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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



DIGEST OF OPINIONS ON FORESTRY 



WILL YOU NOT CO-OPERATE WITH US BY IMPRESSING UPON THE EDITOR OF YOUR 

 NEWSPAPER THE IMPORTANCE OF FORESTRY? WRITE TO YOUR NEWSPAPER 



lyrEMORIAL TREES, the forest fire in Minnesota, the 

 ■'■"■'■ work of the Boy Scouts in locating wahiut trees and 

 the saving of paper are subjects discussed by the news- 

 papers of recent issue. In the Memorial Tree and paper 

 saving campaign the American Forestry Association has 

 a big part and with the co-operation of the members of 

 the association will have a still bigger part. Every mem- 

 ber should further the suggestion that Memorial Trees 

 be planted for the sailors and soldiers who fought in 

 the war by writing his newspaper and placing the sug- 

 gestion before committees having memorials in charge. 

 Each member should constitute himself a committee of 

 one to forward to the secretary marked copies of papers 

 mentioning this subject in any way. 



Plans for memorials are now being discussed every- 

 where. The Boston Post devoted a page to memorial 

 suggestions leading the article with a letter from the 

 American Forestry Association suggesting that trees be 

 considered in whatever was done. The Pittsburgh 

 Gazette-Times in an editorial tells of the association's 

 secretary going to France to offer aid to reforesting that 

 country and of the importance of that work. The Con- 

 stitution of Atlanta takes up the Memorial Tree idea 

 editorially and says the suggestion is "both commendable 

 and feasible." The Dayton News points out what fine 

 memorials trees will make and adds that their great value 

 to bird life should be taken into account. "Any plan 

 that will result in more tree planting," says the Milwaukee 

 Journal, "should have the most careful consideration." 

 The New York Sun says editorially: "No more appro- 

 priate, beautiful, or sensible memorial to the men who 

 have fallen in the war could be devised than plantations 

 of trees." The New York Mail calls the memorial tree 

 idea one of "excellent possibilities for a great national 

 work." 



"Tree planting is at once a simple, thoughtful, artistic 

 and durable means of raising a memorial. It is being 

 urged by the American Forestry Association," says the 

 Chicago Tribune, "and because it is so simple of accom- 

 plishment and so enduring it should receive immediate 

 and active support everywhere in the United States." 



"There would seem to be a quality all but universal 

 in its appeal in the proposal, which to a considerable 

 degree has been put into practice to plant trees along 

 the great highways," says the Cincinnati Enquirer, while 

 the Baltimore Star takes this view: "The public is be- 

 coming sympathetically attuned to the idea of having 

 memorial trees planted for soldiers and sailors." The 

 suggestion for permanent Community Christmas Trees is 

 meeting with hearty indorsement and Earl Godwin, writ- 

 ing in the Washington Times, says: "There is a good 



idea. Here is a fine opportunity for a 'Victory Grove' 

 that would be one of the finest tributes to our heroes no 

 matter what may be done in bronze or stone." As to 

 the value of memorial tree planting the Tifton, Georgia, 

 Gazette says, "that is a splendid suggestion from the 

 Savannah Nezvs." 



"A Spectator" who witnessed the planting of Memorial 

 Trees for four members of the Church of the Holy 

 Innocents, at Tacony, writes in the Public Ledger, "the 

 exercises were marked by great reverence and solemnity." 

 "The Listener" in the Boston Transcript devotes com- 

 ment to memorial tree planting and the Transcript also 

 calls attention to the request of the Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Native Plants that less laurel be used. The 

 New York Evening World prints the story of the laurel 

 wreath sent to President Wilson by the General Federa- 

 tion of Women's Clubs which is urging it as the national 

 flower. The Post Dispatch of St. Louis in an editorial 

 asserts there are many available locations for tree plant- 

 ing there and continues, "the groves were God's first 

 temples, and as a living shrine for liberty the twentieth 

 century can offer nothing better." The Public Ledger 

 says, "there will be complete unanimity as to the wisdom 

 of formal tree planting in parks and on highways." The 

 country is impatient, the Public Ledger adds, with the 

 average memorial that sprang up after the Civil War. 



The drain upon the sources of the timber supply of 

 Great Britain are pointed out in a long article in the 

 Christian Science Monitor and the St. Nicholas treats 

 of what family the peanut really belongs while the 

 Youth's Companion tells its readers about the wood 

 needed in making an aeroplane propeller. The Nashville 

 Banner carries an article by Latimer J. Wilson on the 

 "aeroplane forest patrol" which subject is attracting at- 

 tention all over the country. The New York Herald had 

 a good story on the offer of the American Forestry 

 Association to help in reforesting France and another on 

 the need of replanting black walnuts. 



In an article on "Autumn's Chemistry" the Portland 

 Oregonian touches upon the wonders of Nature at the 

 closing of the year. The Cleveland Plain Dealer carries 

 a feature story on the quick work in pine tree cutting to 

 make ships at Galveston. The Washington Star prints 

 the letter to the Boy Scouts from Secretary of War Baker 

 ])raising that organization for its work in locating black 

 walnut. The Washington Times has printed many arti- 

 cles on memorial trees and the news associations, as could 

 be seen from the page of headlines printed in the Decem- 

 ber number, have co-operated in a very fine way. The 

 Times of Marietta comments upon the fact that walnut 

 trees are disappearing and says, "for every food tree cut 



