The Washington times., 1932-03-28

tnguished service "for exceptional bravery IN the
face of the enemy" but, far know, have no
medal to give to any man merely for making fool
of himself.
ward of valor 1t be only by private soldiers
under fre-wth this single exception, that it may also
be awarded to general, provided he has already won
most of the other available medals. That is, general
who no active service when he plain soldier,
failed to distinguish himself sufficiently redeem
himself and win the highest honor of the French army
by getting a medal reserved for the meanest private
1t is rarely awarded to commanding officers the ranks
jealous and although they democratic, do not
want to bee their honors by broadcastng to officers
The implication is obvious. If Mr.. Vaee gets medal
the President ought to get one too. After ALL II we
are to trust Mr. Vallee the suggestion that we should
be crooned into prosperity from statesman who
happens also to be Commander-inChie of the United
States Army, and not from Mr. Valee himself. More
over the suggestion is in line with most of the efforts
to rescue from troubles. mean that long before
the days of radio grooming used to put fractions
children to sleep. The idea seems to be that II we
would only go to sleep for sixty days we could dream
ourselves back to prosperity
Coethe's 100 Years
hundred years after his DEATH Goethe universally
regarded of the greatest of modern men, one OF
the few great who lived. He seems to us to
be the last complete before the of specialization
began He was a scientist and he was poet; he was
a critic and novelist; he statesman and lover
I remember that friend of mine once said to some
Germans that Goethe had encountered every expert
ence possible man. and the good Germans answered,
"Ah but he never knew the pleasures of family life
There is one passage in the great conversations re-
corded by Eckermann which less fortunate people ougn
always to remember. Goethe looking back on lite
full of satsfactions and honors; Napoleon had sad'
"This is MANI and not few women had said the
same; he had always been prosperous nearly always ways
healthy always respectable had had everything most
of desire, and he said to Eckermann that most Of
his life had been nothing but pain and burden ana
seriously affirmed that during the whole of my seventy
five years have had four weeks of genuine welbelng
The Brooklyn Museum, by agreement with the late
John Singer Sargent refuses to allow art students 10
make complete and finished copies of that artists paint
ings and thus brings the to the world that art
students exist who really want to copy Sargent Sargent
is painter who even in his lifetime paid the penalty
of prosperity He made portraits which the stters liked
and critics sneered at him without bothering to
explain their Even his defenders often said that
his pictures ironc but the subject didn't know it.
To most modernsts he had become sort OF Long1eo"
of portrait painting.
Young poets do not copy initiate Longfelow' but
at the end of thirty years of disgrace the position OF
Longfelow, like the position of Tennyson is beginning
to improve. Perhaps the people who paid ten thousand
dollars for portrait by Sargent invested their money
at least we'll the people who put their ten thousand
dollars into blue chip stocks.