Show l PAYS OUT MUCH GETS IN LITTLE I CHICAGO Ill March 31 The The i United States In normal times sells two billion dollars' dollars worth of raw materials to the art centers of ot Europe and buys bus it back bacI in manufactured manufactured artistic forms such as textiles wall paper and of the best beet de design design design de- de sign for some six billion dollars says Colonel William Nelson of this city president of the new Association of Arts and Industries Our organIzation organization organization organ organ- seeks to help the countr country save the four billions it pays for tor European Industrial art We c shall work chiefly In the Middle West The association has just been formed by the amalgamation amalgamation amalgamation amalga amalga- mation of the Alliance of Art and In Industry Industry In- In which was originally the Art Alliance with the tho National Art Service Service Ser Ser- vice league While making Its argument In fi financial financial financial fi- fi terms the organization represents represents represents both manufacturers who want better business and artists and art lovers who want a more artistic Amer Amer- ica The board of ot directors Includes on the one hand John M. M Glenn of Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manu MAnu- association and George R. R of ot Chicago former president of the same b dy and on the other Robert Harshe and Frank G G. Logan director and vice president respectively respective respective- ly of the Art Institute of Chicago an ans an's We must train a American I artisans t and designers s s in order to survive vi competition competition com com- o petition otherwise ruinous says Mr Logan Europe has numbers of schools for this great purpose America has been een singularly negligent At last the manufacturers are are beginning to wake up This is a great hour for American Industry The program of the association is three fold Primarily it seeks the es establishment establishment establishment es- es of an industrial art school or schools sch In the Middle West est Meanwhile Meanwhile Meanwhile Mean Mean- while It will seek to make the most of the American talent already trained chiefly through through- the placement section designed to bring together the designer and the employing I n manufacturer and to educate ct the public u W taste The association looks to manufacturers manufacturers for the support of schools or departments of schools which teach industrial arts It Is believed the placement section will enter a field hitherto hardly scratched Executives of the organization organization who are communicating with existing employment agencies with a a. aview aview view to their cooperation say that the theother theother theother other day a Chicago agency received an application for tor work from a designer designer de de- de- de signer in steel and wrought Iron a type of craftsman who Is somewhat unfamiliar This Is fe believed to Indicate indicate indicate indi Indi- cate that there are train trained Id I'd designers in there e the e a are country no t y cg channels of various l specifically types m though for placing such persons with employers The organization will avoid the word employment bureau holding that the title placement section will seem more dignified to the artists and craftsmen who are fitted to do the work demanded When the war threw America on Its own resources accordIng accordIng according accord- accord Ing to members of ot the association it was discovered that there was talent i in in n America equal to the tasks formerly I delegated to Europe I In the education of the public taste leaders of the movement see one of their hardest asks I it IOne In Colonel One lion our path says Is the Infatuation of consumers con sumers with the words made in Europe We Ve mean to destroy this lion lionI I through lectures literature and particularly particularly par par- exhibits which will prove that America can produce artistic things as well as Europe We must also teach people who buy made American-made goods to demand the tasteful tasteful rather rather than the trashy |