sake and adding greatly to the decorative architectural effects. In many
cases the architecture is only the background or often only a pedestal
for the figure or group, pregnant with spirit and meaning.

Those who have the city's growth at heart should see to it that these
men of brain and skill and inspiration are employed to help beautify the
commercial centers, the parks, the boulevards of our cities.

We need the fine lessons of beauty and uplift around us.

We beautify our houses and spend very little time in them. Why not
beautify our outside world where we spend the bulk of our time?

We, a pleasure-loving people, are devoting more time every year to
outside life. Would it not be a thorough joy to the most prosaic of us
to have our cities beautified with inspiring sculpture?

We do a great deal in the line of horticultural beautifying - we could
do far more - but how little we have done with one of the most
meaningful and stimulating of the arts.

Let us see to it, in San Francisco at least, that a few of these works
are made permanent.

Take as an example James Earle Fraser's "End of the Trail." Imagine the
effect of that fine work silhouetted against the sky out near Fort
Point, on a western headland, with the animal's head toward the sea, so
that it would be evident to the onlooker that the Indian had reached the
very end of the trail. It would play a wonderful part in the beauty of
the landscape.