The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-11
WHY ARE ARCHES At THE GLEn2
And if They Are There Why Not Have Local Art Com
mission to Pass on Their Artistic Merits
Before Erection?

Let the people vote on the PROPOSE
ton.
The park belongs to them.
But they seem to have little to say
or the disposition made of It's land
scape.
Richmond doesn't want to make it.
self ridiculous.
1t has one of the most extraordinary
parks of it's sort in the country. A
place of perfect natural beauty. With
out artificial bolstering.
These arches and monumental en-
| frances are, therefore, out of harmony
with the character of the landscape.
| For an amusement park with shoot
| the shutes and other insane devices
for amusing the uncou, they are apro-
los
| But for pleasure ground made up
of rolling landscape they are out of
keeping.
This should be taken into account
by local officialdom.
There's no use pooh-poohing at such
things.
| For certain artistic canons are as
hXed as the stars.
And they remain fixed despite their
disregard.
| Why not admit there are some things
you don't know as much about as 9TH
ers.
The writer freely admits she knows
nothing about constructing a cement
sidewalk. Or building a skyscraper. Or
performing an operation for append
Citis.
And million other things.
And maybe there are people here
in town who could and would be bet
ter judges of this arch affair than 9th
| ers.
| The finest thing in the world is to
say 81 don't know"
| Especially when you don't.
| People are too afraid of what other
people will think of them if they say
they don't
When the fact is that a person of
only ordinary shrewdness can always
tell that you don't know thing even
if you say you do.
| The writer once encountered Mayor
Zimmerman in an art exhibit.
And has always admired him be-
cause he said he didn't give celebrat-
| ed ding about certain features" of
the affair.
"The fact is" said Dr. Zimmerman,
that l don't care anything about art.
| What I'm interested in is horses"
Not that the writer agreed with him.
| For that he has an art sense, even
| 1, I1,,i% s1 1lr,cf cd ~,
his determination to take the tracks
out of the Glen.
And in the removal of sundry hide
Gus bill-boards which defaced the civ
ic landscape.
And in the possession of some very
handsome bits of teakwood furniture
and other Japanese curios.
| But if everybody was as frank how
much nicer it would be.
| If only some of our highbrow
would say
81 don't give a hang about opera.
| What l like is ten cent vaudeville
| But of course the line must be
drawn somewhere.
All the same lot of people think
that if monuments are going to be err
ected at the approaches to the city
park they ought to have some artistic
raison d. etre.
By the way, why not remove the
lamateur zoo to some less conspicuous
but Just as convenient spot, and en-
large it.
Everybody likes the animals. That
is nearly everybody.
But they are an eyesore and plague
spot where they are.
Why not move them to the open
place east of the elk park, and put
them into habitable quarters with a
special keeper.
AS it is they are not given proper
treatment through lack of specia
knowledge of their needs.
Some of these animals are undoubt
eddy insane.
So said a noted scientist who passed
through here a few years since and Wis
tied the Glen.
Properly looked after an enlarge
melt of the local zoo would prove ar
interesting phase of the parks attrac
tons.
But it should be moved from its
present location.