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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-20
Wrote "Hail, Columbia"

The words of Hail Columbia" were
written by Joseph Hopkinson, son Of
Francis, one of the signers of tile
Declaration of Independence. Joseph
Hopkinson was Philadelphia jurist
born there in ITO. There also he died
in 1912. He was the author of a nun.
Der of ballads, and he wrote Hail
Columbia" in 1903 for the use of an
actor named Fox, appropriating the
music of a then popular composition
entitled, 1.-THE Presidents March" The
original march had been composed by
a New York musician named Teyles.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-20
The Word "Welsher"

While the Oxford Dictionary gives
the word ''welsher" in it's meaning of
"absconding swindler" as of obscure
origin, other authorities attribute It
either to some swindler of that name
or to the alleged bad faith of Welsh
men as expressed in the well-knOwn
nursery rhyme "Taffy was Welsh
man. Taffy was a Thief" The term
may be traced back to English racing
journals of the 1S50S.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-20
NO UPSETS
The proper treatment
for a bilious child
Tupsr sYrpe


| ANY mother knows the reason
Awhen her child stops playing, eats
little, is hard to manage. Constipation.
But what pity so few know the
! sensible way to set things right
The ordinary laxatives, of even
ordinary strength, must be carefully
| regulated as to dosage.
A liquid laxative is the answer,
mothers. The answer to all your
worries over constipation. A liquid
can be measured. The dose can be
exactly suited to any age or need.
Just reduce the dose each time. until
the bowels are moving of their own
accord and need no help.
This treatment will succeed with
any child and Nth any adult.
The doctors use liquid laxatives.
Hospitals use the liquid form. If it
is best for their use, it is best for
home use. The liquid laxative most
families use is DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin. Any druggist has it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-20
YET WE GO TO WAR

Friendship is the only thing in the
world concerning the usefulness Of
which all mankind are agreed
Cicero.
Evening star., 1936-01-05
BULLETIN OF EXHIBITIONS.

Corcoran Gallery of Art-Per-
manent collections and special
exhibition of illustrations, draw
ings and water colors by Thorn
ton Oakley.
National Gallery of Art, Ma
tional Museum-Gellatly, John.
son and Evans collections, and
Herbert Ward, African sculptures.
Smithsonian Building - Etch-
ings, block prints and autographs
by Franz Geritz of Los Angeles.
Freer Gallery Of Art-Chinese
paintings, Oriental art objects;
paintings, drawings, etchings by
Whistler and paintings by other
American artists.
Phillips Memorial Gallery
Permanent collection of paintings
by old and modern masters.
Studio House, 1914 Twenty
first street NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of paintings by modernists lent
by Museum Of Modern Art, New
York.
Junior League, Massachusetts,
avenue and Twentieth street.
Exhibition Of sculpture by mod
ernists lent by the Museum of
Modern Art, New York.
Textile Museum Of the District
Of Columbia-Rare and beautiful
textiles, rugs and embroideries,
chiefly Of the East.
Arts Club Of Washington-Ex-
hibition Of members works.
Library of Congress-Recent ac-
cessions: Pennell Autographs and
original Illustrations by Stanley
Reinhart, w. A. Rogers and
others.
Public Library, main building
Exhibition of water colors by
Charles Val Clear.
international House, Y. w. G.
A., 6I4 e street Northwestern
hibition Of paintings by members
Of the Landscape Club and the
Twenty Women Painters.
Evening star., 1936-01-05
AODERNISTS TO SHOW HERE STRIKING CREATIVE WORK
PRODUCE VIGOR, COLOR, IDEAS
Both Painting and Sculpture Represented Two Exhibitions
bv Observation-Disclosures of Modern Art.
Prints and Other Local Collections.

not a few of the sculptors Of these
later days, 1t is not man, but the
idea of man, that they would set forth,
and to this end they try to invent a
new language.
But, after all, the art of painting
and that of sculpture are visible and
must appeal to the senses through
the eye. They come from without
music and poetry from within-there-
fore the symbols vary. Ellie Faure calls
Modigliano "the poet of distortion"
but claims that he died too soon for
us to be able to deduce a general
principle from his "Furtive Appari-
tions." Picasso, he says, tried to
create a universe without contact
with the real" Matisse, without doubt,
is lover of color and of pattern-he
dates from the painters of Persian
miniatures and the decorators Of the
Far East. Degas. while ranked with
the modernists, is much closer akin
to the great tradition, rendering that
which is pictorial commanding his
medium with vigor and using it with
utmost grace. Redon is, on the other
hand, a mystic. Rousseau, an indi-
Evening star., 1936-01-05

vidualist not far removed from that
strange brotherhood, the "pre-Ra-
phaelites," whom presumably all
modernists abhor. WILLARD is more an
impreSsionist than modernist, nearer
to Monet and Renior than to Matisse
or Picasso by many leagues of i'm
measurable distance. Derain, the ninth
to be represented in the exhibition
opening this afternoon, like Picasso,
has always been, We are told, "a per-
sistent student of the past" and, ac-
cording to one authority. knows far
more about the Louvre than most of
his academic opponents"
Herein lies the difference between
the works of these modernists and
their imitators; they have not dis
carded the great inheritance of the
past-they know they cannot do So
and while they are different in ex-
preston from those who built tradi-
tion, they are not apart-the differ
ence is that of inherent originality
rather than something put on for
effect. Obviously it is not incum-
bent upon one to like what they
do-much of modern art at the best
is far from likeable, pleasant, agree
able. No one can deny that some
of these artists have made IAN
alliance with savagery," that they
express themselves unintelligibly, that
they are destructive rather than Gre
ative Of ideals, which are joy giving,
uplifting. But 1t must be admitted
that they have brought new life into
art and put an end to repetition
which was sapping vitality. And
after all, as Jan Gordon has said,
1T is not new movements that we
must fear but lack of movement
for that is stagnation. The thing
of utmost importance is to sift the
wheat from the chaff-to take the
best and discard the worst-and not
Evening star., 1936-01-05

ject Of Modern Art" will be, with
out doubt. well considered and
thought-proyoking.
AN EXHIBITION Of illustrative
drawings and paintings by Thorn
ton Oakley opens tomorrow in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. OF these
64 are pen-and-ink drawings, made
as illustrations for Enchanted Brit
tany" and CLOUD Lands of France"
by Amy Oakley. and for Folk Tales
of Brittany" by Elsie Mason. The
first two are souvenirs Of happy Sum-
mer wanderings in Brittany and in
the French Pyrennes, the last by
product thereof.
Mr.. Oakley records impressions
very definitely as he travels and elab-
crates them later in his own studio;
only thus, he claims, do such i'm
pressions become works Of art. But
he has the gift Of keen and sensitive
vision, perception. Therefore when the
time comes for transcription he is
able to render, not merely facts, but
spirit, atmosphere. 1t is his convic-
ton that work in pen and ink ac-
cords better with the printed page
than when in wash-in other words.
that half tones do not harmonic with
type. For the Bulletin of the Phila-
delphia Art Alliance he has for some
years made delightful head and tail
pieces, as well as initial letters. His
lettering is as artistic as his illustra-
tions, and often. as will be seen in
this exhibition, is made a factor in
his design. Not only Is his work
virile. but it invariably has style
distinction Lately he has illustrated
with pen and ink drawings, delight
fully. a book describing six His
toric Homesteads," written by his
mother, Imogen Oakley, and issued
by the University of Pennsylvania
Press. He has also designed a medal,
which he himself has established, to
be awarded yearly for achievement
Evening star., 1936-01-05
By Weare H0Ibr0ok.
BOUT this time

A BOUT this time Of the year
~ four days after the first Of
~ January, to be exact-it be-
4 n comes the duty Of the aver
age man to salvage the remnants Of
his good resolutions and start life over
again. The real New Year day falls
not on January 1, but somewhere be-
tween the 5th and 18th, and 1t falls
with a thud that reverberates for
weeks afterward. It Is then that the
planets resume their accustomed
course, the clock stops striking Is and
Pippa passes like 1881 dividend.
January / was mere child's play,
as you may remember. You sprang
out of bed just bursting with good
intentions. You did your daily-or
possibly yearly-dozen: you balanced
your books and budgeted your income
and inscribed breezy little billets doux
to all the dull people who had written
you letters during the last three
months. When you had finished you
took brisk walk in the park. breath
ing deeply and throwing your chest
out until 1t threatened to dislocate
your spine.
Then you came home and settled
down to-not smoke, not drink, not
read trashy felton,. not waste time
over the card table, not (if you hap
pened to be overweight) eat starches
and sweets. In short. you settled down
with a sense Of, well-being. And
that is exactly what 1t was; that, and
nothing more. You were, for all prac-
tical purposes, well hammered vege-
table.
It Is on the second or third day Of
your self-appointed exile from the
f1eshpots that q feeling of isolation
begins to oppress you. You are good.
but you are lonesome. The fact that
several million others are In precisely
fhe same predicament Is small con-
Evening star., 1936-01-05

to be swept OF our feet by mere
fads and fancies.
These exhibitions of paintings and
sculpture by leading modernists in
studio house and at the Junior League
should give opportunity for the pub
lie to gain acquaintance with some
of the new movements and to esti-
mate their worth or their unworth-
iness. They will be open free from
tomorrow for two weeks.
A DISCUSSION Of modern art,
= with the purpose Of clarifying
thought. will take place next We'd
nesday evening in the auditorium Of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, under
the auspices of the Washington So
ciety of the Fine Arts. This discus
sion will be led by Thornton Oakley
of Philadelphia, painter and illus
TRAITOR; secretary of the Philadelphia
Water Color Club and an instructor
in the Pennsylvania Museum School
of Industrial Art. His address will
be followed by brief speeches by
four or five members of a panel
Evening star., 1936-01-05

except good, sharp knife with which
to hack it to pieces.
The short inspirational editorial ap-
parently has gone out of fashion lately.
Popular demand for them seems to
have fallen of since the depression
probably because the average reader
realizes the futility of being all popped
up, with no place to go. Then, too,
grade A inspiration may be too rich
for this thin -blooded generation.
With these ideas in mind. have
prepared a little inspirational edi-
torial especially for backsliding reso-
lutionists and people who don't care
much about being inspired anyhow.
ct should be set in 18-point type,
but the editor won't let me use it.
The italics, at least, are mine.) Here
1t Is:
When I lds q srlaH boy, a mission
dry uncle of mine gdue me rare old
coin. 1t ,pds Bessarabian pfui north
about 3 cents, but it formed the
nucleus of collection that soon be-
came the bane of MY existence.
Mere coin collecting tDds not enough,
hotpeper: ! toonted to 90 on to bigger
things. So began collecting stope-
lids. But eren then ! ,Dasn't satisfied.
What Is north doing Is north doing
teu. And today y haze the choicest
collection of nsan-tole corers in Nei0
York. That shoaDs Dhdt you can do
by euerldstingly keeping at it.
Last night in McGinnisberg's bar !
met a man who had only one foot on
the brass rail of success. why don't
you put your other foot up, and climb
to the top?" ] asked. "There is al,0ays
plenty OF room at the top"
"I can't" the man replied.
"You can If you think you can" !
told him. keep on trying"
NO, can't" said the man.
Then ! looked do,Dn and sdiD that
the man ,pds right. His other toot
uas stuck IN the cuspifor.
Where piu you bXGt 652
Evening star., 1936-01-05
Road Work HELPS.

THE extent to which highway work
benefits business and employment
conditions is disclosed in a report
made by the Bureau of Public Roads.
which has made an exhaustive survey
Of the situation.
The bureau found that the expendi-
ture Of 500 100000 on road work
brings about a business turnover of
about $315 100000.
During the course Of the expendi-
ture of the 100000, 900, 100000 men
find employment for period Of a year.
One highly beneficial angle Of the
highway program is that it may be so
developed that the greater part of the
money to be spent can be spent in
those localities in which unemploy.
ment Is greatest.
Evening star., 1936-01-05

representing divergent opinions. Mr..
Oakley has both background and
training-he is a graduate Of the
University Of Pennsylvania, School
of Architecture. Later he studied
illustration under Howard Pyle, one
of our greatest illustrators and teach
ers. He has lectured at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. the Art Insti-
tute of Chicago, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and elsewhere. He
is represented by drawings and
paintings not only in museums and
private collections in this country,
but nthe National Library of Brazil,
the British Museum, London; Musee
Pyreneen, Lourdes; Musee de la
Guerre and Luxembourg, Paris. He
has been decorated by the French
government and received in this
country many awards for works ex-
hibited. During the great war he
made photographic drawings Of Hog
Island Shipyard, which were adopted
by the United States Government and
through its foreign news service sent
to all parts of the world. He has
made many illustrations Of various
aspects of labor, some of which, with
text by himself. have been published
in the official organ Of the American
Federation Of Labor. He has illus
trated numerous articles published in
magazines, as we'll as Westward Ho,"
Autobiography of Benjamin Frank
lin," Folk Tales of Brittany" and
three travel books written by his
wife-Amy Ewing Oakley.
His attitude toward art is very
broad and virile-he is hospitable to
that which is new but intolerant Of
whatever may tend to lower stand
ards. He claims that there is no
such thing as bad art-that If it is
art it is good. To Mr.. Oakley's group
Evening star., 1936-01-05
More Pork in Sight.

COME hope exists that the supply Of
pork and pork products will be
heavier, with corresponding drop in
price levels from the extreme highs
which placed pork in the luxury class.
The Bureau Of Agricultural Eco
nomics reports that production this
past Fail was heavier than the preced-
ing Fall and for the Spring period Q
greater increase Is anticipated. The
animals being slaughtered now are
heavier than year ago, and while
this will increase the supply the total
still will be short of the national needs.
Evening star., 1936-01-05

ISOLATION to q sociable soul. In the
present state of society. people simply
do not get together for the purpose Of
not drinking, not smoking or not
gambling.
The foufth or fifth day of self-de-
nial usually marks the breaking point
or rather, the bending point, for
ones better nature does not vanish
abruptly like conjurer's stooge; 1t
fades out of the picture slowly, leav-
ing nothing but a worn spot on the
conscience. A mans annual wrestling
bout with temptation may be merely
an exhibition match, but that does
not mean that it is all over in one fall.
There are preliminaries, which are
due any day now; then the semi
finals, and then the finals, which take
place about the middle of the month.
MR.. MILFRET. for example. has
~ not yet come to grips with Nick
O'Teen, the terrible Turk. He has
been sparring for an opening since
last Wednesday. Experience has
taught him that Nick will win the
first fall about January 10, when some
business acquaintance will offer Mr..
Milfret fragrant Corona Corona.
MIR. Milfret will accept the cigar
simply because it would be tactless to
hurt the fellows feelings by declining
it. But he will not smoke it: he will
put it away In his desk drawer and
save 1t to give to somebody else. That
will be q distinct setback for old Nick.
A few days later, however, Mr.. Mil
fret will rediscover the cigar In his
desk and, observing that it is begin
ming to show symptoms of dryness,
he will decide that he might as well
smoke 1t to keep 1t from going to
waste. The motive will be thrift, and
nothing else. And from that time
on It viii be only. . matter Of hours
Evening star., 1936-01-05

until old Nick will have Mr.. Milfret
fat on the canvas.
One suspects that If Mussolini made
New Year resolution he would keep
it.; furthermore, he would make every
body else keep it. But person with
only 9 normal amount Of willpower
must learn to master the art Of back
sliding gracefully. An attack of acute
virtue, as distinguished from chronic
virtue, is likely to leave the victim in
a weakened condition in which he will
be susceptible to any malign influence
that comes his way.
"Tapering on" a bad habit is as
important as "tapering Off" The
temporary temperance-addict who
falls off the water wagon with a ter
rife thump Is bound to suffer painful
contusions of the conscience. But
let him first dangle a tentative toe,
then vault from the bottom step and
vault back again in the manner of
q trick bareback rider, and finally
run alongside the numbering vehicle
for q space-and he will find that
eventually he can leave 1t altogether
without Q tw1nge Of remorse.
A MATEUR penitents, however, do
not realize this. They think of
themselves as characters in an old
fashioned ,melodrama, either wholly
good or wholly bad. They have not
learned the gentle art of backshding.
For those who still have one foot
on the straight and narrow path and
are trying to keep their New Year
resolutions, there is nothing like a
set of good wall-mottoes or a short
inspirational editorial. If, for in
stance, you have resolved to be con-
sistently cheerful in 1886, and YOU
find your smile slipping at the end
Of trying day, ali you need Is Q
glimpse Of q CHEEKY slogan, like "The
man with o grin Is the ran who
win win." That Is all you need
Evening star., 1936-01-05

awarded. His work in this medium
is very broad, colorful and direct,
and in these respects modern. but it
does not depart from tradition. What
ever he may have to say on the sub
Evening star., 1936-01-05

Of water colors shown in the Phila-
delphia Water Color Clubs most re-
cent exhibition in the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. the Phila-
delphia water color prize Of 5000 was
Evening star., 1936-01-05

a knife and three orange sticks. And
it is amazing what excellent results are
attained not only by amateurs Of
mature years. but by children. Prob
ably nothing has done more to in
crease knowledge and appreciation Of
the art of sculpture. The sculptors Of
the country quite generally indorse
and encourage it. Not a few use
white soap as a medium for pupils
city, who has opened a school Of
sculpture at 1917 H street this season,
enthusiastically indorses and en-
courages its use. Mr. Nose has lately
started children's Saturday morning
class, in which soap sculpture, as we'll
as sculpture in wax and clay. is pro-
duced by young aspirants who work
from living models-the "sitters" gen.
orally being pets borrowed from one
of the local bird and animal fanciers.
Great fun! And a hobby well worth
cultivating.
THE Society of Washington Artists
will open its forty-hfth annual ex-
hibition in the Corcoran Gallery Ct
Art next Saturday with Vanishing
Day" For this occasion a distin-
guished list of patronesses has been
secured, besides which many of the
exhibiting artists will be In attendance.
No exhibitor is exempt from jury and
none may submit more than three
works. The jury of selection consists
of the officers of the society and the
members Of the Executive Committee,
nine in all. The Jury of award, how
ever, Is made up entirely Of non-
members, and for the most part from
out of town. Charles Bittinger, N. A,
is president of the Society Of WASH
ington Artists; Robert E. Motley, vice
president; Elizabeth E. Graves, treas
urer, and Lucia B. Hollerith, secretary;
while on the Executive Committee are
Roy Clark, Charles Dunn. Hans
Schlereth, Beulah B. Weaver and
Kathleen Wheeler.
THE Washington Water Color Club
announces its fortieth annual ex-
hibition to be held in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art from February to
March l, 1886. This will include water
colors, pastels, drawings in black and
white and etchings, none of which has
been previously exhibited in this city
Entry blanks may be obtained from the
secretary, Mrs. Susan B. Chase, 20l7
H street northwest. Mr.. A. H. o. Role
is president of the Water Color Club,
Seward Hume Rathbun, vice president,
and Eleanor Parke Custis is treasurer.
A N EXHIBITION of water colors BY
Charles Val Clear, formerly direc-
tor Of the Art League of Washington.
will be held at the Public Library, main
building, during January. by special
invitation.
Evening star., 1936-01-05

A N EXHIBITION of water colors by
Charles Val Clear. formerly direc-
tor Of the Art League of Washington.
will be held at the Public Library, main
building, during January. by special
invitation.
Evening star., 1936-01-05

In the creative arts to a student in
the University of Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
INFLAMMABLE ROOFS
FIRE TOLL DEPLORED

Would Cut Losses
More Than IS Million, Chewn-
ing Declares.
II all infiammable roofs on houses
in this country were replaced with
fireproof shingles, fire losses would
automatically be cut more than $15,-
1000 every year, declares z. T.
Chewing Of the United Clay Prod
ucts Co.
Roof oof-communicuted fires. that Is,
fires caused by flying sparks and the
Like, are responsible for large per-
centage of house fire loses annually,
and infiammable roofs have in the
past allowed the spread Of fires into
such holocausts as the great Chicago
fire Of 1871, which left 1000 per-
sons homeless and destroyed $780,
Evening star., 1936-10-10
BIG WATER MAINS
URGED TO HALT FIRES
Minimum Of Six Inches and
Electric Pumping Systems
Arc Advocated.

Increasing the size Of water mains
In cities to q minimum Of inches
and the installation Of electric pump
ing systems on farms are recon-
mended In . statement released by
the Plumbing and Heating Industries
Bureau in connection with National
Fire.Prevention week.
"A dependable supply Of water
under pressure offers the best means
of controlling fires," says the bureau.
"A hundred gallons Of water ut the
time q fire breaks out Is more val
liable than 10000 gallons Of water
after the fire has made headway.
Although sales Of farm water sys-
TENS have doubled In recent years
and amounted to more than 100. 900
units for 1885. yet only 10 per cent
Of American farms have running
water under pressure. This fact Is
largely responsible for the average
annual farm IRE loss Of more than
500. 0.000. 900.
while some Of the smaller towns
have no community water supply at
all, others have inadequate main
capacity. AL cities should follow the
Evening star., 1936-10-10
Natures Children
Swamp Thistle.

guest can scale the spines. Flyers
only are welcome. That leaves out
Nine. Ant. These folks are famous
for their thrift and no-pay methods.
Their armor-clad bodies do not trans
fer pollen grains. They are worse
than housebreakers to many flower
mothers. The thistle 'took steps"
and no ants make the trip up the
formidable stairs.
There are many seeds developed, to
float away later on their fairy silk
wings to new homes.
The thistle is the floral emblem of
Scotland. The plant has q special
place in the hearts Of the people of
that land, for when the Danes in.
vaded Scotland, they entered in the
dead Of night. They removed their
shoes SO that not a sound might be
heard BY the tired soldiers, but one
Of the Danes stepped, with his bare
foot, upon q healthy and determined
thistle. With q cry of anguish he
awakened the sleeping Scots, who at
once efficiently protected their do