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Show ALL CUT AND DRIED I I,, i lorence around 1300, Giotto painted a picture and the day it was to be hung in St larks the town closed dow n for a holiday and I , the people with garlands pjE flowers and songs escorted thi picture from the artist 's atudio to the church "Three weeks ago l Btood in companj with 500 silent, Ballow-faced Ballow-faced men at a corner on Wall street, a cold and wet corner, till young P Morgan issued from J P Morgan and company and walked twenty ' feet to his carriage "We produee per capita one thousand times more in weight ot : ready-made clothing, Irish la: artificial flowers, terra eotta. movie I Rims, telephones and printed matter than these Florentines did, but , we have with our hundred million inhabitants yet to produce that : Jitfle town, her Dante, her Andrea del Sartp, her Leonardo da Vinci, ! .her Giotto or the group who followed Giotto's picture." I These are the words of ProfdBSbr Carleton Parker, who died two I vcars ago. worn out in a splendid search for the causes of industrial A unrest His point is that modern industry and education and all of I nodern life an so cut and dried that the average man has no chance I o do things for himseLf His impulses are choked. 1 "Florence had a marvelous energy-release experience All our( I industrial formalism, our com entionalized universities, are instru- ! menta of balk and thwart, are machine to produee protesting ab- I normality, to block efficiency, It is doing, not hainp. that makes life worth while Machines I make things, free action makes men. |