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The competitive test is paramount.
The apportionment according to States
Is incidental, but is conscientiously
administered by the Civil Service Com
mission, keeping in mind that the
law includes the modifying phrase, as
nearly as the condition of good admin
istration win warrant
There are violations of the civil
service law just as there are violations
of al! laws. The percentage, however,
is small. The most annoying cases
have to do with political activity on
the part of classified employees and
result, we find. either from overzeal-
BUSINESS of employees in behalf of some
candidate or for suggestion, almost
equivalent at times to coercion, on the
part Of local political bosses outside
the classified service, who influence
classified employees against their better
judgment. So little is actually ac-
complished by such transgressions
that / wonder that they are ever at.
tempted.
Theodore Roosevelt, speaking of DO
litical patronage, in an address upon
civil service reform said, Patronage
does not help the party; it helps the
worst element in the party to retain
control of the party's organization
Million Communications
The Civil Service Commission func-
lions through it's main Office in Wash.
ington, 10 district officers and more
than 1000 local boards of examiners
throughout the country. We hold
more than |. 200 kinds of examinations
examine 100000 people annually, and
from this number about 10000 are
appointed to positions resulting from
vacancies caused by designations,
deaths. removals and new activities.
About 500 people call each day at the
commissions Office in Washington,
and We receive about million com
munications annually. Our contacts
are with the President, with the Con-
gress, with the departments and with
the public. Thus we are busy and the
work is tremendously interesting, as
1t Is not only administrative, but
quasi judicial.
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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Second View of the Work Included 18th Annual
of Washington Artists-Water Coors at the
Arts Club-Other Notes

Building. when the Corcoran School
was still in the little red brick annex
to the old gallery on the corner of
pennSylvana avenue and Seven
teenth street now occupied by the
Court of Claims. Together they
fitted students for admission to the
Corcoran School. After May Mimi
gerode's marriage 10 Mr. Andrews,
Miss Cook became assistant instructor
at the Corcoran School. and the studio
was abandoned. For a considerable
number of years Mrs. Doherty was a
teacher Of art in our high schools. do
ing much TO eniighten those who
passed through her classes, to develop
atent talent, and TO create genuine
appreciation. Because of the artiuos-
ness of this work she had little time,
IN recent years, for personal produc-
ZION, but she was undoubtedly genu-
nelly gifted.
At the Arts Club of Washington
there are now on exhibition col
'ections of water colors by Clara r.
Saunders OF this city and by E.
francis Carson Of Boston and Prov
incetown. MSS.
Miss Saunders works. which are to
e found in rooms on the second floor
IRE for the most part portrait studies.
very nearly if moi quite life size, made
last Summer in Japan and China
very unusual paintings. One asso.
.iates water coiors with small things,
with renderings. comparatively speak.
ng. in little" but here we have
portraits, full size. done in transpar-
ant wash on white paper, which pos
sess uncommon strength and effective
ARRIVING power. With the portraits
Miss Saunders shows few outdoor
studies. a typical bridge. garden
einpie. etc. and as interesting as
hese are. 1t must he confessed that
is the portraits which are of ma jor
Importance and viii be longest re-
membered. In the rendering Of these
Miss Saunders manifests a complete
mastery of her medium and shows
herself capable OF essentially original
expression.
Mr. Carson's work occupies the
front room on the first floor and
gives the visitor. Immediately upon
entrance. an impression Of vivid color
ing and skillful technique. Thass
works. which are for the most part
outdoor scenes-landscape and ma
'ines--do not pretend to recreate ma
Ure. but rather to re;nterpret 1t ac-
cording to the artists own vision and
IN his own chosen vernacular. the
vernacular OF the so-calIed modernist
school, This style or painting finds,
TO degree, parallel In the large-type
headlines of the current newspapers,
with which, as purveyors of news.
many are content. Both set forth
essential facts with broad. telling
strokes. Neither pretends to enter
into detail or concern itself with the
amenities OF beauty as found i'm fine
writing or in fine Literature
or art--but both are true to the time
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Science Tracks Boreas to His Businesses
To Get Data for Better Weather Charts

ton extended by the Canadian rovArn.
ment and arranged for q closer CO.
ordination OF the Weather Bureau Of
this country and her British neighbor.
With the Hudson BAy section
covered" there will remain stiiI \
great expanse of territory to the east.
ward devoid of weather stations. ex.
tending clear to southern Greenia nd.
| From Greenland there are being re-.
ceaved valuable weather adyices. but
there yet IL room for Improvement
Last year the University OF Michiran
sent to Greenland a METEOROLOGICAL ex
petition intent on noting atmospheric
phenomena far inland. where Green.
lands 10y mountains rear Themselves
into the swirling clouds. The weather
Bureau loses no opportunity to rain
better information as TO Northern
weather conditions, and Il sent along
with the exploring party an offciai
observer to aid In the aerial observa.
tons. NJ Is
His preliminary report to tho star
Of the bureau. submitted not long ago,
stressed the need for more weather
stations in Greenland and indicated
that the expedition had obtained
much important data during its hax-
ardous journey.
American weather authorities have
benefited. further. 3sur1 To sUoeut
glccesGicn ct polar conquoGks ~ CIR
ThA WaathaE-lairaaat had ~ 1ao1sos1
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Interesting Personalities. Contest
For Power in China's Shifting Turmoil
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1928 Sun appointed him head of the
Whampoa Military Academy.
AT this point in the story enters
comrade Borodin In 1922 DIR. Sun.
discouraged in this attempts to Sc
cure American assistance for a united
China, turned to Soviet Russia.
Borodin, a Lettish Jew, who had
lived In Switzerland in exile with Lenin
and Trotsky was sent as adviser and
commissioned to spend considerable
amount of money on the Whamp0a
Military Academy. Chang Kai.Shek
and Borodin worked together to make
that academy q model, and the
strength Of the Cantonese army In
its recent engagements Ii attributed
to WhAmpoa.
Aligned against the Cantonese on
the side Of Chang Tso-Lin are his
son, generally called Young Chang;
an Englishman called "Gen." SUIT
ton and Gen. Sun Chuan.Fang, gov.
ernor of Chekiang. Chang Is also
understood to have received consid-
erable support from the Japanese in
the past. At present the armies of
Sun Chuan-Fang are defending Shang.
hal, while the British rush 10000
troops on six-week voyage through
Suez to the rescue Of their citizens.
The Cantonese are advancing from
the south.
Chang Tso-Lin. war lord of, the
north. is almost the exact opposite of
Chang Kai-Shek. When he was IL
bandits destroyed his village In Man.
churia and killed his father. TO
avenge his fathers death. and be.
cause there was no other way to
, make a living. Chang organized a
raiding party which eventually be.
came the most powerful armed force
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q railway line from lie Pas, Manitoba,
to Port Huron, on Hudson Bay, for
the purpose of shipping wheat to Eu.
rope by way Of the sea during the
Summer season. A telegraph line is
to be built along this railroad, and
over 1t, twice daily, will be relayed to
the waiting world up-to-the-minute
news Of Arctic weather.
The Hudson Bay region now IL a
great void to meteorolosfsts. There Is
no way at present OF receiving imrne-
date weather reports from the vast
stretches Of frigid land in this vicinity
Of this bay. Yet southwark and south
eastward over this area often sweep
some of Americas most severe cold
waves. Foreknowledse Of these dis
turbances would be Of invaluable
aid TO the forecastsr charged with
prophesying the subsequent behavior
OF the tricky elements.
Senior Forecaster Charles l.. Mitch
ell OF the local Weather Bureau
learned Of these plans for the Hudson
Bay weather service during q confer
ence In Canada with Dominion oflciais
several months ago. Only recently he
was advised that the original plans
have been approved and Gro On . fair
way to being Tealiued.
During the conference IN Mitchell
arRnhaaixe6 the value - thu Eo.opeya,
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of portrait commissions and has
taken a studio in the Playhouse on \
street. Among Miss McKinstry's re
cent work are portraits of Gov. Chris
Hanson of Minnesota and of the late
Judge Page Morris OF the Duluth Bar
Association.
MISS ELIZABETH SAWTELLE
Ava has been invited to contribute q
group of six water colors to an exhibit
ton which is to be held i'm Baltimore
beginning early in February. by the
Friends of Art of that city The
group she is sending comprises a large
marine, a picture of quiet pool and
picture of a winding road, all
painted in or near Ogunquit, and
three pictures painted abroad--one OF
Mount Etns. one of Ravello, the
other bit of Taormina-a very hand.
some and impressive group, strikingly
colorful. powerfully rendered and es.
sentially not only pictorial but sin.
cere
THE Art and Archaeology League
held its thirteenth annual celebra
ton at Gunstall Hall last Friday eve
ming. January 2S. when Mrs. leila
Nnttall, +. r. A. L., honorary special
assistant in Mexican rchaeology, Pea
body Museum, Harvard University
save an illustrated lecture on North
American Indian Portrait Busts and
Statues Recently Found in the Lateran
Museum, Rome" Mrs. Mitchell Car.
roll is president and Mrs. Q. Fl. r.
Clark secretary of the league.
m*
THE Pennsylvania Academy Of the
Fine Arts opened it's hundred and
twent-second annual exhibition last
evening with a private view and re-
>eption This is one of the notable
exhibitions of the sea son and we'll re-
pays travel from Washington and re.
turn.
IN New York the Allied Artists of
America are holding their four
teenth annual exhibition in the Fine
Arts Galleries. beginning January 23
and continuing to February f9---from
all reports most excellent showing
4 n X X
MRS. JOHANNA K. w. MAILMAN
AVA of Pittsburgh. an exhibition of
whose work was held here in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art couple of years
ago, Is exhibiting at present in the
Carnegie Institute by special invita-
ton.
Mrs. Mailman has lately been COM
missioned to paint a portrait of the
late Douglas Stewart, former director
of the Carnegie Museum, for the per-
manent collection Of the institute.
n \
A FINE and fitting tribute has been
paid to one of our greatest Ameri-
can sculptors, Augustus Saint-Gaudens,
by the placement of a marble tablet
on the house in Rome where he lived
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testing the fitness of applicants for
the public service"
That is the commissions first and
greatest commandment.
The act further provides, Second
that all the Offices. places and EN-,
Payments shall be filled by
selections according to grade from
among those graded highest as the
results Of such competitive exami.
nations"
But. Immediately following, the act
contains a somewhat contradictory
provision. to wit: Third, appoint.
ment to the public services aforesaid
in the departments at Washington
shall be apportioned among the
several States and Territories and the
District of Columbia upon the basis
of population as ascertained at the
last preceding census This involves
the question of bona fide residence and
was included, no doubt, to prevent the
District Of Columbia and nearby States
from monopolizing positions in the
departments IN Washington.
Reconcile Contrary Provisions.
The responsibility for reconciling
THESE = GOHIfdTy ptONlStOitS IcS Will
the Civil Service Commission, which
administers the two clauses in the
interest E good administration. 1t
becomes therefore something of mat
ter of bookkeeping, lists being kept of
the States which are in excess and
those which are ins arrears as TO APP
pointments- in Washington.
It shouM be borne in mind. however.
that theA primary object is not to
provide jobs for those who seek EN-
ployment,s but to select competent
workers for vacant positions. That
being the case, selection according to
grade Is more important than ques-
ton of geography alone. For that
reason the commission has been un-
able to approve the suggestion that
in reduction of force only the con-
dition OF the apportionment with re-
spect to State, and not the efficiency
record of the employee, should be taken
into consideration. ~
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REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS
Hendrix Van Looms Story Mankind the Enlarged Edition
The Newest Novels From the Publishers
The Will Rogers Letters

Cloud. ID. NJ p. The Culture Of
Perennials. RI.c62sc.
Coon. Nelson. Practical Violet C,,I.
ture. RISE-C7s6.
Cosgrove, Mrs. J G. Gardens. RI
Cs24g.
Findlay, Hugh. Garden Making and
Keeping. RIS-F49sg.
RIM.Fss. ,
Gourley, J. II. Orchard Management.
RII-G74so.
Head. F. D. Manual of Plant Dis
eases. RIT-H345.
Hedrick. U. p. Systematic Pomology
RII-H352s.
Hotties. A. C.. 1Ool Garden Questions
Answered. RI-H7s7o.
Hubbard, S. c. Roses and Their Cul
ture. RISE-HS62.
King, l.. Y. Chronicles of the Gar
den. RI-K5sc.
Macself, A. ]. Bulb Gardening. RISB
M24b.
Macself. A. J. Flowering Trees and
Shrubs. RISL-M24f.
Macself; A. 7. Giadioli. RISE
Macself. A. j. A Real A B G Of Gar.
dening. RI-M24Sr
McCurdy. r. NJ. Garden Flowers
Worth Knowing. RIS-M1sgs.
Rehmann, Elsa, and Perrett, Mrs.
A. r. Garden Making. RIS.Raslg
Stevens, G.. A. Roses In the Little
Garden. RISE-St4er.
Taubenhaus. J. J. The Culture and
Diseases of the Sweet Potato. 1923.
RIB-T1s.
Wilson. e. III. Aristocrats u the
Garden. RIS-w6s5.
woolley. r. " q. Herbaceous Bor.
ders for Amateurs. RISE.WSs3.
Work. Paul. Tomato Production.
RIF-Ws9.
Forestry.
Coker. w c., and Matherly, Enid.
How to Know and Use the Trees
Crumley, j. J. Constructive Forestry
for the Private Owner. RJ.Csssc.
Ellsworth. r. s. The Giant Seuuoia
RJX-El As.
Maddox, r. s. Our Trees. RJAfess.
Mills, NJ. L. Reforesters Of America.
RJ.M62S.
Agriculture.
App. Frank. Farm Economics. RGR
Ap46.
Bidwell. p. w. and Falconer. J. I.
History OF Agriculture in the
Northern United States. 1s2o.1sso.
Boyle, J. E. Marketing OF Agricul-
tural Products. RHDU-B69.
Burbank. Luther How Plants Are
Trained to Work for Man, Y.
1921. RHD-B8s3h.
Chamberlain. j. s., and Browne. c. A..
eds. Chemistry in Agriculture
RGEI-C356c.
Ceilings, G.. III. The Production of
Cotton. RHT.C69.
Doyle, h. d. Agriculture and Irriga
ton in Continental and Tropica
Climates. 1921. RGFM-D77.
Du Pont de Nemours, E. L. & CT
Farmers Handbook of EXPLOSIVES
RGBP.D92.
Gras, N. s. B. A History Of Agricu
ture In Europe and America. re
G767
Greaves, j. E. and E. o. Bacter
in Relation to Soil Fertility. RGE
G7s.
Horner, ]. T. Agricultural Marke
ing. RHDU.H7S.
Kelsey, d. S. Rural Guide. re
K2esr.
sIaesels. "A, 4; J. Soils and Fertilize
Peattie. D. c. cargoes and Harves
RH-P32.
Smith, R. III. Agricultural Mech
les RGBP- Sm66.
Stewart, George Alfalfa growing
the United States and Cana
RHL-St4s.
Vogt, P. L. Introduction to Rur
Economics. RGB-V36i
Weaver. j. E. Isoot Development
Field Crops. RHH-W37
Wester, p. ]. The Food Plantes
the Philippines. RG6s11-w52.
Works, G. A. Agricultural Edit
ton. .W894a.
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ing it to be a sterling work of art.
Lucia b. Hollerith's Gray Autumn
Day" is found to possess fine, painter
like quality I'm the matter of render
ing, and Clara. r. Saunders 1.-The Old
Ferry, through colorful quality and
skillful handling, recalls again and
again with increasing satisfaction the
visitors attention.
Four prizes will be awarded, but by
O. new and unique method. Instead
OF having an out-of-town jury, or a
jury appointed by the society, the
Jury this year will consist of the
active members of the society, each
of whom will cast his or her vote for
the best portrait of figure painting
the best landscape, the best still life
and the best work in sculpture in the
exhibition. Those receiving the most
votes will be declared winners and
will receive medals in recognition
thereof. The awards will not be an.
nounced, however, until after Feb
urary /. Meanwhile. there is much
surveying and professional discussion
Of merit and demerit going on.
n n X
THE Society of Washington Artists
lost by death two of its members
last Week.-Mrs. Anna M. Sands and
Mrs. Lillian c. Doherty. both accom-
plished artists. and members OF the
society for more than twenty years
Miss Sands died at Emergency Hos
pital after an illness of six or eight
weeks; Mrs. Doherty died at her home
after not weeks but years OF invalid
ism.
Miss Sands was of distinguished
family. the daughter of the late AID
rniral Sands. For some years she and
Miss Hattie Burdette occupied q
studio on Seventeenth street between
r and G. streets. at which time Miss
Sands was q frequent and always
welcome contributor to the annual ex
hfbitions. Her speciality was figures
She painted with breadth. but at thu
same time reticence; her work was
essentially indiyidualistic. but at ths
same time traditional. She had q
great love for beauty and a sympa
thetic understanding of the works o.
great artists charming and un
usual personality which to an extern
was reflected In whatever she did.
Mrs. Doherty, as Lillian Cook, tthai
Ia, before her MARRIAGE, shared {
studio with May Minnigercde. Ia1e'
Mrs e. r. Andrews. In thu Corsoral
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By LEILA MECHLlN.

TIME Society of Washington Art
lists thirty -sixth annual exhi
biiton, which opened in the
4 special exhibition gallery OF
the Corcoran Gallery of Art
January %, is attracting much atten
ton and calling forth numerous eX-
pressionS of well-merited praise. More
over, during the first few days no less
than four sales We're made. These are
1.-THE French Stevedore," by Elsie
Brooke Snowdan: Autumn" by Gladys
Nelson Smith. purchase by Mrs. John
b. Henderson: Winter picture show
ing turning road 1hrough partially
snow-covered country. by Benson Il.
Moore, and a co,orful and exceedingly
attractive still life study of Zinnias
and Autumn flowers. by May G. Mar
shall, purchased by Mrs. j. III. Glib
bons. all essentially desirable posses
sions The wonder is not that these
were bought, but that so many still.
remain unSold. Here are pictures well
painted which could not fail TO prove,
in private ownership, endless sources
of pleasure.
1t is q good sign that included in
this exhibition are the works OF young
artists with student days shortly past
now starting ou, on professional ca
reers. Mention was mace last week
of the excellent contribution. a still
life, Bottle ard Brass Kettle" by
Ruth Porter ard and attentio
should also he called TO the very pleas
ing and well rendered "StiH Life,
zinnias i'm an earthen mug, seen
against q white background. the work
of Margaret NoTatt Ward. daughter
of Robert Sterling Yard. secretary o.
the National Parks Association. and
well known as a wriS er and conser
eft s-+aa ut fRa
Corcoran School og Art and has th
year taken a studio with two fellow
students on Eighteenth street between
II and / streets. The painting witt
which she makes her del Ut a pro
fessional, though modest in size and
subject, is rendered with an air o.
agreeable assurance and an evident
nice feeling both for color and texture.
There are none OF the earmarks OF
the novice on this painting.
The second survey of this exhibition
confirms and strengthens first impress
sions. Catherine Critcfer's Flowers
and Figures Bertha Noyes' figure,
"Giovenettr'; A. j. Schram's Hillside
Shadows Hugh Breckenridge "Old
China" Mary Riley's Autumn
Flowers" Ruth Osgood's Vernon;
Summer" Tom Browns two landscape
contributions, Gladys Brannigan's
cCc1iS vi the Cciial dllu margaret
Lents up the Road" are not only
as good as they seemed at first. but
better The second survey brings to
attention favorably, Furthermore,
picture of 1.-The Old Meeting House,
Maine" by Elizabeth SawteIle; three
interesting and clever paintings by NJ
Bose In the anteroom, and z well
painted picture of stream through
q quiet meadow by Frank Niepold.
Eugen Weisz's portrait of a boy
grows better on acquaintance, show
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and worked from 1871 to 1875. This
house is in the Piazza Tolentino, fac
ing the Medieval Church of San
Nicc0lo da Tolentino. 1t was while
living at this place that Mr.. Saint
Gaudens was discovered by his first
patron, Montgomery Gibbs. who
brought to his studio Gov. Morgan of
New York, william Evarts and later
Senator Evarts' partner, Charles o.
Beaman, through whose persuasion he
later built his studio and took up his
residence In Cornish, ". III. On the
occasion of the unwilling Of the tablet
a short address was made by the Hon.
Henry p. Fletcher, American Ambas.
sador to Italy. The tablet was un-
yelled by Mrs. Fletcher.
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in which we live and essentially sig
nificant.
NTITH the first of the month new
w exhibitions will be put on. and
exhibitions which have been on dur
ing the past two to four weeks will
be withdrawn. Among those which
are vanishing are the Haskell etch-
ings and the Alice Huger Smith water
coiors at Gordon Dunthorne's, which
have been replaced by pencil draw.
ings of Washington. some water col
ors, Examinations and book-bindings,
byp Marion Lane Of this city. and by
paintings by Lila Cabot Perry OF
Boston.
Because of her distinguished work
I'm book binding Miss Lane Is well
known in Washington. Mrs. Perry
has exhibited here before, at the Arts
Club and in the biennial exhibitions
Of the Corcoran Gallery Of Art. She
Is the secretary Of the Guild Of Boston
, Artists, Of which she was one OF the
organizers, and she is well known
I'm Washington socially because OF
brief residences here when visiting
her daughter, the wife OF Joseph C.,
Grew, Undersecretary of State.
r. Il y 4
tT INDER the auspices of the division
~ Of graphic arts Of the National
Museum an exhibition of the work OF
| Huc.Mazelet Luquiens of Honolulu
Hawaii, will be placed on view in the
halls of the National Gallery Of Art
Natural History Building, Tenth and
B streets, on January 81, to remain
on view until February 26. The ex
hibitions held under the auspices OF
this division are, as a rule. shown In
the Smithsonian Building. This, Il
should be noted, is an exception.
MIR. Luquiens is ap American by
| birth. His father was q Swiss and
came from one Of the French cantons
| to the United States early In life az
| O. teacher of French, becoming II
time head of the department Of
romance languages at Yale Univer
sity. He is a member of the Chicago
Society of Etchers, the California
Print Makers Society and other pro
fessional organizations. He Ii now
instructor of art in the University Of
Hawaii.
IMISs GRACE MoKucByRT q 1Ein
AVA nesctA and 0ailkoen1A - conn
a - A. ~
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions at the Public
Library and lists of recommended
reading will appear In this column
each Sunday.
Gardening.
Burnett. Mrs. r. H. In the Garden.
RIS.B93i.
Chandler, w. II. Fruit Growing.
RII-C363f.
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Practically all radio equipment In
New Zealand y from Aner4ca, and
WnnY hstcnezS <re en1qyin8 American
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IkHI6S GRACE Agc1ExpcugTI q Ann
AVA nesctA and 0aalEoeniA - ocme
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3O-Day Warming for U. S. Workers
About TO Be Dismissed Is Urged

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