| Show LOSING DELIGHT IN BEAUTY Writer Bemoans Degradation of the Arts Which He Asserts Is Going on Today I All the arts but one says Layton In his bis book Clay and Fire show degradation today In la many cases degradation so great that they have virtually ceased to exist We Ve have not only forgotten how to make beautiful things but we have even eyen acquired an nn instinctive dislike of beautiful beau benu things They seem to have e beco become become be be- co come e offensive to te u us There was rec recently one curious little Instance to which I am tempt tempt- I ed to refer showing as It did that In our our present state of ot degradation beauty Is not only Ignored but has actually become offensive causing Instinctive instinctive In in- dislike The St. St ten and five dollar gold pieces were undoubtedly the noblest coins produced In any country In OO years ears Within a a couple of months the American public public pub pub- lic had bad howled them out of circulation The explanation was made that the coins were weri dl disliked lIked because because because be be- cause the relief was Inconveniently high but the original outcry was I against the design and only the Je- Je I a of these exquisite exam examples les of die de cutting But America has no monopoly mo mo- mo- mo I of ot this Instinctive hatred of beauty It was exemplified In the thc van van- vandalism I that was common nil all over oel I Europe the destruction of ancient and glorious buildings usually without valid excuse |
