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Show PROGRESS 15 MADE OWfflSTlTIE Dr. E. G. Gowans Says He Would Like Replica of Head in All Schools. Impressed with the excellent results that G. H. Jack is getting in modeling the head of Lincoln for tho statue of the emancipator that the Utah sculptor is making at the eapitol, Dr. K. G. Gowans, state superintendent of public instruction, said yesterday that he would like to place a cast of the head in every public school .building in the state. The rough figure of the statue has been completed and Mr. Jack is now putting in long hours at working the clay into an impressive likeness of Lincoln. Lin-coln. He invited Dr. Gowans in yesterday yes-terday for an opinion of the head of the figure, which resulted in the superintendent su-perintendent 's remark that he would like to see a cast of the head in all the public school buildings. Mr. Jack informed in-formed him that the actual cost of making mak-ing such casts after the statue is completed com-pleted would be approximately $10 and that he would be glad to see the schools get casts at cost. Much work yet remains to be done on the head before it will be complete, says Mr. Jack, while all of the finer work on the rest of the figure remains to be completed. The statue will require re-quire more than another month of the sculptor's painstaking efforts. In the meantime, those who have subscribed sub-scribed toward Ihe fund for which Mr. Jack contracted to tlo the figure might do well to call at the sculptor's improvised impro-vised studio and note progress. Unless some of the subscriptions are paid soon, Mr. Jack says that he will have to discontinue dis-continue work on the Lincoln statue and turn his attention to other things. This he is loth to do and is anxious to finish fin-ish the work now. The sculptor is a native son of Utah and is especially desirous to get some of his work before the people of his own state. Because of this he offered, upon Dr. (rowans approval of the Lincoln Lin-coln head, to make casts at cost for as many school buildings as might ,be designated. |