Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-18
Chicago Critic Says They Fear
To Break Away From
Traditions.
A REVOLT HAS BEEN STARTED
Students Lead n Movement Seeking
The Portrayal OF Yankee Aspi-
ratIons and Inspirations.
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against the domination OF European
Ideals. and have begun the establish
| ment of national American art, The
| recent structures by Alfred East. pres
ldcnt of the Royal Society OF British
| Artists, when he spoke at the 1910 open
| Ing reception of the Art Institute. Dire "
| attention to the fact that western art
| lists are breaking away from the old
| traditions Mr.. East declared that the
| Americans are towards in art, fearing
TO follow their own aspirations and In
| spirations lest they offend the tradi-
| tlons OF the old world. Americans do
what they think Is best in the busi
ness and Industrial world" said Mr..
| East. without asking what their
| grandfathers did, they do not cling L.
an outgrown method OF making ma
| chincry or cultlvating their lands, or
| conducting business, because 1t was
| the method of their forefathers. But
| they are afraid To take the initiative In
| matters of art" The progress of Chi
| cago and western artists In beginning
| the establishment OF a national school
| OF art Is shown by two exhibitions at
| the Art Institute this month. One
comprises about 325 paintings and
| pieces of sculpture by the artists OF
| Chicago and vicinity. and the other
| by artists resident in Chicago previ-
Gus to 1893. The completion of the
fourth 0he easD side OF the quad
| rtnglc of the Art Institute building.
| adding IL large galleries, furnished the
space required to give this comprehen-
sivc and comparative exhibition.
| Among the artists exhibiting are sew
eral who for several years have boen
| living abroad. principally In Paris and
| France, but who have become con-
| vlnced that the European traditions
are narrowing and prevent the develop
ment OF American art In Its own proper
| channels.
TRAVEL RECORDS BROKEN.
Travel ssouthward to Florida and
even further out of Jack F'rosts do
main. has broken all Chicago records.
extra Pulmans being needed on most
| OF the railways. The nearest play
ground where rose petals instead Of
snow litter the ground seems none too
near to those fortunate people who
| can run away from winter or those
unfortunates who must Cuba is al
| Turing hundreds and Porto Rico and
| the Bahamas are getting a share of
| tourist travel. The winter resorts on
| the cast and west coasts of Florida
are reported to be filled as never be-
| fore both by the sojourners and the
transicnts. Tho fact that Florida Is
some 3 500 miles nearer to the middle
west than is California seems to be
an impellng force in tho direction OF
travel, thousands of people having
borne with the cold patiently until
another cold snap seemed unbearable
| and they ran away,
TO STUDY THE PHEASANT.
The menace to agriculture involved
| I'm the determination of native gamo
| birds. which some states are beginning
| to replace with the pheasant, gives to
| the 500, 900 Beebe expedition to study
| the pheasant abroad an aspect OF ma
| tIonal Importance which Chicago busi-
ness interests as we'll as Sportsmen
nave come to realize. The fact that
| the New York Geological society has
| raised 500 900 for the expedition shows
| how serious do scientists regard tho
| diminishing protection of the farmer
| against the ravages of insect life for
| lack of birds Recently the game com
| missioner of Kansas issued d warning
| that tho Insects would get US If We
| didn't watch out. and he has been one
| of the few officials To reStock his state
| with pheasants. several thousand birds
| being sent by Wallace Evans, who has
| a great pheasant farm near Chicago.
| to Kansas The Beebe expedition VIII
| investigate In England, China, India,
| Borneo and other countries, where they
are known or believed to exist A
| member of the zoology department at
| the University OF Chicago said:
"Pheasants. you know. are the wild
| original from which our domestic fowls
| have developed. For this reason they
| nre especially interesting In connection
| With breeding questions, Prof. Beebe.
| il I remember correctly has been
| working on the influence OF environ
ment on the color OF the plumage-pro-
tective coloIatlon. and so forth. There
| arc other reasons why the pheasant
| would well repay study. 1t presents
| opportunities for the determining rela-
| tlonshlps in the pheasant family, for
| instance. It's existence in some parts
OF the world has been questioned, too
Tho expedition probably Will seek to
set these questions at rest.
COCOA AND THE SLAVE.
The boycott against cocoa produced
in Portuguese possessions OF Africa at
| the price of lives and liberties of thou-
| sands of shackled slaves has reachcd
Chicago and Is spreading throughout
the United States az result of the et-
forts of Joseph Burtt. special commis-
| sioner of the Antl-Slavery Society OF
London. He opened his western cam
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that the wives OF Americans now con-
tribute most TO the continuance of the
slavery because they consume moro
cocoa and It's product chocolate. than
| those of any other nation. I'm tho
| month OF April last year. America ac-
tually bought 100000 pounds of slave
grown cocoa from Portuguese West
| Africa" Mr.. Burtt declared In an ad-
! dress 1.-TWO little islands, S. Thome
and Principe on the equator in the Gulf
| of Guinea grow ono-siNth of the world =
supply of cocoa Some eight years
ago the notice of William Cadbury
was drawn to the conditions of labor
on the Portuguese cocoa plantations
which supply a large quantity OF cocoa
used in their mills at Birmingham I
went out to Africa and spent flve
months on the cocoa islands. making
thorough Investigations of the labor
there / found there were 10000 ma
tves employed on those islands who
had been taken away from tholr homes
on the main land and were slaves.
then went over to Africa, distance of
thousand miles. and spent a year
travelling in the province OF Angola
that supplies these laborcrs. ] found
that none of them came of their own
free will as they had the greatest hor-
ror of the cocoa plantations, from
which none OF their friends returned.
Once on the islands they stayed there
until death and never saw their homes
again. Every kind of barbarity has
been employed in bringing these mis-
cradle victims down to the coast for