ing at the peace table is the appoint
n.ent of an art commission which
would first tabulate and appraise the
possessions of these museums and
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until. through the establishment
OF their museums and churches.
the artistic losses of France, Bel
GUM and Italy have been in
measure restored. We say an a meas
ure,0 for the bitter truth is that the
whole crime of the Teuton armies can
never be redressed. Monuments of
architecture and movables past count
ing have been reduced to dust. The
best that the Hun can do is to put
something beautiful in their place.
And to the defeatist, whom we have
always with us, as busy and about as
useful as Kipling's mosquito worm in
a tank" there is one answer always to
be made when he begins to pirate about
how such a campaign as We have out
lined would strike at the very soul o.
the Hun. 1t takes the form of a sim
pie question. How much has the soul
of the Hun profited by the possession
Of great works Of art through the gen
erations?
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memberment has always been lone of
the fragrant episodes in the history of
art. Now that Germany had the chance
to correct this, in her own interest,
would she not be certain to seize it?
1t was recalled, uneasily, that when,
some years before, the Berlin authori-
ties had been asked to lend their shut
ter panels for projected Van Eyck ex-
hibition at Client they had, incomprc-
hensibly, refused. The refusal, consid-
cred in retrospect, pointed to a Van
Eyckish cult in Berlin, Of which the
war brought conhrmatory signs. 1t
was soon reported that the Adam and
Eve had been removed from Brussels to
Berlin, under the special supervision of
DR.. Bode, and not all the hypocritical
talk of the Germans about Safeguard
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The Assets Available in Her
Public Galleries

remained at Client. The six shutter
panels split, so that both sides can be
exhibited have adorned the museum at
Berlin. The Adam and Eve, exiled by a
prudish scruple to an obscure cupboard
until 1860, We're then purchased by the
Belgian government and deposited in
the gallery at Brussels. Whsn the war
broke out and Germany began her cam
palgn of pillage the vicssitudcs at
which we have glanced required to the
mind of every observer of artistic af-
fairs. We did not know then what we
know now, that treasures of art were
to be looted on scientifically system
attic plan, but the broad purpose of
theft was made plain enough and there
were special reasons for trembling over
the fate of the great Van Eyck. Its dis
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ing" works Of art could disguise what
every one felt TO be the truth that tho
first steps had been taken toward re-
constituting the Elaboration" in the
very lair Of the Hun. And vet hare
az in 50 many Of his evil enterprises, he
vas mystcriousiy foilcd. The precious
panels at Client were hidden away in
safcty. Not by German Intervention
and for German profit was the great
altar piece TO be restored to it's orig
inal comolctencss. But has not the
hour struck at last for this perfect
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then make selections for distribution
among The Allies in proportion to the
losses suffered by the latter. Some
latitude would have to be granted to
tie commission. Thus, in the case of
China we know of no artistic losses
suffered by that nation in the recent
war; but she is undoubtedly entitled to
the return of those beautiful as
Economical instruments which were
taken from her by Germany in 1901
and which ever since have been in
congruously exposed on the terraces of
Sans Souci, at Potsdam. 1t is an IN
stance Of the kind OF justice which the
commission would have to administer,
the justice which is noble and clean,
which knows no malice, no mere whim
OF might, but works as though in the
upper air, to do what is supremely
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debt running into the millions. Nat
urally, it would choose from among
the most valuable of Berlin's artistic
assets So, at Munich, it would go in
evitably for the brightest gems in the
crown Of the museum there, for the
dazzling company OF works by Rubens,
and, after these, it would demand GER
tain works by Raphael and Titan.
At Dresden, likewise, its task would
be swiftly simplitied. The Sistine Ma
donna is worth a million if it is worth
q penny That would head the com
missions list. And in tragic success
sion, Immediately after it, would come
Giorgione's Venus" Titian's "Trib-
ute Money" Correggio's Holy Night"
Andrea del Sarto's Sacrifice of Abra-
ham," Palma's Three Sisters and so
on through an overwhelming catalogue.
Dresden is very rich in paintings. II
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would commend, to begin with, the
facts already stated. Consider that in
1921 practically a hundred years ago,
the shutter panels alone of the "Adora-
tom were worth to the Prussian gov
eminent 400, 600 francs, and then ask
say that they would fetch $500, 900 is to
make conservative estimate of their
value. Certainly the polyptych, if re-
assembled intact, would be salable at
million. We may be sure that the
Germans would not have rated it at
less if they could have enriched them
selves at st. Bavon's expense. Strictly
speaking, the Client altar piece is a
priceless thing, unique and wellnigh
beyond the dreams of the appraiser.
Now, if we realize that the German
galleries are full of such objects it be-
comes plain that there is some hope
after all of obtaining from the Hun a
partial repayment of the thefts he COM
mttcd and the destruction he wrought
among the monuments Of art in Bel
GUM and NoKhorn France.
His assets In this field may be fig
rrcd, roughly, at a billion dollars.
There arc about 500 pictures in the
museum Of Berlin, over 1000 at Ores
den, over 1900 at Munich. Frankfort,
Cassel, Nuremberg and other smaller
towns do their share in swelling the
total and it must not be forgotten that
Austria has her burden to bear in this
matter, the pictures at Vienna nat
urally falling into the common lot.
Adding them all together from the lat
est catalogues and appraising them at
an average Of 100000 apiece, VIC have
estimated the total value at $S10,000,
coo. Supplement this with the classical
antiquities in Munich and Berlin, for
example, the drawings and engravings
in the various print rooms Of the Tcu-
tonic capitals, such objects OF art as
exist in the Green Vault at Dresden,
and our figure of billion is seen to be
below rather than above the mark. Let
not the reader be Disconnected either.
by the average value of 100000. If
this is obviously contradicted by the
rubbish included in the mass it is more
than made up for by the masterpieces
which would command many times that
amount. There is the Sistine Madonna
at Dresden. Like the Van Eyck altar
niece, that would command a million in
the open market, if not more. There
are hundreds Of works in the German
galleries which would be as effective in
restoring the balance. We we'll re-
member how at the Paris Exposition Of
1900 the best illustrations of the
French school Of the eighteenth CEN
fury we're to be found in the German
pavilion on the Rue des Nations. The
Kaiser lent from his private collection
an array Of masterpieces only to be
matched in the galleries Of the Louvre,
and we have seen mt Potsdam still
others which were not sent TO Paris.
His version Of Wattcau's departure
for the Island Of Love" has long been
famous. Would the French value it at
Il paItry 100000? They would cheer
fully pay, we imagnq, if they were
buying the picture, five times that sum
for it. II is in some such way az this
that we have arrived at our billion.
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astounds by the varied wealth of its
old masters Of the first class, and,
when these are exhausted, it still has
minor treasures of great interest, like
its remarkable collection of the pas
tells of Rosalba Carriera. The commits
sion, it may be repeated, would not be
encouraged by public opinion anywhere
to take everything. But it could take
a prodigious lot, and the debt of Ger
many to the art-loviAg nations of the
world would still be unpaid. At Frank
fort, Moreto da Brescia, Holbein, Yer
Nicer and Rembrandt would count heav-
lily in the commissions ledger. At Cas-
sci it would be Rembrandt almost
alone, the works of other masters. inc
as they are, yielding in sheer bulk and
splendor To the representation of the
sublime Dutchman. The Casse Rem
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nave known better, the vicar general
and the church wardens got hold Of
one %ieuwenbuys, Il dealer, and sold
nm the shuttefs far 5,00o forms. lie
quickly turned them oyer al roo0
profit. Mr.. solly, the En9iish collector,
paM him J9o, o00 francs far the shut
sefz. and, IN biz spfn, did yc,y we'll
WIN then, selling them ~ William III
q Prussia far 4Ge,oo9 francg.
This triumph If Inc yan Eycks has
E.nsg - modern times been divided into
Npfse parts. The central panels have
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BY Royal Cortissoz


Barry ~ ''.' '' '''''''' 0''''"'H ''uo'i'
Nan tEeA ove''' 10 P"l"V eis"V
Ho'yp'FeR' ne N'of"'loh OF inc
Lamb. Wnleh is recognized to-day as
csc ot 'ne most imposing monuments
'l anu llouO0'" 80 any '''he Dy any
scnoo" ""oei' was "' WORN upon IL
when ne olea ~ 1f-0 ana IL was COM
lieted oy ms ''o'"V' Jan IL IS an
altar piece "'.'' shutters me interior
Is "N'uS" mo TWO zones. IN the
rover o. '''s' '''e Aooi@uoh is rep
resented WIZ" 'he r'ern"l rather por-
'iaFen "ooNe' h"V'pS the Blessed Viz
-" on '"e one hand and Saint John
haP'lsV on 'n' other IN subsidiary
p"heis mere arc groups OF angels, the
AsUfes OF Adam and Eve, etc. The
''u' compartments OF the three zones
i"'' Wn'cN the exterior Is divided CON
'"'h oiVers sanity and other figures,
rs we'll as the portraits of Jodoc Vyt
and his wife, Elizabeth Borluut. Moth
ms else IN Europe is quite like this
renowned altar piece. In It's mystical
spirit 1t whispers, to adapt Matthew
Arnold'S phrase, the last entertainments
O. the Middle Agc-the religious rapt-
rfe IN 1t being marvellously tempered
by the realistic habit of the Northern ,
PAINTERS. Technically, it is a miracle
pretty nearly beyond eNpllcatlon. The
Van kycks we're Incompatible
craftsmen and nlnHpllprS
ists they dealt in the hues of precious
stones and gave to their surfaces some
thing of the polished but dusky, not
glitterng. brilliance which we asso-
cate with imperial rubies And they
hlled tho spaces of their big altar
piece with the Judgment of men as
decorative as they were pictorially in
VentiFe. \ work e. genius if ever
there was one.
That Jodoc Nyt gave the original
commission Tor the painting is ques-
toned by Mr. Wealc, the leading au-
'hority on the Van Eycks, but it is
generally accepted that he was the ult-
mate purchaser and that by him the
polyptych vas presented to his parish
church. aow the Cathedral of st. Ba-
ven. at Client. There it remained,
above the altar in the Vyt chapel, from
1872 until 1866. when it was removed
tor safety during the Calvinist out
hreaS 1t was in some peril, neverthe-
less at this time. 1t is said that it
narowly escaped falling into the hands
OF Queen Elizabeth, in return for
moneys which She had advanced to the
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Corot's don Quixote" has been sold
by NJ. Knoedler & Co., of this city to
the Friends of the Cincinnati Museum
of Art. and that institution is to be
congratulated on the acquisition of one
OF the finest works ever produced by
the French master. This famous can
vas, painted on large scale, has all
the free characteristics of Corot's land
scapc art 1t is also an exact illustra-
ton of passage in the masterpiece Of
Ccrvantes which describes how, while
riding near wood, Don Quixote and
Sancho Panza saw the poor peasant
Cardenio bathing in brook Mistak-
ing him for wild man, the valorous
knight prepared to give him battle.
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brandts-more than twenty of them,
including some of his noblest portraits.
and subject pictures of the Hottest
quality, such as "Ihc Woodcutter's
Family" and the Jacob Blessing Eph-
RAIN and Mancsseh"--form an heroic
group apart, one of the great groups
OF works by single master in the
world, like the Halls group at HARLEM
or the Velasquez group at Madrid.
What a city to loot.a exclaimed
Butcher, when he first caught sight of
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right. With such an ideal, and we
know from the manner in which the
Allies have waged war that they would
rot swerve from it, Germany would
know that she was not being raided,
robbed, but simply being made to pay
in kind. The commission would not
strip Berlin. But it would wisely, and
thoroughly, take from that capital
paintings, prints and drawings, renais-
sance marbles and bronzes, CLASH
cal antiques, which would liquidate
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Corot painted this picture in 1868, at
Auvers, where he was visiting his
friend, Daubigny. 1t formed part of a
decorative series produced for the lat
ter's home, between 1866 and 1868, and
preserved there until his death. The
present canvas was then sold to Mr..
McGavin, a Scotch collector. who in
turn sold it to Mr.. James Cowan, of
Paisley. in whose gallery it remained
for about thirty years. 1t is one of
Corot's major creations, massive in de-
sign and executed with his most vigorS
GUS touch. Cincinnati is indeed lucky
to receive this masterpiece
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plain to him that the museum had the
opportunity to buy masterpiece. The
masterpiece would be bought. And, 10,
the next time that year that the Order
OF the Pink Hen was being bestowed,
the discreet Zollicotfer, no longer plain
Herr but q Geheimrath, at least, would
be wearing it upon his manly bosom.
Thus was the tradition of Tammany
vindicatcd on the banks Of the spree
and art came into its own. For, what
ever we may make of the tale, there
can be no question OF the service that