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Focuses on the deterioration in the burgeoning art of architecture in the United States with emphasis on examples cited from various buildings. Accentuation of the vertical lines: bands of brown and black brick connecting the windows, alternating with bands of white brick, for the solid wall in the case of the Daily News Building in New York; Description of Boston, Massachusetts that will soon have the distinction of possessing two modern stations, for though the exterior of the South Station remains unchanged, the old smoke hall-- or train shed--has been supplanted by covered platforms which permit the smoke to escape and shelter only the passengers; Examination of the Bonwit Teller Building that reveals that modern architecture is no more dependent upon the skyscraper for its success than it is dependent on the subway; Footsteps left by the Squibb building in the sand of modernism in terms of color; Definition of modernism in the context of culture.

Focuses on the factors involved in facilitating an adequate housing program with suitable sanitary and social standards in the U.S. Consideration of investment in government housing of a certain proportion of the funds held by the banks and insurance companies as mandatory; Connection of the slow rate of amortization to the real durability of the product; Elimination of current usury practiced in mortgage renewal and second-mortgage premiums by providing for long-term mortgages.

Comments on the shortage of urban dwellings in the U.S. Physical shortage on the basis of the actual population and the actual accommodations necessary to house them in health and decency; Increase of the amount that goes to labor as the land costs and the financial costs of private building are diminished in a non-profit, government-aided project; Formation of the physical shortage by the recent lack of building for every class and by the chronic lack of decent building for the lower income groups.

American cities, to a large degree, have been the products of the private land monopolist, the speculative builder, the too canny banker and insurance administrator, the centralizing business bureaucrat, bent on seizing and displaying power. With profit, prestige, and power the controlling influences in city development, more rational and humane ends have become secondary. Accordingly, if Americans dare to ask themselves what kind of cities they want, they must be prepared to liquidate many of their present financial activities and to transform the remainder into social enterprises. The kind of city they want, accordingly, is one adequately planned and equipped for the fulfillment of life at every stage from cradle, to grave. A city might be composed of houses and open spaces of the most excellent design, from one end to the other, without meeting this requirement.

Focuses on the existence of corruption in liberalism in the U.S. Compromise of liberalism with despotism; Confusion and self-betrayal of liberalism; State of liberalism.

Focuses on the U.S. foreign policy. Views of those who voted for one policy or other; Emphasis on the restoration of pre-war neutrality; Establishment of rival alliances so evenly balanced that both sides have good grounds to hope for a victory; Discouragement of the French and English populations; Proposal to put "cash-and-carry" plan into effect; Continuation to the present policy of opposition to totalitarian aggression, bluff and propaganda; Use of naval and military forces to prevent the spread of hostilities; Appointment of a Committee of National Defense, to make a complete survey of defenses and their relations to the foreign policy.

Criticizes the proposals to prevent war from coming to the United States. Negative influence of fascism on civilized political existence; Maintenance of the state of wishful apathy; Advantage of the overestimation of the extent of military needs.

Focuses on the life and works of U.S. economist and social scientist Thorstein Veblen. View that he was one of the half-dozen important figures in scholarship that the U.S. had produced since the Civil War, certainly in the social sciences; Statement that Veblen broke down the conventional divisions between economics, ethnology, anthropology, psychology and the physical sciences; Description of Veblen personality and his contributions in the field of sociology; Reference to his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" which has his excellent comments on art.

Focuses on conditions of publishing industry in the U.S. Advantages of doing publishing business; Information on a publishing house established by an Irishman named Mitchell Kennerley; Succession of new writers like D.H. Lawrence and Walter Lippmann under Kennerley's colophon; Establishment of several publishing houses in the U.S.; Advantages of establishing publishing houses; Comment on the mass production of reading materials; Availability of books, magazines and many reading materials in less prices.

Discusses the possible activities of the committee, appointed by U.S. President Herbert Hoover to consider the present status of home building and home ownership. Steps to be taken by the War Housing Board and the Housing Department of the Shipping Board to improve housing policies; Suggestion on investigations to be carried by the committee; Considerations for a sound social policy to be adopted by the committee.

Provides an insight into the modernist art of architecture with an emphasis on the Paramount Building in New York and Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California as a representative of this art. Demarcation between the windy grandeur of modern skyscrapers and the solemn rococo of Gilded Age mansions, the artful ruralism of country cottages thatched with bent shingles, and the awkward splendor of French chateaux in the midst of the Berkshires; Description of the Paramount Building as one that finds in it not the faintest departure from a thoroughly low standard in design but it is, indeed, a compact summary of all the prevailing faults in skyscraper building and in American decoration; Exhibition of specious dimensions by the skyscraper as the sign of cultural impotence; Examination of the Paramount Theatre by American playwright Edward Albee; Role of a vast and towering proscenium arch that is flanked by two narrower panels; Assumption made by the modernist playwrights that the Paramount Theatre serves as a platform for the incorporation of modernist art.

Presents an insight into the concept of art in relation to children. Statement that all children are potentially artist; Reference to features of the quarterly review, "Progressive Education"; Description on the status and teaching of art in American schools; Information that the new schools in America view that one does not have to posit a building instinct or an expressing instinct to explain the child's reaction to art; View that art is the topmost expression of life in its moments of creative intensity.

During the first stage of the economic transition it has been necessary to assume as fixed the objectives of the past economic order. By the establishment of a commissary of supplies and shelter in every community in the U.S., people have been guaranteed subsistence by erecting a national minimum, to which all individuals are entitled, irrespective of status, vocational ability, or capacity to work, people have not only' laid an indispensable foundation or planned machine production; we have lessened the friction and suffering that would otherwise have been inflicted, not alone upon the uppermost tenth of the income groups, but upon numerous pensioners and supporters of bourgeois society.

The article expresses the author's concern on the need for the U.S. government to support the artist working member of the community through its Work Progress Administration program. The author stressed that the government should give the arts a permanent housing in the country. The government has concentrated mainly on the work that has been done in the plastic and graphic arts, as well as in the factual exploration of the American scene through the Writers' Project for the American Guidebook.

Discusses various aspects of "Regional Plan" a plan laid down by Frederick Johnstone Adams for growth in the suburban areas of the U.S. Drawbacks of the growth programme; Mounting costs of congestion; Admission by Adams that the process cannot go on indefinitely; Limits from an economic point of view; Rejection of the conditions that are precedent to finding a solution; Validity of the Regional Plan undermined by the fact that it is based upon the assumption that pressure within the metropolitan area is inevitable and unalterable; View that if land values in the central areas are not artificially maintained, one of the conditions for rehabilitating the center will be present; Suggestions for repairing the blighted areas economically.

Describes the architecture of contemporary buildings in the United States. Failure of contemporary buildings in exhibiting the characteristic achievements of technology; Consideration of the water fountains in the New York Public Library as one of the best examples of ineptitude.

Focuses on loss in continuity between generations caused after every war in the U.S. Orientation of the subjects offered by universities and colleges to the immediate aim of war; Suggestion for enlistment of entire youth of the country, above the age of sixteen, for national services to solve the problem of generation gap; Claim that the educational system may prove helpful to the rehabilitation of democracy.

The article focuses on the responses to the construction of a new U.S. embassy building in London, England. Architects have been copying the innovation made by Edward Stone in designing an embassy building in New Delhi, India. The late architect Eero Saarinen used a façade he already used in Oslo, Norway for the London embassy. The London embassy building and its barricade were criticized for implying an insult to British citizens.

Describes the features of a mechanically standardized house from the point of view of Douglas Haskell in the U.S. Consideration of mass production of houses persuaded by the parallel between the cheap motor car and the possibilities of cheap manufacturing houses; Functions of the dwelling house; Accounts on the communism of technique in the production of houses.

The article announces awards given to notable people in the U.S. The Good Will Envoy award has been given to Mr. St. John Ervine for his effort in doing monumental researches into drama and social life in the U.S. The presentation of Business Acumen award was made to Alfred E. Smith for capitalizing his connection with a former company, the Empire State, Ltd. The prize in City Planning for 1929 was given to Arthur Brisbane for his effort in demonstrating about the modern metropolis.

Focuses on the reflections about the countryside collected by the author in his country notebook. Account of the country butcher shop that reminded the author of the dark little shop off the Main Street, with its one or two hunks of musty bologna and a rack of vegetables facing the butcher's block; Transition from an era of bad roads to good roads that begin in one big city and get lost in the traffic jumble of another; Description of the art of cooking that is the business of chefs and literary men; Suggestion that in the U.S. they have shamefully neglected their business.

Comments on the socio-economic issues in the U.S. Accounts on the individuality of American cities; Remarks on the possibilities of genuine city planning; Introduction of elaborate restaurant services bands, and other devices of salesmanship at the factories.

Focuses on the essays about American literature that are a thousand years old. Discussion of essays on "Literature and Insurgency" about happy belief in the rightness and inevitability of pioneer America; Authors of the essay; Fact that the popular novels of that earlier period were exposures and "beats," which rounded out in fiction the news that flamed in the headlines; Recognition of genuine classic age in American literature in the present times.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Nationalization of the manufacture of arms and ammunition in the United States; Review of the book "Problems of Community Life"; Review of Israel Cohen's "Jewish Life in Modern Times."

In order to appreciate the dismaying absurdity of New York's present plight in housing, it is necessary to see the situation in historical perspective. Among those who have forcibly acquired an interest in the subject through the sudden rise in rents, New York's problem is supposed to be a temporary one, due chiefly to the war and to the unfortunate cessation in capital enterprises and building operations. The various solutions that have been urged are based upon this genial assumption of the housing problem.

Focuses on two stages in the industrial period of the U.S. with respect to architectural design of buildings. Emphasis on the use of new materials for building in the middle of the nineteenth century; Entrance of industrialism into a stage which stresses that aesthetic significance of power-driven machinery lies not in the materials that it works with, but in the characteristic way it treats them; Comment on the aesthetics of handicraft and the aesthetics of the machine; Comparison of an ideal product of handicraft with an ideal product of mechanical art; Reason behind the success of new buildings based on the mechanical art.

Presents two letters to the editor referencing an editorial on declaration of war against the axis powers. Notion that the United States can buy its way out of danger and disaster, without having the courage to fight shoulder to shoulder with those who are on the battle-line, is contemptible; Failure of declaration of the U.S. intentions openly unable her to prosecute her attack upon German dictator Adolf Hitler effectively; Indication that the close vote on the draft-extension bill would overwhelmingly reject any proposal authorizing the use of the U.S. armed forces on the European continent; View that a measure to declare war would precipitate a national debate which would not only undermine American unity but would also interfere with the present efforts to aid those nations now engaged in combat with Nazi forces.

Focuses on the well-noted American architect Thomas Hart Benton whose pictures have hung fairly regularly in the exhibitions at the Architectural League. Demarcation made between Thomas Benton and mediocre illustrators and poster-artists who practice the craft of mural painting in the U.S.; Employment of orchestral arrangement of the figures by Benton to give a modernist touch to his art; Accentuation on Benton's murals which are a nice balance between abstract design and those juicy gobbets of observation.

Focuses on eight 32-page pamphlets published by John Day Company. Account of advent of pamphlets in the U.S. society with a tactic of clubbing irrelevant assortment of articles with a good one and selling them as a pamphlet; Commendation of The John Day Company in its work of pioneering undertaken to create the pamphlets; Situations where it is apt to put a piece of literature in the form of pamphlets, cited as an intermediate to books.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Break the Housing Blockade" that was published in the May 17, 1933 issue, which focused on the social aspects of the problem of housing in the U.S.; Criticism of fake workers' housing; Discussion of the article of H.N. Brailsford, published in the April 19, 1933 issue, which dealt with the revision of the treatise between France and Italy; Response related to the revision of the treatise between France and Italy.