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 1988 PRUCLAMATIONS, 1925. To our forest-using industries it means unstable investments, the ' depletion of forest capital, the disbanding of established enterprises, and the decline of one of. our most important industrial ou. Our forests ought to be put to work and kept at workin lm do not minimize the obstacles that have to be met, nor the difliculsy of changing old ideas and practices. We must all put our han s to this common task. It is not eno h that the Federal, State, and local governments take the lead. u§’here must be a change in our national attitude. Our industries, our landowners, our farmers, all our citizens must learn to treat our forests as crops, to be used but also to be renewed. We must learn to tend our woodlands as carefully as we tend our farms. A ` Let us ap ly to this creative task the boundless energy and skill we have so lbng spent in harvesting the free gifts of nature. The forests of the uture must be started to—day. Our children are dependent on our course. ‘We are bound by a solemn obligation from which no evasion and no subterfuge will relieve us. Unless we fulfill our sacred responsibility to unborn generations, unless we use with gratitude and with restraint the generous I nd kindly `fts of Divine Providence, we shall prove ourselves wry guarmilans of a heritvzége we hold in trust. ,,,]X‘;‘,l§"‘2’§?§},‘,§'3j'g‘§_,‘f NO, THEREFORE, I, CALVIN OOOLIDGE, President of gg, ·¤¤¤¤•=¤¤ F¤¤·¤¢ the United States, do recommend to the Governors of the various eek,etc. · - · , · States to designate and set apart the week of April 7-May 3, inclusive, 1925, as American Forest Week, and, wherev practicable and not in confiict with State law or accepted customs, celebrate Arbor Day within that week. And I urge public officials, public and business associations, industria.l leaders, forest owners, tors, educators, and all patriotic citizens to unite in the common k of forest conservation and renewal. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto élet my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiHx`ed·f( DONE at the Cit of Washington this twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL] and twenty-five, and of the Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundred) and forty-ninth. C.u.vn~: Coonmorz By the President: Cmnrns E. Huomszs Secretary of State. · JPP9‘w“—?¢“-@- Br rim Pimsmmrr or rms UNITED Srsrns or Aimmca A PROCLAMATION Mg’}]¥g;,}}¤>j,_,lj;*,{g*¤¤* Whereas, There are around Glacier Bay on the southeast coast of rmmtie'. Alaska a number of tidewater glaciers of the first rank in a magnificient setting of lofty peaks, and more accessible to ordinary travel than other similar regions of Alaska, I And, Whereas, The region is said by the Ecological Society of America to contain a great variety of orest covering consistin of mature areas, bodies of youthful trees which have become establisied since the retreat of the ice which should be reserved in absolutely natural condition, and great stretches now Ibare that will become forested in the course of the next century, And Whereas, This area presents a unique opportunity for the scientific study of glacial behavior and of resulting movements and development of iiora and fauna and of certain valuable relics of ancient interglacial forests,