The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-04-04
Sells Material
And Buys it Back

SnicaSo, ILL.,, Marcn Sl.-Ihe Unit
ed States in normal times sells "ap-
proXimately 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 de-
sign, for some six billion dollars, u
says Col. William Nelson PelouZe of
this city, president of the new Asso-
citation 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 orig
inally the Art Alliance, with the Ma
tional Art Service League.
While making it's argument in finan-
cial terms, the organization represents
both manufacturers who want better
business and artists and art lovers
who want n more artistic America
The board of directors includes on the
one hand John M. Glenn of Chicago
secretary of the Illinois Manufac-
turers' Association and George r.
Meyercord of Chicago, former presi-
dent of the same body, and on the
other Robert Harshe and Frank G.
Logan, director and vice president re-
spectively of the Art Institute of Chi
cago.
"We must train American artisons
and designers in order to survive
competition otherwise ruinous," SAYS
Mr.. Logan. Europe has numbers of
schools for this great purpose; Amer
lea has been singularly negligent. AT
last the manufacturers are beginning
to wake up. This is great hour for
American industry
The program of the association is
three-fold. Primarily it seeks the es-
tablishment of an industrial art school
or schools in the Middle West. Mean
while it will seek to make the most
of the American talent already train
ed, chiefly through the placement Sec
tion designed to bring together the de-
signer and the employing manufac-
turer; and to educate" the public
taste.
The association looks to manufac-
turers for the support of schools or
departments of schools which teach
industrial arts.
1t is believed the placement section
will enter field hitherto hardly
scratched. Executives of the organl-
zation, who are communicating with
existing employment agencies with
a view to their cooperation, say that
the other day Chicago agency re-
ceived an application for work from d
designer in steel and wrought iron, a
type of craftsman who is somewhat
unfamiliar. This is believed to indi-
cate that there are trained designers
in the country Of various types though
there are no channels specifically for
placing such persons with employers
The organization will avoid the word
employment bureau" holding that
the title, placement section" will
seem more dignified to the arstists
and craftsmen who are fitted to do the
work demanded. When the war threw
America on it's own resources, accord
ing to members of the association, il
was discovered that there was talent
in America equal to the tasks former
ly delegated to Europe.
In the Education of the public
taste" leaders of the movement see
one Of their hardest tasks.
"One lion in our path" says Col
PelouZe, sis the infatuation Of con.
sumers with the words made in Eu.
rope We mean to destroy this lior
through lectures, literature and par.
ticularly exhibits which will prove
that America can produce artistic
things as we'll as Europe. We must
also teach people who buy American,
made goods to demand the tasteful
rather than the trashy"