Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-11-27
FOR BEAUTY
At KIWANIS


club on Wednesday, Attorney M
B. Olbrich. Madison, quoted Robert
Burns beautiful and immortal
lines ITO Mountain Daisy The
speaker is a. firm and enthusiastic
advocate of preserving the natural
beauties Of our landscape. He
said:
Where progress so-called results
in the obliteration Of a race, the
destruction Of a great natural mon
ument, or the crushing of noun
tain flower, the average attitude
Of those who profess to something
of fine feeling in the matter is that
the destruction of the beautiful in
nature is unfortunate but it cannot
be helped Your truly practical
man Of affairs looks upon this re-
greet as at best a pardonable eccen-
tricity, more often begrudging any
lament as a useless waste of time"
Mr.. Olbrich told of his returning
from Illinois with quantity Of po-
tatoes on the rear seat of the car
and on the floor a number of speci-
mems Of bloody-nose or blackened
trilliums and a few blue phlox in
full bloom, which he had gathered
on the woodland floor of the neigh
boring state. There was danger of
the potatoes damaging the plants
to which his companion said that
if either hould go out of the auto-
mobile it should be the flowers,
That is the attitude of most people
toward the delicate creations in the
outer world.
Testing everything from the
standpoint of utility" the speaker
said the ideal world of the average
man lis q continent subdivided by
a network of cement roads run
ming from city streets back to city
streets, through fields in geometric
pattern, in which every inch of ev-
cry acre must produce. Such a
landscape is surveyed with salts
faction, and settling back in the
cushions as he rolls along, he oozes
forth an adipose benediction on the
fat of the land, on fat hogs, bulky
beef big barns, and great fields Of
grain and corn" * 4 y
ITO grow roses on soil that might
produce potatoes is sacrilege
enough. With what a frosty and
cool deception therefore does he re
ceive the suggestin modestly made
that perhaps the thistle has its
beauty if placed in the proper
scheme of things. Subdiyided man
kind according to the symbol of the
potato, the rose and the thistle, and
the vast majority march under the
flag Of the potato, a small minority
rally to the banner of the rose, and
mere lonesome often laughted at
handful surrounds the standard of
the thistle and the daisy"
The speaker commented upon the
biting epigram of George Bernard
Shaw: "Civilization first teaches the
savage to wear pants and then picks
his pockets
The following lines from Liberty
Baileys prophecy is favorite with
Mr. Olbrich
Some day it will be expected
that every able persons will report
himself, for definite service, with
out pay, in one or more of the fol
lowing privileges:
|. To clean up the earth and keep
it sweet.
2. To take part in the construc-
ton of halls and premises for com
munity activities.
3. TO aid in the making of beau.
tiful and public places accessible
and to protect them.
4. To demand the freedom of the
earth for its inhabitants.
We must have the open door to
fields and shares, to commanding
hills; find trails and walks, and av-
enues to places that people ought
to know The public shall know
all good places"
More Land for State Parks
The speaker was very enthusiasts
tic for more land for Devils lake
State park He said at least 1900
acres should be purchaed and that
the Kinwanis club should use its
influence towards securing addit
ional acreage. He closed with the
following adapted quotation from
Henry w Grady:
Il shall teach my children to love
Wisconsin, to love the soil that
they stand on,-the body of their
mother, the hills that are her spring
ing breasts, the broad acres thai
hold her substance, the dimplinS
valleys in which he beauties rest