Washington, Mar. 11, President Cootidee in a proctamation today" called upon the state Kovernor (0 eomnperate in. obser Vance of the week of April 27-May 3 as American Forest Week, and recommended that wherever" pos sible, Arbor Day be celebrated within Chat" week, American Forest Week will replace the period heretofore designate fed ay Forest. Provection Week. its observance wil be directed tional citizens' committee headed former Governor Frank 0. Lowden, of Mlinois, The committee ix to include 100° representatives fof national organizations which are being enlisted in an effort to make observance nation-wide, In his proclamation the President urged all patriotic citizens to unite in the common task of forest conservation and renewal. "The forests fof the future must be started today," he said, "Our children are dependent on our course. We are bound by a solemn obligation from which no evasion and-no subterfuge relieve us'—Reuter's Americas
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