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
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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.
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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. .
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, Bethel 35, Job's Daughters will
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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.
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tian Service of the; Leslie Metho
dist Church will meet at the
church at 12 : 30 p.m, Wednesday
for a luncheon to be served by the
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