The Washington herald., 1921-05-24

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URGES ART GALLERY
As SOURCE OF PROFIT.
Establishment Of a national gall
iery of art in Washington that
would pay both in artistic values
and dollars and cents was urged by
Joseph Penneu. American etcher,
stopping at the Powhatan hotel
Had II not been for the war We
would have had such an institution
here. We had the site. plot ground
adjoining the new National Musedm;
We had an appropriation of s7.o0o.-
goo, but the war came on and the
money was diverted to shells and
ammunitions." Such an art gallery
would mean practical, cash profits
to Washington. the artist said. The
galleries In Venice. London and
Rome attract yearly millions of the
weaithiest people. who come to
view II and incidentally leave some
OF their possessions in those cities.
Another project favored by Mr..
Pennell is the establishment by the
government OF national craft
schools.
SAYS U. 8. NEEDS
SKILLED CRAFTSMEN.
I'VE have no skilled craftsmen in
America" he said. Our furniture
is all copied after European mod
els. Wherever skill Is required we
depend on the foreigner. The estab-
lishment of such schools, rather
than the tariff. is the way to pro-
tect ourselves against European
competition. The tariff Is merely a
means to protect the incompetent
and lazy. The way to meet compe-
tition is to make better work than
the Europeans do.
Tariff. or no tariff" Mr.. Pennell
continued. "as soon as peace Is ON
cially declared we will have an in
how here of foreign-made goods,
because the American people want
those goods, because they are bet
ter than those We produce over
here. The German colors and dyes
cannot be produced here, and no
tariff protection will cause them to
be produced here.N The Germans
know how to make these colors
and dyes. and they are not going
to. tell us. The institution of Amer
lean schools that would produce
students of these subjects as capa-
Bile as those of Germany is the only
successful answer to German COM
petition"
DEPLoREs ALL
THINGS AMERICAN.
I'VE in America are obsessed with
quantity and have cast quality
overheard Where are the homes
being built now that can compare
with Mount Vernon, with the homes
built by the early American aris-
tocracy. The buildings that we are
putting up in Washington today do
not approach the Treasury building
or the Capitol in beauty"
There is no bright spot that II
can see on the entire horizon of
things American" Mr.. PenneIl con-
tinued gloomiIy. Prohibition has
done more to degrade America than
anything that has ever happened
here. 1t has taken the ambition out
Of life, and is in great measure re-
sponsible for the situation existing
fn the world of labor"
- Turkey went to smash SO years
after Mohammed introduced prohi-
bition. America will follow in the
same path in hve years." was the
artists dismal forecast
SEES LITTLE HOPE
IN NEW LITERATURE.
Asked IL he did not believe that
Europe would initiate America in
respect to the wet issue, Mr.. PEN
neil answered emphatically in the
negative.
what about American literature,
does the new school of writers like
Theodore Dresser or James Cabell
inspire any hope7" Mr.. Penneil was
asked.
II know of no American litera-
ture now that Is worth while. The
great American writers, Emerson
and Poe, are of the past Poe is
better known in, Europe than he is
in his native land"
Shaw, the English author. Mr..
PenneH termed a magnificent ad-
vertiser." For H. G. Wells. q more
ldNOTdOit NtTulCt was registered.
Post impressionism and cubism
were the p. T. Barnum products of
art. useful only to humbug and
separate fools from their cash, Mr..
Pennell held.
SAYS ART CONVENTION
LACKED RESULTS.
81 am one OF the few 100 per-
cent Americans, God knows how
few there are left" Mr.. Pennell
continued.
When asked how he defined 100
per cent American. Mr.. Pennell re-
piled, One who loves his country
and can see beyond the end of his
nose"
While on the matter of defini-
tions. Mr.. Pennell was asked to de-
fine. art. People for thousands of
years have been trying to define
art and no one has ever succeeded
in doing it," was the reply. 1
"The results of the three-day con-
vention in Washington of the
American federation of arts" Mr..
Pennell said. were nil. 1T was
simply a mutuals admiration festi-
val" d. s.
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