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graphic arts section of the Smith
sonian Institution, under the auspices
Cf which this collection is set forth,
says, 1t is a very beautiful showing.
Amazing as it may seem, these beau
tiful prints, sought by the leading
art associations and libraries for their
permanent collections, sell at from
SIS to $25 each.
Mr.. Partridge is associated with the
art department of Mills College, Cali
fornia, which is erecting at this time a
fine building for a gallery of art.
X
A T the Vandyck Galleries recent
portraits by Artur L. Halmi,
lately shown at the Knoedler CAL
leries in New York, will be placed
on exhibition January Is. Mr.. Halmi
follows the lead of the English por-
trait painters of the eighteenth cen
tury, and his portraits are of pic
turesque type, calculated to- please
the sitters but not representative,
perhaps, of the highest type of art.
However, many of his sitters have
been those whose names have a
glamour not only in the social regis
ter but the art world He has paint
ed Mrs. Joseph Duveen and Miss
Dorothy Duveen, Mrs. George Gould,
Miss Edity and Miss Gloria Gould.
Mrs Anthony DreXel ir and Col
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News and Notes of Art and Artists
The Exhibition of Paintings by Willard MetcalSpendid
E1amp les of the Artists Work in Washington An
Exhibition the Austrian Legation-Etchings at
the Smiths
the Smithsonian.

whom this exhibition was specially
assembled by the artist.
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consequence we seem ia be demand
ing payment without regard to ca
pacity, while the French seem to be
evading payment with a similar dis
regard for capacity. If we could be
assured France would pay all she
could when and as she could, II the
French were satisfied that we would
demand no more than was reason
ably possible, then the trouble would
DE adjusted easily. "a.
determinations INDUCED.
But the absence of any measuring
rod leads to the unhappy situation
in which we speak of the French as
dishonest debtors. and they describe
US as rapacious Shylocks. am
bound to say, giving a personal opin-
| ion. that this present disagreeable
situation can hardly have any solu-
ton until the French come forward
with a clear and definite statement
of their present and prospective stu
alton, accompanied by an equally
clear evidence of a readiness to pay
when they arrive at a better pos
ture.
What the French have to deal with
is not an unreasonable creditor, but
creditor who has pretty definitely
reached the conclusion that his debtor
means to get out of paying IL he
can, without regard to his ability to
pay. 1 do not suggest this is an
accurate or even partially accurate
view, but / am convinced that It is
the American point of view and ex-
| plains most Of the passion of We
| hemence with which the question has
| been debated in Congress and in the
press recently. And this, after all,
was the real burden of the somewhat
blunt words of Senator Reed of
| Pennsylvania, about the best friend
| France has in American public life
| today, who spoke as a friend.
Clear Statement Desired.
AS a friend of France myself. /
| have the very clear conviction that
| France now owes it to herself and
| to us to make a very clear state
any payments, a fact our Treasury
| officials accept, and why she cannc&
now make any definite commitment 4
to make payments of a fixed amoun4
at any specified date, since her cuS
pacity must continue to be contirA
gent upon her ability to collect wha !
possibility, of whyfshe cannot underA
take more than relatively insignif-: ::
| cant payments until she knows wha !
she is to get from Germany.
! That. after all, is the point we
have now reached in the debt dis
cussion with France. If we stick
| there the results are likely to be
unattractive on both sides of the
ocean and in both public opinions.
| Copyright, 1921
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greatly affected by the extent to
which Germany pays.
1t Is plain that Washington Is
eager to have some kind of a settle
ment 1t is not unwilling to be gen.
erous in the matter of a moratorium
and even In the rate of payment, but
1t wants to get the whole matter
down in black and white and out OF
the area of debate. 1t wants to be
able to figure on an annual income
from the French debt as 1t can from
the British. This is a perfectly nat
ural and understandable point OF
view.
But the Frenchman and the Italian.
as well as the Belgian, want to be
sure of their ability to pay anything
before they sign up to any terms
And the Frenchman and the Belgian
feel that they cannot know anything
about their ability until they have
discovered the ability of Germany to
pay plus German Willingness. OF
course, all the Continental States, and
Britain as well. would be perfectly
willing to pay their debt to US in full
provided we would accept German
obligations at their face value. But
we have always refused any. such
transactions.
Dodge Definite Pledge.
Suppose then that France, as 1 be-
lieve she will. while always affirming
her intention to pay, declines for the
present to agree to any definite
schedule of payments, pending the
establishment of the Dawes plan in
practice, what will the United States
do about it? What can we do about
! it? The single resource suggested
has been a refusal to let private cap
ital be loaned to France. That might
be serious blow to the French, II
might even lead to a collapse OF
French credit and of French ex-
change. But that would not get us
paid, il would be as futile as that
other resort te force, the occupation
of the Ruhr, was in yielding actual
cash
1t seems to me that a great deal OF
nonsense enters into the discussion
There is no present basis for any ex-
animation of any moral obligation on
our part to cancel or scale down the
debts of our former associates This
county does not recognize any such
obligation, any such duty. and that
settles il. France should not be for
given her debt because she suffered
more than any other country, as she
did, because America does not recog-
nize that as a valid argument. We
have got beyond all those sentimental
factors. 1t may or may not be re-
grettable, as one happens to feel
But IL is the fact
The United States is out to get Its
money back. 1t feels it is entitled 10
its money, II is angry and suspicious
about the attitude of it's debtors and
is in no mood to listen to any at
tempt to revive wartime feelings
When the French point to their death
lists or the costs of reconstructing
their devastated areas they are vast.
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Of the Family Welfare Association,
Calvert and Lombard streets, Balti-
more, or may be purchased at Harris
& Shafer's, 1903 F street, Washington.
and at the entrance door of the gal
lery. The gallery will be open on
Wednesdays and Saturdays in Janu-
airy, February, March and April, also
Easter Monday and February %,
X X X
THE Charcoal Club of Baltimore
and the Maryland Institute
opened their sixteenth annual exhibit
ton of contemporary American Art
on the evening of January s. The ex-
hibition will be free to the public un-
til February 2. Tea will be served
every afternoon at 4 O'Clock in the
gallery.
X *
A T the Baltimore Museum of Art,
n Mount Vernon Place, is to be
seen an exhibition of modern French
art, which comprises about so paint
ings and an equal number of draw
ings. etchings and Autographs by
some of the most important workers
of this school frau Eapybet tQ Ra-
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Worcester Museum, the Art Institute
of Chicago, the Toledo Museum of
Art, the Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burgh, and the Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool, England. He was born in
Centralia, Washington State, in 1888.
He studied at the National Academy
of Design in New York and is a men,
Der of the California Print Makers
Society, the Chicago Society of Etch-
ers and the California Society OF
Etchers. He uses chiefly pure etch-
ing. His plates are all sharply and
clearly bitten. His line Is a little
rugged and heavy, but very positive
and very firm, and his prints show
charming use of a combination OF
light and heavy stroke.
The collection now on view. in
cludes landscape, architectural sub
jects and a few portraits and figure
studies. He has found his themes
not only on the West coast, but in
various parts of the United States
and also in Europe. Eight drawings
are included with the 65 etchings
and, as R..P. Folmauss In charge of the
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William Jay, among others. This ex-
hibition will be free to the public
X
MARION H BECKETT of this city
A'A is holding an exhibition of pic
tures-portraits and still life at. the
Montross Gallery, New York. Among
the former are portraits of John E.
Lodge and Miss Katherine y. Rhoades
of the Freer Gallery, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr.. of Wash
ington.
X x
A ENCOURAGEMENT is made that the
4 n Walters Gallery in Baltimore will
open to the public. This is one of the
most interesting of the private gall
leries in this country. 1t contains
not only the valuable collection of
the nineteenth century European
paintings collected by the present
owners father, but also his famous
collection of porcelains, the Mas
saranti collection of old masters, ayc-
quired by the present owner, replica
of The Thinker" by Rodin, a COM
prehensive collection of Barge
bronzes and a beautiful series of period
rooms, besides miscellaneous works
of great interest There is an ad-
mission fee of so cents, which goes
to the poor fund of Baltimore. Tick
cts may be ordered through the Office
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modernism with him leads back to
scholarship in art, to beauty as well
as vigor of expression. Mr.. Katz
came to this country on the invitation
and at the suggestion of Frank A
Vanderlip of New York, and he has
painted portraits of all of the men,
bers of Mr.. Vanderlip's family. He
works in oils and in water colors and
he makes occasionally a very beauti-
full silver point. r--
The public will be given opportunity
to see a comprehensive collection of
Mr.. katz's works very shortly at the
National Gallery of Art, where they
will be shown after the 18th of this
month. Mr.. Katz is to give a series
OF talks on art to group at the
Woman's University Club while in
Washington.
X X
A N exhibition of etchings and
drawings by Roi Partridge of
Oakland. Calf, is now on view in
the division of graphic arts, Smith
sonian Building, where it may be
seen throughout the month of Janu-
airy. Mr.. Partridge is one of the most
distinguished of our cotemporary
American etchers and his works have
been purchased for the permanent
collections of the Library of Congress,
the New York Public Library, the
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whom this exhibition was specially
assembled by the artist.
X X
TOMORROW. January IL, at the
Austrian Legation, will be shown
by special invitation group of por
traits by Leo katz the Austrian art
list. who is at present residing in the
United States. Referring to an exhi-
bition of Mr.. Katz's work held at the
Enrich Galleries in New York last
Winter, writer in the Studio, Brit
ish publication, said: The popularity
of the portraits of this artist is that
they are both decorative and realistic
at the same time. Their backgrounds
are often full of elaborate details in
vivid colors. In some cases the inner
most desires and aspirations of the
sitter are represented there in SYM
bolical forms The portraits are fatty
treated but they are thoroughly vital.
Mr.. Katz studied at the Fine Arts
Academy in Vienna, and then for
while in all the important countries
of Europe, including England. The
study of Albrecht Durer and Leonardo
da Ninci has helped his growth. He
has also absorbed something of the
ideals of the artists of the Far East,
India and Persia"
Mr.. katz is an accomplished drafts
man, showing in many of his portraits
the influence of Durer and Holbein.
He is something of d modernist but
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ing their time. Some Of us may wish
this were not the case, but 1t is the
case.
Getting Paid In Problem.
But accepting the fact that we
want our money back. we are faced
with the fact that getting it, back
depends upon the capacity of the
debtor to pay, in the first place:
upon his willingness, in the second
place, and upon his self-interest final
ly Now. we shall get nowhere
until we determine the capacity of
each of our debtors-France, italy
and Belgium-and 1T is obvious that
the capacity of each is different.
AS to willingness. it is idle to pay
much heed to this. None of our debt
ors, the British included, will pay
willingly because none of them be-
lieve in the justice of our claim. For
all Europe we are Shylock with the
law on our side this time. What the
mass of Europeans think of our
policy would, if it were reported over
here, come pretty near to appalling
those Americans 1t did not anger be-
yond expression.
AS to seIf-interest, the final point,
Britain paid US because the policy of
paying seemed the single way to re-
store the pound sterling to par.
| France, Italy and Belgium might pay
us something, perhaps something con-
| siderable, to preserve their credit
| here and their source OF future loans.
| But no nation would pay more than
| the element OF self-interest required
and many Englishmen feel that Mr..
Baldwin paid too much in his ar
rangement.
British Did Not Strain.
But the sum which Britain agreed
| to pay was not in excess of her ca :
| pacity, while 1t seemed in direct re1a-
| tion to her self-interest, therefore the
| British paid; but what they think of
| the insistence on our part need not
| be discussed. AS for the French, the
Belgians and the Italians we shall
| not advance a step until we have
| found some machinery for fixing upon
| capacity and then have the matter
of self-interest equally clearly deter
| mined.
All our efforts to get the French
| to come down to brass tacks-and
| the same is true in the case of Italy
| and Belgium, although the whole
matter has more or less rested upon
| the French issue as a sort of test
case-have failed, for the simple rea-
! son that none of these countries is
| willing TO enter into fixed contract
with US while 1t finds Itself unable
to arrive at a fixed contract in the
matter of its assets, although in the
| italian case the foreign assets are in
considerable.
| France does not intend to enter
| into a fixed contract to pay US or to
| pay the British, while the contract
| of the Germans to pay is not fixed,
| In the sense that il remains wholly
| problematical how much France is
| going to get from Germany. If the
| Dawes plan had fixed a sum beyond
| any debate or outside the limits of
| evasion, sum which Germany must
| pay and insured a settled, a sure
way Of collecting, then IT would be
possible to bring the French and
| the Belgians to some decisive point
We and they would then know their
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of the facts In the case. 1t cannot be
an examination like that OF tho
Dawes Commission, because France
cannot be treated as could a con-
quored enemy. 1t must be wholly
amicable and equal discussion. And,
OF course, the same process must OBJ
tain in the case. of Belgium and Italy.
But such an examination will have
to include all the elements For ex-
ample. Italy does not owe the United
States alone. neither do France and
Belgium. Our claims have no greater
legal force than those OF Britain. The
capacity of France, for example, to
pay her debts to us must be settled
by establishing her ability to pay
pari passu upon the sum. total of all
of her debts, that is, of her foreign
debts. She owes us $4,000, 900, 900,
she owes Britain $500, 900, 900. Thus
her debt is $500, 900, 600. and the
sum she will annually be able TO pay
must be divided between the two
debtors on the basis of the shares in
the debts. Italy and Belgium must
be considered similarly.
America cannot in practice say to
her European debtors: Look here,
don't care how you settle your debts
as between yourselves, but all of you
must pay me in full, no matter how
you pay each other" She cannot say
to the British: You get out of the
road now and let me settle my affairs
with France, and If there is anythin &
left over of French capacity to pay,
you can then present your bill"
Showdown Is Wanted.
Nor. in practice, can America say
to France or Belgium. which depend
largely upon German payments: Il
am not interested in whether Ger
many pays you or not, that makes no
difference with the validity of my
bill. with the obligation on your part
to pay or in any other way" For IL,
under the Dawes plan, payment is
based upon capacity. capacity in the
French and Belgian case Will be
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|H HE exhibition of paintings by
Willard L. Metcalf, which
opened in the Corcoran CAL
Il lery of Art January and
will continue through Febru-
ery l, is one of the most interesting
and attractive of the many which
nave been held in this city, not only
this Winter, but for several Winters
Washingtonians are not unfamiliar
with Mr.. Metcalf's work. He is rep
resented in the Corcoran Gallery of
Art by his beautiful nocturRe, May
NiglR," which received the principal
Clark prize when shown in one of
the earliest of the Corcoran Gallerys
cotemporary exhibitions; also by
a Spring landscape, which the Cor
coran Gallery secured through a be-
quest from the late Mr.. oyster. The
National Gallery owns Mr.. Metcalf's
exquisite Summer picture entitdel
Family of Birches," which was in
cluded last Summer in the American
section of the great international ex-
position at Venice. Also from time
TO time his works have been shown in
the general exhibitions.
Invariably. his paintings are char
acterized by refinements of feeling,
eXquisiteness of beauty and a certain
elegance of finish without, however,
losing their bigness of expression,
vigor and structural breadth To an
extent Mr.. Metcalf is indebted to the
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situation. the elements essential to
determine capacity would all be pres
ent.
Elements OF Doubt.
But, IL 1t Is demonstrated that Ger
many cannot be made to pay $500, ,OoO.-
200 year, If 1t Is demonstrated, for
example, that she cannot pay or be
made to pay any considerable part
of it. then tho case of France and
Belgium and Italy, with respect of
their debts, will take on a wholly
different aspect, for it will be plain
that what cannot be demanded of
Germany cannot be asked of nations
which are not in any similar sense
industrial and, therefore, exporting
countries. But what would be the
situa ton of France, Belgium and Italy
IL they had, on the assumption of
German payment to the maximum un-
der the Dawes plan undertaken to
pay US and to pay the British in
proportion?
the Germans pay and II they do
not. with a third possibility based
upon the amount of partial payment
the Germans may make. Moreover,
French capacity to pay will continue
to be in a measure regulated by the
continuation of German payments
but who can estimate this element
in advance?
1t Is fair assumption that Ger
many might evade all payments and
yet that French capacity to pay
something would still be demon
strable. just as British capacity to
pay, although she is getting nothing
from her own debtors and next tc
nothing from German reparations ur
to date, has been proven. But in
practice it may fairly safely be as
sumed that IL Germany cannot be
made to pay substantially, it will be
impossible to make her principal cred
itor, namely, France, pay.
Mistake in French Policy.
The trouble with the French case
in the United States grows out OF
the fairly general belief that French
policy is directed toward an ulti-
| mate evasion of payment in any case
that 1t rests upon the assumption thai
in the end It will be possible to ar.
rive at virtual cancellation. The
United States has no desire to be
ungenerous, but 1T has an uncom-
Portable feeling that 1t is being made
the victim of a very real Willingness
to be reasonable.
The weakness of the American case
in France arises from the fact thai
We seem to be. pressing for a pay
ment without regard to capacity oi
the debtor and without Willingness
to apply to the French situation pre-
cisely the principles which We have
invoked in the case of the Dawes
plan. In word, We seem to be in
sisting on the one hand that France
as the creditor of Germany, accept
certain principles which we, as the
creditors Of France, decline to reckon
with.
The inability to bridge the differ
ence between the two public opin-
ions grows out of the fact that there
is no present measure of French ca
pacity TO pay and none in practice
II not in theory, will be available
until il is established how much
France is going TO be paid. AS a
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Women to Present Flag.

The Department of the Potomac,
Woman's Relief Corps, will present a
flag to the First Baptist Church.
southwest, at $3.50 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. The principal address will
be made by Prof. Neval II. Thomas.
Others who will speak are Mrs. Isa-
belle Worrell Ball, Rev. J. Marshall
and Mis-. Gabrielle Pelham.
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rain and the younger men of the pres
ent day. There are important exam
pies of the work of Cezanne, Matisse
and Van Gogh, as we'll as OF the
earlier painters. Among the more re-
cent artists represented are Modig-
liani, Vlaminck and Metzinger.
A T the recent annual exhibition OF
"A the National Association Of
Women Painters and Sculptors a
miniature of Mrs. Sawtelle of this
city, by Margaret Foote Hawley, re-
ceived honorable mention.
X X
HOBART NICHOLS has recently
1been awarded the .Vinzen pur-
chase prize for one OF his paintings
in the Salmagundi Clubs annual
thumb box exhibition.
LEILA MECHLIN.
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William Jay, among others. This e
hibition will be free to the public.
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y. S. Wants Frank War Debt
Statement From Paris Cabinet

Continued from First Page)
The Washington times., 1925-06-10

the sixth floor of the Earle Dulld-
ing. Thirteenth ana E streets nortn:
west. are from the home ofrlce OF
Mcclellan & Junkersfeld, but the
traffic counters, checkers, drafts
men. computers, stenographers and
others. to the number Of $50 or
more, are Washington residents.
This is in accord with the COM
nany's policy of using local men
and women on reports and con-
The firm of Mcclellan Junker-
field, composed Of nationally re-
nowned engineers and constructors
who have had years OF experience
in publicity, utility and research
work, recently undertook the Iact
finding survey of transportation
facilities in the National Capital
for the Public Utility Commission'
Survey One Of Many.
This work, while less spectacular
than the building Of $1O.O0O.COO
power plants, in the construction
of which this firm specializes, Is
considered no less essential to
progress and no less the function or
the consulting engineer.
The trend of the times, 1t Is said,
is toward coordination of estab-
lished industries and in such de-
velopment the judgment of highly
trained and expert engineers OF
long experience is considered es-
sential to secure the best results
for the patronage served, for the
employer and the owner.
The survey nearing completion
here is only one of the many OF
similar character that this firm
has been commissioned to make.
The Washington times., 1925-06-10
TRAFFIC SURVEY
BY EXPERTS
FINISHED
North American Co. Will Not
AnaIyze Data Collected in
100000 Questionnaires

Practically all the field work In
connection with the transportation
survey now being made in Wash
ington by Mcclellan and Junkers-
field for the North American Com
pany was completed today, and an
analysis Of the several hundred
thousand QUESTIONABLE cards filled
in by Washingtonians Is now
under way.
In addition to cards distributed
to schools and colleges and to pas
sengers on cars and buses. more
than 100000 cards were filled In
by persons working in Washington,
stating their individual transporta-
ton needs and habits in going to
and from their homes.
The analysis now under way will
show where those filling in the
cards work and live and what
means of transportation they used
daily. Those who have not yet
filled in the QUESTIONABLE are re-
quested to use the blank form pub
lished in the Washington Times
today.
Capital Residents Employed.
About 165 persons are now en-
ployed in making the analysis
which will be completed about the
middle of July.
The men supervising the work on