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IE week of April 22 to 28 has been designated as American Forest week in a proclamation by President Coolidge, and all Americans are urged to do their share in a proper observance of this week. It is noteworthy that among all the multifarious “weeks,” set aside for special observance by this group or that organization which has a special interest in having their particular week “observed,” American Forest week is the only

one to which the federal government has given recognition and support. For it is not a tool for advancing the views or serving the purposes of any special group or organization. It does not identify itfeelf with any particular program, but seeks to make better known certain essential facts about the forestry situation in this country and to promote dscussion of this problem from every angle. Being strictly educational in plan and purpose and seeking to serve the best interests of the whole people, it is one “week” which every American citizen can “observe” conscientiously and should observe as a part of his civic duty. The idea of devoting seven days, in the year to public education on forestry matters originated on the Pacific coast eight years ago. In 1921 President Harding issued the first proclamation winch brought the influence of the government behind the idea. When Calvin Coolidge became President he also gave nis sanction to the plan and he has issued a proclamation for American Forest week every year since that time. Many governors have also issued similar proclamations so that the movement is truly a nationwide one. At first the week was called Forest Protection week, but because of the magnitude of the forest problem. President Coolidge in 1925 enlarged the scope of the educational program and the more inclusive name of American Forest week was chosen. In recognition of the international scope of the forestry problem the authorities of the United States and Canada in 1926 jointly agreed that the week should be celebrated concurrently in the two countries. The Canadians call theirs ‘•Save the Forests week,” but its purpose and its observance is essentially the same as our American Forest week. The joint observance of the week.was continued last year, and, as President Coolidge points out in this year’s proclamation, our Canadian cousins have the dates April 22 to 28 marked in red on their calendars. American Forest week is an annual call to all citizens, young and old, to take part in bringing about better forest conditions, its purpose is to give opportunity for every form of interest in trees and forests to find expression, each in its own way. and its aim is that the general welfare of the nation in respect to forestry may be promoted by the taking of common counsel, the formation of intelligent public opinion and the .stimulation of actipn, individual and collective, under the impulse given by observance of the week. General supervision of plans for the week is under the direction of the American Forest week committee of which Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, is general chairman, and this committee is composed of representatives from nearly 100 organizations, representing every conceivable form of interest —the federal government, state governments, outdoor, wild life and recreational interests, foresters and forestry associations, the lumber industry, large consumers of forest products, organized labor, groups interested in the preservation of water resources, scientific and civic organizations, women’s organizations and a host of others. Outstanding among these in carrying on forestry’ educational work not only during the seven days of American Forest week, but during the 365 days of the year is the American Tree association, of which the veteran worker for forest preservation. Charles Lathrop Pack, is president. Although the forestry problem Is so extensive in all its ramifications and there are so many angles to the question ot how best to preserve this great natural resource and make it Increasingly valuable to the nation, the prime necessity, as President Coolidge emphasizes in this year’s proclamation, is the suppression of the fire hazard and the preservation of the forests which we already have even before steps can be taken for planning for the forests that are to be. Prevention of forest fires, especially unnecessary fires, fa the one virtually important plank in the national forestry platform. While it is true that the original forest resources of this continent were sadly depleted by wasteful lumbering metix

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Forest Week Proclamation FOR several years a special week has been set apart for public discussion of our forests and of what must be done to safeguard and restore them. Among the agencies making for progress in this direction, American Forest Week has proved its usefulness, and I am glad to proclaim it again and to announce that Canada is again concurrently observing a similar week. The rehabilitation of our forests demands first of all that the forest fire evil be suppressed. Many of our forested states, with the cooperation of timberland owners, have undertaken organized protection against forest fires; and in recent years, under the Clarke-McNary law, the federal government has given its support to the movement. This great cooperative enterprise must be extended and strengthened until every forested county in the United States is safeguarded against forest fires. But we are still far from the goal of complete protection. Every year, on the average, 80,000 fires scourge our woodlands, steadily undermining their vitality. For this bad situation, the blame falls equally on us all. Public agencies rarely provide adequate protection against fire, the timberland owner is too often indifferent to his property, the forest worker is too often neglectful of the future forest; the average citizen is too often careless with fire in the woods We must all gain such respect for the forest that its destruction through indifference or carelessness shall be unthinkable. We cannot permanently abuse our forests with impunity. The soil is the ultimate source of all our wealth and of life itself. One-fuorth of our American soil is best suited for forests. Much of this land is already idle. More of it is being made idle by destructive logging and fire. Yet we cannot safely permit our forest land to lie fallow and useless any more than we can permit our farms and factories to lie idle. To make our vast empire of forest land fully productive of continuous crops of timber will have momentous consequences in our national life. It wiH give agriculture the advantage of a new valuable crop. It will afford permanent employment to millions of men in the forest industries. It will provide raw materials for many industries. It will furnish traffic for our railroads. It will maintain foreign and domestic commerce. It will restore our forests as conservers of soil and water, and as givers of health and pleasure to our people. We already have made a beginning in forest renewal; but the task is stupendous, and we should permit no satisfaction over what has been done to blind us to the magnitude of what remains to be done. Now, therefore. I. Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate and set aside as American Forest Week the week beginning April 22 and ending April 28, in this year of 1928, I recommend to the governors of the various states that they also designate this week for special observance by all our people; and that where practicable and not in conflict with law or custom, Arbor Day be observed during the course of the same week. I urge that during that week all citizens and appropriate organizations—including public officials, legislators, business organizations, educators, editors, clergymen, landowners, and others—give thought to the preservation and wise use of our forests, to the end that energetic forest policies will be adopted in all communities. CALVIN COOLIDGE.

ods in the past, foresters estimate that more timber has fallen before the flames than before the ax. Modern lumbering methods, based upon an Intelligent understanding of future as well as present needs, have replaced the old extravagance, but the fire demon still exacts his dreadful toll and the acreage of forest land each year swept by forest fire is about twice the area cut over by logging operations. For this situation, for the 80,000 fires which, In the words of the President, “scourge our woodlands, steadily undermining their vitality,” the blame rests, as he says, upon every one of us. Insofar as we are Indifferent to our individual responsibility in improving conditions which will lessen the fire hazard. But most of all it rests upon the careless citizen who has the least right to go into the woods. But, important as prevention of forest fires is, it is not the only forestry need which the educational program of American Forest week points out. Another highly important one is the necessity to replace the forests which have been destroyed by fire or logging operations with new forests and the way to fill this need is summed up in the simple watchword of “Plant trees!” Os all the organizations united in promoting American Forest week, few have done more in furthering this constructive work than the American Tree association. As before stated, this association is on the job with its educational work every day in the year. Two years ago the association, to mark the semicentennial of the first step in forestry taken by the United States government, issued 100.000 copies of a Forestry Primer, a plain statement of

some days Is packed to capacity with representatives of every nation. A recent shuffling of potential citizens uncovered a ready wit In a young Hungarian. He had glibly answered the simpler questions put to him with respect to the make-up of the Union, but smiles creased the hardened visages of the examiners when he was asked: “What are the first ten amendments of the Constitution?” "They

are the bill of rights," the would-be American replied. To supplement the first question he was then asked how it was that they were known as the bill of rights. “Because Bill Wright wrote them.” came the unfaltering plyPostcard’s Long Voyage Joseph Costa, of Waitham, Mass., has received a postcard which he tossed overboard in a sealed bottle in mld-Atlantic while returning from his wedding trip to Italy in April, 1926.

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the forestry situation in this country, which was distributed to schools throughout the country. Since that time the demand for the primer has so increased that now more than two million copies have been distributed to schools, organizations, scout leaders and women’s clubs and it forms the basis for most of the American Forest week programs and special exercises. The association has also encouraged the planting of memorial groves and memorial trees aloug highways, dedicated to the memory of men who lost their lives in the World war. It has established a national honor roll in which such plantings are registered, as are trees planted in honor of various distinguished Americans. It has encouraged the planting of trees as a part of “city beautiful projects” of many municipalities and in many other ways has shown the individual citizen how he can have a part this Important undertaking of replacing our dwindling forests. But the esthetic and sentimental aspects of tree planting are not the only ones which the American Tree association has fostered. It has had its share, too. along with such agencies as the United States forestry service, state and city forestry departments and the schools of forestry in our universities, in taking into account the economic factor in forest conservation. It has encouraged the planting of trees as a producing and profitable crop which should be added to our national agriculture. It was this economic angle of the situation which President Coolidge refers to in his proclamation when he says. “To make our vast empire of forest land fully productive of continuous crops of timber will have momentous consequences in our national life. It will give agriculture the advantage of a new valuable crop. It will afford permanent employment to millions of men in the forest industries. It will provide raw materials for many industries. It will furnish traffic for our railroads. It will maintain foreign and domestic commerce. It will restore our forests as conservers of soil and water, and as givers of health and pleasure to our people.” In that last sentence the President touched upon one vitually important point in the forestry program—the planting of trees as conservers of soil and water and factors in flood control. The necessity for such control is more apparent now than ever before in view of the disastrous floods which swept the Mississippi valley and New England last year. How the planting of trees will help solve the problem is summed up by President Pack of the American Tree association in the following words: Flood waters of the Mississippi have directed the thought of the nation to means for preventing a similar disaster in the future. One of the agencies to that end is planting of the headwaters land of all streams flowing into this agricultural backbone of the nation to trees. But there is another flood menace that bears directly on the future economic leadership of the United States and that is the flood of population. The experts give figures showing our population is increasing at the rate of a million a year. This means a constantly increasing call on the forests for lumber. Forest products are the cornerstone of industry so let us do a twofold job in putting our millions of idle acres to work growing trees. They will help hold the water back and at the same time provide forests for the future. Planting of forests is the only phase of flood relief that will produce a revenue. All other measures will cost the taxpayers millions. Let us grow trees for a growing people. So In the light of all these facts it is apparent that American Forest week is one of the most important of the whole 52 In this year 1928. Time was when -the average American citizen was aware of such a thing as tree planting only on Arbor day and then only because he happened to hear his children talking about the Arbor day exercises in their schools. Arbor day Is still an important day in our national calendar, but since its aim is essentially the same as that of American Forest week its observance is gradually becoming—and appropriately so—merged in the observance of American Forest week.

The bottle was washed ashore on Great Inagua, an island in the British West Indies, fourteen months later, and the finder, complying with the request written on the card, mailed it to Costa. Lucky Has-Beens The Hungarians have a process for making a fair grade of cloth from bean pods. It Is a fine thing if a man can raise his own overcoats In his garden. A bas-bean is lucky.—Los Angeles Times

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♦f •♦••••••>•♦••• !••>»»»* Coffee THOSE Who have read the story about the Arabian horses who ate some strange plant, were stimulated, and who pranced and cavorted so that their master tried the plant himself and discovered coffee, will be annoyed, possibly, to learn that the tale is pure fiction, A majority of the legends concerning the discovery of coffee place that event in Arabia, but the first coffee was used in Abyssinia, the strange republic of the African highlands. and in that country only has the plant been proved to grow wild. Coffee has been used in Abyssinia from time immemorial, both as a curative and as a drink. But at. the time of the crusades it had not spread into the East. No records of the Crusaders mentions coffee in any form. The celebrated physician. Ebn Baithar, who left a record of his travels over the north of Africa and Syria In rhe Thirteenth century, made no mention sf coffee. Access to the sea from Abyssinia is by the east coast of Africa, not far from Aden, at the southern end ot the Red sea, so it is natural that Arabia and Egypt should have been the first countries outside Abyssinia to gain possession of coffee and begin its cultivation and use. It is practically beyond question that this was- the beginning and manner of its spread ’into the civilized world. Although coffee has been user! for centuries in Abyssinia, no proof exists that its cultivation is very ancient. The early Abyssitnans may have gathered it wild in the forests. Coffee was first introduced into Java, now generally connected with the name, in about IGtHr by the governor of the Dutch East Indies at Batavia. The Dutch also introduced coffee into America, which continent, thanks to Brazil, the West Indies and Central America, now raises far more of it than any other region in the world Spread of the coffee plaqj has been natural due re the fact that it grows abundantly on mountain sides and in poor soil, badly suited to the growth of most other crops of the region. -This fact, together with the almost universal appreciation of hot coffee as a beverage has changed millions of acres into very productive agricultural lands. There is no evidence to show that coffee is a native of the Dutch islands of the east with which its name has been so frequently connected. Mocha, also associated with the word coffee, is in Arabia, whither the plant was carried a good many hundred years ago from its African home in Abyssinia. • * • The Artichoke THE artichoke is not actually a distinct genus, but is a cultivated form of a plant called ‘'cardoon,” which is found wild in Madeira and the Canary islands, in parts of Morocco, and in sections of Spain, France and Italy.' This makes it definitely a species of Mediterranean basin origin. As an “artichoke,” the cardoon has not been found outside of gardens, although its cruder wild form is abundant. By an unusual freak of transplantation it has become naturalized on the pampas of South America and has flourished there to the extent of being troublesome. Ancient show little familiarity with the artichoke and its introduction into Italy, even, has been rather recent according to a writer by the name of Targioni, who declares, that it was carried from Naples to Florence in 1466. That the artichoke may have been deveolped in the gardens of Carthage, or at least of some north African country is indicated by the fact that the Berber tribes have distinct names for the artichoke and cardoon, which is taken to mean that the two forms have been distinguished by them over a very long period of time. Its cultivation in western Europe is admittedly recent, the first artichokes having been raised in England in 1458. whither they had probably been brought from Italy. The ancient Egyptians were probably unfamiliar with the artichoke, tn spite ofethe fact that in neighboring countries of north Africa it was a staple. Monument drawings which some have called artichokes are considered doubtful, and there is no ancient Egyptian name. Neither Is there a Hebrew name for this vegetable. Theophrastus wrote that it grew tn Sicily, as it does to this day, “but not in Greece.” When the artichoke was carried into Persia is a matter of mystery, but it was raised there before the Hindus of India took It up, as their name is one derived from the Persian word. Early Chinese authors make no mention of the plant. ’ Although the artichoke is in high favor as a table delicacy in most European countries, it is still relatively a rarity in American vegetable markets, and to thousands of people it Is a name rather than an actuality. Many who recognize its peculiar form when they see it in a booth have never tasted it Yet those whose taste for it has been developed class it as one of the true vegetable delicacies. (©. 1918. Western Newspaper Union.) Joyce Kilmer Honored The Joyce Kilmer public camp. 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