The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-31
Seeks To Help Country Save
 Four Billions

T. Chicago, H.. March 31-The United States in normal times sells "approxi- mately two billion dollars worth of raw materials to the art centers of Europe and buys it back in manufac- tured, artistic forms, such as textiles, wallpaper and cretons of the best design, for some six billions dollars .' says Col William Nelson Pelouze of this city, president of the new As sociatiOn of Arts and Industries. "Our organization seeks to help the coun- try save the four billions it pays for European industrial art We shall work chiefly in the middle West" The association has just been formed by the amalgamation of the Alliance of Art and Industry, which was originally the Art Alliance. with the National Art Service League.
 While making its argument in if nancial terms, the organization rep resents both manufa cturers who want better business and artists and art lovers who want a. more artistic America. The board of directors in cludes on the one hand John M Glenn of Chicago, secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers Association and Geo. R. Meyercord of Chicago, former pres ident of the same body, and on the other Robert Harshe and Frank G. Logan, director and vice president respectively of the Art Institute of Chicago.
 we must train American artisans
 
 competition otherwise ruinous," says Mr. Logan. Europe has numbers of schools for this great purpose; America has been singuIarly negH- gent. At last the manufacturers are beginning to wake up. This is a great hour for American Industry"
 The program of the association is three-foId. Primarily it seeks the es- tablishInent of an industrial art school or schools in the Middle West. Meanwhile it wi1 seek to make the most of the American talent already trained, chiefly through the place ment section designed to bring to- gether the designer and the employ ing manufacturer; and to "educate' the public taste.
 The association looks to n1anufac turers for the support of schools or departments of schools which teach industrial arts.
 It is believed the placement sec tfpn win enter asfield hitherto hardly scratched. Executives of the organ izaffon, who are communicating with existing employment agencies with view to their corporation, say that the other day Chicago agency re- cefved an application for work from designer in steel and wrought iron. a type of craftsman who is some what unfamiliar. This is believed to indicate that there are trained de- ;sigpers in the country of various win employers The organization iwA avoid the word "emp1oyment bu &re1" holding that the title, "place- 1mht section" will seem more digni- ffd to the artists and craftsmen who arv fittes1 to do the work demanded. Wien the war threw America on it's ovh resources, according to mem bel of the association, it was dis cotred that there was talent in Anerica equal to the tasks formerly iehgated to Europe
 h the 'teducation of the public tale" leaders of the movement see onH of their hardest tasks.
 lone lion in our path" says Col. PAouze. lis the infatuation of con s,,hers with the words made In Eu- role We mean to destroy this lion thFou9h lectures, literature. and par ticul9rly ehibits which will prove tha. America can produce artistic tI.ngs as well as Europe. We must slso teach people who buy American made goods to demand the tasteful ~ather than the trashy