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
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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