After the Armistice an attempt was made to show that suitable schoo! pictures could be produced ju this country. A special Advisory Commitise was appointed, including publishers, artists, historious, technical exports, an teachers. Strenuous efforts were made by the Committee, but in vain, owing particularly to the "withdrawal of the financial aid needed to carry on its researches," and the comparative failure of the artists selected to produce designs for reproduction.
Two things, however, were satisfactorily proved: (1) That the lithographic work: was excellent; (2) and that it was possible to produce pictures in this country at. prices which would enable us to compete with similar work published_on the Continent.
Only two of the designs shown yesterday were passable, but they Jooked common compared with splendid prewar German designs representing "Plonghing," "Horse and Sparrow," and a view of The Underground Railways have demonstrated by their pictorial posters that we have men quite as well qualified as the German te produce pictures eminently suitable for educational purposes. The big demand from schools and private homes for the railway posters shows what could be effected by the wholehearted and wise"@o-open
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