Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-28
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
consolidated Features-wNu Service,

= nj LW YOhh.-lnlS war, SO lar,
: has lacked bands and banners
and all other such traditional ex-
citements and John Masefeld has
Official Artist no. ho. even WI WIZ,
OfPfesent War about it. In
Has Experience one detail,
h o W ev r,
British traditionalism again pre-
walls. Sir Muirhead Bone, official
artist of the World war, is again
officially appointed as the artist of
the navy, and it is understood that
he also will render the graphic rec
ords of the conflict on land as WELL
Sir Muirhead, 81 years old, of
Scottish birth, is one of the worlds
most distinguished etchers. He is
also painter, but in the years be-
tween the big wars he has turned
more to etching. That is, with the
trend of the times, as modern
war is decidedly an etcher's war.
Skeleton trees on blasted hillside,
zig-zag trenches, the splintered chaos
of peasants huts, the angular dy-
namics of war machinery, all lend
themselves to Sir Muirhead's super
lative drypoint There isn't much
of the painters mass and color in
an up-to-date war-no gay plumes,
bright uniforms and snorting black
horses. There are instead the sui
len monochromes of desolation; the
inert black and white of sharply
craven ruin.
There were plenty of bands
playing when Sir Muirhead was
appointed official war artist in
1916. He painted boldly or
etched deeply his pictures for
the war museum, for which he
later became trustee. Much was
made, not only of the importance
Of infinitely observed pictorial
record of the war, but of the
availability of SO great an artist
to render its full aesthetic values.
This time, there is perfume
tory announcement, only few
lines, of Sir Muirhead's appoint
ment. Not even in the graphic
arts is war getting it's accus-
toned fanfare.
This writer remembers well Sir
Muirhead's masterful drawings in
the international studio" of an ear
lier and happier day-mellow archi-
tectural studies, or placid landscape
in English byways where no air.
raid siren ever sounded. He was
the son of a Glasgow journalist,
studying art at night school. 1t
was in 1901 that he went to Eng
land, to become an honorary doc
tor of letters at Oxford and one of
the most famous artists of Eng
land. He has exhibited in New
York several times and has an en-
thusiastic following among critics
and the American art public.
IN 1887, Rep. John E. Miller of
= Arkansas made his campaign
for the United States senatorship
against the "New Deal patronage
Arkansas Senator HE q hao Il 9,
Is Ardent Foe of charged that
Revised Hatch Act his opponent,
Gov. Carl E.
Bailey, had the active support of
his Organization of 5000 state en-
ployees," and of various members
of the New Deal cabinet. Repre-
sentative Miller, running as an in
dependent against machine poll
ticians,' achieved sensational VIC
tory, as he won the seat of the late
Joe T. Robinson. He was the first
independent elected to major DO
litical Office in Arkansas since the
early reconstruction days. His sue
cess was acclaimed as triumph
over patronage politics.
Today, by one of those curious
reversals of political form which
make news, Senator Miller is
the most conspicuous opponent
of the extension and strengthen
ing of the Hatch law, directed
against political job-holders mix
ing in politics. He would not
only block its extension to cover
state job-holders supported in
part by federal funds, but he
would repeal section nine which
bars governmental employees
from political activity.
The lean, bespectacled Senator
Miller is somewhat professional in
appearance, and, incidentally, was
graduated from Cape Girardeau
Teachers college, in Valparaiso,
Ind. However, he later turned to
the law and has been a practicing
attorney in Searcy, Ark, since 1912.
He was prosecuting attorney and
county judge before his election to
the house in 1880. He is native of
Stoddard County, Mo.
IN THE light of not so ancient
L history, it is quite clear as to
why Francis B. Sayre thinks we
ought to get rid of the Philippines.
Our high commissioner is holder
of the Grand Cross of the White
Elephant. Less pertinent, but in
teresting is the fact that he also
is knight commander of the Chula
Krom Klav, and Phia Kalyan
Matri. These titles were gratefully
bestowed on him by the king Of
Siam, when, in the early 1920s, Mr..
Sayre was adviser to the king and