Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1927, Page 11

PRESIDENT SEES PITTSBURGH ' s AS REPRESENTATIVE U. S. CITY Executive, in Founder's Day Address, Cites| Climb From Wilderness Settlement to Great Metropolis. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star, PITTSBURGH, October 13.—At the| annual observahce of Founder's day | at Carnegie Institnte, here today, President Coolidge spoke as follows: | “Ladies and gentlemen: | “This oceasion is an illustration of | the power of expansion which lies in sound and humane principles. It seems’like an immeasurable distance | from an insignificant frontier fort to an international art exhibition. From: the few stragghing log huts of a trad- | ing post in the wilderness to a manu- facturing metropolis producing an an- | nual tonnage many times in excess llf" that of any other city in the world might be thought to require the de-| velopment of several centuries. Krom: the savage domain of still more sav- age men, under the uncertain and disputed sovereignty of two kings of the Old World, to an orderly munic- | ipality of a self-governing American | >ommonwealth, represents progress in government usually covered by the rise and fall of many dynasties. Yet | that distance has been traversed, that development has been secured and that progre: as been made by the | city of Pittsburgh in the short space | of a little over 150 vears, | “These results have not been ac-| complished by any magic. They have been brought about by a supreme ef- fort; by the making of sacrifices that | reached to life itself. by the endur- ance of Jong years of war and of un- ending toil through many years of peace. Our economics, our Govern. | ment, are not the result dent or fortuitous ¢ nces. Dreams | and visions have played little part in them. They have come from men who could face facts and were willing to grapple with realities; from men | whose hands were hardened at the | plow; whose faces were blackened at | the' forge, whose bodies had heen ex- posed to :the fire of hostile forces. These ave the foundations on which our ‘eount:y has been built. = Our order, our peace, our prosperity find in them their main support Out of them Nhas come the flower of our civiliza*ion with its guaranties of lib erty, its enormous material resources its educational institutions, unfolding into the beauties of architecture, of sculpture, of music and of painting. Characteristic of U. 8. Life. *All of this has been characteristic of the inner meaning and the triumph of American life. It is exemplified in the -history of every important cen- ter of population and in the record of every prominent man in the making of our country. We are rather ac- cuttomeéd to think of Washington as a Virginia aristocrat, General of the Army, President of the Republic, mas- ter of the beautiful estate at Mount Vernon, clad in silks and velvets, as he'is pictured by Peale or by Stuart. His career ended with all of these, but it had its beginnings under much more arduous circumstances. It. may; well be a matter of pride to the people of this city that his earliest public service in civil and military capacities is so closely associated with this locality. He first came through here in 17 on his way to carry a protest to the French at Le Boeuff against their plan for the military occupation of the Ohio region. His guide was Christopher Gist, for whom one of of your streets is named, and he had the assistance of the Seneca. chief, Geuyasuta, fittingly remembered in the ~designation of your suburban towh. It was & journey of great hard- ship. In the intense cold of Winter cheny. The . perilous. A treacherous Indian guide shot at Washington, who spared his, life and then traveled with -frosted feet all that might and the next day to escape from further attack. He was thrown from a raft into the icy current of the Allegheny and barely saved by Gist from drowning. This adventure has been commemorated in your city by the Washington Cross: ing Bridge. “In 1754 Washington caused forti- fications to be thrown up at the point, which are still marked by the block house built some 10 years later. This post was almost immediately taken by the French and named Fort Du- Quesne. Washington led an expedi- tion against it, but failed. He came here with the ill-fated Gen. Braddock, who, by neglecting his ad- vice, was " surprised, defeated and L by the French and Indians not far from the rear of this building. But. in 1758 Forbes and Washington captured those fortifications, which were named Fort Pitt, in honor of the great English prime minister, x, the spade and the musket played a very important part in this locality in the great struggle between France and England for the control of North America. In the Indian uprising under .Pontiac the fort was again under attack, and there was consid- erable frontier warfare in this vicinity. Washington made the last of his five journeys here in 1770, when Pitts. burgh, according to his journal, con- sisted of 20 log houses, “For some years this locality was They meet the require- ments of any business— anticipating perfectly the most exacting demands for Books of any nature. Standard Rulings Sizes. Greatly increased num- bers of columns are made possible by selecting stock rulings, arranged so that by cutiing away alternate sheets one item or control space will do for many sub- divisions. : Let us go into details and illustrate when you care to call here. STOCKETT- FISKE CO PRODUCING STATION! 9I9 E ST WASHINGTON- and A4 D-C l on the exposed frontier of the reso- lute colonies. They were people ac- customed to hardships who did not hesitate to defend, with muskets in their hands, what they believed to he their rights. After the close of the Revolutionary War _ Plitsburgh be- came a part of Pennsylvania. It was of sufficient importance to support a newspaper in 1786, known us the Pittsburgh Gazette, which has been since published without interruption and was lately merged in the Post- jazette. The little community hav- ng a desire for educational facilities, the next year the Pittsburgh Acad- emy was chartered by the Legislature. This developed into the University of Pittsburgh. Soon post riders carried the mail between here and Philadel- phia. n to roll west ward in covered wagons, followed passengers in stage coaches. But it was not until 1854 when what is now the Pennsylvania Railroad reached this city. “This American community, not without the shedding of some of its blood, the enduring of many priva- tions, and always by the sweat of its brow gradually coming into exist- ence. The pioneer stock were hewing down “the forests, starting their set- tlements, providing for education, be- ginning their commerce, opening lines of communication, making ready to hat wonderful epic of coal and steel, paint_ that inspiring pe of hillside and water front, decorated by gigantic commercial structures throbbing with the move- ment of industrial life and surmounted by clouds and fire. They were making a practical application of the abiding principles of progress to the affairs of this life. An almost incomprehensi- ble success was destined to crown their effort “People have come here from our own country and from many distant lands until the city with its environs has a populntion in excess of 1,000,000, Your manufactures of iron and steel stand first in the world, and you hold a leading place in coal and coke, in glass and electrical machinery. Your mines and mills produce an enormous tonnage, which, it is claimed, exceeds the total rail and water tonnage of the five greatest seaports in the world —New York, Boston, London, Ant- werp and Hamburg. You are the fifth city in the Nation in bank capital and surplus, and vour clearing-house exchanges of $9.198,000,000 for last year put you in sixth place. Representative Prosperity. “Such development as has come to Pittsburgh is representative of the ma- terial prosperity of many of our in- dustrial centers. Its rewards are widely distributed by reason of high wages among the great mass of the people. While the ranks of unskilled labor have not yet come into their full enjoyment, their condition is greatly improved over what they ever before received. The question for the de- termination - of ‘the American people is no longer whether they will be able THE EVENING STAR. tions already in existence or under construction. The courthouse and the Jewish Building for Young Men and Women, the new home of the board of education, and the Cathedral of Learn- ing of the University of Pittsburgh, with your many club buildings, will all combine to give to the life of your city a wide varfety of architectural beauty. Important as these are in de- tarmining the dominant features of your community, yet we should look in another direction for the ultimate object of all these efforts. 'Their final abiding place is around the fireside. The chief evidence of your succ - art, your devotion, is in happy and confented homes. ally, through long years of inees: toil under the guidance of inspired leaders, we have been perfecting our civilization and raising the ‘standard of the materia al, and moral life of the peaple. Cites Carnegie Career one of your great citizei a deep love of huma to promote these ends, who established Carnegie Institute. Coming here as an alien, he began work in this city when a mere child for $1.20 a week. e rose rapidly to the position of superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he came to realize that the Bessemer process would bring the steel rail into general use. le became one of the great producers of steel, which brought him a large fortune. I once heard him say that in the Old World wealth was quickly appropriated by the nobility and used chiefly benefit of the aristocrac America he wished it kept for the peo- ple o mocracy. icy, out of what he called his surplus wealth he built a free lih added a museum of naturs and a gallery of fine arts, which ar now _housed in this imposing struc- ture. The library has grown until it contains 622,000 volumes. Its prac- tical value is apparent in its annual circulation of about 3,000,000 among the people of Pittshurgh. “Mr. Carnegie was an intensely practical man. He only had the ad- vantages of the most meager school- ing in his youth. Perhaps he was compensated for this loss by having parents endowed with-a most sturdy character. Wishing. however, to pro- vide the vouth of the coming genera- tions with training that should es- pecially fit them for industrial life, he started a trade school which later became the Carnegie Institute of Technology. This is now attended by 6.700 students, representing every State in the Union and most of the countries of the world. By these methods, Mr. Carnegie, in common with most of the other men of large wealth in our country, has made great outlays for the service of the people and for the extension of the princi- ples of demoeracy. Good Thoughts and Deeds. “Good thoughts and good deeds have an inherent power for development. They grow and expand. What was in its inception a local art gallery for the benefit of thix immediate locality quickly assumed the nature of an in- ternational institution. You are now holding the Twenty-sixth International Exhibition of paintings. About 15 for- ign countries are represented. There are around 400 pictures by about 80 artists, of whom 30 are Americans. Later these pictures will be shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, and for the first time the exhibit will go west of the Rocky Mountains to San Francisco. “The exhibition this year has been It moved hy and a de: to secure prosperity, but rather what|made possible through the generosity use they will make of their prosperity. It is only in its use that we can jus- tify its existence. The answer will undoubtedly be found in the religion, the education, and the art of the peo- ple. But we have gone far enough to see that the great mass of the wealth of our country has not betn used merely for selfish indulgence and os- tentatious luxury. It has been used to raise the life of the people into a higher realm. It is in this direction that the Tead- of our economie life have been goitig, followed by the ‘great body of- your people. It is this spirit which has dominated the growth of. your community. It is apparent in your stately edifices dedicated to religious worship, in your school buildings, and in your charitable and philanthropic institutions. A fitting example of this development is this beautiful music hall. Around it are similar Institu- e of two of vour distinguished citizens, Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon. They stand out as men who are devoting themselves to the service of humanity, one by remaining as a leader in great financial and indus- trial enterprises and the other by turn- ing his great talents to the adminis- tration of public finance as Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, where his leadership in the last six years has been greatly instrumental in restoring the economic equiljibrium of the world, 'What has been taking place in your city is characgeristic of many groups of men over the éntire Nation. Men of large resources in our country more and more devote themselves to the service and welfare of the people. “It should -not escape our attention that this Is an international exhibi- tion. It is wholly eotemporaneous in its conception. Mr. Carnegie was in nowise deficient in his reverence for the men and the work of the past, but he would never have been content with the somewhat negative results of investigation. He knew that what has heen done is done. He was a cre- ator with a desire to encourage and promote creation in others. While it is highly desirable to study and appre- ciate the art of the past, and bestow due honor upon the old masters, yet if there is to be progress, if there is to be vitality. if there is to be a grow- ing creative purpose in this fleld, it will be because of the approbation that is bestowed upon those who at pres- ent are its devoted exponents. e therefore provided for the purchase annually of not less than two Ameri- can pictures painted within the -ear. “In accordance with this principle this exhibition consists of paintings, with few exceptions, of living artists done within the past five years. Peo- ple who view it will have an oppor- tunity to see what is characteristic in cotemporaneous art in each of the countries represented. The advantage of international contest of this kind is that no country thereby loses any- thing. The stimulation, the educa- tion, the generous rivalry in well doing that it confers upon those who par ticipate leave all concerned richer than they were before in art and its appreciation. ¥rom much humbler be- ginnings great issues have been evolved. It may be that in the spirit which animates the conduct of these exhibitions lies the germ of a better world relationship, Efforts Distinctly American, “While this occasion has its inter- national aspects, which we hold of vast importance, we should also remember that it is a distinctly American effort. It is one of the contributions which our country is making to the art of the world. Our people very early showed a desire for portrait painting, which was carried on among the Pur- itans and the Quakers mostly by vis- iting Englishmen. But by the mid- dle of the eighteenth century our own 4 had so advanced as to produce Ibert Stuart and Benjamin West, who succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as president of the Royal Academy, which in later years igned prol nent parts to such mericans of genius as Whistler, Abbey and Sar- gent. Of a recent date are La Farge, Homer and a long line of their co- temporaries, many of whom are still living, who hold a high place in the timation of the world. In the inter- pretation of the life and spirit of our times, it is generally agreed by art critics that our own countrymen have ached a stage where they do not vield in excellence to the work now being done in any other region. Our country is not deficient in painters, We have reached conditions that are likely to increase their numbers and improve their work. “While it will always be desirable to stimulate and encourage the produc- tion of fine paintings, it is even more desirable to stimulate and encourage their wide appreciation by the people. It is a fundamental principle of our institutions that freedom, education and wealth are not to be ressrved for the few, but are to be reached through equal opportunity which is open to all. We have staked America on the poten- tial capacity of the average citizen. Truth and beauty are inseparably re- lated. A general contemplation of fine paintings cannot fail to provide an in- spiration which will result in the im- provement of the character of the people. It is for this reason that the painter and the founder of art gal- leries rank high as public benefactors. aise people to a spiritual level they could not otherwise at- Evolution Not Smooth. “That is the evolution which has been going on in our country. It does not- always proceed smoothly. It is far from complete. In fact, we have as yet only laid out a part of the plan. But enough has been done so that we know we are going in the right direc- tion. We are under great obligation to those who have given light and leading in this movement. Mr. Car- megie stands out pre-eminently as one of these. But he would have been first to insist upon a wide distribution of the honor and the glory. He was accustomed to say that he had made his success by gathering around him men who knew more than he did. It is not he alone that is entitled to credit for the possessions which went into his vast philanthropies. They were the joint results of himself and qmmmr The New Rugs at Mayer’s Aglow With Life and Color all those who were assoc_ited with him, down to the humblest worker in his mills. They all have their share in this international art exhibition. They are all reaping its benefits. Yet we all realize that it was his leader- ship which made it possible. “A better understanding has come to the American people in recent years of this method by which we are all co-operating to work out a common destiny. It has brought a great har- vest of contentment and a great in- crease of effort and efficiency in pro- duction. In its light the relation be- twaen employer and employe has been so greatly improved that much of the old friction no longer exists. Under a new realization of their mutuality of interests an industrial peace has come, which a short time since would have been thought impossible. o “There are still some who sit apart, who do not see, who cannot under- stand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle ef the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress. Out of them the Nation is supporting « religious institutions, endowing its providing its charities, fur- nishing adornments of architecture, rearing its monuments, organizing its orchestras and encouraging its paint- ing. But the American people see and understand. Unperturbed, they move majestically forward in the conscious- ness that they are making their cont bution in common with our sister na- tions to the progress of humanity. AMERICAN WEALTH UPLIFTS HUMANITY, (Continued from Kirst germ of a better world relationship. The President believes, however, that tion of fine paintings, it is even more desirable to stimulate and encourage their wide appreciation by the people. He deciared in this connection that it is a fundamental principle of Amer. ican institutions that freedom, educ: tion and wealth are not to be reserved for the few, but are to be reached through equal opportunity which is open to all. Saying that America has been staked on the potential capacity of the aver- age citizen, Mr. Coolidge believes that a general contemplation of fine paint- ings cannot fail to provide an insp! tion which will result in the improv ment of the character of the people. It is for that reason, he stated, that the painter and the founder of art gal- leries rank high as public benefactors inasmuch as they raise the people to a spiritual level which they could not otherwise attain, The President signaled out the late Andrew Carnegie as one of the great citizens of Pittsburgh, “who, moved by a deep love of humanity and a de- sire to help perfect civilization, esta lished Carnegie Institute. The Pri dent also paid a high tribute to An- drew W, Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, and Richard B. Mellon ing that through the generos of these two citizens of Pittsburgh, the international exhibition of paintings was made possible this year. These two men, the President continued, stand out as two who are devoting themselves to the service of humanity, one by remaining as a leader in great financial and industrial enterprises and the other by turning his great talents to the administration of pub- lic finance as Secretary of the Treas- ury of the United leadership in the last six been greatly instrumental in restoring the economic equilibrium of the world. Praise for Pittsburgh. has grown from a few straggling log huts of a trading post in the wilder- ness to a manufacturing metropolis producing an annudl tonnage many times in excess of that of any other Approved, Shoots PRESIDENT STATES | { while it will always be desirable to | | stimulate and encourage the produc- | In his praise for the development of | Pittsburgh the President said that it Rinsing Spray as Desired VER since the first cave-woman set aside the first slab of stone as the most convenient place to rest her meat be- tween mouthfuls, dish washing has been the saddest con- WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1927.° city in the world In the short space of ‘a little more than 150 years. He reminded his auditors that these re- sults have not been accomplished by any magic, hut have been brought hout by a supreme effort, by the making of sacrifices that reached to life itself and by the endurance of long years of war and of unbending toil through many years of peace. Dreams and visions have played little art_in taem, the President added. According to him. the development of Pittshurzh, like the development of all other sections of this country, has come from men who could face facts and were willing to grapple with real- ities; from men whose hands were hardened at the plow, whose faces were blackened at the forge, whose bodies had been exposed to the fire of hostile forces. “These,” the President said, “are the foundations on which our country has been built. From these founda- tions has come the flower of our civ- ilization, with its guarantees of lib- erty, its enormous material resources, its educational institutions, unfolding into the beauties of architecture, of sculpture, of music and of painting. All of this has been characteristic of the inner meaning and the triumph of American life." Improve Your Sight ; See Dr. William Perau At His New Location 916 F St. N.W. 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