Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-16
CIVIC BEAUTY URGED
CONTINUED From First Page.)

and Lorando Taft. sculptor. on 1.-THE
Relation of Sculpture to Landscape.
Receptions will be rendered the dele
gates at the home of Thomas Nelson
Page, at the Pan-American building
and at the Octagon building, head
. quarters of a number of national art
organizations.
The objects Of the federation. or
ganfzed two years ago at convention
called by the regents of the National
Academy of Art. are to unite in closer
fellowship all who are striving for
the development of art in America,
either through production or the Gull
tlvation OF appreciation: to prevent du-
pi1cation: OF effort, and to furnish a
channel through which public opinion
may find expression in its effort to Sc
cure legislation favorable to art i'm
lprOvement.
Charles L. Hutchins. president. oc-
cupfed the chair at the morning ses-
sion. He presented Secretary Mac
Veagh, who made the address of well
come.
Work of the Treasury.
What the United States Treasury has
oone Tor art in America was referred
to by Mr.. MacEeagh. He said that the
snare OF the Treasury in the art de-
velopment of the nation in it's designs
post offices and other public buildings
IS a permanent labor and a tremen-
oous influence He promised his aid
IN the interest of the highest type of
archltecture for public structures as
long as he has a voice in their con-
struction. He urged that the members
or the convention work in Congress
TO get the money for creditable public
buildings. He believed their influence
could be made powerful
| Discussing tho condition., tn +h> ut,
trlc or Columbia, he said that Washing
ton needs an adequate park system and
not merely number Of detached
parks as at present. He suggested that
the Improvement of the older part Of the
city Is matter for consideration for the
friends of the capital
The United States will not lapse back
into the darkness as regards art, predict
| ed Mr.. Page, who also greeted the con-
vention He considered that the labor of
the Treasury Department in producing
puolc buildings was an art movement
| that assured the continuity of develop
| ment and Improvement in national archf-
| lecture.
The pleasant task has been assigned
10 me OF extending our greetings to you
10 This city, and as the simplest words
are always the best / shall merely saw
70 you how glad we are to see you here"
| said Mr. Page.
washington has been called the city of
conventions. and 1t is proper that it should
be such: For 1t is the only city in the
land which belongs equally to all the
people OF the land. The cities of your
residence. wherever they may be-New
York, Chicago. Boston, s. Louis, Cincin-
| natl. San Francisco, New Orleans-be.
long only to the states in which they are
situated.
| Belongs to All.
| But wherever you are from, Washing
ton is as much your capital as it is ours
VINO live here. Here each one of you can
come from the east or the west or the
north or the south and say. This is
| mine. You can each walk it's streets
under the arching boughs which make it's
glory, each stroll through Its parks, each
gaze on the Capitol that crowns with its
grandeur the Capitol Hill. each lift your
| eyes to the majestic shaft that towers to
| the skies in memory of the greatest man
of the ages. and say, 1T is mine
appears, then. peculiarly fitting
that your annual convention should
meet here and that we who reside here
should extend to- you the hand OF well
come not merely as hosts, but as
brothers. And of all the conventions
none appears more important than this.
While others, for the most part, deal
with the physical side Of life, this con-
vention has to do with that which per-
its true conception relates to the spirit
ual. and though material substances
and mortal methods must be used, they
are used to convey a spiritual being
| and an immortal ideal, and the nearer
they approach to the spiritual the truer
! they are to art
Our organization Is young-but a
| babe; barely two years old-but 1t has
in 1t the essence of immortality and let
| US hope that in its case, as in others,
it may prove that out Of the mouths Of
babes and sucklings shall truth be re-
vealed.
| Growth Of Shirt Of Art