Show AMERICAN FOREST WEEK american foiest pose it week a nation observance aser anc a now in its fifth year was given give ith is send end off march ith by president co lingern m the following proclamation in proclaiming sitting american forest n P week I 1 desire to in bring 1 to the be at of all our people the danger that comes from the neglect of our forests for several years the ration nation has fore forest a t protection week it is fite fitting ing that this observance be su an larad we have to freely spent the rich and magnificent gift that nature bestowed on us in our eagerness to use that gift we ha hae a stripped strapped out oui forests we have permitted fires to lav waste and devour them we b have bc c all to often destroys des troya it the young growth and the seed from which c h new forests forest might spring and though we already feel the first grip of timber limber shortage ue a b have ave barely begun to save and restore we have passed the pioneer stage stag and are no louger longer excusable excusably for con tinning this unwise dissipation of a great resource res ourse to the nation it means the lack afan of an elemental rece sity and the waste of keeping idle or only partly productive nearly one fourth of our soil to our forest us ris ing industries it means nue unstable table in vestments the depletion of forest capital a pital the disbanding of established enterprises and the decline of our min t important and lid grout groups ou our r f forests rests ought to be put to work and kept at work I 1 do not bot mm min junice tle tre obstacles obstacle that have to be met at or difficulty of changing old ideas deats and oil pm practices cices tices we must all put our a hands hand to the common task it is not enough ill that t the federal state and lo 10 local cal goern governments ments take the lead the there r a must be a change in our national attitude our maust ties lass our landowners our fai aimers raceS all our aliens must learn to tret treat our free forests at at as crops to be used but also to be renewed we must learn to tend our woodlands reds als is carefully as we tend our far farms in a let ns as appl epli to ill this a creati creatie 0 task the boundless energy and skill we have so an long spent in harvesting the free gifts of nat nature u re the forests of the future roust must be started today our children are tie pendent dependent P on our loters course ve A a are b bound dby by a so solemn lecla obligation from winch which aji no evasion and up no subterfuge will relieve us we me in fulfill ifill our at sacred ability to unborn or in generations unless wie we us ube wl with ill gratitude and with re in the generous and kindly gifts of if extra amne we shall prove 0 ourselves u unworthy guardians ot of a heritage we hold in trust now I 1 I 1 CALVIN COOLIDGE 0 11 LIDGE president Pret ident oi of the unit 1 ed I states antes do recommend that the G governors wants odthe of the various states doing nate and set apart the week of april 28 may 3 inclusive 1925 ds As amen can forest week and wherever whatever pt practicable I 1 his and ud not to conflict with state law or r accepted customs to coleb celebrate t arbor liay day with within that week aud d I 1 urge public officials p public alic and bulmes bubee associations in du leaders forest a ed ad I 1 tore educators and all liate patriotic mill aitse ci tse to units unite iti in the common task of 1 forest conservation and renewal IN WITNESS I 1 have bava hereunto set iet my hand and an caused the be heal of the united to be affixed I 1 done does in the city oi of fees jerst day of 0 february in the year ot of our lord one thousand 1 nine I hundred ad r ea and twenty pvc five and ot of the independence of the states of america the one a hundred and f forty try ninth S signed CALVIN COOLIDGE by the president elent signed bi gued pa HARLES 8 secretary 0 of f state |