The Holbrook news., 1920-02-06
A PROCLAMATION OF ARBOR DAY
 BY THE GOVERNOR

and benefits of the custom in augurated by the State of Nebr- aska shortly after the Civil War, has decreed the observance of Arbor Day and imposed upon the Governor the duty of setting a. side two days (one for the sou thern and the other for the nor thern counties) on which appro- priate exercises shall accompany the planting of trees. vines, shrubberry and flowers by the pupils of public and private schools.
 In the pursuit of knowledge there IS a tendency to devote our time to those subjects calculated to equip us mentally for earning capacity, forgetting that culti- vation of the esthetic is essential to a complete and we'll rounded education and to the enjoyment of those things in life not mea- sured by the standard of dollars and cents. Love of nature is in- herent in every human being, but if not educated or lead out, it, becomes domant and atrop- hied. Nature cannot speak her varied language to those who have ears to hear and will not listen and eyes to see and will not look. To such a child or man there is no music of the spheres, no melody in the winds soughing through the pines. For him the birds do not chant a song of praise; there is no glory in the sunrise or lesson of life in the sunset; the desert is merely a barren waste and the Grand Canyon is simply a gigantic hole in the earth, instead of an awe inspiring colorful creation of tht Master Painter and Architect. Nature has been prodigal with her gifts, but with our eyes to the ground instead of lifted up ward to the everlasting hills. and the skies which declare the glory of their Maker, we miss the beautiful visions which h ave been created not alone for our mental delectation. but for the puri6cation of our souls.
 It is therefore vital that our schools recognize the importance and necessity of impressing up- on the plastic minds of our chil- dren that through an under standing of Nature they are bet ter able to comprehend what is good and really worth while, and become attuned to the Infinite, Arbor Day therefore has more than utiJitarian significance and it is meet ard proper that these deeper lessons should be dili- gently pnrsed.
 Now Therefore. 1 Thomas E Campbell, Governor of Arizona. by virtue of the authority vested in me, and in conformity with the provisions Paragraphs 2837- 2840, Chapter xxx of the Revised Statutes of Arizona. do hereby designate Friday and set apart, Friday the 9th day of February, 1920 as Arbor Day, to be observ- ed in the Counties of Cochise. GiIa, Graham. Greenlee, Mari eopa. Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz and Yuma; and similarly here by designate and set apart Fri day the End day of April, 1920 as Arbor Day for due observance in the Counties of Apache. Cocon- ino, Navajo, Mohave and Yava- pal.
 And I also recommend that observance of these occasions be not confined to the schools of the commonwealth. but that those of older years pause from their labors and with civic pride as their actuatiDg motive, aid in beautifying the several communi- ties in which they live.
 IN WITNESS WHERE
 OF, 1 have hereunto Great set my hand and caus-
 Seal ed the Great Seal of of the the State of Arizona State of to be affixed.
 Arizona Done ar Phoenix, the
 Capital. this the Both
 day of January. 1920.
 THOMAS E. CAMPBELL,
 Governor of Arizona.