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T H U R S D A Y . O C T . 26. 1950 SO UTHERN OREGON N E W S R E V IE W PAGE TWO FIRST A ID to th, A IL IN G H O U S E by ROGER C WHITMAN M IX IN G COLORING W ITH 9 TpW »“ *» «M r i ;'!- . “ The White Church’* is the title of the above painting by Grandma Moses which will appear this year on Christmas cards. The tiny New York state farm woman has becom e America s m ost famed painter. 1 PLANTER Fireside Chat Proposed ECRETARY of State Acheson has been urging President Tru man to deliver a fireside chat warn ing the nation against falling for the Russian peace offensive. Acheson fears that victory in Ko rea will lull Americans into for getting that western Europe is still Russia’s No. 1 objective and that to let down now would prove dis astrous later. Therefore, he has sug gested the President give a blunt talk to the people, perhaps on Co lumbus Day. and In this way ex plode Moscow’s peace talk. Acheson wants the President to point out that Russia still has 75 divisions in eastern Germany—15 of them armored—and is now stock piling huge quantities of food and raw materials—something you do only when you are preparing for war. S LIFE BEGINS AT 90 Senate Poet Laureate 'G r a n d m a ' M oses S till P ain ts A n d T a k e s M a n y H o no rs L ig h tly Grandma Moses is no more ruffled by the honors that have foUowed her 90th birthday, and the opening of the newest exhibit of her painti g , than she was by her first public exhibit just 10 years' She is back at her white farmhouse here in Eagle Bridge. N. Y.. vigorously brushing the bright colors onto the canvases that have made her famous, unperturbed by the attention accorded her by Gov. Thomas Dewey and other dignitaries. Her daily routine hasn't changed, she said. “I get up about seven and go down for coffee. Then I go to my room, tidy it up and paint or read as I see fit,” she explained. Grandma, who is formally Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a York- state farm wife who has become the dean of American primitive paint ers, was honored with a testimonial dinner at the state capital, opened an exhibit of 60 of her paintings at the Albany Institute of Art, com pleted an appearance in a full-scale color movie, and checked the prog “ The Mailman Has Gone" is ress of 60 of her works on exhibit the title of this recent painting through Europe, all within the last by Grandma M oses. It. too, will appear on Christmas cards this few months. year. Meteoric Rise to Fame She still paints nearly every day. “I've always thought every paint ing would be the last, but I keep right on.” she remarked. The little old lady whose “dis covery” as a painter started her on a meteoric rise to fame at the age of 78, lives in a two- story white frame house set here in the rolling hills of the Taconic range 200 miles from New York City. She lives with her daugh ter-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Moses, and a granddaughter. It's a p l e a s a n t , but unpretentious house built in the late 18th cen tury with a spacious kitchen, a dining room big enough to ac commodate 20 Christmas-dinner guests, and two front living rooms whose walls are hung w it h Grandma's remarkable paintings. There is also a television set now which is obviously of keen interest to Grandma. "I don’t care for the boxing or wrestling or those things,’ she said with a twinkle, “but 1 like the historical things and the plays if they wind up happy.” It would be hard to imagine Grandma Moses unhappy. There is dignity and intelligence in her face and complete serenity. She is tiny and weighs hardly enough to jiggle a scale. Her eyes are bright blue, alert and crinkly, and she wears spectacles. Her white hair is gath ered in a knot atop her head. She has high cheek bones, a small, straight nose, and a decisive chin. Question: We ore lining to .uive our new home plastered, und 1 would like to know If thia Integral coloring mixed In with the plaster is a good thing to have done. Answer: Yes, I consider It a very good way to get color on your walls without having to do a separate painting Job afterwards. To be sure of a uniform color use only the factory-m ixed m aterial. Color m ixing of plaster “ on the job” is not always satisfactory. Scott Lucas, the hard-boiled sen ate leader, is one thing; but Scott Lucas, the rhymester, is another. Most people don’t know that when the senator from Illinois gets fed up with long, drawn-out senate debates he scribbles lyrics. Here is one he turned out when the senate was tied up in a table-thumping debate on oil: “Who is this old man oil That raises hell in committee toil? Open the door and let him in. Hear him speak straight from the chin. Smith. Wayne. Me.; Kenneth H. Smith. Long Beach. Calif.; Virgil L. Ward. Lenoir Lived in Virginia On her painting, well—“I paint things that I see and some that I remember,” she said, “a great deal is historical and a great deal is just imagination.” Her canvases a r e panoramic views of the countryside, the marks of the four seasons, the chores and activities of farmlife, rural holiday customs she observes or recalls in her mind’s eye. Grandma may have Inherited from her Scotch-Irish forebears some of her artistic inclination but her style, taste and crafts manship are strictly her own developments. Born on a farm near Greenwich, N. Y., on Sept. 7, 1860, she remembers that her father painted a little. Shut in by illness one winter, he spent the time painting murals with house paint on the living room walls. She has a vivid and remarkable memory for the scenes and events Her first exhibit, prior to 1940, was in a drug store in Hoosick Falls, a nearby village, where an art collector happened on her work and brought it to the attention of Dr. Otto Kallir of the Galerie St. Etienne in New York. Dr. Kallir staged her first public exhibit and has fostered her progress ever since. Nearly 100 exhibits have followed in galleries and museums in scores of cities here and abroad. Untaught, uneducated, with little understanding of her own great gift, Grandma Moses is unquestionably a true and probably even a great artist, in the opinion of Dr. Kallir: “I think maybe the answer to the Grandma Moses riddle lies in a combination of things—her prodi gious native talent, her fantastic ability constantly to learn more about paint technique at an age when other people regard it as a miracle to be alive at all, and, more than anything, a purity of spirit so great as to be incapable of vul- garity. “It is this last trait which en- ables her to keep turning out scores of pictures of the most banal sub- jects ------- and have each one emerge a distillation of the joys of nature and the simple life.” 90-Year-O ld Artist Continues Career W hile most people ore hoppy just to be olive when they reoch their 90th birthday, Grandma Moses has launched upon a more active career with her painting. She has a number of works underway and continues to read and sew. She said recently at a birthday party she was looking forward to her 100th birthday. She wasn't planning anything big, she said, "just to ask a few people over for a dance. 4 Tob«cc. t , rrodact, I Ck.ielc«! Cauaoiatlon • Rlcamtad. Vlrglala it stays on YOU ...n o t on Him! HAZEL BISHOP'S LASTINO NON-SMEAR LIPSTICK STAYS ON AND ON! Now youra! T h « en tirely r w w k in d o f e v e r y b o d y ’« r a v in g a b o u t — B IS H O P 8 ! First and only co lor-true Up m ake up th a t won t com« ofT when you ea t. bite your lipa or kiaa! N o w . aay g o o d b y e to m eaay re d ffraaae” on everything- and evervbodyl T o d a y - g e t H A Z E L B IS H O P 'S no n- •m r n r , eatin-am ooth. L A S T I N O L I P S T I C K . F la tte rin g now shades. L a s t* 4 to 6 tim e . longer O n ly $1 at drug a d e p t. stores M o oey-back guarantee I t r iv s PORT ARRIVES WITH 241 WAR CASUALTIES . . . A military ,«•» transport • e r v I c e veaaelt liquid or tablets processed at Crissy field, near San Francisco. IS YOUR ANSWER TO COLDS' MISERIES Here’s why! (MMI is time- tested. It's different. T n <1(M> vimrxcir. Htlp niters <fl«trsn of MONTHLY FEM A LE COMPLAINTS Are you troubled by dletreee of fe m ale fu n ctio n a l periodic d lstu rb - »Iirre? Dore thle m eke you «offer from p ein , f e e l eo nervous. tired — e t su ch time«? T h en «tert takin g Lydia E. fln k h e m 's V egetable Com pound ab ou t t e n days before to relieve •u eb sym ptom s. Plnkhem '« heg « grand eoothlng effect on on« o / w om an's m o il Im p o rta n t o rpan st Truly th e women'» frien d ! Business As Usual In addition to paying 62 per cent more for zinc, the army and navy had to get tough before they could even buy enough zinc for batteries urgently needed in Korea. Assistant Secretary of the Arrrty Alexander and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Koehler personally had to put pres sure on the zinc companies in order to get military orders filled. Believe it or not, these companies —Anaconda, Sullivan Mining, Amer- I ican Smelting and Refining, and American Zinc company of Illi nois—wanted to take care of their civilian clients first rather than risk losing business. Now the same com panies are protesting against sup plying zinc for the nation’s strategic stockpile. The basic commodities used in the manufacture of military items were the first to sky rocket after Korea. Crude rub ber shot up 162 per cent, with some British companies charg ing as high as 300 per cent above I the pre-Korean price. The price of wool, so essential for the freezing Korean winter, in I creased 61 per cent. Cotton for summer uniforms shot up 50 per cent. Steel scrap, which sold for $24 a ton before the Korean war, now costs $38 per ton. Here are a few other comparisons between the prices the armed for ces paid before and after the Ko rean war began: radio receivers up from $550 to $910 a set; radiak training sets, $84.90 to $289; ship ping boxes, 82 cents to $1.24 each; five-gallon gasoline drums, $1.79 to ' $1.98 each; khaki trousers, 74 cents to 84 cents a pair; adhesive tape, ! 26 cents to 30 cents a roll; tires, $16.14 to $20.46 each; fire hose, $20.64 to $23.10 per 50 feet; ground Interrogator, $1,842 to $2,303 each. These are typical of the prices the armed services are paying. l e a f 4 0 to B ro th I lim e , 11« . k i l l i n g lice and feather n iite t.w h ile c h ic k e n , perch . O n e ounce t r e a t , f>0 fe e t o f r o c t a - 9 0 c h ic k e n ,. D ire c tio n s 0 n p .n k .1 g e A ,k for Itlac k l e a l 40. the dep e n d ab le In ,e co cid e o f m an y utee. y. Korean Costs Increase Most people don’t realise that the cost of the Korean war to the tax payers has been increased by about five billion dollars, because of two factors: 1. Unpatriotic war manu facturers and raw-material dealers have hiked prices; 2. President Tru of her early life. She recalled de man, though given ample power by tails of Thanksgivings spent in 1864, congress, has failed to invoke price 1868. and 1870. In 1868, her mother’s controls. As a result, it now costs the sister. "Aunt Sophie,” s p e n t Thanksgiving with them. Names, armed services more for their places and dates from a half cen (needs, without exception, than they tury or more ago come readily to paid before the Korean outbreak. ¡Probably the most shameful is the her. She lived on the farm near Green sudden increase in the price of wich until at 28 she married Thomas medical and surgical goods, urgent Solomon Moses, a neighboring farm ly needed to save lives in Korea. er. The young couple started for The army must now pay $220 for North Carolina but got only to an instrument and medicine cabi Staunton, Va., where they lived for net that cost only $195 before the nearly 20 years. In 1905, they re Korean war. The price of glycerin, turned to Washington county and a medical compound in demand in moved into the house where she military hospitals, has shot up 114 per cent. Even rubber surgical still lives. Grandma had no artistic training, gloves for operating on wounded never took a painting lesson in her soldiers have increased in price life. She began making needlework from 17 to 22 cents per pair. The high-octane aviation fuel that pictures in 1937, at the suggestion of her daughter, and shortly after keeps our planes flying over Korea ward was encouraged to take up a costs 30 per cent more than before paint brush. Her first paintings were the war. At the same time, fuel oil has shot up 54 per cent. The air done on wood. “Anyone can paint if they want,” force is also paying as high as 175 per cent more for resistors, actua she said thoughtfully. “All they tors and other electronic spares for need to do is get a brush and start aircraft, and the navy is paying 10 painting. They’ll make something. to 12 per cent more for ship parts And as time goes on it will get bet than these same items cost before ter and better.” K-day. lt l.u k t o a i t t w it h h a n d y C a p Milton G. K itch en s. Sandy Springs. Okla. “ Remember boys—he’s a wily old cuss. He looks like ’Hit’ and acts like •Muss’; He’s a traveler of world renown, Gushing and running from town to town.” Self Trained Artist A p p ly M ASTER SE R G EA N TS R EC E IV E B A T T L E F IE L D COMMISSIONS Nine m ast» r rgc •••»’• «» U nited S tates arm y receiv e battle front co m m issio n s a s second lieutenants som ew h ere In K rea . • « ‘ right, front row : Patrick J. Stonew all. S tan ley. N. D.; Clifford D H am rick. C olum bus. G a .. < «rUa » • E ie ll, Portland. O re.; Paul G tiznicsak. C arn egie. Pa.; and John K. Stoilln. Mora, J*1'"’' s *‘< 4’, and \fD lt t. PIHKHAM'S S S tf LOVES EASY RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION! RED SNIPER AT WRONG END OF GUN . . P.F.C. John Alliance of Ohio is taking care that this Red Korean doesn’t get away. The private s prize is a North Korean sniper whom he flushed as United States forces recaptured Seoul. John tied the prisoner's hands and stuck him into the hole as he wailed for a prisoner collection detail to come and get the defeated enemy soldier. Occurrences such as this were common as Americans continued mopping-up operations. 'iii- NIP PRINCE’S TUTOR . . . Miss Esther B. Rhoads, Germantown, Pa., will be the new tutor of Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, who is 17. Miss Rhoads will, succeed Mrs. Vining, who will return to the United States In November. -n r “ Till recently I had to depend on un pleasant medicines for constipation. 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