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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1921)
mm SEEKING 10 PROTECT FLOWERS Extermination of Wild Flora In Oregon to be Curbed. BEGIN STATE CAMPAIGN Motor Parties for to Plants, Says Botanist. The automobile'is helping to extermi nate the wild flowers of our state, ac cording to Prof. A. It. Hweetser. head of the department of botany in the Uni versity. who says that now, since auto mobiles are so numerous, a great many persons find it, possible to get out along tlie highways and into the country where they pick blossoms by the armful. By the time they return home, the flowers are wilted and are thrown away. Pro fessor Nweetser has initiated a campaign for the preservation of native flowers shrubs and trees of the state. Sweetser’s plan is to give a series of lectures in the schools and dubs throughout the state, through which he hopes to enlist the co-operation of everyone in saving Oregon’s hundreds of varieties of native plants. "Drastic regulations are not part of onr plan,” said Professor Sweetsor. "What we want is an understanding of the situation, and the co-operation of everyone. We may legislate all we like aud we can not stop the wholesale pick ing of our wild flowers,” he continued "unless people get. the spirit of the thing.” Annuals Not To Be Picked. Home visitors to the country go with the idea that picking the annuals is less harmful than picking the blossoms oi' shrubs. But, according to Mr. Sweet ser, we should be especially careful oi the annuals, because they depend each year on the seed scattered for their re production. “We are not urging that people refrain altogether from picking flowers,” said Professor Swectser, “but we aim espe cially at preserving them along the highways and in our parks.” Some sections in the east, according to Professor Swectser, have almost ex terminated many of their native flower* and shrubs by thoughtless and ruthless picking of the blossoms. We should learn a lesson from them, he said, and take measures to save our flowers while we still have many varieties. Varieties Become Fewer. “We may think we have flowers in’ very great abundance now,” continuer the professor of botany, “but a botanist in Portland has sent roe a list: of 50 wild flowers which used to he found growing in great profusion around Portland, some of which have entirel^-Vlisappaared. and others of which arc almost never found.” Professor Sweetser hopes to estab lish an Oregon chapter of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of Amer ica, which has several chapters in east ern states. The lectures of the cam paign are arranged through the exten sion division of the University. He lias already addressed ten botany classes in Portland high schools. Lectures urlTW* mg scheduled for other schools and clubs over the state, and leaflets will be sent out later. Several articles for pub lication being written by Professor Sweetser, will be released soon. STANFORD BEATS 0. A. C. Cardinals Outplay Oregon Aggies In Second Half; Score 32-19. Halo Alto. Calif., Jan. 20. (F. T: N. S.) Stanford won her first conference bas ketball game from O. A. C. Inst night 82 to 11) by outplaying her from the start. The score at the end of the first,half >'as close but. in the second period the Cardinals ran away from their oppon ents for a big margin. Mills and Rich-' mom! starred for the local team, Mills holding the high score while Richmond made a spectacular basket from the mkF die of the court. Stinson made the best showing for O. A. C. WANTED; THREE DATES; ♦ 'PAYS TO ADVERTISE” CLAIM ♦ Do Emerald want ads bring re- ♦ suits? 9 fhree young women would like ♦ to know. The following want ad ♦ "as mailed to the Emerald, with ♦ •be full payment enclosed in ♦ stamps: ^ Wanted: Three young men ♦ to escort three young ladies ♦ to tiie Frosh dee February ♦ "tth. Need not be handsome, ♦ but must be light on the feet. ♦ Freshmen accepted.-—X. Y. 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All of the equipment received will be placed in the military laboratory which is now under construction. The .‘17 millimeter gun and the Stokes mortar can .justly lie called by-products ot the late war. I’p to that time the •°>7 millimeter gun was rarely used and it was not until after the war had started that Stokes invented the mortar which now hears his name. The two guns are used as an auxil iary by the infantry, and according to the present plans of the war department each battalion will be equipped with one of each of the guns. The relief map will be used in the study of topography. It consists of eight sections each measuring four square feet. The field fortification set consists of miniature barbed wire entanglements, trenches .etc. It- will be studied prin cipally by the advanced course students. FRESHMEN AVOID CHEMISTRY. Freshman chemistry is somewhat di minished at the University of California, having been reduced from one thousand students Inst semester to about eight hundred this semester. MUCH CONSTRUCTION PLANNED. Michigan has her Union building, her stadium, has a new swimming pool and a new section to the stadium under way, and now plans to build a .$1,000,000 club house for the women students. TOLSTOI DEPICTS RUSSIAN CONDITIONS (Continued from Page 1). | a God? What was His Purpose? With ! liis characteristic energy and force. Tol stoi attacked this problem, and for a time | his life was beset by a slight melan choly. After a year of study he gave up the thought that the answer was to be' found in the orthodox church of Russia, and he began to study the people on their way to the meoeas of their different faiths. Here, said his son, he discovered the answer to his first groat question, and found his God within the heart of every man. To further adapt himself to this great study, he mastered both Greek and He brew. After two mouths of study with the former and three months with the latter, he was able to translate the new testament from the original. In the lit eral translation of this part of the blble, he became convinced that he found the true significance of the teachings of .Tesus Christ. Tolstoi a Reformer. Tolsfoi, exclaimed the count, is des tined to be remembered as a reformer and philosopher long after his works as a novelist have, been forgotten. Not only his great work in the betterment of the Russian school system gain him rec ognition, but liis philosophical doctrines, which are centuries in advance of the present age. In a humorous vein, anil with an odd smile, Count, Tolstoi told of his father’s first “fling at education.” The illus trious author, when a lad of 16. did not take kindly to “the sciences.” Although he attended three Russian universities his scholarship was considered disgrace ful, and it was once remarked that this man, who came to he the outstanding novelist of his day was “most deficient in the Russian language.” Children Educated by Parents. Speaking of his own life, Count Tolstoi told of its happiest period —- the time near the age of 17 which lie spent most ly with his father. Although the Tolstoi house from time to time had teachers from France, Germany anil Russia, the main work of the education of the chil dren was undertaken by Tolstoi and his wife. In his later years, the great author became irreconcilable to the stratifica tion of society. He believed it wrong that he should freely enjoy the privileges of a country gentleman whilst the peas ants labored. Consequently he set him self to tilling the soil and plying his trade of a shoemaker, though, ns his son re marked with a smile, "the people would rather read Tolstoi’s books than wear his shoes.” Toward the last, the great Russian cherished the ideal of living alone — in a strange land. Finally setting out to accomplish this purpose, he was taken sick on the way, and died despite the best of medical aid. Speaking in the spirit of his father, and adding to it his own hope and belief. Count. Tolstoi proclaimed it his hope and belief that some day, in the future all mankind, through the applications of the true principles of Christianity and the realization of the power of love will be come united into, nof a country, or a coalition of nations, but a United States of the World. *— ----* i The Campus Cynic | PICKIN' 'EM IN BOOGABOO. 1 To tbi' Kditor: i j In my search for that rare specimen, j tic Fillaloo bird. 1 have visited many , strange lauds, but uom* so interesting j perhaps as Boogttbon Island, one of the | South Seas group. I didn’t find the i Fillaloo h:rd. but my discovery there of the Mooshv.ah fly will, perhaps place me among the immortal mosquitologists of tlie age, if not of the century. Rut it is of the people of P.oogaboo that 1 wish to speak. They live, much after the fashion of Americans; but they have an added so cial institution known in their expressive and fluid language as “Bushwabh-hoose gows.” which, translated into American ese, means “brotherhood of regular guys, and kindred spirits.” At the age of 21 each male inhabitant of the island be comes eligible to one of these bush* wahh-hoosegows’, and is voted on by the members of that organization in secret session. If he is a sufficiently ‘kindred spirit,' he is accepted and is invited to live in their 'bushwahh' house, is given a miscellaneous assortment of cabalts ticall.v adorned hardware to wear on his 'wampus - kootchum’, which corresponds to our vest, and is taught; many useful social secrets, such as how to say our equivalent of 'hello' and ‘gladtomeeeha' in just the right toiie, and with the proper brisk inflection, and the proper pressure to put into the handclasp. It is a great and overwhelming honor to become a member of a ‘bushwahh-hoose gow' and this fact is impressed on every new member, who is told to go out and reap glory for his House, so that new ‘bushwahh” may bn manufactured and cast forth to the lay population and to rival Houses. >vnne i was on jtoogaDoo. my reputa tion being known there, I was made an honorary member of the Spread urn chapter, and came to know just what the requirements were for membership. ] remember one session in which thqj were discussing the merits of a fellow named Joel Kuobbyknoes, just turned 21. “I move we adopt Knobbyknees,” said a member. “He is a skookum set up chap, parts his hair in the middle, has a liquid tongue, and n good ‘line.’ I prophesy that he will gain honor, and thereby spread much ‘bushwahh’ for our House.” After a long, painful silence another When In a HURRY Wc are at your SERVICE Day and Night Call Phone 114 or 158 U.ofO.-Maxwell Jitneys SID WOODHOUSE Music Masters Eugene’s Dance Orchestra De Luxe Playing Latest Broadway Hits and Old Fashioned Dreamy Waltz’s TO-NITE Old ARMORY Bldg. member extricated himself from deep thought and spoke up plaintively. "1 don't know about that. He ain't soci able enough. The other day I offered him a drink of choice Hotievdew, just out of the cellar, and he refused said he didn’t indulge. Then I asked him to couie and throw stones with the iest of the boys and he declined, saying that he had to go and dig his dinner from the I dam bed-. And he doesn’t shake hands right. and he lacks table manners; he cracks marrow bones with his hands instead of using the hatchet provided therefor.” The argument raged at length, and finally this member hung up the vote.J and knobbykuees was left out iu the ' cold, as the expression goes. I5ut not long after thaft^Knobbykuees j unaided, captured a ferocious ring-tailed; monkey and immediately became the na-j tional hero. Instantly all the Houses clamorously bid for him. After some little hesitation he joined Spreadum chapter, much to the glory of that House. And. now. cracking marrow bones with the bare hands is quite the correct table j etiquette iu that House, and their sup ply of 'busliwahh' is indeed copious, and j fertile. E. J. IT. HONOR SYSTEM ADOPTED. Students iu the school of architectiirtl at Cornell University have voted unani mously to adopt the Honor System. This system as adopted includes simply the customary honor code. Rules arc. to be added later as needed. Phone 141 City Messenger Service Messengers 39 E. 7th J. C. GRANT, Mgr. Clean Wholesome Pure Call 343 for College Ice Cream Plain or Brick. Quick Service. Clean Wholesome Pure The University Company Presents SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDY The Two Gentlemen of Verona GUILD Theatre, U. of 0. Thursday and Saturday January 27 and 29, 1921 Tickets on sale at box of fice days of performance. FROSH TO PLAY FRANKLIN. The freshman basketball team will i play Franklin high school, of Portland, tomorrow afternon at four o’clock in the men’s gym. The schedule of games this year is quite heavy, and the first year men bave already won several games. I.ast week-end Uosoburg high school■ was} defeated in two games. NEW BOILER INSTALLED. A new Keeler water tube boiler has been installed in the University powet plant. This boiler will increase the ca pacity of the plant about 75 per cent. CHARLEY'S PLACE 982 Willamette Roasted Peanuts Mother’s Candy Buttered Popcorn 57 QUALITY DRYGOODS Phone E. MATLOCK’S > 60 9th St. QUALITY GROCERIES i Campus' A p Dnnrl Photographer 849 East 13th M.U.TCtJdU Phone 1393 Pictures That Please Do U Realize —That, the Oregana serves one of the best chicken dinners on Sun day that you can get. Plan now to have this statement proved Sunday. —AJso every day regular dinners are served at nominal prices, .lust a little better than the ordin ary. Oregana The STUDENTS SHOP After the week of work nothing is more pleasing than to get a well cooked meal served in a manner that pleases. Our past record is the reason that so many students eat their dinners \vith us. Osburn Hotel Our Confections „ j» _ : Every town has one place that is better known for its confections than any other.. In Eugene it is the Rainbow. ’ Candy made by our experts fresh daily, packed in boxes that are tasty—the result of a desire to satisfy a discriminating patronage. The RAINBOW H. BURGOYNE, Prop.
