The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-04-16

have been conserved, they have been
hacked away for a contractors conve-
nience.
| This matter has been referred to oft
en- enough in this column but it bears
reiteration.
If, on Arbor day, we are going to Gel
ebrate by tree planting then some as
surance should be given that that cele-
bration would not be in vain.
| In the past the selection of trees for
shade has not been governed by either
knowledge or science.
No doubt soft naples are not the
class of tree most suited to sidewalk
planting. But there are many fine ma
pies now bordering the curbs which,
with care and judicious attention, will
| last a long time to beautify the town.
Just because they happen to be soft
naples and not endowed with as long
life as a hard maple or an oak is no
reason why they need be abused and
cut down.
What the town should do is not only
|
| suited to growth on city streets but
| to preserve those now here and which
with some encouragement, will be
here many years.
! 1t takes a half century for trees to
attain to any degree of arboreal pull
chritude, if it can SO be put.
The trees planted on Arbor day are
for the coming generation
Those now with us are for present
| benefit and pleasure.
There is no reason why the present
generation shouldn't be considered.
The removal of a tree will make a
! whole block take on different aspect.
The cutting down of a row will
change the appearance of a town.
The chiefest consideration at pres
ent is an understanding by property
owners with the municipality whereby
they may be assured that their trees
will not be hacked, mutilated, cut into
and destroyed by brutal contractors.
| Mere common sense shows that the
trees cannot have wagonloads of roots
cut off and still retain their vigor.
| You don't have to have a scientific
| education to know that
| Any ordinary idiot could point out
| that a sidewalk could be constructed
round not through a tree.
The lack of consideration in this res
pect by both the municipality and the
contractors is thing which has an
| tagonized, infuriated and depressed
property owners until many OF them
are too apathetic to take any interest
one way or the other.
| They have been so bullied, insulted,
brow-beaten and generally plastered
up against the wall that they don't
care whether the town looks decent or
! not.
! One of the finest thing that has been
| done in the state of Indiana for years
| is the arrangement for the celebration
/ of Arbor Day in this city on so extern
slve a scale.
| Let it not be nullified later by the as
| SHINE and inexcusable action of Off
| cialdom blind to anything in the uni
verse but a contractors straight line.
100000 women will vote for presi-
dent of the United States this year.
These votes are in the six states
that at present give full franchise to
women and which control 81 electoral
votes, the states being California, Col
orado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and
| Washington.
| If the campaign in Ohio now on re-
suits in a majority for the amendment
: of the constitution permitting women
i to vote in that state, the election to be
f! held in July, this would add "a more
electoral votes upon which women
would have some voice, and indica-
tions are that the Ohio women will be
successful.
IT, also, the New Hampshire consti-
tutional convention should pass favor
ably upon the amendment for woman's
suffrage, this would add four more ell
ectoral votes about which women have
some say since the New Hampshire
| law does not require that the amend
ment shall be submitted to the people
! for election.
The Michigan legislature recently
| passed bill which was signed by the
Governor submitting a woman's suff-
| rage amendment to the people of that