The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-02
USE NATURE TIES
That Is Effective Way To Re-
duce Labor Unrest.
Flowers and Trees Recon-
mended by X. q. Professor.
MONEY IS NOT EVERYTHING
LabOrer Does Not Always Move
To Get More Cash.
List of Trees Best Suited for
Kansas Is Given.

Lawrence, Kan, April followers
and trees make possible a bigger out
put of munitions and domestic arti-
c1es in American industries today. In
fact, flowers and trees play a great
direct part in the stability of industry
and commerce in the United States.
Prof. w. C. Stevens, chairman of the
department of botany at the Univer-
sity of Kansas, made the foregoing as
sertion in urging the planting of more
trees, shrubs and flowers in Kansas
this spring.
The labor turnover in American
factories back east is something awful
and utterly wastefu1." he said, "and a
thing that can be remedied very much
by planting flowers, shrubs and trees.
Every few months there is a complete
turnover in these factories and with
resultant loss in production. Draw
ing big wages, labor is dissatisfied
with its surroundings and is shifting
constantly from zone good job to an
other. At $40 a day in Philadelphia,
labor isn't striking for more money.
but against sordid homes and for bet
ter homes.
Make Homes Attractive.
FACTORIES change their working or
CARNATIONS in a few months, and the
loss IN training and recruiting new
workers is enormous in the loss it
causes. England has had its indus
| tries, particularly its war industries
greatly crippled by just such a condi-
t1on and England has solved the prob
lem by providing better and more at
| tractive homes for its industrial work
ers. 1t is a fact, proved in England.
ana our government now recognizes
| 1t, that little vine covered Gotta se
with flowers. shrubs and grass about it
VIII hold a man to his job when big
wages absolutely will not. And the
american government and the indus
tries are planning a big use of flow
erS TO make the kind of homes that
VIII mold the man to the job
| Professor Stevens spent last fall
| and part of the winter in New yorL
IN special research work for the gov
eminent. He is continuing this
search Tor new and substitute raw ma
terials of various fibers and plant
r. Wnile conducting his work at
tHe university. Professor Stevens gave
the Ioilow1ng trees and shrubs as well
su1ted Tor planting in Kansas towns
and cities: 'o"HS
| Inc elm is the best tree for mark
Mays IN Kansas towns and cities from,
stands street conditions snoole
aust, Is hardy and quick growing and
Is most beautiful. In NV oDinion II
IS the best tree for parkways. It is
100 large to be planted in small lawns
put Is Ilne Tor large spaces Pin oak
1 d
i II grows as far west as -Hutchinson
| possibly farther. Red oak also is good
| anu ABOUT IN this place may be put the
| sreen ASH, which will grow in all parts
OF the state, or the white ash which
| VIII thrive in the eastern two-thirds of
| Kansas The sycamore too. makes an
| excellent street tree. Sugar and Nor
way naples makes excellent street
ana lawn trees, but soft NAPLES should
| be planted only in parks. They break
| easily and prevent grass from grow
| ing.
| Naples in Western Kansas.
| The sugar and Norway naples do
well at least as far west as Newton.
| They with oaks, ash, sycamore, wild
| cherry and honey Iocusts make line
! lawn trees for Kansas Another good
/ tree for Kansas is the ginkgo, a deli
| cate leaved, beautiful tree Catalpas
make good lawn trees but are not good
for street planting Dogwoods, sassa-
! fras in the eastern part, and the Chi
nese pagoda tree and Russian olive
| also are good lawn trees. Every
| backyard should have fruit tree or
two. Nut trees are slow growth usually
and do not transplant easily.
| Perhaps the two best evergreen
trees for lawn planting in Kansas are
| the Austrian pine with its dark gray
bark, rapid growth, long life and hard
! mess and the Scotch pine with its red
! dish brown bark and more irregular
outline. White pine is too susceptible
! to blister rust to risk planting. The
red cedar. which will grow anywhere
in Kansas, also is good. particularly
| planted with Chinese arbor vitae in
| windhreaks. For a dwarf pine the
Mugho is desirable. A group of these
| evergreens is made much more attra c.
tive by having one or two white
birches planted in front of them as
accent pants. The Colorado blue
spruce is also an excellent accent
plant. one or two of them being plant
ed against a group of larger trees. The
white bircn will grow far west as
| Hutchinson. West of that I am not
| informed as to the white birch