Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10
ART FEDERATION NAMES
MEMORIAL BODY HERE
Practical Designs to Be Made
Available for Honoring
War Heroes

The American Federation of Arts has ap-
pointed a general committee on war memori-
ais whose services and advice are at the
call OF those throughout the United States
who are considering the erection of war
memorials
The purpose of this committee is to deal
with the entire subject Of war memorials in
such way as to afford assistance to off,
cials commissions and committees who are
earnestly endeavoring to make the memorials
of the great war express In a permanently
satisfactory manner feelings of honor sacri-
flee and patriotism.
The general committee had directed the
formation of special regional committees.
which are generally to he appointed by the
chairman: but II left to Arnold w.
Brunner to appoint the New York regional
committee to Morris Gray to appoint the
Boston committee and to Andrew Wright
Crawford to appoint the Philadelphia regional
committee The names OF the Philadelphia
committee were announced follows: An
drew Wright Crawford. Thomas Bayard Mrs.
Edward W. Biddle Edward w. Box. Charles
]. Cohen. George w. Dawson. Otto F. Ege,
Wilson Eyre, Jr., George Gibbs Spencer Gill
bert Charles Crafty. William F. Gray. ].
Mcclure Hamilton John Story jerks. Jr.
Archibald Johnson, J. Horace Mcfarland
Mrs j. Willis Martin, Leslie w. Miller,
Thomas l.. Montgomery. Clement b. Newbold.
Eli Kirk Price, J. l.. Shay, Thomas Kilby
Snkler. Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson. Joseph +.
Widener, Warren Wilbur.
Structural Memorials
Each of the members of the Philadelphia
regional committee and the general commit
tee is available for conference. without cost.
TOO often 1t has happened that war monu-
ments in the past have taken the form of
stone or metal soldiers with lie or varia-
tion in design and utterly devoid of artistic
feeling and eXpreSsion--the product of the
shop" says a statement by the committee.
mot the studio. The American artist should
be called upon TO design and execute any
structural memorial of this war, and in every
community the memorial should be an in
dividual, artistic creation.
Two brief circulars have been issued by
the American Federation OF Arts. One has
been issued by the National Commission OF
Fine Arts and one will shortly be issued by
the American Civic Association. They are
available on application to any member of the
committees. They all adopt the principles
enunc ated by the National Commission OF
Fine Arts which have also been approved by
| the National Academy of Arts and Letters
Memorials may take many forms. such as
a Flagstaff with memorial base. a fountain,
| a bridge a building devoted to high purposes,
| tablets. gateways. metals. mural decoration,
stained glass windows, the village green OF
other parks--and also symbolic groups or
portrait statues, in which success is not i'm
possible, but only talent of high order can
achieve It. The circular recommends secur-
ing an adviser to confer with him in regard
TO the location. the type of memorial and
the selection of the artist
General Committee
The members of the general committee are
William H. Taft, honorary chairman Charles
Moore Robert W. de Forest, Miss Leila Mech
| lin, Herbert Adams, Thomas Allen, Pierce
| Anderson Henry Bacon, James Barnes. Ed
win H. Blashfeld. George G. Booth, Arnold
W Brunner Charles A, Coolidge, Andrew
| Wright Crawford. Walter rengre. Charles w
| Eliot, John H. Finley. Daniel Chester French
| Cass Gilbert, Charles Crafty, Morris Gray
| Arthur A. Hammerschlag. Myron 7. Herriclt
| Charles l.. Hutchinson, Francis c. Jones
| otto H. Kahn, George Il! Kessler, William
! NJ Iadd, Samuel Mather. Charles c. Moore
| charles u. Norton Frederick Law Olmsted
| Senator James u, Phelan, ex-senator Elih'
| Root. James L. Slayden, dorado Taft, Johr
| II. Van Derlip. Joseph +. Widener, Ansley
| Wilcox.