For the St. Louis Exposition a plan of committee and jury of selection organization for the United States art section was adopted, as follows:

First. A national advisory committee to be appointed, of representative individuals throughout the United States whose influence would be valuable in popularizing the department, who would give the executive the benefit of their advice and assistance, and through whose influence masterpieces might be obtained for the loan collection which had been planned as a part of the United States exhibit.

Second. Local advisory committees of technical men, to be appointed in important art centers in this country and abroad, to represent for the exposition the artists and art interests centered in their localities, to aid in the organization of the work and in the selection and care of exhibits to form the United States section, to enlist the interest and assistance of the local authorities, State commissions, etc., in the work where practicable, and generally to represent and further the interests of art representation, these advisory committees to be divided into groups or organized executive committees to deal with the different groups of the exhibit classification, as painting or sculpture, as conditions might warrant.

Third. Local juries of selection to be at the proper time made up in various centers where advisory committees should have been established, each such local jury to be constituted from the members of the local advisory committees, with the addition of delegated representatives from other centers to conserve uniformity in the standard of selection and put the stamp of national approval on the works chosen. These local juries should together constitute the national jury of selection and should act in conformity with the uniform rules to be prescribed.

Perhaps for the first time in the history of the work of juries of award at international expositions the number of jurors representing foreign sections was largely in excess of the number of jurors representing the home country-the United States-a condition of affairs which was a matter of surprise to experienced American jurors and of some anxiety lest prejudices might influence the results. Such, however, was happily not the case. With little exception the work of the jury was harmonious.

In recommending to the president of the exposition the appointment of jurors of awards to represent the United States section, as in every action of the department officials which bore upon the selection or judgment of exhibits, the fullest weight was given to the importance of an adequate expression of each phase of thought and effort, and this, I believe, was well appreciated by art workers. Certainly the completeness of the United States art representation indicated the general satisfaction of our artists with the manner of dealing with such problems. The experience of the department, both as to the United States and other sections, emphasized the value of the very complete consideration given the constitution and conduct of the international jury of awards.

In the St. Louis as in the Chicago Exposition the hope of the writer and of those with whom he was fortunately associated was to advance the cause of art. Through the clear-visioned policy of the art committee and others in control, it was possible to reach and consult all interests involved in the work of the department and to contribute to the furtherance of a friendly feeling on the part of art workers generally. We consistently sought this end by endeavoring to advance the plans and interests of all artists wherever possible, and numerous evidences of appreciation have been received from our coworkers and exhibitors at home and in various foreign national sections with keen pleasure.

Worthy of being placed upon record for its value in art work was the broad, liberal, outlook of the president and other officials of the St. Louis Exposition, the keen appreciation of large and permanent interests bound up with the development of art, which made it possible to better serve that cause in many ways. It may be proper to instance the expression by Mr. Francis, upon the occasion of an address to the groups of the international jury of awards for art, of the hope that we might have in the permanent

structure of the Art Palace a permanent home for the St. Louis Museum of Art as the most fitting memorial of the exposition. To recall his saying that such a result, dreamed of by the builders of the exposition from its early days, would in itself be worthy of all the effort expended to perfect the great enterprise. I believe that this recognition of the value and of the interests of American art came to be appreciated by artists and art lovers, and that through its helpful and harmonizing influence and its possibilities in furthering artistic interests not alone have been furthered the more immediate interests of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, but also the advantage of expositions of the future and the general cause of American art education.

The need of European exhibitions adequately representative of American art was testified to by foreign commissioners at the St. Louis Exposition. Mr. Willy Martens, commissioner for Holland, said, comparing American art as he saw it then with the idea of it which he could obtain in Europe:

I should say that there has never been a display of American art as complete as we have seen here. This display has been quite a revelation to us foreigners.

Professor Doctor von Petersen, juror for Germany, spoke at length on one occasion to the international jury of awards for art of the desire of European lovers of art to learn what art message America has for the world. Lamenting the existing conditions, Professor von Petersen said:

I have been at the head of the international exhibitions at Munich upon several occasions, and at each of these times American art has been represented by excellent American painters working in Europe; but, although we have desired it very much, we have never been able to get a representation of the artists working here, nor even has there been any collective representation of American work, since the work even of the American artists who have appeared has been scattered among the productions of the other nations.

Provision should be made from public funds for national participation in such annual international exhibitions in European art centers. Representative national collections should be made up by selecting among the various types of artistic expression works representative of all groups of art workers both at home and abroad. This would result in a complete representation of what is being done at the present time in art by all workers of this country and would unquestionably enhance our prestige abroad.

This work might be accomplished under the supervision, as already suggested, of a bureau of expositions-experts in conjunction with a regularly established congressional committee-such as that already in existence known as the Congressional Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions.

The following table has been revised by including the legislation of 1906. This legislation covers the following points:

In the District of Columbia the annual period of required attendance has been extended to include the full school term.

Georgia now forbids children under 10 to be employed in factory work under any circumstances; or (after January 1, 1907) under 12 unless necessary in certain circumstances for their own or their parents' support. After January 1, 1908, a specified degree of education or amount of school attendance will be exacted up to the age of 18 as a condition of employment.

A child-labor law has been passed in Iowa prohibiting the employment of children under 14 years of age in various specified occupations.

Kentucky, which previously prohibited the employment of children under 14 in factories, mines, etc., now broadens the prohibition so as to include several other kinds of employment, except in vacation time.

The Louisiana law now prohibits the employment of boys under 12 and girls under 14 in factories, etc., in cities and towns of 10,000 inhabitants or more.

In Massachusetts a standard is prescribed for those to come up to who are required to be able to read and write as a condition of employment.

In New York the minimum age for labor in or about mines has been fixed at 16 years. Females are not allowed to work in mines under any circumstances.

In Vermont the list of forbidden employments is extended to include railroad and quarry work, and no child under 16 is permitted to engage in any forbidden employment in school hours unless he has completed the 9-year elementary school course prepared by the State superintendent.

No attempt has been made in the table to note the provisions regulating the hours of labor of minors. Such regulations are now very general

Many States, in general terms, forbid, or permit only under restrictions, occupations dangerous to the life, limb, morals, or health of children. In some States the employment of children in begging, theatrical and circus exhibitions, on dangerous machinery, in occupations requiring the handling of intoxicating liquors, nightwork, etc., is specifically forbidden. Where the employments forbidden are not specifically enumerated the enforcement of such provisions of law is difficult, from lack of judicial interpretation as to what constitutes an employment dangerous to life, etc.