Show American Wealth Drains European Museums of Art BERLIN March 9 AP The director director di- di I rector or of Kaiser Kaisel Friedrich museum Wilhelm von Bode Dode predicts that the great private art collections of Europe Europe Eu- Eu rope wm will have passed Into American Amen Ameri- can hands within within twenty or thirty I years ears earsIn In art an article In tIle the art journal Der he wrote It will not ho be long then before beCore all these collections will rind find their way into American museums which by these acquisitions will vill rank equally with the two dozen lozen great European galleries lIe said that Americans were displaying displaying dis- dis playing playing- great reat zeal in in- inthe the study of 01 art and enumerated benefactions by wealthy citizens and municipalities These he wrote leave us poor EuropeanS Europeans Eu- Eu dumb with amazement Moreover lIe he added the peculiar li liar r megalomania that afflicts many of our museum committees leads to the wastefulness of valuable museum muse muse- urn um material folly on our side Is thus found to be working hand Iland in hand iland with progressiveness progressiveness' and wealth On the part of cans there can be little doubt that tile the new world wIll soon overtake and beat effete old Europe in the tho possession on ot of art |