April 15, 1924 Tuesday O. H. S. STUDENTS GATHER ARBOR DAY SENTIMENTS Today being: Arbor day we shall devote our entire space to Arbor day thoughts and sentiments. "Though I knew I shoirld die to­morrow, I would plant a tree to­day."-Stephen Gerard. Trees are like friends-inspir­ing, congenial, sheltering one from the storms of th world.-Elva King. It is a selfish man who lives only in today. The man who helps to beautify now, inevitably enhances tomorrow's world.-Norda Huish. Trees are the philosophers of na­ture. They hold the secrets of the earth, they understand the winds and they reach toward the heavens in calm communion with God.- Eleanor Kidder. REVEALS BEAUTY. In cultivating plant life we find a certain new beauty that was ever hidden before. We behold a bright­er and a more fragrant flower, when we, ourselves, add our own touch of care,-LaVon Trapp. A tree is like a great book. The older it gets the more beloved it becomes.-Clifton Rhead. If you plant a tree and I plant a tree Oh, what beauty there will be! -Gladys Mumford. Trees-the living monuments of the greatness of the all powerful God who made them.-Charles Carr. To plant a seed is to create new life-a divine accomplishment.- Jeanne Chez. Each tree is a symbol of the thought that put it there. Each year it reminds one of the message of the past, and bids him also to show the greatness of his soul.- Aneesa Malouf. EXPRESS EMOTIONS. Trees are the expression of na­ture's most beautiful thoughts and of her varying moods. When a tree is sad, the breeze carries l'rom her leaves sobs and sighs; when a tree feels fear the breeze carries from leaves and branches low mys­terious whispers and mutterings; when a tree is glad the breeze car­ries from her songs of joy and hope, victory, peace and love. Trees are so human and so full of under­standing that mankind has ever sought them as protectors, comfort­ers, companions and friends. As "the groves were God's first tem­ples" so have they also been man's place of refuge in times of stress, his resort in times of merry-mak­ing and festivity, and his shrine in hours of soulful worship. God be thanked for trees.-W. A. ORIGIN OF ARBOR DAY. It is not long since some of. our treeless western states, desiring to promote the culture of trees, ap­pointed a day early in spring for popular tree planting. But up to 1883 no state had advanced this movement by the institution of an arbor day, to be observed in schools. Ohio was the first state to move in this matter. Other states which had suffered by the wanton de­struction of its primeval forests fol­lowed the example of Ohio. Now Arbor day is a national holiday set apart for this laudable purpose of planting trees. The school children of New York state alone planted more than 200,000 trees within 10 years from the time that Arbor day was estab­lished. j It is estimated that the land in j the United States now covered with wood growth is 450 million j acres. Of this area about 70 million acres belong to the United States government. ! He who plants a tree, he plants love Tents of coolness spreading out i above, Wayfarers, he may not live to see , Gifts that grow are best; Hand that bless are blest; Plant life does the rest; Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree, And his work his own reward shall be. Locy iiarcom. AN HISTORIC TREE. j A. royal charter was obtained jTn sixteen sixty-two; The colonies of Connecticut, ! A bond of union drew. When Andros came with sixty men. The charter to revoke, Brave Captain Wadsworth hid it safe Within the Charter Oak. (This charter oak was blown down in 1856. Thg vice president's chair at Washington is made from wood from this famous oak.)-R. C. Adams. THE POEM AND THE TREE. I think that I shall never see A poem, lovely as a tree. A tree Avhose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks to God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; ! A tree that may in summer wear j A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain Who intimately lives with rain I Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. -Joyce Kilmer.