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.. YOHtC, April 10. Radical nnd
1 " iVrlnc In Its plans, the exhibition of
'saclety of Indcpendont Artists the
. ? .rt exposition eer held opened to
Km buViVo at Grand Central Palace today.
'.. was ft prhate lew nnd reception
H ? . ...nine, when u number of Invited
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Siyor "... different exhibition.
; -i.ii be termed n mobliltntlon of all
- (HI no ...Hi, ..,. f r-.i.
rf A!-. latest war-lnsplrcd works. The ex-
"??.." ...in romnln open dally and Sunday
W M0H"" "" ' ..,i inr.ln ii. m. until Mnv .
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V .4": n exhibition by nioro than 1200
fcr1 Slfabew Tf the society, so many that ar
V, iBitm" .. . Molnc mntle o havn a fleet
i wheel chairs for'hlre. There are about
1 Sal nieces of sculpture. The exhibits come
im thtrtv-elght different States In tho
rlon so that tho show Is a representative
ill America one. Every school of art le
fnreented. from tho most radical to the
mitt conservative, nnd artists well known
da otherwise, academicians and virtual
..Tlce are on view.
SUndlnit out prominently as features of
this exhibition are tho plan of having no
Jar n3 no prlies, and the radically
erlirtoal plan of hanging tho paintings nnd
'irrang-mC no sculptures alphabetically.
Iride from the fact that tho paintings arc
together and the sculptures together, there
Ii no grouping. Thus everything Is hung
without regard to class or artist's reputn
t'in, and a Glackens, a Hawthorne, a Bel
lows a Prendergast. or the work of other
famous artists, Is found hanging side by
ildj with tho most Infaglnathe lines of
Uie unknown a pastoral perhaps sand
wiched In between a Cubist In weird JlneS
lid colorings, and a Futurist portrait of tho
etreme typo.
The- exhibition Is the first at which tho
while ctn really see the" art of America
U t represents the choice of the artist
Hiving no jury eliminates the forcing of
IM viewpoint In art, which Is bound to
occur If a Jury pasees on tho pictures that
ire'hung. There )n more chance of a jury
ifreelng on an average piciuro tnan on an
onuwal. picture, a fact tha,t has been evi-
dtnt at art displays again and again.
The Independent exhibition is designed to
(how the strength of American nrt and to
retell In a manner no-er before attempted
, whether American art Is original or whether
t Is Imitative, something which even the
ilerctors of the society do not know.
While this first annual exhibition Is an
Iniependent" show. It Is by no means qulto
U Independent In Its makeup as some might
It Inclined to believe. In fntt, It Is backed
ijwgely by about as many academicians with
'"N. A." and "A. N. A." after their names
ju It Is by the various groups or futurists,
post-Impressionists, neo-lmpres,slonlsts, cub
kti and the various other "Ists." A. glance
It the list of exhibitors discloses the names
tt no less than twenty-one of tho foremost
'leidemlclans, and the fact that they are
willing to exhibit their work side by side
with their next alphabetical neighbor, ro
prdlees of whether he Is an academician or
just a mere nobody, a cubist, a cartoonist
jn some other sort of radical, speaks well
"for the democracy of the "independent"
ovement. '
A long list of names known In tie world
,f art Is represented, Including W. J. Glack
tns, Charles TV. Hawthorne, N. A. : liobert
Ytopnoih, N. A. : Frederick J. Waugh. X. A. ;
Birrs Harrison, K. A. ; Ernest L. Blumen.
jcheln, Thomas B. Craig, William Cotton,
'Kenneth Frailer, Jonas Lee, 'Do Witt Par
hill, Eugene. E. Spelcher, all A. N. A.;
i Arthur W. Dow, Rudolph Dirks, originator
tt the Katzenjammer Kids ; Stanley M. Ar-
i tours. Illustrator ; Art Young, Joseph Stella,
'sjntsr of the "Coney Island": Jo Davld-
' 'jon, sculptor or portraits; xnomas nan, tnt,
.1 'pouch decorator, and a host of others.
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CAMDEN'S CHARITY BALL
Itvivcd in Tonight's Dance for Benefit
of Homeopathic Hospital
A dince will be given tonight In Morgan's
Bill, Fourth and Market streets, Camden,
for the benefit of the West Jersey Homeo
ytthlc -Hospital. It is In reality the annual
(Junlen charity ball, which has been dts
ontlnued for the last fewyears.
itlny of Camden society women will act
upitronesses for the event, which has
been planned ,by an organisation composed
f Paul Comey, R. Wayne Kraft. Frank
T. Lloyd, Jr., Bayard H. Kraft, Robert C.
tlpplncott, Slayton J. Stewart and C. Ray
on4 WIckes Many of the younger set from
me suburbs will be present.
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Ctpe May Trade Board Backs U. S.
CAPE MAY, N. J., April 10. At a ban,
Wtorthe Board of Trade at the Columbia
Hotel last night the members pledged
Wlty to the nation and State In the
present crisis. The toastmaster was Sena
tor Lewis T. Stevens, and addresses were
'J4' by ex-Congressman J, Thompson
gr, ex-Judge James E. Hlldreth, Mayor
wUIJim U Stevens, Dr. Frank R. Hughes
JM Lvjther C. Ogden, president of the
r4 of Trade.
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Germans Ruin
Fair Aisne Land
Continued from pe One
strangest of all, the church was practically
Intact, save that It had been thoroughly
sacked In Prussian faMilpn, even the door
of the' tabernacle having been pried open,
and the gold chalice that held the' Sacra
ment removed. In no single bouse of the
eleven existed a stick of furniture, and In
the garden of one, among trees cut down,
lay a mas of smoldering household equip
ment, among which the remains of an old
Flemish bed were visible.
I went Into the cemetery beside the
church, whero my ancestors lay burled. A
communicating trench had, been dug
through It, a trench seven feet deep nt
least, violating many graves, among others
those of my father's people, poor ancient
dead that had been burled in ancient piety.
And It peemed to me then and there that
more bitter feeling against the Boche
rose In my heart than existed a week ago,
and a week ago I would not have believed
It possible. There wcro three dead Prus
sians in tho trench, lying for aught I
could positively deny In that which had
been tho gracs of people of my name.
They had been of the rcatstlnr rearguard.
I stood and looked upon them for a mo
ment ere turning away with thoughts In
my mind that have no place here.
I saw for the first time In this war cav
alry in action, both French and English, at
an hour's Interval. They entered Nesle from
opposite sides, followed by Infantry detach
ments from both armlet, who, under the
glass, I could see putting out fires. For tho
Roche always burns at the end. Thus he
will bum all of stlll-lnaded France as he Is
forced out or ictreats before superior equip
ment and better men. It was three hours
later that I was permitted to enter, the
first civilian from free France. I fanoy
from what I ha e written abovo that some
where It was recorded such was to bo.
Every village I saw In the triangular
Journey is a wreck, either a mass of crum
bling cold or smoking hot ruin. And that
typifies the whole of the territory, amount
ing to about 2500 square kilometers at this
writing. To burn Is quite the Prussian
type of warfare, quite In line with Louvain
and Rhelms. No military necessity made
ersentlal the burnlne of Feronne, Chaulnei
and Nesle, or the vllfages between. It was
Just simple, plain Boche, and the Boche Is
a type of human apart.
I saw tremendous broken networks of
barbed wire before each town, each seem
ingly stronger than the other, and more In
tricate and deeper trenches than I had
before" looked upon.- 'Some were six- and
seven feet deep and had narrow-gauge
tracks laid within them. Many of the abris
were constructed with stone and brick cas
ings at entrances, and the descending steps
solidly cemented into place. The Inside lines
of defense at the very outskirts of each
town were constructed among the ruins of
houses, and were of the most powerful
nature. Fighting with the rearguard had
constantly occurred, as the numerous dead
testified. I saw many Inhabitants and
talked with some of them, partlcularlyn
Nesle. For the most part their faces were a
composite of tears and smiles. Many wore
hysterical and spoke as It were with their
whole bodies. One old man expressed it all
when he said: "Ah, Monsieur, les cochons!
Les sales cochons!" (Tho plgsl Tho dirty
pigs!)
Among these suffering people were naught
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but tho old, the feeble' nnd the very young
As the true barbarians of old carried off
the women of those, upon whom they made
war, so had the Hoche taken forcibly the
young women -and girls from Nesle with
them. An old lady whom I questioned said:
"Monsieur, monsieur, they took my two
daughters with them; tore them from me
and laughed in my face. And they put
poison in our well. I saw it. They put it
In all the wells here."
The crowning lmprcslon I received was
not that of following upon the heels of a
retreating army, but a great band of assas
sins, Incendiaries, thieves, perpetrators of
sacrilege and violators of women. The el
dence was everywhere In tho area I was
permitted to cover. It burned deep Into my
soul, a3 deep as tho 'bar sinister upon every
uniformed wretch serving under the eagle
of the Ilohenzollerns.
If the retreat still going on as t write Is
strategy, the more of that kind the better.
Upon the face the great significance is that
the German Is voluntarily leaving territory
bitterly defended until as lato ns three
weeks ngo. It was territory strongly forti
fied thirty months past, and refortlfled
since. From 19J5 numerous attempts at
advance had been mndo from these same
lines with no result but thousands of Prus
sian dead for the vain endeavors. During
all the past winter, with but the slightest In
terruption, a, constant rain of heavy shell
had fallen on the Bonhe positions. And now,
for the first time In the history of this war
of wars, the Germans, whoso tactics demand
retention of the offensive and whose general
plan renders battle everywhere essential,
have refused to fight, turned tall, nnd, after
destroying everything about them, stepped
back nearer the Rhine. The deduction Is
obvious. If you aro strong enough to fight,
you stand and fight. If the other fellow Is
stronger, you "beat IL" And if you are
Boche, you burn, break, mutilate, before the
"beating."
For even In a trench war, ns this has
been thus far, there comes a time when you
must retreat or advance. And tho Prussian
Is retreating, a past great force acknowl
edging in act its present weakness before a
greater force, a groater equipment, with
most of all the greater morale of France
and England. It would seem that the
very dead of France, under this shell-torn,
martyred ground, must understand nnd be
glad; must somehow know that, as the
battle of tho Somme passes Into history,
there dawns tho commencement of tho cer
tain end for which they gave their lives.
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"SCOUTS TO FEED SOLDIERS"
208,000 Boys Chose Slogan Through
TJieir Executive Board
NEW YORK, April 10. "Every scout to
feed a poldler." was tho war slogan chosen
for tho 208,000 members of the Boy Scouts
of America by their executive board nt a
meeting at national headquarters here.
A resolution was adopted, nfter confer
ences with olllclnls of tho Navy Depart
ment, tho Department of Agriculture nnd
the American Red Cross, outlining, as the
first definite scrvlco which scouts will give
to the country during tho war, the extension
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next d'ierrtd until that date
account too lot to correct adter.
tlsements ofpearint in mainlines
clrculatint throuthoul the month
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w 1th tho Idea of supplying food for at least
ns many lighting men ns there aio Boy
Scouts nnd adult leaders Tho latter num
ber 58,000.
Twelve Claimants for $1000 Reward
GREnNSBURG, Pa.. April lfl Twelve
claimants appeared before tho county com
missioners seeking tho $1000 reward of
fered for the captuto pf Harry 13- Fuller,
murderer of Jacob 1C Blank. Fuller was
executed several months ago. The, claim
ants Included men who directly or Indirectly
had something to do with the arrest of
Fuller.
The Investment
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Buying automobiles is very like
buying investment securities.
You consider
the relation of price to value,
the security or integrity of value,
the return. '
When you consider the relation of
price to value the Overland Big
Fours and Light Sixes conspicu
ously stand out as more auto
mobile for the money than can
be had in any other cars of
similar specifications.
This is as it should be, for no other
similar cars are produced in
quantities and under conditions
so favorable to economies of
administration, manufacture
and distribution.
As to security The Willys-Overland
Company, 'firmly in
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Philadelphia League Will Give Dance
and Symbol Display of (
Various Designs
Trade marks and nationally advertised
godds will frolic In the Hotel Adelphla In
the not far distant future, according to
plans which are to be mnde tonight when
the live wire Women advertisers of this city,
all members of the Philadelphia League
of Advertising Women, hold their meeting
In the Adelphla to plan for the big May
p.irty, which takes placo on May .
This Is the first time in Philadelphia's
history that tho advertising women of the
city have hold such an entertainment, ac
cording to members of tho committee who
are planning tho innovation. The festival
is to take tho form of a dinner-dance, and
Is to bo known ns the 'Trado Mark Frolic
and Maypole Dance."
I'ach guest is to nppenr In costume rep
resenting some national trade mark.isuch as
the Campbell soup kiddles, the Kellogs
Sweetheart of the Corn nnd the Old Dutch
Cleanser characters.
Tho young women, many of whom are
connected with Philadelphia's biggest ad
vertising concerns, are working hard on
the plans for the festival.
"Miss Publicity" Is to be crowned Queen
of the May Immediately nfter tho May
polo dance, according to the plans which
will be completed tonight. Thcro will be
martini music
The committee which will report tonight
on the plans Includes Miss Nellie 15. Quirk,
chairman; AIlss Clara If, Zlllessen, Mies
Helen Campbell, Miss Mary O'Donnell. Miss
.Anna Kelley nnd Miss Sara I Black, the
nctlng president.
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eight milliondf assets, with
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Light Sixes $985, while we have
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lion, has been taken as yet by tUie
amietic Doara in caning orr organist
letlcs for the balance of the tjdasesy,
though announcement of some sort W
pected when college resumes Thti
morning after the annual spring re
Tho members of the varsity
squad have all remained at college' 41
the vacation period and have practiced i
when the weather has permitted.
Only one member of the team, Rober
an outfielder, is an enlisted man. he
enrolled In Battery A. a National Qua
unit made up largely of Brown men'.VS
umer memucrs or tne nasebairsquaev
active In the Brown omcers' Reserve Ce
but thus far the hours have not conNM
wun DaseDHii practice. y;
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State Highway Commissioner
Governor of Plans
HARRISBima, April 10. State High
Commissioner Black has Informed do
crnor Brumbaugh ho has made prellrhlnat1
plans for the construction of nermaketsfrj
rondo at Mount Oretna. which will h ''(
fered to tho Government for training cAmjjral
purposes, ana win ue utile to complete th
work In about two weeks following notk
to proceed. J;
He has made a close study of the prefc-jj
lem and nas assembled equipment sufficient 1
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