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ton on his reconnaissance for aero
dromes in Burma. Siam, Malay
States and the Dutch East Indies.
He returned to England about
month ago.
"Licutanant Keith Macpherson
Smith, R.A.F., his brother, VINO
acted as reserve pilot and observer,
attempted to enlist in the A. / T.
at the beginning Of the war, but was
rejected. lie tried again several
times in 1915 ard 1916, but failed
until, after an operation, he was
i1nally accepted. On his way to Eng
lana his transport, the P. and 0.
inner Medina, was torpedoed in the
English Channel. In England he
Joined the Royal Flying Corps as a
cadet, shortly after becoming a pilot
OF unusual ability. He was serving
as an instructor in the north Of
England until the armistice."
Both members of the crew. Ser
seant j. w. Bennett and Sergean4
". II. Shiers, are natives of Aus
tralla and served with distinction in
The Aruac army.
-Four other machines started in the
competition. One ofs them, manned
~ Lieutenants Roder Douglas and J.
81. Ross, crashed to the ground soon
after taking the air. Both airmeri
we're killed. Another, piloted by
Captain Cedric Howells, was
wrecked at the Island of Corfu, off
Greece. December 12. The body of
Captain Howells was washed ashore
fortnight later; that of Henry
Fraser, his mechanic, was never
found. The third machine, that of
Captain G. c. Mathews, made only
part OF the journey, while the fourth,
with Lieutenant +. Poulet. a French
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Genius May Perish for Want of Ten-Dollar
Cases Like That of the Now
Famous Blakelock Are
Not Uncommon

nothing if it is expressed for the
artist.
"The only thing worse than an
unexhibited painting is an unpub-
lished manuscript. If pictures are
not painted for the purpose of con.
veying the impression of an artist to
his neighbor and arousing impress
sions in the neighbor, they are value
less.
"The Society of Independent Art
lists gives a chance to an artist to
show his work. We. take anything.
And we have no jury and no awards.
If a man or woman makes hat and
thinks that that hat is artistic, and
II he or she sends it to our exhibi-
ton and it reaches US in time, it
will be placed on exhibition. do
not have to think that hat artistic
when l see it, and you do not have
to think the hat artistic if you see
it, but the fact that the man who
made it thought it artistic is enough.
Some others who come into our ex-
hibition rooms may think with the
creator.
"The trouble with the art eXhibi-
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Faced Bitter Cold and Intense Heat on Enean-

\NGLAND to Australia via
the air line in 668 hours!
This record has been ac-
complished, last month, by
the Australian aviator, Captain Ross
Smith, who Herewith won the $780,
600 prize offered by the Australian
government, besides gathering in a
few other prizes put up by private
concerns. Leaving Hounslow, near
London, on November IL last. Cap
tain Smiths Vickers-Vimy plane,
equipped with Rolls-Royce engine,
landed at Port Darwin, in the North
Australia territory, on December
10, thus making his goal in twenty
eight days, or two days less than the
allowed thirty.
According to his flying diary, the
n1SHt was actually achieved in 668
hours and 20 minutes. The air
plane left Hounslow aerodrome at
9:10 .. m. on November IL and
landed at Port Darwin on Decem-
bsr 10 at $3.50 a. m. Greenwich
mean time. or $50 p; m. Australian
time.
The machine and engine used by
Captain Ross Smith on this epoch
making journey were similar to
those In which Sir John Alcock and
Sir J. Whitten Brown won "The
Daily Maig prize for the first trans
atlantic fight, and. as 1.-THE London
Times" says, actually contained
some Of the parts Of that historic
1.-THE Times" continues:
THE great fight has been accom-
Dssshsl IN The teeth Of most adverse
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er who never arrived and who, in
sist, was a brilliant artist. There
are painters in New York to-day
who are postoffice clerks for a living
and die sinkers by trade. There is
he case Of Emile Blanchard, who
has just received some publicity, be-
cause he was truck driver and sew
eral other interesting. things, until
he exhibited at one of the salons
Of the Society of Independent Art
lists. An art dealer saw his pic
lures and gave him a one-man exhi-
bition. He does not drive trucks
now.
"Joseph Fischer worked at Tif-
fany's on gold. In his spare time
for fifteen years he worked at his
'Dryads' state cup, shown in our
exhibition last year. That cup is
the most magnificent piece of work
of it's kind that have ever seen pro-
duced in this country" said Mr..
Pach.
AS Mr.. Pach spoke man called
to see A. S. Baylinson, correspond
ing secretary of the Society of Inde-
pendent Artists. He inquired about
the forthcoming exhibition of the
society to be held at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel next March, and he
said that he had several pictures to
exhibit.
"Send them along" said Mr.. Bay
linson. "What kind of work do you
do?"
"Do you mean what kind of work
do l for myself, or do you mean
how do I earn my living? Every
day I am what l should call . hands
and feet expert. draw in hands
and feet for the fashion plates of a
cloak and suit house, and if I do not
do them badly enough get fired.
But on Sundays and holidays I
paint, and as soon as / send in my
work you can judge for yourself
whether I am better at hands and
feet or better at painting"
An Artists Fall
"There is luck for you," said Mr..
Baylinson. "A struggling artist in
the flesh, and talkative, too. There
are lots more. know one man, who
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

weather. Snow, fog, binding rain.
intense cold-the airmen's food was
once frozen 50 hard as to be in
cdlbie-lntcnse heat and a monsoon
are some of the conditions the
airmen encountered. Captain Rosa
smith, whose diary shows the cheer
ful optimism of his disposition. in
deed records one days experience as
the worst flying conditions ever en-
countered.
THE arrangements made for the
flight have apparently worked ad-
mirably throughout, and the diary
speaks enthusiastically of the assist
ance of the aerial route stations.
"By the terms of the competition
all the successful airmen are Austria
lians. 1t is interesting to note that
Captain Ross Smiths second in
command was his brother, Lieutenant
Keith Macpherson Smith, and that in
Sergeants Shiers and Bennett he had
with him old air comrades of the
first Cairo to- Calcutta fight"
The following personal sketches
are given Of Captain Smith and his
brother, who accompanied him on the
trip:
Captain Ross Smith, NC, DEC,
A.F.C- who is twenty-six years
old, was born and educated at Ade-
laide, South Australia. At the out
break of war he enlisted in the Sd
Australian Light Horse Regiment
and sailed with the first Australian
expeditionary force, landing in Egypt
in December, 1914. After four months
on Gallipoli he gained his commits
sion. He contracted cnteric fever
and was invalided to England. He
rejoined his regiment in March, 1918.
and took part in the Battle Of Ro-
mani during the last Turkish attack
on the Suez Canal in August, 1915.
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man, was not actually in the race,
as the terms prescribed Australian
nationality for participants. Poule',
however, appeared at one time 10
have good chance of beating Cap
tain Ross Smith in the race to Aus
traiia-they met at Rangoon and
flew together to Bangkok-but an
equatorial gale blew him back 70
RaNgoon and robbed him of his
chance of the distinction.
Here is Captain Ross Smiths time
table, as printed in "The London
Times:
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was considered one of the best
American painters many years ago,
who cannot do a thing now other
than fashion plates, and fashion
plates are paying him $4,000 a
year. He had a kindergarten to
support, and he was determined that
they should not starve"
John Sloan, president Of the So
ciety Of Independent Artists, knows
many struggling artists. 1t was he
who made public the fact that
there were many good artists in
New York now who could not afford
the $40 required by the society from
each exhibitor.
"Some people say that it is :.
good spur for an artist to meet Oh
stacles, and that if he is a man h
can overcome them," said Mr..
Sloan, who has overcome all his per-
sonal obstacles and now occupies a
high position in the ranks of Amer
lean artists. "If he is any good,
they say, he'll survive. That is
true Of some artists and some men
in all walks of life. But it is alb
solutely untrue of as many others.
"You would not run orchids
through wash-wringer and say
We'll, if these orchids have any
thing in them they'll survive rough
treatment; they'll thrive on it, You
can run hickory nuts through 81
wringer. But there is place in
this world for orchids as we'll as for
hickory nuts. We are trying to
help the orchids keep their heads
up and prevent the hickory nuts
from getting too many hard cracks,
so that the public may have an op-
portunity TO see the work Of both.
John Butler Yeats, the father OF
William Butler Yeats, the poet, has
said that Art is the child of leisure
and l agree with him. I do not
think that it does an artist any
good to work in steam laundry at
night in order that he may paint
during the light Of the day. l
know of a case like that.
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there is no opportunity for new
creations. A blind art critic could
go into the Vanderbilt Room of IN.
National Academy of Design and u
he had good sense of direction. \.
could go straight to the pictures
which are supposed to be good
Those pictures occupy the same posi.
tion every year. If some one told
him the names of the pictures which
were hanging in the selected i'm
portant places he could go to his
office and write the appropriate and
due praise which is expected of him.
That is not free and independent
art. Each picture has been sifted
through the .whiskers of thirty e.
derly gentlemen sitting as a Jury.
These gentlemen are estimable
enough, but they have no right to sit
at all. They always exclude the
exceptional. They would have ex-
cluded Renoir, Manet and Monet.
just as the bewhiskcred of France
did when those painters began their
struggles. Our Renoirs, Manets and
Monets are being excluded every
day, and not until they have been
accepted by majority will they find
their way into the sacred precincts
of our conventional galleries and
academies.
"But that is only the economic
advantage to the public. We also
offer the public chance to learn
something about that mode Of ex.
preston which is now so unfamiliar.
namely, graphic art. When you be-
gin to read you start on something
which you have heard is good. You
read, read, read, until you rapidly
advance in taste and in Judgment
You don't begin with Nietzsche or
Bernard Shaw. You may begin with
Robert w. Chambers and Harold
Bell Wright. Then you advance he
yond those authors and go further
and further. Now, we are supply
ing the same thing in the graphic
arts that the public library sup
plies in reading. We have IN every
exhibition our Robert ". Cham
,erses and Harold Bell Wrights, and
We also have our Nietzsches and our
Bernard Shaws. The public is large
and tastes differ. But they must
not call us crazy mad wild and
nuts because some of the work is
omething which they do not like.
Spectators at an art exhibition
mould always remember Whistlers
retort TO Humphry Ward. the arr
:ritic.
"Humphry Ward called Whistler
nd Oscar Wilde to one side. 'ThaE
ainting there, Whistler. is fine-it's
~reat,' he said. but that other ono.
ny dear fellow, is awful-it's ter
rlble.' My dear fellow said
Whistler, please do not say paiat-
ing is good or a painting is bad.
Say I like it or 4 don't like it.
Everybody who comes to our
shows has the right to say. I
Ike it. or 4 don't like it. but
no one should say that picture
is bad. 1t is bad for him, but
gives ecstasies of delight to an
other Similarly, no one has the
right to say to an artist, You caunct
show your picture. because 1t is
bad We are trying TO accomplish
that for the public and for the art
lists. TO do so we need money-$lO.-
600 a year-to save future Blake
locks from insanity, poverty and
death without recognition"
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case of the late Mr.. Macbeth, former
head of the Macbeth Galleries. He
was struck by the name of Mckay,
being Scotchman himself, and he
said that he might be able TO do
something for his fellow country
man. While Mr.. Macbeth was delib-
Grating Mr.. Mckay died.
"That is only one case of a paint
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
JOHN SLOAN, president of the Society of I7,depeuden
Artists, painted By Robert Henri

worked as a painter Of carriages.
This work necessitated his getting
his feet wet, and he died.
II have several Of McKay's paint
ings, which | bought at the ridicu-
lously low prices that an art student
can afford to pay. But anything was
help to Mckay. I paid him more
than 25 cents, but 25 cents would
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
X ALPH BLAkELOCK, q famous instance of ON artist
d7aven to madness and death By poverty

it with an expression of regret.
There is no regret about ignorance
of art.
Some artists believe in the slo-
gan, The public be damned /
cannot share that view. Art is
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Satisfied Ignorance

"Do you know any people who
admit that they cannot read?" Mr..
Sloan asked. "Well, there are
thousands of people in this city who
say with a satisfied smile-a smile
that seems to make them believe
that they are part Of triumphant
majority-that they know nothing
whatever about art. Now, not one
man in million, even if he is H.
literate, will admit that he cannot
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

squadron, now known as No. l
Squadron, Australian Flying Corps,
stationed in southern Palestine, and
remained there until the armistice
During the war he was twice wound
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

ed. He has one bar to his M. C.
and two to his D. F. c., which he
won for descending behind the Turk
ish lines and successfully picking
up brother airman who had been
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

In the following October he joined
the 67th (Australian) Squadron,
Royal Flying Corps, as an observer,
qualifying as pilot in Egypt in
July, 1917. He then rejoined his old
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

compelled to make a forced landing.
In December, 1918, he took part in
the first flight from Cairo to CAL
cutta, and after arriving at CAL
cutta went with Air Commodore Bor-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
New York Has Many Artists Who
Can't Raise That Small
Exhibition Fee

escape detection from ships officer
before sailing time he hurriedly
climbed into one of the ships fun
nels. He went lower and lower into
the funnel, until he was caught in
the middle, unable to climb up or
sink lower. After many hours of
agony this was relieved by his de-
scent to the bottom of the funnel
and into the quarters Of band of
immigrants. The immigrants had
pooled their resources and purchased
their own food for the trip. When
mealtime came around Mckay
turned up for his share, and, since
the immigrants had not kept a
ledger and a journal, he was fed.
So He Died
"McKay's last spree was his trip
to Prince Edward Island, where he
painted and painted, until his earn
ings at the forge were exhausted. He
had depended on a brother to help
him return from Prince Edward ISL
and, but the brother also was a la
borer and could not afford to help
George Mckay. Mckay walked from
Prince Edward Island to New York
after he had slowed his way to the
mainland. When he arrived here he
was without money and without
prospects. He had several can
vases, but they were not in demand.
He went to Jersey City, where he
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

tions Of the National Academy of
Design, the art galleries and all the
regular respectable shows is that
the work is passed upon and only the
conventional accepted. Only what
has been done has a chance, and
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

read. Yet art is mode of ex-
preston that is just as important
and just as vivid as reading. Some
people admit that they know moth
ing about music. But they admit
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Many Blakelocks

SThere are more than a thousand
more than two thousand, Blakeloc',
and Kramers, and better, too," said
Walter Pach, who, as treasurer OF
the Society Of Independent Artists,
knows more about artists who are
making living than any other one
man in the city. 81 could tell you
stories of the struggles Of artists to
make enough to keep alive and at
the same time to get time to paint,
from now until next year. l won't,
however; I'll just tell you about
George Mckay, who is a Blakelock
who was never discovered.
"George Mckay, to my mind, was
one of the greatest American paint
ers of this generation" said Mr.
Pach. He no longer is great; he is
dead. George Mckay will not sound
familiar to any art critic in this
city. because no society women took
him up. When l was a young art
student George Mckay was black
smith. He worked at a forge until
he had accumulated enough dollars
for painting spree. These sprees
were rare, but the results of them
were such excellent landscape paint
ings and scenes of New York life
that the world should feel sorry that
Mckay ever had to make an ingot.
mckay worked on a cattle boat
going between New York and Liver
pool. He got to Liverpool and dis
covered that there we're no cattle
boats plying between Liverpool and
New York. No cattle are shipped
back, and Mckay had no money to
speak Of. He slowed away, and to
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

z 9TH these landscapes shoa0m at the exhibition
, of the Society Of lndepemdemt Artists The larger
"The Road to Piping Rock" is by Nvng Brohaau, MIL
iomaire; the other, "The Narrow Path by Emile Bran
chord, who until recently drope a truck in NeV YORK;
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

"HE struggling" artist no
longer works and lives in a
garret-the rent on good
garrets being fashionably
high-but he is still struggling.
The case of the late Ralph Blake
lock, who gained fame at a time
when he was bordering on insanity
and money when his large family
had given up all hope of his ever
supporting them, was duplicated
last week, when many prominent
artists and art critics gathered at
the Anderson Galleries to view the
paintings of Edward A. Kramer,
who has been producing what one
critic called "veritable poems" on
canvas for the last twenty-five
years.
xAA 0AiCl l00 WIIltc Hall dIl0 n ldCC
that is noticeably thin. AS boy he
was said to be dreamy; and his
father, who was merchant tailor,
decided that the boy would do no
good with a needle and thread.
Kramer was sent by his parents to
Berlin and Munich and Paris, where
he studied in many art schools.
When he finally came back to this
country with lot Of pictures, there
was not a dealer who would even
hang them. Such men as George
Bellows, George Luks, John Sloan
and Robert Henri say that Kramel
is great painter. They are tryin
to fix things so that Kramer will no
be underfed for the remaining year
Of his life. That is the purpose Of
the exhibition at the Anderson Gal
leries.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-10-14
APPLICATION Oh
FALL BORDEAUX
By Leroy Childs

Apple tree anthracnose is causing
more damage in apple orchards of Ore
gon than any other disease. In order
TO Effectively combat this disease
growers must be more vigilant than
thev have been in the past. The Bor-
deaux spray should be applied to every
orchard in the valley and to be etfec-
tive it must 90 on as soon as possible,
Every grCwet should arrange his work
so that the spray machine will follow
up the picking as fast as the fruit is
removed. Don't plan to do this, but
do it. Early rains may have caused
infection to take place but this is only
fraction of what will follow if the
spray is not applied.
The approved way of mixing Bor-
deauX. Read this.
Manufacture Use wooden contain
ers for dissolving the bluestone formu-
la: pounds bluestone, 6 pounds lime
Cstone of best graje). so gallons Of
water. Stock solution: Take 80
gallon barrel Of water and suspend
near the top of the water a grain sack
containing so pounds Of buestone, it
will dissolve in about an hour. Take
so gallons of quick lime and slack care
fully, cons altly stirring, adding water
as needed to prevent it from becoming
dry and burning. When thoroughly
slackened add water to make so gall
Ions. These stock solutions then con
tain ! pound each of the original ma
terial to | gallon Of water.
Methods: We have been placing the
materials direct into the tank diluted
with water but the following pro-
cedure is believed to give better mix
ture. 1t is as follows: (Use the q
pound to the gallon stock solution
mentioned above). /. Take 6 gallons
of the copper sulphate solution and add
l9 gallons of water. 2. Stir up. the
stock solution of the milk of lime and
take six gallons and add l9 gallons Of
water. Pour together slowly into an
other barrel Ct takes two men to do
this in order that the amounts may be
kept in equal proportioDs) and stir
thoroughly. 1t will be found more
convenient to prepare the two solutions
on an elevated platform and run them
simultaneously from the dilutiOn tanks
into the spray tank. Pour the mixture
into the spray tank, start the agitatOr
and fill with water. These proportions
may be mixed in larger units but re-
member to keep the proportions the
same.
Use plenty of material while spray
ing and be sure to cover the large
limbs thoroughly. Bordeaux shows up
nicely on the tree and it is very easy
to note whether the spraying is being
done we'll or not.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-10-14
SHEEP SHIPPED FROM
HERE TO CHICAGO

Ray Beckley last Thursday loaded
three double-decked carloads of lambs
for the Chicago market. The sheep,
pastured on national forest ranges
around Mount Adams, were driven to
White Salmon and brought across the
Columbia in three ferry loads. The
drove numbered S07
Mr.. Beckley states that he will
bring in 1000 more lambs within the
next few weeks.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-10-14
Autos Wrecked on Highway

Four automobiles were wrecked in
collisions on the Highway near Cas-
cade Locks Wednesday night of last
week. Steve Hewlett and two COM
panions, en- route from Roman, Mont.
collided on a sharp curve with K. W.
Ward, former Cottage Grove resident,
motoring with his family to Spokane,
where they will reside. Both cars
were badly wrecked. They were
brought to the Heights Garage for re
pair. Gertrude. Syear old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward, the only passen.
ger thrown to the pavement, sustained
slight bruises.
Within a few hours and only a short
distance from the other wreck Lewis
Mamie, Of The Dalles, drove into a cal
driven by j. MorlaEj, of Portland. who
had stopped ia Tie road, it is said, be
cause Of motor trouble.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-10-14
Weber HarVeStS Freak Potatoes

r. II. Weber, whose ranch place is
near Odell. is exhibiting at the Glacier
Office a record freak potato vine, on
which the tubers have formed like to-
matoes on top of the ground. The DO
tatoes have formed at joints of the vine.
Pioneer ranchers say they have never
seen potatoes grow in such fashion be
fore. Former residents of Minnesota
and other middle western states. how
ever. state they have seen potatoes
fruit in such fashion there.
Mr.. Weber says ne has never har-
vested a finer potato crop than he Is
now digging on his place. From a
single hill he harvested 20 pounds of
tubers. A. II Wensley. who cares for
his ranch. dug ~ marketable potatoes
from a single hill.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-10-14
JAPANESE SHIPPING
WILD MUSHROOMS

Recent rains have resulted in one of
the best crops of wild mushrooms ever
seen in the valley. Many families are
now harvesting the huge fungi by the
bushel. japanese orcharidsts are
picking the mushrooms on a CONNER
cial scale. Some evenings as many as
40 strawberry cratesful are shipped.
The mushrooms 20 principally to Port
land, Spokane and Seattle. Some few
have been shipped as far south as
Fresno, Calf.