THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL. PA. rns SL os A ——————————— aA ————_———— 1 ad Png ON THE NATIONAL PRINT YOUR MAME my CE YOUR NAME 1732-1932 HE observance of Arbor day varles in the different states of the Un- fon, although the majority of the celebrations are held during the latter part of April or the first part of May. But whatever the date, it has a special significance this year because of two men. For 1032 is the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington, the “Father of His Country,” and the centennial of the birth of J. Ster- * ling Morton, the “Father of Arbor The connection of George Washington with Arbor day celebrations lies In the fact that this year he has been the Inspiration for the most extensive tree-planting program ever undertak- en in this country. For a part of the general bicentennial celebration program this year has been the project, sponsored by the American Tree association of Washington, D. C, of plant- ing 10,000,000 trees, all dedicated to Washing- ton, a veritable living memorial stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Cana- dian line to the Mexican border. In announcing this project at the time that President Coolidge created the Washington bi centennial commission to have charge of the general celebration this year, Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree associa- tion, said: “What more significant and unique method could be employed to manifest the affection which American feels for Washington? Wash- ington himself must have loved trees, for his diary contalns repeated references to their value and care; and he chose a spot for his home where their beauty 1s unexcelled, Along the shaded path that leads to his final resting place, two columns of trim, straight larches stand like sentinels, his constant companions, along with those thousands of Americans who come to pay him reverence during the daylight hours. “He must have loved the regal beauty of a tree. In the symbolism of a tree can Washing- ton be remembered pre-eminently. Deep-rooted in the ground, a tree is like a man, coming up out of the earth, but lifting ite branches to heaven. And as It grows in usefulness, so it grows In beauty. It may outlast the ages, It offers its shade to all alike, and its disinterested ministries succour a thirsty countryside and provide for its physical and esthetic necessi- ties. So a tree bespeaks the spirit of Washing- ton. He was democratic in his services, regal in his leadership, commanding in his principles, while he extended a brotherly hand to a new and independent people struggling for fuller freedom.” Not only have millions of trees already been planted In honor of Washington and registered with the American Tree association by social, elvic and patriotic clubs and organizations as well as by Individuals, but the bicentennial tree planting idea has now gone around thé world. King Boris III of Bulgaria has Joined this great tree planting army In honoring Washing ton by presenting to Henry W, Shoemaker, the American minister at Sofia, two very rare Balk- An varieties of evergreens, one for the legation garden, the other for the American school near Bofia. These trees have been planted by Min- ister Shoemaker, who ls from Pennsylvania, with the help of the legation staff and with I Kerekoft of the Bulgarian foreign office repre senting that nation. Mrs. Shoemaker, Mrs, May- nard Barnes, Mrs. Frank Barnes, wives of the Seeretaries of the legation, and Mr, H. Frey, the king's landscape gardener, alded In the planting of the tree, Joseph C. Grew, the American ambassador at Istanbul, Turkey, was the first representative of the American government In the foreign land to register on the national roll when he planted three black walnut trees with Eugene M. Hinkle signing the application on the na- tional honor roll as a witness, Following this came the registration of Fred Morris Dearing, American ambassador at Lima, Peru, who, with Garrett Q. Ackerson, Jr, ug a witness, planted a tree to mark the bicentennial ¥ (37 —_.* 2 pT Tt re Ti of i v » 7, 1—J. Sterling Morton, the “Father of Arbor Day,” born April 22, 1832, 2—Certificate issued to Joseph C. Grew, Amer. ican ambassador to Turkey, for three trees planted In Istanbul, Turkey, in honor of George Washington, 3—Mrs. Herbert Hoover helping plant a cedar tree from the Ferry farm, where George Wash. ington spent most of his boyhood days, as Presi. dent Hoover and other government officials look on. The tree was presented to the President and his wife by the George Washington Tree Guild of Fredericksburg, Va., and was replanted on the White Mouse grounds. 4—A tree, presented by King Boris 11] of Bul. garia was planted recently in the garden of the American legation at Sofia for the American Tree association with the help of (1) Henry Fry, the king's landscape gardener, (2) Henry Shoemaker, the American minister to Bulgaria, (3) Mrs. Henry Bhoemaker and (4) I. Kerekoft of the Bulgarian foreign office, representing the Bulgarian government in the program honoring Washington, at Lima. Another registration also eame from F. E. Libenow, the consular agent at Charnaral, Chile, who planted six English walnuts there. From Cuba came the registration of Eugene E. Jova, the American consular agent at Sagua La Grande. Pomplllle Montero, the director of the board of Bagua Yacht club and secretary of the Rotary club of Sagua la Grande, has also registered on the national honor roll In the name of the Yacht club itself, Eduardo Radelat, Sr, the president of the club registered two trees. Eduardo Radelat, Jr. registered two more in his own name. Manuel Mill and A. M. Ribas have registered also. Carlos Cunanan, ranger in the bureau of for. estry of the agricultural college at Laguna, P. L, has registered the planting of a seedling he took from the Sierra Madre mountains and brought to Los Banos to acclimatize it. The tree has now been planted in the lowlands and is doing fine, he reports, Paul E. Nilson of the American school at Talas, Turkey, has registered the planting of eight trees, and at his suggestion and that of Ambassador Grew, the American Tree assocla- tion has sent the bicentennial tree planting message and its “Forestry Primer” to more than a score of schools In Turkey. These schools include the Constantinople Woman's college, Robert college, the American Academy for Girls, the American Boys’ school, and Ihsan Bey, chalrman of the council of education at Ankara, Ambassador Grew says there is a keen Inter. est In tree planting of all kinds In Turkey. There has been more than a hundred regis trations from the Boy Scouts In Hawall, and the library of the department of agriculture, Kyoto Imperial university, Kyoto, Japan, has asked for the bicentennial tree planting posters and printed matter for display. of that state. For April tennial of the birth of sue by the United States government, as well as special observances of the day In many parts of the country, recalled to all Americans thelr debt of gratitude to J. Sterling Morton. Morton was born In Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y., on April 22, 1832. When he was two years old his parents moved to Michigan and there he grew up, attending a private school in Mon- roe and then a Methodist seminary In Albion, In 1850 he entered the University of Michigan and remained there for most of the course, but withdrew In his senior year and was grad. uated from Union college in his native state in 1854, In the same year he was married to a Mich. gan girl and the young couple decided to “go West and grow up with the country.” They settled first at Bellevue in the territory of Ne. braska City, where Morton was a member of the town company, which surveyed and estab 52 a a Sabai sag fue } lished that town, Adjacent preempted a tract of and upon that site he bullt his home w called “Arbor lodge” Morton was the founder and the first newspaper In Nebraska City, braska City News and was a prominent 3 ff po ’ first the President Buchanan made him secretary of the territory, and upon the resignation of Gov. Wil Ham A. Richardson he became acti g governor He was, however, more Interested In othe r mat ters than In politics, He was an original mem ber of the Nebraska territorial board of agricul. ture and the Territorial Horticultural Coming from two heavily-wooded states, New York and Michigan, Morton was struck by the bleakness of the “treeless state” as Nebraska was called at that time, The result was that at a meeting of the state board of agriculture on January 4, 1872, Morton introduced a resolution setting aside April 10 for tree planting so that Nebraska would be 8 “treeless state” no longer. More than a million trees were planted that year and several mil Hon more during the following years, In 1885 the Nebraska legislature, wishing to further honor the man who had originated the idea of Arbor day, passed an act changing the date of its observance to April 22, Morton's birthday, and making it a legal holiday in that state. In 1868 Morton entered the cabinet of President Grover Cleveland as secretary of agri culture, remaining in office until 1807. By 1805 the Nebraska legislature was able to proclaim to Nebraska's sister states that hence forth she was to be known as the “Tree-Planter Btate” because this commonwealth, which had once been so markedly destitute of this form of verdure, now had more than 700,000 acres planted in trees Arbor day Is yet to be observed In a number of states and In all of them two names will fig- ure prominently—George Washington, the “Fa. society. the “Father of Arbor Day.” Among those (as this Is written) are the following: Alabama-Proclamation of the governor. Connecticut—Latter part of April or first part of May by proclamation of governor, Georgla—First Friday in December. Hawall—First Friday in November, Idaho—April 20, when possible, recommended by governor, Iowa—Proclamation of the governor. Kansas~Option of governor. Kentucky—In fall by proclamation of gov- ernor, Maine—Option of governor in the spring. Massachusetts—Last Saturday in April, pro. clamation of governor. Mississippl—Second Friday In Proclamation by governor. Montana—Second Tuesday In May, Nevada—Proclamation of governor, New Hampshire—Proclamation of governor, early May. New York—The law In this state Is very elastic In respect to Arbor day and permits of naming the date sectionally so as to take full advantage of climatic conditions In different parts of the state. Hence, there are three Arbor days In New York, one for Long Island, one for “up-state,” and one for the northern coun- ties. As a rule, the last Friday in April and the first two Fridays In May are the dates selected, North Dakota—Option of governor. Ohlo—Proclamation of governor, Pennsylvania—Proclamation of governor, Porto Rico—Last Friday in November. Rhode Island—Second Friday in May, Bouth Carolina—Third Friday In November, Virginla—Proclamation of the governor in the spring. Wisconsin—Proclamation of governor. Usual ly first Friday in May. Washington—Proclamation of governor, Us ually first Friday in May. Wyoming—Proclamation of governor, Usually first Friday in May. ’ (0 1932, Western Newspaper Union.) . December. y £ ys * apt ——— = Palooka — the world’s worst loved character! dumb-bell — the world’s best COLUMBIA BALTIMORE. ... COAST.T NORFOLK ge Joe Palooks, Boxing Champ Is Now Heard on the Air Joe Palooka, that lovable boob of O-COAST NETWORK «+o 5:45 P.M. (E.8.T) . Ts T. 5:45 p. 7. MICROPHONICS Graham McNamee, demon an- by Ham Fisher, now comes to radio. Palooka, his fights and iroubles and mixups, is being presented each Tues day and Thursday at 6:45 Pn, EST, over the Columbia system. The dumb, gentle but unbeatable boxing champ Is portrayed by Ted fifteen-minute hilarious adapted by Georgia and wise-cracking Walsh, Is played by Frank 130-pound Thespian. Ted Husing describes Joe's tremendous fight scenes and Harry von Zell an dackus, Knobby —————————— a few doliars during the summer va- {cation by working In a garage, He {applied for a job 10 the proprietor of la place near his home. “Are you a | mechanic?” asked the man. “No, gir,” { truthfully replied Graham. “I'm a McNamee” , . , P. 8.—He didn't get the job, * » @ ing contest on NBC is having unexpected reper. ! boy In who | elnims to be the champion frog croak- er of the South wrote to the National Broadeasting company asking that he be allcwed’ to exhibit his talent on the air, in West Virginia wants Comers Louisiana And a man to meet all “To Men With Tender Ski ns . — [=~ At your dealers or sent CANCER RESEARCH - ———— Among the ! items of good news for the American home cancer, published by Home Companion, report, “that as high as 90 per cent of those attacked by this disease can be saved If diagnosis Is made and treatment started soon enough, The problem bas been to persuade people to go to the doctor or to the elinie and get the truth. Cancer Is peculi- arly a disease about which victims do not seem to want the truth” While researchers are striving to get at the basic cause of cancer, oth- er devoted workers have been carry- ing on a wide campalgn to educate the public that sores which do not or persistent indigestion ought to be taken as warning signals In one city a special drive brought to the clinic a great many persons, all of whom confessed that they had been worrying about cancer. Seven. ty-five per cent of them did not have cancer at all and they went away convinced and relieved. Of those who did show symptoms, fully one half were curable—because they had found it out early. “Results like this,” says the report, “show the enormous value of pub- We A TA licity when directed to a construc i tive end.” Noisy Silence Paul, who made ome with his grandmother in a large house in the country, missed his older sister while she was at school, Trying to dispel his loneliness, he resorted to conversation with his grandmother. This had gone on most of the forenoon one day, when his grandmother in desperation asked him: “Paul, why don't you keep still for & while? You are about to talk me to death” “Well, grandma,” he replied, “when I don’t talk, the clock ticks so loud” his | Glories in His Loneliness A woman's kiss was never experi enced by Alfred Blythwaite, of Birmingham, England. The eighty- | seven-year-old bachelor lives alone, darning his own socks, sewing but- tons on his shirts, and doing all his own cooking and housework. “I'm healthy, happy and have money in the bank,” he says. “And the reason is that I've never kissed a woman” As We Should Desire Let us remember those that want necessaries as we ourselves should have desired to be remembered had it been our sad lot to subsist on other men's charity.—Atterbury. Maxy people joke about it, but the fact fs that the “cave-man” type is now the most popular on the screen. Women love a ul personality . . . one with vigor, orce, and determination. i eet good health! Do into the back ground! Fellows’ Syrup will help to build up your health by restoring many valuable elements demanded by Nature. It im the appetite. It ine duces sleep. It is a valuable tonic for men and women who feel nervous and “run down.” For real * rio
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