county saperiaie ; ,i>lents c>f schfiols appoint an Arbor Day independently, 

 and lead their counties magnificently to use it. An individual district, 

 in the absence of higher action, may select an Arbor Day of its own, 

 and fittingly celebrate it. Where there's a will there's a way. 



I heartily recommend the appropriate observation of an Arbor Day to 

 each of the school people who reads these lines. Whoever plans the 

 ceremonies will need to take heed to the double nature of the day. 

 First, and deepest, lies the intent to graft into our body politic a worthy 

 idea of the TREE in its relation to our national life, with some of the 

 fundamental patriotic duties growing out of that idea. This can be 

 done in every school of the land, large or small, in city or country. 

 Second, and simpler, is the intent to actually DO some concrete thing to 

 make the earth better in future; to plant, to improve, to adorn some 

 small part of it with loving care. Some schools, perhaps, have not 

 opportunity for this; yet poor indeed must be the place that can not 

 afford some vacant corner, some neighboring lot, some neglected street 

 where the children of the school may do an unselfish piece of work on 

 Arbor Day. There's a way when there's a will. 



I trust this idea may appeal to you, that it may receive your atten- 

 tion, your energy, your thought. It can not do you any harm and it 

 may do you good. And through you it may work great good to gener- 

 ations as yet unborn. I leave it with you. 

 Very truly yours, 



EDWARD HYATT, 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



To those who have contributed to the Arbor Day Report we are deeply 

 indebted. Thoughts and ideas have been freely used from the Arbor 

 and Bird Day Manuals published by educators in New York, Ohio, Wiscon- 

 sin, Oregon, Alabama, Colorado, West Virginia, and other states. We have 

 used this information for the benefit of the people of California, believ- 

 ing, with a neighboring superintendent, that "whatever these publica- 

 tions contain relating to Arbor Day ought to be scattered broadcast and 

 thus become the common knowledge of all, to be used by all, to arouse 

 an active interest in tree planting among the people of our state." 



To Success Magazine for material; to the Neuner Company, Sierra 

 Madre Chamber of Commerce, and others for the loan of engravings; to 

 Andrew Hill for his drawings; to Miss Calthea C. Vivian, Prof. H. M. Hall, 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, and all others who have had their part and rendered 

 valuable assistance in producing the report, we extend grateful thanks. 



