Show I ruT PATH VOlt POI From tho the Pittsburg Tribune Gazette wo ne 0 take talce tho thu following editorial Utah h has had various distinctions among among- the stat states s of or tho union Us s capital Is la the h holy IY city of ot tho Mormons It enjoys plural marriage In iii secret secret- and woman suffrage in tho the open It has tho ho largest Inland bo body of salt water on the continent And If It I these were not enough h to satisfy Its Ha yearnings for rOl forthe rOlI I the unique that thal tate tat appears s to bo ho reaching nt after l' l nt In artistic achievement Tho The work worl that I Ihas has been beon done one toward this thI end Is revealed In an nn I Interview Ie with an artist from Salt Lake Lake- City who II la is spending ip ll ln somo time In Now Non C York whore he ho Is copying paintings 9 In tho the Metropolitan 3 Museum Lu um 0 of Art for fOI tho the public schools of ot Utah J J. B. B Fairbanks that anla that Is tho the lo name h has been heen at this thle work wort for COi n. n year yc and antl a half lie studied art In Purl Parl Paris along aloo with sl six other young men from flom Utah and he says ays s 's that a dozen dOMn others have hav gone there since Salt Sl Lake City has an 1111 art i Institute which awards s an annual prize of or and tho state fair l' awards another of ot I 00 The I most sl significant nt fact of or all however Cl Is the time comI com com- I given Mr Ir Fairbanks to copy famous paint paint- j l Ings for fOl the public schools If there Is any place where tho best hest things In art ou ought ht to be hc put and aull I j thc they the will exercise their e educative o function to the tIme uttermost uttermost for for art Is education above no all also elso ithe j i j time the the public school Is Unit that place Thero Them Is an In Incentive In- In 6 and n example in iii tho timo attitude and action In-I In of or thet e fa fat far 1 western school boards hoards and 1 legislators which might well bo be Imitated In our more cultured eastern Bt If Utah ls Is doing so much for fur art Wil wh why are aro we doing doIng- so little I Con Considering l oriuS' oriuS tho kindly spirit of ot that expression on ono one may hal pardon fardon on the Uie little fling about polygamy allI an all I institution that thal is a n. whole lot n nearer extinction In n Utah than thun lt It Its consecutive parallel is in Pittsburg But tho point of or value Js au an editorial writer In an au Eastern city has tho the courage court to speak in fair terms of or Utah Of or course those who tried their wit and exercised their venom In derision or abuse of or th the state vero not to bo ho blamed since the they got grot their data from Salt Luke Lako authorities And now 1 that tho the start to fairness of ju judgment g and Justice of or comment has been mado and now that tho people of or Utah are arc themselves minded to put puta a stop to the tho painting of or Utah black It Is Ja tho the I dut duty of our people all to uso use their best er efforts orts to I I promote tho the good opinion of ot the I Tell lell them tho ho good things about Thoy They have havo bad things enough of ot their own Invite them thorn hero Make them welcome when time thoy tho come No Xo I greater service can over ocr be bo dono done them tham II I I |