Show y 1 Let Critics Moan 1 I It t ir k A N AR rY of workmen is busy about a ai anew i iT new building The building is on n a tremendous tre tre- scale than anything ever I f tt scale greater greater built 1 built huilt before Only the first couple of stories I unfinished structure is monA monstrous monstrous mon mon- c Vre rire a done and the A bare unadorned with scarcely a hint I of I more lore to come Passersby see this huge structure with its army of workmen and they cry All Ah l how ow ugly What a lack of proportion proportion pro pro- portion of beauty of grace How blind those of the workers builders must be But some h have ve seen the completed plans for the build build- ing i g So they only smile and go on with th their ir work Just remember this this' little story read of visiting Europeans European's Europeans European's Euro Euro- t the next time you some beans bean's criticisms of America as a country t devoid of the finer graces criticism has been highly Mi That sort of i popular for the last ten years you know And it is met by a lot of yes unfortunately it-is it is true apologies from this country Every ship brings brings' them over over these these aesthetic Europeans Europeans Europeans Euro Euro- who have caustic things to say about i J our greed our love of money our great hustle jand and bustle our eternal struggle for material things t i gs like dollars and stocks and bo bonds ds and r dividends and so on They bewail our dearth of poets and musicians and sneer neer at pur our r 1 democracy as s a thing hing that has fallen falle in into to the the hands of financiers i I f Chicago has not riot as as' as fine art galleries as asi f i P Paris ris Indianapolis does not support grand opera as Munich does Minneapolis 1 has fewer writers than Vi Vienna nna St. St Louis has not the picturesque beauty of Madrid But consider this Paris was five centuries old when Chicago was a frontier fort Munich 1 had gen generations i oI of history and romance to look back backon on before Indianapolis was founded There was ws a howling wilderness ess on the site of Min Mm- Minneapolis ne neapolis polis long after Vienna had grown gray grayA A t with ag age St t. t Louis Louis was a tin tiny trading post when w Madrid l had passed it its its' zenith Never apologize for our lack of aesthetic advancement Scorn all apology America is too young too strong too earnest to ne nc d it Wo We are an amazingly young countr country And it was more important in the history of the world that America should devote its youth to such things as factories and railroads and wheat fields and banks than that it should produce paintings rind and music and poems I Those things will come Never doubt it it V When hien America finds its voice there will go up from this land a a. song to amaze the world j a song that will send a message of hope and joy and aud beauty clear to the highest peaks of the unattainable mountains But first we had to lay lar the foundation for forthe forthe forthe the great country of comrades comra es We Ve arc like an au army of workmen toiling to complete a avast avast I vast building vaster building vaster than any ever built before be be- bei i fore And as passersby see the uncompleted I first stories unadorned and monstrous they cr cry It It is ugly ugly ful fut The builders are blind But some of ofus ofus us who are working have seen the completed plans And so we only smile and go go on with our work knowing knowin that the completed edifice will raise gleaming towers that will strike the tingling stars with their beautiful golden olden spires |