Show rif ANNIVE HARY DAY TO III FOREE FOREST ST protection ach WEEK K AND GOLDEN anniversary OF ARDOR artill DAY 1922 nv till ov or THE UN STATES OP AMERICA A proclamation WHEREAS WHERE AS tile tho protection all and per petua tion of our forests aro are vital to our continued industrial welfare and nat tonal strength and to our individual health comfort and prosperity and WHEREAS a period of 11 clity yeara year has passed since tit in april 1872 there was instituted in ill tile tho state of nebraska observance of a lay day especially set apart and consecrated for treo free planting and known its as arbor day and WHEREAS both through widespread annual celebration of arbor day and through the increasing of observance of forest protection week public attention lias has boon been common dably directed to tile the value alue of trees tho the unnecessary waste of our diminishing forests through proven preventable table ires fires tile the devIo deplorable rable effects of forest devastation and ill tho need tor for remedial men measures against depletion of nil an essential natural resource loso urco 1 I WARREN IN 0 HARDING president of tile the united ad states do urge upon tha governors of tile tho various states to designata des Ignato ind ana set apart the week ot of april 15 1 22 1922 as forest protection week anil tile tho last day of that thai week april 22 as tile the golden anniversary of arbor day and to request officers of public instruction of counties cities and towns anti and of civic and commercial organizations to unite in III thought and action for tile tho preservation of our common heritage hoi unfit by planning educational and instructive as shall rank iring before tho the people the effects of tile present vasto by bv forest fatna anti and the need of individual and collective effort to coll conserve the forests and increase our tree growth for ornament us tn IN I 1 hart leavo hereunto sol set wy my hand band and thu the seal of tho the united states to by be allix alliati tI DONE at the alt city of i wa washington ingwoll this lay day of march in fit tile tho year 0 ofir clotil ono thousand little hundred lium lied anil and twenty two and of the Inde olice of tile tho united states of Ai tim ino one hundred anti and folly sixth a HAll DINd |