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Evening star., 1935-11-17

be poor old Fred, that you are routed
out of your slumbers and subjected
to a volley of extemporaneous wit that
you are in no mood to return. The
mellowing warmth of camaraderie can
not dispel the chill around your
ankles, and the sounds of hilarity that
reach your ear are bleak and at
tentuated after their long trip through
space.
If the truth were known the merry
makers at the other end Of the wire
aren't enjoying the conversation any
more than you are. AS sponsors OF the
call they feel it their duty to make
the most Of every minute, but the fact
Is that none of them has anything
much to say. They display touching
generosity in their readiness to turn
the telephone over to the next fellow.
A typical long distance conversation
of this sort runs as follows: The VIC
tim, yanked from bed by the sudden
clamor Of the bell, gropes his way 70
the phone, fumbles with the cord OF
the receiver. and sleepily says, "Hullo."
There is q hubbub Of voices at the
other end Of the wire, in which can
be ,disthe epished cries Of Here be is!"
Evening star., 1935-11-17

"Lemme take it!" mo, I'll take It'll"
Eventually somebody takes it and says,
Erred, old boy, is that you?"
who's talking?" the victim asks
suspiciously.
you mean, who isn't talking!" the
voice at the other end of the wire
shouts facetiously above the tumult.
Hey, you guys! Pipe down for a min
ute, will you? Listen, Fred, this
is Melvin. You knoW-Melvin Spriner.
A bunch Of us are having little party
out here at st. Joe and we thought
we'd just call you up and say hello"
who all's there?" inquiries the vic.
tim with a faint flicker of interest.
"WELL, there's Mr.. and Mrs. Driv-
w veil guess you don't know
them. but they're swell folks-and o.
lie Smith and his girl, Betty Lou
Meecham from Georgia. Say, she's a
scream. She's got Ollie's hat on now
and she's giving an imitation of Joe
Penner. Can you hear sher?"
mo-" the victim replies gratefully.
And Doc Boothby Is here" con-
tinues the voice at the other end Of
the VIII. "you remembex Doc? Hes
Evening star., 1935-11-17

she does in any medium Miss Full
mer shows very handsome panel in
brown in a stylish all-over pattern
simple and strong. Her use of plant
forms, conventional units in repeated
designs. is singularly successful.
Dorothy Barnes shows charming de-
signs-after the Persian - whereas
MARYLAND Bryant, as a designer, finds
all grist that comes to her mill-even
a tennis game. Panels Of this sort
are essentially decorative, and lend
much charm to a room. whether
hung on the wall or serving as table
covers or scarfs. 1t is interesting
to note that not infrequently they
are finished with a bit of embroid-
cry. There are also two pictorial
hnoleum color prints by John Butler,
which have atmosphere, an unusual
quality in this medium, pleasing COM
position and colorful charm:
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art will
P4dSC Oll f4cH ILLS dtVc1I1OOIl anu
for a fortnight a collection of Ltho-
graphs by Albert W. Barker of Moy-
Ian. Pa. who is generally conceded
to be one Of our leading American
lithographers. Mr.. Barker. who is to
give a demonstration of lithography
before the Washington Society of the
Fine Arts next Wednesday evening
In the auditorium of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, making and printing
a iithograph before the audience and
explaining meanwhile the process
and its potentialities, has himself in
vented a new crayon, allowing freer,
more controlled handling and has re-
vived inset printing with its luminous
effects His work is very varied
some Of his prints are extremely deli
cate in touch and tone. while in
others they are rich in black, brought
in abrupt contrast with intense light.
His subjects are rural Pennsylvania,
cloud-swept landscape, old buildings,
seasoned by use; iaborers on the farm.
He is represented in our leading mu-
seunH and both public and private
print collections. He has won numer-
Gus awards. Best of all, he IS an
enthusiast on the subject of lithog-
raphy, and finds in his work an end
less source of delght-new discov-
cries, fresh conquests ever beckon-
ing on. This exhibition will be found
in the southeast gallery, adjacent to
the print room on the first floor.
AS ANNOUNCED in the news
\ columns of The Star last week,
Richard Lahey of New York has not
only been appointed principal OF the
Corcoran School Of Art, but has &C
cepted the appointment and already
taken charge. He is both painter
and etcher-has lectured and taught.
While belonging to the new school,
exhibiting with the independents. rep
resented In the Whitney Museum OF
Evening star., 1935-11-17

December in the Woman's City Club,
jackson place. Instead Of paintings,
these printed panels have been hung
on the walls and the effect Is very
pleasing. Here are works by artists
who are skilled craftsmen and have
keen sense Of decorative values.
Some of the prints are on silk, others
are on linen, but still others have as
background satin and finely woven
percale. One panel is printed on ma
terial woven on hand-loom by the
artists own grandmother The de-
signs differ widely. but almost without
exception have balance, are well pro-
portioned and give Just the right
amount of emphasis.
Some are very modern and delight
ful-evidencing. in fact, how delight
full the present can be when seen by
competent. gifted artist. Others
plainly derive from the great art Of
the past-that of Persia, Italy in the
Renaissance, France under the Mon
archy, but the application is of the
present.
Hugo linden, a member Of the fac
ulty of the Abbott School, shows a
colorful panel in which fish have been
used as chief motif. and another,
quite modernistic. in which the re-
peat is a couple on the vaudeville
stage greeting an audience. A third
example by this gifted designer gives
pre-eminence to the figure of an ami
mal-dog or monkey, it is difdc;'t to
say. but with all its grotesqueness ad-
mirably adapted to decorative ends.
Phoebe Hyatt, also associated with
the Abbott School, likewise uses con-
temporary motives-such, for example,
as a street scene-and although her
compositions are little overcrowded.
they have pungent interest.
Katie Fulmer's work has, perhaps
of all, most distinction-exceptin
that of Clara R. Saunders. which
has the touch of taste grounded in
knowledge which dignifiies whatever
Evening star., 1935-11-17

American Art, he has not cast aside
tradition nor affiliated himself with the
extreme, so-called left wing. To the
contrary his works are found accept
able to those Of both persuaslons, and
this is well. The Pennsylvania Acad.
emy. the Brooklyn Museum. the Ad-
olson Gallery have all acquired his
paintings, and his prints are owned
by the Metropolitan Museum. the
Detroit Institute of Art and other IN
stitutionS. He and his wife. who is a
sculptor. will be welcome additions to
the local art group.
AT THE annual meeting Of the
= Washington Society of Etchers,
held short time ago, Ruel P. Toll
man, acting director Of the National
Gallery of Art. was elected president
and c. Allen SherWin secretary. This
is very appropriate, inasmuch as Mr..
Tolman is also head of the graphic
art section of the United States Ma
tional Museum, and Mr.. Sherwin IS
his assistant; they are jointly re-
sponsible for the series Of print
exhibitings set forth monthly from
October to June in the Smithsonian
Building. Both are etchers, and Mr..
Sherwin also designs book plates and
is an engraver The Washington So
ciety Of Etchers will hold an exhibi-
ton in the Public Library, main
hlIildinp neYt rnnyth
IN THE Georgetown branch Of the
Public Library there opened yes
terday an exhibition Of paintings by
members of a newly formed organiza.
ton, styled Twenty Women Paint
ers." The original idea was that
only landscape painters would be
eligible for membership, but the scope
has already been broadened, so that
portraits. figure paintings and still
life subjects will be included in the
exhibition, as well as landscapes.
The idea originated with Mrs. Grace
Merrill Ruckman and Margaret Lent
Mulford is acting as chairman of the
Exhibition Committee. Among the
members are Miss Critcher. Miss
Gusts, Mrs. Chase, Mrs. Collision, Miss
Saunders, Miss Hollerith, Mrs. KEEP
Enger. Mrs. Graves, Miss Gertrude
Brown, Miss Gladys Smith, Miss Mary
Porter, Miss Mum, Miss Steuart, Miss
Foster. Mrs. Leisenring, Miss Riley
and Miss Ruchman.
THE Art and Archaeology League,
of which Mrs. Mitchell Carroll is
president. will hold the opening meet
ing for this, its twenty-third session,
in the Gunston Hall School. on the
evening Of November % at 8:l5 O'Clock.
An illustrated lecture on The Archi-
tectural Development of Old Virginia
Homes" will be given by Thomas
Tileston Waterman, author of Do
mestic Architecture Of Tidewater Vir-
ginia," and designer of the restora-
ton Of several buildings in Williams.
burg.
Evening star., 1935-11-17

HIGH AVERAGE OF MERIT SHOWN
Paintings and Prints from Baltimore and Richmond Joined
With Local Collection at Phillips Gallery-Block
Printed Fabrics Presented -Lithographs
at Corcoran Gallery

/ vanced in competence and vision dur
ing the past year or two, shows one
large and impressive landscape of an
Approaching Storm" rendered not a
little in the Constable manner, and
several small ones that have marked
individuality. The English influence
is seen also in the landscapes by
Armistead Peter, jr, rendered in
fresh. clear color with a broad, direct
stroke-very pleasing.
Mention should also be made Of
and commendation given to water
colors by Elizabeth Poe, well known
in local newspaper circles for her ex-
cellent writing. A couple of years
ago, by way of recreation, Miss Poe
Joined the classes then held in the
Phillips Memorial Gallery. She had
no knowledge of drawing but intuitive
sense of form and dramatic instinct.
1t Is these qualities, combined with
fearless courage, which distinguished
her paintings such as Loneliness Un-
broken"-an epic in the abStract-and
a mountain landscape seen in the
gathering shadows of evening. Two
of Miss Poe's water colors are included
in the Philadelphia Water Color
Clubs current annual exhibitions in
the Pennsylvania Academy.
There are many works in this ex-
hibition of which no mention has
been made. That is inevitable. Some
of these undoubtedly possess merit.
The question Is, however, how far
evidence of ability compensates for
shortcomings in execution; to what
extent the offense Of incompetence
and the hurt of ugliness should for
this reason be endured. This is some
thing which every one must decide
for himself.
The exhibition will remain on view.
free to the public, until the end OF
December Let It not be forgotten,
however, that at the same time these
contemporary paintings are on view
above stairs, the lower galleries-those
on the first f1oor-Will be filled with
paintings by the great masters be-
longing to the gallery's permanent
Evening star., 1935-11-17
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to be determined - and through the
mediums of exact measurement, de-
scription and statistical analysis rather
than a series of lunches. 1t IS follow
ing the road Of most character-reading
systems subjected to severe analysis.
So far as known there is no relation
between fingerprint classification and
shape of hand-and, Furthermore,
there is no relation between type OF
fingerprint and personality. There is.
it has been demonstrated within the
past few years, a rather specific re-
lationship between the lines Of the
hand, the medium of the palmlstS,
and racial stock. From the distribu-
ton of these lines one might make a
fair guess as to whether man was
an Englishman or an Eskimo. Bub
they tell nothing as to character.
The belief in some association be-
tween hand contours and personality
is largely a survival from the. thor
oughly discredited physiogamy which
first was systematized by no less a
philosopher than Aristotle and re-
manned in popular favor up to the
middle of the nineteenth century.
when it was superseded by the re-
lated, and equally invalid, phenology.
Physiogamy, as its principles were
stated by Aristotle. proceeded largely
on the superficial resemblance of vari-
GUS physical characters in human
beings to those of animals. Thus
person whose hand resembled a cats
paw would be credited with the char
acter of cat.
But even in the middle seventeenth
entury the practice had become so
discredited that it was outlawed in
England and its practitioners stigma
tized as common thieves" 1t was
not until the discovery Of the sup
posed relationship between the glands
of internal secretion and personality
that a supposedly more valid physi-
ogamy arose, only to fall in turn under
more severe analysis.
So the relationship between the
hands and personality-if there is any
remains to be found.
Evening star., 1935-11-17
Phone Company sSuper- Service Induces Wired Feeling
Human Vitality Lowest
When Rates Are at
24-Hour Minimum.

right here at my elbow. waiting to talk
to you. Hold it just minute" There
is a busy, fumbling noise at the other
end of the wire and new voice rasps
heartily.
Hello, Fred? This is Boothby.
How's the boy?"
"I can't complain" lies the victim
'How are you?"
"Rarin' to go! And, boy, is this a
party! I wish you could be here. Bet
ty Lou Meecham-that's Ollie Smiths
girl-has got Ollie's hat on and she's
giving an imitation of Joe Penner.
Honestly you'd die!"
81 may yet" mutters the victim.
warming the sole of his right foot
against the calf of his left leg.
wait a minute" says Doc Boothby
excitedly. Jerry Munich just came IN
and I know he'll want to talk to you
Hey, Jerry, I got Fred on long
distance and there's about minute
and half to go. Got anything You
want to say to him?" There is a whis-
pered conference. Then Doc Boothby's
voice, slightly apologetic, is head
again. Jerry says to tell you hello
Hello" replies the victim, recalling
that Jerry has owed him is bucks
since last November. .,
A FTER making several futile at
\ tempts to coax other members OF
the party to the phone to talk to good
old Fred, Doc Boothby clears his throat
and says. "Well :. guess we haven't
much more time to talk"
81 guess not" agrees the victim
promptly. In the pause that follows.
only the humming of the wires Is
heard. Then both parties. feeling 'le
first symptoms of conversational rigor
mortis setting in, break the silence
simultaneously with "Well. I
guess -.
What were you going to say?" the
voice at the other end Of the wire
asks eagerly.
Nothing. What were you going to
say?"
mot thing" '7'.
Another silence and when at last
the operator announces that the three
minutes is up, her voice is like q re-
prieve from the governor. They both
say good-by hastily and hang up with
obvaus relief. j
Evening star., 1935-11-17

BULLETIN OF EXHIBITIONS.
Phillips Memorial Gallery-First
annual exhibition Of paintings
and prints by artists Of Wash.
ington, Baltimore and Rich
mond.
Studio House Exhibition Of
paintings by Doris Lee.
Georgetown Branch Public
Library-Exhibition of paint
ings by 20 women painters.
Corcoran Gallery Of Art-Exhi-
bition of winning designs for
murals and sculpture for public
buildings, under auspices
Painting and Sculpture Sec
ton, Treasury Department.
Exhibition of Paintings by John
E Thompson of Denver. Ex-
hibition of Autographs by Al
bert w. Barker.
Women's City Club-EXhibition
of block prints and block
printed fabrics.
Public Library. main building
Exhibition water colors by
Rowland Lyon.
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on Bob Fleming, from his beloved
wife Dot" That is her pet name.
To them we're born two children-a
boy and a girl. Alice Marie made
her debut last year and Robert Wright,
the boy, is at the age where his father
started out in the banking business
as a runner-17.
With boy IT. and the remembrance
of his own start in life at II, Boo
Fleming has lot to look back upon
in a short and successful career.
Being president of a bankers as
Sociation is nothing new to Fleming
of the Riggs. He was president OF
the District of Columbia Bankers As
sociation for the year 1929, and
before that had held every important
Office or committee assignment in
the organization.
Fleming of the Riggs. The man is
a genius in matters of money. SO
say his competitors, even. They know.
1t was Fleming of the Riggs who orig.
mated the present system of settling
clearing house balances in the Dis
trict of Columbia. This is the
method whereby payments in cash
are eliminated and settlements eff
fected through telegraphic transfers
of reserve accounts at the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Richmond.
Fleming was youngSter when he
effected this reform-and it probably
led to his present power in the f1nan-
cial world; for it showed him to be
a master financier. Gray boards mad
failed at solution of the problem.
after the Federal Reserve System was
inaugurated. Fleming formulated the
plan now used in washington and
other cities. .--c.
So you can see it was not all luck
that put Bob Fleming where he; IS
today-after a start at the bottom
and working up. He got to be Fleming
Of the Riggs because he went to Riggs
as Fleming the boy, who was not
afraid to work-and he worked his
way through to the presidency Of the
bank and now to the presidency Of
the American Bankers Association.
Son, get that Horatio Alger book
down of the shelf. the one marked
Fleming Of the Riggs"
Evening star., 1935-11-17
InspirationaI Binges of Re.
mote Friends Wake
World at 8 Am.
Bv Weare H0IbrO0k.

y
~oMPLA1N1NG about telephone
service seems to be natural
human function, like eating
~ and sleeping. We all do it.
Even in these days of the dial. when
we have no one but ourselves to
blame for wrong numbers, we COM
plain.
This critical habit was cultivated
years ago. The telephone was a crude
and unreliable contraption then; there
was plenty of cause for complaint.
And today, when the telephone is
practically perfect-or at least more
infallible than the people who use it
the fault-finding continues.
The telephone company must be
hardened to criticism by this time.
Like Henry Ford and the flivver Jokes,
it is big enough to take it tolerantly.
doubt, however, whether even the
most sanguine official of the company
ever expected to see an indignant old
subscriber complain that the service
is too good. But here I am, and that
Is what I am doing.
Telephonic communication Is so
convenient and efficient nowadays that
people call each other up from distant
corners Of the map merely for the
fun of it. And at am, conceptions
Of fun vary. There is nothing so de-
pressing as listening in on remote
revelry In the small hours Of the
morning while standing barefooted in
. dark, dismal and draughty hallway.
The belated guest who arrives cold
sober at q gay cocktail party can
always catch up" in q few minutes,
with the help of his host. But for
the long-distance telephone, there is
nothing to do but trudge back to bed
and begin counting sheep.
At every festive reunion some senti-
mentalist invariably says, Lets call
up Fred. Poor old Fred couldn't get
here tonight. Let's call him up and
let him know we haven't forgotten
him. He'll be tickled pink"
THIS inspiration usually occurs late
in the evening, when toll charges
and human vitality are at their lowest
ssa. which mtens. II yoa happen 70
Evening star., 1935-11-17
Wheat Carry.Over Aids.

ERANCE this year had a wheat crop
= which fell considerably below the
average and below the normal con-
sumption as well. The crop, which is
estimated at 279,000,0 900 bushels, Is
about 100000 bushels under the re-
ouirements of the Nation. However,
surplus from last year Of nearly
rs ,00o, 900 bushels Is more than ample
to al the demand for the grain.
Evening star., 1935-11-17

of the eight winners in the competi-
ton for the Post Office murals-and
second, when she was awarded the
Logan prize and medal in the Chi
cago Art Institutes Annual Exhibi-
ton of contemporary American paint
ing and sculpture. The second award
called forth exceptional criticism not
only from the press but the donors.
Born in 1904, Miss Lee graduated
from Rockford College. Rockford, ILL.,,
then studied in Paris, in Kansas City
Evening star., 1935-11-17

collection-from which one can OBJ
tain a measure Of merit accepted by
succeeding generations and still trust
worthy. For the new works, this
creates a supreme test.
TN STUDIO HOUSE. yesterday, a
= collection Of IA paintings in oil
by Doris Lee was placed on exhibition.
Miss Lee has twice in the past fort
night come conspicuously to notice
first, when she was announced as one
Evening star., 1935-11-17

and in San Francisco. She Is now
numbered among the members of the
art colony at Woodstock, N. Y. Her
paintings in the present exhibition in
clude genre. landscapes and figures.
In view of the Post Office Mural
award, this exhibition is of particu-
lar and timely interest.
A UNIQUE and charming exhibi-
= ton is that of block printed fab
RIGS set forth at this time and until
Evening star., 1935-11-17
EXHIBITION OF FOREIGN SCENES

from Turkey. the Dalmatian Coast and
other places
BY HILDEGARDE HAMILTON
in the LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN
WOMEN in the BURLINGTON
rI2O Vermont Ave. NV.
from Sunday, Nov. 18th through Sunday.
Dec. 3rd from II A.M.-6 p. M.-Open
Sun. Wed. and Sat. ewes from 7:30-10s30.
Closed Tuesdays. Also closed Sstv and
Sun. EnorninEh
The Redwood gazette., 1935-03-21
RELIEF WORKERS ON LOOK
OUT FOR HISTORIC MINDS

Cooperating with the University
of Minnesota, Walter F. MacGre-
gor, director of the work division,
Minnesota SERA, has instructed
all relief workers to be on lookout
for possible anthropological dis
coveries during work on SERA
projects.
''In deep subsurface diggings
there may be found once in a
while important human bones
and stone, wood Or copper imple-
ments made by ancient man,
which are of great scientific
value, it was pointed out by DR..
A. E. jerks, head of the Univer-
sity anthropology department.
even small pieces of pottery,
the size of a silver dollar, have
their meaning to US in the study
of the distribution of Indian cul-
ture in the state," he emphasized.
The state engineer has request
ed to be advised promptly by tele-
phone or wire, should any of the
above items be discovered. In
such an event, the specimens eth
er would be sent to the university
for study, or the university would
arrange to have experienced men
complete the diggings in order
that finds may be preserved.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-03-21

FOR RENT-Farm buildings in
good condition, also garden patch
5 miles north and 1 11smiles east of
Belview. For details inquire or
write Lars T. Gullickson, Belview,
Minnesota. 37-3p
The Redwood gazette., 1935-03-21
CLASSIFIED RATES

The Gazettes classified advertising rate per
insertion Cash in advance the
bookkeeping and billing but credit will be granted in
of telephoned orders by reliable parties This depart
ment closes Wednesdays p. m.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-03-21
Market Reports

See the "most talked about bab-
les" the Dionne Quintuplets, on
the screen at the Redwood Theatre
tonight. 281
The Redwood gazette., 1935-03-21

FOR SALE-New Slower engines
and pumpjacks, trailer bitches,
singletrees, eveners, neckyokes,
wagon poles, holsters and reaches,
Prest-O-Gas. Joe Muehlbauer,
Redwood Falls. 1872
The Redwood gazette., 1935-03-21

FARM HORSES FOR SALE
Across from Atlas Elevator, Red
wood Falls; weighing from 1900
to 1900 pounds, ages to IL. r.
R. Enyart, owner. 38-4p
The Redwood gazette., 1935-03-21
FOR SALE

Chestnut gelding, Is years old,
1400 pounds, $4,000.
Black gelding, s years old, 400
pounds, $4,000.
Sorrel mare, 6 years old, 1900
pounds, $4,000.
Black geiding, coming years
old, 1450 pounds.
Black gelding, coming years
old, l6C0 pounds.
Black gelding, coming years
old, 1900 pounds.
Bay colt, coming one year old,
$45.0O.
Black mare coming years old,
1400 pounds, $l35.00.
Several other work horses.
White Shorthorn bull, one year
old, $45.O0.
Two purebred Holstein bulls,
2 years old.
Cows and heifers fresh and soon
to freshen.
Registered Hereford bull, two
years old.
Angus bull, Ia months old. Pap
ers can be furnished.
Swiss bull, IA months old, $35.
Farmall tractor, plows and cul-
tivator, complete. ;,
Keystone disc, used years,
$22.50.
Fordson tractors and several
other pieces of farm machinery.
40 Ewes to lamb in April.
Two loads of maple wood.
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