The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
Making Ideal Real
The Supreme Beings name Is the Creator.
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

The Supreme Beings name is the Creator.
 Man is a child of Him. Consequently the divinest thing he does is to create.
 He cannot make something out of nothing, but he can do what is almost as miraculous, he can make the real out of the ideal.
 The root meaning of the word "poet" is maker" How he makes" is indicated in the familiar lines of Shakespeare's "A Mid summer Nights Dream:
 The poets eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heayen
 And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poets pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy noth- ing
 A local habitation and a name.
 There is a dash of poetry in all good work. whether housekeeping, railroading or milli- nery. Just that flash of the ideal made real distinguishes the artist from the artisan, craftsmanship from labor, the author from the hack writer.
 This is the true patent of nobility, the seed of undying fame. cheap, low deed can bring you notoriety only that deed where the ideal becomes real can bring you real fame, which is "a monument more lasting than brass"
 The ''Hallelujah Chorus" from the Mes siah" is sung throughout Christendom every Christmas. It is king of choruses. No com position has successfully disputed its place. That is because Handel saw heaven opened and heard the angels of God singing, and somehow made his fancy in real music.
 When you see Michael Angelos Moses" or Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa," or the cathedral of Cologne, you have the strange feeling of something peeping out at you from the infinite unreal; you are brushed oy the l breath of eternity.
 But the great masters are set as lighthouses to guide common lives. You and ], in our small corner, can live as Nluminously, II we catch their secret
 Marriage that has lost it's poetry, its sense of ideal values, the tender, spiritual slgnltl- cancies of love, becomes prison and horror.
 Motherhood is irksome where no unseen wings flutter above the cradle.
 What laboring men need more than any of the things they are organizing to get IS the spirit that shall change work into craftj for mans best wage is of the spirit.
 Business that has no ideal is deadly. If it means only amassng wealth the day will soon come to us that Matthew Arnold described of Augustan Rome:
 On that hard pagan world disgust
 And secret loathing fell Deep weariness and sated lust | Made human life hell. | It is the power to make the ideal real that makes the cook a chef, the actor a star, the singer a diva, the preacher a prophet, tho teacher a spiritual torch, the politician a statesman, the editor brine minister of public opinion" the woman "a spirit yet a woman, too."
 The only beneficent part of religion is the color, warmth, and glow it gives to humdrum lives.
 The world is hungry and thirsty for this power to make real the ideal. Down in the core of our souls we do not want money nor blare of place and prestige; we want the touch of the Ithuriel spear that shall make daily things wonderful shoot our common place existence through with bright miracles. and rain mystery, light, and beauty into bar lren days.