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Show A. P. A.'b Object to Art. Even pictures in the public schoolo must be "non-sectarian." At the meeting- of the Cleveland school council a week ago, three men representing the "Knights of Abraham Lincoln," (alias A. P. A. ?) put in a protest against the pictures on religious subjects which decorate so many public school walls. W"bat roused their ire was the Catholic Cath-olic tone of the pictures. The protest was referred to Superintendent Jones, who, like Pontius Pilate, washed his hands of the blame in this wise: "They are never used for any such purpose. They are copies of some of the world's ixfa.t masterpieces of art, and are intended in-tended simply to stimulate an interest In art among the children." In his estimation es-timation the stimulation of an Interest ln art is probably paramount to an in- terest in religion. Churcli Progress. t |
