Nationalism in and out of america. If the nationality be
a group of men motive ideals; shamefully debased and
degraded during the last administrations; so that we see
the official structure of our country almost completely rotted;
then the geographic locus may be neglected.

The degradation of? began perhaps in a seemingly harmless,
or even commendable endeavour on of the Taft administration.
Teddy having talked so much about action and reform, Taft felt
his term ought to be distinguished by something. And having
no more imagination than the present incumbent, he went in for
" efficiency ". Having eight dollars on string in one place,
and wasting thousands on new dies and machinery in another
( a large lot having been condemned by an economy expert,
ignorant of the change in nation

seasons habit, etc. all of which
wouldnt have matterd if it hadnnt been an assault on leisure.

The lesiure of the fooicial class, that has up to then
represented in some degree civilization and the amenities.

With the driving of these pleasanter people out of
govt. service ( which HAD been perfectly efficient, and in
which the good will of the employees counted for something
an asset, incomprehensible to efficiency experts, who
never themselves perform some important routine, flawlessly
from one decade to another, and do not understand the
psychology of those that do.

These pleasanter people, driven out, or
degraded and driven under the time clock

( all of which notions of efficiency
are NOT inseperable from the beauty of machines,
invented
precisely to increase and not banish leisure and the
amenities ) ...

to continue, this apparently harmless
beginning was followed by the black reign of Wilson,
the services, especially those an american living abroad
ahs the misfortune to get ( against which
rub.

In the lack of any democratic party,
flooded with the scum dregs of society, Y.M.C.A.
secretaries from dunville, Castoria, protinitis, etc.
who hadnt even forgotten the conception of
re public, ( republica ) as public convenience, or
the idea of their function as public service, for
the good reason that they had never know that concern

But thought they were there to govern. I,e,
to boss the citizens, as Jonas the farm hand bosses
the hogs in his master's absence.

( given the general depression of the line
of consciouness and civilization, durinh the war : folloed
by freak legislations, the closing of frontiers,
article 211 of penal code, volstead, "arding, xthe
passport regulation ,

an idiocy two centuries out of date,
and?

lack of historic perspective in whole attutuce of govt.
Coolidges lack of generll vision, broad breadth

or??any??to??, though a blessed relief after his
unspeakable predecessor.

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With the decay of govt. parallel and hopeful development of private initiative, that is to say a very few individuals, BE? who had understood the credit system,

Carnegie: with the local libraries, a blessing to the few people stranded in village; far less an instrument of dissemination distribution that it might be if cooperating in an intelligent manner with living writers. or aware of contemporay活? activites, based on some other ideal than "per thou." thousand".

Rockefeller: medical endowments, about which I know nothing in detail, but which seem to have a laudable aim.

Morgan: least developed mentally. Enormous collections, possibly bring medoel of past art, but from what one hears collected on an almost commercial basis, i,e, sense of cash value. The library one of the least intelligent, those highly expensive collections known. i,e, mss. already printed, and of which reasonably good texts are abailable, in some case, only too much so. most recent, most enlightened,

Guggenheim: really? enlightened, definitely aiming at " increasing the artistic validity of the country, of helping those artists who can deliver the work.

i,e, picking the men of capacity, of faculty, rather than those who have conformed with certain specification.

results to be watched with interest. and efficacy to depend solely on the acumen of the selecting committee,

the scheme, liberal, lucid, as nealy perfect, as cd. be expected from first draft.

any

Only adjunct, a selector with patron's flair, which is as rare as the flair of genius itself, and is infact its own sort of genius.

The personal interest and understanding of the arts, that will not expect the artist to fill in any sort of paper form whatsoever.

But will give employment to the artist.

This means historic perspective, and a, perhaps, correlation of the arts, and men painting walls instead of scraps of paper to be stowed in museum drawers.

or

framed stuff for the parlour"
to go in gilt frames,

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not spending wasting energy in useless irritation against idiotic social irritations; with the civic and political activites in the hands of competent persons, who know at least a little of their tradition, how formed, then why conceived. ( if not familiar with erres, at least acquainted at least with Thos. "efferson's writings. ( speech against )

etc.

and in the new correlation ( notice return to the gothic, or even the romanesque, ) but a new correlation, how far ave we got .?

Via the cursed, somewhat miscalled "abstract" painters and sculptors, we have got to the point of noticing form ..... in machines.

The ideal wd. be a??machine? not a world dominated by machines to the exclusion and destruction of architecture, painting, the? literature and the amenities, but a world containg a few machines, too good to be melted down when the? w superceded by a new process, a few machines w to stand with Aigues Mortes, or the Cathedral of Modena, as a sort of record . a recod of that their particular part of our period.

Me aning as the cathedral meant, a finer idea of form, than the hovel; and meaning always, the amenities, leisure, the time to do something well.

(( loss of all sense of the distinction between the public and private affairs. in which latter the govt. has no right whatsoever. and is as much out of place as a lump of dung on a salad plate.

 individual action, no need of making
 Gug, next phase, no restrictions, into institution
 the direct act as normal, pleasurable, not a??arity??
 not elemosinary
 not?im?the?least, but?lura

The beauty of machines will probably be found in those
parts where the energy is most concentrated.
That will be in mobile parts, and in the parts
designed to hold the mobile parts in their orbit
proper orbits.

In these points where the energy concentrates
is concentrated,
the thought of the designers will have been most
employed,

and with the perfection of a given type of
machine, not the thoughts of one inventor, but of a
lineage of inventors.

( as in mastery of great types in art )
or periods

TA?THE?PHOTOS?? the beauty ( aptness to a given end )
is most apparent in the photos of details,
isolated

TA?THE?TAQuIreT?PReSS

Farm machiner has been mainly ugly, the farm machine is
so often not one macine, but a number of little machines,
or a group of serveral m

assemblage of groups of machines, hitched together
without law, necessity or architecture.

The immobile parts, obey the aesthetic of architecture,
a subject already discussed for some centuries

and on which we need attempt nothing
no verbal manifestations for the moment.
in the main

The makers of machines have been mediocre acrchitects,

but/they/have//been////masters/in/their//own//differen/
mode. had

A?TAE? this has postponed appreciation of mechanical beauty,

All I have tried to do is to assemble photos that wd.
somewhat emphasize the different, show the aptnes of the
"spare part" or detail m;

UNIRED

under law, freed from encumberence of the " entire
machine" so often merely a fortuituous, unthought total,
or if " thought ", thought only with mediocre, or hitectura
taste.

the " genius " being , ut ante, concerned with

the efficiency of the machine at its " points of crisis ".

As for american art, the amount of intelligence concentrated upon a given area in the machine, perhaps ecedes that concentrated on a given surface of monumental scupltuart or tinted canvass.

at least in what proportion it does
so exceed, the machine, or part of machine, offers
greater interest that the compared " work of art "

The field of reference is perhaps limited, or
can be extended only in the profundity of the
beholders own field of reference.

( the 5000 pages
required for this discussion have already been
filled by others )

but in the dimension "aptitude to given purpose"
act
the referring is less vitiated in the fine machine,
than by the sham art work.

Aesthetically

Satisfactory where it is mechanical, unsatisfactory where architectural.

That is to say, where mechanical, where intelligence or series of intelligences have concentrated (as in maestria in gt. types or periods of art),

unsatisfactory in architecture, fortuitous, or only moderately thought out.

Degree of mechanic satisfac. probably greater am. in? than pictorial, formal satisfac. in painting and sculp. where circle of reference, if wider, is less exact OP?

In detail:

Nos. 1-15 Sellers and Co. most suited to purpose of this issue, taken with greatest understanding of our immediate aim.

Nos. 16-2, . architectural elements, predominate, photography, maximum, quality, thanks to

photographer

Cranes: rely of subject matter, .
magnificent., static form not
clearly distinguishable in
Inquiter press, architecture. from mechanic in photos.

Nos. gt. scope, for photographer, who
will detach the detail.

Youngstown, thanks. hardl in running as machines.
structural properties.

Levels, precision, instruments, not strictly machines.

Hardly accept, as America, or as the best we can do, a
periodical: with whatever large exotics, choses because
of their reputations, and inserted without much coherence
( or any )

or design;

mainly? consisting?

receives its prevailing tone from a group of supple
hack writers : ssrs. Seldes, Rosenfeld

( clever ) ( lushly verbose )

McBride, wooden headed;

and in second degree from a group of
young men distinguished chiefly by mediocre ambition :

such as M.Cowley

Cuthbert Wright, and W.Franck;

mediocre in quality, but
varying in quantity, thus Mr Waldo Franck has probably more of
it, than say : mssrs, Wolcott, Aiken, and Edmond Wilson
altogether.

americanism in relation.
re/rgeographic position, and where printed.

and precisely author who could not by any conceivable
accident appear in T.Q. ;

perhaps best definition of

what we are not, and do not want.

GENERALITIES on present state of machines.

The whole seldom or never presents that harmony which one might
be led to expect from the parts *presented/significantly*

Beauty in mobile parts, and in parts which hold them in their
loci ; in the places where the energy concentrates.

The crane, more *sat isfac*. than pseudo gothick buildings,
mod.

All parts , or nearly all , due to structural reason or
necessity.

Guage here the aptitude to
of beauty , in these things, aptitude to given purpose ,
( what has at least been given in one
trætise on aesthetics as universal guage .

what I have seen in at least one treatise on aestheti
cs. as univ. guage.

Sorting out these things, prob,find : degrees of satisfaction ,

1. points of concentration or convergence of energy ,
( in transformation ? )
in application . ?

2, mobile parts ,

3. parts more immediately concerned with keeping them in
locus.

4. the artarchitectural elements . these usually mediocre .
but, note effect of aesthetic grown

out of eye training, got from looking at machines,
. 'ere interesting point, in effect in other allied
appliances, not strictly machines : tank, guage ,
level.

many parts of which fortuitous , but the feeling
for precision , ofound in machines , already having effec t.
single

stray observatio s : farm machinery ugly , usually not a machin
but lot of little machines of s me sort , or congeries,
several groups of machines , hitched together .

stilted/

Architectural elements, under general architect. laws.
static