Show U bul I 1 advisory committees for town beautifying ugliness la Is be becoming comin thorulf tho rule in ninny many of 0 the extreme aspects of modern town life tho the literary digest comments sadly badly the suave writer calls it indifference of the greater public to the general ar anil and natural amenities of towns tons and rural areas the beauty of the past Is sacrificed to make way for modern improvements says the christian science monitor voicing a plea for concerted mort effort at houi it la Is when things get bad when they aliey seem tit nt their worst ort that endurance reaches its limit arrendy in parts of if america something lias has been beell done toward townie the of billboards that bade fair to conceal the country as completely na as the smoke screen tit in n battle tit nt sen sea shields the fleet and without the same reason or necessity the preservation of f file american amet amenities tItles tt it too local 0 for the art commission in lV washington ashIngton Is left largely to womans comans clubs tho the lug iash would take more thorough measures architects roused to it realization of the sadness of a land from which beauty tins has aloin and eager to stay its flight suggest the lie formation of advisory art committees in towns tons and country both their function would be much the same though hough on n more restricted scale as is that of the english art commission modeled after the lie pattern of the lie american the co committees would advise and interfere in their own districts interfere when some moldable avoidable piece of vandalism was proposed advise when new buildings were to be put uli new streets laid new open spaces planned they would have no power but tho the hope Is would exercise an influence gradually growing irresistible as the public consciousness should awaken to a sense of the part beauty plays in life such in n few words Is the scheme suggested Bug by the royal institute of britis architects for the guardianship dian ship of beauty in angland Ln gland ll 11 |