Evening star., 1923-03-02

| tions In time of war their preju-
dices are with their native countries. 4
for they neither read nor speak OUR
bind 70 dea: are or
rights in case OF trouble. They are
| as oriental as are Japanese or Chinese
and may well be treated on the same
| footing. We have undertaken to cut
Europe. politically: let the same
| principle apply to Europe industrially.
so that we should proclaim an indus
m trial Monroe doctrine: america is
America Is for Americans. including
! native and adopted. II aten-born
would come and be of us. well; II they
would come only to exploit American
opportunities, we have no room for
SUCH.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney need not
teur critics OF her latest statue. The
| mounted figure OF Buffalo Bill, which
she has just finished and intends t.
present to the Wyoming town, Cody,
| named in his honor, may not comply
| with tho rules and regulations OF
some OF the rockinghorses fitting
upon pedestals in various parks and
capitals, but the whole group-horss
/ and rider-possesses the pep and VI
! rility Of tho subject, and much OF the
! statuesque quality Of line and mass.
| which. from a technical standpoint,
marks the masterpiece.
| Critics who have but a hazy idea OF
! how many legs a horse has, including
| its tail, venture to tell the sculptor
| that her horse Is famed, and that Buf~
| falo Bill was Ito kind a man to spur
1 Thew
sert that the horse is in position
| Of torture. Their comments are silly
| and indicate how few OF them have
ever seen a cowboy upon western
pony. They may be judging the vigor
of this cowboy In action. by contrast
ing it with the stately rider leading
a parade upon Pennsylvania avenue
The action Of the prancing horse
that IL to the credit OF the sculpture.
What Is a horses prancing but
series Of falls. caught by his quicis-
ness OF limb? What is a mans walk
but series Of falls with recovery
by his forward step?
| To have depicted the vtrtie cowboy
| and western pony as posing in statu-
| esQue placidity would have been so
foreign to their habits and nature as
to have been absurd. Motion must DC
\ out Of equilibrium or II would not pc
motion. There Is manifest action. life.
In this statue, which is quite remAfk
l able and true. W ouId tnat We II1lsEL
| trade the Gen. Jackson hobbyhorse OF
Jackson Park for this fne piece or
| eouestrianism of Buffalo Bill and his
pony.
There is no city in America, II any
in the wide world, which serves so
often as does Washington as the
HAPPY hunting ground for artists
seeking admittance into public favor
through meretricious means. They
como from near and far, to voiun-
I teer to paint the portrait Of the Pres
,tdent or some lesser dignitary OF the
government. They may pose as hay
ling a commission from some library
for the portrait, when, ten chances to
one. the only object is notoriety.
which serves then as a means of get
ting rich orders from members OF So
ciety. Surely there ought to be an
art censor who could meet importu
lnate artists and demand evidences Of
their fame elsewhere before they
are turned loose upon suffering pub
lie officials.
\ In New York last week an artist
| was arrested for painting a carica-
'ture Of Representative Volstead ct al.
Whereof, where is our Ashur or
| Einstein, who Will shadow the por-
traitists even now contemplating fu-
| ture attacks on official Washingto
mans?
fCopyright 1923. by P. V. Collins,