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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MARCH 26,1918.
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Labor Of Country Can Be Stabilized By Aesthetic Homes
Professor Stevens Considers Shifting Labor Conditions A Useless Waste
"The labor turn-over in America factories back East is something awful and utterly wasteful," he said, "and a thing that can be remedied very much by planting flowers, shrubs and trees. Every few months there is a complete turnover in these factories and with a resultant loss in production. Drawing big wages, labor is dissatisfied with its surroundings and is shifting consortia to good job to another. At 810 a day in Philadelphia, it isn't striking for hospitals, but against ugly sordid homes, and for better homes. Factories change their working organizations in a few months, and the loss in training and recruiting new worker is enormous in the loss it causes.
"England has had its industries, particularly the war industries, greatly crippled by just such a condition, and England has solved the problem by providing better and more attractive homes for its industrial workers. It is a fact, proved in England, and our government now recognizes it, that a little vine covered cottage with flowers, shrubs and grass about will hold a man to his job when big wages absolutely will not. And the American government and the industries are planning a big use of flowers to make the kind of homes that will hold the man to the job."
Flowers and trees make possible a bigger output of munitions and domestic articles in American industries today. In fact, flowers and trees play a great direct part in the stability of exports and commerce in the United States.
Prof. W. C. Stevens, chairman of the department of botany at the University of Kansas, made the foregoing assertion in urging the planting of more trees, shrubs and flowers in Kansas this spring.
Professor Stevens spent last fall and a part of the winter in New York in special research work for the government. He is continuing this search for new and substitute raw materials of various fibers and plant products while conducting his work at the University. Professor Stevens gave the following trees and shrubs as well suited for planting in Kansas towns and cities:
"The elm is the best tree for parkways in Kansas towns and cities from Missouri to Colorado," he said. It stands street conditions, smoke and dust, is hardy and quick growing and is most beautiful. In my opinion it is the best tree for parkways. It is too large to be planted in small lawns, but is fine for large spaces. Pin oak perhaps comes next as a street tree. It grows as far west as Hutchinson, possibly farther. Red oak also is good and about in this place map, put the green area in front now in all parts of the state, or the white ash that will thrive in the eastern twilights of Kansas. The sycamore, too, makes an excellent street tree, Sugar and Norway maples make excellent street and lawn trees, but soft maples should be planted only in parks. They break easily and prevent grass from growing.
"The sugar and Norway maples do well at least as far west as Newton. They with oaks, ash, sycamore, wild cherry and honey locust make fine lawn trees for Kansas. Another good tree for Kansas is the ginkgo, a delicate leave, beautiful tree. Catalpas make good lawn trees but are not good for street planting. Dogwoods, sasafras in the eastern part, and the Chinese pagoda tree and Russian olive also are good lawn trees. Every backyard should have a fruit tree or two. Nut trees are slow growth usually and do not transplant easily.
*Perhaps the two best evergreen trees for lawn planting in Kansas are the Austrian pine with its dark gray bark, rapid growth, long life and hardiness and the Scotch pine with its reddish brown bark and more irregular outline. White pine is too susceptible to blister rust to risk planting. The red cedar, which will grow anywhere in Kansas, also is good, particularly planted with Chinese arbor vitae in windbreaks. For a dwarf pine the Mugho is desirable. A group of these evergreens is made much more attractive by having one or two white birches planted in front of them as acent plants. The Colorado blue spruce is also an excellent accent plant, one or two of them being planted against a group of larger trees. The white birch will grow as far west as Hutchinson. West of that
I am not informed, as to the white birch."
Do not try to plan too large a tree, if an elm, one not more than three inches in diameter, Professor Stevens said. Rich men can transplant full grown trees, and perhaps get them to grow in a fashion, but the small tree will eventually catch up with such transplanted trees. For all-Kansas shrubs Professor Stevens recommends lilacs, spires, hardy roses, including cherry blossoms, pear wedge, tamarix, high bush crabberry (a variety of snowball), forthia, alchemy, wisteria, honey-sucke; also climatis, desmidium, for fall blooming; holly-hocks, petunias, irises, jonquils, phlox, stocks and mallows.
The Anglo-Saxon knew very little about spring. His world was mostly night and winter. His life was sternly solemn, for he fought with nature on sea and on land. His primitive civilization was impotent against the rigor of the elements. When spring did come after the long ice winter, he just had to celebrate. He welcomed the season with a joy that was reverent, for he was a serious man and a religious one. A thrill went through his heart when April
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