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-
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tions and conditions, the real argu
ment to make at this time in behalf of
music and art is simply that they
ought to continue to get their share
from the individuals who generously
endow classical colleges and technical
schools. Very few people have any
grudge against the muses. Musical
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quarter of a century ago Reuben
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national importance, with unquestion
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