The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-12
THE TURNER ART EXHIBIT,
Superintendent Hunter Explains Pur-
pose Of Exhibit Here March as.

pose Of Exhibit Here March as.
On March 4, s and an art exhibit,
It is announced viii be held in the
high school building in this city. Con.
corning the purpose of the exhibit, f.
NJ. Hunter, city superintendent of the
Norfolk schools has issued the follow.
ing statement
No one is so foolish nowadays as to
deny that art and the love of the
beautiful have very large place In
education. Our home life and our
broader life in the community are
| planned with this idea part of it. The
| more beautiful and inspiring ones
surroundings the larger is the induce
ment to good and useful living. We
| place beautiful pictures in our homes
the walls and floors are decorated with
artistic designs. Our houses are plan.
ned so that their outer appearance is
| pleasing and their surroundings are
beautiful trees, flowers and lawns.
The demand of the time Is that our
public school system should have in II
more of this educational influence
Youth is the time when such influence
counts for most, and every child
should have as a part of his mental
habit and character love and appre
citation of the true and the beautiful
But entirely too frequently public
school environment is not such as to
give at this most important time the
much needed influence. Too frequent.
| ly the walls of school rooms are either
| barren or decorated" with trash. Too
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ugliest place in the neighborhood
without vestige of the artistic in
either the building or its surround.
ings. Not a sign of the thoughtfuness
exhibited in the planning of the home
| Is shown in kind or condition of the
school properties of the same com
munity. People have too often for
| gotten that the greatest public interest
of any community is its young people
and that no investment is from a bust
ness standpoint so longheaded as the
investment which builds well youth.
| full character and equipment.
In Norfolk there is public recogni-
| ton of this need. The board of edu-
cation is planning a system of con
slant Improvement of school grounds
and property in order that in few
years our school environment may not
compare unfavorably with our best
home environment.
The greatest need at present is ap.
| propriate decoration of our fine high
school building. The building is from
| the standpoint of the practical one OF
tie very best in the state. But as
yet the pristine beauty of the bare
walls and the building itself is the
sole artistic inspiration for the three
hundred boys and girls who spend
six or seven hours daily in this build
ing.
With the idea Of changing this con
| dition the Woman's club of this city
has secured the Horace K. Turner art
exhibit for three days exhibition on
| March 4, and 6. The exhibit con
sists of some five or six hundred OF
the worlds masterpieces in art. and
will certainly furnish ali artistic treat
to the community. It will be displayed
in the high school room accompanied
by program of musical and other
numbers, each evening. The admis
sion will be ten cents for school chill,
dren and fifteen cents for others. Op
portunity will be given for the pur.
chase of pictures by those desiring
them. The total proceeds of the ex.
hibit will be used for the purchase of
pictures for the high school building.
This event should appeal to the peo-
pie of Norfolk most strongly not only
because the purpose of the exhibit is
to supply great need in our schools
but more especially because the ex-
hibit in itself is of a highly artistic
| type and correspondingly educational
and instructive.
Fred M. Hunter.