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Show I If You're Making a Chair, Even a Kitchen Chair, j Give It Good Lines j By JOHN M. GLENN, Illinois Manufacturers' Association. 1 O, I'm converted. I'm for art. It's good and it's practical. Th Illinois Manufacturers' association has got behind it. Now this ie the way of it if you're manufacturing a chair, even a kitchen chair, give it good lines. Make it beautiful instead of ugly. It won't cost any more, j and beauty is good for people. It makes 'em better citizens. ) Same way with any line you may be in. Even if it's cheap jewelry, I select a good design instead of a bad one. But all that means making art a part of the life of the pecple and a part of business, instead of locking j it away in a museum. j Throw the museum wide open. Make it work. Make it show a ; return on the investment. That's why Illinois manufacturers who are j going to finance a great school of industrial design in connection with J the Chicago Art institute are represented at the Washington convention j of th American Federation of Arts. Last year the federation sent over the land more than $1,000,000 worth of free art exhibits for th plasur and profit of the pJain people. i |