Local Unions in Arrears. Any L. U. becoming two months in arrears for per capita tax to the General Office shall at once be notified by the G. S.-T., and failing to settle all arrearages within twenty-one days from date of such notice its members shall not be entitled to benefits except where the local union is on strike or locked out, or for equally sufficient reasons is given an extension of time in which to make payments. Section 15 of the Constitution. Unions two months in arrears on closing monthly accounts December 31, 1917: 100 152 163 219 235 279 317 342 353 405 428 441 523 536 572 576 626 667 672 702 748 789 801 859 861 881 890 915 922 950 955 957 958 971 976 1021 1022 1038 1050 1059 LOCAL UNIONS ORGANIZED DEC. 1917. 842 Key West, Fla. 847 New Orleans, La. (Ship Cleaners, Boiler Scalers and Preservers) 860 Norfolk, Va. (Glaziers) 951 Red Lodge, Mont. 906 Jerome, Ariz. 946 Pontiac, Ills. DOING ITS BIT. L. U. 156, of Evansville, Ind., has had made a beautiful shield in honor of its members who are going to help Uncle Sam win the war. The shield is the work of George E. F. Jones, a member of L. U. 156, and is done in national colors, 30x40 inches, and encased in a massive oak frame. It will be hung in the Musicians' Hall, where the painters meet, and the names of all RAILWAY WAGE COMMISSION Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Charles C. McChord, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Chief Justice J. Harry Covington, of the Supreme Court, of the District of Columbia, and Hon. William R. Wilcox, of New York, have been appointed by the Director General as members of the Railroad Wage Commission. The duties of the commission are to make general investigation of railroad wages of the United States with the view to determining the wages of the different classes of labor on the railroad. Work will be begun at once and a report giving recommendations in general terms as to changes that should be made will be made to the Director General who will then make a decision upon it. The powers of the commission are broad and it will consider not only the compensation of railroad employees, but the relation of railroad wages to wages in other industries, conditions in different parts of the country, the special emergency existing owing to war conditions, the high cost of living, and the relation between different classes of railroad labor. Urgent call for painters. Forty motor vehicle body painters and forty painters and letterers are needed at once for a regiment of motor mechanics, the first of its kind. Thoroughly competent workmen are needed as they will be required to do high grade work on motor cars and aeroplanes. It is to be understood that this will be "ground work," behind the lines. Applicants must be either under or over the military age; that is, either between 18 and 20 years of age inclusive or between 31 and 40 years of age inclusive. The pay is considerably higher than that of the ordinary enlisted man and includes a liberal family allowance. The men selected will go at once for a brief period of training at Fort Hancock, Augusta, Ga. Over 50 per cent of the men found fit will rank as non-commissioned officers. The men may apply to the nearest recruiting station for enlistment in the Motor Mechanics Regiment. The call is urgent. For 10c.-A Genuine Red Devil Glass Cutter TRADE MARK The Oldest Successful Steel Wheel Glass Cutter in the World Cuts thick or thin, plain or plate glass, clean, clear and sharp, with equal smoothness. Cuts where others fail. No flaking, or splintering. "Red Devil" Glass Cutters are packed one in a red box, one dozen in a red carton with signature. To be obtained from all dealers, if not, a sample "Red Devil" glass cutter No. 024 will be sent postpaid for 10c stamps. Glaziers' Booklet of 40 Styles, Sent on Request SMITH & HEMENWAY CO., Inc., 78 Coit St., Irvington, N. J. IS YOUR LOCAL IN THIS LIST? DELINQUENT LOCAL UNIONS FOR SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER. The financial secretaries of the locals listed below are not complying with the law requiring them to forward their day book sheets to the General Office. All owe sheets for September, October and November, many for a longer period. The failure of secretaries to forward day book sheets deprives members of all protection of their right to benefits should their due books be lost or destroyed. Scan the list; if your local is among the delinquents, see that the secretary does his duty or that he is removed from office. Read the law: "Section 238. ******He (the G. S.-T.) shall also establish and maintain a Financial Secretary's duplicate page day book system which shall show the amount of money paid and the dates on which such payments were made by each member. Said duplicate page day book shall be the official day book of this Brotherhood and shall be procured by Financial Secretaries from the G. S. T. Financial Secretaries shall send to the G. S. T., without delay by registered mail, and with their monthly reports, the duplicate sheet or sheets taken from said book******." The General Executive Board has been patient and wishes to avoid being unnecessarily severe but unless the sheets are immediately forthcoming, the offending financial secretaries will be removed from office, as prescribed in Section 131 of the constitution quoted above. 574 Taunton, Mass. 859 Piqua, Ohio. 881 Greensburg, Ind. 897 New London, Conn. 971 Wilmington, Del. 997 Downers Grove, Ill. "When bad men combine the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."-Edmund Burke. THE EVOLUTION OF DESIGNS IT IS not only interesting, but instructive as well, to note how the ornamental designs of each nation and each period reflect the characteristics of the nation and of the period, and how a particular ornamental form was changed as it passed from nation to nation through the centuries. For instance, the Egyptians took the blue lotus of the Nile as one of their decorative motifs. They chose it because it had special significance to them. It was native to their country, a part of their life. Springing from the mud of the Nile, the blue lotus burst into beautiful flowers year after year, suggesting the idea of the resurrection to a people with whom the belief in a future life was one of the strongest of religious tenets. The flower of this plant appealed by its form to the Egyptian taste. It lent itself well to conventionalization in the Egyptian manner because of the character of its outline, particularly when seen in the side view, and it provided a motif that was simple, dignified and of an austere character in keeping with Egyptian architecture. By repeating this motif a band of ornament was produced that became an important element in Egyptian decoration. Now let us see what happened to this same lotus border when the Greeks borrowed it from the Egyptians. To the Greeks it appealed as a pleasing arrangement of spots of color and of varied lines. They knew little if anything about the blue lotus of the far-away Nile, and they probably had no appreciation of its religious significance to the Egyptians. The austere Egyptian lotus border, which undoubtedly appealed to the earlier Greeks, must have seemed cold and unattractive to the later Greeks. To them life was full of sunshine; Nature was friendly. To these Greeks graceful curves and softly rounded forms appealed. From the flat painted lotus border of the Egyptians they evolved a molding that they carved in marble. They had forgotten what it represented and since it suited the purpose as a molding better when turned upside down, they did not hesi tate to take this course with it. What had been the curved side petals of the lotus motif became mere outlines and the space between the flowers was raised into a boss that became the main feature of the design. The center petal of the lotus became a narrow tongue and the familiar egg-andtongue molding was the result. The next step was the elaboration of the design by the addition of a barb at the end of the tongue, and the result was the egg-and-dart design. These moldings have passed down through the Renaissance to us and are to be found in almost every building of importance today. It was not only through the conventionalization of floral motifs, but from constructional features as well, that ornament was developed. The Greek system of building bears evidences of having been derived from construction in wood, beams resting upon other beams supported by uprights. At first the ends of these beams projected and were carved. Later the projections, with their ornament, were retained as purely ornamental features. The column, essentially a structural feature, was ornamented with volutes or with capitals enriched with leaf ornament. Its shaft was made interesting and beautiful with fluting. Its base developed into a suit of moldings. The refinement and culture of the Ionians found expression in the graceful and chaste lines of the Ionic capital. In Corinth, a city in which commerce and the resulting wealth dominated the spirit of the people, the column was given a capital of luxuriant leaf forms that well expressed the Corinthian taste. The Romans took the column from the Greeks and made of it an ornamental feature, grafting it onto buildings which depended for their stability upon a system of arch construction. Every Greek ornamental detail that the Romans borrowed they modified to express the spirit that made Rome the capital of the world. They gave breadth, richness and often something of coarseness to their designs. At Pompeii, where the Greek spirit always dominated in artistic matters, a greater degree of refinement is to be seen. During the Renaissance and the Eighteenth Century, the Roman details were borrowed and to some extent modified. The Roman facade was made the inspiration for interior wall treatments. Its columns and even the door caps of exterior architecture, were brought into the interior. Just as the Romans took the column which was a structural feature with the Greeks, and made it an ornamental feature applied to the surface of buildings in which it often served no structural function, so we have taken not only the column, but the arch, and today our architects apply both the column and the arch in ornamental incrustation upon steel frame buildings. When the Greeks held a feast, they hung the skulls of the oxen that were killed for the feast upon the walls of the houses and connected them with festoons of flowers. From these temporary festal decorations, obviously, was developed the traditional ox-skull motif that our students of architecture and decoration so patiently copy and that 'our architects use today. The festoon frieze so often seen in wallpaper is of the same origin. AUTOMOBILE PAINT SHOP INFORMATION Varnish and Glaze Colors-Surfacing-Color Selection-Striping By M. C. HILLICK in The Painters' Magazine and Paint and Wall Paper Dealer ARNISH color and glaze color effects, largely employed upon automobile work, must have a form of treatment proportioned to the delicacy and importance of the pigments under process of development. You may see, in certain publications in which the amateur workman is instructed how to paint his car, rules laid down which, if followed out to anywhere near the letter, would ruin the color outright. Some of these instructions advise rubbing the varnish color with steel wool, coarse fabrics, etc. To rub a varnish color with steel wool is the next thing to stealing money; it has cost good money to fetch the surface along up to the varnish-color stage, and to rub this delicate surface with steel wool is simply to ruin the effect of the color. All varnish-colors, and glaze color effects, in which varnish predominates, should be rubbed with water and pumice stone flour, of the finest grade, and for the first coat of this material, the rubbing should be done with a soft, fleece wool sponge, moistened and dipped in the pumice stone flour. Surfacing. The surface had best receive only sufficient surfacing to take down the gloss and break up the surface roughage. This may be done with the sponge and water and pumice stone flour without injury to the color tone or to the surface. To "moss" this off with curled hair or trimmers' "moss" means to kill the gloss by mussing up the film of the varnish, but it is at best a dirty job and furnishes nothing to help bring the surface a little nearer to the finishing stage. If the workman prefers to use a felt rubbing pad for the reducing process, it may be done, but the sponge rub for the first coat material, at any rate, is a process easier for the material and produces quite as good results. The main thing is to prevent injuring the color tone, for this is the very thing which the varnish-color and the glaze coats are employed to develop in their fullest estate. If it were not that we expect to produce through the use of these materials finer and richer tone effects such coats might be dispensed with and the ordinary flat coats of color put in their place. |