The Seaforth News, 1933-07-20, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 20, 4933. THE SEAFORTII NEWS.
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Use Miller's Worm Powders and
the 'battle against 'worms is won,.
These powders correct t'he, morbid
condition 'of the stomach which 'nour-
ish "the 'worms, and these destructive
.parasites cannot exist after they come
in contact , with the medicine. The
'worms are digested by the powders
and are speedily evacuated with other
refuse from the'bowels. Sronndness'is
.imp'a'rted to the organs , and the
'health of the child .steadily im!pro'es,
Popular Stallions
SEASON OF 1933
The Iiandsome, Choicely Bred
Clydesdale 'Stallion.
"F1IJASIH-I0IN"
N'o. Q25022) (295716); I'm'ported.
Approved Form 1. 'Enrolment No. 2096
• 'Monday noon will .leave .this own
.stable lot 23, con. 5, Logan, and pro-
eeeed to ,Peter Iiignell's, lot 14, con.
:5, McKillop, for night. Tuesday—
To
uesdayTo Jos. Flannigan's, lot 6, con. 7,
'M'eKillop,' for noon, :thence to Rock
'Bros., Brodhagen, for night. Wed-
•nesd•ay-Tp Thos. Bolton's, lot 19,
•con. 10, M'dl1illo'p, fdr noon, then to
'Geo, Bennewies, lot 8, con. 42, Mc-.
Killip, for night. Thursday—.To
Amos Wickes, lot 29, 'con. 14, Lo-
;gan, for noon, thence to Geonge
'Siemons, lot 24, con. 11, Logan, for
might. Friday='To his awn` stable
for noon, where he willremain until-
the following Mdnday• noon. This
route will be continued` throughout'.
the season, health and weather per-
mitting.
Terms -4/112 to":insure, .due Feb. 1st,
'1934.
JACOB' IIIGNrELL,
Proprietor and Manager.
Clydesdale Stallion
'HIA!IIG
(21563)
Enrolment No. 4116 ,Approved.Form 1
Monday leaves his own stable, lot
22, con. 13, Hibbert, ` goes north 134
miles and west to Ed. McKay's for
moon. 'Thence• west andsouth by
way of 'Write school to Walter
eladge's for night. Tuesday -West to
the 2nd concession of Hay, then
south to Earl 'Camp!bel.l's for noon,
then south ,to Leo Johns for night.
Wednesday --East to Larry Taylor's
for noon, then east ' and north to
Jack Simpson's for night; Thursday
—'N'ort'h 'by way of the boundary to
'his awns &table where he will remain.
until Saturday morning. Sa'bueday
INorbla , and east to Donald MaKiin-
non's for noon, then south . to the
126 concession and west to his awn
stable where he will remain until the
following Monday morning. This
route will be continued for the sea-
son, health and . weather permitting.
Terms $10 to insure.
WM. COLE
(Prop,
Enrolment No. 2614. Passed. Form 1
STAR LIGHT
1Ll2216 -.
This handsome choicely bred Per-
cheron Stallion will travel the fdliow-
ing route during the season of 1933:
Monday will leave his own ,stab'le at
'Munro and will go to Ed Rose's, 5
miles north of Dublin for 'night,
Tuesday will go to John L. Malone's,
one mile 'west .of Beeohwood, Wed-
nesday returnsl,•t6 his owe stable.,
rTheesday,goes south to Bruce Coop-
er's bus utile smith' of Elineville for
night; Friday tee Orville Roger's h/
miles north; of Inirkton; : for noon,
Then home for .night. 'Saturday goes.
to Carlingford and •lioise by, way of
1Fuilarton This horse is drawn on
trailer and will', respond' to calls off
rotate.
Ter -nos to insure $12;, two mares
from the same oiwner, '$110, Parties
losing colts wtlllhave free service 'the,
io'ilciwing year:
NORMAN PARSONS, Munro,:,
Proprietor aid Manager. '(Phone 20m5,
Dublin.,,
SALADS FOR (SUMM'ER DAYS
Spiced Salmon ba mon in Cucurn'ber, Boats
IRen- ove bones arrgl skin from the
contents ro'f +1' large can red salmon.
Boil for 2 minutes 3 cup vinegar,
12 whole Gloves, "'12 :peppercorns, ,6
allspice hurries ,and l-48 teaspoon salt..
Popr while hot over the salmon and.
let stand ' several hours. Drain and
serve cold in encumber boats or on
lettuce leaves garnished rw'itit spiced.
cucumbers,
Canadian (Salad
Boil 4.Inediutnt-sizxecl potatoes utt.ti'1;
waxy but not mealy; thorn 'peel •an,d
dice thehti •wihen cool. Peel and dice
2 -apples, add ,11 tabllespo'o'iv ohopiped
olives, ';1- 'teaspoon ca'pers, 1 onion
chlopped'Ifine. Toss together until
inieedeaid;d' 34 cup mayonnaise apd
mix again,, Chill th'orou!gh'ly and serve
on lettuce leaves, garnish with may-
onnaise and paprika.
PRU'NIN'G iOi ' SHRUBS'
IN THE SUMMER
1SIh'ru'bs ' should be kept within
bounds, ,and this .must be done Iby
pruning, If ,alldwed'to (grow on ''un-
oh'ecked,,same of the subjects will be -
(mime so .thick that the adjacent
bushes Will be s'poiled.
Many shrulbs rfl'ouver on the wood
made the .previous 'year. 'It is there-
fore necessary to make a 'rote ,of the
habit and mode of ,flowering 'oh the
various shrubs to enable pruning rto ibe
canried out at the seasonable time and
in the proper manner.
lIf shrubs 'which flower on 'wood of
the previous season have this grtowth
cut away in the ,autumn or early
spring of the foll'o'wing year the
young flowers will he renreved an.d'
destroyed.
ISuch shrubs 'include ,Lilacs, For-
sythias, Deu.tzias, and . Viburn'ums.
The correct time to prune these
shrubs and others of a like habit is
in summer, as soon as the flowers
drop. Remove the old shoots immed-
iately .the 'flowers are a over, and fresh
growth will ,,start from. the point
where the cut is'mlade This ,growth
will develdp 'for next year's 'bloom,
IH'ardy ekzaleas and Rhododendrons
can be treated in the same ' manner.
Evergreen slhrulbs are greatly i1npatav-
ed by summer pruning. Trhis'. should
be carried out according to the pur-
pose for which they .are `grown. Prune
with a sharp leni:Ee or other suitable
instrument in s`uc'h a .manner as to
avoid cutting the foliage or damaging
the• branches'which are to remain.
Only use shearts when trimming
hedges.
A FRENCH ARCHI-
TECT DREAMS
at is the definite promise in what'
we have already achieved in architec-
ture which, compels 'me to 'discus's its
future—though net after the :manner
of E. G. Wells and Jules Verne 1 A
bird in the Nand is wouth two in the
'bush:
eneehitectthre has literally dost sight*
of the fact. that it bus yet to soave
the problem of the modern home -
and we shall. see. Why. ,Town .planning'
simp'ly does not exist, :because we!
have not yet learned :to .co'ns'ider theel
man today is the product of the mech-
anical age.' We cannot plan our towns
because site value of the .huanan being
in the new scheme of (things has not
yet been defined; far less has his des-
tiny been realized or appreciated.
'1 am 'dragging architecture into this
discussion of hum'an happiness be-
ceuse I assign to it, a definite role; the
liberation of the individual. Tradition-
al +arohitecture itu's become the enemy
of 'mankind. • '
These, then, are the essential's: 01)1
Architecture is contcerned with the
pro'btlem of housing; 42)' architecture
s'hou'ld being a sane ju'd'gment to bear
upon the erroneous conoeptiott :of
modern coltmfort; Q3) architecture `of'
todday'c'ann'ot lean upon that of trad'!-
tion, and .the 'te'a`chings of the schools
are dangerous; (4) arclniltecture must
make use of -modem. technec'al pro-
cesses, . with .all their possibilities .and
in all their con's'equences, ' and with
all their effi'cien`cy. Nothing of'tradj.-
tion will remain. E!verething will be
new.
'Ever since 1070 Germany ,has been
e.eperimenting, drawing the east. ',of
Europe 'into active adventure after
her, Cities have been built and o.r-
ga'nized. A whole- popu'la'tion• has been
sipi'ri'tually_energized by the one woad,
"''Builth."
'IFeance since '16170 has remained
stolidly' iib-ni'ov'a'ble, Only her chosen
few work prodigiuus'iy: The entire
'country hes succunnbed to old :age• op
every side, it her !arms; her villages,
her cities, her capital. : The post, -.war
period of reeons!truotion forted 'hoer'
tinpre!pared fore@the task. True, her
factories 'are iia'dels of their kind, but
the d'ev'astation of bite invaded regions.
has lied to no't'hing but archite'c'tural.
defeat. Why? In the people •there •is
leek of that spiritual urge to 'build.
lit is, at this point that America ap-
pears- at once'so disttulbing and yet se
admirable. elb,ont 1900, when I was
e' young mram, Alnrerica, was regarded
as a fafeeff country suitable only ;for
emigration, :a place where people were
antett!t oil attakin'g money,,with no time
to waste .on the iintnlle+citual ,discuss-
sions for which Paris was the magnet
and 'centre of the wor'l'd, American
architecture! Nolbody.jenew anything
about it: One thought vaguely of
,t•utle shanties,' and towns awaiting
the future, of 'cities laid out like a
chess -(board, wuth %str.eets s tretching
opt into -t.the unkn'own.' Thirty years
!later the United States is domin'an't,
ready to lead the' world. Manhattan
.anti 'ChµDago, are great exemplars of
the ,new era, and F'renc'h artists tell of
their deep emotion at the. sight of
American skysersper's, Such is' the re-
ward of ,decision and energy. I attach'
to the decision to' act a primary im-
portarce. Act or submit.
II 'absolutely refuse to admit never-
theless, •aa mealy so lightly do, that
:Manhattan and Chicago posses's. the
'areh'itecture and town planning of
modern times. Nlo, and again col
iN'etw York and Chicago are rather
mighty Storm's, 'tornadoes, cataclysms
They are so, utterly devoid of . bar
mon•y. When a motor rev'oives it is
hianntb'nious, but if New Ytorlc were
a motor, that m'oto'r would hot turn
and as a machine would ,astonish e'vee
the man who invented it.
IS'kys'crapers are imp!o'sittg in their
pride. But as larchitedture they do
not exist, and that for a reason which
is no fault of the architect. Their di-
mensions are arbitrary dimensions,' I
mean that only .the plat of groun:d
available determines their pr000rtions,
'We Must also admit that there is
n'o reason why a skyscraper should
terminate in a point a mitre, a tiara
or even in a .decorative stopper. Logi-
eally we would conclude that a sky-
scrapes is a building which rises ver-
tically on an ideal foundation, to such
a height as building and operating
costs may justify. Contrary alike to
common, sense and the dignity of ar-
chitecture, a ruling " of the ,'Middle
Ages : has intiposed pyra'mid'alforms
upon these structures;
>z now come to a serious problem,
Instead of. the 'bristling erection of
towers of M'anh'attan and -Chicago,- 1
will admit nothing but a majestic ar-
ray of prisms, perfect in form and
il feel that the American sky-
serapers have not alttained the ,rank
of architecture; rather they are mere-
ly small objects such as statuettes or
Icnick-knacks, magnified to •titanic pro-
portions.
This verdict may be severe, bait I
am not blaming the architects, only
the trend of events. I admit that my
cherished edeas mean radical altera-
tion in our theories ,of town planning,
and seizing opportunities to open up
vistas, which can only come by , urg-
ently needed reforms. I believe ':that
there already exists a theory of town.
planning which we must develop, step
by step, if we are to attain the .desired
result.
Paris, an ancient city, has been little
changed since it was last remodeled
in the age 'of horse traffic by Reuss -
mann and Napoleon.Ill1., and. we are
still' using today what these men
built, although we are now in the era
of the autamabile. We are living in a
city which is out of date. It is atro-
cious.'
tro-cious.,
INe-tt" York never took into consi'd-
'eration either the horse I
se or the .
auto-
mobile, but was inlflueneed chiefly by
the fantastic urge of"mothern times.
(lic 'United States is• the adolescent
of the canitemp:orary,world,.and ,'New
York is her expressionof ardor, je-
venility, rashness, enterprise, pride
aesI vanity. So, Neiv Yoek stands' on ings needed in the heart of the town
the edge. of the world like an epic 'wiQd be provided by allowing complete.
hero, liberty in house `p1'anning, but alw+ays
+She may cease to be young, even making full use of the progress in'
cease to be useful, She may sudden-
ly be su'pplanted by some other city,
standing for the sovereign order of
logic' and effioieircy, of 'strength and.
peace, and not for ttfranult and 'bru- 'mole, with plenty of light. For,light-
tality, Paris ib too old, and (New York'ing, modern techbique suggests that
may wise be attacked by the paralysis �the'enirte.facade 'of the building be
01 senility:. made u'p of daulble sheets of glass,
II have said somewhere thatwe have 'lightly 'held together by metal Ira'ntes,
ceased to ]`now who we ere, what we,This double wall . forms- . the front
serve, ,and why we are : here, . The t'he bu'i6'd'ing, , wlhioh ,co'ntains ait
modern .city is simply the material leastof, twelve undivided floors suitable
expression of OUT knowledge—or 'lack for habitation. The walls are airtight
of knowledge, of our' order—or his-' aitd have na windows to open. Be -
order.'`. I'fween these dotbile +walls circulates a
The 'foundation of 'life is the ,',eine, rcoartiihuous ourrent of air, co'ntrol'led
in Which we should live. This means 'bath as to s'pee`d a'n'd tem'pera'ture.
, devoting the 'seine care to one's body phis airjiackecheurtratizes the effect
of the outside temperature, which
varies ..from minus forty to plus forty
degrees cenrttigrade, according to the
'season, making these ,airtight ap'art-
men'ts comp'letel'y weatherproof,
(Indoors we have what I s•hallI ' call
"ex'a'ct respiration"; .that is, air cir-
theme full scope,. they must , have aculated by a special plant throughout
suitable setting:' It is only 'by entirely ial4the !blocks of flats in the town.
nerve archnteeture and town planning, This pure .air, of .a . given teni'pera-
that we can hope to create 'such a set- 'hire and humidity, would he supplied
ting. hat the rate of 80 litres per minute per
Our day should not be divided Sim- 'person '(or about '5,000 •cnb'tc in'ch'es).
ply .between' sleep and .work, We must itEven when 'the s'un blazes, •through
conquer the ma.chine, subject it ' to'Vhe ,glass` walls in Summer the air in -
our will, and make it work for vs., doors remains as fresh 'as a sea breeze.
IVVe must limit our aobivities u'n'til
we N'o'r would.'be unxensive;
are creating that which is sufficient
Ills fact, it•wouldit be noduly ,dearerepfn 'the
nilly for our immediate' needs; work- end than our present methods of heat-
ing shorter hours, and manufacturing ing .and ventilation. By this sim'p'le
less 'In this way we will create more nveants .we can solve the problem of
leisure far ourselves. If we had ete1'bringing pure air 'af .rhe right temp
free time on aur hands under present erature into the heart of our oities. As lateons—share in common. From the
conditions, we should become male- We should sleep and work under ideai1'nain door to 'the elevator one rwiIf
factors, every one of us, 'for our conditions, we should enjoy a maxi -never walk more than a hundred.`
towns are not planned, far leisure,'mu'm :of energy. , yards along the icorrid'or, or indoor
and obviously must be reorganized. Another important 'feature of 'the street which
Both factory and office entail se -,new town planning is , , o. again is the creation -;�*
g the soundproaf�,m;odern architecture.
clentary 'work, standardization, p'hy- 'character ,of 'the modern city. The, The system of 'autostrade ' ' ii
sical and nervous strain, This must types of 'nby independent of 'the system of 'noise recently introduced o N dwell- -
be overcome by a daily period devot- wireless, phonograph anrd jazz, which ings, for the 'home will never 1'e .•,m
ed to p'hysical culture for the recup-,'Nave ,become a veritable nightmare,, the street 'but 'th' h
PAGE THREE,
152!8, sgttare feet of dwelling space
per
person. This is a generolrs allb-w-
aince and will give •wouderfu'1 ' scope
alike to bachelors and large families.
The many different kinds of dwell -
modern technique, ,
We must immediately discard the
tnadetional type of house and allot to
each inbelei•tant a soundpssoof living
as to on'e's work, and providing ade-
quate •nourishment for 'bath mind and.
spirit. The correct way to live is to
arrange the twenty-four hours of the
day harmoniously. ''T'his involves
drawing up a 'delfinite timetable for.
ouractivi•ties and, in order to give
to restare'to the 'pe'c-cetrlan+ the
+face of the city, all the surface, the
earth, 'Put the ,liecles'triail ore Ieho:
ground,, given,; hint a network: of.
avenues runningdirections ars;:.
the midst of parks and lawns. As 'the -
blocks of flats are .to be erected .oia'
piles standing about sixteen. feet
above .the ground, we can walk .ttber-
ever we please -which will :be some-
thing new 1
sOur automobiles well also run on
roads elevated sixteen. -feet ,above
ground. Dhe s'prea'ding system. ':cif
these "autostradas" veli,!( have nothing
in common with the cramped ,network
of streets which we use today-, for
they will be placed ten tines 'further
agate. 'Tli'inle of it! Only one-tenth es'
natty motor roads as we have `cowl
:Ped'estri;ans "v;<i'te ,never be allowed'
on the "etitostrades," 5o cars wilt fre-
ebie to run at full Speed. Only one
reek +rafldc will be permitted;'- .cross -
reads will be dealt with scienti'frcally
by a'dj'usting the ,different lavers
'Linder such .cogdi'tioths re°to.r traffic'`
will 'become a system' ,of .con'tinluous:,
and harmonious ' speed. IArultonrobifes•
running at :sixty miles an hour will:
go 'direct to the door of each l ous'
but the Arouses will he 'quite .different
from those we build today. The new
blocks of fiats ,sail, the set in .contints
ous rows ,alt sharp angles, facing 'the
sun, . and opening on parks. Wher—
ever the "autostrade" pee ses a man-
s'ion, which will lbe some fifty Or a-
hundred yards away, a liy road will"
the 'built to 'the door, terminating in a. .
specially cons'tructed .motor entrance:
or "a:uto-port"
Automobiles will arrive and de--
part,
erpart, as'they should, at the ntairs en --
trance, This doorway will open onto av
system of elevator's, rpraviding every'
storey from bottom Ito top with, rther
services wlhioh perhaps 3,000 inesabi
tants-2y700, according to my .,cal'cu..-
eration of both_mind and body — net
physical culture in playing fields on
the outskirts of the town, 'but sports
enjoyed on lawns s'urroun'ding the
houses; that is to say, when we have
provided space for our lawns.
!I propose to coosider the dwelling
as the primary and fundamental ele-
ment of
le-ment.of the town, and btiai'l'd Houses
on only 12 per rent of the available
land, reserving 86 per cent for parks
and playing fields. This will be the
green city, and in it the density of
population would be '1•,O0;0 souls per
hectare (a 'hectare is 23.e' acres). This
new city will be the reverse o'f the
garden city, fundamentally opposed to
it in- principle.Since the garden
city is situated in the suburbs and so
extends the .area of the 'to'wn, it
creates a transport problem, ;but as
the green city will reduce the town
area this problem will be done away
with' entirely. The time spent in
traveling from home to factory "+will
be saved, and spent in the recupera-
tion of physical and nervous energy.
The density of 1,000 people to the
hectare is based on an allotment of
.ac s of.
hvnal. be stopped and absorbed by the flats or mansions which w'1 stretch irr:
hermetically sealed double . panes of'.unin'terrupted series over the parks. A
grass, `doze,•t ',dent s'
1LeE us now consider our reforms'; o,eets or more lewd. to•
,the soenceproof dwellings, kept: an
from another angle: The era Of horseloven temperature 'in :Summer an&
traffic has 'been supersededby that]Winter. The mansions will be sur -
of the motor, which has brought wi'th'rounded by playing fields, and on
it automobiles, trucks, 'street cars +anduthe roofs we shall lay out acres/ of
underground railways. I 'contend thatisandy.beeches fok, sun baths, and_
it is impossible to use the same roads,,dens with fountains and creat—
for
ti,ga--
'fast and slow mowing traffic: As ing an atmosphere of harmony and."
'this problem has still to ,be salved, thelcaim. To my mind this spell's the joy.,
twenty -horse -power vehicles are oh- of living, Such reforms are already .be=-
l'iged to slow down to 'the speed of theliag studied by manufacturing''. come-
slowest unit and runat only about panies in connection with their model,"
ten miles an hour in the towns, Even cities, where suitable places are being
at this !pace the 'pedes'trian is run set aside for study and sports.
over, While technology and industry 'Tlhe green city .wil'1 be brought
are rcnowding ehe city with machines about by modern technique. In 'his,
of marvelous speed, capable of silty sound -proof chamber., within hie'weli-
miles an .hour, by an absurd paradox
w -e .are denying ourselves the full ad-
vantage of these wonderful a'cquisi-
irons,
iWe are ,forced to classify our
speeds, t'h'erefore, and make a definite
distinction :between the pedestrian and !Great talkers, tittle doers.
the vehicle, which should never ,be Do ;not ,do that which you would':
a]'lewed to meet. The only solution is not have known.
planned 'building, . overlooking his'
parks tied breathing his pure .air, the
malt of the mechanical age will' at fast
be ,able to live,
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