JUNE 10, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
State Art Commission Would Be of Value To Small Home Builders
Prof. Goldsmith Would Require Registration of Architects
Capper's Commission Died
State Legislature Failed to Appropriate Funds to Carry on Work
"A state art commission to pass on all building plans, as proposed by the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, would prove of great value to Kansas," said Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith, head of the department of architecture at the university believes that a state law should require the registration of architects.
At the annual meeting of the federation at Pratt recently, a resolution was introduced by Mrs. Charles F. Spencer of Topeka, state chairman of art, recommending that Kansas be provided with an art commission qualified to advise all prospective builders as to the art value of their works. The commission was also visible, the erection of any edifice that would mar the skyline of a city or spoil the harmony of the surrounding buildings and landscapes.
AN ART COMMISSION DIED
"It is not generally known that former Governor Capper appointed a State Art Commission," said Professor Goldsmith, "but as no appropriation was made for expenses the commission never held a full meeting. State officials would prove of great value to Kansas if enabled to operate properly."
"Minnesota has an art commission which has done much to foster the artistic development of the state. Among other activities it publishes a monthly magazine which illustrates many of the art features of the state. The commission instituted a competition among the architects of the state for several classes of small houses at various prices, and furnished blue prints and specifications of these houses at a nominal
HELP'S THE SMALL BUILDER
“This in no way interfered with
the work of the architects as
the plans were for houses or sur-
vies owed to them. I do not
afford to furnish the plans at the usual rate
of commission while the intending
builder would generally be unable to pay what an architect would have to charge for them. This is only one of many important works carried out by a commission that took its work seri-*ed with an appropriation to over the work.
"An agitation is now on foot to find a means to furnish the farmer and the residents of small towns with well designed and artistic building plans in place of the blueprints sold by so-called 'plan factories' or furnished gratis by lumber companies. Kansas should do well to agitate. While it is too late now, probably, for the governor to appoint such an art commission, it is not too late for those interested to push the matter in such a way that it will be taken up by the next legislature.
GUARDS AGAINST INEFFICIENCY
"In this connection consideration should also be given to the proposed law for registration of architects, introduced at the last session but lost communication with the public prosecution of the public such a law should be kept on the books.
"Lately there have been many instances of incompetent architects, especially from outside of the state, having charge of school and other buildings for which the only good word that can be said is that they are so badly built that they will soon have to be torn down and replaced."
Coating Gives to Nails Stronger Holding Power
The holding power of a 10-penny common smooth nail drive $ in 2\%$ inches is 167 pounds, as reported by the tests made by a U. S. testing machine at Watertown, Arsenal. This nail is 2.99 inches long.
Ten-penny coated nails driven 2% inches require a pull of 418 pounds. The coated nail is rough surfaced and has more adhesive power. The 10-inch nail required 300 pounds. An 8-penny smooth nail, 2.52 inches long driven in two inches has a holding power of 189 pounds, while the 8-penny coated nail, 2.39 inches long, driven in the same length has 316 pounds. The 6-penny coated nail, 2.05 inches long was driven 1.625 inches and tested 106 pounds holding power. The 6-penny coated nail, 1.94 inches long, tested 226 pounds in the same length. These nails are made of wood and the nails driven perpendicular to the grain of the wood.
The old-fashioned wrought iron nail or cut nail loses 40 per cent of its adhesive resistance the moment it is slightly withdrawn.
Plain Home Needs Landscape Planting Says Prof. Stevens
Beauty, Charm, and Value can be Added to Premises by Tasty Design
"To much emphasis can not be place on the importance of a definite plan of landscape planting in adding to the beauty, charm and value of a home," said Dr. Dennis E. Hunt, department of botany. "Many people have the mistaken idea that landscape design is only for the luxurious mansions of the wealthy and not fitting for the small ordinary home. If one type of home needs it, we should be making the plain home of the working man rather than the mansion of the rich.
"There is - the other extreme of planting too in hapzhak fashion when no knowledge of the principals is required to employ a landscape designer and pay him for his knowledge and advice in adding to the beauty of the home. Nothing adds so much to the beauty that attracts intuitively designed and planted."
"Not only does landscape design add to the beauty of the home, but it often is used for practical purposes. It can be used to great advantage in landscaping yards and also to screen unseemly objects such as the garbage can, the ash pile, the trash burner. Well arranged planting adds to the comfort and needs of the home in the way of shade and supplying fruit and berries.
"Probably the best way of making is often called private, to is surround the back yard, or service yard as it with a hedge of tall growing shrubs such as the lilac and forsythia. If a yard is not too large, it can be built and covered with vines. Hall's evergreen houseginkle, coral honey-suckle, Japanese clematis, trumpet creeper, wild or tame grape, wistaria and Virginia creeper are fitted for this use. If one has plenty of room for flowers, all you need are small trees and shrubs makes an attractive border. Red cedars are good for trimming to low growth.
In planting groups of shrubs instead of a hedge, lilies, weigela, mock orange, and jasmine.
"By planting groups of flowers along with the hedge, it may be made beautiful as well as practical. Peonies, irises, tulips, and hardy flax can be eccentricly arranged in this way. For purely decorative hedges Japanese quince and the many varieties of spirea are the most popular.
"If one is planting flowers that can be picked for cut flowers, use perennials chiefly instead of annuals. Some of the perennials that thrive best in this climate are tulips, narcissus, irises, hardy pink, pinks, larkspur, columbines and sweet Willis.
Architects Find Work For Summer Months
Demand for Trained Men Ex ceeds Supply, Says Instructor in Department
“Architects are greatly in demand now that large-scale building operations are starting,” said La Force Bailey, instructor in the department of engineering. “We are unable to supply men for all the positions offered.”
Students who are now employed or wishing to architectural work this summer include
Ernest Pickering, e19, designer, Mann & Gerer, Hutchinson; Edgar B. Firesak, e22, draftman, Van Brunt & Hertz, Kansas City; D. K. Prowhover, e22, draftman, Hart, Price & Barnes, Kansas City; Earl and William Icenhower, e20, building superintendent, Fogel Construction Company, Kansas City; J. L. Benson, e20, draftmen and designer, Thomas W. Williamson Campany, school architects, Topeka; H. F. Neville, e20, draftman and designer, A. H. Buckley, architect, Kansas City; H. L. E. Buckley, architect, Kansas City; Owen & Paysen, architects, Owen & Paysen, architects, Kansas City! H. O. Be seiner, e20, construction work, L. C. Be seiner, building contractor, Natoma.
Other students who are not definitely located as yet but who will be employed include: Paul W. Strikeland, '119, E Lee F. Soxman, '20, Herven T. Flack, 'e21, John D. Thomas, 'esp., James L. Bennett, 'e22, Huth Herthel, 'e21, Russell R. Hibbs, 'esp, and Rose E. Middleklape, 'e22.
Arthur Barnes, a former student in the department recently accepted a position as designer for Mann & Machion. He was in the 110th Engineers.
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Bailey to Draw Plan for Salvation Army House
Specifications Call for Million- Dollar Headquarters Build- ing in Kansas City.
La Force Bailey, instructor in the department of architectural engineering, has been retained by a Kansas City firm as delineator of plans for the new $1,000,000 division headquarter's office. The plan will begin this summer on a site near the Bell Telephone Company's building in Kansas City.
Mr. Bailey has also been employed by William Bromelsick, a Lawrence banker, to draw up plans for two terra cotta fronts for the buildings of the Peckham Clothing Company and the Newman Shoe Store in the 800 block on Massachusetts Street. Both fronts will be of uniform design and will cost between ten and fifteen thousand dollars.
Correspondence Courses Prove Popular in State
"The most highly appreciated of the new courses offered during the past winter by the Correspondence Course were the courses in Health and Home Nursing conducted
by Dr. Florence B. Sherbon, in which twenty-five Kauai mothers have enrolled," Prof. Harold G. Ingar said. "She will be told today. "Since the first of last July, nearly a thousand semester hours of work have been completed by students, in addition to a large number of students without desire for credit," he said.
"A large percentage of the recent applications have come from returned soldiers and sailors who wish to get a start this summer preparatory to going into college. A number of KU. students who can not stay for the summer session but who want to turn some of their spare hours to account this summer are signing up for correspondence study work. Descriptive writing fails. A number of academic this department has been able to reach a total enrollment equal to that of last year and the enrollment in individual courses has outstripped the demand for most months the department is entering upon one of its busiest seasons of the year," he said.
Subscriptions Taken Early
Jayhawk subscriptions will be taken next year on enrollment day in the fall. A booth will be in the gymnasium near the registrar's desk for that purpose. Final or part payments may not be made until Owl will be on the same day. The Owls promise that the issue will be "a hot one."
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