SUPP! EMENS
EAST CLACKAMAS NEWS. OCTOBER 9, 1919
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W ANTED!
Cull Apples!
The Henry Weinhardt Plant. Here since 1862 ,
Portland, Oregon
€ul! Apples!
Our buyer wiil be at the R. G. Marchbauk’s Confectionery store, all day
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Monday, October 13th
W e want large and small antounts.
Ciranre Sources From Which
Pigments Used by Modern
Painters Are Derived.
PRESERVATION OF SURFACES,
Crude but effective Processes Egiploy
ed by the Egyp tians and G reeks of
P lin y ’s D ay— Noah Prudently
W aterproofed the A rk.
Whether point was invented in an
swer to a need for a preservative or to
meet a desire for beauty
a question
fully ns knotty us the ancient one shout
the relative time of arrival of the
flocken or the egg. It was invented,
though, and it. serves both purposes
equally; so whether it is an "THTspring
of mother necessity or an adopted son j
of beauty remains forever a disputed
quest ion.
The first men. cowering under the
tierce and glaring suns of the liildlcnl
fount ríes, Vonstnipied rude lints of
««'nini to shelter them. The perishable
nature of these structures caused rapid
demy, and it is probable ibat the oc
cupants, seeking some artil.clnl means
of preservation, hit upon the pigments
of the earth in their search. It is per
haps natural to suppose that it w a s
tl»f* * instinct of preservation that led
men to the search, although the glories
of the sunsets and the beauties of the
rainbow may have created a •',sire to
imitate those wonders in tnelr own
dwellings.
The earliest record of _..e applica- ¡
ticn of a preservative to a wooden
structure dates from the ark, which
was, according to the Milde, “ pitched
within and without.” The piteli was a
triumph of preservation whatever it
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Turn them into profit.
laesen as a tntng or beauty.
Decoration applied to buildings first
comes to light with ancient Mabylon,
whose walls were covered with repre
sentations of hunting scenes and of
combat. These were done in red and
the method followed was to paint the
scene on the bricks at tlie time of
manufacture, assuring permanence by
linking. Strictly speaking, this was
not painting so much ns it was the
earliest manifestation of our own fa
miliar kalsomining.
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The first Hebrew to mention paint
ing is Moses. In tin* thirty-third chap
ter of the book of Numbers he in
structs the Israelites, “ When ye have
passed over the .Iordan into the land
of t'anaau. then shall ye drive out all
tiie inhabitants of the land froiy be-
fore you and destrov nil their pic
tures. . . . ”
At later periods the ’.Tews adopted
nmji.v customs of the pimples who suc
cessively obtained power over them
.• nd in the apocryphal hook of the
'accunees is found this allusion to
tin* art of decorating, “ For as the mas
ter builder of a new house must care
for the whole building, hut lie that
i ? dertaketli to set it out and paint it,
i si seek out tilings for the adorning
thereof.”
Although Homer gives ciedit to a
<!rcck for the discovery of paint, tin*
aHus.nns to it ii- the books of M oses,
the painted mummy eases of the Egyp
tians and the decorated walls of Ilaby-
lon and Thebes fix its origin at a
period long antecedent to tin* (»redan
era. The walls of Thebes were paint
ed 1,000 years before the coining of
t'lirist and 0!M) years before “ ’Omer
smote Ids bloomin’ lyre.”
The (»reeks recognized tin* value of
paint as a preservative and made use
of something-akin to it on their ships.
1’liny writes of the mode of boiling
wax and painting ships with It, after
which, he continues, “ neither the sea,
t or the wind, nor the sun cap destroy
the wood thus protected.”
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The lltimans, being i*sse .illy a
warlike people, never brought the dec
oration of buildings to tin* high plane
¡' I«.' I reached with the f 2recks. For
nil that tin* ruins of Pompeii show
la. nv structures whose mural decora.
_^ns are in fair shape today. The
ors used were glaring.
A black
background was the usual one and Hie
combinations worked thereon red, yel
low and blue.
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In the early Christian era the use of
mosaics for churches somewhat sup
planted mural painting. Still, during
the reign of Justinian the Church of
Saint Sophia was built at Constantino
ple and its walls were adorned with
paintings. ;
In modern tlr rs the uses of paint
have come to *>*> as numerous as its
myriad shades and tints. Paint ts
unique in that its name .ins no syno
nym niid for it there is no substitute
material, itrend is the staff of life, hut
paint is the lift* of tin* staff.
No one thinks of the exterior of a
wooden building now except in terms
of paint coated. Interiors, too, from
painted walls and stained furniture
d< wn to the lowliest kitchen utensil,
all receive their protective covering.
Steel, so often associated with cement
ro-enforcing, Is .minted nelore it goes
to give solidity to the niunufnetured
stone. Tin* huge girders of the sky
scrapers are daubed an ugly but effi
cient red ’iiderneatli the s.irface coat
of Mack ^ ¿‘erhilps the '»esi example
* of the value of paint on steel is found
in the venerable Brooklyn bridge, on
which ii gang of painters is kepi go
ing continually. It is scarce possible
to think of a single manufactured ar
ticle wnleli does not meet paint some
where in lI k course of its construc
tion. So has paint grown into (he
v**rv marrow of our lives.
H ym ns Ment ori Cicyc'istn.
C ii* of thè etVeefs of fin* war ts nn
Increate in thè populnrlty of hvmn
slnging, and prnctical d<>monstratlons
of thè brst tunes and how to get Mie
tno-d nut of tliem bave been ltcb| in
some nf thè London ehurches.
P.nt cnnld yoii. even after n p, .e
lonved eo»irsi» of hvmnology. nnswer
off limai Fai ber Stanton’s quesMon as
to where hieveics are mentioned in«
“ Ilymns Aneient and Modem?” (live
It iij»? “ fbinhenms seorehlng all thè
day.”— London < 'liroiiicle.
SEES OLD WORLD
JEWRY IN PERII
D\ Cyrus Adler. Jewish Repre
sentative at the Peace Con
ference. Reviews Eastern
European Situation.
ECONOMIC
RUIN COMPLETE.
Food, C lothing, M edicines and*O ther
of L ife ’» N ecessities Must Be Pro
vided by Am erica at Once.
New York.—“ The Jews who lived in
tin* zone of war suffered greater hard
ships, sustained greater losses and
have been left in a worse economic
condition Mian any other people of
Europe with lite possible exeeption of
the Armenians. In some of the regions
where the Jews live as main as the
armies inarched through, each bear
ing away with It such property as it
desired or Deeded ; and finally Mio
Bolshevists in ll.eir wave of power
completed the economic ruin of mu
Jews."
#Tliat is the Jewish situation abroad,
as seen by Dr. Cyrus Adler, of Phila
delphia, one of tin* most prominent
Jewish educators in the country, who
was in Europe as a member of tlm
American Jewish delegation to Mie
Peace Conference. He believes that
there must lie a great deal o f economic
rehabilitation among Ids people be
fore they can begin to enjoy the new
rights of religious, political and legal
equality won for them at Versailles
"Fast European Jewry will soon bo
in a position to help itself, due to the
results of -tiie Peace Conference.”
states Dr. Adler, “ hut In the critical
period tInit it Is passing through now
as a result of Mie Furo perni economic
and political upheaval, it uiu-i receive
aid from this country. Food, clothing,
medicines these are the fundamental
needs that come before anything else.
“ Food must he hurried to the Furo-
peau Jews. I have seen hr ad Mutt
these people were eating, win’ll they
could get it, that lookd more like a
dung cake Mian like food.
It was
composed of ten per cent, rye, ten per
cent, wheat and t>o per cent, tree hark
for tiller.
“ Another brent need Is for the fnelll-
nting id’ individual remit inures.
In
many regions no communications have
been possible for live years and fa
thers, mol hers, brothers and sisters
have lost all truck of their relatives in
this country.
“ In view of all Mils situation, the
coming Jewish relief campaign i- i
movement that is worthy ol Avery dol
lar's worth of support that America
call give to it. Withholding of aid by
America will spell certain disaster to
millions of Jewish men, worn*
mfi
children In Hast ern Fu rope.”
Belated Proof.
"I seC where I was severely wounded
in flu* war,” remarked a discharged
soldier*.
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“ Are you Just no (' uig Mint out?”
“(if course not. hut It's some satis
faction to linve a casualty list in m.v
home paper corroborate the statements
I've been making for six months to
friends and mende rs of my feevlly.” —
Birmingham \ft* M uñid