LOCAL ENTHUSIASM AND THE ARTS..
Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, a member of Congress from Illinois and daughter of the late Senator Mark Hanna (known as the " Warwick " of President McKinley), announces the foundation of an enterprise to be financed entirely by local communities for the exchange of ideas on painting, sculpture. handicraft and allied arts. Mrs. McCormick, who lives in a small town, says that big cities " have their art galleries and their museums, but only because some wealthy benefactor provides them." But small towns, she asserts, have pro- duced more writers, opera singers, sculptors and painters than great cities. The board of directors of the new organiza- tion includes some of the leading. men in the country. This movement, as a whole, is an indication of the pronounced increase of interest in art and culture on the part of the American people. As Mrs. McCormick expresses it, " we are awakening to a realization that art need not be pretty and amusing superficiality, but that it can be part of our religion,contributing to the advancement and welfare of our * * *
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