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Fifty years ago the State of Nebraska instituted the
observance of a day set apart for tree planting. This day
was known as Arbor Day, and its observance has become
general throughout the nation. It is a day of sentiment,
reverence and faith—sentiment in the acknowledgment of
the tender susceptibility of man toward all the living things
of the out-of-doors; reverence inspired within us by the
sturdiness of the oak, the majesty of the pine, the beauty
of the elm and the splendor of the leaf bearing branches
of the maple with its seasons of changing color and form;
a well grounded faith in the productive energy of nature's
generous creative forces.
To us of Michigan, Arbor Day is of particular significance.
Time was when our forests outshone in splendor and
magnificence those of any other State. Today, through the
utilization of this natural product and the devastation
wrought by forest fires, these forests have to a large extent
disappeared, though we still have many thousands of
acres of beautiful forest land.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as
Governor of the State of Michigan, I do hereby designate
Friday, May Fifth, 1922, as Arbor Day, and I request that
exercises appropriate to the day be held in all our schools.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the State this twenty-first day
of April, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-
two, and of the Commonwealth the
eighty-sixth.
Governor.
By the Governor:
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Secretary of State.