Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-24

dIuury pound - wood fDr ordinary
purposes would siIl have left n
wp''h un'y a f"w pcrr.ra S'r1di-
Nhr.us Wia a poor huy bUi h" mad"
viUIns that have charmed millions,
not only fnr whi.r De lived but FOR
centuries since when he wus an
0ld man and more than well 10 do.
h." still worked all day long in his
shop A friend asked him why ~"
tni!cd ~ long although wealthy. III"
replied.
"Tho Goa gives skin. but moi,
without mems hands n my hands
ainck"D, / rob COD leaving n blank
instead ~ vio.Ius"
Th,g" words Of a great rruluA
should bee known 20 every educator
and every fuuI father ana morurr
VINO sends The bright faced boy or
Cirl 10 SchUO, The trouble with our
system at education In the past has
been that II produced theorists I'm
stead ~ men and women who WEI"
practically equipped 20 do the
worlds work AK well as the world.
thinking and I doubt whether any
great thinker can think hts best
unless ,ho knows how tn do wei
something with his own hands In
America, We have Just been learning
this lesson In education. Fifty years
ago every man who went to college
was preparing for one Of tho no
called LEARNED professions" Thes"
professions became oycrCrowdcd
~ a result We had many impOver
ishrd lawyers, doctors and preachers
ana only few who earned very
large income in these prOfrssiOns
Industrial lifc In our country Hut-
F.T FVAV J.. IFf 81 Il
Nearly every manufacturer was
forced to send abroad for the men
who designed anything which We at
tempted 20 make beautiful, and gem
orally these foreign designers were
not the best, and only gave us lTni-
iIiions Of the things that were made
In the country from which they
"nmc. We have furniture that II i'm
iiation ~ Chlppendale or Sheraton
We have millinery and ladies gowns
that nr" imitation French. Men dress |
themselves in clothes that are imita-
ton English Wa build our homes |
I'm imitation Of hygono architecture. |
"" decorate our rooms Georgian, |
Enlnhcthian. Louis XIV, English,
Dutch. or in any old design that
some house decorator tells us In
suitable. and In fact we as a ma
ripn have made hardly anything elso
but shoes with better taste than
other nations have made them.
am not certain whether or not this
Ia an indication that our taste may |.
be- TN our feet.
But today the grade and high |
schools in every city have an art dc.
pnrtmont IN which pupils are taught
the elements OF good design, and II
oh fu1 nnFA.tFunn1 IN
learn how to design and do things
beautifully.
The American manufacturer OF the
past was striving, like the German,
10 make things cheaper aud In big |
ger quantities than anyone else, and |
was relying upon the over praise OF |
some good salesman to sell his home
~ product, ofttimcs to public that |
dlsllked IT, Beauty needs no sales |
man. All the world loves the beau
tlful, whether II be n flower that |
sparkles in the morning dew, the !
pink face OF a baby that wreathes
with smiles, or a noble tree that
lifts its symmetrical form against
tho sky, and the men who have
today in this world have .
learned beautiful things from ma /
ture, and have convontionallZed and .
adopted the forms and colors OF ma
ture, 30 that they suggest TO us the
most lovely things In the handiwork
Of tlP Creator.
In Tulsa you have blessed your
selves with SO much that In heautl- .
ful in the way OF wonderful build .
ings and fine homes, and you have .
provided for your children a school
system OF which your city Is prOuN I
In in hainu a hlA "a
secure an art director for your city 4
schools who not only Is sensitive To
that which liz beautiful but who has
had long years OF training and eN-
perience from childhood In her
chosen work. Her work In your
schools should prove an inspiration
to the young folks who come under
her instruction. You have arranged
fine rooms for your art department
hut YOU have not yet provided for
those rooms beautiful examples, nor
even fine reproductions Of good
masterpieces in either sculpture or
painting and your supervisor Of your
art department Is not furnished with
proper tools with which to carry out
her work There should be some
thing in every sChoolroom SO beau
tirul that every boy and girl should
carry through life q memory OF that
one beautiful thing which should
furnish a standard by which to meas
ure beauty through life.
You may say that only very few
can hc artists or great designers.
Quito true, yet Stradivarius says:
"Tis God gives skill, but not with !
ont mems hands" aud mems hands |
need training in order to do things
beautifully, and mems minds need
the training, which comes from
proper environment in order to ap- ,
preciate the beautiful thing when
done.
Artists Die Poor.
A generation ago, our country al |
lowed Mcdowell To- die poor, Foe tO !
depart life In poverty. lnncss and |
WANT were never rich: NiakeloCk ,
was driven insane through want, be |
cause we could not appreciate gen
ius when Il was with us. Today II IL
A little better. but wonder II Tulsa .
knows much about the living men ~
genius In our country today We +
are so busy doing ths everyday /
and what we consider necessary |
things, that we seem tO have no /
time for the really finer things that |
make great wealth worth attaining /
and lie worth living
In our country today we have rs |
many great painters and sculptors 4.
"a ever lived in any one country at
any particular tIma IN the history
Of the world, and | wonder II your
clubs and societies here could make
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