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Show t PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION. UTAH Daddy's ?dEveiii$ Tale fairy yAARY GRAHAM BONNER cofiiiOMt it vmttN Ntvwitta omiom- - THE SICK DEER You are the most beautiful fawn baby, said Mrs. Deer to the llttlrf deer who had been In the world so short a time. Mrs. Deer was often called Mrs. Doe, which was her regular name, and the baby deer was usually called the fawn. But Mrs. Poe, or Mother Deer, called the baby deer her beautiful one and her "precious child. When the fawn had first come Into the world Mother Deer had refused to let anyone else touch her baby. She must care for him and see that he was looked after In Just the way she thought best. And she was his mother. She knew best. She would see that he was looked after all right. Now the keeper knew this was the way of a mother deer whether In the zoo or free. If anyone else touched her baby first she was apt to disown him. Her baby must be hers entirely for a little while. Then the keeper could bring him food and look after hint and the daddy deer could admire hint. For the daddies In the deer families like their young. So many oT the daddies in the animal world do not like the little ones when they are really small. They wait until they grow older to notice them. But not so with the daddies In the deer family. One day, though, the little deer caught a cold. It was one of those unavoidable accidents that sometimes happen. Certainly Mother Deer had taken the best of loving nnd watchful care of her baby. But sometimes these things will happen. Just how the little fawn had caught his cold, poor mother deer did not know. But his head was hot and his eyes seemed larger than ever and he peemod to be so afraid, so dreadfully By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN MERICAN FOREST WEEK this year of 192G will be April according to proclamation by President Coolidge. This week is not intended to do away with the observance of Arbor Day in the several states. Its purpose Is to see that the menace of onr vanishing forests Is brought home to the American people by nationwide observance during that week of the spirit of Arbor Day by educational programs, by demonstra18-2- tions and Arbor Day Is being increasingly observed In various parts of the country, but has little legal standing and its observance is a hodge-podge- , just as Is that of many of our holidays. In fact, the standing of Arbor Day ns a holiday emphasizes the curious state of affairs that obtains In the nation as to holidays. Congress has passed no laws establishing holidays for the whole country, with the exception that it has designated the second Sunday In May as Mothers Day. It has made Labor Day a holiday In the District of Columbia. President Wilson Issued a proclamation May 30, 1916, requesting that une 14, the anniversary of the day oq which the Flag was adopted by congress, be observed as Flag Day throughout the nation. So, when everything in the way of business stops on Christmas, New Years and Independence Days It is because of general custom and not because of congressional legislation. Beyond this The legality of a holiday, everything is a mix-up- . in whole or in part, seems to be largely a question of geography state laws having wide divergence. Illinois offers a fair example. Its legal holidays have been established by the legislature, largely through laws affecting negotiable instruments. New Years Day, Christmas Day, July Fourth and Sundays have been accepted as legal holidays since the beginning of the states history (1818). Thanksgiving Day proclamation by the President of the United States and by the governor of Illinois has been regularly observed since 1863, the year of Abraham Lincolns first proclamation. Election Day was first observed as a holiday in 1872 and was later limited to elections at which members of the legislature were chosen. Following are the dates on which Rllnois legislative acts creating legal holidays since 1881 were approved : Washingtons Birthday, May 30, 1881 ; Memorial Day, May 30, 1S81 ; Labor Day, June 17, 1891 ; Lincolns Birthday, June 17, 1891; Saturday afternoons in cities of 200,000 or more population, May 13, 1905; Columbus Day, May 10, 1909; Mothers Day, May 8, 1914; Indian Day, June 21, 1919 ; Armistice Day, June 24, 1921. Nevertheless, organized labor, which does no work on Labor Day, works on Washingtons Birthday, Lincolns Birthday, Armistice Day, etc. And so on. Arbor Day in Blinois is supposedly appointed comes on the third by the governor. It usually northern in the part of the state Friday of April and on the fourth Friday of October in the southtree-plantin- ern part. Arbor Day In most of the states is at least In Is one theory appointed by the governor. Kansas state that has fixed Arbor Day by statute. Its date Is October 12. This Is because Kansas was a treeImless state and Arbor Day was considered a Arbor has Day also given portant Nebraska fixed date, April 22 ; that was out of compliment to Julius S. Morton of that state who was secretary cabof agriculture in the Cleveland and McKinley obthe in influential promoting inets and was servance of the day. Utah is the third state to 15 treehave a fixed date for Arbor Day, April in the early days of the essential was planting settlement of that state and the Mormons made rose. the desert blossom like the So Arbor Day is scattered all over the calendar. in FebIt comes as early as asthe firstas Monday the first Friday late and Arizona In ruary which has a in December in Georgia. Colorado, of Arizona, that usually like deal a climate good observes the third Friday in April. And heres another angle to the observance of than Arbor Day ; The fall is a much better season trees. of kinds of many the for planting the spring For this reason a number of states areg getting into the way of having an additional time of several days In the fall; the occasion is to local Interest. It entirely unofficial and is due of Is evident, therefore, that the observance of matter a is largely In country the Arbor Day locality. American Forest Week was until last year tree-plantin- called Forest Protection Week. Its main purpose was the protection of our national forests and forests in general against fire. Its program was directed by the United States Forest Service, the bureau of the United States Agricultural Department which has charge of the national forests. But the forestry problem is now of national importance, with many phases and ramifications. So last year at a meeting In Chicago of representatives of many of the interests concerned in this forestry problem the week was renamed the American Forest Week nnd its scope greatly widened. Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, presided. Mr. Lowden explained that public interest in forest restoration nnd protection had now become so general and insistent that it was necessary to broaden the designation of what had been Forest Protection week. The interest of the people in the forests, is fur more than that of protecting them from fires, fundamental as such protection Is. It is that of national welfare, resting on the indispensability of wood In industry and commerce, and the importance of forests in stream control, Irrigation, general agriculture, prevention of erosion, recreation and climatic effects. Viewed in this light, American Forest Week has an appeal in the treeless regions as well as in the forest country, and the changes in public policy that must be made if the forests are to be perpetuated must proceed from a universally formed public opinion. He further pointed out that now that economic changes are beginning to make forest perpetuation profitable and therefore possible to private owners, a public movement in the interests of forestry has become practicable. Such a movement, he said, was also necessary to formulate and apply a great, latent public opinion in favor of a definite forestry policy for the nation. Mr. Lowden was elected permanent chairman of a directing committee of approximately 100 organizations more or less affiliated In forestry and conservation matters. Five vice chairmen were named to assist Mr. Lowden, viz; Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman of Colorado, president of the General Federation of Womens Clubs ; Frank G. Wis-neMississippi, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers association; Will Dilg, Chicago, president of the Izaak Walton league; William B. Greeley, California, chief of the United States forest service ; George D. Pratt, New York, president of the American Forestry association. Headquarters for the committee will be in Washington with Edgar P. Allen, director, In charge and Miller Hamilton, secretary. Former Governor Lowden is a leader in the movement among the farmers of the country. He Is also a practical dirt farmer." He practices what he preaches in the way of forestry and has set out thousands of pine trees in barren spots on his big Illinois farm. No man holds good enough title to any acre of land, he declares, to leave it in a less fruitful condition than when he got it Mrs. Sherman represents a body of organized club women with a nation-wid- e membership of about 3,000,000. It is probably the most powerful organization in the country today. For more than a generation the General Federation has been an active promoter of Arbor Day and all that it stands for. Mr. Dilg is a leader In the Izaak Walton League which was largely Instrumental In the establishment of the fish and game reservations along the Upper Mississippi and has purchased large tracts in the Jackson Hole region for the winter relief of the Yellowstone elk herds. Local American Forest Week committees are now at work in all parts of the country on the plans of observance. It is expected that through the programs being arranged every community will be deeply stirred during American Forest Week to an appreciation of the dimensions and urgency of the nations forest problems, such as protection from fire and destructive taxation, reforestation, extension of forest areas, utilization of the forests for recreational and industrial purposes, and the creation of conditions promotive instead of deterrent of forest maintenance. r, a dry powder in white and lints. Packed in packages, ready (or use by mixing with cold or warm water. Full directions on every package. Apply with an ordinary wall brush. Suitable (or all interior surfaces plaster, wall board, brick, cement, or canvas. instead of Kalsomine orWaUPaper Ask your dealer (or Alabastine colorcard or write Miss Ruby Brandon, the Alabastine Com pany, Grand Rapids, Michigan. v yn T a I. , nyp I, Enough Said Why don't you like motoring with Bill Sparks, Mugglo? I aint no lap robe, Mnyme! v rryyi"r" wr : . ' - v . tv5 Vi a v i ''v ? i j a 'rs- i M: lit mm President Coolidge, In his American Forest Week proclamation, called attention to the fact that the Canadinn government has set apart the snino week for the same purpose. This, he said, is an added reason why our citizens should give care ful thought to a matter so important to both coun- f tries. Although warning that too long have we ns a nation consumed our forest wealth without nde quate provision for its wise utilization nnd renewal, the President noted that a gratifying change Is taking place In the attitude of our industries, our landowners and the American people toward our forests. The wise use of land, he continued, Is one of the main foundations of sound national economy. It is the corner stone of national thrift. The waste or misuse of natural resources cuts away the groundwork on which national prosperity is built. The pictures given herewith ore suggestive. No. 1 shows a bit of timber under scientific forestry; every farmers woodlot should look the same. Nos. 4 and 2 show n forest fire burning nnd what it leaves; in 1924 something like 29, OtX), 000 acres of forest were and it would take 300 years and $300, OtX). OtX) to replace their burned forests at the rate we are now doing reforestation. No. 3 is a glimpse of the Kaibab National forest on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon ; the deer are too numerous there and are eating up all the young growth in a struggle for existence. No. 5 of the fact that two men with is an object-lessoa saw can in a few minutes undo two or three centuries of nature's handiwork. Many powerful organizations are among those working to straighten out the forestry problem. The American Engineering Council, for example, in a national observance of Amerwill ican Forest Week, it was announced by the president of the council, Dean Dexter S. Kimball of Cornell university. The council, through its constituent societies, numbering more than six thousand engineers, Is carrying on nationwide efforts The to save the nations forest resources. engineers make this point, among others: Long before our coal supply is exhausted the price will have gone to a point which makes it practically Impossible to utilize It for heating our homes. When the coal supply has gone to a price which we cannot afford to pay, then we 6hall be more and more dependent upon our water supplies, and yet those water supplies are being destroyed. They are being destroyed because the forests, the tree growths on the watersheds, have been destroyed, and as a consequence the earth and matter that can flow with our floods is carried Into the streams. The silt is therefore filling up streams and reservoirs and destroying water power." The American Tree Association, of which Charles Lathrop Tack is president, is going an important work in getting individual citizens to plant trees. It has a large and rapidly increasing membership plant a tree, register it at the Washington headquarters and become a member; there are no dues. Mr. Pack has Just published the Forestry Primer, which will be sent for 3 cents for postage. The year 1928 marks the semicentennial of the first step in forestry of the federal government. The publication of the Forestry Primer is another step In the American Tree Associations campaign to get forestry facts before schools, clubs and civic organizations. The Forestry Primer, says Mr. Pack, aims not only to mark this date, but alms to direct the public opinion of tomorrow to the great Importance to our economic structure, of that corner stone of our countrys economio safety forests. fire-swe- n semi-centenni- al i Tuats wlsat The Keeper Watched Over Him. afraid of this great big world which sent a baby deer such a queer feeling in his bend nnd all through his aching limbs. Mother, mother, his eyes seemed to say, you won't let me leave you? Oh, mother, I love you so! "I want to be near you alivays. I love you, Mother Doe, darling, dear Mother Deer! The baby was old enough now so that the keeper came near him ami the mother was glad of the keepers help. Only when the baby lmd been very young had the keeper not been allowed near. It was no ones fault that the baby was 111 now not even the babys fault, no, no, indeed. When the keeper came around that day he found that the baby deer had suddenly become really quite 111. lie had taken a real chill and had a high fever. The keeper put bandages on Ids head and gave him something hot to drink. Then he saw that all the other animals were safe for the night. Back he came where the sick baby was by his mother. Ills eyes were begging her to save him and her eyes were looking at the keeper. Save my baby, save him, she moaned in talk which the keeper understood. I will, I will, the keeper said. All through that night, while the baby deer sometimes slept restlessly, and sometimes tossed about with the fever and the aches and pains, the keeper watched over him and nursed him, giving him medicines, and rubbing his tired limbs. I dont know, I dont know at all, Mother Doe, the keeper tried to tell her, but I am doing my best. And Mother Deer knew that he was. In the morning when the baby d. r took a turn for the better, and when in a few days he was well, the mother deer and the baby deer kissed the keeper, while their beautiful, happy, expressive eyes said: Thank you 1 Why She Asked The new vicar was coming to tn with the small girls mother, and the child waylaid him at the gate. Will you please see how many times you can run round the garden," she said, politely. 1 couldnt, my dear child, said the vicar. In surprised tones. But why do yon ask? Oh, merely ycu were so because long-winde- daddie y. said pillions ofwomen Iiavc done with Being uniform anddepensiatoie it never spoils in any oS theused gre&ients cn bafce day. H 1 3 I BEST BY TEST IGPO' Sales 2xa Times Those of Any Other Brand UONDKHFI L DISCOVERY Grass for Land. U. S. investigation says new grass will thrive on the worst; either hay or John Zawadke, Marlon, Montana. Al-kf- pas-lur- e. Suffer Dont Itching With Rashes UseCuticura Soap, Ointment, Taleom sold everywhere. Samplee free of Oetleera Leberaterlee, Dpt M. Malden, hul W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 14-19- 26. Girl Manages Plant Bampton, an English village, now electric light and has a lower plant organized and operated by a young woman, Miss Margaret Partridge, a comparatively recent graduate of a technical school. Catastrophe One hundred poets read their poems before a throng during a contest in Wales recently, but the prize was withheld because of poor quality of he effusions. |