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renew 70 NESTS
URGES sPR0UL
Plant Trees on Slopes to Aid
Water Sources.
HIS ARBOR DAY PLEA
Governor Calls Attention to Fires and
Asks People to Restore Land TO
ProductVeness.

Asks People to Restore Land to
Productiveness.
Harrisburg, Pa, March 29.-Restor-
alton Of the once great forest lands of
the state through the reciamat. on OF
vast areas devastated by fires is urged
by Governor Sproul in the annual pro-
ci.lnatIUn setting forth Friday, April
IL. aud Friday, April %, as Arbor
da. 5.
The governor Departs from the usual
Gus ON III calling only for the plant
ing Of shade and ornamental trees, and
lnukv>, plea tn the people of the STATE
to = ant ,reeS on mountain slopes and
IN Sed lands for the protection OF the
s,i. t'n wafer sources and To prov de
timber.
Tie governor not only asks tAe pee
pie of the commonwealth To plant
trees, but 10 protect those already
panted He calls attention TO The raw
ages Of forest flies, costly beyond
crmpu. ation," and asks the people TO
res ore 10 productiveness the lands
swept by these disastrous DIES ructorS
ut the : ate fore stS. Commits oner GlI-
ford, of the state forestry department,
now has under way Il campaign to
check The annual spring forest fires
which annually cause more damage TO
the f0reS of the state than the fires
OF any other season of the year
rhe governors Arbor day proclama
tion follows:
"NaeIeas, the commonwealth Of
Penn$yl ania is the owner OF more
than 100000 acres of forest land
WI ch il is pro Getting and developing
for future usefulness, which already
constitutes one of the most valuable
assets Of the stale. and which W
continually grow in beauty and utility
a. Tie years go by; and
Whereas, in times not long gone by
the forests of Pennsylvania were the
glory of our commonwealth and the
most abundant sources of its prosper
ity; and
Whereas, to restore to productive
ness the land now devastated by fire
and the ak is among the first duties
of wise and patriotic craftsmanship
and
Whereas one Of The means of sue:
restoration is by planting trees and
protecting them when planted from
forest ares, whose ravages are costly
beyond COMPUTATION and
Whereas, the custom Of observing
Arbor days has become an establish
ed and beneticent pra tice among our
people and latterly has been greatly
stimu ated by he painting of memo
rial tees in honor Of gallant PennSyl-
vania soldiers who forfeited their
lives in the world war, which custom
is happily and widely observed
throughout the nation; and since tree
plan ing is needful for furnishing fuel
and all other wood products, for the
rest Jratiun of forests, and for the
bea ltifying of parks, highways, school
grn ludS, home grounds, and whatever
a tee will lend value, variety or be u
~ % the landscape;
Therefore, i, William {. SprOul,
go ternor of the commonwealth, do FRO
claim Friday, the 18th day of April,
AID Friday, the 23d day of Apr l, \. d.
1h20. 70 be observed as Arbor days
throughout the commonwealth, on
which days all good citizens should
feel under obligation 10 render what
aid they may in this imp ortant work
thus comforting benefit not only
upon those who shall follow US i'll
years to come.
Il commend to the pupils in our
schools and to all our people not only
the planting of trees III memory of
our honored dead, of shade and orna-
mental trees near schools and dWeA
ingS and along country highways and
city streets, but also and specially the
planting of young forest trees upon
our mountain sides and unused lands
so that in due time they may protect
the sources of our streams, supply
wood for the use uf our people, and
call down upon the heads of those
who planted them The grateful thanks
of succeeding generations. And what
We have planted let us protect.
Given under my hand and the gre It
seal of the state at the city of Harris
burg this twenty-third day Of March in
the year of our LORD, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty, and Of the
commonwealth the one hundred and
forty-fourth.