BY HIS EXCELLENCY
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB
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ſº TW the stormy tide of human affairs, we are prone
º to forget how much we owe to our old Mother
Nature. Her breast it is to which we look for
nourishment, and in her beauty we find sur-
cease from troubling. How gratefully, in these
days of turmoil, we raise our eyes to the immutable hills,
how soothingly the soft greens and browns of earth's cloak
fold us about, how restfully come the myriad voices that
speak in the soughing of the winds in the pines, the
whispering of the leaves and the rustling and twittering of
the little wild folk of the woods! What a dreary world it
would be shorn of all this beauty! The hand of man has
done much to dim this our rightful heritage. It should be
our task increasingly to strive to restore the injury that
has been done and to stay that which, else, will surely
come. That a realization of this may be very forcefully
brought home to us, the legislature has required the desig-
nation of a day for its consideration, and I do, therefore,
now name Friday, the twentieth day of April as
in the hope that then the people of the state, and particu-
larly the pupils in its schools, will lay aside their wonted
tasks for a little, think of the gifts which nature offers to
us so freely, and consider whether it be not our duty to
do all we can to preserve them for future generations.
the one hundred and forty-first.
By His Excellency’s Command:
Secretary.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine
hundred and seventeen, and of the independence of the United States










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