Show art in kitchen chairs vin an Every everything thin the memory of amerlean american WITHIN wa citizens still young such a convention as recently settled down to three days of 0 ou siness in washington could not havo have been assembled it was tile the convention of the american federation of arts arti and attendance included not only painters sculptors and art patrons but also that familiar figure who when a certain type of superior persons talk about art is described by those persons persona its as the tired fired business man among we th e three bundred delegates from every state in the union anil and from canada to this session the business ronn was conspicuous but lie he was I 1 aut tired and least tired dred of all those present was that extremely practical economist jolin john it glenn secretary of 0 tho the illinois manufacturers association what are you puttering around here about art for lie he was asked oh im converted 11 said john glenn im for art its good and its practical the illinois manufacturers association tins lias got behind it now this Is the way of it if youre kanuf manufacturing 11 actu ri ng a ch a ir oven even a kitchen chair give it good lines make it beautiful instead of ugly it wont cost any more and beauty Is good for people it makes lern em better citizens same saine way with any line you may bo be in even if its cheap jewelry select a good design instead of I 1 a bad one throw tile museum wide open make it work make it show a return on the investment why illinois manufacturers who are going to tj fl nance a great school of industrial do sign in connection with tile the chicago art institute are represented at tills this convention now that rough and ready epitome describes better betten than any dignified prospectus could the intensely human and practical purposes at the american federation 0 of arts copious reports tell how last apar ar the association sent over the land more than worth of fee art exhibits for the pleasure and profit of f tile the plain people some of those tread treasures s went into sequestered comma where a good picture much less a great one had never before been seen i |