Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — ARBOR DAY Will BE ON APRIL 17TH, 1914 [ARTICLE]

ARBOR DAY Will BE ON APRIL 17TH, 1914

Governor Ralston Urges State-Wide Observance by Planting Trees On This Day. Arbor Day is to be observed in Indiana on April 17th, when it is hoped that active interest will be taken, not only by school children, but by 'all civic and patriotic organizations, as well as by farmers, in planting trees and shrubbery on home grounds and along highways. Governor Ralston has shown his interest in this public movement by a proclamation, in which he says: “The state o<f Indiana was in its natural condition a forest of such varied magniflcence that i t h ad no superior in the whole country. Prom divers causes the wooded places have been decimated until they are threatened with practical destruction unless the people of the state come to the rescue with a systematic effort to stop'the useless waste and restore in some measure this valuable resource and multiform asset to the state. “Now, therefore, I, in obedience the law of the state and in recognition of the evils avoided and the benefits secured 'by this course do hereby designate Friday, April 17, 1914, as Indiana Arbor Day. Its careful observation by every public school in the state is directed under the law; and all other school®, colleges and universities are urged to co-operate by appropriate exercises in making the observance of this day universal. It is also requested that all municipal and county governments, women’s clubs, fraternal societies, commercial clubs and other organizations and individuals throughout the state show regard for the day and its beneficent purpose by planting trees and in such other way as may by them seem most promotive of this important cause.”