ARBOR DAY AID 



[Editor's Note : The following appreciation of service rendered to 

 the school will be suggestive to teachers and administrators of aid which 

 may be more readily obtained than is commonly realized.] 



The cry for Arbor Day literature suddenly makes itself heard 

 about the middle of April, rises in a crescendo, deafens the ears of 

 the town librarian and then too often remains unanswered when 



the hard-worked teacher falls 

 back upon "Woodman Spare 

 That Tree", or some other 

 historic anchor of the storm- 

 tossed pedagogue. 



One city of the Union, how- 

 ever, gratefully remembers 

 the aid given it by a city de- 

 partment in no way connected 

 with the schools. The Shade 

 Tree Commission of Newark, 

 N. J., at its own expense and 

 upon its own initiative, pub- 

 lished and distributed Arbor 

 Day literature for the school 

 children of the city from the 

 year 1907 to the present year. 

 In 1907, they distributed 10,- 

 000 four-page illustrated 

 leaflets to the different grades. 

 In 1908, 35,000 were given to 

 the primary children and 15,000 eight-page leaflets to the gram- 

 mar schools. 2000 copies of Secretary Bannwart's illustrated 

 "Four-fold Word for Trees" were given to the high school pu- 

 pils. In 1909 there were 20,000 most attractive color prints of 

 a maple leaf with appropriate literature on the back given to the 

 school children of public, private and parochial schools. The 

 grammar grades received 40,000 booklets especially designed for 

 them, while each teacher in the city, fifteen hundred in number, 

 received copies of Laura E. Richards' "The Tree in the City", 

 reprinted by the Shade Tree Commission by courtesy of the pub- 

 lishers. 



In addition to this, to each of the schools the Commission 

 sent a notice offering to furnish trees free for planting upon 

 Arbor Day and to supervise the work in each case. Arbor Day 



