Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-28
EDUCATION AND
ARCHITECTURE
R0TARYTHEME
Architect Tells Club Inside
Ideal of Present Day
Progress.

Education and Architecture" was
the subject of an address delivered
Wednesday before the Great Falls Re-
tary club by Johannes van Teylingen Of
the firm Of Bird & van Teylingen, ar
chitects. The speaker went deuply into
the art and ideals of architecture, COM
bining them effectively with education
as vital forces in mankind's Struggle
towards perfection"
Education" he said in part. IS in
tuitively desired by man for its own
good, not in a narrow egotistical sense
but in that of an universal brother
hood-that he may live to a purpose.
returning unto dust not as a slave and
victim Of his own follies, fears or
vices, but as a man among men, noble
and Frees advancing into the eternal
mystery of being.
State of Being.
Education" he said in part, sis in
chitecture reflects and records it. But
between the perfectly educated man
and the pure repression of his being
there is an endless road Of ceaseless
struggle to fully become emancipated
from the impediments to progress.
Amidst this dreary d%rudgery of life,
where all the good and beautiful seem
to be considered only in their worth in
gold, when deceit is SO common as to be
recognized as a necessary Element of
success, with art defiled and prosti-
t4ted to bring money returns or money
invested. in using the identifying Gre
ations of the past to cover the hideous-
ness Of our own corruption, the out
look for any marked improvement
seems dreary were it not that there
dwells within the soul of man the no.
BILE desire to rise.
But how and where?
Men may look into their churches
and may p%erchance obtain O vision of
that advancement and idealism in life
of God and humanity. But it is gen
orally so encountered with crecds, theo-
logical definitions and sophistry, ritual
istic prayers, lofty sermons that are
too often but miserable harrangues, SO
alloyed with the sins of our social and
economic life las to anaesthitize its
idealism.
Men look about their organizations
and only see there creatures like them
selves, hungry to rise, but all weighted
down by the u~nbreakable letters of
economies. In vain the eye scans the
horizon for a light that shall lead man
out of the bondage of darkness, until
the beacon Of education reddens the
sky, and it is in the building that shall
house their way to this precious light
that the struggle for mans intellectual
freedom shall be intellectually re-
Elected.
Greeks as Example.
CAS- the Greeks built their temples
reverently and learnedly to their my
biological gods; as the Romans built to
their own civic pride, and the early
Christians, lovingly, tenderly and ma
jestically reflected their piety to God
and their reverential love to Christ. so
in our modern era, when NEUROLOGICAL
gods are only known in literature, civic
pride in ward politics, and idealism can
only advance and be perfected by high
or reasons and nobler aspirations
founded upon education, our schools
shall receive u%nstintingly the earnings
of orr labor and it's architecture reflect
mans noblest struggle-the struggle
towards perfection"
Report was made to the club by
Frank 3. Brown. chairman of the Ro-
tary Empty Stocking club, on the work
done during the Christmas season. The
club reached 269 families and 1877
persons. OF this number. 299 were
adults and 1913 were children.