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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1924)
W. Frank Purdy Is Detained by III Health TAFT’S WORK IS BEST Money to Bring Noted Artist Raised by Club The possibility that Lorado Taft, American sculptor, may visit the campus some time in May, is ex pressed in a letter from that sculp t r to Avard Fairbanks. W. Frank Purdy, director of the School of American sculpture, who was to have been here March 5 and 6 will be un able to come, according to informa tion received by Mr. Fairbanks. “Lorado Taft is considered by many the premeinent sculptor not only of America today, but of the world,” Mr. Fairbanks said, in speaking of Taft’s "Fountain of Time” at the Midway, Chicago, and his “Black Hawk,” to be seen at Oregon, Illi nois, on the Mississippi river. “The Fountain of Time” is one of the greatest monuments that the world has ever seen,” Mr. Fairbanks added. Purdy In Sanitarium Croat disappointment, has been ex pressedthat Mr. Purdy could not de liver his lectures on the campus as scheduled, but he is suffering from a nervous breakdown and is recuperat ing in a Massachusetts sanitarium be fore he has to “plunge into the solu tion of problems” at the school, at the same time “participating at the Brand Central Art galleries in what will probably be the most important art event of this decade in Now York City.” Lectures by Mr. Pnrdv had been arranged at Washington State col lege, Oregon Agricultural college, Stanford university, the University of Utah, and the chambers of com merce at Seaside and Baker, Oregon, as well ns at the University of Orer gon. lie has been for some time the manager of the Brand Central Cal ien' association and prominently con nected with the National Sculpture society, as woll ns other art activities in New York City. tunas unison uecentiy A sum of money to bring him to (lie campus was recently raised under the auspices of the Sculpture club on the campus by a modeling demon stration given in Villard hall by Mr. Fairbanks. At that time he made a three-foot replica of his “Doughboy,” statue of heroic size completed for the state of Tdalio. PUPILS TO HEAR DEBATE Astoria High School Installs Radio for Next Friday Evening Letters from A'ale and Astoria, Oregon, have been received by Dr. Dan K. Clark, of the University ex tension division, commenting on the radio debate which will take place Friday evening, February “!*. Mr. A. C. Strange, superintendent of Astoria schools, said in his let ter that a radio set will be installed in the Astoria high school for that evening in order that all students who wish to do so may listen to the debate. T CLASSIFIED ADsT j Minimum charge, 1 time, 2fic ; 2 time*, } 46e ; 8 times, 60c; 1 week, $1.20. Must 1 he limited to 6 lines ; over this limit S 6c per line. Phene 961, or leave copy | with Business office of Emerald, In j University Press. Office hours, 1 to ! 4 p. in. I’AY AIU.R IN AOVANCV ONLY -<>. For Rent—Room anil hoard for men students. 007 Hilvurd. Phono 7:‘7 !.. p 88-87 Lent — Jeweled Kappa Alpha Theta pin Please call 105(1 .1, Re ward offered. K 77 Be a Newspaper Correspondent With the lleaeoek Plan and earn a good income while learning; wo show you how; begin actual work at once; all or spare time; experi ence unnecessary; no canvassing; send for particulars. Ncwswrile.s Training Bureau, Buffalo, N. V. r-1.2-15 FORMER UNIVERSITY GIRL DESCRIBES TRAVELS IN CANAL ZONE Dorothy Reed on Y. W. C. A. Teaching Staff in Balboa; Extracts from Letters Given Dorothy “Billie” Reed, a former Oregon student, who is now teach ing in Balboa, Canal Zone, recently wrote of her travels to her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Reed^ of Port land, who sent the letters to the Emerald. Miss Reed spent her underclass years at Oregon and graduaated last summer from Mills college. While on the campus, Miss Reed majored in physical education. She was a member of Alpha Phi and Kwama. She is now teaching physical education in connection I with the Y. W. C. A. Following is the first installment of excerpts from her letters which the Emerald will print from time to time. “The trip down was heaven all the way; the old motor ship Drecht dyk was brand new and we had the advantages of all the newness. The crew were typical Hollanders and were politeness personified, even to the lowliest seaman. The cap tain took me under his wing and he was a perfect duck to me and did so many little things to make the trip a happy and enjoyable one. Consequently, we had an awfully good time and a very interesting one, as well. “The flying fish, the porpoises, whales, pelicans and great sea tur tles of the tropical seas were of constant interest, and every once in a while some one would rush to the side and call to you to see this or that, and it was great fun to ! watch the porpoises race with- the ship and see the old whales spout | regular fountains. “The full moon roso right over our bow and it seemed liko living [ in a story, for wo sailed right in j the silver path of the moon until I it was high over us. It was a per i feet night and the spoil of tropical I moon seemed very real. “The menus were a constant source of dlightful surprises—they ; served such things as sauerkraut I and weenies for breakfast, and cab bage and onions! 1 1 But they ! soon learned that wo were ./true' ; Americans, or at least used to American foods and so they changed somewhat. They always served the desert in the middle of the dinner, though, and one never knew quite what to expect after j that. “One night they brought in some j soup that looked most unusual, j Captain Dekker smiled at me and j urged me to try it, so try it I did. It was claret soup made from real I claret, and oh! such a surprise to f me. They gave mo a dinner party [the last night on board aftor we had dropped anchor in Palladia bay. ’ It was a true continental dinner, with the real sort of toasts, and was quite thrilling altogether. “Well, we sighted land about 4 o’clock Wednesday, and were in the waters of the bay about (i, just too late to get our clearance. There was a canal captain on board, though, who had been up for a four months vacation in the States and Remember Radio Boots Use Your Telephone Call 38 For a quick order of meat that you know will be the best, call us. We deliver. Eugene Packing Co. 675 Willamette lie naturally wanted to get liome to liis wife, so lie wirelessed the port captain and asked to have the doc tor come out so he could have per mission to go ashore. “About 8 o’clock the launch from the quarantine station came along side. They had to come out five miles to where we were anchored. | Tli doctor, customs and other offi I cials came aboard and gave us the ! practique and clearance. Captain I Nehls went ashore with them, but, j as I did not want to get into a ! strange place late at night, and not j knowing a thing about what was j before me, I stayed aboard. I “The next morning at 6, the pilot j came aboard and we started ahead. The night before the lights were beautiful, we could see Balboa, Ama dor, Panama City, the fortified islands and the leper colony lights just beginning to twinkle. There is no twilight here. When the sun sinks over the hills and into the At lantic, (it rises right out of the j Pacific here), darkness comes ' quickly and a dense blackness', too. | The lights of the channel, red on port and white on starboard, the flashing lights along the channel, and the passing ships all alight, the flying fish outlined with flashing and sparkling phosphorous—it made an indelible picture that I shall never forget. “Well, to go on with the morning , I landed. As we came in the chan nel we passed Fort Amador, the fortified islands, which are the three islands guarding the Pacific entrance to the canal, and are con nected by causeways made from the I diggings of the canal, the old | French wreckage abandoned on the i west shore of the channel, and half J covered with jungle growth, the old ' French docks rusted and worn, yet j still standing as a reminder of the first, attempts to work out the plan of the connecting waterway. “When we came opposite the Bal boa piers the pilot looked down from the bridge, his sun helmet and “whites” making him look like a man stepped right out of India, and he called, ‘ make the young lady ready to go over the side '—the young lady was ready. “I was the only one to land there and, as they had no cargo to discharge at Balboa, they did not even stop in the channel, as they would have had port charges to pay had they stopped. “With both boats, the agent’s launch, which came out to meet me, and the Drechtdyk going full speed ahead, they lowered my baggage and then I was ready to clamber over the side and down the swing ing pilot ladder, and just then the band on the U. S. 8. Rochester, the flagship of this harbor, struck up the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ and, of course, all proceedings stopped. It was almost too much for me, with the strangeness and the tug at FEDERAL RADIO SETS Myers Radio and Electric Service Phone 330 691 Willamette my heart of realizing that I was landing absolutely strange to all about me. I think I shall never have again such a genuine thrill at seeing the Stars and Stripes hoisted to the masthead, or hearing the national anthem as I did that I morning. "It was just 8 o ’clock, and they 1 play the anthem and hoist the j colors every morning at that time, so it was not for my benefit alone, I but it did give me a thrill to be ushered into a strange, foreign land with my own national hymn. “The ship had been reported Fri day, so there was no one expect ing me. The agent took me through the customs and started me out to the house. Jove, I was forlorn. I did not know what to ex pect ahc-ad of me, but was prepared for the worst. I got out to the house—no one was in sight, but finally I found Miss Jones, who is a friend of Miss Jeens, and came ; down to do volunteer work. She said I was not expected until-the following day and Miss Jeens had gone to camp, planning to come back tlie next day to meet me. | “Well, one of the girls living in the house took me under her wing and we went over to Panama City for a drive and some shopping. “I wish I might begin to describe the scenes that greeted me, the nar , row streets, most of them one way | streets, the ragged men and boys, ! the women in full skirts and coat like blouses, some of them wearing i|ueer bandanas on their heads I fashioned in somp turbin shape pe j culiar to their own tribe, the chil : dren naked and half naked running about the streets quite as naturally as if they never wore clothes at all, and some of them don’t I find, the awful living conditions, the filth and mess, the tropical air about the whole city, the old cathe drals with their crapked "walls and old bell towers, the great plazas with their palms and tropical foli I age—it is really a picture book in true life. The method of travel is in old coaches like old Victorias and it is fascinating to ride in them. The city is separated from Balboa only by one street, on the one side of Fourth of July avenue is Bal boa and across the street is Panama. BYRNE TO BE OREGONIAN CORRESPONDENT NEXT YEAR Leon Byrne, junior in the school of journalism, has been advised by Paul Kelty, news editor of the Portland Oregonian, that he has been selected to act as the Oregon ian's University of Oregon cor respondent for the school year 1924-5. This position is at present held by .John Piper, a senior in journalism. i Ray Graham’s ollegians Every Friday and Saturday Night at at a* Collegiate Ceil l e Dancing For reservations call Junior Seton or the Campa Shoppe. Unless requested, no tables held later than 9:30. “Mac”—The Old Reliables—“Jack” VARSITY BARBER SHOP 11 th and Alder Hair bobbing a specialty Red Cross Poison Oak Remedy Stops that burning and itching as soon as applied. MRS. WARNER DOUBLES PRIZE FDR BEST ESSAY Only One Contestant Enters; Deadline Set Is May 1 George Turnbull, professor of jour nalism, is beginning to suspect that money means little in the lives of students who write. . He said so yes terday. "Mr. Turnbull is chairman of a committee in charge of two essay cootests, prizes for which total $120. and thus far he said only one stu dent has unequivocally expressed a j determination to go after this money ' or any part of it. More than two weeks ago publicity was given to both of these contests, j Mrs. Murray Warner has doubled her | prize of last year for the best essay . on some topic calculated to promote j interest in the general subject of pro- , moting closer relations between the Pacific Coast of the United States and the countries of the Orient. This j prize was won last year by Ted Kur i ashige, law student, who wrote on j the power of the press to affect re lations between the countries facing TODAY LAST DAY to See MARY ALDEN HUNTLEY GORDON NORMA SHEARER WILBUR CRANE in ‘Pleasure Mad” A fascinating- picture with a powerful moral. Fox News Comedy ‘Stay Single” THE CASTLE Eugene’s only theater run ning continuous perform ances every day. one another across the Pacific. The other prize, amounting to $20, is offered annually by Philo Sherman Bennett of New Haven, Conn., for the best essay written by a student on some subject dealing with the principles of free government. This prize was won last year by Florence Walsh, journalism student, of Helena, Mont., who dealt with the weaknesses of marriage and divorce laws. “May 1, the deadline on these con tests, may sound like a long way off,” said Mr. Turnbull; “but really those who wish to compete should be start 1 ing work now. 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