The Chemawa American, April 01, 1914, Page 42, Image 42

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THE
CHEMAWA
AMERICAN
CAM PUS PR OGRAM
Senior Class, 1914
Song—Springtime—Tune—“ Auld Lang Syne”
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By the Class
How to Plant the Tree
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Petroleum Barrett
Tree Planted
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Charles Eder and Jesse Scowole
Arbor Day Selections
Gideon Hanbury, William Ready, William Service,
Michael McLeod, Jerry Rees, Charles Johnson,
• Alex Hobucket, Robert Service, Reginald Downie,
Ella McCully, Lubova Siftsoff
Reading—‘‘Woodman, Spare That Tree”
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Ruth Liphart
(Tree draped in national flag and class colors while
pupils are reciting)
Song The Class Tree —Tune, “ America”
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By the Class
(Tree—English Holly)
ARBOR D A Y
Chemawa should be exceedingly proud of and thankful for the privi­
lege and pleasure of a second time listening to Professor A. L. Peck
landscape gardener of Oregon Agriculture College, and notwithstand­
ing the fact that Prof. Peck told us that as far as Chemawa was con­
cerned his powder was exhausted, we think, here, that, perhaps, he has
a small supply of stick dynamite or nitro glycerine concealed somewhere
that will be as efficient on Arbor Day, 1915, as his powder was on the
two previous occasions; we are more nearly certain of this from the fact
that we overheard Professor Peck say that in his Agriculture extension
work last winter he never gave the same talk twice, but aimed to say
new things each time.
We had prided ourselves all along that we Americans were the origi­
nators of Arbor Day like all other good things. It seems, however,
that this is an error, for we were told that the custom of planting trees
is a very old one, originating as far back as the fourth century, A. D.;
that the Swiss used to plant acorns and seeds on the mountain sides and
name the trees after noted men as a sort of memorial and that other
countries did the same; that the custom originated in our country in
Nebraska where trees were planted, first as a protection against winds
and afterwards for their scenic beauty and that Sterling Morton was
the originator of Arbor Day. On another page of this issue a writer