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Show Dallin and Hafen Are Important Figures In Springville's National Art Fame was wrought while his children cded for bread; lives on like Mil-ton's Mil-ton's "Areopagitica"; lives on ke he '111 Penserosa"; lives on ike Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata Artists of the world come to join hands with Paul Revere and he "Tiny Tepee." Scholars statesmen, states-men, citizens from all walks of life and from various endeavors, come to admire the contributions, most of which are produced in some poor attic, where dwells some great artist. Former Cinderella Now A Countess I Local Writer Tells of Similarity In the Life Histories of Dallin And Hafen and of Their Rise to Fame By J. BERT SUMSION, M. S. Two men there were: born on the same day of the same month of the same year. February 12, 1809, gave the world two great characters; one born in a log cabin in Harclin county, Kentucky, the other born in Shrewsbury, England ; one to free the shackles of 1 - 1 & a. As we sit and ponder over iub productions of these great men, are we going to, forget a Dallin who labored in adversity, or a Hafen who, when invited to eat a delightful dinner, pulled from his pocket a crust of bread and a piece of cheese, who refused to eat a delicious dinner for fear that he could not go back to bread and cheese on the morrow? That was a sacrifice to art to ideals to a worthy aim to a noble ambition. Mr. Hafen and Mr. Dallin directed di-rected all their powers, faculties, and inspirations in one great direction di-rection toward one unwavering aim and purpose. Twenty-six long and tedious years Gibbon worked on his "Decline and Fall of Rome." Hume's history of England exacted exact-ed thirteen hours a day for many years. Newton wrote his "Chronology "Chron-ology of Ancient Nations" sixteen times before it was published. Bancroft Ban-croft directed his time and talent for twenty-six years on his "History "His-tory of the United States." Mr. Hafen and Mr. Dallin followed fol-lowed a great purpose their tedious te-dious devotion to a lofty ideal has carried Springville to a high and definite pinnacle of observation in Utah and throughout the various states of the union and even to foreign countries. Theirs was a unique and definite rendition a distinctive service bathed in simplicity, sim-plicity, which is the crowning excellence ex-cellence in art. fields of Payson where sixty bushels bush-els of wheat were gleaned to tide a family through a cold and bleak winter. Thousands are now coming com-ing to the art gallery to pay homage hom-age to these two men. Do they think of that log cabin which sheltered shel-tered a Dallin, or of that gleaning in the field which sustained a family? ' On the shores of that same lake where Mr. Dallin formed Indian images, Mr. Hafen sat with his brush and paint. Surrounded by rushes, mosquitoes, singing birds, refreshing air, sparkling water, with high mountain background whose rugged, snow-capped peaks inspired the artists to present an ideal to the world. A "Tiny Tepee," an "Aspen Grove," a "Garden of Eden," a massive "Sycamore" now compel the observing world to forget for-get the family in the wheat field, or the family in a small room in Salt Lake partaking of a meal on the carpetless floor, with no chairs, no dishes, and scanty victuals; vic-tuals; but today the world comes to pay homage to the name of John Hafen. This uniue and distinctive contribution carries Springville to the palaces of the great, to homes of culture and refinement. re-finement. These two lads have climbed round by round from the log home and the gleaned field to the massive mas-sive art structure where thousands thous-ands come to admire productions of great artists. Here in the art gallery in Springville rests the ideals which were once formed and fashioned on the shores of Utah lake. The efforts of these two men were not made of stones and brick and steel which perishes by rust and decay, but their ideals live on I like Verdi's "LaTraviata," which intellectual blight that had crush-1 ed the freedom of research during dur-ing the middle ages, wrote a book called the "Origin . of Species," sailed on a boat called the Beagle, stirred the world with the adventures adven-tures of a new science. The Ken-tuckian Ken-tuckian crowded years of work into a short life, saved America in an "armed division," and gave America a new unity with a malice toward none, and a nation of indestructible in-destructible states with all men therein free. Two men there were: born not on the same day nor in the same place, but miles apart in different countries, under different flags, different customs. Nevertheless, they came together in a tiny village vil-lage situated in a distinctive valley val-ley in the midst of high mountains moun-tains and by a beautiful lake. In this far-western city, Cyrus E. Dallin and John Hafen presented present-ed a unique and distinctive service. The mother of Cyrus E. Dallin traversed tra-versed many miles over the earth's surface to a little log house with dirt floor and a dirt roof. There a son was born who later enshrined enshrin-ed that pioneer mother in bronze, and the bronze, emblematical of the mother, withstands the winter's win-ter's blasts and the sun's scorch- f. ing rays. By and by that son of this pioneer pio-neer woman, fashioned Paul Revere, Re-vere, a singular character previously pre-viously presented by a great poet to the countless millions of the American commonwealth. Every schoolboy has caught the sweet tones of "Listen, listen, my children, child-ren, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere!" Thousands now pay homage to Mr. Dallin, who brought Paul Revere to the Washington school, which school carried the name of the first president of the republic. Paul Revere and patriotic General Gen-eral Washington, once contemporaneous contempor-aneous in an adventurous service, came together in the little village of Springville a dirt floor, a dirt roof, a log cabin, a son, a Washington, Wash-ington, a Paul Revere. While his companions were fishing fish-ing and hunting snipes - on the shores of Utah lake, Cyrus E. Dallin Dal-lin moulded little Indians from the clay from the same lake shores on which his companions hunted snipes. Hour after hour tiny Indian In-dian images rose and fell, but by and by an image rose to fall no more the "Appeal to the Great Spirit" was fashioned and carried NEW YORK The barge captain's cap-tain's daughter, comely Wilnia Baard, who is now a countess, is pictured with her husband, Count Nava de Tafo, young Spanish nobleman. They were married February 27. The Count is cousin to the Duke of Alba and member of one of the most celebrated families in Europe Wihua achieved front page fame little more than a year ago when she was presented to society by a group of fourteen prominent inen-about-town who acted as her "uncles' for the debut which was a take-off on Brenda Frazier's elaborate coming com-ing out party. on wings of applause to the world's metropolis thence into the homes of the republic which had given Mr. Dallin birth. Tourists Tour-ists by the thousands came to the state capitol of Utah. Upon entering enter-ing that great, granite edifice they face an Indian image the Great Massasoit strong and stately, an Indian image which has also arisen aris-en to fall no more. This devotion to art and talent has carried Springville the Art City to the cities of the republic and to the cities of the world. The cities of France, of England, of Norway, or Germany, and cities throughout the world, render homage hom-age to the little village in the midst of the Wasatch mountains, moun-tains, the "Art City by the Lake." Mr. Hafen came from the hills of Switzerland to the gleaning |