Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-24
WOULD ENCOURAGE
ART MANUFACTURE
AMONG AMERICANS
Association Plans Schools for
Development of Artisans in
United States.

Chicago, -(Correspondence OF
The Associated Press).-The United
States in normal times sells ''approxim-
ately two billion dollars worth of raw
materials to the art centers of Europe
and buys it back in manufactured
artistic forms. such as textiles. wall
paper and cretons of the best design
for some six billion dollars" says Col
William Nelson Pelouze of this city
president Of the new Association of
Arts and Industries. Our organiza-
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 amalga-
nation of the Alliance of Art and In
dustry which was originally the Art
Alliance. with the National Art Ser
vice league.
Would Improve Art
While making its argument In finan-
cial terms. the organization represents
both manufacturers who want better
business and artists and art lovers
who want more artistic America. The
board of directors includes on the one
hand John NJ Glenn of Chicago, sec
retary of the Illinois Manufacturers
Association and George Meyercord of
Chicago, former president of the same
body, and on the other Robert Harshe
and Frank G. Lagoon, director and vice
president respectively of the Art In
stitute of Chicago.
We must train American artisans
and designers in order to survive com
petition otherwise ruinous,' SAYS Mr.
Logan. Europe has numbers of
schools for this great purpose; Amer
lea has been singularly negligent. At
least the manufacturers are beginning
to wake up. This is a great hour for
American industry"
To Establish Schools
The program of the association is
three fold. Primarily it seeks the es-
tablishment of u industrial art school
or schools in the middle west. Mean
while il will seek to make the most of
the American talent already trained.
chiefly through the placement section
designed to bring together the designer
and the employing manufacturer; and
to educate the public taste.
The association looks to manufacture
ers for the support of schools or de-
partments of fschools which teach in
dustrial arts
1t is eblieved the placement section
will enter field hitherto hardly
LAtCutiNtS bI IUe OTRdDlZ-
alton, who are communicating with ex-
listing employment agencies with a view
to their cooperation, say that the other
day Chicago agency received an ap-
plication for work from q designer in
steel and wrought iron. type of crafts
man who is somewhat unfamiliar. This
is believed to Indicate that there are
trained designers in the country of va
rious types though there are no chan |
nels specifically for placing such per-
sons with employers. The organization |
will avoid the word employment bu- |
roau,' holding that the title. place |
ment section" will seem more dignified !
to the artists and craftsmen who are
fitted to do the work demanded. When |
the war threw America on its own re- !
sources. accordingto members of the |
association, it was discovered that there !
was talent in America equal to the |
tasks formerly delegated to Europe.
Must Educate Public
In the education of the public
taste leaders of the movement see /
one of their hardest tasks.
"One lion in our path" SAYS Colonel
Pelouze, "is the infatuation of con
sumers with the words made in Eu-
rope. We mean TO destroy this lion |
through lectures, literature and par
ticularly exhibits which will prove that
America can produce artistic things as
well as Europe. We must also teach l
people who buy American goods
TO demand the tasteful rather than the I
trashy"