Evening star., 1949-12-12

Washington scene, the Ballinger-
Pinchot flight, the Wright flights
at Fort Myer, the 1916 resistance
'of the little body of willful men
in the Senate to the arming OF
merchant ships, the League OF
Nations fight. Teapot Dome. the
court-packing fight and the battle
over labor legislation under the
New Deal and the Fair Deal.
His gallery included William
Jennings Bryan. William McKin-
ley. Mark Hanna. Boise Penrose,
CARRIED, Theodore Roosevelt,
Philander Knox, John Hay, Cecil
Spring Rice, Elihu Root. Uncle Joe
Cannon, Robert La Toilette. Henry
Cabot Lodge, William Howard
Taft, Hiram johnson, Jim Reed,
William E. Borah, Nicholas Long,
worth, James Bryce. Woodrow
Wilson, Thomas Marshall, Champ
Clark. Lord Reading. Count Won
Bernstorff, Franz Won Papen,
Charles Evans Hughes, James
Hamilton Lewis. John Sharp VIII
liams, Warren G. Harding. Harry
Daugherty, Albert Fall, Tom
Walsh. Calvin. Coolidge. Herbert
Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Huey Long, James A. Farley,
Maxim Litvinoff, Henry A. Wal
lace and Harold Ickes.
None Exposed as Fools.
In the Bergman cartoons some
had heroic roles, some played the
villain; but none was exposed as
a clown or a fool. Mr.. Bergman
pointed up the frailties of the
parts they played without tres
passing on the privacy Of their
own lives or personalities.
There were thousands of others
who never appeared in the Berry
man cartoons who knew Mr..
Bergman and counted him their
friend-the many people who had
heard his chalk talks, the fellow
members of his church, the count
less art students he had encour-
aged, former caddies at the Chevy
Chase Club, the generations of
copy boys who had taken his
drawings to the engraver, the
newsstand operator in The Star
Building. who assisted him when
he had the heart attack that sent
him to the hospital. ..e
/ Handsome and Loveable.
He was one of the most hand
some as well as one of the most
lovable men of Goth century
Washington. His head was large
and well shaped. his cheek was
pink, his hair pure white and his
broad face clean cut in profile
He wore the flowing tie that used
to be the mark of the artist
black in winter, gray in summer.
He was a big man. six feet tall.
with broad shoulders. Until the
heart attack that sent him to the
hospital, he always moved quickly
and vigorously,
He loved to draw. He would
sketch his cunning little Teddy
Bear for the casual caller who
asked for his autograph. His
letters illustrated with sketches
of the recipients, are collectors
items. He was a natural at
drawing. He never took a lesson:
he didn't have to. He had the
Igift Of the living line. His draw
Iings had a quality of a happy
period of American art that has
disarpeared-the quality of the
nature drawing of Timothy Cole
Fin the Century Magazine, and Of
Palmer Cox (who created the
Brownies) and Reginald Birch
(who created Little Lord Fauntle-
roy) in the old st. Nicholas Mag
azine.
He brought a gentility from his
NATIVE Kentucky. the product OF
several generations of the best
American culture. Good man.
ners was part of his heritage,
and his was natural dignity that
protected him from the back-slap-
ping of the vulgar.
Unquestioning Faith.
He had an unquestioning faith
Eighty years to Clifford Berry
man were but an introduction to
an unending life. He was Pres
lbyterian. as regular in his church
attendance as in his contributions