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Fund, which has enabled through
purchase the upbuilding of an eX-
tensive collection of original prints
by American graphic artists pro-
duced during the past hundred
years, but chiefly contemporary,
such as is to be found in only few
other institutions The number is
now $500 and the standard up
held has done much to encourage
and reward good work. In this sec
ton all such purchases have been
made on the advice of two distin-
guished graphic artists John Taylor
Arms, etcher, and Stow Wengen-
roth, photographer, who Dr. Holland
has associated with himself.
To extend this work a national
exhibition supposed to be held an
nually hereafter was instituted this
year with aStonishmgly good results
large representation and much in
terest displayed, numerous purchase
prizes distributed and thus many
additions Of value to the growing
collection. So excellent was the
showing that by invitation it is
being set forth this month in the
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
When the Library of Congress
moved from the Capitol to its build
ing a division Of prints was set up
with the late A. J. Parsons as chief.
This laid the foundation for the
present division Of fine arts merely
broadening its scope. Mr.. Parsons
was followed by DR.. Rice, profess
sor Of fine arts for many years at
Williams College, who after retire
ment temporarily filled in at the
Library of Congress as acting chief
of the division of fine arts. After
brief interval he was succeeded
by DR.. Holland
1t is remarkable that these three
leaders have all apparently held the
same ideals of high standards and
knowledge and the extension of cul-
ture. This also was Mr.. Pennells in
tention in leaving to the division Of
fine arts his entire estate amount
ing to over 100000, as we'll as that
Of the Carnegie Corpora ton when
endowing the Chair of Fine Arts"
and contributing toward the up
building of the Archives of Early
American Architecture
Very quietly, with a small work
ing force, all OF this development
has taken place and at the same
time excellent exhibitions have been
held Of prints both owned and lent,
valuable gifts received looking to-
ward the establishment of a ma
tional collection worthy of our coun-
try. This obviously signifies the best
kind of cooperation and morale.
DR.. Holland, who is architect and
archeologist as we'll as scholar. for
merly holding PROFESSIONAL positions
in the field of the fine arts at Vas
sar, the University Of Pennsylvania
and the American School of ClaSsi-
cal Studies at Athens. expects to
return to teaching, possibly along
some lines related to the conduct and
winning of the war. He will take
with him much gratitude for serv-
ices rendered and many good wishes.
Until his successor is appointed, his
former assistant, Miss Alice Lee
Parker, will serve as acting chief
of the division of fine arts.
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tember g. 1902, rather than sur
render to the German gunboat
Panther, which sought to capture
a cargo Of arms and ammunition
destined for an lnsurgent group in
Haiti All the stamps are of one
design. They picture the explosion
and reproduce portrait of Admiral
Killick. Values and colors are: Sc,
yellow; SC, green; l0c, red; Csc. blue:
SOC, olive: 5g, brown; also Soc. pur-
pie, and 1.25g, black.
The dates engraved "in hiding"
on Canadian stamps are not neces-
sarily those of the years of first
issue. Actually, they are indicative
of when the plates were made.
The Polonus Philatelic Society, 10
South La Sale street. Chicago. has
issued reprint of Vincent DOMAIN
ski, jr.'s, essay on the National As
sembly stamps of Poland, originally
published in Stamps Magazine.
Stamp club meetings for the week
are listed as follows:
This afternoon at 3-Capital Pre-
cancel Club. 332 North Piedmont
street, Arlington, Va. -
Tomorrow evening at S-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club. 2206 Rhode Island
avenue NE. Business meeting, elec-
ton of officers.
Tuesday evening at 8-ColIectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets NV.
Program in homage to Greece, with
Ambassador Diamantopoulos as
guest of honor.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Lee Shera-
ton Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets
NV. Business meeting for men,
bers only.
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The Arts Club inaugurates its
program for the season with the
opening this afternoon of two ex-
hibitions: Gouache paintings by La
Force Bailey and modern French
prints, lent by the Whyte Gallery.
Miss Gladys Milligan and Miss Mar
guerite Mum will be hostesses.
Miss Milligan, chairman Of the
Arts Clubs Art Committee, has
nearly completed the exhibition pro-
gram for the season 1884 and an
nounces interesting and varied one
man and group shows She is a
painter, head Of the art department
Of National Cathedral School, and
has recently returned from a vaca-
ton spent in Provincetown, Mass
There she was In touch with many
artists, including Mr.. Bailey, who
make the picturesque colony their
summer headquarters, and invited
number of them to send work to
the Arts Club during the coming
months.
New York in Wartime" drawings
by Minna Citron, will be shown Oc-
tober 81 through November 10.
Since this exhibition includes many
drawings of WAVES and SPARS,
1t. Comdr. Mildred McAfee has been
invited to be guest of honor on the
opening Sunday.
Ross Moffett of Provincetown will
show oils and monotypes November
81 through December TO- From De-
cember II through the 31st there
will be joint exhibition of wood
cuts and drypoints by Donald F.
Witherstine of Provincetown and
etchings of cats by Gladys Emer-
son Cook of New York City.
Washingtonians will be particu-
larly pleased to learn that the Jan
uary exhibition will comprise new
batiks by Lydia Bush-Brown. AL
though she is now New Yorker of
long residence, she lived here before
her marriage, and her parents,
Henry K Bush Brown, sculptor and
a founder of the Arts Club, and
Margaret Lesley Bush-BroWn, por-
trait painter, were outstanding in
Washington art circles for many
years
A group exhibition by Phillips
Memorial Gallery artists will be
shown January % to February IL.
For the remainder of February
through March there will be work
by Washington artists who are now
in the service.
The Society Of Washington Etch-
ers will take over the Arts Club ex-
hibition rooms for the greater part
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Autobiographies of Physicians
BY Joseph WiggIesw0rfh, -

dHIH, WdSilIHkLOU fuDllc Library
far flung. George Basil recalls his
work in China in "Test-Tubes and
Dragon Scales" Sylvester Lambert
writes of the South Sea Islands in
"A Yankee Doctor in Paradise -
Lieut.. Col. Gordon Seagrave, in the
middle OF his career, pauses to re-
member his years as a Burma
Surgeon"
The home front also found voice
or pen. Arthur Hertzler chronicles
the achievements of a Horse and
Buggy Doctor; LleWellys Barker, in
Time and the Physician" describes
his experiences as head of the great
Johns Hopkins Hospital. Specialists
are represented in print. The great
bone surgeon, Fred Albee, has re-
Gently published "a Surgeons Fight
to Rebuild Men; Alice Hamilton
tells thrillingly Of her pioneer work
in industrial toxicology in "Explor-
ing the Dangerous Trades; Fred
erick Irving allows US glimpse OF
some of the trials of the obstetrician
in Safe Deliverance Several
robust and entertaining volumes OF
photographed anecdote have been
supplied by James Harpole in
Leaves From Surgeons Case
Book, Body Members" and Behind
the Surgeons Mask" and by Fred
eric Loomis in The Bond Between
Us and Consultation Room"
All these books may be obtained
at the Public Library, Eight and K
streets NV, or through its
branches.
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Resignation Of
Leicester B. Holland.

The resignation of Leicester B
Holland. chief of the division OF
fine arts of the Library of Congress
which took effect October l. has
caused CONSERVATION and regret not
only among his friends and friends
of the Library of Congress here in
Washington but among printmakers
and print lovers throughout the
country.
During the more than IA years
that DR.. Holland has held this Office
great progress has been made both
in acquisitions and administrative
efficiency. Numerically both the
book section and section of prints
and original works have almost
doubled, and a system of catalogu-
ing has been introduced and put
into effect, which greatly simplifies
the use to be made of them by stu
dents and the public The books
on fine arts now number over 10000
and the prints in all classes over
500 900, of which at least 10 per
cent are OF fine arts qualtty-etch-
ings, Autographs, engravings, etc
Before DR.. Holland took over this
work, Chair of Fine Arts" in the
Library of Congress had been estab-
lished and endowed by the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, of which
however, he was the first encum-
brant. 1t was for him to conceive
and build up the so-called Cabinet
of American Illustration" which
now by example almost fully repre-
sent the highest achievement of our
American artists in this field.
The organization of the Pictorial
Archives of Early American Archi-
lecture was another forward step
taken under his inspiration and di-
rection. These archives now en-
brace no less than 28,628 prints
which are constantly drawn upon
by students of architecture, histori-
ans and others and render a valu-
able as well as unique service.
A third large contribution made
by DR.. Holland to the division of
fine arts of the Library of Congress
is his administration of the Pennell
Evening star., 1943-10-10
The Mothers
By Yards Fisher. VANGUARD
PreSs.)

~ Fo'utS 1Ste7. vanguard
PreSsJ
This is one more retelling of the
already many-times- told tale of the
Donner party. the California bound
wagon train which, about a century
ago, got showed up in the Sierras
with such painful results that its
members were reduced to cannibal-
ism before rescuers could reach
them. The story is ragged from
auctorial handling, and Mr.. Fisher
merely adds to the wear. He puts
very thin guise of fiction on the
record and leaves 1t at that. He
states, to, be sure, in editorial
fashion, that 1t was the fighting
spirit OF the mothers of the party
! which made the few survivals pos
slble, and his title indicates that he
means for the conduct of the
mothers to be his theme. But he
! does not make it so. He does not
weave maternal devotion and
courage into his novel as an es-
sential part. He only comments on
it. In sum, his book is Just repeti-
ton of familiar horrors. 1t is due
to the human taste for horror.
rather than to Mr.. Fishers work.
that the novel has a compelling
quality.
Looked at realistically. if there is
any distinctive pattern to the Don
ner party debacle, it would seem to
ho tho rayerSo of baroic o,5 j., NJ
Fishers novel this is as clear as in
any other account. The whole rule
of conduct Of the expedition was
stupidity. The DonnerS rejected
the advice of experienced mountain
men, wasted days in quarreling.
kept themselves divided by almost
perpetual feuds, walked repeatedly
into Indian ambushes, neglected to
post Sentries at night and generally
proceeded in way to make an
average Boy Scout blench. Finally,
when their fate overlook them, they
displayed a degrading selfshness.
and IN the very face of death plotted
to get possession of one another's
money. None of the virtues which
traditlonally are supposed to be
aroused by extreme danger came to
the surface in the partvs rank and
file. The few capable men who
finally assumed leadership were
treated with outrageous ingratitude
and the heroism which Mr.. Fisher
attributes to the mothers shows
itself almost wholly in a british
selfishness.
These seem to be the facts about
the party, and it will take more than
mere assertions to make them ap-
pear otherwise. Mr.. Fisher offers
assertions only.
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7 he Art World
America in the War Exhibition at Corcoran
Gallery Is Well Worth Seeing
By L ella MechHn.

and airplanes soaring high, deli
cately delineated in a manner es-
sentially Japaneseque.
Prints are rot only the most
democratic form of art but also
most intimate. To be fully under
stood and enjoyed they must be
seen at comparatively close range
and with some knowledge of media
The Corcoran Gallery of Art has
taken great pains with the in
stallation of this exhibition assign
ing to it one large gallery and the
cases on the second floor, and
grouping the works very effectively
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Otanps
By.James Waldo Fawceff..

-
Albums of stamps presented to
President Roosevelt by the repre-
sentatfves of several different for
eign countries are being exhibited at
the National Archives Building.
Constitution avenue between Sew
enth and Ninth streets NV. The
list includes gifts from China, Mica.
ragua, Russia and Sarawak. a
Collectors are advised to buy the
so-called "overrun countries" propa-
ganda stamps now. There is reason
to believe that quantities Of them
are being rushed" through the post
offices on ordinary parcel post mail.
1t follows that a scrimnage for
copies may develop-especially when
at last the boys come home from
overseas.
The scent issue in honor Of heroic
Greece will 60 on sale in Washington
exclusively on Tuesday morning at
o'clock. Similar adhesiyes. for
Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria and
Denmark are to follow on October
| 26, November 8, November % and
| December 7, respectively.
Among collectors who have been
invited to exhibit exceptional ma
| terial' at the Ninth American Phila--
telic Congress, Pan-American Build
ing, during the last week of Novem-
ber are: Alfred Lichtenstein, Harry
L. Lindquist, Deli Norona, Philip c.
Straus, Col C. S. Hamilton, Irving
I. Green, Judge H. H. Schaf, Walter
Fishel, Ferris ToWs and Norman l..
| Jetto.
Members of the Arrangements
Committee include Col. Spencer
Cosby, Morton o. Cooper, DR.. J.
Fred Emerson, Mrs. Catherine L.
Manning, James O. Peavey, H. A.
Robinette, DR.. Lothrop Stoddard,
Charles H. Vaughan and Mrs. Doro-
they r. Wilson.
The general secretary of the Pam
| American Centenary of the Postage
Stamp is Albert F. Kunze.
/ Winners in the Col. Hans Lager
loef Newspaper Philatelic Contest
. have been announced as follows:
First New York, Sun, edited by
/ Franklin R. Bruins; second, New
York Herald Tribune, Ernest A.
/ Kehr; third, New York Times Kent
B. Stiles; fourth. New York Journal
American. James B. Hatcher. First
in cities between 250000 and 1000
600 population. Washington Star.
James Waldo Fawcett; cities be-
tween $4,000 and 250000 Camden
/ Courier Post, Elmer C. Pratt; cities
less than $4,000, Beverly, Mass,
Evening Times, Joseph Pompey.
/ Japan IS using stamps as prop
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ton, Mrs. Bakers perfect honesty
wipes out everything but the tragi-
cally constrained maneuvering of the
three most concerned, and the whole
thing proceeds much as any other
short novel of character.
There is too much discussion and
too little movement in the book. but
YOU forget that in the pleasure Of
the tough, tightly woven prose.
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The Republic

By Charles A. Beard. Viking
PreSS.)
Here, cast in the classic dialogue
form. is DR.. Boards analysis of our
Government 1t is no book for ex-
perimenters, for those who interpret
planning as a take-off into the
future without reference to the past,
or for those, whose taste in works on
governmental theory has been
formed in the popular school, 1t is
close reasoning and hard thinking
all the way through-not the sort Of
thing which lends itself to bright
quotation in the mouths of those
who want to appear well up on cur
rent questions. But it is sober and
accurate review of our constitutional
history with reference to the present
and the future. 1t would seem, in
these times, that the description
would serve as a recommendation
automatically, but from another
point of view of these same times,
one knows that it is not neces-
sarily so.
DR.. Beard, talking to his properly
naive and dissenting friends, DR.. and
Mrs. Smyth, discusses the Constitu-
ton as its purpose is described in
the preamble, phrase by phrase.
What has been meant, in practice,
by domestic tranquility, 1.-THE COM
mon defense" the general welfare" "
a more perfect union and justice, "
and so Onto each phrase master
and disciples devote a conversation
Likewise. they consider constitution
ality in the examples of three great
Presidents, Washington, Jefferson
and Lincoln. Checks and balances,
the powers OF the President, of
Congress and of the judiciary are, in
turn, considered Coming more into
the present, the seekers question DR..
Beard on the need of reform in our
constitutional system in the interest
OF ef1lclency, 90 into the labor Ques-
ton and take up the plans of the
planners. The ground covered is
immense, If looked at only with con
temporary eyes. but not overWhelm-
ing If one sees it as the natural
spread of our state, contained in the
germ In the Constitution.
1t is too much to undertake, of
course, to give DR.. Boards finding in
detail. but this is not the loss which
1t might seem to be, because, In the
main. he does not attempt to offer
concrete solutions. He feels, indeed,
that there is too much facile think
ing OF that kind done. anyway. What
he does, In the case of each question.
is to reduce the question to it's real
lty, to bring out factors which are
involved but generally ignored, to
state our problems plainly, roundly
and, above all, realistically. There
is not so much "solutionizing" in
his volume as there is presenting the
ground on which solutions may be
based.
Evening star., 1943-10-10

a = a iIod lIiCN AZ
T h a | ] a n d or
Siam. T hire e
Stickers of iden-
tic pictograp phic
character have
b e e n printed.
Showing profile
heads of a SOL
dier. a sailor. an
aviator and a
marine, they are
announced as
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he Serbs Choose War
By Ruth Mitchell. (Doubl.

Dy NHI7t WltCHeIt. TDOHOEe-
day, Dordn.J
Ruth Mitchell. sister of the late
Gen. Billy Mitchell, was arrested by
the Gestapo in Yugoslavia shortly
after the German invasion. charged
with being British spy. Her own
statement is that she was engaged
in espionage. but not for Britain,
She had been made an officer In
the famous Serbian guerrilla Or
ganization, the Chetniks, she says,
and she was locating gun emplace-
ments for the Chetnik command
The Germans held her prisoner 13
months. Three months she was kept
IN Serbian Jail, then was taken to
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Gideon WeUes
By Richard S. West, jr. (Bobbs-
Merrill J

~ ntIftufu y. eSt IT. tbOOOS-
MerriIJ
Though the diary OF Gideon
Welles, Lincolns Secretary of the
Navy, has been a standard work
Tor some decades, this is the first
fun u-length biography of its author.
1t Is pedestrian piece of work.
occupied to a great extent with the
technical details Of the Navy pro-
gram which Welles put through in
the midst OF the Civil Wars tu-
mutt. The picture of Welles as a
man Is, however, convincing. 1t Is
spare and uneloquent, as Welles
himself was spare and uneloquent
He was worker, not a personality
and his history has to be told. ap-
parently, in terms of the work he
did
1t boils down to a tale of driving
force in getting q Navy built vir-
( tually from scratch. and of Yankee
honesty and economy in handling
/ public funds and awarding con-
/ tracts. Welles, according to Prof
West, was the originator of the
( blockade idea, and he had to pro-
duce a fleet to put his idea in force
Shipyards were few. and those
capable of building the new IRON
clad vessels were fewer. Graft in
letting contracts would have been
easy. but Welles treated the public
funds with cheese pairing scrupu-
lousness. The book goes into these
matters in considerable detail. as,
also, it discusses Welles part in
planning naval strategy and his
credit for recognizing ability In
officers
The great part Of the book is
given over to the war years. In
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golden jubilee
stamps for the
Voluntary Riffs
o r g a n ization
The d e sigr
S h VS. three
crowns, a floral
wreath and an
arrow in fight.
D e nominations
and colors are:
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IU-OTe, NlOIel, TU-Ore, due.
According to the Associated Press
Feature Service, "A successful de-
fance of Germany by the little re-
public of Haiti is commemorated by
set of six postage and two airmail
stamps just issued. The incident
occurred when Admiral Eammerton
Killick Of Haiti blew up his flag
ship, the Crete-a-Pierrot, and him.
self in the Bay of GonaiVes. Sep
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Kaiser Wakes the Doctors

Brdce.)
In the tone of one leading an old
time revival, Paul De Kruif here
describes the disqualification plan
put into effect by Henry j. Kaiser,
tn shipbuilder. for his workers. 1t
seems that Mr. Kaiser and his chief
physician, DR. Garfield, have dis
covered that. If all the workers in
a plant sufficiently large subscribe
5 cents a week from their pay, the
funds will cover excellent medical
care ana disqualification for all sub
scribers. So, cries Mr.. De Kruif.
beating his breast, let all plants at
once install the plan! The organ
lied medical profession-the selfish,
backward medical PROFESSIONALLY
probably oppose the move, but that
should stop no one. Let everybody
enjoy nice long illness in hospitals
OF distinction and charm. One
gathers, from the fervor of Mr.. De
Kruif's grafton, that any one who,
with such hospital at his disposal.
preferred to stay duly healthy would
be antisocial and unco-operative
But. when you shear the halleluiahs
away, the outline of the Kaiser plan
is there for your information.
Evening star., 1943-10-10

covering the preceding period, Prof
West shows Welles as a politician
above all things. but not party
man. He conceived of politics as a
tool to be used for the public good.
much as the statesmen who founded
the Nation saw it. and while he
admitted his love for political con-
flict, he also maintained his prin-
ciples in any compromise The book
is a valuable addition to history,
though not particularly good eX-
ample of biographical writing.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Trio
By Dorothy Baker. fHouohto1
Mi67inJ

ItO
By Dorothy Baker. fHouohton
Mif7inJ
Dorothy Bakers Trio Is far
better novel than her Young Man
With a Horn" and that book was no
mean first novel. 1t had the disad-
vantage Of requiring the readers
sympathy for a narcotic-ridden and
perhaps rather stupid hero, and 1t,
forced the reader to take seriously
phony department Of music-to wit.
the musical cult which sees jazz as
great art . -s -.
Mrs. Baker is no woman to shirk
difficulties. This time she has
chosen something quite as debat-
able. although she has handled it
much better. This is an attach
ment between two women which is
disrupted by two outside agencies
young man who falls in love with
the younger of the women, and the
older woman's deliberate plagiarism.
BY novelistic license both things
come to a head in one night. and by
logic and inevitability they result in
tragedy.
Mrs. Bakers danger, and it is a
grave one, comes from the situation
between the two women. But once
the reader has accepted That situa-
Evening star., 1943-10-10

Sweden has brought out two