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Show CjreelinqS bij Ifllaii Originated in 1846, Wow a HJodern Cuitom Look at the paintings on the Christmas cards you send and receive you'll find famous names and some of the best contemporary art. Here is how it all began. On a December day in 1846, a middleclass Englishman, Henry Cole, sat at the library desk of his London home addressing to his friends what were probably the first Christmas cards ever printed. The cards depicted a Victorian family assembled at the festive board and the traditional Christmas customs of giving to the poor. They also bore the now-classic greeting: "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you." j Cole, in a historic move, two months before had commissioned John Calcott Horsley, a Koyal mSrO j Academy artist, to paint the illustration illus-tration for the card and had struck off a thousand lithographed copies. He dispatched them that December. This was such a markedly successful success-ful stroke of good will that plain Henry Cole subsequently became Sir Henry Cole. Horsley's art was a far cry from today's Christmas card paintings, but he started a cycle which a hundred hun-dred years-later was to bring fine art into high favor on Christmas cards. An American shopping for cards may select, for instance, a painting called "Snow Under the Arch" by another Royal Academy member-Winston member-Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime war-time prime minister and famed amateur artist. Or he might choose Peter Hurd's "One Night in Winter" or "Grandma" Moses' "The White Church" or "The Nativity" by Alexander Ross. legislation is to confer title on the states. The problem of mineral entry en-try and the problem of wholesale whole-sale withdrawals of lands for power site, park, forest and "what have you" purposes have served, however, to deny the states what is justly theirs. A cadastral survey is of foremost fore-most importance because it will serve to delineate those lands. We will know what is available. And the survey must be made before any title can pass to the states on those school sections. However, completion of a cadastral survey will not and cannot guarantee to the state of Utah, or any other . western state, any lands of mineral character char-acter (and hence of potential value) on which oil and gas leases have been issued. Lost Opportunity If the western states confine themselves solely to the problem prob-lem of the completion of a survey, sur-vey, they will have lost the immeasurable im-measurable opportunity of paramount par-amount importance. (Reprint from Salt Lake Tribune) |
