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Show "NATION WITHOUT TREES LIKE NATION WITHOUT CHILDREN" WASHINGTON, April 15. President Roosevelt made public today a message addressed "To the School Children of the United States," on the significance of the Arbor day. He advises them to celebrate cele-brate the day thoughtfully. The message says in part: "It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor day thoughtfully, for within with-in your lifetime the Nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older old-er generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thought, lessly destroyed; and because of that you will reproach us for what we have wasted. wast-ed. For the Nation, as for the man or woman and the boy or girl, the road to success Is the rlht use of what we have and the improvement of present opportunity. oppor-tunity. "A people without children would face a hopeless future: a country without trees Is almost as hopeless. A true forest Is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood, and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or to plant new ones, you are acting the part of good citizens." |