Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-04-26
Arbor Day PROCLAIM alton.

In accordance with the custom Gov.
John A. Mead has issued the following
proclamation for the observance of
Arbor Day:
Our rugged mountain ranges, alter
mating with graceful valleys, once
formed a Treasure House of scenic
beauty, unsurpassed in all the world.
| The demands of rude and rougher age
only thought of the present, and the
woodlands axe laid low the towering
spruce and pine, the beautiful maple
and the massive oak. The mad rush of
restless age pauses, waste halts,
while progress marches ever on and on.
and it is with high purpose and well
defined plans for the future, that we
shape and fashion the present. Conser-
walton of our resources; the refinement
of civilization which pays its first
tribute to nature and natures God,
combines and asks for the restoration of
the old-time beauty and grandeur of our
field and woodland. Forests play
leading part in the drama of country's
life. They are shelter from winters
icy blasts and summers scorching sun.
They furnish fuel for the freside, and
lumber and furniture for the dwelling
that shelters our Loved Ones. They
regulate the water supply and influence
the rainfall, the air and the SOIL They
are playground in youth and a cool
refuge in old age. Inspired by a COM
mon purpose and responding with deter
mination and will, we may soon restore
to these hills and valleys their old time
beauty and again will the silvery stars
and the golden sun look down upon a
! wide spread panorama of field and for
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beauty. With tender care forests may
grow where trees never grew before.
, The blushng rose, the budding flower,
, the twning pine and the graceful shrub
are a potential factor in landscape orna-
mentation.
Therefore, for the purpose of en-
! couraging the planting and growing of
, forest and shade trees, the decorating
, of garden, field and roadside with
flowers and shrubs, and in accordance
with custom long established, and
5 now authorized by law, |, John A. Mead,
Governor of Vermont, do hereby desig-
nate
! FRIDAY, MAY Sd, 1912, AS ARBOR DAY
l., And do earnestly request that teach
ers, children and parents cooperate
with state, county, town and municipal
r officers in proper and worthy observ-
' ance of the day by appropriate eXer-
I cises in our schools and other places of
assembly.
Let every one of our people devote
s portion of the day to planting these
most beautiful products of nature.
Let Vermont take her rightful place
as the garden spot of all the world, that
the tourist coming here to admire and
rest will remain to find home.
Agriculture, manufacture and trade
will flourish as never before, and pros
| perity, universal and everlasting, will
e encircle the state with a Gordon, i'm
e pregnable and unassailable.
q Duty to our commonwealth and to
those who are to constitute its citizen
ship in the splendid years that are to
come, should stimulate US to these
kindly deeds, and | most respectfully
ask you to cheerfully respond.
In testimony whereof, have here
e unto set my hand and caused the great
o seal of the state to be affixed at Rut-
G land, this the twentieth day of April, in
: the year of our Lord nineteen hundred
5 and twelve, and of the independence of
e the United States the one hundred and
e thirty-siX.
o JOHN A. MEAD, Governor.
By the Governor,
: HARVEY r. KINGSLEY,
t Sec'y of Civil and Military Affairs.