ideas through the medium of the schools. A year or so ago a 

 child was killed in New York City getting off a street car, 

 and a perfect chorus of indignation went up. All the newspa- 

 pers said what in the world is the matter with the public schools 

 that they do not teach children how to get off the street cars. 

 And the schools met the new requirement and everywhere a 

 demonstrator went the rounds showing children the proper 

 method of alighting. Perhaps it is this spirit which expects 

 everything from the schools that makes me wonder if full ad- 

 vantage has been taken of the various educational agencies of 

 the state to inculcate a knowledge of trees' aesthetic and 

 economic value unitedly considered. We have tried to instill 

 in children a love of trees so they will never wantonly mutilate 

 them and when they grow up and become our legislators and 

 city commissioners and business men every measure having to 

 do with forest preservation will have them to champion it. 

 Such love can be instilled that it will be a positive physical 



"n to see forests dying as one sees them in the South from 

 method used in extracting turpentine, or to behold them 

 aged by fire or killed by borers. 

 Ve have tried to teach in the home that trees have always 

 been the greatest friends to the race and we must be their 

 friend. If our young people could visit a little forest nursery 

 as I did near Cloquet, see the seed beds and the transplant 

 beds and learn what delicate painstaking care these baby 

 trees require and how long it takes nature even assisted to 

 grow a tree, I am sure there would be far less ruthless de- 

 struction. Most of the things we do wrong or are indifferent 

 to are because we don't know. 



A very attractive leaflet appears from the Massachusetts 

 Forestry Association to be used by the children for their 

 Arbor Day exercises. I wish we had one. 



Another measure we want to assist is securing good roads 

 .for the country where the forests are quite unpenetrated by 

 aught but a trial. Miss Annie Shelland, of International Falls, 

 Koochiching county, helped her county secure from the last 

 legislature $25,000 for fire breaks, virtually highways. As 

 county school superintendent, she knew thoroughly the press- 

 ing need to provide a way for the school children to get back 



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