LETTER ISSUED TO SCHOOL OFFICIALS IN 1919
Arbor Day will occur this year on Friday, April 11. An announcement concerning it may be found in the March number of the Education Bulletin.
It has been happily suggested by Secretary Houston of the Department of Agriculture at Washington that the day be observed in part this year by planting trees upon our roadways, in our yards, and in our pleasure places, each tree being named for a soldier who has fallen in the late War. Such trees would be appropriate memorials to these soldiers.
I suggest that this particular year there be wide-spread planting of trees dedicated to those whose lives have been sacrificed in the War. The planting of the trees should be marked with some appropriate exercises and these exercises should take on more than a school significance. The whole community should be invited by the school to take part.
I trust there may be a generous response on the part of the schools of New Jersey to this idea.
Calvin N. Kendall
Commissioner of Education
TREES AND FORESTS
ALFRED GASKILL, STATE FORESTER
Save What We Have, Let Planting Come After