Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Perhaps. [ARTICLE]

Perhaps.

’’Many property owners are preparing to trim their shade trees, and the beautification of the city will be the result,” says an optimistic paragrapher in the State Journal of Frankfort. Possibly, but not necessarily. When shade trees are trimmed the proverb that fools rush in where angels fear to tread is, too often, illustrated, —— Many owners of trees have not the slightest appreciation of the beauty of the structure, and proceed upon the theory that an elm or a maple will be all the better for the severe treatment under which the box hedge prospers. And many itinerant pruners work by the day and prove their valueby the litter of lopped branches they bring to the ground under the tree. Sad havoc is worked when the combination of ignorant owner and vandal prpner exposes to saw and shears the growth of years and the dignity that belongs to all unmutilated trees. And the Judicious often grieve without a hope of affecting the course of vandalism. —Louisville Courier-Journal.