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THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. SUNDAY, MARCH 1. 1908. "DDK AND AM" Proposition That Congress En dow a National Institute. ENOUGH GOOD SCHOOLS HERE The Hard Headed Man of Affairs Would Wonder Why Their Pro fessions Should be Subsidised in Preference to a Dot en Others. BOSTON, Feb. 29.-Let us have a plain talk about the proposition to create an "Institute of Music and Art" at Washington by means of a govermental ( appropriation. Let us discard all cant and humbug about soul values. We won't spell art with a' capital A or pretend to think that the 40,000 Americans who are said to be studying piano and singing and painting abroad are all of them in spired youth "possessing genius and the soul for art and music." Enough that a project is now afoot, with how serious support it would be hard to say, to get Congress to endow at the . aational capital an institution for the ome culture of arts." The notion seems to be that long before the big ditch at Panama has been opened or Secretary Loeb has accepted his posi tion with the street car company there ought to be lodged the corner stone of "America's temples of arts." ' Now, in the language of the day, What's the user If Congress could create money by fiat, if there were riot a million possible uses for every dollar that is contributed by the Am erican people, through taxation for the supports of their national institutions, there might be a feeble excuse for trying to induce Uncle Sam to du- plicate at : Washington' facilities for education which already exist else where. Yet, even then, as a matter of cold hard fact, many people" Would ask why the government should un dertake to train musicians and paint ers to earn a living any more than it should undertake to prepare butchers, and bakers, bricklayers and engine ' drivers, doctors and lawyers for their respective callings. Musicians and painters are very useful and perfect ly reputable members of society, but the hard headed man of affairs would wonder ' why their professions should be subsidized in preference to a dozen , ethers. - "The whole project for creating "Americans' Temple of Arts" at Washington seems to start on the false assumption that nothing is be ing done in this country for students of the musical and graphic arts; whereas, as every well informed per son ought to know, a great deal has been done and is being done for them through private munificence and enterprise. A natural question to ask is What's the good of putting on the government a burden of doing what has already been accomplished well on a large scale.? Take the example of musical in struction in Boston, which for many reasons has been the leading Ameri ean center of musical education for many years past, or jof art instruction in New York' and Chicago, which have thus far supported the most im portant schools of drawing and paint- in the Western Hemisphere.. The schools in these and other cities have become big affairs, with expensive and well equipped plants. Even if it is true that 40,000 American sturents abroad are spending $14,400,000 a year they are not there for lack of as good instruction in their own country but either because they have already acquired the' elements of their pro fessions here and want the benefit of the broadening influence of residence and travel abroad, or because, like many Americans, they are not yet fully aware that the ground work ean be laid as well in the United States as in any country of the. world. Neither is it true, as the argument for a ; congressional appropriation has appeared to imply, that if Congress should tomorrow start up an institute of music and, art, all the exile band of American students in Paris, Lei psic, Berlin and Milan would straight way quit the intolerable barracks in which they are housed, pawn the few remaining clothes in their gripsack and engage steerage passage to take advantage of the instruction offered for the first time by Uncle Sam. European' boarding house keepers would probably continue to 'get a few of these fourteen millions. In the city of Boston alone, to say nothing of opportunities offered in New .York, Chicago, Cincinati ' and other centres, are almost countless concrete reasons why such a national conservatory as has been proposed would be superfluous. It is hard to see what kind of advanced work could be offered at Washington under gov ernment.il auspices which a thorough ly well equipped conservatory, en dowed by individuals and conducted as a public trust, cannot undertake to do. The New England city offers to students who prefer to carry on their musical studies in an American community - a musical atmosphere which is as real as that of any Euro pean capital. They are constantly assisted in appreciation of good music by the presence of a symphony or chestra, generally acknowledged to be the best in American and to have no superior in Europe. They hav access to the performances of many other musical organizations giving concerts through the season. All the ereat foreien musicians sooner or later visit America, and Boston is always one of the first cities in their itinerary. The talented have inter course with and instruction from emi nent American composers, of whom more are residents of Boston and the neighborhood than of perhaps any other American city such writers of music as George W. Chad wick, direc tor of the New England Conservatory of Music, Frederick S. Converse, Mrs. H. H. A. - Beach, Arthur Foote, Madame Helen Hopekirk and many more. These are composers whose reputation is now so far assured that only the ignorant suppose alt good musicians in America to be foreign; era, .'"'' The incentive of competition with strong fellow students is just as likely to be present in an American city as abroad. Despite the situation of Boston in the extreme northeastern corner of the country, its leading music school, the oldest of its kind in the United States, the New England Conservatory of Music, draws more than almost any other institution for higher education in ' New 'England upon a national and international clientele. It has graduate as well as undergraduate courses and annually receives hundreds who have already made their start in their local conser vatories or under private teachers. Good technical preparation is about all that any music" school can under take. It has been asserted in connec tion with this campaign for a national institute of music and art at Washing ton that "in this country of ours many a genius is born and dies with out ever being heard of, and all this because the atmosphere here is not conducive to the development of his talents." Experience of the past cen tury has taught that among a thou sand students you will never find more than a very few who can be called Keniuses. The ' percentage of the exceptionally gifted is certainly as high in America schools as abroad A few music students, for example, are manifestly destined to have re markable professional careers. Most are young persons of modest talent who will find some way of making a living if they are thoroughly trained Some will sing in churches; some will teach: some will tune pianos. In their various callings they will assent, no doubt, to the general ideas of the promoters of the scheme of a national conservatory of music and art, even though they have not the remarkable flow of language enabling them to assers that "Music is the sublime speech of the soul, the higher educa tion, the belter life. Its effects are refining. Music sets sweetly the joys and happiness of life; it takes from sorrows half their burdens and robs anguish of its keenist sting. It hails the seasons and promotes love of country and home. It is the univer sal language of the world and speaks so that every ear can understand. It is the one thing that carries the man nearer to God." In classic Bostonese language, that's going some. An exactly similar line of argument can be made regarding present day facilites for teaching the fine arts. There is no apparent good reason why the national government should' supply ambitious art students with plumb lines and charcoal sticks and pay for their instruction. If anybody is very anxious to learn to draw in Washington, there is a nice little art school connected with the Corcoran Gallery. Excellent schools for the study of drawing, painting, modelling and design are conducted in' New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chic ago, St. Louis and many other Amer ican cities. Some of them are free, others practically so. 1 The most ex alted patriotism ort the part of per sons who are anxious to do some thing for the cause of American art could hardly urge more, than this The practical business of learning to draw of constructing a man who is possible on a: sheet of charcoal paper can be done in this country just about as well aos in Paris, and more and more our future painters, sculp tors and illustrators get their start here under comfortable conditions and later on go over yonder for the sake of becoming familar with the art galleries of the bid world. Now considering American tradi- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS HELP WANTED MALE. WANTED - MANAGER; GOOD salary; exeprience not necessary; for Astoria branch office of large Portland real estate firm; small capi tal required; we furnish large list and teach you the business; for full par ticulars address Manager, 242 Fifth street, Fortland. 3-l-7t SITUATION WANTED. 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More than a quarter of a century ago Reuben Springer of Cincinnati gave generous ly towards the establishment of a music school. In New York James Loeb has been munificent in the en dowment of the musical arts. In Bos ton Eben D. Jordan and a number of other wealthy patrons of art and music have contributed to the re sources of the Conservatory and en abled it to become an institution of national importance, with unquestion ably the best equipped plant' of any conservatory in the world. The habit, in truth, of considering the needs of schools of music and art which are already partially endowed but whose usefulness can be increased by more funds, as by the creation of specific professorships, is one which will accomplish more for the cause of fine art in America than any plan of annual appropriations from Congress for the support of a school which would simply compete with good Schools, already well established.' 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