PRESIDENT COOLIDGE PROCLAM AT ES
WEEK COMMENCING APRIL 27-MAY 3
BE KNOWN AMERICAN FOREST WEEK
V.WfllINGTON, D. C., Mar. 12 —
I’rtsident Coolidge in a proclama
tion yesterday called upon the state
governors to cooperate in observ
ance of the week of April 27 to May
3 as American Forest Week, and rec
ommended that, wherever possible,
Arbor Day be celebrated within that
week.
American Forest Week will re
place the period heretofore desig
nated as Forest Protection Week
and its observance will be directed
by a national citizens’ committee
headed by former Governor Frank
(). Lowden. of Illinois. The commit
tee is to include 100 representatives
of national organizations which are
being enlisted in an effort to make
observance nation-wide.
In his proclamation the President
urged ail patriotic citizens to unite
in the common task of forest con
servation and renewal. “The forests
of tne future must be started to
day.” he said. “Our Children are de
pendent on our course. We are
bound by a solemn obligation from
which no evasion and no subterfuge
will relit ve us.”
The proclamation follows:
“In proclaiming American For
est week, I desire to bring to the
attention of all our people the
danger that comes from the neg
lect of our forests.
"For several years the nation
has observed Forest Protection
Week. It is fitting that this ob
servance be enlarged. We have
loo freely spent the rich and
magnificent gift that nature be
stowed on us. In our eagerness
to use that gift we have strip
ped our forests; we have let
fires to lay waste and devour
them; we have all too often des
troyed the young growth and the
seed from which new forests
might spring. And though we
already feel the first grin of tim
ber shortage, we have barely be
gun to save and restore.
“We have passed the pioneer
stage and are no longer excusa
ble for continuing this unwise
dissipation of a great resource.
To the nation it means the lack
of an elemental necessity and
the waste of keeping idle or
only partly productive nearly
one-fourth of our soil. To our
forest-using industries it means
unstable investments, the deple
tion of forest capital, the dis
banding of established enter
prizes, and the decline of one of
our most important industrial
groups.
“Our forests ought to be put
to work and kept at work. I do
not minimize the obstacles that
have to be met, nor the difficul
ty of changing old ideas and
practices. We must all put our
hands to this common task. It
is not enough that the federal
state and local governments take
the lead. There must be a
change in our national attitude.
Our industries, our landowners,
our farmers, all our citizens
must learn to treat our forests
as crops, to be used but also to
be renewed. We must learn to
tend our woodlands as carefully
as we tend our farms.
“Let us apply to this creative
task the boundless energy and
skill we have so long spent in
harvesting the free gifts of na
ture. The forests of the future
must be started today. Our
children are dependent on our
course. We are bound by a sol
emn obligation from which no
evasion and no subterfuge will
relieve us. Unless we fulfill
our sacred responsibility to un
born generations, unless we use
with gratitude and with restraint
the generous and kindly gifts of
Divine Providence, we shall prove
ourselves unworthy guardians of
a heritage we hold in trust.
“NOW, THEREFORE, I CAL
VIN COOLIDGE, President of the
United States, do recommend to
the governors of the various
states to designate and set apart
the week of April 27 to May 3,
inclusive, 1925, as American For
est Week, and, wrherever prac
ticable and not in conflict with
state law or accepted customs,
to celebrate Arbor Day within
that wTeek. And I urge public
officials, public a;ul business as
sociations, industrial leaders, for
est owners, editors, educators
and all partiotic citizens to unite
in the common task of forest
conservation and renewal.
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
“Done at the City of Washington
this twenty-fist, day of February,
in the year of our Lord one thou
sand nine hundred and twenty
five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America
the one hundred and forty-ninth.
“(Signed) CALVIN COOLIDGE.
“By the President:
(Signed) Charles E. Hughes,
“Secretary of State.”
Critics Defend Saxophone
Put Onas On Jazz Artists
LONDON, Mar. 31.—A good word
at last has been said for the saxo
phone. While a number of letter
writ tors to London newspapers have
come to the defence of the in
strument and by argument and facts
have endeavored to shift the onus
on to the jazz saxophonist—-and not
the instrument.
The saxophone was not an ’ acci
dent by any means, it is explained
in the Star, having been invented
by Antoine Joseph Sax, born at Di
rant, Belgium, November* 6, 1S14, the
son of a reed instrument maker. He
studied at the Brussels Conserva
toire of Music and his proficiency
on both the flute and the clarinet be
came marked. There were many op
portunities for Sax to become a mu
sician of note, but he preferred to
return to the bench.
Moving to Paris in 1842, Sax pro
duced the first “saxhorn” in 1842. In
lvl6 a soprano saxophone was man
ufactured and patented, followed by
the family of the alto, tenor and bar
itone saxophone. Sax, however, fail
ed to profit by his work and at the
age of 82 died penniless and pretty
well forgotten even in musical cir
cles.
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England Imports Oddities
from All Parts of World
LONDON, Mar. 11.—Many queer
cargoes arrive in the ports of Great
Britain during the course of a year,
but perhaps the queerest was one
from Mexico during December. This
consisted of 13 tons of dried flies
for use in the manufacture of paint.
Dried flies also come from Brazil,
but these are utilized in the mixing
of food for poultry and pheasants.
Manifests of cargoes carried in
steamers often make strange read
ing to anyone but the initiated, and
the average man, seeing that a case
of walrus whiskers was carried in a
steamer would hardly imagine they
were to be utilized for toothpicks at
fashionable hotels. Frog skins are
shipped from India for bookbinding
purposes; “Tasmanian devils” often
j arrive, and from South Africa re
j cently came a case of “diseases.”
These included cultures of germs of
blackwater fever, malarial fevers,
and other kinds of tropical diseases
; for the purpose of scientific in
j vestigation.
j Snails and frogs come into London
! for use at Soho restaurants, and
j twice each year a vessel from China
brings Chinese dried foods lor the
Chinese population of England. Sea
1 slug, sharks fin, the nest of the sea
| swallow, and other strange luxuries j
are also imported in fairly large |
! quantities.
William Cass of Los Angeles prov
| ed his claim to his father’s es
! tate in Michigan by an old quilt, '
• embroidered with names of his l'ani
i ily, witli dates of births, marriages
j and deaths.
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