The Eugene guard., August 08, 1929, Image 4

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THE EUGEXE GTTABT-
BAXEM. Or. An. 8. OP) Pe
talU Concrninc th hearing to be bold
August -i btnor tbt) fate reclama
tion com minion and a ripretiPniatiTe
of tba federal power cninnifMion on
tha application of the Nortliweit
Power company for power richta on
the North Bandana river and Marion
lake haTa been received from the I ni
ted Statea department of atcrirultiira.
Tha apnliMiHon f being prGtaafcu by
tba citiea of Bale in and Albany on
trounda that It Jeopardize! possible
zuturo uevcjupmant lur uiuuiciiu
water aupply.
Tba bearing will be heM In the of
fice of State Encinwr Hbea Luner,
P. H. I) mar, district engineer of the
United fitatea forest service, will at
toud the hearing aa a representative
of tba Federal Tower commission
with which the application of tha
Northweat Power company la on file.
Tha application la for a prelerat
ary permit, which, it granted, will be
followed by in ven tijt.it to nt as a bo sis
for actual development. Tha applica
tion proposes the construction of i
dam 85 feet hi(h on the North Hnn
tiam at a point 10 mllna east of De
troit, and the construction of a dnm
at tba outlot of Marlon lake for tbo
nurncse of creatine a atornsa reser
voir that wiJI raise the water Ivel of
the lake 70 feet
The exact Identity of the Northwest
Fewer romiisny naa never been ta
Tealed here.
ION SERVICE
Rer, John Maxell Adams, associate
pa a tor of Central l'mroytoriflii
Church, will be the speaker at the
Sunday evening union servlcea on
Aug. It at 7:30 o'clock at the First
Christian church. The sorrice Is one
St a eoriea apouaored by the Kugene
Ilnlaterinl union for the Hundny even
ings of July and August.
On Hundny evening, Ang. 18, Dr.
, P. E. Childera, pastor of the First
Christian church and president of the
Eugene Illhla university, will preach
in the Firat Mnthodlat church, and at
tha last union meeting Hundny even
ing. A uk. 25. Or. J. Franklin Hans.
pastor of tha First Methodist church,
Will proa cn
eh urea.
In Central Preahyterian
Man Arrested on
Statutory Charge
Oharlaa Pa Macon. 87. waa
tested lata Wednesday Afternoon
by
Deputy Bberirr iea Mown and lodged
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In the county Jeit pending lnYaatia:a
linn oi ft rname or committing ft
ajtatatory offeuse tuToWlng ft Ill-year
Id glrL
I Wftft taken at loiulnf ramp,
knd fare bis occupation that of
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1TO-E-I5TT HEHV1CI0 OARAOE
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Uppar left, Mr. Warrsn D. Smith, 1941 Unlvaralty (treat, who
waa i no Tirat American woman to nave an audience with tha king
of Cambodia. Uppar right, tha king, reproduced from picture Mra.
Smith obtained In tha French protectorate. Below, the royal alephanta,
whloh the king, true to hi promlae, aont to take her for a ride.
Mrs. Warren D. Smith is
First American Woman To
Visit King Of Cambodia
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By MAROARET PKAVfJAN
VVOUIU you like to know what
the king of 1'ambodift wearn? Or
vlalt bia burumT Ur ride on the royal
ilophanta?
Tha firat Amerlran woman to vlult
the olty of l'uumpeiib, Cambodia,
after It became an open port, the first
in nave an aunmnre Willi tha kini.
nd iirobably the onlv out to viiit thn
royal harem, li Mra. Warren 1). Hmith
of Kuicene. hltaring in. her atlvonture
wore Im-o other young women, who
llkewlae enjoyed a ride on tha royal
elephanta.
"lirfure I booked my paaenge for
r-nompenn, in caiiltal or I amlmdi.i,
T had never heard of It," anid Mra.
Smith, "eicept that I had a liaiy im
pression of mime comic opera bearing
auch a name. Hut the advtMiture came
about in this manner. In liNhl I was
Tinr In Man a. I had linen there fi,e
three yeara, and bad reached the point
where 1 deHired to see newer and
atranrer acenea. I had three weeks'
vacation and a trip to Japan, Hong
Kong or Uaitlilo seemed trite. A no
tire in the snipping news of a tramp
freighter aalling to Indo-Chlna for a
loud of rice attracted my attention,
and I resolved to have an Interview
with its captain."
Freighter la Found
Mrs. Rmlth, who waa Miss Phoebe
Klllsnn In those daya, saw the cap
tain, whom he found to be a plena
nnt Norwegian In charge of a boat
nlmva the average In equipment for
frHhtera, and with four staterooms
Although he had never taken pas
aeneors, he was willing to do ao.
"ltut," aald (be cnptuln. "you spoke
of lndo-(Jhina. This boat goes to
Innmpenh, t 'atnbodla.1'
"Whore and what." asked Misa El
lison, "is CamboiltaT"
"The captain explained, said Mra.
Smith, "that It was a small French
protectorate nnder a native king, silt -uated
up the Mekong rtrer about ISO
miltM hack from tha coast of jndo
Chlna. The Mekong rirer rises in
Thibet, and empties tntothe t'hinn
sea. It la south of Saigon, the capital
of French Imio-China. and almost di
rectly wart of Manila. It was entirelr
off the line of tourist travel. In thri,
It had only been made an open port
the first of that very month, and his
wna the first foreign vet-sol to take
out papers for that pflrt. No Amer
ican consul was located there. This
promised even more attraction than
Saigon, the port to which 1 bad sup
posed he was bound, for any tourist
could atop off there enroute from
Hong Kong to Hinnapore, 1 engaged
luusuge on the epot.
To Moated City
Two friends of Miss KIHtton, Miss
Jane Fair, now of ls Angeles, who
was then a stenographer for an in
ternational hanking corporation of
Mnuiia and 1'ekiug, and Mi is TihhetM
who waa teaching in Manila, were
prevailed upon the share the adven
ture. "i.eing a woman with a respect for
tha conventions, It waa necessary t
persuade a friend or two to share the
adventure." said Alra. Smith. "Ap.
cording to the then prevailing cus
tom, no ticket were nov-essnry ahoar.l
a freighter. One meretr ntiid his mat
of subsistence, which was usually
reckoned at a dollar a day, so it wna
not difficult to persuade two other
women, one with crnv heir to lend
dignity, to tnke auch an economical
trip, ar.rl tne next noon saw us n ltnar
out of Manila bay."
Four days directlv west across the
China , in which not a sail nor a
ripple was encountered, followed.
Dropping Ancnor
The ennt niii's own Chinese cook
more than looked out for our nhvniin)
needs, and we were in the mood to
keen sailing on Into (he went when
low lying snnd bilUi of the lndo-Chiim
coast raised their crests beyond out
bow, and In the late afternoon we
had dropped anchor in the little har
bor of isa i tit .lame, a emit II French
summer resort, where those who
sweated In the offices of the enpitnl
at Hiiigon, could get u slightly cooled
ocean breese,"
The pioneering nnmienaers went
ashore in the ship's boat, for it was
neressRry for the captain to get a
pilot for the river trln and for the
eook to take on freih supplies of
vegetables and fruits, chief of which
was the "msnrostpen."
'Little Saint James misht have
been a village in the heart of provin
cial France " said Mrs. Smith. "The
trim little houses w-.-c so neat and
proper and about the nubile square,
the French exildier in his blue coat
and baggy red trousers, lounged at the
little tables on tha xidewalk before
the cafes and sipped crenadJi. auu
lemon aquaan and oggiei tne siim na
tive girla. They stared in genuine
amazement at our approacn.
SteDDlna "Into tha Movies"
"it was aa though we had stepped
for a moment into a moving picture
bow and then buck again onto the
iiteamer, for in another hour ws vtw
slippiug past the yellow aand dunes of
tne coast, looaing tor one oi me many
mouths of the great Me king river, aa
we would nave to ancnor ouj. ior me
night if we could not find it before
the darkness should fall "
At tha wheal was an Anam pilot.
"in a business-like unakl Helmet,
white linen 'button-up,' and baggy
reddish-brown 'oilcloth tron
Bafely he piloted ua through the de
vious and awampy windings of the
lower reaches of the river, bordered
with nipa and mangrove.
"When we really entered the broad
course of the river proper, we drop
ped our pilot and proceeded on our
way. All the next day, it waa the
same tropical jungle witn an occasion
al briifht natch of native life when a
small thatched village showed itself
among the green on tne water s edge,
or a native email trader slipped by in
his dug-out.
"We passed one large white aide
wheeler river boat, carrying paasen
gers from Pnompenh to Baigon. and
as we approached Pnompenh, one gray
French gunboat. Late in the after
noon of tha aecond day we dropped
anchor, just off a high brick embalm
ment with many atepa leading to the
top.
Reaohlna the Capital
"It waa toward the end of the dry
saasou and the water was low. A little
fat French doctor came out in a fussy
motor boat, cave us a clean bill of
health, and took ns ashore with him.
Wa elimhed the Ion flight of steps
leading up the embankment, and were
in Pnompenh, if not absolutely the
first American tourists, at least the
first Amarican women tourists, ever
to set foot in the place."
The three American women were to
learn later from the kinp of Cambodia
thsfc two men from Chicago bad pre
ceded them, George Ade, and the car
toonist McCutcheon. who took a trip
around the world in 1008, which the
former celebrated In hia "Bui tan of
8ulu." L '
A rrencn noiei
A real French hotnl for the ac
commodation of the uundrcd or more
French civil servants, bankers, and
business men, faced the embankment,"
Mrs. Smith ssid. "In iront waa a
large balcony or terrace filled with
little toblea at which groups of
Frenchman In white linen sat sipping
their before-dinner drinks.
Oneninir from the balcony was tne
dining-room, and In the rear of the
room, at tha foot of a broad at air-:
war. the desk of Madame, the mana- I
ger of the hotel. She welcomed us aa
if we were friends coming for a visit
and marveled at the trip we nad
token. loiter when we were descend
ing the stairway for dinner, we saw !
Madame, the center of an eager group :
of questionera who melted awny upon j
our approacn ana we uccnme tun
scious that the arrival of the Ameri
can ladies was a seven days' wonder."
The next morning, armed with tneir
credentiata. which Included a letter
from Governor Cameron Forbes of
the Philippine islands, obtained for
Mrs. Kmttb througn me inena oi ner
fsmllv. Newton Gilbert, then vice-
governor of the Philippines, they call
ed upon the French Resident of Cam
bodia. The letter from the governor
had said that any favors bestowed up
on the visiting ladies would be appre
ciated by the Philippine government,
and the city waa immediately at their
disposal.
"When the Resident Inquired what
would be our pleasure," laughed Mrs.
Smith, 'we, being democratic Amer
icana, replied that an audience with
the native kirfg was our dearest wish.
It would be arranged for the mor
row. In the meantime, a French un-der-serretary
waa detniled aa our
guide for the dny, and a carriage, an
open two-horse Victoria, placed at
our disposal.
Visit to School
"Our first visit was to the school,
maintained by the native government,
but run by the French. There were
two French women teachers and a
half dofen men who were giving their
Iwst years and energies to the work.
The women were pathetically glad to
see us, for there were only a half j
dojen white women in the place.
First, although It was morning, we
were conducted into their own cool
shaded parlor, and warm champagne
and sweet cakes set before ns. We j
managed an animated conversation,
although they understood no English,
and I but little French.'
Mrs. Smith was able to draw many
comparisons between Cambodian
schools as she saw them, and those
in which she taught in the Philip
pine. "The buildings of the school were
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lonr one-story frame structures encir
cled by a gallery or porch onto which
each room opened, A couple of the
rooms were devoted to the girls, but
in th rr.s!n the studeius were little
boys, crowded Into the rooms In alt
manner of garments and distinctly
lacking -In cleanliness and careful at
tire which is an invariable part of the
school child in the Philippines.
"The Cambodian system wss almost
the rerersa of oar la the Philippines.
But few children seemed to have
passed beyond the primary stage and
the instruction waa entirely in the
native dialect, French being taught
merely as a culture language in the
much thinned out higher school. In
the Philippines Kngliah is drilled into
the child as the only language of ex
pression in the school room from the
frt grade up.
"There the. girls hold tbelr own
with the boys for the nominal Chris
ttanization of the Philippines has plac
ed the Filipino woman on a plane
considerably above that occupied by
any of her Malay sisters. There, too.
the children do not drop away in the
pImnry grades, but crowd into the
intermediate and high achool grades
aa well. Even the university which
tops the system Is feeling the pres
sure from below."
The American visitors found, how
ever, that the Cambodian achool waa
well equipped for manual training, and
older boys were learning carpentry,
bJacksmumng and tne luce. Voca
tional work for girla, however, was
in its infancy.
The elements of sewing were
taught to the little ghls, but they
were not carried to uie point wnere
they could make garmenta, learn em
broidery, or lace-making, all of which
a Filipino airl lenrns in her eariy
years, so that she Is able. to earn her
own living by her needle. The Cam
Indian woman seems to know little of
the use of the needle.
A Shopping Trtp
"After we left the school, we visits d
the shops of some of the native arti-
ns, gold end silver smithing predom
inating. There wss practically noth
ing produced for foreign or tourist
trade. The workers were making sil
ver and gold plates, bowls. Ditchers.
and heavy chains, elaborately carved,
tor use in tne temples.
A peculiarity of the gold work was
the large amount of copper used in
the alloy. There were also silk shops
where heavy pieces of silk, elaborate
ly Interwoven with gold and silver
thread were in readiness for priestly
robes, but again nothing for the mod
est tourist. In the brass shops, how
ever, we were sble to make fascinat
ing purchases. Many of the ordinary
utensils for the use of the noorer
people were Of brass and small howls,
boicn and trays could be bought for
next to nothing, as the venders had
had no previoua experience with tour
ists, and they asked the same price
from u h that they did from the noor
native."
The visit to the temples the next
morning was a revel in barbaric mag
nificence, in justtpsiticn to Oriental
squalor, for the American women
found that all the misery and unsiirhr-
liness of the Orient congregatea about
us temples.
i empie niagrmioent
'The mnin temples are encloaed hv
a huge wall which on the inside .
comes a covered promenade, the wall
itself being decorated with a con
tinuous succession of highly colored
wall paintings, embodying the history
of Cambodia and its many wars and
victories.
The temples themselves are In
the main of gleaming white marble
with many turrets and carved figures.
In sharp contrast to the white of the
temples were the bright yellow robea
of the Buddhist acolytes who were
lounging in large numbers, amokine;
cig&ieUes, but otherwise doing noth
ing. These aflel- Urn a )are sera
si tic class.
"Inside the largest temple, was a
more than life-sised sate of Buddha
in solid gold, with a huge diamond in
its forehead. Two bands which cross
ed the body were solidly encrusted
with diamonds and other brilliants. On
each side of this large imsge were
other images of gold, graduated in a
descending acale, to little images, not
v.r ii inches In height All were
covered with a wealth of jewels, and
an wore or tlie plre m.t.i
wood, gold lacquer, J
of the golden J? p J
"In front of this Pr"
Buddhas, were many Rolnu,
K"uir is conrainmc incen t i
other offerings. Offerin.r'A
twdriness were plentiful
and rich alike, pve to thli.
The floor of The temSJ"
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