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TO HONOR THE CONSTITUTION -PLANT TREES! By ELMO SCOTT WATSON iy I EXT year, "we the people of the United States," will cele- brate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the IIgML adoption of the Constitution under which we have been tfgpMj governed as a nation for a century and a half and among vW // ot ' ier ways of observing that anniversary we're going to "say it with trees"! At least, it is so planned by the sesquicentcnnial com mission which has charge of the celebration. In a recent report to congress the commission said: "A feature in the nation-wide celebration which will be a part of every sesquicentennial cele bration is the planting of trees. The general plans for the tree planting project in co-operation with the American Tree associa tion appear elsewhere in this re port. It is customary for many women's organizations to plant memorial trees as a tribute to their founders or to distinguished personages of history. During this celebration these organized groups will join in the trae plant ing in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the Consti asraf _ |HEgg 'A BEk| CHARLES LATHROP PACK tution. Each state and local com munity will have its anniversary date when fitting ceremonies will be planned. Millions of trees will be dedicated to the memory of the framers of the Constitution. "When plans were being made for the celebration of the Wash ington bicentennial it was in tended to plant 10,000,000 trees in honor of the event. But so popular did this idea become throughout the country that in the year 1932 some 35,000,000 trees were actually planted in the United States. Therefore, it is proposed to follow a similar program in celebrating the ses quicentennial of the Constitu tion. As in the case of the Wash ington bicentennial, the Presi dent of the United States will be asked to plant a tree in the grounds of the White House, and one will also be set out in the Capitol grounds. It will be highly fitting, too, that the chief justice be invited to plant a tree in the grounds surrounding the new Supreme Court building. "Thus inaugurating the move ment, it is planned to reach every city, town, and school. The activities of the commission will be greatly assisted by the co-operation of the American Tree association. This excellent organization will also co-operate in preparing a booklet explain ing the planting of trees and providing a program for the ded ication. "The millions of 'Constitution Trees' thus set out during the celebration will prove a beauti ful, lasting and appropriate trib ute to the Constitution of the United States." The American Tree associa tion has already issued the book let mentioned in the foregoing report (it's called the Constitu tion Sesquicentennial Tree Plant ing Book) and recently several million copies were sent to club and organization leaders and school teachers throughout the country. At the same time Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the association, issued this statement: Like a Great Oak "The Constitution stands like a great oak. It has weathered many storms. It deserves a place next to the family Bible in every home. What could be more fit ting than for the American peo ple to begin now to make their plans for marking the sesquicen tennial, September, 17, 1937, by planting trees? We are ready to distribute to school teachers or organization leaders or anyone else, this Constitution Sesqijucen tennial Tree Planting Book. In it is the Constitution and all amendments with every impor tant date, as well as Gfeorge Washington's letter of transmit tal to the congress. With this, are given details on how to select, plant and care for trees and a suggested program for the dedication. "As the statement of the . United States Constitution Com mission points; out, nearly thirty - five million trees were planted to .mark the bicentennial of the birth of George Washing ton. Now we have another rea son for planting. Then we honored the Father of Our Coun try and now we mark the crown ing achievement of his great career, the binding of the nation together under a Constitution. Historians all agree he made the Constitution possible. "In our planting plans we not only have the call of the commis sion to heed but we have the co operation of thousands of organ izations. At this year's meeting of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. H. G. Bo gert of Colorado, national conser vation chairman, started a tree planting campaign reaching into every club. In the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Avery Turner of Texas, national chairman of conservation and thrift, has called upon all chap ter chairmen to push the pro gram. "Every sesqui-year class in colleges and high schools as well as private institutions, is being asked to plant a sesqui tree as class activity. In the citizenship committees of various organiza tions, tree planting will be a major activity. One of the tree planting books has been sent to every CCC camp. "In these days when we hear so much about dust storms, floods, and soil erosion causing hundreds of millions of dollars damages, the American people must become tree minded and realize the value of forests in flood prevention. The forests and their products support every in dustry. Commerce is impossible without these forest products. So let us plant not alone to mark this important date in our his tory, maybe the most important date, but also to call the atten tion of new thousands to the value of trees." Ratification Day Mr. Pack also has sent to the governors of the original states ratifying the Constitution the suggestion that "Ratification Days" in each state be marked ]^i^|^^Ml^|jggy'^jjy^pts^g■^g*^• GEORGE WASHINGTON "The adoption of the Constitution was the crowning achievement of his great career." by organizing state-wide plans for tree planting in anticipation of the big program in 1937. Among the thousands of trees which will be planted next year as a part of the Con stitution celebration undoubt edly there will be many elms. .This will be especially appro priate, in so far as this cele bration also honors the mem ory of George Washington, since an elm tree marked an important milestone in his life. It was under a tree of this species In Cambridge, Mass. that he took command of the Contlnehtal army on July 3, 1775 and started on the career whiefc led to the eitabliah ment of a new nation and his election aa its Brat President tinder the Constitution. .. For nearly a century and a halt this, elm was a landmark and patriotic shrine, carefully guarded and with every effort made to save it from the ravages of time. Its long and honored LAST OF THE 13 HORSE CHESTNUT TREES PLANTED BY WASHINGTON AT KENMORE. career came to an end in Aug gust, 1923, when the whole trunk cracked and fell while workmen were pulling a dead branch from it. It was estimated that the tree was then more than 350 years old. Numerous "Grandchildren" But even though this historic tree is dead, it lives on in its "children" and "grandchildren" which are to be found in various parts of the United States. On May 1, 1876 a centennial tree, which had been produced from the seed of the Washington elm, was presented to the city of Cambridge by John Owen. Two "grandchild seedlings" from the Cambridge eln> under which Washington took com mand of the Continental army are growing near his tomb at Mount Vernon, there is one in the yard of the governor's man sion in Annapolis, Md., one in front of the Memorial church at Valley Forge, and another at Washington college at Chester town, Md., which was named for Washington and which he once visited to receive an honorary degree. Another is thriving on the grounds of the D. A. R. Memorial Continental hall in Washington, D. C., and still another in the yard of the head quarters of the Sons of the Amer ican Revolution in the same city. And clear across the country, on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle there is another of these "grandchild seedlings," brought there by an aluminus of the university. Besides the two Cambridge elms, the state of Massachusetts is rich in "tree memorials" to the Father of His Country. Just outside the town of Palmer, on the Boston-Spring fleld highway, stands another famous old tree known as the Mother Washington elm. It is claimed by some historians and the American Forestry associa tion that when Washington was on his way to Cambridge, he stopped beneath this particular elm' to rest. Many "Washington Trees" Elm trees, however, are not the .only ones which we associate with the name of Washington. Deerfleld, Mass., has a button wood tree "where Washington watered horses." A horse chest nut tree, planted by Washington, still stands in the yard of Ken more, the Fredericksburg (Va.) home of Betty Washington Lewis, his sister. It is the last of 13 such trees which he planted there to represent the Thirteen Colonies and to shade the walk between the cottage of his mother, Mary Ball Washington, and Kenmore. Eight years ago a "Washing ton Friendship Grove" of 13 horse chestnut trees was planted in the National Capital. They sprang from the seeds of a tree which for more than 150 years stood in Bath, Pa., as an emblem of friendship between Washington and Gen. Robert Brown. The lat ter was a frequent visitor to Mount Vernon and at the end of one such visit, in 1781, Washing ton with his own hands dug from his garden two young horse chestnut trees which he pre sented to his friend. Brown car ried the young saplings across the mountains to his home where he planted them on the lawn. Only one of the trees, however survived but it grew to a height of 70 feet and had an 85-foot spread of its branches. Tree of Two Nations On the grounds of the Capitol in Washington is an elm under which the first President is said to have sat while watching the progress in the building of that edifice. On the grounds of the White House stands a tree which is also associated with the name of Washington and which links the past and the present in an unusual manner. This tree is the outgowth of an acorn brought from Russia, and because of this and its unique lineage it is known as the Russo- Ainerican Oak. The tree from which the acorn was obtained stands in Lenin grad. It grew from an acorn produced by a tree at the tomb of Washington, at Mt. Ver non. The Mt. Vernon acorn was sent to the czar of Russia by Sen ator Charles Sumner, of Massa chusetts, and planted in the grounds of the imperial palace by the czar as a symbol of Russo- American friendship. In 1898, the tree which had grown from Sen ator Sumner's acorn was located by Ethan Allen Hitchcock, then American Ambassador to St. Petersburg. Gathering and plant ing some of the acorns from this tree, the ambassador sent a sap ling of the new generation to President Roosevelt for planting in the White House grounds. The planting took place on April 6, 1904, exactly thirteen years be fore the day on which the United States joined hands with Russia and other European countries in the greatest conflict the world has ever known—a conflict which led to the destruction of the old Russia and the assassination of the royal family. The young tree was planted by President Roose velt himself. In several parts of the country are trees famous for their asso ciation with Washington's friend, Marquis de Lafayette. One La fayette tree on the battlefield of Brandywine derives its prestige from the fact that when the cele brated French general was wounded at Brandywine his in juries were given first aid under this tree. At Annapolis is a tree under which a reception to La fayette was held, with a distin guished company in attendance. In the form of trees planted by his own hand, General Lafayette left many mementoes of his trav els in America. One of these is now standing at Concord, New Hampshire. Another is at York town, Va., near a house in which are still to be seen cannon balls Embedded in the timbers during the siege of Yorktown. i iC Wuttrn Ntwipaptr Ttntoo. FABLES IN SLANG «f» Brll Syndicate By GEORGE ADE WNU Srrvtra His Attention Was Directed to Tw Planted Directly THE FLAPPER FEUD /™\NCE there was a Lone Man who was compelled to take a ride on the new kind of Bus which is helping the Zinc Elizabeth to make a Joke out of the average Passenger Train. This Conveyance looked like a Battle Ship with Wheels. It breathed Blue Smoke and made a Noise like Niagara Falls, and when it came surging along a rural highway the Chickens would beat it far behind the Barn and remain there for Days. The Traveler, who had planted himself in one of the spring Seats, had a couple of fresh magazines in his Lap and counted on finding out how all of the Butter-and-Egg Men started as Weed-Pullers and got their Kale by hiring Employees who were too dumb to steal. Like many other Readers, he was keen for these Confessions of the Successful, little suspecting that most of the Strong-Arms who have taken it away from the Common People hide their Black Jacks and Masks after they become Bank Directors and, after that, want to talk about Paint ings and the Opera. He had just started to oat up a thiilling Piece entitled, "How It Feels to Be Red-Headed" when his Attention was directed to two Pearls of Young Womanhood planted directly across the Aisle. CLAUDINE'S POROUS EATS They were Regulars and had overlooked Nothing. They were clipped high and had been dipped in Flour and had large rolling Eyes and wore One-Piece Gowns which did not seem to be securely fast ened. The Exposure included a long vertical Stretch of what is called the Shin-Bone. This traveler had no desire to pry into the Secrets of these Cuties, who probably came of Refined Peo ple, no matter what they looked like. He was no Eavesdropper, In terloper or Buttinsky. If he could have kept out of their Confidences he would have done so. But his only chance would have been to get off the Bus. Because he could not help him self. he heard the whole Story, in volving an undramatic Prologue, a treacherous Betrayal, Scandal and Dirt, Plot and Counterplot, the dis solution of friendships and the bust up of Love's Young Dream. Everything had been O. K. be tween Edna and Claudine up to the time of the Picnic. It must have been because the two of them packed in the same Basket, and it was understood, from the Begin ning, that they would eat with Ray mond and Ollie, but nothing was said before the Picnic about Clau dine's Boob Cousin from Springfield, who was nothing but a Ringer and had an Appetite like a Horse. It wouldn't have been so bad if Claudine had come through Fifty- Fifty, but she was always looking for a Chance to make a Splurge with somebody else's Chow. ELMER THE GOOF All of that Rough Stuff at the Picnic might have been forgotten if she hadn't traipsed all over Town the next Week telling Everybody that Edna had told Alma that Ray mond was going to be Captain of the Basketball Team instead of El mer. Always trying to start some thing. Her Middle Name was cer tainly War. It was a Fuhny Thing that Clau dine would knock Raymond the way she had and then go out to vamp him. And get away with it! Right from the Start Claudine had misrepresented, in every Way, Shape, Matter and Form, every thing that Edna had said about the Basketball Team, even going so o I'earls of Young Womanhood Across the Aisle. far as saying to Raymond, after he didn't got to bo Captain, that he would have all right if Edna hadn't, queered him by going to the Super intendent and some of the Boys and shooting off her Mouth and get ting everybody sore at her. All of which was a Pack of Lies, becuz Edna never opened her Face about Basketball unless she was asked and th?n said, in a Nice Way, that she hoped Raymond would be Cap tain. Probably Raymond was a Goner unless somebody could get to him and give him the Low-Down and Inside on the Trouble-Maker, becuz, say what you will, Raymond wasn't such a Bad Scout. Just weak, that's all. Claudine had sewed Buttons on him becuz the Simp believed everything she passed out to him right or wrong. Sooner or later he would find out what she had told Mr. Finch, who ran the Picture Show. It seems that she had been waiting out in Front for the Poor Egg to show up and take her in to see ed Women" and Mr. Finch, in a joshing Way, started to kid her about Raymond and she said that he was nothing in her Young Life but she couldn't give him the Air becuz he was Nuts about her and tagging at her Heels every Minute Those were the very identical Words she had used, becuz Mr. Finch had told Mrs. Finch, who had imparted the Big Sensation to Alberta Wilcox. SWIPING THE Ol.l) GREEK BADGE The very Idea of her saying that Raymond had been chasing her when everybody in Town knew that she had been making Googy-Eyes at him for a Year and doing a lot of other things that no Girl who had been well brought lip would think of doing. For one Thing, he couldn't back the Car out of the Garage without her being on the Corner, all diked no like a Horse and Buggy to flag him. It's funny where they went rid ing at Night. Her mother didn't seem to have the slightest Control over her. She could get away with all that Murder for a While but sooner or later she would got such a Hard Name that she wouldn't be able to break into a Public Dance with a letter of Introduction from Herbert Hoover. If Raymond wasn't such a Goose he'd remember what she pulled on George Spelvin while he was home from the Academy. She told around that he gave her the Frat Pin. but it was purty well known that she just the same as swiped it and then gave him the Old One about losing it, which is awful Coarse Work, if anyone should ask. Kit Lawrence had told Effie Dusenberry that she knew Claudine still had the Badge. If that didn't make a Thief out of her, what would you call if I ask you. As for having a Chance to go to Hollywood and be in a Picture, all that Chatter just proved that she was Crazy in the Head. Somebody had told her she looked like Nancy Carroll and since then there had been no living with her. It seemed that the Future of the Universe was now hinging on the Junior Prom. She (Claudine) had been buying Things and Telling around that Raymond was going to take her, but Edna and Blanche said, wouldn't it be a Good Joke if he gave her the Toss? While further Plans for saving the much-to-be-desired Raymond were on the Fire, the Traveler had to alight and he may never know what happened to the Eternal Tri angle. MORAL: Suffering in Silegce has become a Lost Art.
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