Our Town, Vol. 5
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Excerpt from Our Town, Vol. 5: January 1902; A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Town of Wellesley The red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana) is one of the most widely distributed trees of the United States. It grows from Southern Canada to the Gulf and west to the Rocky Mountains. In the North it is usually a small tree, but in the South it attains a height of 60 to 90 feet and furnishes the best material for lead pencils. It thrives in dry, rocky or gravelly soil, makes a compact growth naturally and will stand pruning. A row of them planted close together and extending from the Rock-land Street bridge along the railroad track as far as the highway joins it would give our town a very pretty and unique feature, and serve to shield the highway from the noise and disturbance of passing trains. The red cedar possesses all the requirements for this Location height suited to the soil, evergreen, compact, ordinarily not wide spreading, nor growing too high for wires. The preservation of the Abbott cedar and the planting of a row of cedars along Washington Street are two projects which are worthy the attention of the citizens of Wellesley. American Citizenship By Victor J. Loring The story of the birth of our country is being retold, the old histories, poems, songs and traditions are being revived and put in new forms. The colonial novel and play are bringing vividly before this generation something of the splendid heroism of the men and women who conquered the wilderness and the savage and builded the Republic. It is an old, old story, and yet, read and re-read and sung by succeeding generations, it passes into boundless futurity, the quickening Inspiration of millions yet unborn. And yet, how inadequate the picture and the realization of what the fathers and mothers of America endured! And because we are so unable to realize the cost of our heritage in pain and suffering, deprivation and blood, I conceive to he the reason we so little value it. For we do place small value upon what they wrought for us if our actions denote anything. The old maxim that "actions speak louder than words" has a deep significance here. For the little band of noble men and women who braved an unknown sea to reach a land unknown and uninhabited save by savages and wild beasts, seeking freedom to worship God; for their descendants, who, when their liberties were imperiled, defied the strongest government on the face of the earth and founded the Republic; for those, their children, who later yet dared every-thing to preserve the Republic for is their children; for all those generations; for what they did in life and what they left us dying, we profess the greatest veneration, love and gratitude, and yet when the call comes to exercise that high privilege which is the foundation of all our liberties, the keystone in the arch of American freedom, how many fail to exercise it. Why? There are an hundred reasons why. Ask anyone who failed to vote at the last election, and he will give you several good business reasons. Is it not one´s duty to provide for one´s family first and to accumulate something for a rainy day? There is a dollar to be made in town and one vote will make little difference. Such are the superficial and selfish reasons given for failure to perform the highest act of citizenship. And yet there are those who have never missed a vote since their majority. Then in the matter of serving in office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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