FORWARD WITH TREE PLANTING 



BY CHARLES LATHROP PACK 



PRESIDENT, AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



"lie "cn'ho plants a tree. 

 He plants love. 



Tails of coolness spreading out above 

 Wayfarers he may not live to see. 



IF YOU or your city have not joined the army of those 

 who are planting trees, enhst now ! With the growing 

 interest in this movement, do not allow yourself or 

 your community to lag behind. It is one of the most 

 important pieces of reconstruction work in the United 

 States in which you should have a part ; in fact, it is a 

 work which should be continuous and grow with the 

 passing. 



There is no reason why this should not be so. The 

 interest which has been 

 aroused in tree planting 

 throughout the country 

 should be maintained. The 

 added impetus which has 

 been given to this worthy 

 enterprise by the suggestion 

 of the American Forestry 

 Association that trees be 

 planted in honor of Ameri- 

 ca's soldiers and sailors, 

 both as memorials to the 

 dead and as tokens of ap- 

 preciation to the living for 

 their ofifer of service, 

 should not be allowed to 

 die. It should be but the 

 beginning of a great for- 

 ward-sweeping desire and 

 determination on the part 

 of the people of America to 

 see their cities and parks 

 beautified with handsome 

 trees, their roads and ave- 

 nues shaded and strength- 

 ened and their forest re- 

 sources enriched through a 

 deepening and broadening 

 of conservation methods 

 and efforts. A patriotic 



chord was struck by the memorial tree-planting idea. It 

 made an appeal which has been nation-wide ; and in hun- 

 dreds of places throughout the United States it has been 

 carried into effect or plans are being made for its adop- 

 tion either as a separate proposition or in connection with 

 some other memorial being erected. 



One of the big plans which has been suggested and 

 which would fit m closely with that of the American 

 Forestry Association, is that advanced by Col. Webb C. 



.\ MOST UKN.AMENTAI, TREE 



The cone-shaped cypress with its graceful, light-green foliage is con 

 sidered one of the finest trees that can be planted for decorative pur 

 poses, and is widely used throughmit the United States. 



Gifts that grow are best; 

 Hands that bless are blest. 

 Plant! Life does the rest." 



{From poem "Plant a Tree," 



by Lucy Larcom.) 



Hayes, the son of a former president of the United States. 

 Colonel Hayes was chairman of the Cuba-China Battle- 

 lield Commission of the War Department which was 

 charged with the marking of graves of American soldiers 

 who died in foreign service, and who has recently return- 

 ed from France where he served as regional Commis- 

 sioner for military labor. 



This would provide for a county unit system of plac- 

 ing memorial tablets to the men who gave their lives 



for their country. These 

 tablets would be placed on 

 the county courthouse or on 

 memorial highways extend- 

 ing from county to county, 

 [jreferably at the points 

 where these roads enter ad- 

 joining counties. Then the 

 plan for setting memorial 

 trees along these roads 

 would be pushed. This 

 would lead to the building 

 or improvement of thou- 

 sands of miles of roads in 

 the United States and to 

 the planting of many miles 

 of fine trees, which would 

 be an inspiration to other 

 effort in this direction at 

 the same time that it was 

 serving as a daily reminder 

 to the people of America of 

 the blessings of democracy 

 for which their sons and 

 brothers had fought and 

 died. Colonel Hayes be- 

 lieves also that the idea 

 could be extended to France 

 with a memorial highway 

 marked by trees extending 

 from Paris to a number of the battlefields where Ameri- 

 ca's sons won undying honor. 



Before leaving Europe Colonel Hayes cabled to the 

 Chamber of Commerce at Fremont, Ohio, his home 

 town offering to provide the tablets for the men from 

 Sandusky County; and William G. Sharp, former Ameri- 

 can Ambassador to France, did the same thing for 

 Lorain County. During the past session of Congress a 

 bill was introduced by Representative Sherwood, of Ohio, 



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