TREE PLANTING TAKEN UP BY AIANY EDITORS 



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road is more than a way to get some place." 



The subject of permanent Christmas 

 trees that has been urged by the Associa- 

 tion i? taken up by the Milwaukee Journal 

 under the heading "Waste of Good Tim- 

 ber," the Hoboken Observer and the South 

 Bend Nezvs. The Milwaukee Journal says 

 on this point : 



"Trees adapted to Christmas use have 

 survived the ills and perils of infant life. 

 Barring accidents, they are sure to live 

 grow, and flourish. It is savagery, if one 

 views it rightly, to destroy them. Yet men 

 who would not harm a full-grown tree 

 hack down treelings without pity or re- 

 morse. But if we are to have trees for all 

 time, young trees must be saved." 



"The idea of planting trees as memorials 

 for our soldier boys who will not return is 

 a beautiful one," says the Ohio Farmer as 

 we find it quoted in the Fredericktown, 

 Ohio, Press. "The Christian Endeavor 

 Societies have been making a concerted 

 moveinent toward planting memorial trees 

 at the original suggestion of the American 

 Forestry Association" the Times Journal o{ 

 Bowling Green, 

 Kentucky, points 

 out. The Kansas 

 City Star wants 

 to know "why a 

 billion dollar 

 town is content 

 to look like thirty 

 cents ? " And 

 points to the 

 city's shabbiness 

 in tlie way of 

 vacant lots. 

 Prompt action is 

 urged by the 

 Hamilton Nezcs 



or we will find "this country will have 

 committed economic suicide." says that 

 paper in urging a national forest policy and 

 fire protection for our forests. The 

 Journal of Portland, Oregon, reprints the 

 editorial from the New York Times on the 

 work of the Association with a letter from 

 I. N. Lipman, an enthusiastic Oregonian, 

 who points out the advertising Oregon is 

 getting because of its good roads. "Re- 

 plenish the forests," says the New Orleans 

 [fein. and points to what Kansas and Illi- 

 nois, known as prairie states, are doing in 

 foresting the land. "It is a melancholy 

 fact," says the Item, "that few persons are 

 willing to take steps in time to keep a 

 natural resource from becoming exhausted." 



The Burlington, New Jersey, Enterprise 



has had two editorials on forestry and re- 

 prints the editorial from the New York 

 Times in full, with a two-column head and 

 the Western Newspaper Union has sent 

 out a special feature on "Roads of Remem- 

 brance" illustrated with several pictures. 

 "Grit" uses a half-page feature on memorial 

 tree planting and the International Syndi- 

 cate of Baltimore has used half-page arti- 

 cles on forestry in general and memorial 

 tree planting several times. The news 

 services, the Associated Press, the United 

 Press, the International News Service and 

 the Universal Service are all using news 

 stories of activities in forestry. The Chris- 

 tian Science Monitor used a half column 

 on the need of a national forest policy, and 

 followed it with an editorial on the "World 

 Call for Wood," which concludes that the 

 "need of the hour is to overcome the inertia 

 that has always operated to keep the ade- 

 quate handling of the forest situation in 

 this country behind the actual require- 

 ments." In opening the editorial the Moni- 

 tor points out that "what the people of the 

 United States could accomplish if every 



FAMOUS ELM SAVED IN HUNTINGTON, INDIANA. 



The famous Elm Tree at Huntington, Indiana, has been saved by the entire 

 change of architect's plans for a church which is to be erected by the Christian 

 Science Congregation of that city. In a report to the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion Daniel Shaeff, who led the movement to save the tree, announces that the arch- 

 itect, Samuel A. Craig, will so redraw his plans that the tree will be left with 

 plenty of root space, and that he will leave out the organist's room and the Sun- 

 day School classroom in order that the branches may have plenty of space. This 

 movement, in which the congregation is glad to join, is perhaps one of the most 

 unique ever adopted in order to save a tree. The picture of this tree appears on 

 another page of the magazine. 



person having an interest in land would 

 intelligently and persistently raise the trees 

 which his land could conveniently allow 

 space for, has never been measured, unless, 

 negatively, through the obvious waste of 

 tree opportunities every where." It would 

 seem the editor had every member of the 

 .\ssociation in mind when he wrote that 

 sentence and a more urgent call for co- 

 operation could scarcely be phrased. 



In Montreal the Daily Star deplores the 

 fact that trees are fast disappearing from 

 the streets of that city and calls for action. 

 In the Atlanta Constitution we find con- 

 tinued co-operation with the Association in 

 an editorial on the terrors of a forest fire. 

 The San Diego Sun urges that a tree be 

 planted every time one is cut down and the 



Concord Monitor says, "had the forest po"ii- 

 cy of this country been what it should 

 have been we would have timber for our- 

 selves and for Europe and to spare." The 

 Houston Post is of the opinion that "what 

 the country needs is a strong movement to 

 induce the planting of trees similar to the 

 movements that h?.ve resulted in such in- 

 creased production of food for war pur- 

 poses." The San Francisco Chronicle 

 takes up the "Hero Grove" in Golden Gate 

 Park at length. The Boise Caf'ital I\'ezvs. 

 in an editorial on the planting of memorial 

 trees by the war mothers, says: "Though 

 the final dedication may be a great public 

 affair, there is something singularly appro- 

 priate in this private planting of trees by 

 the people who, when all is said and done, 

 care more than anybody else." 



The Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore 

 seldom has an issue in which the subject of 

 forestry is omitted. The Chicago Tribune 

 has taken up the question of the Forest 

 Preserve near Chicago and calls upon the 

 people to help preserve it by keeping their 

 hands off the beautiful things in the pre- 

 serve. To quote 

 the Tribune: 

 "W h y worry 

 about the ex- 

 tinction of the 

 bison and elk 

 and not care a 

 c o n t i n e n t a 1 

 whether the 

 things which are 

 native hereabouts 

 live or die?" The 

 lack of shade 

 trees along Har- 

 risburg's streets 

 is the subject of 

 a stirring editorial in tie Evening Neu'S of 

 that city. The Bethlehem Times is devoting 

 as much as a column a day to features from 

 the American Forestry Association. The 

 Worcester Post is urging the planting of 

 memorial trees in that city and has asked 

 the Association for all data on the subject 

 of tree planting. To print a list of • 

 the newspapers using nevvis from the .Asso- 

 ciation would be to print the directory of 

 such publications. The greatest of oppor- 

 tunities for members of the Association is 

 at hand. Their co-operation will bring 

 forestry to the front in each locality. Now 

 is the time to act by writing to your 

 editor and sending to the Association 

 anything you see dealing with the for- 

 estry problem. 



TO SAVE CALIFORNIA REDWOODS FOR AUTO ROADS. 



A movement has been started to save the California redwoods along the roads. "The plan is for the purchase by the 

 State of a strip on either side of state roads in the redwood country, along which the giant trees shall be left untouched," 

 says the San Francisco Chronicle, "as a memorial of the great groves of the past and a keen delight to the traveler 

 through that region." Edward E. Ayer, of Chicago, who motors through the region every year, has reported to M. H. 

 de Young of San Francisco that in some sections "a battlefield could not look worse than where the lumbermen have 

 been cutting down these giants of the forest." 



