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PAGE NINE Former Medford Artist Plying Craj ct in South MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932 SUPPLY CURTAILED Frederick D. Strieker. M. D.f State Health Officer "Any undue retrenchment In health work ! bound to be paid for In dol lar and cento as well aa In the Im pairment of the people' health gen erally. We can demonstrate convin cingly that returns In economic and aoclal welfare from expenditure for public services are far in excess or their cost, aays a bulletin lasued by Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, stat health officer, quoting Prof. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins, who says: "Too great economy as far as healtn la concerned, because of the current depression. Is particularly dangerous vto the welfare of the growing ehtl Jdren. Undernourishment of children, for example, is not likely to show it self immediately, but is bound to how effects later, when it is prob- ablv too late to remedy. The ground lost by undernourishment In chil dren may never be regained.. "Pood should be considered care fully when times are hard. Nothing makes a greater difference in our health than the food we eat. Good food protects us against disease, it gives us strength. It makes up for daily wear and war. K enables enn dren to grow. It helps us to keep warm. It is true if you lsck fresh air or sunlight or exercise or sleep you cannot expect to be really well, but if you have good food the vigor and strength of body are such that you will want to go out Into the air ano sun and take exercise, and then you will sleep well. 'Milk is the best food for children. rhey cannot do well without milk. Milk makes them grow. Plain simple food it best. Meals should be well eooked and served at regular hours. There are five necessary kinds of food: (1) Milk, bwtter, cheese; (3) fruit; (3) Vegetables; 4) Bread and cereal; (5) Meat, fish, eggs, fats. "The very least a child can do with in a day Is one pint of milk, one vegetable or fruit, uncooked If pos sible, plenty of bread, butter and cereal, some meat or fish or eggs and, if under 3 years two teaspoonfuls of ood liver oil. Even if our money for food is so small that It takes one third of it to buy a pint of milk dally for each child, we must buy the milk. Children cannot grow and keep well without milk. They must have it. "For the child's best health, strength and growth he needs every day: (1) Two pints of milk. Evapora ted, or dried or powdered milk will do. if we cannot get fresh milk Skim milk and buttermilk are good hut not quite aa good as Whole milk. Condensed milk is not so good. (3) Bread or cereal such as oatmeal or rice. (3) Meat or fish or an egg or cheese. (4) Green vegetables, carrots and othtsr vegetables. Allow three vegetables a day. (B) Tomato, tomato Juice, or orange Juice, or some other fruit uncooked Is possible. Fruit Is not a luxury but a neces sity for health. Allow two apples a week, or two oranges a week or two ' tomatoes a week for each child. "Loss of food this year cannot be made up next year. The children suf fer for such loss. Everything possible must be dora to see that our own children and other children get the food they need to make them grow and keep them . well. We are their guardians. We must not let them get stunted and weakened for life for want of good food, this year. EVA NEALON HAMILTON To all Medford people who remem ber the little studio across the Bear Creek bridge, m the modest windows of which u few years ago glimpses of ocean and trees were framed at fre quent Intervals to beckon the lover of beauty Into a funny little room, where a man with brown mustache was ever bending over wood, news comes today of Sam Lang to arouse a host of pleasant thoughts. Thoughts of the man, himself, who brought from wood and color in the little room, sparsely furnished, Inspiration and illusion in color, unbound by lines and rules. A man, old In years, but not In spirit, whose constant thought and ambition was perfec tion of an American wood cut. And that -la still his ambition, as he works in a studio in Santa Bar bara, according to the story found in the southern press under a three column head "74-Year-Oid Santa Barbara Color Mechanic Is Origina tor of 'American' Wood Cut Art." The story written by Franklin How att reads: Some day, when a history may oe written of the "American Wood Cut Art," the origin of the American form of this art, practiced by the Japan ese as early as 1500 A. D., may be traced back to the day the World war broke out. It is the life ambition of Samuel Lang, English-born American land scape painter, and colorist, who turn ed from landscapes to wood cuts n the day the great conflict broke out and who has been practicing his art in Santa Barbara these past three years, that history will find the in ception of the true American wood cut art In his own "Big Timber!" a work nroduced after years of experi mentation. Lang la as modest and unpretend ing as the little workshop at 2406 !4 Castillo street, where his cunning fingers, working with square blocks of soft wood and colors of Infinite variation, put into permanent ar tistic form the children of his ima gination. "Color Mechanic" But the 74-year-old "color mechan ic," as he calls himself, is proud too of "Big Timber," and the fact that there are no perspective-destroying black lines marking the borders be tween the fields of different colors. Elimination of the color line, ro prominent & feature of the Japanese wood cuts, has been Lang's objective ever since that day in 1924 when he stood in the British museum In Lon don, England, and critically examin ed what was then regarded as the best collection of Japanese wood cuts In the world. - "So far, American wood cuts, while using American subjects, have been largely based upon the Japanese technique and the characteristic bor der lines of the Japanese outs have seemed to be Impossible to avoid," he said. Lang pointed out how such a line, along a horizon or outlining distant trees or objector destroys the illusion of distance and gives the re sulting picture the flatness of a con ventional wallpaper design. In "Big Timber," which is an Ima ginative representation of a huge red wood In the setting of a limitless forest, soft shadings and gradations L E LONG BEACH, Cal., Dec. flV Ui the presence of his fiancee, Claude B Pate, 29, sailor on the U. S. S. Omaha,, shot himself near the heart today and was taken to a hospital In a serious condition. The fiancee, Margaret Reed, 23. who came here from Portland recenlty to marry him, Insisted they had not quarreled, that Pate had not been drinking and she knew of no reason who he should shoot himself. ' "I said, 'You are over shore leave, aren't you?' and he replied 'I'll never see my ahlp again.' and shot himself." she told officers. She said Pate's right arm was around her neck and he held the gun with his left hand. Pate told police he shot himself. TOTHH l ON THE dntpAcltfiJ. DIRECT Eipre. to Yo kohama and Shaath! a on the Empress of Ruaala, empress ol Asia, In speed and comfort. Or via Hono lulu on the Empress of Japan, Empress of Canada, equally luiurlous. Sailing fortnightly from Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. Sump tuous First Class accom modations ... a Tourist Cabin of true "Empress" standard. Get details. AiaxL ot color give full effect to the illus ion of depth and distance, the color ist pointed out. Wood cuts, or "color outs,' which is the name Lang gives to his pro ductions, are prepared In the manner of a water color painting but with the color applied through the use of porus blocks of wood Instead of brushes. The common practice, oc- cordtng to Lang, is to have a separ ate block for each of th colors to be applied and then to apply a border around each patch of color to keep It from spreading into other patches. "Builds" picture Lang declared, however, that ne uses his blocks of wood as If they were paint brushes, making some 70 to 30 applications of paint to each picture, delicately blending the var ious colore and gradually "building up" the various phases of the work. Lang, who "grew up" In the studio of Prlsehe, British Royal academician, and who followed landscape painting until his revolutionary swing to wood cuts In 1914, revealed he imitated the Japanese wood cut technique until 1920. "Then I destroyed all my blocks and determined to develop a true American technique," he said. He made 3.000 copies of "Bii Timber" be fore he reached Its present perfec tion. Mr. Lang left Medford three years ago for Santa Barbara, Cal., where he has since been working. He came here from the coast and worked for some time In a shop on North Front street, then opened a studio In & house on East Main street, just across the Bear Creek bridge. f hi ' 1 h jj Wv II, II II III J E I GENEVA, Dec. 9. (PH-Tosuke Mat suoka, Japan's special counsel, threat ened "unforeseen consequences" if the assembly of the League of Na tions adopted a proposed resolution condemning Japan's policy in Man churia. He made the statement to the assembly today. Matsuoka demanded that the auth ors of the resolution withdraw It or that the assembly rote on It imme diately. Some observers present recalled that authoritative sources in Tokyo said Japan may be forced to with draw' from the league if her Man ohurlan policy waa endangered. Private Filers Subsidized WELLINGTON, N. Z. (AP) The New Zealand government has bought three airplanes for flying clubs and Is subsidizing such organisations to provide for the training of 100 pilots this year, an Increase of 10 over the previous year. - , . . Woolly Rowds In Australia SYDNEY ( AP ) The council of Moree, New South Wales, la testing a road pavement made of chemically treated wool which is said to set as hard as concrete. Wool of Inferior market grade is used. Punk birds.. can be helped . . . and they need it But they can't help themselves. That's your job. . 77 On which side of the fence are your birds? 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