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[Illustration: OHIO
ARBOR DAY
1913]
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
STATE OF OHIO
In Accordance with Section 358
of the General Code of Ohio this
Arbor and Bird Day Manual
is Issued for the Benefit of the
SCHOOLS OF OUR STATE
Compiled by
MRS. GRACE R. CLIFTON
Issued by the
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS
APRIL 1913
Columbus, Ohio:
The F. J. Heer Printing Co.
1913
STATE OF OHIO
Executive Department
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR.
PROCLAMATION.
By authority of the law of the State of Ohio, Friday, April 4th, 1913,
is hereby named and set apart as
ARBOR DAY.
The statutes provide that those in charge of public schools and
institutions of learning are required to devote at least two hours to
giving information to the pupils and students concerning the value and
interest of forestry and the duty of the public to protect the birds
thereof and also for planting forest trees.
It is well that our people have come to a full appreciation of the
commercial, as well as the sentimental value of these things. This
appreciation was arrived at through the proper inculcation into the
minds of the young of the importance of observing the matters of nature
upon which we are all so dependent.
But let us not confine our observance of Arbor Day alone to the schools
and institutions of learning. Let us at least carry the spirit of the
day also into our homes as well. And above all, let us be mindful at
this time of the great scheme of nature wherein the humblest plant and
flower, as well as the lordliest of the animal creation, has its proper
place.
[Illustration: Ohio State Seal]
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the
Great Seal of the State to be affixed at Columbus, this fifteenth day
of January, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Nine Hundred and
Thirteen.
By the Governor:
JAMES M. COX.
CHAS. H. GRAVES
Secretary of State.
[Illustration: (signed) James M. Cox]
SECTION 358. The state commissioner of common schools shall issue each
year a manual for arbor day exercises. The manual shall contain matters
relating to forestry and birds, including a copy of such laws relating
to the protection of song and insectivorous birds as he deems proper.
He shall transmit copies of the manual to the superintendents of city,
village, special and township schools and to the clerks of boards of
education, who shall cause them to be distributed among the teachers of
the schools under their charge. On arbor day, and other days when
convenient, the teachers shall cause such laws to be read to the
scholars of their respective schools and shall encourage them to aid in
the protection of such birds.