4 (Sec 2) Statesman, Salem, Or., Suzu April 4, 1954 By CARL HALL LETTERS II. Do not abuse your freedom of creation, A freedom your country has achieved with blood and sacrifice for the greater part by the so-called "non-creative" element in your society; two wars in your generation alone. Don't forget these, remember it every second of your working day. You may be talented but a lot of "non creative' living and dying preced ed you in time. Time for you to spend in paint or song came at the price of de nials. Year early American his tory achieved the station yon now bald by facing first things first. A continent was subdued, there was no art, esthetics as you know them, on the frontier, hut there was beauty, mystery, adventure, optimistic hope, happiness and pain in the challenge' where sur vival was held in a precarious balance. You are to bring a summation to that balance that once rode a ship, a covered wagon, trod a foot trail, sighted on the end of a rifle, thirsted in an arid hope that was capped with a mountain that seemed impossibly far away. A Responsibility A dream brought you into being. You have to embellish that dream, artistically deepen it with a vital clarification. You have to put into it a richer heart, a greater depth of beauty. You have to add to its esthetic and spiritual poten tial so it can continue to be a po tential. If you are indifferent or under estimate (his responsibility you will lose yourself and fail as an artist must never fail, by default and hypocrisy. It may not be possible to have "collective creative thinking" but it is possible to have enough in dividuals of worth who can cre ate a potential towards that state. By a more concentrated concern toward the collective group which do desire to belong in a larger spiritual and esthetic order, the creator can become a living con science. Yau Are Free As you assert your right to cre ative freedom, the right to be free to express yourself, make sure you have the character, con science and dignity of purpose to warrant that assertion of liber ation. As you orate on the free dom of the artist, include the non-creative audience, who, for the greater part must work at non-creative jobs eight hours a day. to make the money, you hope will be spent on the fruits of your "freedom." Do not, as you approach your audience, deny the right to mis understand your work, even over look it. If you have a right to speak they have the right not to listen. Rather than condemn, try to meet on mutual ground. Com passion is needed on both sides but both have to meet in the cen ter. Yelling will get you nowhere. You are not perfect, so holier-than-thou that you can get along without an audience. You are not alone and you know it. The mod ern movement has been trying that for quite a while and as a group are getting scared. The new art organizations aris ing on the American scene have an element of fear in them: the artist is not filling the niche in society he should and the impli cations are numbing in their ex plicit meaning. The artist's '"free dom" is letting him down, or is the artist letting freedom down? Think carefully on this. Stanley Glarum To Direct Choir Guest director for the mass choir at the annual Choir Festi val. May 2, will be L. Stanley Glarum, director of the Lewis and Clark college choir and mu sic director at Westminster Pres byterian church, Portland. Mr. Glarum received his Bache lor of Music degree at St. Olaf college, Northfield, Minn., where he was a member of the well known choir and studied composi tion with Dr. F. Melius Christian sen. He received his Master's de gree in composition at the Uni versity of Washington. During the war Mr. Glarum served in the Air Corps and was director of air corps choruses. At Lewis and Clark college for seven years, he teaches organ, counterpoint, choral arranging and choral methods, and has written a number of choral works. One of his compositions. "Sing Praises, will be sung by the combined choirs. Study Group Meets "The Neighborhood Scene" will be the subject of discussion to be led by Mrs. Robert L. Turner at the regular meeting of the AAUW pre-school child study group Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Robert E. Gangware, 2640 Pioneer Drive, at 8 p.m. Co-hostesses will be Mrs. Dan Trullinger and Mrs. Everett Meier. A nominating committee for next year's offic ers will be announced during the evening. Bush House Open Hosts this afternoon during the regular Sunday open house at the Salem Art Museum, Bush Home, will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert W Gormsen and Dr. and Mrs. Rich ard Upjohn. The interested public is invited to view the house and the Javanese exhibit between 2 and 4:30 o'clock. Hostesses for the Wednesday afternoon ion Presbyterian Guilds Slate Meetings The guilds of the Women's As sociation of the First Presbyter ian Church have slated their April meetings as follows: The Crown f Guild will meet on Tuesday, April 6, at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Potts, 2890 South 12th St., for a 1:15 des sert luncheon, Mrs. Walter Sny der, Mrs. Edward Stadter and Mrs. Edward Roth assisting, Mrs. Bjarne Ericksen, leader. The following guilds meet on Wednesday, April 7: The Adah Guild will meet at the home of Mrs. W. L. Lantis, RL 1, Box 778, 1 p.m. dessert luncheon, Mrs. Carl Chambers, leader. The Deborah Guild with Mrs. Leo Childs, 320 N. 14th St, 1:15 dessert luncheon, with Mrs. A. H. Bailey assisting, Mrs. George Brown, leader. The Esther Guild with .Mrs. Dewey Rand Jr., 1373 Market St, for 1:15 dessert, Mrs. Dewey Rand Sr., co-hostess, Mrs. A. E. Archibald, leader. The Leah Guild with Mrs. John S. Harper, 1363 Court St., for 1 p.m. dessert, Mrs. S. S. Tonseth assisting, Mrs. Walter Pugh, leader. The Lydia Guild with Mrs. Paul H. Hauser, 925 Saginaw, 1:15 dessert, Mrs. Claude Mur phy and Mrs. Curtis Hale assist ing, Mrs. Bert Hulst. leader. The Martha Guild with Mrs. John Raphael, 1715 Yew St., for 1:15 dessert, Mrs. J. J. Stutt, assisting, Mrs. Marion Lamb, leader. The Ruth Guild with Mrs. L. M. Diirvino C 19th 1 1 5 Hprt 1 Mrs. L. E. Barrick assisting, Mrs. Ethan Collier, leader. The Sarah Guild with Mrs. W. L. Osborne, 1695 Norway, 1:15 dessert, Mrs. Clifford Par ker, Mrs. Elinor Bundy assist ing, Mrs. Robert Howells, leader. The Westminster Guild will meet in the social hall of the church for a 1 o'clock dessert luncheon. Hostesses are Mrs. William E. Wagner, Mrs. Stan ley Hammer, Mrs. Edmond Mac Collin, Mrs. H. Burdette Owen, Mrs. R. Prael and Mrs. Robert Siddoway. Mrs. Eugene Manock is the leader. There will be a nurserv for small children. Hello Just ,the other day I was talking with someone who was puzzled about what she called "a lack of personality" in her home. She said everything went together as far as color was concerned, that she had plen ty of furniture in the room, but something was lacking she said it looked as if no one really lived there. And what should she do! We sketched a layout of her room and found that it was a fairly large one, but that she had placed the 'furniture around the room so that it filled the corners and the wall space, with the result that, although it looked nice, it offered no furniture grouping for two or three to sit down to visit. Each one had to talk to someone clear across the room. We should always arrange fur niture with the thought in mind of how best it will serve its pur pose, and who can use it. For instance, I have often seen a pair of chairs placed on either side of a lovely spinet piano. A beautiful looking arrangement to b$ sure, but how about the two people who are trying to talk, or rather yell, across its width? Put the piano on the wall away from the conversation group, where a traffic lane is. Reserve the rest of the room for furniture group ings, for nothing is worse than to sit in a chair where everyone must pass in front of it and still try to carry on an intelligent con versation. You've been in that spot, I'm sure! One trick is t6 put the sofa at right angles to the fireplace, a coffee table before it, and at least one chair opposite it looks inviting right away. And since there's nothing we human beings love to do more than talk, we might as well plan for it! Something else to add to nelp a room take on new personality, is to add a focal point to quicken interest and make the room dif ferent than any other. An an tique piece of furniture, an es pecially lovely table of a wood or marble different than the other pieces, a grouping of intriguing pictures over the sofa. Growing things have a way of adding new life to a room, too. Put a tall split-leaf ptrilodendron beside your TV set and see the square box apparently diminish in size. The greens in a large planter on the mantle, desk, or piano take away the stiff line of the furniture. Of course there's nothing like wallpaper to create character, in terest and personality and over night at that! We don't need to be satisfied with an uniived-m look, we can do something con crete about it, and do it now! See you next week, Mary Thomas Interior Decorator Parliamentarians Bfeet The Salem Unit of the Na tional Association of Parliamen tarians will hold their regular meeting Wednesday night at the Credit Bureau Bldg. at 7:30 p.m. ROBERTS I f 2 V u- jl f I I"1" The lesson will be "The Nomin ating Committee's Duties' con ducted by Mrs. O. J. Adkinson and, will , be "followed by a par- t-ltamentary drill with Mrs. James Lamb as leader. Mrs. Winifred Pettyjohn will preside! at the fkeeting. BROS., 340 COURT STREET. WE f f 7 w ; X I Monthly board meeting of the Salem Branch, AAUW will be held Monday night at the home of Miss Mir pah Blair, 875 Marion St, at 8 p.m. Mrs. L. C. Wooden will be the co-hostess. Mrs. Ar thur Sprague, president,: will pre side. . At NYLON TIER CURTAINS Easy-to-arrange tiers come in yel low, rose, gold, green, and white. 43x30 . 2.89 43x36 !.3.19 MUSLIN TIERS IN GAY KITCHEN PATTERNS Dress-up your kitchen with tier curtains; loop braid, ruffled head ing. Red, green, gold. , 33x36 2.25 NEW SASH CURTAINS Charming sash style: for spring? Multi-color embroidered ruffles to set it off. 33x45 340 COURT ST., SALEM, OREGON , Bethel 35, Job's Daughters will meet Monday niglit at the Scot tish Rite Temple at 7:30 p.m. There win be a short meeting with a talent show following at 8:30 p.m. Parents, friends, and the in terested public are invited to attend. GIVE AND REDEEM GREEN STAMPS Easy-on-the-Budgei" Prices! ... for You! Ruffled, priscillas, or tier styles ... flattering to your living-room . . . breth-taking in your bedroom . . .curtains that give charm to every room of your home! -i- J SDMI Mrs. Guiea L. Simps will ea- tertain the Gamma Phi Beta alum nae at her South 23rd Street home Tuesday night A 6:30 dinner will be served with Mrs. Jack Stew ard. Mrs. Donald Liudahl and Mrs. Robert Ebersole as co-hostesses. PRISCILLAS Pin Dot Marquisette Airy marquisette comes in eggshell only. Size 72x84. Knitted Truton Newest no-iron fabric, is non-stretching. non-starching!-Eggshell only. 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