State of Connecticut -
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
SIMEON E. BALDWIN
GOVERNOR
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The reawakening of the earth at the touch of Spring,
again reminds the people of this Commonwealth that she
is one of the fairest in the whole sisterhood of States. To
keep her fair, and make her fairer still, our laws provide
that once a year the Governor shall set apart a day as
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and I now designate, as such, Friday, the seventeenth
day of April next.
Let teachers then in our public schools read this procla-
mation to all their scholars, and endeavor to impress upon
them how much in these directions each boy or girl can
do for the good of Connecticut. Let them call attention
to the statutes giving a bounty for planting trees by the
roadside, and making it a criminal offence to injure trees
on another's land, to post advertisements on trees in the
highway, to shoot or net any song bird, or to rob a bird's
nest. Let them tell their scholars, most of whom know
little of the face of Nature, except in their own immediate
neighborhood, that in fine scenery and variety of landscape,
Connecticut holds a position of distinction in America;
that they are among her citizens as fully as their parents;
and that it is the duty of every citizen to do his part, be it
great or small, to make his State a State Beautiful, and so
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attractIVe to the home dweller and visitor alike.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand, nine hundred and fourteen, of the founding of the
commonwealth the two hundred and seventy-fifth, and of the inde-
pendence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-eighth.
By His Excellency’s Command:
ALBERT PHILLIPS,
Secretary.
SIMEON E. BALDWIN.


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