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News and Notes of Art and Artists
Washington Attracting Atnion-Tbe DOUGLAS
Vok Portrait of Abraham Lincoln-Painting Of
School-Etchings View.

against a yellow decorated back
ground. The transparency and glitter
OF the glass is well rendered.
During the course of the exhibition
many inquiries are made of the mem
Der of the club who is in charge of the
sale of catalogues, Some are highly
amusing. For. instance, a lady seri-
ously made inquiry as to whether or
not the frames, without the pictures,
might be purchased. stating that she
had many pictures at home and would
like to buy some frames. A man this
past week politely asked if any Of the
works on view were by modernsts.
Being told that the exhibition was
comparatively conservative, but that
some of the exhibits were in the. mod
ern style, he shook his head and said.
no, they all to him seemed perfectly
sane: what he wanted TO see was the
work OF cranks. He was evidently
disappointed. A third visitor asked
to be allowed to see the catalogue in
order to find out where he was. From
the number of pictures on view, he
said, he took it for granted it was an
art gallery, but what art gallery he
was not Informed. 1t takes all kinds
to make a world.
The exhibition will remain on view
through next Sunday, February 2S.
INCLUDED in the centennial eI
hibition of the National Academy
Of Design was a portrait OF Lincoln
by Douglas Nolk, entitled with
Malice Toward None" This portrait
was painted by Mr.. NOlk after years
Of study Of all the pictures of Lincoln.
Of Lincoln's character, and of the bust
which his father did of Lincoln. 1t
has been declared by many one Of the
truest interpretations Yet rendered.
comparable with the nt-Gaudens
statues now in Chicago.
This portrait will again be exhibited
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art this
week, having been placed on view
there yesterday as loan from the
artist and the American Federation Of
Arts in order that 1t might be seen
by the superintendent of schools
throughout the country, who will be
in convention here the first part of
this week. This picture is to be cir
culated in cities throughout the coun-
try by the American Federation of
Arts because of its artistic merit and
with patriotic intent. 1t will be espe-
cially brought to the attention of
school children. The story of the
painting is as follows:
In 1860 Leonard w. Nolk, sculptor,
modelled a bust of Lincoln. Douglas
Folk, being at that time child Of
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war. This insurance at the very low
term rate may be carried until July 2,
1876, or veteran who has let his in
surance drop since the war may re-
lnstate before the same date. The
purpose of Congress in granting this
extended period was to allow time for
number of men who had been in the
service to re-establiSh themselves eco
nomically so that they could afford the
more expensive types of insurance.
The Governments term policy origi-
nally was intended, as it is in most
private companies, as a purely tempo
rary insurance protection.
Policies After July.
After July there will he no more
term policies issued by the Govern
ment. The Veterans Bureau will,
however, offer to all men who carried
insurance during the service the fol-
lowing types of policies, providing the
veteran has by that time reinstated
or converted his term policy to, one of
them: Twenty-payment life; 30-pay-
ment life; 20-year endowment: 30-year
endowment; endowment at the age of
o.
The maximum insurance which any
man may take out is $4,000 and every
man is limited to the amount of inSur-
ance he carried while he was in the
service, so that a man who carried
only $1,000 during the war out of the
$4,000 allowed at that time will now
be allowed to take not to exceed S. 900
worth in spite of the total limitation
of $4,000.
Government insurance makes no re-
striction as to residence, travel, age,
occupation or military or naval serv
ice. 1t is exempt from all taxation
and is not subject to the claims Of
creditors of the insured or of any
beneficiary. 1t may be made payable
to a husband, wife. child, grandchild,
parent. one who has stood in the place
of a parent, brother. sister, aunt.
uncle, nephew, niece, brother-in-law or
sister-in-law of the insured.
Premiums are payable annually,
semi-annually, quarterly or monthly,
and the proceeds of the policy may be
paid to the beneficiary in lump sum.
in SO equal installments or in 240
equal installments at the option of the
insured.
Insurance may be renewed or con-
verified at any Office of the United
States Veterans Bureau up to and In
Guiding July 2, 1926. and rates and
free medical examination will be fur
nished all applicants at such offices.
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FERCUSONS LIKELY TO DEMAND
ANOTHER VINDICATION AT POLLS
Dan Moody, Attorney General, Urged to Run for
Governor, Probably Will Face Strong Opposition
on the Part of Woman Executive.

elect a man who represented a dis
credited secret organization. We fol
lowed this by giving that woman's
husband, James L. Ferguson. a full
pardon. 1t was an acknowledgment
that either the previous legislative
act was wrong or that all his sins had
been forgiven.
Everything went smoothly in
State government under the woman's
administration until Attorney General
Moody began probing alleged fraudu-
lent acts of the States Highway Com
mission. The cases filed brought forth
the fact that James E. Ferguson, hus-
band of the Governor, but holding no
office himself, had sat with the High
way Commission and frequently die
tated it's policies and its award of con-
tracts.
The attorney general secured a
verdict against one firm. which he
claims saved some 5000. 1000 for the
State. Two members of the Highway
Commission resigned, presumably on
the demand of the governor or the
governor husband
Now there is a Statewide demand
that the attorney general become a
candidate for governor. If he does,
Gov. Ferguson or her husband,
Citizen Ferguson, threatens to run
another vindication; that they will go
before the people and prove that the
attorney general made his probe for
political effect, and that, furthermore,
the State has lost money rather than.
saved it by the interference of the
legal department.
If this promise or threat comes true,
1t means that Texas again will be con-
fronted with political turmoil. The
only consolation is that the Klan has
practically been eliminated. Both the
FergusonS and the attorney general
have fought that organization for the
past four years, and 1t is no longer a
factor in Texas politics.
The attorney general has q great
following; so have the Fergusons.
Dan Moody is fighter; SO is James E.
Ferguson. Neither will take the de-
fensive.
(Copyright 1891
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James Stephens.

the might and majesty of the uncon-
querable ocean. But, to the lands
man, there must be much more than
this to satisfy him. THE Stormy
Petrol should have a clear and def
mite job to do. a something that will
take all of the Stormy Petrol and
its crew, doing their uttermost, to
achieve. And so 1t turns out. In a
port on the northern shore of Russia
there lies an American ship, illegally
detained, to the financial detriment Of
it's owners and to their resentful en-
barrassment at such fragrant breach
of sea-faring custom. 1t is the bust
ness of the Stormy Petrol and her
crew to get that ship. They get it..
The business of going upon such
an errand becomes real to the reader,
giving plausible pretext for every sort
of conflict with Northern waters and
the Northern climate, with crafty men
hihdering the enterprise, with the reso-
lutte heroism of the crew and the
stanch conduct of the Petrol itself.
\ completely good strengthening with
human nature in the raw, with the
sea in every mood, with the conquest
of adverse circumstance and the tri.
umph of the Petrol and her men.
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years, has but haZy membranes of
Lincoln's presence in his fathers stu
do. but does recall an occasion when
he sat on Lincoln's knee during one Of
the poses. His memories of a later
date, however. are most vivid, when,
for instance, he marched in a process
sion of school children to view the
body of the martyred President lying
in state. Mr.. Volk's father also made
life mask of Lincoln. the life mask
which is now among the treasures of
our Smithsonian Institution. He also
made a cast of Lincoln's hands. OF
all of these Mr.. Volk has made careful
study. He has painted and repainted
the portrait, until now 1t would seem
To most nearly reach his ideal. An
other rendition of the same subject is
owned by the Albright Gallery, Buff
falo.
1t Is a sad picture, but essentially
spiritual. 1t shows Lincoln in pro-
found contemplation; 1t shows him
as essentially human, and yet apart,
when he bore on his shoulders and on
his heart a warning Nation, the great
problems of civilization, the problems
of a struggling world. Some may
say, How is 1t possible for a painter
to produce true portrait Of one who
is no longer living? 1t is undoubtedly
most dl1ncult, OUT IT should be remem-
bered that almost all of our great
sculptural portraits were so pro-
duced. and what is possible in sculp-
ture should be even more possible in
paint.
Among Mr.. Volk's other most nota-
BILE works are his portrait of DR.. Felix
Adler. owned by the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art, and his portraits of
King Albert of Belgium, Lloyd
George and Gen. Pershing. in the war
portrait collection in the National
Museum.
THE paintings by members of Taos
school now on view at the Arts
Club, 20l7 l street. are for the most
part small canvases. representative of
the work of each painter, but far less
impressive than examples by these
same artists included in the Corcoran
Gallery'S biennial exhibitions
l.. Martin Hennings' landscapes are
particularly interesting. Several fea-
ture especially the golden cotton
woods Indigenous to Taos and the
country Whereabouts. One of these
paintings, entitled Beside the Can
yon Stream" shows a group of the
yellow trees thrown into sharp relief
against dark background, the can
yon's wall Two of Mr. Hennings'
paintings-and very charming ones
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BY MARCELLUS +. FOSTER,



How often should an offfcehoIder
who has been assailed or whose in
tegrity has been questioned demand a
vindication by votes of the people?
That is a question now agitating the
people Of Texas, due to the fact that
James r. Ferguson, husband of Gov.
Miriam A. Ferguson, threatens either
to become a candidate himself or to
ask another term of two years for his
wife. Mrs. Ferguson was chosen as
the standard-bearer of the Texas
Democrats in the Summer of 1924.
She was put forward by her husba nd
after the courts held that his name
could not appear on the ticket. He
had been impeached while governor
six years before and thrown out of
office.
1t was in the second Democratic
primary that Mrs. Ferguson and hus-
band Jim asked for a vindication
They got it, aided greatly by the fact
that the woman's opponent was
known as Klansman and was backed
by the Khan. More than 100000
Democrats rallied to her support. Men
Of State and national prominence took
the stump in her behalf. Mrs. Fergu-
son herself made very few speeches,
but she gave forth many prediction
statements. In one of these she de-
clared she wanted the office not only
to help end the Khan orgy of hate and
intolerance but to restore the Fergu-
son name; that if the Democrats would
put her in office for two years she
would be satisfied and would not ask
for a reelection.
She was not only made governor in
the most memorable campaign in the
States history but a Legislature was
elected that passed drastic anti-Klan
laws and that gave to James E. Fer
guson a pardon, passing an amnesty
bill that restored him to all his civil
rights.
We made a most unusual expert
ment in government. We placed a
woman in the States highest office.
We chose for Governor the wife of a
then discredited man, rather than
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BOOKS RECEIVED

RECOLLECTIONS OF A HAPPY
LIFE. BY Maurice Francis Egan.
Introduction by Henry Van Dyke.
Fifth Edition. New York: George
II. Doran Co.
MATTER AND MIND. By w. F. F.
Shearcroft. New York: The Mac.
milan Co.
A WOMAN AND HER MONEY. BY
Elizabeth Frazer. New York:
George II. Doran Co.
THE LONG ARM OF THE
MOUNTED. BY James French
Dorrance, author of Never Fire
First" Frontispiece by Edward
c. Caswell. New York: The Mac
aulay Co.
SPANISH RAYONET BY Stephen
Vincent Benet. New York: George
II. Doran co.
THE MIND OF JESUS. BY Louis
Rowland. author of Day Unto
Day" etc. indianapolis: Bobbs.
Merrill Co
LAW UNNRIT BY Maud Gillette
Phillips. New York: Frederick
II. Hitchcock
Is 1T GODS WORD? An Exposition
of the Fables and Mythology of
the Bible and the Fallacies of
Theology. BY Joseph Wheless.
author of Compendium of Laws
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THE LOVE GAME: Being the Life
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suzanne Lenglen. New York ::
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HE KEEN DESIRE. BY Frank B.
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1ffE PlPER'S FEE. BY Samuel
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The BUTTER AND EGG MAN: A
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A JOlSOME HISTORY OF EDJrCA.
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Streamline Bodies of Fish Evolution
OF Earliest Forms of Ocean Life

The streamline form, now univer-
sally used by designers of submarines,
racing automobiles and airplanes, Is
not new, according to Prof. Edward
W. Berry of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity.
THE typical fish form. often called
the streamline form, does not imply
that flowing water had anything to
do with it's origin says Prof. Berry.
LAS a dynamical problem of perfect
ing a shape which would slip through
the water with least resistance and
without the production of eddies
which are the chief factors in retard-
ing progress, it is one that the fishes
have solved even better than have the
designers of torpedoeS and subma-
rines."
Prof Berry takes issue with II
widely accepted doctrine that fishes
originated in fr>eshwater streams and
had their bodies nodded into shape
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
BOOKS FOR LENTEN READING

recommended by Rev. John X. Cart
wright, d. D.. of st. Patrick
church. Reprints will be available
iof distribution at the library.
Augustine st, The Confessions. OK
Benson, r. H. Christ in the Church,
CICA-B447.
Benson, r. II. Paradoxes of Catboli
cism. CZ-B447p.
Benson. +. II. Friendship of Christ
CZ-B447f. ''''
Buckler, H: r: Spiritual Considera
tons. CK-BS55s./
ChrySostom. John. DEVELOPMENT n,
Personality. IkR-C46Sd.
Cuthbert. FIR. ST. Francis of Assist
E-FS46cu.
D1don; Henri. Jesus Christ. eco
Dinnis. Enid. Anchorhold.
Francis de Sales. ST. Introduction &c
a Devout Life. Ck-FS42.E
Fouard, c. H. The Christ the Son 81
God. CGQ-FS25.
Fouard. c. H. st. Peter and the FRS,
Years of Christianity. DA-Fs22spe
F'ouard. c. H. st. Paul and His Mis-
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Fouard. c. II. Last Years of St. Paul
CBT-FS2S.E.
GaS g Ms,7J J. R. Cardinal Manning
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Herbermann, c. G. Sulpicians in the
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Truth of the Catholic Church
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Shahan, T. J. Beginnings of Chris
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Snead-Cox, j. G. Life of Cardinal
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Stuart, j. E. Highways and Byways
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Thureau-Dangin, Paul. The English
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Thurston, Herbert. Lent and Holy
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Name Changing Fad.

Sweeping the Union of Soviet Social
list Republics is a fad for changing
names Of countries. cities. villages and
individuals. After every political
leader is named at least one commun-
ity-those whose former names were
Romanov. Now Moscow is changing
the names Of 80 streets which had the
names OF former bourgeois citizens.
In Leningrad an enthusiast whose
name was Ikonikov-compound
from the religious ikon-had it
changed to Tovarish (Comrade) REM
formed from the first letters of the
Russian words meaning revolution,
electricity and peace-the three steps
in the communist program for Russia.
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Judges in Russia.

OF $500 Judges on the bench in the
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics,
AIS are peasants and Ss2 are work
men, according to data furnished by
the peoples commissariat Of justice.
Among 400 Judges of instruction, 627
are peasants and 292 are workmen.
Eighty-three per cent are members
of the Communist party. candidates
for membership or members of the
komsomol (proselytes for membership
under "a years Of age). Presumably
the other 791 judges are Of the intel
ligenzia. Only 112 women are in re-
sponsible positions - not on the
bench-in the judiciary establishment.
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by the water rushing over them, as
they clung to rocks on the bottom.
He points out that the same results
would be obtained by moving fish in
stationary water as by moving water
flowing over stationary fish. He
points out further that the older rocks
of the earth's crusts which contain
no fish remains, yield abundant fossils
of earlier and more primitive animal
families which unquestionably evolved
in the sea and which had worked out
the fishlike streamline form long be-
fore there were any fishes.
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Full Blood Indian Priest.

Father Albert Negahnquet, an as
sistant priest at ST. Joseph's Roman
Catholic Cathedral in Oklahoma City,
is the only full-blooded Indian priest
in the world.
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THE SWINGING CARAVAN. BY
AChmed Abdullah. author of 1.-THE
Thief Of Ba glad" etc. New York:
Brentano's.
IT is not altogether as the critics in
one way or another keep saying.
that Achmed Abdullah knows his
Orient. Not altogether, as they re-
iterate, that he breathes out it's at
affinity with the East. Not entirely
because he is able to choose new and
strange places-some remote corner
of Persia, a secret retreat of Turkey,
a stretch of Africa's Mediterranean
shore at it's most picturesque points
of historic implication. Not alone
because, having chosen, he at once be-
comes not so much an Interpretation
of the scene as an element of it, re-
fecting It's physical features, it's
colors, it's essence. He is not so much
the mere teller of a tale, the critics
say. Rather is he a partaker of the
action itself. embodying in his own
nature the feelings and impulses of
the group carrying on in this incident
or in that event.
This is, in sum, about what the
critics say. And nobody wishes to
gainsay them. 1t seems, however,
that the browning point to this gen.
orally accepted view of the art of
Achmed Abdullah is that, at the bot
tom of every action, there stirs
feeling, a motive. an impulse that is
common to all human nature-not to
the Oriental more than to the man Of
the West, not to one race or blood
more than to another. That's the
main point tA the artistry of this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-21

TIL, CONSTITUTION AT THE
CROSSROADS. BY Edward a.
Hartman. lecturer on international
law in George Washington Law
School. New York: George II.
DOran Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-21

II HE Washington Water Color
Clubs annual exhibition now
on view In the Corcoran Gal
i lery OF Art has been attracting
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-18
EAST sKAGGs

Oscar Prince and family visited his
mother Sunday.
Hermon Bratton was guest OF
win Bishops near Shannon Sunday.
Albert Pitman visited Everett Ses-
sum Sunday.
Miss Lorine Ladyman visited Miss
Pauline Fry Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Booth and little
son, Leon, were Saturday night guests
of Mr.. and Mrs Rice Bigger.
Misses Della and Alice Higginbotham
visited Miss Edna Pitman Sunday.
Miss Edna Pitman visited Miss Della
BrattOn Saturday.
Willie Pitman spent Saturday night
with Ed and Hermon Bratton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bratton and
children visited his mother Friday.
Several attended singing Saturday
night.
Miss Lorine Ladyman visited Miss
Ethel Sessum Sunday.
Bryan and Lewis Higginbotham
visited Ed Sessum Sunday. Everett
Sessum and Van Ladyman accompan-
led them home.
There will be singing at the Chris
tian church every Sunday night. Every
body come.
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