Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1935 — Page 10

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GRADE CROSSING PROGRAM GIVEN HELP BY COURT U. S. Officials Pleased by Railroad Assessment Decision. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. March B.—Public works planner, in the Administration are well pleased with the Supreme Court's decision overturning the arbitrary assessment of railroad by states for a certain pcrcentage of the cost of grade crossing eliminations. In a Tennessee case the court held that statutory assessment of 50 per cent of the cost of all such projects against the railroads failed to give the roads equal protection under the law. Justice Brandeis, who wrote the opinion, emphasized that the grade eliminations might work to the disadvantage of the railroads by encouraging motorized competition. Program Held Up Th opinion intimated that state railroad commissions should be given discretion in assessing costs. The New Deal grade crossing elimination proposa1, expected to take 50 to 100 million dollars of the proposed four billion-dollar work relief fund, had been in doubt because of such arbitrary state laws fixing percentage assessments against earners. Under the Supreme Court ruling, such projects now may be designated as purely highway work and completed without the co-opera-tion of the railroads. The Tennessee project was in Lexington, a town of 1833 on a secondary Federal-aid road, but a road expected by officials to become the primary route between Nashville and Memphis Revenues Fell Off Th Brandeis opinion, from which Justices Stone and Cardozo dissented, pointed out that since construction of a highway paralleling the N. C. & St. L. line the latter's passenger revenues had fallen more than half, it had lost more than two-thirds of its partial carload hauls and its transportation of livestock to the Nashville market had dropped from 69 per cent of total receipts to 21 per cent. Justice Brandeis pointed out that while railways are paving 28 per rent of gross revenue in taxes. "The taxes upon busses and trucks are clearly insufficient to pay their fair share even of the cost and maintenance of the highways which serve them."

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BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Times Art Critic AN opportunity for an Indianapolis art lover to win an original painting by an Indiana artist is being afforded those who admire art by a contest to be held at the John Herron Museum. Wednesday night, March 20, at 8. The contest is being sponsored by the Indiana Artists Club in connection with the current Indiana Artists Exhibition now at the Museum and is open to any one over 16 tears of age who is not related to or connected professionally with an artist. The actual competition will consist of simple memory work. Between now and the contest date those who wish to enter may go to the Museum and study carefully the paintings, water colors and etchings on view. Then on the night of the conest, 30 of the exhibition works will be paraded before the collected contestants and the one who most accurately identifies the work and the artist of each piece will be allowed to select as first prize one original out of a group chosen as awards. # # # T'HE Artists Club is to be highly commended for introducing this novel idea for the purpose of getting the general public more intimately acquainted with the work that Indiana artists are doing. There is no red tape and all that is necessary to win is to memorize distinctly the canvas and the painter. Of course the entrant should spend considerable time inspecting and learning the names of the artists in the exhibition because spelling and titles will be a prominent part of the contest. As a tip to those who study the exhibit—it will be well to get to know the kind of work each artist does thereby giving the contestant a more segregated group of ideas to worry about on the contest night. # # # DR. LEONIDAS F. SMITH will speak Sunday afternoon at 4 at the John Herron Museum on his associations with famous artists and will show motion pictures of the studios he has seen. Most of the pictures are of Indiana artists at work in different parts of the country. Dr. Smith was president of the Indiana Artists Club from 1926 to 1928. # # # DAMIAN LYMAN, art gallery chief at Lyman Brothers has arranged something quite unusual in art exhibits for the Lyman galleries during the 10 days beginning Monday, March 11. Two Catholic Sisters. Sister

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Donald M. Mattison Winner of the 1928 Prix de Rome in painting, and graduate of the Yale Art School, Donald M. Mattison, John Herron Art School director, had an intelligent artistic background for the painting of his "Negro Baptism,” Indiana Artists Exhibition prize winner. Esther, director of art at St. Mary's-of-the-Woods College, and Sister Camille, director of art at Ladywood School, will have a showing of their work, which includes oils, water colors, decorated china, silver and gold. Roth artists graduated from the Chicago Art Institute and studied under the tutelage of Oscar Gross. Of Sister Esther's works, her “Madonna” in oil is outstanding. It is a strange combination of classic and modern composition with a symbolic background which lends color and life to the painting. and the whole is peculiarly pleasing. She has a water color still, “Bottles” which contains an apple, dishes and several vari-col-ored glass flasks done in a neat way with less of the washy effect than usual. Another oil, “Lilacs” is effective, having been executed with an adept eye for essential details. "Marionette Prince." water color is in the exhibition and was shown in the Hoosier Salon, 1933 but was rejected this year by judges for the Indiana Artists Exhibition, although Grant Wood was a judge in both shows. # # # SISTER CAMILLE stole this reviewer's admiration with her set of eight cups and saucers of silvered china. These were actually designed and executed entirely by Sister Camille. They are simple in line, delicate yet not fragile and the silvering has been masterly applied. "March of Time.” a decorative oil painting by Sister Camille, embodies a procession of modernistic designs in gray and black and white, and would make a most effective wall pattern. Her “Soldiers Returning From War,” inspired by the playing of the “March of the Wooden Soldiers,” has been neatly painted in water color the whole done in blocky design. “Cynthia” is a bright red china cat painted in oil against a dark green background. Sister Camille's oil landscapes are recognizably scenes in the Ladywood estate and one of these was shown in this year's Hoosier Salon. # # # A GRAND gesture has been made by a group of American artists who call themselves Associated American Artists, in the group of etchings which are currently on display at the H. Lieber galleries. Including one by Thomas Benton and one by John Steuart Curry, the group of 40 original etchings is madp up of works done bv some of the leading artists and illustrators in the country. These men and women, in an admitted effort to ‘bring American art closer to Americans,” have put these examples of their work on traveling sale at from one-half to one-third of the usual cost of such prints. They also plan to inaugurate a series of traveling exhibitions of their work and to send lecturers into the field so that the outlying districts may know just what is happening in the secluded realm of creative art.

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