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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1930 p-- -- PAGE SEVEN Art in Canada Written for the Canadian Press by Elizabeth S. Hutt, AR.CA., 7 + Principal of the Nova hs Scotia College of Art, (Written for the Canadian Press by "isabets 8. Nutt, AR.C.A, Prin- vipal 'of the Nova Scotia College Art) "I belong to the Knights Baronets of Nova jal said the grim-faced rlderly man, " Jou? ve you a | uv.' of arms?" And arrogantly he ied me up and down, He evident- sensed the alien birthright ac- . Jo ired by residence no older, alas, "Laan twelve years, while his dated "rom just a matter of 200 years, . 1 addition to the length of time, he 3 ted the gift of my own king, Aes 1, to Sir William Alexander %'~4 his soldier adpenturers. To him * taded from the picture as worthy "ly to hew the wood and draw the ater, In vision we sce St. Patrick's Day, Se, irew's Day and St. George's Day, princes, lords, and ladies with their . respective heralds blazoned with epats-of-arms, signs of military valor, of the mailed fist. How as- sertive cach is of his right to claim heroic ancestry, How proud we all are to see its insignia on all we pos- sess--on every cup, and plate, and spoon, and fork, and on many a win- dow pane, and even on carriage doors, in tact wherever possible ~ thereby announcing to the admiring world onz lineage and nationality. Signifi- int symbols on our coats-of-arms indeed smother us almost literally, Our microscopic world hides that of our neighbors and that of the peo- »' + afar off, The presence of the refsal is scarcely ever sensed. ange trees grow in the Herald's ice in Chancery Lane, London, agland, trecs whose branches bear mly selected signs and symbols for the delectation of a chosen few. The Red Man's System The. Red Men of this continent and lord, of its lands had his feudal sys- tem of war-lords and serfs, He also proudly impressed his divine right fo rule, and to be exempt from so-called servile labor and erected his totem pole to proclaim to his world his im- portant birth, "Esprit de coeur," his duty to his ancestors stiffened his Vife. and whilst it forbade cowardice n battle and meanness in civil life, i= did encourage arrogance in the » ume and village, The totem pole is the coat of arms of the Red Man of the North Pacific Coast. Not mythical lions and uni- corns, but the intimate creatures of the home and forest and lake, The dog and raven, a bear. and fish pro- vided the Red Man with his heraldic motif, The family trees surmounted by the chosen family emblem stand majestic and striking in the midst of the Indian villages and form the most artistic' of North American In- dian efforts at representation, They are not pure art expression, however, for their purpose was no more to express universal Jarmony of the world of appearance than is that of the 'efforts of the Herald's Office, Yet they are more truly artistic than the latter, whose emblems have lost the vigor of their origins, and in them. selves are scarcely more stimulating than the Arabic numerals; whereas the elements of the totem pole still bear upon them the vitality that shapes assume when they must fill arbitrary spaces and must bear a de- finite relationship to other shapes. Here therefore in the totem pole with its strange carved heads of men and beasts and birds, is the first de- finite artistic effort of the natives of Canada. Hence. this art of the Red Man, am- plified by his dress and wigwam de- corations, wrought to satisfy his ego- tism and his innate craving for en- hancement of his own charms and beauty, is not pure art. It is not pure art hecause it is wrought primarily for the sake of utility, or for the tell ing of a story, or to emphasise facts, all or which are of very secondary importance, True art is the conscious acknowledgement and expression of universal harmonies for their own sakes, 'The White Men Come Then came the White man of Eu- 1 pe, intent upon the conquest of the , Ned Man to secure this ly land for his own possession, intent upon the conquest of the forests and tli lakes, to secure his own permanence Necessarily, there was no leisur wherein to realise the things of the _ snirit, to capture the harmonies ever | | a state of flux and the very being | every creature and the things pe- jar to Canada; a mental land, a +d of stimulated vision, a "land of pu. e delight," where all rich and poor, strong and weak, man bl: ck and white, have equal rights of = session, equal right to express and t. prove his godlike ig The ony entry thereto is the straight and narrow way of confidence in the thoughts that arise and their record fug in "doing." And this is fine art | It id born of thinking, and the doiny whereby life is forever I etuate and forever a delight, It 1s abso. lutely individual realisation in thought completed in deed. It is the marriage sof wislon and doing. This is above material egotism, above narrow mic. and woman, ! f{ ic self-importance. And it is completely outside dependence upon another's vicarious efforts, each and all of which spell death. The dawn- ing of the supreme importance of the underlying truth of fine art to the building up of a great nation has come very slowly to Canada, se it has come very slowly to the rest of the world, Secret of Hermeny The secret of harmony in the world of appearance has always been known, The chosen few of ever; people upon carth have known it, paintings of Altimafa show. The an cient Asiatics, Mongolians, Caucas- sians and the sav artists of th lonely isles ok the Pacific knew it. The artistic Jgyntian knew it. The Greeks as a knew it and the vividness of their"vision burst into such brilliance in the Renaissance that the secret at last has become common knowledge and is the recog- nised birthright of every boy and girl of today, The gradual awakening of the art consciousness that. was taking place in modern Europe was also taking place at the same time in_ Asia. The sensing of etérnal harmony by the peoples of India, Chiga and Japan found expression by means of the same eternal principles of harmony, by means of the same law of mobil- ity which governs the forms of every creature, and everything upon earth, and of every thought that man can think, and of every instinct that crea- tures can follow, But the conscious advent of the forever reign of har- mony, which is eternal, has only fil- tered slowly into the life of the peo- ple. The light has been passed on from hand to hand, from master to ap- preaties, till at last it has been rought to the masses. . No longer is this harmony the posseskion of wealth and leisure, Culturk has come to the many, J The basis of the manifestation of life is mathematical. The "Open Sesame" of the law of mobility is embodied in root relationships of forms and has revealed the music of appearance that gives us perfect sat- ipfaction, for it is in line with the build of our own structure as well as the structure of all tree growth, of all flora, of all fauna, and of all form appearance of cloud, and of wave-- in fact of all things in carth and sky To play this music of form of thv world of appearance is the work of a fine artist, To reproduce this univer- sal harmony for the perfect satisfac- tion and joy of himself primarily, and secondarily for the world is his mis- sion. To show willing waiting hu. manity the. path in truth and in fact that leads out of all decay and dis. cord wherever it may occur, is the sole work of the artist, None in any walk of life may know the fullness of life save by doing, by implicit faith in, and obedience to, the promptings of the spirit, and thereby to experi- ence ptill higher vision, and still again obedience, until there shall be one long bright and eternal, appar. ently coincident, prompting and re. sponse. Thus thoughts, which we may name visitant angels, are ever taking the desired form to be tran. scribed by you and by me, until we voluntarily seek them for the sheer joy of the visions again vouchsafed, us forms are drawn not for the recording of incident, not for the re- cording of acts, nor for the pander. ing to egotism, The contemplation and recognition of our inalienable atonement with universal harmony swallows up class distinctions, and class separations, and all poverty of mind and estate, for there ic nothing "common nor unclean" neither did- actic in fine art, The heavenly vision alone is the grand leveler, Thus it comes about that it is the playing of the glorious music of form alone that is the prime test of the greatness of a nation's fine art, The capacity for the people to demand, and to enjoy, and to produce, true fine art is the only sign of that peoples' true nobil. ity, and of its real artistic birth, esign the Bases Thus the artist, with mind detached | from all mesmerism exercised by lo. | cal form, tone and color, is free to survey untrammelled his whole pre sentation as masses having root re. lationships, and with intervals also similarly related to each other, and | to the masses. Thus design is the | basis of all fine art expression--de- sign which is deliberately patterned of forms, of tone, of colors, without which the expression is spineless and ineffective, | This cold mathematical sirvey by | reason though essential is only one. {half of the tale, for reason is only i the handmaid of emotion, whose part in fine art expression must next be | considered. Not until we understand the part | these two play in the creating of fine | art are we in a position to judge the art of Canada, and to estimate our immediate artistic position in the world, and so to find guidance that shall he worth while in the education of our children. SCHOOL BOARD HAS BiG SURPLLS (Continued from page 1) wight salaries were $5,433, or $666 under the estimate; collegiate aca- demic teachers' salaries were $44, 110 'or $5,359 under the estimate; ublic school teachers' * salaries a $114,030 or $4,384 below the batimate. A saving of §1,680 was made on collegiate and vocational janitors' wages, which cost $4,400. Classroom suddlies in the collegtate academic department cost $78, or $422 under the estimate, while classroom supplies for the vocation. «1 institute cost $1,838, a saving of Electricity for the collegiate de- partment cost $664, or $235 under the estimate, in the vocational de partment $405, or $106 below the budget; and in the public schools, £1,391 or $109 below the estimate, Water in the collegiate department cost $368 which was $333 below the estimate, in the vocational de partment $241, or $159 below the estimate, and in the public schools $778 or $233 below the estimate. Janitors' supplies in the vocational department cost $72.80, or $227 be. low the budget, and in the public schools $1,412 or $788 below the budget, Other Expenditures Other major expenditures which were approximately equal to the fig- ure budgeted for them, were, in the collegiate academic department: substitute teachers' salaries, $1. $577. Extensivé savings were also "made in the light and water bills 150; cadet corps, $503; librarian's The : prehistoric artist kiew it, as the cave | years, - JOHN ROSS Reeve East Whitby Council Returned by Acclamation W. A. LAVIS Deputy Reeve MAURICE G, HART Councillor G. 1. SCOTT Councillor EVERVTT WARNE Councillor supplies, $604; Janitors' supplies, $427; repairs, $249. In the vocational department ma- jor expenses which were about equ- al to the budget, were substitute teachers" salaries, day, $464; omhee assistant's salary, $445; advertis- ing, $372; repairs, $192, Expenditures which approximat- ed the estimates in the public schools were office ussistant's sal- ary, $780; classroom supplies, $2,- 283; Inspector's salaries, $863; at- tendance officer's salary, $910; phy. sical training supplies, $216; music supplies, $245, Comparison of Revenues A comparison of revenues for the last three years shows that the tax levy for public schools this yes was $152,720 as compared with $167,833 last year and $139,662 in 1928, while the levy for collegiate and vocational departments was $97,263 this year, as couparea with $568,213 last year and $62,641 in the previous year. Fees recely- ed In 192 for night vocatioal classes totalled $1,137 as compared with $1,066 last year and $804 In 1028; fees for non-resident publie school pupils this year were $411 as compared with $676 last year and $296 the previous year; and fees for non-resident collegiate pu- pils were 31,053 this year, compar- ed with $211 last year and $58 in 1028, County grants totalled $10,- 780 this year as compared with | $10,615 last year and $12,676 in 1928, Provincial public school rants totalled $2,206 and for col- eziate Institute $1,916, both anounts being equal to former The provincial grant to the vocational devartment reached §14,- 762 this year, compared with $9,- 406 last year and $9,267 the previ- ous year, Comparison of Expenses Teachers' salaries {n the public schools cost $114,080 as compared with $111,160 last year, in the col- leglate, $44,110 as compared with | $47,000, and in the vocations! de- | partment, $10,284 as compared | with $26,288, { Claes room supplies for the pub Me schools cost $2,288, about the same as in the last two years; for the collegiate, $78 as compared With $371 last year and $015 the previous year; and for the vocation. al department, $1,338 as compared with $381 last year, Equipment for the public school cost $178 compared with $1,044 last year and $3,732 in 1928; for the collegiate cost $12, compared with $144 last year and $207 in 1928, Iuel for the public schools cost $6,196 com- pared with $8,984 last year and $6,- 715 in 1928; and in the collegiate cost $3,015 compared with $3,276 | and $2,397 in the previous years, TIME TABLE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS | Mective Se, r 20th, 1930 | (Standard Time) m, Daily, except Sunday, Put od oss 2 m. m, wm, Daily, except Sunday, m, Daily, except Saturday, Wm, Daily, am, Daily, aily. Daily, except Sunday. Daily. ono YP Shen: =2% "oe » * E33 . except Sunday, Sunday, 200m except Sunday, #4 CANADIAN PACIFI C RAIL Hective September Jib, iid Standard ) " 9.50 a.m, Daily, ry fy belly: 8 ily, excep . 08 a.m, Daily: A Sunday am, Day, ve lorenio P. o i 9.3% 10.3% 0-3 BixBiEnier EPeRo cate: F413 ye ouly, nc -- WHITBY. OSHAWA I OWMANVILLE (Effective on and after October 0th, 1330) (Standard Tima) West Arrive Hospital fe 33 8x8 PPPS PerPies , 10.008. ° - 3a ° mae Shen nih = SSR 1.2 pm, <w So. a Pu 425 pom, 2288388883 vas Sa 2885 715p.m, t ere? Fv 382 _fa_B BRC wS = Nw 3 8 3 9.50 p.m, 10.40 p.m, | 1.30pm. 11.45 p.m, ; SUNDAY AND JoLIbAY SCHEDULE oot Arrive 10,00 p,m, Leave Whitby © 0 1 guage, though they Wille seript three times, 10.00 a.m 12.00 p.m as It is unique, spring she left her wood, where she had been in pic- tures, and went to Germany to do talkies In about two months Anna May Wong learfied her part in "The Flame of Love" in the German lan- changed the silent came, two talking pictures in Poland. Miss Wong, whose real name is Wong Liu Tsong, hopes they won't expect her to do them fin Polish, For Polish looks to her like 2 "lan- gusge in which they pick up all the letters in the alphabet and throw hem at each other." But if they want her to films, Then the speak Polish in the talkies Miss Wong will make a stab at it, tie. record so far is as courageous Two years ago last native Holly- For her linguis- Last summer she was directed to do "The Flame of Live" in French, so Anna May Wong betook herself to Paris, got a tutor, refused to let anyone speak a word of English to her, and in three weeks was ready to play the part. Then she went to Vienna and gang in German the leading role in an operetta, In addition to English, French, German and a few words of Polish, Miss Wong speaks Chinese, which she says is the hardest of the lot, "My people speak Cantonese, fourth dialect, The difficult thing ahout Chinese ig that a mere Inflec tion will entirely change the mean- ing of a word, Take my own name--Wong Liu Tsong. Wong, of course, is my family name, 'Tsong' and 'Liu,' merely by a change of in- flection, can maan two entirely dif- ferent things, "Say it one way and it means 'second of a palr' That's how I got the name, But it can also mean 'frosted yellow willow,' which is much prettier, I think." BEAUTIFUL ROSES GROWN IN NORTH Edmonton, Alta, ~ "Edmonton's somewhat northerly latitwZe does not prevent her enthusiastic gardeners from growing beautiful roses out of says the "Edmonton Journal" The "Journal" reports a recent meeting of the Edmonton Horticultural Sock ety at which the president MH, W, Stiles, described how roses eould be grown successfully in Edmonton, Briefly Mr, Stiles traced the his tory of the rose which was introduced into England first from China about 1810, Fundamental features involved in the successful growing of roses are the finding of a suitable loca. tion; proper sofl conditions; careful choice of varieties; right preparation of the sofl; proper plan™ng; prun- ing operations rightly carried out; careful attention to fertilizing; cul- tivation of the surface around the roses and the use of remedies for in- sect pests to which roses are prone, The question of winter protection for roses was dealt with by the pre- sident of the society, who sald the spring thaws were more harmful to the plants than the eold winter wea- ther, He told his fellow members of the society how to guard against the thaws causing injury, RESOLUTION PASSED FOR FORTIETH TIME London, ~Members of the Royal College of Surgeons again passed a resolution at the annual Ineeting which had algo been adopted at over 40 previous annual meetings, The College is governed by a Council re- presenting Fellows only, but there are only 2,000 Fellows and 15,000 Members, A poll had heen taken, and 7,000 names had been secured, in support of a demand for the re- presentation of Members on the Council, Dr, Ernest E, Ware, proposing the motion, sald that he did so for the third time, "The remarkable fea- ture of this motion is its antiquity," he observed, "It has been passed year after year, before many here were qualified and before some were doors, defying those who a few yeafs ago declared this could not be done," born," 245p.m 4.45 p.m 6.45 pm 7 R1Spm, ARM 10.45 pom 11,00 Times marked * Lindsay lusses. 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Pacific Rallway have r ceived recognition in the appo mont of George Hodge, assista feveral manager, eastern lines, ! ho manager of the newly-createl department of Personnel of tho raliway, announced by Grant Ha!!, vice-president of the company ro- cently, Mr, Hodge was specially selected for the appointment in viow of his wide experience In labor matters and his particular flair for arbitration and kindred activities, He was specially In the limelight at the time of the McAdoo award when his presentation of that sit- uation evoked unstinted praise in Canada and the United States, Likelihood of a large entry list from the Prairies for the third Annual Empress Hotel Midwinter Golf tournament to be played at Vic- toria Golf Club February 23-28 is Indicated in enquiries pouring in from leading amateurs of (he plains, Last year the tourney brought together 160 leading men and women golfers of the North Pacific and the Prairies and it was the plainsinen who upset the dope by carrying off important portions of the silverware against the best golfers of Victoria, Seattle, Van- couver, Tacomas, Portland and | Spokane. Since the opening in 1923 of the New Brunswick School of Agricul. ture, 150 young men have attended the annual fall short course In practical agriculture, Attendance at the 1930 course which closed December 19, was the largest on record, the number of students registered being 35, half of them being members of young people's livestock and poultry clubs. The silver cup for general proficiency was awarded to Ralph H. Colpitts, of Petit Codiac. 80 fine is the quality of the tur? produced by Bent Grass seed, a comparatively new variety pro- duoed in Canada, that during the t five years between 50,000 and 5,000 pounds of the seed have heen exported to the United States each year, The best quality is produced in Prince Edward Island and is used for lawns, golfing and bow. Yong greens, Motor tourist. traffic to New Brunswick from the United States was 44 pad cent, greater in 1930 than in the previous year, this per- centage of increase in tourist busi- ness being the greatest shown by any province of Dominion during that year, it is claimed by the New Brunswick Government Bureau of Information and Tourist Travel. Value of the trade is placed by in- dependent estimates at $18,000,000 in 1029 which must have been fully Heiviaineg it not up to $20,000,000 CHINESE GIRL EHIGH VALLE bo LV "The Coal That Satisfies" ANTHRAG (TE) [ANTHRACIT) harder. it is cleaner. Fuel fads and fancies come and go--meanwhile LEHIGH VALLEY ANTHRACITE Because it lasts longer. And last but not least because Washed by the famous Rheolaveur Process, it comes to you the cleanest coal you have ever used. 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