The border vidette., 1920-02-07
A PROCLAMATION OF ARBOR DAY
 BY THE GOVERNOR

Arizona, recognizing the value and benefits of the custom in augurated by the State of Ne braska shortly after the Civil War, has decreed the observance of Arbor Day and imposed upon the Governor the duty of setting aside two days (one for the southern and the other for the northern counties) on which ap- propriate exercises shall accom- pany the planting of trees, vines, shrubbery 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 cal culated to equip us mentally for earning capacity, forgetting that cultivation of the esthetic is essential to complete and well rounded education and to the enjoyment of those things in life not measured by the stand ard of dollars and cents. Love of nature is inherent in every human being, but if not educat ed or led out, it becomes dor mant and atrophied. Nature cannot speak her varied lan- guage 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 soughinR through the pines. For him the birds do not chant 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, in stead of an awe inspiring color CT and Architect. Nature has been prodigal with her gifts, but with our eyes to the ground in stead of lifted upward to the everlasting hills, and the skies which declare the glory of their Maker we miss the beautiful visions which have been created not alone for our mental delec- tation, but for the puriication of our souls.
 It is therefore vital that our schools recognize the importance and necessity of impressing up- on the plastic minds of our children 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 h. finite. Arbor Day therefore has more than utilitarian signiig- ance and it is meet and proper that these deeper lessons should be diligently pursued.
 Now therefore, l, Thomas E. Campbell, Governor of Arizona, by virtue of tue authority vested in me, and in conformity with the provisions of Paragraphs 2837 284O. Chapter XX 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 observed in the counties of Cochise, Gila, Graham, Green lee. Msricopa, Pima, Pinal San. ta Cruz and Yuma; and similar. ly I hereby designate and sci apart Friday the 2nd day o1 April, 1920 as Arbor Day for due observance in the counties of Apache, Coconino, Navajo Mohaye and Yavapai.
 And I also recommend that observance of these occasions be not confined to the schools o1 the commonwealth, but thai those of older years pause from their labors and with civic pride as their actuating motive, aid ir Ebeautifying the several commu mites in which they live.
 In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caus ed the Great Seal of tho State of Arizona to be affixed.
 Done at Phoenix, the Capital this the 3Oth day of January 1920.
 THOMAS E. CAMPBELL, Governor of Arizona | Great Seal of the | Attest: State of Arizona. MT SIMMS,
 Secretary of State.
 By R. E. MCGILLEN, Assistant Secretary.