Show ARBOR DAV arbor da serves to relli remind hid us that the ho history of the country is a of Aar warfare fare on its forests we aro are planting an all acre of trees annually while fifty acres are laid bare by the ax and fire with thoughtless s freo or sheer agnor ignorance ance we have destroyed our forests with a recklessness that it if continued r century more will turn th the land into a desert waste I 1 Is S it fair fail to thus bring on future generations two to of tile lie greatest calamities calami that could befall them a scarcity of 0 fuel and want ot ol water let a halt ile be called upon this wanton devastation let arbor day be something more than an observance that begins at ai sunrise and ends at the close of lay day patriotism that exhausts itself in fourth of july ponder bell ringing and ana eloquence is not much let tile iho spirit of arbor day extend through tho the year binko tile the day s so joyous and so full of interest and pleasure that the children will look forward to 10 it as they do to christmas new years the fourth of july and thanksgiving tree planting tree culture and tree cultivation ifould be considered a matter of pride let tho the rewald bo be generous for choso who excel in ill things whereby the greatest possible good can call be accomplished with tho lie least pos possible effort children love flowers and trees rurally t if their love does not strengthen as 1 ey grow erow older it is eans s of fostering because they leave ha ve no and exercising it but the children of 0 a larger growth do not always alwais hilder understand stand the tree planting it is not for shade and beauty alone theat ahta trees tree should be preserved and increased the planting of a single row of trees lias has often had a perceptibly favorable effect upon the healthfulness of the community belts of trees planted in the community of pestilential marshes have rendered them no longor noxious to those living near them let us its plant trees |