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landscapes, boats, marines, still-life
subjects and one figure, portrait of
Josephine Hutchinson by Nell F.
Buckley.
THE American Federation of Arts
will hold its twentieth annual
meeting this week on Wednesday,
Thursday end Friday, in Philadelphia
The American Association of Museums
will meet simultaneously in Philadel-
phia, and on each Of the three days at
least one OF the sessions will be held
Jointly by The two organizations.
An interesting and varied program
is announced including such well known
and authoritative speakers as Eugene
Savage, N. A., professor of painting
Yale University School of Fine Arts;
Fiske Kimball director of the Pennsyl-
yania Museum; Charles r. Richards,
director division of industrial art, Gen
eral Education Board; Charles H. Burk-
holder of the Art Institute Of Chicago,
and John D. Willard, research associ-
ate, American Association for Adult
Education,
Under the heading, art Commissions
and City Planning" an illustrated talk
will be given on The Development Of
washington Dy MllUOIl %. MtudTy, IT.,
past president Of the American Insti-
tute of Architects, member of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission.
The morning session on May "a will
be of interest, being devoted entirely
TO the subject of Art and the Depart
ment Store" with addresses by Samuel
w. Reyburn, president Of Lord &
Taylors, New York; by Herbert J. THY.
president OF Strawbridge q Clothier's,
Philadelphia. and by representatives
tof John WanamakerS, Sears. Roebuck
q Co, Gimbel's and other great mer-
camille houses.
The Philadelphia chapters of the
American Federation of Arts have
united in providing a delightful pro-
gram of entertainment, including visits
to Bryn Athyn Cathedral. the chapel at
Valley Forge, inspection of the Stotes-
bury and other private collections, an
evening in the new Pennsylvania
Museum. luncheons. teas, etc.
The meetings will be concluded on
| Bellevue Stratiord at which the speak
ers will be John r. Lewis president OF
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts; Stephen p. Duggan, director
| Institute OF International Education
James NJ Beck, former Solicitor
General Of the United States now a
member OF Congress, and william
John Cooper United States commits
| sioner of education.
The attendance, which is made up
of representatives Of art museums and
associations from all parts of the United
| states. promises to be larger than usual
Every other year, 1t will be remem-
bered. the American Federation OF Arts
holds It's meetings In Washington where
it was first formed and where Its head
J quarters are lsAatsd- ~
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IDA GILBERT MYERS.

STRUGGLE: The Life and Exploits of
Comdr. Richard E. Byrd. BY Charles
J. v. Murphy. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes Co.
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he took part in the terrible retreat that
followed
Bullets went through musette,
through helmet through sleeve before
one got him in the foot. He was taken
to the hospital at last. after miracles
of escape and suffering, to be found
worse off from typhoid than from his
wound.
Evacuated to Toul Before the typhoid
had more than ceased. malaria began.
This big frame which weighed 200
pounds now weighed but e5.
Peace saw him emerging from the
hospital-world peace-that is. not
peace for MacWhite. He became liaison
officer in Paris for the Sim Fein.
Associated once more, as he had been
in his early days in London before so
much turbulent water had flowed under
the bridge, with George Gavan Duffy
was debated in the Dial in 1921 and
the Republicans contended that ac-
ceptance of dominion status would
bring upon Ireland the contempt of
other countries, Arthur Grifith. as
chairman of the provisional govern
ment in Dublin, received from Mac
White a letter strongly supporting the
Free State settlement. Grlfhth MADE
full use of MacWhite's letter in the final
speech which secured ratification of
the treaty.
And MacWhite went to Geneva as
first delegate to the League Of the
newly elected state. During six years
of activity there he took definite part
In many International conferences and
served with distinction upon several of
the permanent committees.
Doyen Of the delegates though he
came to be. and competent in League
affairs, MacWhite sacrificed nothing of
his originality in the process.
Refuses TO Use English.
He refused consistently to use English
in his public addresses. He had spoken
Irish as a boy, played in Irish, learned
English only as his second tongue Now.
at Geneva. There are two official Ian
guages," he said French and English
I prefer to use French!" Every day saw
a new MacWhite story in Geneva.
He is said to have originated-he GER
tainly got behind-the movement to
give Canada a seat in the Council.
Canada won 1t by one vote
Then there was the day when the
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! prospect. not only for racial enrichment
put IN the cause of art.
4 X *
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art has
L lately placed on exhibition as a
temporary loan from Mrs w. A. Clark
six paintings of the modernist school.
Three of the six are by CPZannP, two
are by Van Gogh, one is by Manet. all
names to conjure with among the eX-
ponents OF the modernist movement
AS condition Of gift prevents even
a temporary exhibition in the Clark
wing of works of art not included in
the CLARK collection, these paintings
have been placed on display in an adj
jacent gallery in the new Corcoran
wing. only portion Of which is at
present occupied. 1t is in this series Of
galleries that one sees again the Euro
pean paintings which MIR. Corcoran &C
quired tsome of them through the
agency of his friend MIR. Walters OF
BRltimore) TOR the collection which he
gave to Washington. Here, for exam
pie, are paintings by Corot, Frere,
Knaus and other European masters of
the ls50s Sos and '70s. How strangely
out of place in this company appear
works by Cezanne and Van Gogh And
yet TO an extent these moderniSts were
direct descendants Of the conservatives
Of their youth. with whom they join
hands in forming the endless chain of
art.
whether one likes the works Of the
moderniSts as well as the works of their
progenitors is to large extent a per-
sonal after for individual determine
ton; but whether one likes them or
not one cannot overlook the fact that
these innovators were serious minded
and thought themselves great artists
Entrusted with message.
CeZanne, 1t will be remembered, was
curious mixture of modesty and con-
ceit. In one breath he described him
self AS a primitive. only at the begin
ming of long road, and in the next
he averred that he was the greatest
painter Of Europe. He had so little
regard for his own paintings that he
is said to have allowed his children to
cut them up for their own amusement
and to have not infrequently left
canvas unfinished in an open field. He
was never eager TO look second time
st any Of his productions. But he con-
sistently refused to be exploited and
persistently pursued his research
The men of Cezannes time were very
much dominated by tradition. so much
so that it was almost impossible for a
painter to be himself. 1t was against
this restraint that Cezanne and others
revolted. The form that this revolt
took was perhaps unnecessarily violent
No longer, they determined. would they
paint merely what they saw but what
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REVIEWS OF SPRING BOOKS
The Life and Exploits of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd-A Natu
Story-Another Volume from the Pen of Hamlin
Garland and "E1edorado.
BY Oliver Murray Edwards. syra-

BY Oliver Murray Edwards. S%Ta-
cuse. The Revilo Press.
THE SOVIET UNION. washingtca:
Soviet Union Information Bureau
POLITICAL HANDBOOK OF TIT
WORLD; Parliaments, Parties AMI
Press, as of January /. 1929. Edited
by Malcolm w Davis and Waller H.
Mallory. New York: Yale Uniytr-
Sity Press.
GILES OF THE STAR: Thr Boy Win
Would Be a Knight. BY Eebocca
Rice. Illustrated by W NJ. Berger
Boston: Lothrop, Lee &; Shepard co.
THE SECOND TRAIL. BY Sir Robert
Baden-Powell. Marjorie Bowen. BOYD
Gable, Owen Rutter, L. A. G. Strong.
Mabel Marlowe, E. V. Rieu, Hugh
Chesterman, Nicholas Palmsrstor.
Ianthe Jerrold, Roy Meldrum. Will
frid Howe-Nurse and Godfrey NJ
Bounphrey. New York: =. apple
ton & Co.
UNDERSTANDING INDIA. BY Ger
trude Marvin Williams. New York:
Coward Mccain, Inc.
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Man Who Rules the Mark

RIGA never supplied Germany with cot
ton. 1t could not do so now. And raw
materials produced in the former over
seas possessions may be bought without
special hindrarice. Yet the Reichsbank's
president has had an almost romantic
attachment for the appropriated colo
NAL possessions. His favorite idea Is
Ito take the colonies out Of politics.
that is to persuade the allies and the
United States to form chartered COM
pany, like the old British East India
Company, to develop the former Ger
man colonies for the joint benefit Of
the former allied nations and Germany
The recovery of Upper Silesia and the
Polish Corridor to the Baltic has also
been one OF DR.. Schacht's liveliest
hopes. In all interview with one OF the
editors of lie Journal de Geneve in
1925. withheld from publication until
April 10 last. he said:
The financial reconstruction OF Eu-
rope is impossible so long as the Poles
will not give the Danzig Corridor and
Upper Silesia back to us"
He has expressed the same idea on
many other occasions. This Schleswiger,
whose father neft that province after it
had been annexed to Prussia and whose
birthplace has become Danish again
through the operation Of the Versailles
treaty. has now become an ardent
PrusSiAn irredentist But the recession
OF the Danzig Corridor and Upper 81
lesia can be accomplished only with
the consent of Poland. and Poland was
not even represented in the PREPARATIONS
experts conference. To raise such a
question there ignored political realities
and startled the world by Its diplomatic
naivete and indebtedness.
The British admiraltys attitude at
the Three Power Naval Armament
Limitations Conference at Geneva in
1927 and its negotiation of the Franco
British naval accord of 1928 did much
to discredit naval experts as dipio-
matists. DR.. Schacht's brain storm
at Paris has lowered the prestige OF
economic experts as substitutes for
statesmen. In international dealings
restraint and breadth Of vision are still
required and these failures of expert
judgment have gone far toward restor-
ing the credit of old-fashioned profess
sional diplomacy.
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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Negro Artists Show Their Work in Interesting Exhibition
at National Galery-Loan Collection at
Corcoran-Other Exhibitions.

ish; there IS every possibility that fu-
ture generations may discard them as
unwoi thy. but for the present they hold
a real message. real meaning 10 the
effect that artists are not mere copy
lists. and that. whether they succeed or
not. they are ever seeking new and
n better way AS long as this is the
case we have still living art.
AT the Arts Club. 2O17 I street, paint
"a ings by club members selected by
special committee or jury are now ON
view On the first floor are to be seen.
for the most part. water colors; on
the second floor the works shown are
oils.
The former group is varied and par
ticularIy pleasing. Over the mantel in
the reception room hangs an admirable
portrait of a young woman in light
yellow evening dress. painted by Miss
Hattie E Burdette--a subtle and spir-
tied Interpretation full of personality
and charm. In the same room one
finds very lovely flower paintings
Silver Moon Roses by Annie ID
Kelly and Roses" by Emma ID. Rice.
Mathilde NJ. Leisering shows three eX-
cellent portrait drawings in colored
crayon. one of her little nephew, Ed
ward D. Mue6en; another of A young
girl. Naomi" and third of Arthur P.
Hall
Susan b. Chase has contributed two
architectural subjects. very different in
character but equally well rendered;
city picture of roofs and chmneys on
snowy day entitled From the Fourth
Story Back and a sunny picture OF
old Moorish Fortress, Cintra."
Eleanor Parke Gusts exhibits In char
acteristiC vein "A Street in Oman
From Lesley jackson have come two
admirable water colOrS-one OF Camp
fire Girls" the other entitled The Pop
corn Wagon both complex compo-
Sitions.
Pearl Potter EtZ shows q flower paint
ing. "DafliaS"; Warren Ferris, care
fully rendered Georgian Doorway in
Old Alexandria: Fred S. FoltZ. study
of the Kings Highway, Nova Scotia,
and n painting entitled The Grass
hopper and the Ant"
Upstairs the representation Is larger,
but the works do not uphold SO high
standard. They are colorful and
fresh and the effect upon entrance is
pleasing but almost every artist rep
resented has done better work than Is
shown at this time here.
Among those whose works have been
chosen for exhibition are Mary Ct.
Riley, Ruth OSgood, Lucia B. Hollerith
Alice l.. l.. Ferguson, Clara r. Saun-
ders. Marguerite Mum, Rowland Lyon
Margaret Neuhauser and Margaret
Zimmele. The works shown comprise
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many's remarkable economic and indus
trial recovery. His policy has repressed
imitation, encouraged economy and also
sought to discourage excessive foreign
loans. 1t Is no exaggeratiop to say that
he has now no rival as a financier ex-
pert enjoying the confidence of eco
nomic and political Germany.
What caused DR.. Schachts amazing
faux pas Of April II last, almost disrupt
ing the conference of experts on repara-
ton adjustment? The German ulti-
matum-or what was taken as such by
the other delegateS-was a startling po-
litical and diplomatic blunder awaken
ing suspicious the world over that Ger
many was not disposed to deal with the
problem of modifying or replacing the
Dawes plan In a reasonable and accom-
modating spirit. In its bruskness and
unwelcome introduction of what ap-
peared to be extraneous demands for
revision of the territorial provisions of
the Versailles treaty, DR.. Schacht's ges-
ture inevitably recalled the earlier errors
and infelicities of German diplomacy
all the more so because the conference
had no Jurisdiction whatever over the
territorial partitions of 1919.
There Are Many Explanations.
There are many explanations. But
the most convincing ones lie In the chief
German delegates character. Although
an economist. a student of what Thomas
Carlyle called the dismal science" Dr.
Schacht Is highly temperamental. He
was not a youthful poet for nothing. He
has boundlesS self-confldence and an
absolute belief not only in his own
judgment, but in his own theories. His
career has made him authoritative. and
that quality he exhibits in fields alien
10 his experience.
He is not a politician with the latter's
art OF compromise and Cancellation. He
Is not a diplomat, sensitive to the I'M
portance Of guarded phrases or alive to
the reactions of national and interna-
tional psychology. He may have been
on April II a sound economist. from the
German point of view. But from that
same point Of view he was a lainentable
diplomat and politician.
DR.. Schacht has been too isolated
from the give and-take Of politics to
make good negotiator. He is inclined
to stand alone and to break with others,
rather than to give way in minor mat
tiers. He left the Democratic party
when the latter organization decided to
allow its members to vote as they
pleased on the question of restoring the
properties of the members OF the former
German reigning houses. That was a
practical party compromise. But DR..
Schacht resigned because he thought
that the party ought TO have stood
solidly for what he considered indisput-
able property rights.
His FavOfite Idea.
AS an economist he has always en-
phasizcd the advantages to Germany of
recovering her overseas colonies, Upper
Silesia and the Danzig Corridor It is
due perhaps to his temperamental en-
thusiasm that he has exaggerated the
saw a1AtArials. LIZA eettoA oktmAn A.;
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they felt; no longer would they be held
in check by technicalities, by per
lection of line, but rather would they
seek Solidity of form, arrangements of
color organization Of design. Taking
into consideration their courage and
ambition, the works they produced seem
perhaps more worthy and less absurd
than they seem to many of us, but the
relation of purpose to result Is often
times pathetic. And yet 1t Is certain
that the revolt was timely and that In
the end good will come.
Cezanne is represented in this par
ticular group lent by Mrs. Clark by a
portrait of his wife. Madame Cezanne
Ell Rouge. and by two small still-life
studies. The portrait is ill-drawn, I'M
lovely. The face is distorted, the hands
appear crippled. The figure, supposedly
seated, is not at rest. And yet there is
about this presentation a terrible
solemnity which to an extent carries
conviction. 1t Is not good to be in
correct, but correctness alone may be
insipid. Strength is always preferable
TO insipidity. In the still-life groups
by Cezanne which hang to the left OF
this portrait one feels again the intense
purpose of the artist. A CROPPING for
something desired but not fully under
stood
without question. Manet was less
complicated character, and the works he
produced more nearly satisfied his ideal.
To us today they are likewise more
understandable There Is something
magnificently simple and direct about
all Of Manets work-something Dor
rowed, perhaps. from the great Velas-
quez. but made his own. Who can
ever forget his Boy With SWord" in the
Metropolitan Museum OF Art, or his
charming portrait of Berthe Mofisot,
entitled lie Repos"? He is represented
in this little collection by a still-life
painting, study OF peonies in a jar
on dark wood table. very simple In
treatment, very skillful in handling. and
complete. No careless craftsmanship
here, no sloppy brush work surfaces
are beautifully rendered, color we'll
, chosen and harmonious.
To the right and left Of this up
/ right canvas hang paintings by Van
Gogh one of bridge at Aries, the other
| a sim life entitled Roses" but APP
parently pink oleanders. judging from
the shapes Of the flowers and leaves.
, Van Gogh was a Dutchman, an eccen-
trio, fantastic, mentally unbalanced.
! He Is said to have painted with in
cfeasing heat and light. He certainly
painted with extraordinary braVadO,
and with little or no regard Tor what
had gone before or for commentator.
, Yet he exerted wide influence.
+, Whether his art was really as great
F., as it is now supposed by some to be,
. time and time alone, will tell To many
! it seems the product of a disordered
brain. But both OF the paintings now
on view in the Corcoran Gallery show
! Van C;osh's mastery OF material. his in
dependence Of tradition, his broad con-
| ception Of beauty. To the uninitiated
such works may seem immature. fool
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
Dead" so Years, Found.

When an estate was left to John Grid
land. who had emigrated from England
to Australia half a century ago, his
brother, William Gridland, a detective
sergeant of police at Mineland, Somer.
set. thought it a hopeless task to search
for a man who had not been seen OF
heard of by any of his living kin for So
years, but as a matter of honor ano
good conscience he sought definite in
formation from the proper authorities,
There was a long wait. but eventually
word came that the Australian govern
ment had discovered John Gridland liv-
ing at Cairns. Queensland, and a little
later the brother in England received
from him letter in which old memories
were recalled and the ecents OF so years
briefly reviewed
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions at the Public
Library and lists of recommended read
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Sunday.
Aeronautics.
Abbot. C. G. The Relations Between the
Smithsonian Institution and the
Wright Brothers. SZP-Ab2.
Jones. B. @. Practical Flying. SIP
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ceedings of the Conference. Sz-
Richardson. H c. Aircraft Float De.
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United States Commerce Dept, Aero
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Biography.
Adams. j. O., President of United States.
Diary, 1794-1845; ed. by Allan
Nevins. Fad 142a !.
Asquith, Lady C. NJ. E. C. The Duchess
of York. Eel Asa.
Davis, r. H. Bob Davis Againl e.
D297a.
Bartlett. j. G. Henry Adams of somer-
setshire. England. and Braintree,
Massachusetts, 1927. E-92Ad !.
Duncan, Irma, and Macdougall, A. r.
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Burton-Opitz, Russell. An Elementary
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Belize. Hilaire. James, the Second.
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Frances 1923 Colonial
Trade Is $6OO,OOO,OOO

In 1928 Frances trade with her COL
onies and protectorates reached the sum
of $500, 600 900, or about l4.5 per cent
OF the total French trade. which
amounted to $4l5l 100000. France i'm
ported from her Colonial possessions
$270 ,000, 600 worth Of goods. or over II
per cent of her total imports.
She exported $332,O00 worth, repre-
senting over is per cent of the total ex-
ports.
North Africa, chiefly Algeria, had
the greatest share. with trade valued
at $685., 900 900. Indn-C China was second
best as a trading colony. followed by
Morocco, West Africa and lastly Tu-
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