Arizona republican., 1904-02-06
ARBOR DAY EXERCISES
OratiOns and Treeplanting by the
 High School Classes.

The celebration of arbor day yes,er- day was much the same as that of oth- CT arbOr days. There was nothing go- ing on in amy of the public offices and there was no school. The High school planted the usual class trees with fit ting ceremony, introduces by music. There was an address by Dr. Lapsl " A. McAfee of the Presbyterian church, immediately followed by the tree planting.
 The setting out of each of the trees was attended by an oration by some member of the class. The senior ora- tion was a poem by Miss Susie Leon ard.
 Three times have we Seniors tried to
 rear
 By setting out with speeches drear. On Arbor Day. a little tree: To all the classes to come would bo monument to the class of 'O4, That is mighty and brilliant and many
 things more.
 But in spite of the water and wltchful
 care
 The janitor gave it. and natures dry
 air;
 In spite of the speeches and horseshoes,
 too,
 The trees for some reason never grew, Which worried this wonderful Senior
 class
 Till they finally decided to meet in Q
 mass.
 @ Twas quickly decided, after splitting
 a hair,
 That some mighty power must be
 brought to bear
 Upon this tree to make t grow And stand through eternity to throw kindly shade on the buzEing Of the freshmen coming-not in vain, For some day they will Seniors be. And lose their seats, the same as we. eve had read in the papers and mag
 azines, too.
 or how Jim Dumps more sunny grew. The papers said from using Force Which suggested to us happy course "ro prove what Force has done for
 Jim, Just read these lines regarding him: Jim Dumps was a most unfriendly man Who lived his life on the hermit plan. He'd never step for friendly smile. But trudged along in his moody style, HI Force one day was served to
 him
 Since then they call him Sunny Jim. . What better power could we have
 found
 To send this tree up out of the ground. To spread its branches up into the air. To stop the sunbeams coming there ? The earth Jim Dumps would make of
 him,
 But Force will make him Sunny Jim "So Force dear tree. we serve to thee. And may you grow and ever be The emblem Of our little band And the 'Force'that gave you the help
 ing hand.
 And the motto of this class shall be From now to all eternity, Though teachers frown and call us
 down,
 And we're driven to long for our heaL
 venly crown.
 Be Sunny"
 Leslie Mccarthy for the Juniors:
 Doubtless many of you have noticed that of all the trees planted in the last seven years few have lived. There are four causes for this: The janitor may have been at fault: the tree might have been dead in the first place: there might have been a mistake in plant ing them; or the fault might have been with the name. We all know that We have good careful janitor: we all know that the board would not have sent us dead trees: and as the classes themselves plant the trees. there could have been no mistake there.
 So after careful investigation we nave decided that the fault lay in the name, for what tree could live after It had found out that it had to live up to such names as William McKinley. Governor Brodie. Mark Smith, Adelyne SeeVersI and others. Having learned our lesson by this,~ we have chosen as godfather for out tree a Phoenix boy. one not transplanted, but one who has grown up with the town. He has passed through the grammer school With honors, on into the high school He IS a member of the Junior class and IS good example for our tree to fol- low. And so, oh tree, I christen thee Pete May you grow as he grows; may you stand as an example to other trees as he stands as an example to all men, And when we return to visit old scenes may you be here to welcome us and remind us of our class president ''
 Newton Levy for the Sophomores: AS this is my first offense, I hope you Will judge me leniently. Once again we have come out here, where ever since the custom was introduced into our schools, the classes have year. " come to plant their trees. If all these trees had lived We would now be stand ing under a young forest of ash trees Year after year the holes which were