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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931 PAGE SEVEN | ARCHITECTURE INU. CRITICIZED| Raymond M. Hood Says Much of It Impossible and ' Undesirable New: York, N.Y N.Y Evolution of a distinctive e of architecture in the ited tates is both impos- sible and und it is contend by Raymond M. Hood, in his book just published and which 'deals en- tirely with architects and their wor Hood, who designed some half dozen of this city's most impres- sive looking buildings, says the con- temporary concept of architecture precludes the evolution of * "an Am- erican style." He contends a "style is developed by copying and repeti- tion, both destructive to creation and maximum usefulness, which is essential to building." The nature of the necessary con- stant change in technique and type is the best evidence of the vitality of architecture in this country, ac- cording to Mr. Hood, who says that "a change in. architecture that is merely a revival of an anterior architecture developed under en- tirely dissimilar geographical, racial, social and economic conditions, proves a paucity of creative ability and understanding of the true func- tion of architecture." Mr, Hood holds the belief that "architecture is the business of manufacturing adequate shelter for human activities" and asserts that this concept of architecture imposes only one restriction, "that the pro- duct must be adequately practical ry a shelter for human activities." URGE SMALLER BATTLESHIPS Paris Reports Acton Plan- ned at Geneva Paris.--A drive probably will be made at the world disarma- ment conference at Geneva in February to secure a reduetion in the size of battleships, according to reports current in interna- tional circles. Great Britain and France were said to advocate cutting battle- ship displacement from 35,000 tons to 30,000 or less, the cuts to become effective when the time arrives for replacing exist- ing craft. This would effect econ- omies by reducing the cost of battleships. There also was a rumor that an effort will be made to reduce the total battleship tonnage of the five great naval powers, Great Britain, France, Italy, United States and Japan. League cirgles here predicted the Gen- eva conference will result at least in a decision to limit ar- maments to their present level. This, it was stated, should be considered a gratifying result for the first general conference, FIGUREHEADS MAY AGAIN ADORN BOWS OF BRITISH SHIPS London, -- Those wooden femin- ists who used to go to sea at the bow of British sailing ships are passe in this day of steam and iron, but something more modern may soon take their place in the British navy. It is proposed to provide British ships with distinctive figureheads, perhaps the arms of the shire for which the vessel is mamed, cr of the family whose name it carries, or some other distinctive mark which would enbance a vessel's identity and give superstitious sail- or folk some new pride in their assignment. These figureheads are now al- most an extinct class, save on a few yachts and sailing vessels. Lord Inchcape's steam yacht bears a beautiful likeness of his daugh- ter, the late Missg Elsie Mackay, who lost her life in an attempt to fly the Atlantic. Another seagoing beauty, is Beatrice on the Swedish barque of that name... DEMAND REPEAL OF VOLSTEAD AGT New England Jobbers Urge Economy Boston.--A resolution calling upon national, state and city of- ficials to take drastic steps tow- ard remedying "present economic difficulties of our country, of business and of tax-payers' was unanimously recently at a meet- ing of the New England Manufac- turers and Jobbers Association. The resolution was addressed to President Hoover, Congress and all governors and mayors, it asked: "That the salaries of all political office holders including state and city, be promptly re- duced at least 10 per cent, and provisions made for income tax collection from all political office holders beginning with the year 1932. "That aa immediate and drastic curb on the unwise spend: ing and lending of the peoples' money be effected. "That immediate action be taken to save for the government and the people the annual cost of prohibition of approximately $1,364,000,000 by repealing the 18th Amendment to the Consti- tution and the Volstead Act in order that this huge sum of money may otherwise be used to balance the budget of the United States." CONSCIENCE STAMPS ARE RECEIVED BY U.S. POSTAL DEPARTMENT Washington, D.C.--Years ago a Missouri woman removed a couple of two cent stamps from letters re- ceived. They bore no eancellation marks. She used them again, "Here is a confession I feel "1 ought to make," she wrote to {he post office department. "When I was a mere child at my grandmo- ther's I recall I used postage stamps that had carried letters but were not cancelled. My grandmother used one and I thought it was all right to do like she did. "That was years ago. Grand mother is dead now 9 years agn and God has held this before me and I must confess and ask for giveness and pay for same." F. A. Tilton, assistant postmaster- genéral, wrote the aged woman thgt she could submit two two-cent stamps to his office, where they '| would be destroyed, thereby eancel- ling the woman's 8 obligation. VERY, VERY QUEER Jamie had just received a visit from an insurance agent, and was talking it over with his friend. "Queer chaps, these insurance «men are," mused Jamie, "How 80?'* asked his friend. "Weel, they hev to make ye believe that ye may dee next week so that ye will take a policy oot wi' them. Then they hev to make themselves believe that ye will live for years before they will let ye take oot a policy." Archbishop of Canterbury Fears War if Arms London, Dec, 17--The world is approachin, ng the turning point of its history and faces the possibility of another armed conflict involving the most important nations, the Arch- bishop of Canterbury said at dis- armament services at St. Paul's Cathedral. The disarmament conference to be held in Geneva in February will determine whether the ideals of the League of Nations will prevail or the world will return to an armed balance of power, "which is a cer- tain prelude to another world war," the Archbishop said, He added that if the conference failed. Germany might withdraw from the League of Nations and be- gin to increase her armaments. "Failure of the conference would be a setback for the period of set- tled confidence essential to world recovery," he said. "God grant that a calamity so grievous may be averted. He said nationalism was the ulti- mate cause of the world crisis, He urged an international conference to Conference Fails solve the problem. He estimated that spends $10,000,000 a day on arma- ment and Great Britain $1,000 a minute. "The time has come for a deliber- ate attempt at infernational agree- m at to remove this intolerable bur- den; this continuing menace," he continued. "The essence of the yro- blem is a general agreement to dis- arm." The Archbishop said Britain had reduced her armament more sub- stantially than any other country. "Fear is making nations cling to armaments," he said. 'If fear were banished a reduction of armaments would follow." Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon- ald and members of his cabinet adjourned a Cabiney/ necting early in order to attend the services. Many diplomats d Government officials were present. The speeches were broadcast as a symbal of na- tion-wide prayer for the success of the world disarmament conference NEWSPAPERS TURN BUSINESS TIDE November Cystex Sales Up 25 Per Cent. December Up 27 Per Cent. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 17.--From day to day, additional evidence is accumulating that the business tide has turned, or can be turned by careful and intelligent business planning, W. W. Burgess, president of the Knox Company, manufacturers of internationally known Cystex, the reliable Kidney Diuretic and pallia- tive for Functional Bladder Irrita- tion, recently made the following statement : "Our November business showed a 25 per, cent increase over the some month of a year ago in the United States, In Canada our Cystex_ sales increased 50 per cent in November over a year ago. So far in December our U. S. Cystex sales are 27 per cent ahead of a year ago." Mr. Burgess, in elaborating on methods employed to develop this sple ndid business increase, said: "We attribute our increasing busi- ness to a more intelligent use of advertising this year than ever before in our past history, This year we have concentrated practic ally all of our advertising appropri- ation in newspapers. Instead of scattering our fire in a lot of dif- ferent advertising methods, we have put practically every dollar to work for us in newspapers, because they work fast and we can use them where our sales are best. News- papers have co-operated in many different ways to make Cystex ad- vertising more effective, and we owe them a debt of gratitude, which ts shall be a pleasure to repay by increasing our Cystex advertising as time goes on. Mr. Burgess further stated that his firm is now running Cystex newspaper advertising in more than 700 publications in the United States and Canada, as well as in the leading newspapers of Eongland, and other foreign countries, It is interesting to learn that the same advertising" methods and policy of using newspapers is succeeding in foreign countries almost as well as it is in the United States and Can- ada. First Sailor: How do you like life in the Navy" Quite a few turns for a fellow to get used to, aren't there? fecond Sailor: I should say so. At night you turn in, and just as you are about to turn over sume- body turns up and shouts "Turn out." American Poets Find New Forms Montreal.--*Don't be afraid of new forms of poetry; ask what is the poet trying to do, is there power in his work, not is it in ac- cordance with accepted forms?' advised Rev. Lawrence Clare, in an address at a luncheon meeting of the Women's Press Club in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel recently, Mr. Clare dealt first with poetry in general, then traced developments in poetic forms, leading up to his subject "American Poetry in the Twentieth Century." American poets in the nine- teenth century wrote verse that imitated the culture of England and Europe, and no great poetry is ever imitative, the lecturér sald. Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier were estimable but not great. In effect these were transplanted English poets doing what their contem- poraries on the other side of the Atlantic were doing better. The first American poet of great power and influence, the lec- turer thought, was Walt Whit- man, who, however, had to wait a long time for recognition before pebple could adjust themselves to the "strange, barbaric yawp," Whitman unclamped poetic forms and widened the subject matter of poetry. His influence on the whole field of poetry was lasting, and he was probably the original fountain head of vers libre. Ed- win Markham, who set the world talking with his poem, "The Man with the Hoe," startled America by introducing a new power in form and a more terrible subject matter, Mr. Clare proceeded to discuss the work of great American poets of the ppesent time. There are now men and women, he said, who are producing a body of work more significant, though less beau- tiful, than is being written in Eng- land in the same period. It was possessed of a new sincerity of language and rhythm, with much in it that is vital. Among qualities noted were: The strange elfin strains of Edna St. Vincent Mil- lais the disillusionment expressed in a devastating way by T. 8, El- lott; the tragic power of Robert Frost who rivalled Wordsworth in his treatment of simple things; the strange twilight sense of trag. edy of Edwin Arlington Robinson, remote, detached, analytical; the violent rhythms of Vachell Lind- say, styled a 'jazz evangelist': the power and force of Carl Sand- burg, the experimentalism of Amy Lowell and the vividness of the The Salesman N The for the Home The Oshawa Daily Times Welcome t's a salesman that edges its way in- to every office . . . eases its way into every home. A salesman that is ex- pected daily; welcomed eagerly; at- tended with interest and relied upon for shopping information, Truly, the most sensible certain, di- rect, productive and economical way, of selling your goods, MR. ADVER- the world Negro poet, Weldon Johnson. Rose McNeill, H.D., and Sara Teasdale were others mentioned. The lec- turer read from the work of some of the poets named, emphasizing their qualities. 'Defining poetry as "patterned language" Mr, Clare pointed out different types of "patterns", a, in the classics, Anglo-Saxon poef- ry and that of the Bible. Pattern alone could not make poetry, and much modern verse was unjust- fied. It was an affectation to turn into verse what prose is capable of saying, but there were things that conld not be expressed in prose form. Poetry was in essence the communication of a specific quality of life that cannot be ex- pressed in prose. Poetry must be- gin with inspiration and this in- spiration would create the appro- priate form. Poetry could not he translated. The translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, for ex- ample, was really one noem based on and inspired by another, The old forms were not suitable to life in the new world, and now that American poets are finding new and adequate forms we may expect great poetry to come out of America in the next twenty years, Mr. Clare concluded. "I dn't believe my wife could tell a lie." "You're lucky. Mine can--as soon as it's out of my mouth." GIANT CUNARDER T0 BE COMPLETED Directors Rescind Decision Throwing 3,000 Men Out of Work Liverpool, Eng. The board of directors of the Cunard Line have announced the company will com- plete its new liner now lying part- ly built in a Clydebank, Scotland, shipyard, with or without assist ance from the British Govern- ment. Suspension of construction of the giant ship last Saturday threw: 3,000 workers out of em- ployment and was the immediate cause of representations in Par- llament and elsewhere that build- ing be resumed as soon as possi- ble. In its previous announce- ment it said it was forced to the company said it was forced to suspend work owimg to a drop in the depreciation fund from which money for new vessels is drawn, The directors reached no deci- sion as to how and when the ship will be.completed, but one official sald construction will be resumed even if the company is unable to secure assistance from the Gov- ernment, CANADIANS FAVOR NEW YACHT RACE Enthusiasts Support Idea of New International Trophy Series New York, N.Y. -- Canadian yachtsmen are taking kindly to the | p: prominent United States yachting siiggestion advocated by several enthusiasts for an international trophy, according to the tenor of letters received by the secretary of the North American Yacht Racing Union. It has been suggested a trophy be put up for competition among twelve meter craft to replace the America's Cup. It' is taken for granted that it will be some time before anyone steps into the breach left by the famous Irishman, Sir Thomas Lipton, who has been the only challenger for the America's Cup in years. George H. Gooderham, Toronto, considered one of the Dominion's foremost yachting authorities, wrote to the Union saying in part: "We must have international racing if we are to keep the sport alive, and the suggestion of an international race for twelve-meter boats is, | think, a very excellent one. first place, these boats are of. Jn ne size that a reasonably wealthy nL can afford to own and race, and, also, they make excellent cruising. boats." Mr. Gooderham, however, opposes. & a contest between several boats ds | he believes a race of his kind mi tioned should be a duel between two countries, He also suggests a déed of gift should be prohibit anything in the nature © a machine, drawn up as to = "such as was so digs gracefully exemplified in the Engrg rise. G. H. Duggan, Montreal, anol leading Canadian skipper, and ol yachtsmen from as far cast as HAlI® 4 fax, in addition to scores of United States yachtsmen, have written 10 the Union in favor of the mi series. One of the greatest compl ments that was ever paid me, Was by a young Japanese student of English in Tokyo. I had just finished an address to the stu- derts of a Christian college whet a beaming youth came forward and, shaking my hand heartily, exclaimed: "Mr. Bryan, it is the utmost pleasure to hear you talk. Yao mouth encircles the globe ani when you have broken your lip many people are cheerful." W. Jennings Bryan. 1% Sale of W. A. Dewland Limited Bankrupt Stock Only a Few Days Left And This Store Will be Closed Here you are at the last stage of the Sale of the W. A. Dewland Folks! Limited Bankrupt Stock Sale. that every article must be sold at any price. The store must be cleaned and the orders are Let's go! 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