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Show oo PLANT TREES FOR THE HEROES. An appealing suggesUon comes from David K. Houston, secretary of ajrxi-I ajrxi-I culture. Soon Arbor Day will be here and tha secretary would be phased to have a widespread planting of tree dedicated to those whose lives had been sacrificed to uphold the honor of America. "The observance of Arbor Day b-gan b-gan soon after tha Civil war," says Secretary Houston. "From the beginning it has had a civic rfiothe and an association of pa-trloUsm. pa-trloUsm. Another and greater war has come to its inevitable conclusion. The cause of righteousness, of liberty, of all thst Americans hold dear has pre-! pre-! vailed. We shall seek many ways to perpetuate the memory of those who imade the great sacrifice The memorials memor-ials win take many forms. The name of those who hava fallen will be per Ipetuated by costly monuments and ic scribed on enduring tablets. Great j works that aenre the needs of paaca I also will doubUesa be dedicated to them. "But along with ths memorials. w can easily discover ways in which we may simply and spontaneously pay our tribute to them. We can kaep fre.r. our memorv of what they gave: and we can perpetuate their names in fa miliar places. It has ben happllT suggested1 that we may do this by adorning with young treea. each name. for a fallen soldier, our waysides, our yards, and our pleasure places. And in most of our states Arbor Day is at hand. This year we may give to that day a meaning more profound, a purpose pur-pose more exalted, yet also an aanoelay Hon more personal. "1 conceive that, if the origin of the day be borne in mind, the invitation to our fellow citizens to Join In making U a day 'especially set apart and consecrated con-secrated for tree planting' may appropriately appro-priately come from this department. I take the liberty, therefore, of suggesting suggest-ing that you commend to the citizens of your state, and particularly to those in attendance upon its schools, such an J observance of Arbor day as will securo a widespread planting of trees, dedicated dedi-cated to those whose lives have been sacrificed in the great struggle to preserve pre-serve American rights and the civilization civili-zation of the world." Ogden has a number of fallen beroeq to be remembered and it would be an impressive ceremonial if the school children, on Arbor Day, as they planted, plant-ed, were to name a tree for each of the ;boys who made the supreme sacrifice. oo |