Evening star., 1927-10-13

tions already in existence or under
construction. The courthouse and the
Jewish Building for Young Men and
Women. the new home of the board OF
education, and the Cathedral of Learn
ing of the University OF Pittsburgn.
with your many club buildings, VIII
all combine to give to the life or your
city wide variety OF archltecturai
heautv. important as these are in de-
tarmining the dominant features OF
your community, yet we should look
in another direction for the ultimate
object of all these efforts. Their hnal
abiding place is around the freslde.
The chief evidence of your success,
volr art. your devotion. is in your
hanpv and cortented homes. Gradu'
aIlv, through long years of incessant
toll under the guidance of inspired
leaders. we have been perfecting our
civilization and raising the standard
of the material, mental, and moral lie
of the people.
Cites Carnegie Career
at was one of your great citizens,
moved by deep love of humanity
and a desire to promote these ends'
who established Carnegie institute.
Coming here as an alien. ne oeSan
work in this city when a mere chiid
for 81 90 a week. lie rose rapidly 10
the position of superintendent or the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, where he
came to realize that the Bessemer
process would bring the steel rail into
general use. He became one of the
great producers of steel, which
brought him a large fortune. I once
heard him say that in the Old World
wealth was quickly appropriated by
the nobility and used chiefly for the
benefit of the aristocracy. but in
America he wished it kept for the peo-
pie and dedicated to the uses of de-
mocracy. In accordance with this pol
icy, out of what he called his surplus
wealth he built a free library and
added museum of natural history
and a gallery of fine arts, which are
now housed in this imposing struc-
ture. The library has grown until 1t
contains $4,000 volumes. It's prac-
teal value is apparent in its annual
circulation of about 3,000,0 900 among
the people of Pittsburgh.
"Mr. Carnegie was an intensely
practical man. He only had the adj
vantages of the most meager school
ing in his youth. Perhaps he was
compensated for this loss by having
parents endowed with a most sturdy
character. Wishing. however, to pro-
vide the youth of the coming genera
tions with training that should es-
pecally fit them for industrial life,
he started a trade school which later
became the Carnegie Institute of
Technology. This is now attended by
6.G00 students, representing every
State in the Union and most of the
~ nj of hn
methods. Mr.. Carnegie, in common
with most of the other men of large
wealth in our country, has made great
outlays for the service of the people
and for the extension of the princi.
pies of democracy.
Good Thoughts and Deeds.
Good thoughts and good deeds have
an inherent power for development
They grow and expand. What was in
its inception a local art gallery for
the benefit of this immediate locality
quickly assumed the nature of an in
ternational institution. You are now
holding the Twenty-sixth International
Exhibition of paintings. About IS for.
eign countries are represented. There
are around 400 pictures by about so
artists, of whom 30 are Americans.
Later these pictures will be shown at
the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and
Sciences, and for the first time the
exhibit will go west of the Rocky
Mountains to San Francisco.
'The exhibition this year has been
made possible through the generosity
Of two of your distinguished citizens,
Andrew W. Mellon and Richard B.
Mellon. They stand out as men who
are devoting themselves to the service
of humanity, one by remaining as a
leader in great financial and indus.
trial enterprises and the other by turn
ing his great talents to the admins.
tration of public finance as Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States,
where his leadership i'm the last six
years has been greatly instrumental
in restoring the economic equilibrium
of the world. What has been taking
place in your city is characteristic of
many groups of men over the entire
Nation. Men of large resources in
our country more and more devote
themselves to the service and welfare
of the people.
1T should not escape our attention
that this is an international exhibit
tion. 1t is wholly eotemporaneous in
its conception. Mr.. Carnegie was in