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fTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, POKlXAXD, HLT 13, 1919. A I - j " J " - 14 - v . - - . i ' - - ' - U "7 - :,' V - " ' - i ' , ' 5 ' - - -) i i - I fai - Til mi i r -7' V' "Statiriqne," an ImaginatiTe Stndy of tha ' ; - . ; Fantastic " i " - ' , 1;.;; -4 ?- r.:-1 ; r'KJ - , .4:':" 1 "V ;V . - I " . J , - Vice-President Marehatt. f ' -l,m , X , : rv-JT .J 'XT -l . . r. jr v ?. f 'V" ' 'V - - ' Count Dya Tolstoy. y, ; . ' , : , ' . y ; Yk , if,. - - J- V Ill Hill II II, i - - n I" - I t Former Speaker Champ Clark. BT BjJTBABA CRATXK3X. Moise -Wainer-Dykaar PUSSIA mir bar bn mora debat d thaa any othr oountry in th V world, ttm rami HatlmenU and Vlratlona may hav baan regarded da npnml pnzxla but tbara haa beaa at bo tlma any traat dWaralty of opln tea aa to bar laatlacta for art. Roaalan patntara aad wrltara bar Ions bald vary hl(h plaea. Bar aealptur baa bean Sot leaa aotablo. A. Rnaataa aealptor lrbo baa aatab- Babod Mm If la Nt Tork and who aspraaaea tbo bop of winning a real knowladc of American Ufa, la Molse .walaar-Iykaar. Walnar-Dykaar aoema to bava made ratber poaltlT Impraealon la tbla Diutry aa aa artiat of mora than ordl ary Taraatlllty. Bla braadtb of sub ject la. lade, remarkable, kfoet men t reballloaa tmaclnatloa are likely to be limited to a bUarr. If net a freak lab, eatpat. Th Russian appears to pa from scbolarly Interpretations of portraiture to bisbly tmarlnatlve de vice wltb perfect eae and to aocom- aliab notahla results la botb fields. Coatraatlaa; Tbieiis Tbu yoo win so themes irk 3at triqoe." a sreat raiiety of purely fanci ful forma, and then find Champ Clark, or Vice-President Marshall. Judce Leon Sanders, or Hudson A head of striking" qualities la that of Count Dya Tolstoy, who rave the sculptor eight one-hour aitttnga. It cannot be doabted that the artist was ber working on a moat congenial sub ject. To a Russlaa tbo name of Tol stoy Is on to b revered and In Inter preting bla distinguished compatriot w alner-Dykaar worked wltb fruitful enthusiasm. Champ Clark wrote to the artiat In high praise of bla work. Hudson Uax fen was evea mora emphatic In acknowl edgment of the portrait faithfulness aa well aa the artistic force wltb which th dellneattona of the ttmou InTeator bad beaa Invested. People of dtatlncttT qualities quite naturally appeal to aa art let. Men like laoa Cobrtn. th Russian dramatist. Udt modeling that betrays a keen aaa of IntaUectual proportion. aereral times Vice-President Mar abaj bad posed for artists but Is said rr to bav felt satisfied. He la un derstood to have refused to sit for any-TiTi'"- "nt he yielded after seeing the work that was being done on Mr. Clark's bust. A committee of the library of con gress having passed upon It, the Mar shall bust In marble will stand at the senate and of the capltol among the figures of th vice-presidents of the United States. The Incident Illustrates a significant tact In the career of portrait artists, whether they work In clay or In paint. A mere theory of fame, or even a guar antee of faltbfulness. Is not so Import ant in luting a altter aa aa actual ex ample of work reflecting known fea tures. "A sculptor haa Just been doing a portrait of ma Come and take a look at It." Tbu. begins the test. To like th work, to find a visualisation that baa winning qualities botb aa to trans latlon and aa to style Is to be ripened for the process of sitting. Perbapa no one dreads that word "sitting" mora than the averag Amer lean. It sounds tremendously Inactive, especially aa the natural association Is wltb th seventy of the photographer's studio. But of course the painter and the sculptor do not require rigidity of In the case of the sculptor, who. If the subject chooses to change bis position. simply swings bis modeling stand and goes on with bis work; for the sculptor la working "la the round." He la not dependent on the way light falls. It is form that he is after. To accomplish the triumph of having the character ahlo through the created form that la bis chosen and very difficult task. Iasrraetln aisipllfled. nice lady la said to have asked Saint Gaudens. "Ia sculpture very dif ficultr -Not at all." said Saint Gaudens. "Al you have to do ia to take a piece of mar be 1 and a mallet and than chip off ail th marble you don't want." Most sculptors no longer work in clay, which haa to b kept moist until the work Is completed. The material now In common use is plasterllne, a me dium that la as pliable as putty, that kolda Its form Indefinitely and that la ready tor re-use attar th casting. The cast la of plaster of Paris, with which a mold la produced. From this mold a final cast of plaater may be made. By th same means a mold Is mads tor the easting In bronsa. Wainar-Dykaar was born In Vllna, Russia, la list. Hs is the eon of work ing people, and In common with four brothers and five sisters he bad to make his own way. His parents wished him to go Into the church, but th artist In him rebelled. Chance permit ted him to get a little art education at the ag of IT. Hs followed this up with other study and finally mad bis way to Paris, where he studied under Raoul Verlet. A figure of a peasant woman won his first recognition from the Salon, and a dream figure, a sym bolic creation In marble which he called "First Flowers," made a strong impres sion on the French art world. Thus bis progress has not been me teoric, but ratber haa been a steady up ward progress, a fact which gives to bis work a maturity and confidence particularly to be desired la sculpture that is to endure. Unlike a painter, a sculptor cannot expec. greatly to profit by artistic accident. "Tricks" avail him little. He must know form and see It, and in th translation b must pursue his task with full control of this knowl edge. Walner-Dykaar la a modernist wltb' out being In any sense aa extreme rad ical. He Is, Indeed, a conservative la his adherence to what be regards as the best Ideals of th classic. Modern Bern! p tar Change. Modern sculpture, perhaps mostly un der tha influence of the revolutionary Rodin, abandons the smooth technique of the older schools. Modern sculpture reserves the right of the painter aad the writer to give a personal touch to methods of expression, a touch corre sponding to the touch t the painter's brush. Some subjects may be inter preted with a smooth surface, others with a very rough surface, but the ef feet Is not supposed to be as of a sur face made from a mere mold. To get color" into his work this Is the sculp tor's new aim. Thus black hair will be so rendered aa to catch shadows aad give the effect of th darker texture. White hair will have smooth planea that glisten like th lighter surfaces In life. Tha same wltb clothes, or even complexions. It we take for example the coat of Champ Clark we shall see how much the rough, impressionistic treatment of the medium givea textural value to tha garb while at the same time (and this is th vital point) giving fieah contrast to th face. In th "Modern Sphinx" an unfin ished study of a girl's head, the sculp- Striking Work by the Russian Sculptor, Moise Wainer-Dykaar, Wlio Interprets Celebrities and Many Strange Dreams A Dream Figure, the First Flowers. Unfinished Study of "The Modern Sphinx." tor has pur symbolism In mind, the myatary In all personality plus that eternal mystery of sex of which men have talked since the beginning of tlma What painter or sculptor has not at least wished to express that mysteryT Countless devotees of art bar sought to express it. Perhaps those artists succeed best who put Into their trans- latloa qualitlea that leave th spectator fullest play to the vagaries of bis own imagination. - CONFESSIONS OF A TIN HAT RELATED IN ALL CONFIDENCE Battlav-Scamd Helmet Telia Story of Doughboy's Bravery and Love While Filhting Abroad. JC8T a fsw days before th Fourth ef July I know, because I can see th calendar below m on bis sis tar desk, rv beaa billettd on this pafl for quit a few days now and I must say ran quit comfortably situ ated. Next t bis bead, it'a th beat baervatioa post Iv struck, but I aa't help thinking bow different it ail ia from last year last Fourth of July, which was th first day be war tie I was a rookie than and aow I'm a veteraa. Of course I was given to him back bar In tha statea. with tb rest of his evereeaa equipment. I often wonder bow I happened to be singled out from among the thousands of my tie broth- era, to help protect the pluckiest, cheer fuieet boy ia the whole army. elU aa I waa saying, last Fourth f July I made my first publio appear ance. We had been training, tor sev eral weeks. In a camp In the southern part of France, aear Bordeaux, and on Independence day his outfit was among tnoe picked for a parade la that city. I doa't remember that h Boomed par ticularly oerlojed at the thought of parading, but 1 was. because It meant the beginning of m v career. Cntll I beard the news of that parade, I had bn led te believ my rblef function la- th A. K. V. was to be -Inspected. " I'll never forget that day la aWrdeaux. tvbea tb band struck up aad we first swung doer the avenue, there wasn't muck enthusiasm not as much aa we'd eiperted. but when they broke into th second tune, a French march, the crowds went wild. Only one since have I witnessed such an excited throng of onlookers and I can tell you. tt waa a thrilling moment for us tin derbies. Just oat of the bandbox, aa past anight ssjr Three days later we, were at "th front" aad my real work began. Males Camxldemoe Heeclvcd. It waa during those first tew days or real business that ha began to talk I to ma. On evening h waa squatting on the floor of bla dugout. The mail hadnt caught up wltb us yet there wasn't anything to do. aa tt was dark and lights were defendu. He held me ia his bsnd and looked at me thought fully. "It's ber birthday, tonight. Ui sis." he said slowly, and scarcely above a whisper so ths other fellows wouldn't hear. "I wonder If she's thinking of me?" I smiled to mysaif he said ha "wondered." but be really never doubted for a minute that aba waa. That waa th first time he called me "Lizzie." too, but he never told me why. I noticed in the months that followed that he only spoke to me when he was particularly blue or homesick. He wrote dandy letters bom. Of course from my vantaga point I could see everything. He had two kinds of letters ths ones he wrote to mother and sister and those he wrote to ber. For instance. In the first kind he would eloaa like this: "Don't worry about me. mother dear, 'cause I'm as safe as any one over here and when I come home m tell you how much Tve missed you" or "Tour letters are fine, sis. keep up the good work. Lots of love to all" but to her well he'd Juet say something different. I liked her lettera beet! Tea, I had my thrills. Lots of them. That hoi la my brlrnT Oh that's Just a little souvenir of the night k was nippe. Hed gone wltsr the liaison of ficer to the Infantry aa the N. C O- although be waa a private at the tlma and was sent back to the commanding ft teen 4m lltU matter of about five los wltb a message, Tha last mil of his way lay across open fields aad as the moon was shining he could be plainly seen by Jerry. He didn't seem to realise this, however, until machine gun bulleta began to fall within a couple of feet of blm aU around. He made a diva for a shell hoi about five yards away but Just as he reached it one of them made that hole In my brim, erased his eheek and aank Into bla shoulder. Tou see. it's a trick of Jer ry's to turn a machine gun on one man. like that. Message Is Delivered. My boy lay very still and I guess Jerry thought he'd "bumped blm off.' for he stopped firing ia our direction. Luckily for me, I stock tight wbea be feu. If I hadn't I probably never would have been bom wltb him now, even though hia name waa printed en my chin strap. No on would have thought to pick me up with blm aay more than they'd think of picking up a ladys bandksrehief la a railroad accident. Somehow, be managed to get "back wltb that message, vv hen they took him to th hospital a while later bis wound proved to be a alight on and after a few weeks we returned to bis outfit. That waa a happy day for me after hanging in a musty cubbyhole with the rest of his things, not know ing from one day to the next whether or not hed been sent to a base. I have a rather confused recollection of the next couple of months. W had long marches, during which I hung fastened to hia left shoulder meet ef the time A lot of the other fellows threw away their tin hats didn't want to be bothered with them on hikes and took ehancea of picking up others at the next front. Put my boy kept me and I did my best to be of service to him. When they'd stop for 10-mtnute rests along the road, it waa rather awkward sitting down with the pack on hia back because tt waa so long it would push up into his neck and be most uncom fortable, sa he discovered that by turn ing ma upside down and sitting on me the pack would hang over the edge of my brim. Sometime he used me aa a pillow. He'd apread a folded-up blanket on tha ground, put me. right side up, under one end and with an other blanket over him and bis bead' on me ba used to say ha could sleep "till the war's over" and In those days to say, "till the war's over" seemed like saying, "till th world oomea to an end. But, oh that wonderful day the 11th of November! We'd Just come through the hardest "push" of the whole wa: at least, what we saw of It and to have the tension let down so unex pectedly welll I thought my boy bad gone mad. He whirled me Into the air again and again, shouting "La guerre eat flni!" Once he kicked ma so bard I have the dent In my crown yet- thought he was angry with mo at first. but when I saw all the other boys oo- lag th same things I realized It must be Just some queer way boya have of expressing great Joy. I was glad, for once in my life; that I had no feelings. After dark they built a huge boon It was great! and th night before not even the light on th tip of a cigarette bad been seen anywhere. Then came our last hike togeth down the great, broad avenue of his home city. He wore bis little o. l. cap, but I was fastened to his left shoulder Just as I had been so many times when he tramped the roada of Franc. It was great to bear tha people abouting their welcome to the boys and to see their happy, excited faces, but I couldn't help feeling a bit sober, knowing that It was the last time rd ever bike wltb him. However. Just as his company was ordered to break ranks, something happened. Someene broke through the crowd on the curb and rushed toward him someone vary young and adorable. with Iluffy light hair. I didn't look to see what happened next. I didn't think it was fair to look Just then, but I heard him say one word "Teareat!" aad then I knew It was she! Last night aa he passed the desk he gave me a friendly tap and said. "Well. Llzsie. she and I are going to be mar ried next Friday." He looked around I to ae If anyone could hear, then con tinued. T s'pose It's silly and senti mental, but I'm going to see that you're stuck In some corner of that room so yon can see that wedding. After what we've been through together it Just wouldn't seem right not to have you in at the finish. How about it, old pal?" d If Td had a heart It would have stopped beating that moment, for par Joy. PULL OF EARTH'S SATELLITE ' RECOVERS GUN FROM OCEAN fThineff Eagineers Show Officers of American Warship Simple TJs of Lunar Energy. OW tb Chines as moon power to recover object lost overboard from ship ia shown in th fol lowing incident: . American warship lymg to a Chinese river lost one of its big guns overboard. How the accident happened it not a matter of record, but that has no thin a- to do with the story The gun lay half buried in th mud of the river bottom, aad ail attempts to fish it us proved fruitless. Then Chinaman came along and offered to undertake tha Job. The term were no pay unless he de livered tie goods. "Go ahead." said the officer In command incredulous, or course; for how could a Chinaman ac complish what Americans had found to be Impracticable r Th Chinaman brought half a dozen halnara and some tall "sheerlegs," which ha nlanted deeD in the muo. 1M anter- Ifls-s were nrovided with a substantial wooden float, which waa attached by rope to th gun. th water oemg oi no great depth. , . The next tide raised ins iiosi ells, mi with It the gun. Aiaue iasi at that height, timbers were placed be neath the float again, and yet again, so that each subsequent tide lifted it, and the gun along with it aa additional six feet. The process was continued until the gun was raised clear out oi tha water and placed on "the deck of the warship. Th Americas naval officer were as tonished. But it waa a very old idea from the Chinaman's viewpoint. For many eenturio they had been ac customed to us this method for li'fting huge stones required in the construc tion of docks and for other purposes. Given sheerlegs long enough and plenty of timbers, any submerged object, no raised by such means, not only out of water, but hundreds of feet into the air. What, after an, was tho secret of this "magic" . of th moon? Whence the oowerT Why. nothing could be more simple. The Chinamen who recovered the Ameri can warship's gun and placed it again on her deck were availing themselves of no earthly energy. They were em ploying the pull of th moon. Scientists explain that lunar energy Is developed in this way: As the earth revolves, the moon, by the attraction of its enormous mass 7J,OO,0O0,000.e0o tons), raises that part of the ocean nearest It to a height of about three feet, thus forming a wave that travels around the globe once In 14 hours. This wave is called the tide. To utilise the power ef the tides for the production of mechanical energy is a problem that has been much discussed and which, in a small way, may be said to have been measurably solved. Buoa being the case, it seems very odd that the method employed, undeniably suc cessful on a minor scale, ahould not have been developed on a large nd comprehensive plan. One might say, indeed, that the in vention in question was long ago an accomplished fact. For during many vears past there have been In operation along the New England coast, at points where the tidal inlets offered oppor tunity, flour mills and sawmill run literally by moon power. where such Jocal conditions exist It is an easy matter to dam the inlet, thus providing a reservoir Into wbloh the sea flows as the tide rises. On the ebb of the tide -the water is allowed to flow out through a gated opening, causing a wheel to revolve and driving the machinery that grinda th grata -or matter how big or bow heavy, could be isaw the lumber, in noma case the tides are mad to do work both going aad coming. To make this method efficient on a large seals it is necessary merely to conatruot reservoirs of great alxe, with) the requisite machinery, in places where hug bodies of water can be handled. Why has not this been undertaken? No. body knowa But at the present Urn so cable dispatches say) capital Is be- Ing enlisted for the purpose in England one scheme contemplated being that of damming the waters ef the river Dee. and equipping aa immense power plant with turbines and electric generators to furnish energy and distribute it for long distances over wires. Not merely inlets, but large estuaries; can. It Is claimed, be used in this way for tide storage and tha production of transmissible energy on an enormous scale. The little flour mill or sawmill of the New England coast that derive its power from the moon la properly to be regarded as a mere suggestion of th vast things practicable in the same line. Consider the gulf of California a great arm of the sea with a 12-foot rise and fall of tide. If a dam were built across it, say competent engi neers, it could be made to drive every mill, locomotive and street car on tha Pacific slope. At the northeast corner of the United States Is an arm of the sea called the bay of Fundy. There the moon geta in some very picturesque work. Its at traction piles up the water in the bay to such an extent that the latter rises and falls 20 feet twice In 24 hours. Engineers say that extensive reser voirs could be constructed for the re ception of some of this-water, which would snable it (in flowing out) to operate turbines. A small fraction of the power that thus goes to ' waste would suffice to run the machinery of all the factories on the Atlantic coast, operate all ths railroads and trolleys, llaht all the cities and heat all the houses and business buildings. It seems safe to predict that the next great epoch-making invention Incom parably more important to the future of mankind than the flying machine will furnish means for harnassing the moon, whereby that long IdTe satellite ay be compelled to Justify its exist ence by - working for the benefit of the earth's inhabitants.
