MISS BURGESS TELLS
BF TRIP TO, EUROPE
U. of 0. Professor and Party
See Battle-fields
NO WAR TALK IS HEARD
France, Belgium, Italy, Spain,
England Visited
“I "want to tell vou that the Willam
ette valley never looked more beautiful
to me than when I returned this fall,”
said Miss Julia Burgess of the depart
ment of rhetoric and American litera
ture, when she was asked to tell some
thing about her summer spent in Italy,
France, and England. “They told us,”
Miss Burgess laughed, “that it would
be lovely in Italy if we didn’t strike
a heat wave. But we struck a wave;
and in accordance with the prevailing
fashion, it seemed to dc a permanent
wave, covering not only Italy but
f France and England as well.
“No one,” continued Miss Burgess,
‘“need be afraid to go to Europe on ac
count of being depressed, or through
fear of discourtesy. If there is talk
about the war, you have to introduce
the subjeet yourself, as the Europeans
do not speak of it. They are depressed
about their financial condition,” she
continued, “but they do not talk about
it to tourists.”
No Evidence of War
In Paris, Miss Burgess said, there
is no evidence of the war to the casual
observer. Her party was in the French
capital on July 14, Bastille day, which
commemorates the falling of the Bas
tille, and corresponds to our Indepen
dence Day. The city was decorated
with flags, all the public buildings were
trimmed with flaming gas jets, and
the streets were filled with dancers and
merry-go-rounds. Cafes had spread
their tables across the streets so that
traffic was completely stopped, she
said.
“A surprising thing to me,” went
on Miss Burgess, “was that very few
crippled and wounded men are seen
in Paris and elsewhere. One wonders
where the^ are. There are very few
with faces disfigured, or with any vis
ible sign of wounds. We were told
that many are still in hospitals. No
one talks about the war, but if you
ask, you find that almost any man you
meet is an ex-soldier with some thrii
lig experience.
Party Goes by Motor
Miss Burgess ’ party went out by
motor from Paris, through the Marne
valley, to Chateau Thierry, and on to
Bheims, returning by Soissons and the
valley of the Sein. On the trip, they
passed through forty-five villages, eight
of which had been completely de
stroyed, and were marked only by low
projections of walls. No sign of life
was any where about these villages.
Twenty others, she said were only par
tially destroyed, and in them recon
struction was rapidly going on. The
villagers themselves were rebuilding
their homes with tar paper, wood, and
in many cases stone. The country is
by no means wholly reclaimed, stated
Miss Burgess, though in places are
seen little placards bearing names and
numbers indicating that former own
ers are coming back to find the land
that had been theirs.
Bheims Is Visited
“Bheims looked like a spectral city,”
Miss Burgess said. “There was a fine
powdered dust,' heavy and white, over
everything, from the ruined walls and
the long drought.” This spectral ef
fect was heightened, she said, by the
fact that the city was in darkness
that night except for occasional flashes
of light from an electrical storm. The
cathedral, according to Miss Burgess is
not injured beyond restoring; the up
per roof was torn off, but the inner
roof remains and can be repaired.
“In spite of the spectral appearance
of Bheims,” said Miss Burgess, “that
is where I saw the prettiest girl that
I met anywhere on the trip—a wait
ress with all the proverbial French
gTace and charm.”
The country around Bheims, she
found to be very desolate. Many tan
gles of barbed wire, steel towers, shells,
and debris from the war remains.
“The most dramatic thing I saw in
the way of battle fields,” declared
Mass Burgess, “'was ‘Hill 108’ which
remains just as the close of the war
left it. ‘Hill 108’, near Berry aubac,
is a ghostly, white, chalk hill where
many Canadians lost their lives. There
is a great shell hole like the crater
of a volcano. The dugouts are still
there with their bunks, two feet wide,
with chicken wire for springs.
People are Cheerful
‘Tn spite of the desolation of their
surroundings,” Miss Burgess said, “the
people are remarkably cheerful; it is
a pleasure to find such a" good spirit
among them. They would come running
out of their half-ruined homes to wave
to us, or to chat a while, and pose for
their pictures. They seemed to live
among the ruins as though camping out.
The old people, especially the old wo
men, look very sad; but the yeunger
1 ones are extremely cheerful and are
making many plans for the future.”
All through the country the ex-soldiers
and the general public seem pleased
to meet Americans, said Miss Burgess.
| At Chateau-Thierrv, she said she talked
: to a mother who praised the bravery
; and moral cleanliness of the American
boys.
Meets Oregon Man
“At Belleau 'Wood,” she continued,
; “I met an Oregon man, Bert Lewis,
from Portland. He came a"d asked if
any one in the party was from Oregon
When I told him IJiat I was, he said
I was the first Oregonian he had seen
since he had been there.”
“I didn’t see any one who looked
hungry,” Miss Burgess went on, “but
I noticed that everywhere there seems
to be the greatest economy practiced
in dress. There were very few ultra
stylishly dressed women, even in Paris.
Another thing I noticed, which may be
a result of the war, was that there
were so few private autos in use.
Borne is Impressive
“Borne was the most impressive of
all the European cities to me,” Miss
Burgess said. “While there, we were
permitted to attend a Papal communion,
held in the Vatican, in honor of a band
of about fifty French Canadian pil
grims. The communion was adminis
tered by the Tope himself to the pil
grims.
“We were taken through the king’s
palace by a young Italian who had
been in the army. He showed us the
suite of rooms occupied by President
Wilson on his visit there. I asked
him,” said Miss Burgess, “how they
liked the President. He said they liked
him. A few politicians, he said, found
fault with him, but the people liked
him.”
“We reached Florence,” continued
th traveller, “on the day of Caruso’s
death. That evening, we heard a night
stroller singing in such a beautiful
tenor—it seemed that he must have in
herited the voice of Caruso. Beauty
and music with everywhere the back
ground of antiquity are the impressive
things about Italy.”
The people of England, Miss Burgess
said, seem very quiet. On account of
expecting uprisings from the Irish, they
are extremely cautious, and permit no
tourists to enter the Parliament build
ings. In England, too, Miss Burgess
noticed that private autos were very
few. While there, the party visited
Oxford University, where the Univer
sity of Oregon has already had many
students, and where Kerby S. Miller,
a graduate of 1920, is now working in
Balliol College.
Education Incentive Seen
“The war,” said Miss Burgess, “has
given great incentive for education,
abroad as well as in America, and the
universities everywhere are crowded.”
“A pleasant thing about the voyage
across,” said she said, “was the pres
ence on the steamer of a party of about
160 college students, mostly girls. They
were traveling under the Italy-Ameri
can society in commemoration of the
sexcentenary of Dante, and their pur
pose was to hang a bronz wreath on
the tomb of Dante, at Ravenna. Many
receptions were given in their honor,
and the King of Italy received them
and chatted informally with them. On
the trip aerosB, the students supplied
much entertainment, part of which was
a Fourth of July stunt program.
Mrs. Villard On Ship
“Another interesting passenger was
Mrs. Henry Villard, wife of Henry Vil
lard, who made a large gift of money
to the University at a critical period in
its early days, and for whom Villard
hall is named. Mrs. Villard is the
daughted of William Lloyd Garrison,
and is herself a reformer. She is a
very beautiful, white haired lady, and
a good speaker. She was taking a party
of membrs of a New York peace society,
of which she is prescient, to attend the
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Teachers Over State
Fifteen hundred miles is the distance
Earl Kilpatrick of the extension di
vision has traveled in the sta’te of Ore
gon in the past two weeks. He re
turned to the campus on Sunday. Mr.
Kilpatrick made 18 speeches, mainly
before Teachers ’ Institutes of the dif
ferent counties. His itinerary included
Astoria, Tillamook, Klamath Falls,
Lakeview, and Malin.
Mr. Kilpatrick met and talked with
a number of Oregon alumni and former
students who are teaching or engaged in
business at the Various places he visi
ted.
Fifteen of the talks he gave were
to the Teachers’ Institutes. Mr. Kil
patrick spoke also before the Chamber
of Commerce at Astoria and at Klamath
Falls, his talk at the former place hav
ing to do with the University of Oregon,
and at the latter with the chamber of
commerce as an educational institution.
At Malin, on Klamath lake near the
California line, Mr. Kilpatrick talked
to a citizens ’ community meeting. A j
big Union high school has just been i
organized at Malin, and a 70,000 acre I
irrigation project is being carried out.
Mr. Kilpatrick talked about various
things of an educational nature at the
different county institutes, but always
told of the University correspondence
Btudv courses. The extension division
has had a number of letters since, from
teachers who became interested in the
work through these talks.
The trip from Klamath Lake back
through the Crater lake region Mr.
Kilpatrick made by automobile last
week-end. Because of the rain, the
Toads were rather bad, but his pariy
succeeded in making the trip in good
time. Near Crater lake snow was mixed
with the rain.
peace conference in Vienna,” said Miss
Burgess. “She spoke very pleasantly
of President and Mrs. Campbell, Miss
Camilla Leach, (art librarian) and
other of her friends on the campus.
“While I was in Paris,” Miss Bur
gess said,. “I enjoyed an Oregon reun
ion. Lois Rosenberg, formerly a mem
ber of the faculty of the department
of architecture, Mrs. Rosenberg, and
Melvin Solve met me there. We had
a most enjoyable time sight-seeing to
gether.”
Miss Burgess sailed from New York
June 30, on the Leopoldina and re
turned on the Aquitania, reaching New
York September 9, twenty-four hours
ahead of schedule time.
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