The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-30
Hancock Department
PLAN LIKE that
OF CEISM MAR s
Wilson's Secretary Would Line City
Streets With Fruit Trees

The suggestion of Pref Leo. VI
Geismar the Houghton county farm
expert. that nut and fruit trees b,
planted along the county highways
viii be carried out IN part by the
Hounghton County Farm bureau next
summer, il is expected.
| In several places i'm the country this
idea has taken hold. and the latest
to champion it is J. p. Tumulty. secre-
| tary To President Wilson. He would
line the streets of the cities with fruit
instead of shade trees for the benefit
says:
Fruit and shade were intended by
the Creator 10 go together, and it is
wickedness on the part Of our mod
ern cities that they spend so much
for shade and deliver their citizens
over to the trade monopolsts for their
fruit
SO declared J, +. Tumulty. New Jer-
sey, secretary to President Wilson. dis
cussing the hardships of childhood in
IL Wy AAliihiNN utllfNtS llldl NiltI
a child wishes an apple it ought To be
able TO get one. He holds that the
street of a city should be- lined with
apple trees rather than with orna-
mental naples, elms, oaks, magnolias,
etc.
Same Care as Shade Trees.
"Why not" queried Tumulty. ag-
gressiveW, Every city i'm the United
states that amounts to anything has
a force of experts giving the most ten
der care Ia its shade trees. Pairs are
taken To see that they have the proper
soil in which TO flourish, and after
they arc planted they are cultivated
and sprayed and looked after i'm Il
way that can't be beaten by the most
successful orchardist. Now, what l
want to know is why these same eX-
perts could not give the same kind
of care to fruit trees OF course they
could, and if they did the cities would
be so fun of apples i'm the season that
no child would have To go without.
You say that it would interfere with
the business of the fruit dealers and /
reply that that is a poor argument.
doubt if it would make any difference
with the dealers, but if it did, what of
It? Must we hesitate to fiji our cities
with healthy, happy youngsters be-
cause by doing so we interfere with
somebody's business? My judgment is
that the better the health of the chill
dren. the better the people; and bust
ness never will suffer in n city which
has healthy and happy children and
a aggressive and conteudcd parents. lfI
they don't buy so much fruit, they will
huy more of other things and they will
have the money to pay for them be-
cause they will not have to pay sol
many doctor bills.
Apple Blossoms and Children.
81 don't see where this idea can bc
criticized. If it is beauty you want
what can he more beautiful than IA
well-kept apple tree? Certainly no
forest tree has anything on the apple
tree for looks. I am speaking of the
we'll groomed fruit tree and not of
the neglected and humpy specimens.
And then, i'm the spring, when they are
i'm blossom! Can't you imagine what
our streets would be like? To me the
most beautiful thing about the Japan
rse people is their association of cher
~ blossoms with happy childhood. j
think il would be grand good thing
for the United States If the streets
Of oil our cities were lined with apple
bloom were dedicited To American
.hil1bno1 "