Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 39

NNOUNCEMENT has been made that the Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1600 21st street, will be open to visitors from 2 to 8 on New Year day and for a month thereafter on Tuesda; turday and Sunday afternoons from 2 to 6 o'clock. This little gallery, representing the beginning of something rarely fine and distinetly unique, always affords con- nolsseurs exceptional pleasure, but its bpening now gives to the public op- portunity not only to enter intq such pleasure, but to view for the first time the lately acquired masterpiece by Rengir, Dejeuner des Cano- tiers,” acquired by Mr. Phillips for the gallery last. summer while in Pnrln.‘ This is one of the most famous French paintings of modern times With six other Renoirs it was ex- hibited last winter in an upper room in the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York, but no one o these paint- ings from M. Durand Ruel's private collection was for sale. A number of large offers were made “Dejeuncr by pri it s said. of no less th but il were vefused, & decided that if they ¢ B‘ to leave France it would have g0 to a_ museum. The Phillips Memorial Gallery made an offer which fvas accepted. and Washingtonians @an now be congratulated on acquir- g as a treasure this world-famous aintin ?n 185a large canvas, showing @ %roup of eleven persons lunching on fhe balcony of a =mall hotel over- king the Seine. It was painted in 1, at Bougiv In the foreground the table: lunch ; the party 3 canoeists und guests have broken 4p into little Jups: conversation { the order of the hour. Bach figure & & portrait. They are the painter's fiiends and comrade Mme. Renoir Sitx at the left, still at the table, but plaving with her little pet dog. Straddiing a chalr in the foreground n his canoeist's costume is Caille- botte, the painter and collector, who ft his collection to the Luxembourg. With back turned to the observer is the witty “Baron” Barbler, Renoir's «onstant companion. talking to a very gretty girl, who leans toward him, festing her elbow on the balustrad sestringuez, Paul Lhote and Ep qssy, all interesting personalities of the day, are there, not sitting for eir portraits, but shown in the midst of a most natural social en- Vironment. Thus'the painter gives us ind registers for all time a phase of typical cotemporary French life. To this day Puris, on hot summer Sun- days, turns out in holiday mood and spends hours amusing itself on or near its beloved river. The French, Jetter than any othehr people in the vorld, know how to play, and this iy the way they do it To the average visitor the fact that Renoir In this, his masterplece ex- presses the joy of life will be found the lure of the picture. It Is evident that the artist recognised his own power to paint in a large and sumptu- ous style the beauty of the mate- rial world, the pleasures of the pass- ing hour and chose thus to honor his friends and cotempararies as the renaissance painters had done, but more directly, with reference to re- ligious or mythological prescriptions. As the present owner has aptly said: “In splendor of design. and color this modern picture more than holds its own with the great-com- positions of guch masters of the past as Titian, Veronese and Reubens. <" e eIt is essentially sincere and truthful, and it offers the charming llusion of life itself, of pulsating at- mosphere, of sunlight. of summer hreezes, of rounded solid forms play- +d upon by flickering lights, of facial xpressfons and bodily gestures sug- tting the evanescent beauty of the oment which can only be saved rough the artist's subtle powers of vation.” Writing of the painter of this pic- ture, the late James Hunneker, in his ‘Promenades of an Impressionist,” aaid: “Wherever a Renolr hangs there will be eves to feast upon his opulent and sonorous color music.” But note should be made of the fact rhat this impressionist of the im- pressionists deigned, at the height of his power, to condescend to a sub- jact picture, a picture which, while of vast technical interest, possesses & perpetually human interest as well. ® kX % THERE ars other newly acquired notable paintings to he seen in the Phillips Memorial Gallery—Sis- leys, a Corot, two superb studies for mural decorations by theé master mural painter of France, Puvis de Chavannes—but of only one an mention be made at this time. % comparatively small canvas by Andre, showing Renoir In his studio 4t his easel, apparently completing % painting, while a well known Paris Aealer site at his elbow, watching, with evident satisfaction, the prog- ‘e85 of the work. Tho inclusion of this picture is an added compliment 10 the artist and an increased satis- faction to the visitor. * k% X OLLECTORS, museum directors and artists from all parts of the ocountry are coming to Washington to see the Biennial Exhibition of Cotemporary American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The record of sales up to December 27 \as sixteen pictures, aggregating in value $28,000. This included, to be sure, purchases made by the Cor- coran Gallery of Art for its own permanent collection, six of which, by the way, were acquired through accumulated interest from the Clark prize fund. Former Senator W. A. (Mark, to perpetuate the Clark prizes, amounting' to 35,000, gave the Cor- ran Gallery of Art, two years ago, $100.000 by way of endowment. During these two vears the accumu- lated interest has amounted to $13,000, so that in addition to the $5,000 paid out in prizes there were $8,000 to spend in purchases. With s six paintings were acquired and the gallery permanently enriched. To a great extent thess purcheses may well be reckoned as prizes. In fact, in the estimate of many they re the best of all prizes, inasmuch ae the competition is open to all and the determined solely by merit. * % % % \IUCH interest is Being shown in - the coilection of~pastéls and silver points by Thomas W. Dewing, which constitutes a special exhibit n the atrium of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the great paintings by which it is surrounded. There are fifty-three of these exquisite little works, thirty of which have been lent iy Individual private collectors who heve graciously taken them off their own walls and deprived themselves of eir possession for over a month in arder to share their ‘pleasure with others. Thomas W. Dewing is one of the American painters, it will bo remem- hered, who, to use the words of Royal Cortissoz, has been “canonized” by jnclusion in the Freer Gallery of Art. The reason for this “canon- igation” is readdly to be discovered through a study of these pastels and silver point drawings. The subtlety of Whistier, the refinem w3, ‘he ex- quisiteness, is here mamrrested, ny well @s at the same time a kinship with the master potters of Japan, who in their glazes mingled the same symphonic harmonies of color and produced the same tone poems as Mr. Dewling is here seen to have created. with pastel. Any one ddn leaFn:to draw with sufficient care and applfca- tion, but only few are endowed with the gift of sensitive touch ana are’ able to interpret through line the poetry of rhythm as does Mr. Dewing. This 18 essentially & connoisseur® ex- nibit. * ok % % “[HE son of the late Louis Amatels, sculptor, of this city, is now & tellowship holder in sculpture at the. *Academy in Rome. In letters lately received from the director of the academy and-the professor {n charge of the school of fine arts the follow- = s ove original | by Mr. Fairbanks: “The sculptor Amateis {s working on & new figure and a portrait, having finished his nce relief i marble And “Sculptor Amateis e figure of a female bather on exhibition at the inter- national exhibition now open in Rome.’ Mr. Amateis served in the army during the great war, and later went to the army school at Fontainebleau, | demonstrating then his exceptional { talent for art, Later, upon returning to New York, he entered the com- petition “and won the fellowship at the American Academy In Rome. ® ¥ Ok ¥ TTHE National Gallery of Art has sent out this fall, under the auspices of the Ameriean Federation iof Arts, a circuit exhibition of thirty | paintings by living American artiats. | This collection was first shown at the {great Michigan state fair, in Detroit, | Where it attracted much attention. Later it was_exhibited in Institute of Kansas City. During the {whole month that it was in the latter place Director Kurtsworth lectured to groups of visitors as they came to | the gallery, and on Thursday af noons prominent clubs of the city acted as honta and hostesses. It was a satisfaction to the people of Kansas City to be able lop srpe the paintings included in this collection, Which were being shown for the first :’l.ln»:ro::u!lge of Washington. A local e time h paper at ¢! made the following Ganvithout . queation sallery, as well as the American Federation of Arts, is doing the country a great good in enabling all parts of the country to sce and ap- breciate such collections «= this, for the nation can be unifled as much by the urts as by language and law. |In fact. it is Kansas City's recom mendation that u group of t tional Gallery paintings be ay: for tours of this kind every year, as is now currently done with ~varfous national collections in Great Britain. "Since the state has always had o large hand In the earlier progress of the world's art, and since the United States have not as vet taken much officlal interest in this aspect of the nation's welfare, we bellove that this inauguration of an annual traveling exhibition chosen from the nation’s own gallery will do more to bring the arts to their former status ae the elements of a well governed state, than any other effort made in Tecent years.” LEILA MECHLIN. —_———— EUROPE’S CAPITALS AIR HOPES FOR YEAR Harden Whimsically Gives Hi Conceptirn of Their Owm Wiewpoints. the Natlopal ilable ALL PLEAD UTTER ALTRUISM Virtue of Individual Nation's De. sires Set Forth. —_— BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany’s Foremost Pablicist. By Radio to The Star. In & whimsical mood thi millan Harden writes supposed New s s from the capitals of Europ g each to discuss their proble their own viewpolats—as he sees BERLIN, December 29.—"Europa was a king's Jaughter, who ‘let her- self be abducted to Crete by a mighty bull from Phoenicia. Later, when she desired to marry and have her hus- band adopt her three children, she swore that the supreme Greek god, Mr. Zeus, ill-famed for his violations of all sorts of prohibition laws, really occupled the bull's skin. “Whoever bears a name ill-reputed both by descent and deeds has no right to look down superstitiously on others. Will you therefore, dear Europa, finally recognize us de jure? It s higheet time. We promise to serve you a communist revolution only in dainty little bits, and to,spare damned - capitalism wherever it can advantage us, either at home or abroad. Business is business. “But if you still imagine you'll re- cover even one of the roubles you threw into czarism's bloody maw, you have learned nothing since Pho nicla, and we give you gratis the advice to walit for another ox. (Signed) “MOSCOW." “The big washing has been punc- tually finished. One hundred thousand black shirts, which no starcher could make stiff, have been ironed and guar- | lnt;e the salvation of every father- land. “The Mediterranean is still not en- tirely our sea, but the black shirt will parade in Tangiers tomorrow, and the Latin fraternization sealed by Victor Emmanuel's and Alfonso’s brotherly kisses gives the Gallo-Celtic allies a ealutary scare. “The Greclan bear market in mo- narchle stocks causes us no uneasiness, Our college for practical fascism {s, like those of Mustapha Kemal, Horthy, Hitler, Ludendorft, Primo de Rivera and Company, also open for the greater Venizelos. He is hardly young enough for a colleglan, and will probably stick to the antiquated methods of ‘Rome {s eternal; Italy is the mother of all culture; Peter's cross is bound into a fasces; our entire youth is wed- ded to the sacred cause and the Mus- solini trade mark has been copyrighted. (Signed) “ROME." “The miracle of the Marne is re- peating itself in the winter battle for the franc.” A concentric assault, in ‘which our aviators distinguished troops even of former neutrals, is re- pulsed and the central sterling army as been forced back 160 cents daily. { The reports pay tribute to the heroism of the Bank of France. “The battle is continuing. The morale of-the army and of the civilians is above praise. In:relizgce on the oft= proved unity of the alled and as. soclated nations, ‘in possession of productive pledges, which, with the help of the Duesseldorf court-martial, have just brought us a few decades of penal servitude, and “in conscious- ness that we are battling unselfishly for freedom, justice, humanity and the self-determination of peoples, Fran with whom Csechoslovakia now al | concludes.a defensive alliance for rotection of the Versailles treaty, looks confidently toward the future. ‘The committee of experts will be ‘wetcome. They will bring news of the strange and surprising adven- tures of Robinson of ‘Los Angeles to the mighty repubMc im whose heroic history Lafayette's name stands close to the names of Franklin.and Wash- ington. “The franc repulses the storm. Le Jo i de Gloire est arrive! hgned) A “PARIS.” “The caliphate of London becom visible. Angora will not be able te maintain _her Osman - caliph much longer. The protesta of t! Indlan Mohammedans against this resttiction of religlous affaire have worked well. If mece: these must be helped lout by atuogities compelling the inter- 7 rstian powers. ‘With Hussein in Mecca as our ca- Jiph, we ahall not seriously threaten ‘longer fn' the orlent; in Egypt we have the Arabs in leash degpite a tonomy; we can even leav: say MacDonald the paocify! shevists disguised as can devoke oOurselves t Europe. It must be rebuilt. Thé best solution would be restora- tion . of the siti flfl gree the m dan—that is to say, ‘dominance. “That Egrope 39 per cent of aven. takes in 19323 our rta. c only to the Art! democracy. But that cannot damage | u THE _SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGION, D.: ¢, DECEMBER . 30, 1923 PART 2. __ i 1 THE RENOIR MASTERPIECE, “LE DEJEUNER DES CANOTIERS,” RECENTLY ACQUIRED FOR THE PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY OF WASHINGTON., THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS FREN CH PAINTINGS OF MODERN TIME: ANGLO-SAXONS HELD l French Hold Americans and Brit- ish Cannot Understand Eu- rope's Problems. 1U'EGED TO STAY AT HOME {Let Continent Settle Own Troubles, I Says Writer. BY ANDRE TARDIEL l By Radio to The S PARIS, December 26.—The year 1923 {ends in_darleness and confdsion with {no visible solution of any of the pend- {ing international problems, while new {causes of intértitude are arising. The Ruhr, properly exploited after the occupation, might have been a-so- {1ution of the reparations problem. But it should hav been made perfectly clear that this was our purpose at the outset. However, owing to lack of preparation and firmness this di- rection was not given, and teday we jare again wait ing for proposals from {the reparations commission’s experts, | Many Frenchmen have no confidenc in the success of these proposals b cause they will be of Anglo-Saxon origin and ten ¢ and they do not Ibelieve Anglo-Saxons are fitted to set- tia Europe's problems. The ‘Atlantic is wide, and—considering The psycho- Jogical differences—the English ch nel seems equally wide. As & sin example they remember the wild e thusiasm over the Genoa coa: Mistake in Diagnosis. the Anglo-Saxon phy: about ‘\l\ I’( pa = disease as they were mistaken in 19 in brusquely abolishing imterallis organs, which grew out of Las n sities ef war and which were hecessary for the orgamizaiisa peace. It is feared that the causes again will produce the effents, What does this mean, except that any plan for curing our H|n’muxv4l come from continental nations? We are not infallible, but we have cer- tain experience in our own affairs Which onr friends beyond the sea and annel lack. o world's iliness i not acute, but chronic. It grows slowly worse, but does mot threaten a sudden crisis. The trouble lies in the world's gen- ral disorganization. ¢ e'l:“hed Hlluglflol’l after the armistice was an abnormal one, requiring a continuation of those exceptional ethods which brought Germany apitulation. But nobody would ads mit it. After the hard discipline o the war the allies wanted the relaxa- tion of independence. The losers l'ook advaptage of the opportunity to avold fhe consequences of defeat. Every- thing that was signed in 1819 was re-opened, and anarchy resulted. Mistake =t xu(n.h &t he Anglo-Saxons bear the initial 'r:l.ponslbfilty for this condition. The nilo-Saxon idea of helping the losers to their feet Was perfectly ac- ;renublfl to France, but on the one condition that the losers were to : made to respect the dispositions of — teel, cotton, etc. Hence the S rmment must combat the insano {dea that the continent can shape its own fortunes, without British guard- fanship, by concentration and rational employment of its resources. : “TTherefore, our cabinet must restrain the brutal selfishness of France, which demands reparations and securities from Germany despite the fact that our niodération, which was satisfled- with Confiscation . of, _German WArships, | merchantmen,- colomial shares, bank ':- | posits ana trade relations, presented the est example of wise abstinence. “Berlin is sure for us and obeys our every wink. The committee of experts will soon disclose whether the mega- phonic @loyd George Was a Droper ex- port article. Paris is still farther away than Tipperary, and we don't want tb make the short air route popular. But if events should gucceed in bringing the franc and franc Bhares -down to the marks' level we coudl:ilcry three cheers for the entente cordiale. & (Signed) L‘:NDOX\ = “Colossal Christmas business; de- partment stores ilke sardine-boxes: day after duy; whole automobile tricks laden with’ delicacies: every room occu- pled for weeks at the inter resorts, and swarms, for xvllnm there is no room ip Germany, gone to Switzerland. . ‘Nobody knows where all the money comes from. Everybody groaned when the smallest things cost a hundred mil- lion marks. Now one calculates only in thousands of billions and the orgy of buying and giving presents and en- Joying amusements was possible. For We have. called a trillion marks one mark and decreed that its quotation stands above the pre-war dollar ua- tion, above the pound sterling five timés the French franc. And now order d_prosperity seem to have returned. “Unfortunately, this magic hasn't done away with the wretchedness of millions of starving, freesing ‘n?eoplp nor the physical or psychical line of children. And the thought that so Germans, instead of helping their neighbors, -waste money on amuse- ments and luxuries, dosen’t make one feel in the mood for célebrating. He who lsn't di: to et Jas? S e Again are mistaken s ER] UNFITTED AS JUDGES | British Liberals ‘ Laborites Fair Proposed BY A By Radio to The 5 TONDON, December 28—Recogni- tlon of the Russian soviet govern- ment will be éne of the first acts of the new labor government. The con- servatives are raising an outery agalnst the idea, buf the decision is @ foregone conclusion, as the liberals are in broad agreement with labor oh its European pollcy. It i~ equally assured that Ramsay MacDonald, the new prime minister, can count on liberal support in adopting a new attitude toward France. The late eleciion was not only a defeat for Stanley Baldwin, but was almost equally a declaration against Premier care’s Ruhr policy. Walted With Alarm. The Christmas festival is over and London awaits the new year with an unprecedented curiosity, not unmixed with alarm. No doubt now exists that ¢! government n _history will be in power, and the fact is creating great perturbation in the moneyed classe: It is strange to see the conse: tives stretching imploring hands to their ancient enemies, the to save them from the wrath to come. Agonized appeals are being made to H. H. Asquith to stand in with the conservatives against red tide. If he cared to he might make his own terms for resuming office and be hailed as the savior of his country, with assurance of the obedient support of his old oppo- GARDINER. Poin- he Harmsworth press, after hav- ing reviled Mr. Asquith for ten years, now is grovelling before him as the man of destiny, who alone can turn back the flood of bolshevism. Owe Office to Liberal But Mr. Asquith and the will' have no ‘alllance with the con- gervatives, will vote for their di missal and. will not accept office as the price of their support. Hence the road is clear for MacDonald and labor. Labor's animus toward the liberals is more intense than toward the treaty. Nelther Washington nor London took any account of this con- dition, and therefore Berlin took their legitimate proposals as encourage- ment of general resistance against the treaty. Therefore, Germany's sterile resistance is the fruit of Wash- ington’s and London’s clumsiness. France was wrong in not_ placing herself at the very outset, in 1920 and 921, on the firm ground of her rights by summoning her convention signa- tories to an observance of the written engagements, For the great problems of the day there are two kinds of solutions—col- Jective or individual. If France asked her allies of vesterday to choose be- tween these two methods, would she not gain an immense moral advan- tage therefrom? here is no time to lose. For how- ever great Europe’s difficulties toda, they are nothing compared with an- other war. The writer does not prophesy war, but whoever knows the facts will agree that Germany is acting as if she thought war was a certainty. As she alone has this at- titude, there is nothing easier than to paralyze her bellicose aspirations by a clear afirmation of the desire of the vest of the world for peace. (Copyright, 1628.) WO0D VETOES MEASURE” FOR $50,000 RELIEF FUND | Governor General Believes Such Law Contrary to Organic Act of Philippines. By the Associated Press. MANILA, Decefiber 26.—Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood vetoed a_ pill passed by the legislaturs yiding for an appro- priation of $50,000 for. extending rellef, in case of urgent necessity, for persons who are destitute or affiicted as the re- sult of calamities. The bill is identical with & measure vetoed nearly a year ago. The governor genergl pointed out, in AMxiAg his veto o the bill, that under its provisions the secretary of the interior would have discretionary control over the, expenditure of the fund. This provision the governor general considers cpntrary to thé Jones law (the organie act of the izlands), which gives the Sovernor oral sy ion nirol. ovi I Cocutiee raepartments of Sha’ - sular government. Tt is understaod that the bill wilk b brovght up in the legislature &m {§in the hope of obtaining its passage over the governor general's veto, atter which it will be sent to Presis dent Coolidge for his approval or veto. NEW YORE, e implanting decisive | ee weeks hence the first labor | Iiberals, | the | liberals | Inclined to Give Chance to Govern by Party. ! office to the liberals and will hold office only so long as the liberals ap- | ’ prove There is much speculative, in the: | circumstances, as to MacDonald's ! course. Will he choose to break with the extremiats and acospt the po- | | i Of" cavetaker for the libera | will he plunge with extreme pre posals, ehallenge the liberals to join the conservatives against him, and | €6 to the country polley?* The writer's view is that he will go | cautiously and aim at creating a good | fnpression on the public, especially | as it is clear that the right of dis- | solving 'paridnient and ordering a new election In. case of defeat will: not be concéded. In that case, the king would certainly send for Mr. i government. The ter unquestion- ably would accept, without negotiat- |ing for the support of either con- lrv:r\'lli‘m:« or labor, leaving th?m’ with the responsibilily of supporting !.Ar defeating him as they saw fit. H ! Will Give Laber Chanee. | But the present disposition of Mr. Asquith is to give labor a fair run and, within well defined limits, sup- port If MacDonald drops the idea of a capital levy and the extreme pro- posals of socialism there is no rea- son why he should not have some | | months ‘in office. | It 1s generally assumed that Mr. | MacDonald will decide to be his own forelgn minister, and his close con- { nection with democratic forces in the | continental countries is expected to give an important and far-reaching impulse to the foreign policy. Much interest has been excited by the statement of the Archbishop of Canterbury with eregard to the con- versations between representatives of the Anglican and the Roman churches on the subject of the re- | union of Christendom. The state- | ment was remarkable as an_evidence of the changed attitude of Protes- tantism toward Rame during the past quarter of a century. Little evidence is fortheoming of a corresponding change of attitude on the part of Rome toward Protestantism. If any one goes to Canossa it will be the archbishop, not the Pope. (Copyright, 1923.) \FREE STATEASKS | | STRICT ECONOMY Government, Facing Financial Crisis, Prepares Policy of Retrenchment. By the Associated Prass. DUBLIN, December 20.—The Free State government is confronted with | serfous financial problems, and the | finance minister has announced that | the balancing of the budget can be accomplished only by practicing strict economy, as taxation has reacjied the | Umit. The dall has indorsed the) economies on salaries of school teach- ers and old age pensions on the as- surance that cuts are to be enforced in other departments. = Criticism hasbeen directed at the expenditure chubed by the change of government and the consequence that thie Free State now is obliged to pay pensions to displaced British officials as wyejl as the salaries of those ap- pointed to succeed them, 1 “It is hoped to effect a large saving in the expense of the army by re- ducing the present 0ost of more than $50,000,000 to about $30,000,000. It has been urged that Ireland does not need an army larger than that of Canada, which costs 37,500,000, The British’ government has allocated DIRECTORATE BEGINS CLEAN-UP IN SPAIN :MacDonald Will Recognize Russia, But Is Expected |Political Favorites of 01d Ousted to Act Cautiously on Other Radical Poll'cies‘ From Government Pay Roll by Rivera. | the conservatives. but shey will owe | MILLIONS IN GRAFT CHARGED { Director of Public Works Fired, Others to Go. By the Associated Press. PORT-VENDRES, Frontier, December the * ola political positions of responsibilty taken by der Gen. Primo Rivera. The chief director of public works has been removed from the ministry Asquith and invite him to form a'|of public works, the head of person- nel in the ministry of finance has re- ceived an order of dismissal and the interior are infstries of labor and béiag. investigated with a view i similar measures. It is. understood the to make a sweep of such appointments. measures have caused great government clean These perturbation among is determfned the holders |sinecu Corraption Fought. The beginning of the new see ~ measures put cracy, where, committed their outsflle, thus by injuring treasury to the extent of millions of ying, and it setas. PThis system whereby the state was ' made shortly Imitations may " be dangerous $7,600,000 to provide houses for the ex-soldiers. The fund Is to be ad- ministered by a board of five mem- bers, three to be named by the Brit- ish government and one each by the northern and southern governments of Ireland. g —— FRANCE’S 1924 BUDGET PASSES BOTH BODIES TR By the Associated n—h SRy PARIS, December 29.—] 108's. eral budget for ‘1924 has been adopted by bSth the chambér and senate, the _object of the loabia. ta 924 exoapt. for a Tew Th (e 2y e ted before the new yesr ::' to avoid provisional credits, which are a source of great expense. The 1923 budget, it may. be was not voted before July. The 1924 budget for reconstructi of the devastated regious, the cost of ‘hich _theore! R vmsany b, ‘Mot vet T 3 "‘m al ofedita must be "m 'finm oualy. of 568~ - Colds Lféothaghe is_recoverabie | been | Franco-Spanish —Another step ith a predatory | toward.clearing the governmental of- |flces in Spain of all the favorites -of parties occupying is being the military directorate un- ear will into operation | against the alleged corruption exist- ing among the administrative burean- it is charged, hundreds of unnecessary positions were created for the purpose of housing friends of politicians, those appointees, It is al- leged, overlooking many irregularities acquaintances i the public | but the police are actively investigat- AROUND THE CITY By Nannie Lancaste NTRODUCING the Spirit of Christmas—otherwise mail car- rier, 231, with a pink carnation in his buttonhole, It was Christmas eve by all the elocks in town—and by the last rush crowds that jam- med through stores, up and down streets and all around the market, each man and woman load-, ed down with bundles, and each bundle a messen ger of good will You don’t mins the tiredness, ol course, when you are buying sur- prises for loved ones, but when you consider those to whom *hristmas eve means business only, suy mail car- riers, who are literally toting the season on their gray shoulders, you would naturally suppose that they would be good and glad when the holiday was over—but you never made a greater mistake, so far as one of them was concerned, anyhow. He was shunting letters through the slit in the door of the Board of Trade office in a big building when a woman came up with a package for some one inside, to find the place | closed. | Being of an age and plainness that entitle her to talk to anybody Who | comes along, she said to the carrier ! —with the genlal commiseration the comment seeemed to call for—that Ihe must be glad that his heavy work was about over—but she might hav saved the wear and tear on her sym pathy: “Why, no. I like it. 1 like to feel that I am a sort of Santa handing around gifts. On New Year and every other day in the year, I may be the bearer of sorrowful news, or bills, or unpleasant business letters, but Christmas mail means happiness; it can't be too heavy for me—I like to have & hand in the fun.” A mere man creature who can carry around heavy packs from the first “mai] early” start to the last deliv- ery, and not mind the weight, or the' extra steps, or, maybe, added hours, just because he likes to have a hand in the giving of happiness to others, is & man worth looking &t, 80 the woman took a mental enap- shot as he tipped his cap and took to_his long, long trail: Youngish and gay smiling, with the | stride of, as fine a soldier as you | ever saw on parade, and in the soul lof him the spirit of Christmas—the truly Christmas that stands for peace | and ‘good will. ' Lol NE of the curfous things about | us humans is that no matter how { high a standard a man may set there lare always others—in this case, a | policeman, whose cap shield was { numbered $4. In patrolling his beat ho had come to the choo-choo bridge at Maryland avenue and 7th stree where the woman got out of a str car. He was such a big, reliable looking policeman and he beamed s pleasantly at a crumb of a boy ga! —_— defrauded spread to the local govern- ment offices throughout the country and the military directorate Is dete mined to exercise strictest suparv sion over every department in the future. From various provincial citles in pain come reports, which are not al lowed publication in the countr arrests of communists and other sons expressing radical ideas. In ville the residences of such & persons are olosely sear: watched, and many of the nccupants and theif visitors are being impris ed. to cf Documents Seized. In the same city the police closed the headquarters of the r gional federation of labor and also the transport, construction and tim- ber syndicates. Large batches cf documents were seized, including lists of members. In Bilbao there have also been numbar of arrests, and similar_con- ditions are reported in Malaga. Thele have been few arrests in Barceloi Lave is_expected @ wholesale | clean-up of the agitators wil. be Headache Neuralgia Lumbago ' Neuritis al loping by on a stick with 's head” to”it, that the. woman: daoron that she would like to find out if he had a kindly voice to match. And he had, for when she asked how that Dart of the city was behaving itself on Christmas eve, he smiled just as nicely as if she also were cker Bicely as If she also were atacker “No_troubles, all— s met with an hoor 1sta ccident up th | But he is being weil cared for ’ilzreu:‘. hospital This is a law-abidin nflzllhvrhomlfi-ll\ul,\‘ right now, ngf overyer gy UL, MOKUY youngters— body industrious oing the right thin s e The woman told him she was fellow beings, seeing she read so many of the others in'print. » Ye8, we have many evil f to deal with, but thers are mans more good ones—and that's a great thing to be thankful for. In" this section most families make up Christ- mas baskets for poor people, und I lam going to help my daughter {they "belong to a high scho ganization—to take around i tonight. To know c or- skets ime well enough to risk life in_tracking It down, and yet to keep faith in integrity of the general run of men and women— z’;\fiu‘v;?u)dn lld:i_«k anything finer an cer, could you? Ne i liko Officer 840"~ Ot If ho was * ¥ % ¥ TTHERE is a little old lady in this town who earns almost enough to keep body and soul together. And she must have a daughter bacause there are some small grandchiidren And, of course, the little ola lads muet help them wave 5 Christmas, seeing ‘thas" & ouia do So littie in the So v week she wou e Dentiles from herself of sugar. even the “§ |&he hoped to have every kind of candy to th, ak a few y & pound arted before ads came ougs nough to make and gingerbread e there u in,an old trunk wh hing she owned that had & look And key, not only to keep the eugar trom the children but also to hide It from er own self—because you know deep In your own heart it 1s & grew: fembtation to put sugar in yous tes It Jpu know there is any around, but When the night before Christmas eve came she had a great time all (o her: self getting things ready for rands making after the children had been put to bed, but it was ratl time that only lisied unti] gar from the trunk. You see, it was the trunk that she had packed her winter coat in all summer—with moth balls, And the only thing to do with drenched with the fumes of n is to throw to po emory power forget ubou and to the weakening of m that made & little old lady the moth balls. x x ¥ & "THIS is one foolish littie yarn, but if you have a good trifles, here goes Months ago there were two gay little china ducks that lived in one corner of a jeweler's window. And there was a plain soul who used to look at them every day because they reminded her of a’ back childhood that was bereft of tovs. And if you don’t have you e i stop wanting. She to give her an exem: nd, of course | for herselr, b would people That would been all there was to it, except that, to her bewildermen | somé unknown giver sent the ducks to | her ae That _was wonderful, but he put the ducks in > could find the donor. st thing ske knew, mous being had tak memory for for uving them she mi get them ness, what he didn't know the name of the giver, and didn’t want to know the name of the one who swiped them, she let it go with bushels of past enigmas, and that was that—until Christmas came—and— Please goodness, Santa { ducks swimming in_the basin, and now she Has them back. And while vou might think it the foolishest thing, would rather have those belovedly gay little_quackers than any of treasure | the jeweled window can show ! Aren’t some people queer? found the SAY “BAYER” when you buy—gwuwze * When you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets, you are getting - the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over 23 years for Rheumatism Pain, Pain Accept only ‘“‘Bayer” package which contai Handy Also bottles of ns' proven directions. Bayer’” boxes of twelve tablets 24 and 100—Druggists. ‘Mfim{:fll‘mn of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid %