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Show I: PRESIDENT'S 5 Ml FRESH I ADVOCATE j Now Living in Paris and Giv- i ing Aid to International ' Organization. $ Special Cable to The Tribune. I ! PARIS. April 9. Mrs. Annie Wilson Howe, President Wilson's sister, has be- B come an earnest promoter of the Fresh , Air Art society, an international organi- ffi zation now about ten months old, whose ; purpose is to stimulate healthy and ration- ft ' ! al ideas in every variety of art, literature, & music, painting and sculpture. K Mrs. Howe Is one of four honorary &, members, the others being the Princess i Alexandrine Wlndlsch-Graetz of Austria, r; ; the Karl of Plymouth and I.,ord Windsor, j : 1 Amour the thirty members , are AuRUSte r Eodlnf the sculptor; Camllle Flammarlon. ( the philosopher-astronomer, the Countess 5 Ilartenau widow of the. Battenberg prince .1 I of Bulgaria, and Lady Phyllis Windsor- ; ! Olive, who Is reputed to do the most i ! beautiful embroidery and decorating work ; In England. 1 j Some notable American members are 1 Grace King, the Louisiana novelist, v ar-, r rington Dawson, the novelist of Charles- ; I ton. S. C, John Powell, the composer and ' i Alice Stopford Green, the historian. Daw- j ; son and Powell are the founders of the h 6Mrsy' Howe, who has been living here $ for a vear. assisted In organizing Interest in France In the principles of the society, B which are as follows: 9 : We believe In the oneness of life. fl We believe in the oneness or art. u i We believe In the eternity of art as g standing for life. K t Wherefore art is a means, not an j : ! "Before the end can be conceived, life must be understood. R I Before life can. be understood 1U S responsibilities must be acknowledged. J That the end pursued by arts ? .: means mav be true, the life which art I ; represents must be true Wherefore life and art must alike j be founded upon conditions of sound 1 bodv. nerves, heart and mind s But such a foundation must itseir B 1 rest upon the great laws which have j promoted the evolution of life ! That art mav be controlled. lt must . contain qualities of reason and of con- structlon beneath all forces or sub- j leties of appeal. j : That art may not only exist but j I I may wax strong In the harmony which Is Inftnitv. it must, like life itself S ! obey the laws of health which combat 1, i : d6Tne' great facts of human history 1 1 have been those which bespoke the i 1 ! culminating spirit of race; the great g 1 works of human art have been those B i which expressed the highest spirit of S; ' i '"to acknowledge that -exploiters of i superficial emotions or seekers after e : 1 sheer eccentricity represent the spirit g . ' of our age, is to pronounce this age j unworthv to be a link between the t past as we know It and the future as . ' we have the right to desire it. g i ' Wherefore we declare ourseh es for f ; j the art as for the life which rest upon ( a respect for nature's laws in the . I fresh afr of health and the clear light of truth. C |