Part 6 (1/2)
”We need trees most where our population is the thickest, and some trees, like some people, are not adapted to such a life,” said Dr
Mulford ”For street or school yard planting one of the first considerations is a hardy tree, that can find nourishranite sidewalks It ht to be native to the country and climate America has the prettiest native trees and shrubs in the world and it is true patriotisnize them
”For Southern states one of the prettiest and best of shade trees is the laurel oak, and there will be thousands of thereen and is a quick growing tree Theoak is another
”A little farther north the red oak is one of the roell, though this latter tree does not thrive well in crowded cities
”Nothing, however, is prettier than the American elm when it reaches the majesty of its maturity and I do not believe it will ever cease to be a favorite One thing against it, though, is the 'el and which will kill so is consistently practised China berry trees, abundant in the South, and box elders, native to a score of states, are quick growing, but they reach o to pieces”
”What is the reason that so many Arbor day trees die?” Dr Mulford was asked
”Usually lack of protection, and often lack of care in planting,”
was the answer ”When the new tree begins to put out tender rootlets a child brushi+ng against it or 'inspecting' it too closely will break them off and it dies Or stock will nip off the new leaves and shoots and the result is the same A frame around the tree would prevent this
”Then, often wild trees are too big when transplanted Such trees have usually only a few long roots and so e trunk cannot be nourished by the reer they are the better it is, for they have a lot of small roots that do not have to be cut off
”Fruit trees are seldo a street or road or in a yard In the first place their branches are too low and unless carefully pruned their shape is irregular Then they are subject to so iven them they will not bear a hatful of fruit a season
”On the other hand, nut trees are usually hardy and add y bark hickory are some of the more popular varieties”
The first Arbor day was observed in Nebraska, which has fewer natural trees than any other state This was in 1872, and Kansas was the second to observe the day, falling into line in 1875
Incidentally Kansas ranks next to Nebraska in dearth of trees
The Arbor day idea originated with J Sterling Morton, a Nebraskan as appointed secretary of agriculture by Cleveland Now every state in the Union recognizes the day and New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and others have gotten out extensive Arbor day booklets giving infor trees and birds; s and poerams
How an interview combined with a description of a person may serve to create sympathy for her and for the cause that she represents is shown in the following article, which was published anonyazine section of the _Ohio State Journal_ It was illustrated with two half-tone portraits, one of the young wo her in street dress
JUST LIKE POCAHONTAS OF 300 YEARS AGO
”_Oh, East is East and West is West, And never the two shall ers Hark to the words of ”One-who-does-things-well”
”I carry a ton,”
says Princess Galilolie, youngest daughter of John Ross, hereditary King of the ”Forest Indians,” the Cherokees of Oklahoma ”We have been a nation without hope The land that was prorow and the waters run,' has been taken from us It was barren and e received it seventy years ago Now it is rich with oil and cultivation, and the whites coveted our possessions Since it was thrown open to settlers no Cherokee holds sovereign rights as before, when it was his nation We are outnumbered I have come as a voice from my people to speak to the people of the Eastern States and to those at Washi+ngton--s before the President's wife, in whose veins glows the blood of the Indian”
Only nineteen is this Indian princess--this twentieth century Pocahontas--who travels far to the seats of the irl from the foothills of the Ozarks, from Tahlequah, former capital of the Cherokee Nation She says she is proud of every drop of Indian blood that flows in her veins But her skin is fair as old ivory and she is a college girl--a girl of the tih college and returns to his or her people,” she says with a smile, ”they say, 'Back to the blanket!' We have few blankets aest of nine children, and we are all of us college graduates, as my father was before us”
He is John Ross 3d, Chief of the Cherokee Nation, of led Scotch and Indian blood, in descent fro who held out against Andrew Jackson back in 1838 for the ancient rights of the Five Nations to their lands along the Southern Atlantic States
She sat back on the broadseat in the sunlight Beyond thelay a bird's-eye view of New York housetops, the white hted on a nearby telephone wire, sending out twittering o hoesture ”But I will stay until the answer comes to us Do you knohat they have called me, the old men and women who are wise--the full-bloods? Galilolie--'One-who-does-things-well' With us, when a na the child row to in fulfillment So I feel Iher chin, ”it is we young half-bloods who th and honor of our people to the world so it may understand us All our lives we have been told tales by the old men--how our people were driven from their homes by the Government, how Gen Winfield Scott's soldiers cao forth leaving everything behind the Cooweeskoith his wife and children, paused at the first hilltop to look back at his ho into it The house is still standing at Rossville, Ga Do you knohat the old people tell us children ish we could go back there?” Her eyes are half closed, her lips coly: ”They tell us it is easy to find the way over that 'Trail of Tears,' that through the wilderness it is blazed with the gravestones of those ere too weak to o, in 1838 The Government promised to pay amply for all it took from us, our homes and lands, cattle--even furniture A treaty was made solemnly between the Indians and the United States that Oklahorow and the waters run'