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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1918)
HERE WE ARE" HIS STARS FROMCIPUS Chas. Warren, Author, Coaches Play and Chas. M. Runyon \ Arranges Music; Some Original. Snappy Songs, Clever Skits and Dancing Make Up Evening’s , Entertainment. With University people taking the leads, the musical extravaganza, "Here We Are,” is to be put on at the Tin gene theatre Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The play is under the direc tion of Charles It. Warren, the author, and Charles M. Kunyan, who wrote some of the music and arranged all of it. ,Snappy songs, dancing, and clever skits make up the evening’s entertain ment. Among the University people taking part are Curtiss Peterson, Melba Will iams, Lyle McCroskey, Itobert Cosgriff, Huth Montgomery, Jessie Garner, A~vo ,Simula, Thelma Stanton, Adah MeMur phey, Ituth Young, Helen Bracbt M.iu rice, and Dwight Wilson. Dress Rehearsal Held. The first dress rehearsal was held Sunday, and showed that there were great capabilities in both the play and the players. The plot of the main skit, from which the group takes its name, is laid at a country club. The opening scene deals with the return of an eloping couple and their 'reception by an irate papa. The second portrays the entertainment given at the club on Indies’ night, while the third is staged in the club rooms after the program. Tho Cast. The cast of the play is as follows: Wallace Gregg .Curtiss Peterson Velma .Melba Williams General Pontifaco de Casteline. .Lyle McCroikey Lord Langdon .Claire Keeney President of the Club..Robert Cosgriff Ronald Wilton .Charles Warren Miss Laura I)e Coursey. .Ruth Montgomery Erma .Bessie Evans Evans .Floyd Manville Ted ...Ed Nunn M.vrel .Jessie Garner Ritchie .Arvo .Simula Chorus—R. A. Brodie, Roy Curtis, Thelma Stanton, Helen Maurice, Lois Pixley, Adah McMurphey, Vera Fuller, Gladys Price, Mildred Moore, Carrie Ilarvey, Margaret Reynolds, Susie Stu art, Dwight Wilson, Arthur Ely, and Ruth Young. OFFICERS GO TO MEMORIAL Services for Franklin Leroy Pierce Held at Creswell. Captain Ray Couch, Lieutenant James Sheeby, Lieutenant Charles Comfort, Lieutenant Robert Cosgriff, Lieutenant Charles Crandall, and Rev. George H. Parkinson, battalion chaplain, represent ed the University battalion at the me morial services, held Sunday in Creswell for Franklin Leroy Pierce, member of the 20th engineers, company F, who was killed in the Tuscania disaster. Short addresses were given by Rev. Parkinson and Captain Couch. Rev. A. F. Green, pastor of the Creswell Methodist church, read the obituary. Pierce, who was 24 years old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pierce, of Cres well, enlisted last December. PI PHIS ENTERTAIN AT DINNER Eugene and Out of Town Girls Are Sunday Guests. Pi Bela Phi entertained at dinner Sun day. A color scheme of yellow was car ried out. A large centerpiece of daffo dils being used on the table. Guests were Margaret Fell, Esther Fell, Louise Odell, of Portland, Lois Thomas of Cottage Grove, Gladys Beals, of Tillamook, Mar ian Weiss, of Portland and Laura Rand, of .Salem. I_ Patronize the advertisers Help Win The War Save your money. Put it in a Bank. Every Dollar you keep in the Bank is working for Victory. Every Dollar you keep in your pocket or hide away is unpro ductive and idle. Buy Liberty Bonds witji your Dollars. Buy Savings Stamps with your Quarters. It will put men on the fir ing line and shorten the war. MAKE EVERY DOLLAR DO IT’S DUTY. Engene Clearing House Association FIRST NATIONAL BANK U. S. NATIONAL BANK BANK OF COMMERCE. EUGENE SAMPLE STORE The Store That Saves You Money Every Day in the Year. No Special Sales But Lower Prices Than Sale Prices at all Times. I Men’s Overalls, extra heavy. $1.30 Others 95o, $1 and $1.25. 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You Can Get Everything You Need AT — Eugene Gun Co. Art Hendershott, Mgr. 770 Willamette Street—Phone 151. All Kinds of Sporting Goods GOLF GOODS. TENNIS SUPPLIES. FINE SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON IS FOUND IN SPHAGNUM MOSS Prof. A. R. Sweetser Says Conference Decided Bog Growth Good for Use in Red Cross; Surveys for Specimens to Be Made in Oregon. “Sphagnum moss from the coast bogs of Oregon and Washington, is as fine a# any in the world for use as a sub stitute for cotton in making Red Cross pads,” said Professor A. R. Sweetser, head of the department of botany, yes terday on his return from the University of Washington, where he attended a con ference Saturday of men interested in investigating the sphagnum moss to be found on the coast. Or. H. J. Smith, authorized by the central office of the Red Cross to take charge of the sphagnum work in the United States, arrived Friday night from Washington, I). C., and New York, to attend the conference, and was en thusiastic over the specimens of moss which Professor Sweetser brought from the Siuslaw. "In his opinion, the moss bents anything on the coast and fulfills all conditions for the work,” said Pro fessor Sweetser. Now that botanists of the northwest are assured that their specimens of sphagnum show the moss here to be just the kind needed, the next problem is to find whether there is a sufficient supply to be used for Red Cross pur poses. To this end, Professor Sweetser and Professor II. P. Bnrss, head of the department at the University of Wash ington, will make a survey of the Ore gon const, Professor Sweetser taking the country south of the Siuslaw, and Professor Rarss, that north of the river. “We must have patriotic citizens to offer donations of moss from their bogs,” said Professor Sweetser. "Al ready we have received word from dif ferent people, saying that they have sphaghum moss on their land, and want ing to know how much they will be paid for it.” The plan at present is that tlie moss may be collected under the direction of the Junior Red Cross. “The idea is not to gather all kinds of moss," said Professor Sweetser. "Only one kind of moss, sphagnum, will do." The moss grows in a thick mat. Sphagnum moss has 20 times the ah sorbent power of cotton, its decomposi tion is slow, and it is cheaper than cot ton. Cotton is scarce, and may thus be released for other necessary pur poses. Dr. Smith brought with him a new kind of surgical pad, made from new materials, which is to be filled with the sphagnum moss. This pad overcomes the objections of the surgeons, says Pro fessor Sweetser, because it insures the moss staying inside the pad. The sur geon at first objected to the use of sphagnum, because there was the danger of small particles of the moss breaking off and working through the bandage into the wound. “One of the advantages of the moss found on the coast,” said Professor Sweetser, “is that it is not brittle, and dries quickly and may be readily used in making the bandages.” I)r. ,T. W. Ilotsou, northwest director of the sphagnum work, and a professor of botany at the University of Wash ington, has been experimenting with sphagnum, and women of the University and of Seattle, have been making dress ing there under his direction. “There are several light, airy rooms in which the women, who have volunteered their services, make the pads,” said Professor Sweetser. The work is being done under the direction of the University of Wash ington, and the bandages are turned over to the Red Cross. Dr. Hotson has been experimenting with the absorbent value of sphagnum, and will issue a bulleti nsoon on his investigations. Some one from the Uni versity of Washington will visit the Uni versity to instruct in the making of it. if found that there is enough sphagnum for the work in Oregon. Dr. Smith will he on the coast about a month, and may come to the Univer sity later. “1 feel immensely paid for the trip," said Professor Sweetser. “The results I obtained could never have come through correspondence.” Professor Sweetser plans to go to Randon and Murshfield to fill lecture engagements March 20. and will start his survey then. (Continued from page one) ask the student body nor the senior class this year for a gift for the build ing funds. It will seem odd, of course, at commencement, when the gifts are read, not to find them "among those present.” Hut. 1 realize that with our limited members and resources, we must work with singleness of purpose. COURTS WILL BE REPAIRED Tennis Grounds Near Hendricks Hall lo Be Put in Shape. The four tennis courts west of Hen dricks Hull are to be repaired so that they will he better than the cement courts, according ;o Miss Mabel Cum mings. head of the physical training de partment. The courts are to have a layer of rook dust put on top of finely crushed rock, and .will then be rolled with a motor roller which H. M. Fisher, super intendent of grounds, is repairing at present. “The rock dust has the advantage over sand in that it packs.” says Miss Cum mings. “The courts made in this way are not so hard on the feet as cement courts. At the University of Chicago, where tennis is very popular, all the co'urts are constructed in this manner.” POWERS ON RED CROSS TRIP Will Spend Week Visiting Central Ore gon Towns. Alfred Powers, assistant director of the extension division, ieft last Saturday night for Portland, where he held the first of a series of Red Cross meetings that will continue throughout this week. The towns Mr. Powers expects to visit on this trip are Portland, Bend, Prine ville, Madras. Redmond, The Dalles, Molalla. Mr. Powers will return to Eu geue next Sunday. Send the Emerald home SCHWER1MG AND LINDLEY BARBERS JUST AROUND THE CORNER ON NINTH. I.-P. NOTE BOOKS and FILLERS We have What You Want. UNIVERSITY PHARMACY. PHONE 229. COR. 11TH AND ALDER. OXFORDS FOR THE YOUNG LADY. IN DARK TAN (MAHOGANY.) SMART NEW MODEL BURDEN & GRAHAM 828 Willamette street. Charles M. Runyan offers The Comedy, Musical, Extravaganza HERE WE ARE By Charles R. Warren* NIFTY SONGS AND DANCES. A CLASS PLAY. 30 LOCAL PEOPLE IN THE CAST. NEXT WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY Eugene Theatre fi.7 Prices 50c, 75c. Box Seats $1.00. I I rill® 1 SEATS NOW ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE.