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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
Calendar of Exhibitions

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, SeUen-
teenth street and Mem York GUenue.
Thirteenth Biennial Exhibition OF
CC7,tem pordry American Oil Paintings.
December 3-JdnudTy IS. Permanent
collection
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Tenth
and B Constitution dUenueJ streets
northwest Permanent collection. Spe-
cial exhibition paintings by CeSareo
Bernardo de QaeroS OF Argentine, jan
udry 13-Mdrch 10.
. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM,
ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING.
Photographic portraits By Ralph Og-
giano of Nelo York To January 81.
FREER GALLERY OF ART Tweltth
and street southwest. Permanent
collection
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, print diui-
sion, First street bet10een East Capitol
and streets southeast. Permanent
collection
ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 /
street Exhibition of Water ColorS by
Setpeu Johnson January Ala Photo
graphs By Carroll Frey, January to
81 Posters submitted in Bal Boheme
competition, from January H.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1900
TUeRty- first street. Open on Saturdays
(only), II am. TO pm.
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1900 S street
northwest Rugs. tapestries and other
textiles of the Near ana Far East.
open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days, to o'clock. Admission By card
obtdindble at the Office Of G. H. Myers,
$50 Fifteenth street northwest.
MOUNT PLEASANT BRANCH PUBLIC
LIBRARY, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets. EtchingS by Ellen Day Hale,
Gabrielle dc V. Clements and Lesley
Jackson. January to 81.
GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY,
1105 Connecticut Avenue English
prints OF foiOerS and sporting subjects
EtchingS and ,Cater colorS.
ART LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON, 211f
Bancroft place Recent paintings by
Benson Moore. Oil paintings and pen
Gil drawings By Dorothy Loeb OF Nelp
York January 2-16
SEARS, ROEBUCK & co. ART GAL
LEREES, 1I06 Connecticut dUenHe OIL
paintings, mater colorS, prints, etc. bl
American artists. Opening January 7.
HILL SCHOOL OF ART, Dupont circle
Exhibition OF etci,inos and other prints
from the private collection OF Benson
B Moore. January 7 to IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08

A N extremely interesting and varied collec-
ton of prints engravings, etchings, litho-
graphs and woodbock prnts-belonging to Ben
son B. Moore the well known etcher of this
city, was placed on exhibition as loan in the
Hill School Of Art, Dupont Circle, yesterday to
continue through the present week
There Is probably no more delightful hobby
than that of collecting prints and when one is
as versed as Benson Moore is in technical
processes, the delight is enhanced Mr. Moore
numbers approximately $50 prints in his COL
lection from which the 81 included in the cur
rent exhibition at the Hill School were eSpe-
cially selected for inherent interest and in
trinsc worth. These prints Mr. Moore has
picked up here and there during period of
considerable number of years; some he has
bought at auction. others at secondhand book
stores, others still at junk shops. Two very
charming and quite well preserved etchings by
Rembrandt Tor after Rembrandt by a close
follower) he found in the bottom OF an old
trunk. These etchingS are of Rembrandt Lean
ing on Sill" and of Vuten Bogardus the for
mer one of Rembrandt's greatest plates.
Imagine the excitement of making such find.
leaving out OF the question all matters of COM
mercial value and regarding the prints solely
as treasures of art. Such possibilities are what
make print collecting far more exciting than,
shall we say, trout fishing
Mr.. Moore has shown great catholcity of
taste and breadth Of interest in assembling his
collection. He has not restricted himself to his
own field-that of etching-but has reached out
for the best in all the different reproductive
methods, and he has reached back to the ear
Hest centuries when engraving was practiced.
He has excellent prints by both Jan and Cor
nelius Visscher: he has an engraving of the
Alteration" by Luca Killian of the sixteenth
century, also one by Theodore Gale Of the same
era: he has mezzo-tint by Peter Schenk,
whose dates were 1645-1715, and an "Adora-
ton of the Magi' by Desplaces, 16S2-1737.
Among eighteenth century prints is an ex-
tremely interesting reproduction of a painting
by Raphael engraved by Samuel Amser a Swiss,
who has ornsmented his work with most naive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08

MOST notable exhibition of paintings
by an Argentine artist, Cesareo Ber-
naldo de QuiroS, will open in the
National Gallery Of Art on January
y 13 with private view at 2:30 in the
afternoon. An exhibition Of paint
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08

ings b. this artist held last Fall in the
Gallery of the Hispanic Society, New York,
attracting very wide and favorable attention.
1t Is distinct honor and privilege to have him
exhibit here and very suitable courtesy ex-
tended the part of our National Gallery of
Art. The exhibition will be view for two
months.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08

Colonial Church at Castine, Me, with the
pigeons circling around it, and enormously in
teresting is his coorful painting of the red steel
frames Of a Office building here in WASH
ington in course of erection. through which one
sees at a distance the dome of the Capitol
the old and the new Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
capitol Slang

The average American, asked by q for- signsr how to learn American slang would probably refer the inquirer to the works of Ring Larder. Walter WineheIl and collegiate publications. In that recommendation the A. would be all wet. A Britisher. Sir Will liam s. Craisie. lsxieographer of Chicago University and eo-editor of the Oxford English dictionary. is now directing the compilation of dictionary of historical American English. He has been searching out characteristic American expressions. He tells us that the Congressional Record is the richest source for such materials Speeches in the Senate. debate in the House, even supposedly solemn presidential messages, &C., eording to Sir Craigie, abound in slang and picturesque colloquialisms.
 This is nothing to make the solons and executives, past and present, hang their heads in embarrassment. Their sangy American isms are "foreeful and colorful," They represent the eolloquial peeuliarites of the different sections from which they come just as the Congressmen represent the political viewpoints of those sections. Apparently we have been overlooking some snappy reading. Our professional comics and writ CTS of movie dialog and radio continuity have unsuspeeted rivals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
The Bicycle Age

It may be the automobile age in America, but it's still the bicycle age in Europe. Or perhaps We should say not "stilr' but again. The demand for bicycles has been increasing there since the depression. The extent to which the foot-power ma- chine is used abroad is almost incredible. A world census the first of this year showed
 nearly 26,000,000 automobiles in the United States to 100000 bicycles. In Europe the figures ran the other way. 4o.000,000 bicycles to 5,6o0,00o auto mobiles.
 The ratio here is seventeen automobiles to one bicycle, and over there it is seven bicycles to one automobile. Holland alone, the size of Maryland, has million more bicycles than our own country. In Ger many there are 1o bicycles to every four wheeled car. In all the cities of Europe the streets swarm with bikes" In Copen- hagen. where cyclists have special privileges they are such pest that street traffic IS almost destroyed and motor traffic operates under big handicap.
 Last year our own manufacture of biey- eles was still decreasing, but this year it seems to have started upward again. There is new interest in six-day bicycle races, with shows of this sort touring the country after successful openings in New York. Are we coming into new bicycle age'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
Chinese Militancy

The Chinese National party leaders, meeting at Canton, have urged the govern mcnt to take active measure against Japan. These measures would include national sup port of the Manehurian volunteers now fighting against Japanese control of that province intenGfeation of the national Chinese boycott against Japan, and coneen- tration of large government forces in the northern provinces for use in Manchuria.
 It may be that the militarists in control of Japanese government would welcome such procedure, because it would give them an excellent excuse to invade China with big army and blockade her seaports. Japan could then proceed with the extensive parti- ton and absorption of the Chinese Empire which she is thought to have planned Such plans, though. might not work so well. A Japanese army in an aroused China might repeat the sad experience of Napoleon s march to Moscow. It is not always valor or bullets that conquer an invader
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
fNEA Service Writerl


 washington.--Ata about this time, when everyone is impatient for the inauguration and the change of administration which are known to be forthcoming, 1t is the cus- tom of newspaper writers to burst forth with the startling assertion that there has not yet been any presi dcntial election.
 What they mean is that the electoral college votes have not yet officially been counted by con- gress. Legally speaking, there IS no president t-elect until the second Wednesday of February, when the senate parades solemnly two by two to the house to count the 531 votes.
 Some year--perhaps 1887, 1941 or 1045-it may be different. ono can find authorities to predict q time when no president will have been elected even theoretically in November and when, instead of this mere ceremony of February 8, the process of election will become 50 gummed up in congress as to force the choice of an acting, tenn. porary president such as this country has never seen.
 The universally praised and highly valuable lame duck amend- ment, now in process of ratifica- ton, offers that interesting possi- bility.
 No one will be surprised to see the rise of q third party within the next few years which could throw an election into the house by obtaining 6 large enough elec- tornl vote to prevent a majority. Under the amendment the con- gres6 meets January 3 and the president takes office January 20. The house must organize and elect n speaker in order to act--and some deadlocks on tho speakership have lasted for months.
 Conditions producing an elec- toral college sta1emate probably would be reflected in the make- up of the house. If Q president is not elected, by the goth, the amendment provides that the vice president- -elect shall function un- til the house picks ono. Tho vice president.elect is chosen by tho senate and 1t is just as easy to imagine q senate tie-up which will prevent Q majority.
 The possibility of an "acting president" who may never have run for tho office and hence be hardly bird, beast, fowl or red herring, rests In tho amendments provision that congress may pass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
Rah, Rah, State College

The commission named by Governor Cross two years ago to consider the advisa- blity of changing the name of Connecticut Agricultural College has submitted its re- port. It favors change of the above title, slightly misleading today. to Connecticut State College. That is about what most peo- pie imagined the new name would be. We think that the Legislature will approve this change. It is for the mutual benefit of the state as we'll as the students and graduates of the institution. Of course there will al- ways be the more or less familiarly applied name. "Stons' given to the college as well as to the town in which it is located.
 1. There is bill ready for submission to the Legislature now proposing the change in name It shouldn't be necessary to inform the legislators, although there are many new ones present who are not familiar with the history of the proposal, that the desire for a change in the title of the state college was the outcome of an extension in it's eurrieu- lum in recent years. We have no intention of tracing the history of the Connecticut Agricultural College. We don't feel eompet' ent enough to do that and to quote from the very excellent history of the institution by Walter Stemmons. would require consider able space.
 Suffice it to say that our state college has outgrown the name. "agrieultural,' v many. many years ago. The natural inference from seeing the name is that the institution IS solely for instruction in such arts of hus- bandry. But that is far from true Our state college today offers variety of courses, ranging from technical down to the arts for the students to pick and choose. It is no longer a mere agricultural college as it was in it's carly days. It has kept pace with the times and as result is prepared to offer the ambitious student almost any subject he may choose to study. Why label the college then as something it obviously isn't' Con- ~neetieut State College is title that we can be proud of and that graduates and present students need not explain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
Our Daily Washington Letter
Speaking of ElectOrial Votes
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

a special law so that if no presi- dent-elect or vice president- elect shall have qualified 1t will have machinery to designate someone to serve as president in the interim.
 Unless congress passes such 6 law the possibility of Q time when nobody will have any idea who is president of the United States will remain. It will be in- teresting to see what congress does about 1t, if anything. Such q tie.up as is here envisaged means that there would be no speaker and no member of the cabinet. The best bet would seem to be the chief justice of the supreme court.
 But no one need worry about 1t this year. MT Roosevelt will have a large fat majority of elec- torial votes.
 Vice. President Curtis will lead the senate procession to the house at l o'clock, two page boys carrying the votes in handsome boxes as if their nature were 0 great secret. Curtis sits at the right of his successor, Speaker Garner, in the latter's chair, to preside at this ceremony. He opens the en. velopes and hands them to official tellers who add up the score.
 Then they hand the. result to Curtis, who announces that Roose- welt and Garner received 472 elec- toral votes as against 59 for Hoov- CT and Curtis. This seems to. be the first time one candidate had to notify another of his election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
No Crowns For Il Duce

Mussolini is not interested. and never has been, in any scheme that would turn him into king.
 He believes that the controlled capitalism" of fascism will prove an enduring thing in Italy.
 He owes much to the patience and elf-discipline he learned dur ing his various terms of imprison- ment before the war.
 These are among the things one gathers from "Taiks with Musso- lini," by Emil Ludwig.
 Ludwig went to Rome and ar- ranged for a series of evening con- ferences with the Italian dictator. He has set down the result in this book, and 1t makes moderately interesting, though rather unim- portarit, collection of dialogues irt. which Mussoiini appears in hia familiar guise.
 Mussolini, we read, is something of q fataiist, and refuses to taka any special precautions to avoid assa ssination. He has a tremen- dous personal magnetisn--Pve read that before, somewhere, think--and Q vast amount of ex- ecutivo ability: he believes that an anarchist is 0 potential dictator gone wrong, and he has studied the life of Napoleon with profit to himself.
 Ana 90 on. Reading 1t, I got the impression that an over-rated writ CT was Interviewing an over.rated statesman, but maybe I'm wrong.
 The book is published by Little, Brown and Go, and costs S2.76.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
So They Say

My only advice to Roosevelt Is to rely on young men and to stay away from us old dodo birds. Col D. M. House, former adviser
 to President Wilson.
 Jgyon though we do not serve cocktails, all of our old friends are glad to see us.
 Russell Flrestone, former sports
 man, son of tho Akron tire mag
 nate, now q follower of the Ox-
 ford group, English youth Bpiri-
 tual movement.
 Koep him (Goorge Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright) outside the 10-milo limit so he can enjoy him. self by saying he alone iB sane in n world of American lunatics. He'll love that.
 --Maurice Colbourne, English ace
 tor, appearing in Shaws new
 play in San Francisco.
 We (repubiicans) can always do. pend upon Q landslide in the up- per income brackets; an over whelming victory in the social reg istor; safe majority In "WhoB Whob: q fair chance in the tele- phone book; but we begin to pc devastated when we get into the city directory; and that is bad William Allen White, editor,
 Emporin (Knn) Gazette.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
We Lose Our Chance

~ Failure of the Connecticut legislature to X take immediate action upon the proposed X s1ame duck amendment to the federal con- stitution when it was proposed to that body ls last week by Governor Cross means that our justification on Thursday won't make any !. material difference in adoption. Massachu- i-ss setts was expected to be the Both state to N. ratify to-day. thus making the new amend
 ment our twentieth. Probably the remain !. ing twelve states of the Union will also {. sratify. but their vote is of little weight now
 that the necessary three.fourths have signified
 approval.
 . When the constitutional amendment was conveyed to the general assembly last week |. bby Governor Cross that body postponed ac- ption until Thursday of this week when it Irp~will be the business of the day. At the time there were less than thirty states ratify-
 ling. Perhaps it seemed to our legislators x that they had plenty of time. But so ~ popular has been the legislative response Ito the amendment that aboshes the lame < duck sessions of congress that the total num- < Der of approving states has been increasing a< daily In view of this fact Connecticut
 might have taken up the matter last week <, and had herself included among the thirty @ s@9s six ratfying states.
 sF.s As it stood Saturday there were only ksihree more states needed to make the % Amendment legal. Friday afternoon South -e Dakota and Tennessee approved it bringing --thc total up to thirty-three. Then Sat-
 urday Idaho and New Mexico ratified al-
 most simultaneously. although official rec
 orSs will show that Idaho is the thirty N fourth and New Mexico the thirty fifth
 state to ratify. Also on Saturday the
 Massachusetts state senate adopted the reso-
 lution to ratify and the House placed it on
 the orders of the day for today thus in-
 suring that state the honor of being the
 thirty sixth state to ratify and insure the
 amendment of place in the constitution.
 Had there been sufficient state legisla-
 lures in session last year no doubt the
 amendment would have been adopted then
 and President-elect Roosevelt would have
 been inaugurated last Friday. January. 20,
 for that is the date set for the inaugura-
 ton in the amendment. Washington resi-
 dents regard it as a good omen that last
 Friday was extremely mild and springlike
 quite different from the capital weather
 around the fourth of March which is so off,
 ten wet and cold. However that is the Avery least reason why the amendment should .sbe adopted -
 It is curious that in less than year an
 amendment is being adopted by. we'll say.
 all forty-eight states yet it took Senator -George Norris of Nebraska ten long years -to secure the necessary congressional sup- ~.port before the measure could be submitted aro the states The amendment becomes Effective on October l5 thus insuring us
 against any more lame duck sessions of con-
 gress. The present one is the last The
 lame duck is dead. Long live the ame-duek!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23

Haven last week going over municipal rec ords. It is their intention to search out de- linquents and force them to settle up back and current taxes on their motor vehicles. It is astonishing the number of people who earelessly ignore the statute compelling dee- laration of motor vehicles in filing tax re- turns. Some other method of levying and collecting this tax may be the outcome of the survey in New Haven. Certainly the proposal that the motor vehicle department withhold registration from any motorist who is delinquent in property taxes on his car is drastic one that might end this trou- ble and add to the towns income.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23

Denver M. Wnght's safari on Mississippi river island hadn't assumed African jungle proportions last Saturday. However, Mir Wright. who aspires to be big game hunt CT without travelling to the regions where big games abound, was hopeful for the best over the week end. The two lions he released for the benefit of friends who cared to shoot them down were quite playful in their first moments of freedom. They played on the sand of the 190 acre island. It is to be hoped that the beasts won't disappoint the hunt CTS by disappearing completely once they have become accustomed to this new out door life to which they, as eage-bofn ani- mals, probably never had an introduction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23
O--..O--O WORDS

The ten most beautiful words, In this language, let me state, Are these. "IcnclOscd plcacs find
 'chcck
 For all money due to date" o--O---o
 The government might be ab1o to balance tho budget by charging m admission to congress. You know congress is q great talklc. o-O--o Canaries and gold fish arc coming back Into style in rapid fashion. Wo may get old fashioned enough eventually to welcome the return of tho cuckoo bird clock. o-O--o Many master stroke Is dc. llvcred by mistress. o--O--o AND ON Men push ahead, To seek the last frontier, Not realizing, it would seem It's long been here. o-O--o greatest form.
  Tn figuring tho revenue to Do derived from beer. wonder if they've allowed for spill age?
 The plant with tho smallest m. tural name, often becomes tho largest in tho house. Consider tho finch plant".
 o--O--O
 Tho hardest thing to do at times ig smile.
 o--O--0
 Men who fail to como up to OK pectntions needn't worry much about it. The old U. $. A. has failed fin this particular the past four years.
 o-O--o
 France is waiting to dump tons of booze Into the United States. once the dry law Is TO. peaied. Something to wine about.
 o--o--o These hunger marchors do their bit 10 fntten up the news. o-O--o This completes our opening pro. gram of the week. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat, pioneer in this type of newspaper work, We aro signing off at this time, to be back on the air again to.morrow evening at the usual hour.
 Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-23

The regret which was expressed by the whole country at the death of the late president, Calvin Cool idge, shows that he held 0 place in the affection and good will of his countrymen won by few public servants within the last generation. There was a simplicity about the man that disarmed criticism and inspired confidence. He will not be remembered as 0 great states man, yet his genuine desire to do what was best for his country con- ciliated the respect even of his most determined political oppon- ents.
 Unimpeachable integrity marked his private and his official life. On leaving the White House, he rec turned to Northampton, the little Massac achusetts town in which he began to practice law nearly forty years ago. Years of usefulness seem to lie before him, but 1t now ap. pears that MT Coolidge felt that his career was drawing to a close. 1T nm tired, and cannot get rest ed," he wrote q friend on the morning of his death. T know that my work Is done." Ifo did not