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AMERICAN FORESTR\' 



I liis point of view is told in the Auiorac Ncik's, which was 

 published by the American .\rmy of Occupation at 

 Coblenz in these words : 



"The most urgent necessity of our country is good 

 roads — jiermanent roads that can be used twelve months 

 in each year. The roads of America today are abso- 

 lutely inadequate, inefficient, and antiquated. They arc- 

 not designed to carry heavy traffic. It is a vital problem, 

 this question of good roads, one that reaches down into 

 the very foundation of our social and economic scheme of 

 life, for roads are the clearing houses for the various 

 States and the onl\- means of free travel. ( )ur national 



nmnicipalilies ha\'e ])lanne<l their own nieniorial highways 

 or victory drives. In St. .Mbans, W-rmont. for example, 

 ;i memorial avenue a half 'mile long has been planted 

 by the Woman's Club. ,,\t Bridgeton, New Jersey, a 

 drive has been planted with trees in honor of that town's 

 heroes. These tree plantings are being reported to the 

 American Forestry Association for registration on the 

 National Honor Roll of trees the association is com])iling. 

 Street tree jjlanting has been taken u]) anew and a fine 

 o])ening for the community spirit is found in the neigh- 

 bors along a street or a block getting together and de- 

 ciding to beautify their surroimdings. The movement 



1917 --WORLD WAR -1918 



SCHOOL 

 HOUSE 



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CORP FRANK Ml NAMARA JOHN CONNELL EARL KEARNEY FRANK KEARNEY 



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FRANCIS CARBERRY 



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SGT FRANK VCOUGHLIN 

 ALFRED KEARNEY JOSEPH J KEARNEY 



CLARENCE KINGSTON ARZIE GILLESPIE 



CLARENCE MILLER 



LIEUT. FRANCIS TRACY 



KILLED IN ACTION 



DANIEL MAHONEY LIEUT. URBAN LAVERY 

 LI BUT. PAUL LAVERY 



SIDNEY E.HARVEY LIEUTJAMES F.LAVERY 



ACADIA SCHOOL 



This bronze tablet (without tile picture inserts) is one of the most unique memorials marking memorial tree planting in the United Stater. 

 The tablet hangs in the Acadia School, at Lavery. Pennsylvania, and each star on the tablet marks where, in the school yard, a memorial tree 

 has been planted in honor of the former i)Upils. There is one star in golil, tliat of Lieut. Francis Tracy, wbo was killed in action. This tree is 

 an oak. The others are maples. Lieut. Tracy was killed in the Argonne tni his tliirty-lifth birthday. The other insert, Mrs. Annie Lavery 

 RaycrofI, was ehairriian of the dedication committee. From all over Frie county hundreds came to the dedicatiitn. 



prosjjerity demands that this disadvantage of roads be 

 overcome. This can only be done by honest legislators 

 making laws, the enforcement of which shall be ])laced 

 in the hands of men who have passed the test, by service 

 in the construction and maintenance of highways." 



With nearly a billion dollars appro])riated from one 

 source or another for good roads the opportunity for 

 beautifying these roads conies right now. The move- 

 ment is well underway and growing every day. Many 



has sjjread arnnnd the world for the .\merican Forestry 

 ■Association has just received word that New Zealand has 

 plans under way for "Roads of Remembrance" follow-ing 

 ;i meeting of borough council presidents and automobile 

 officials called by P. J. Luke, the Alayor of Wellington. 

 ( )ne road under discussion is between Wellington and 

 .\uckland, straight across the dominion. Take up the 

 work- in your community and start the movement going as 

 a rei)resentative of the .American Forestrv Association. 



