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generally observed throughout Ohio, the school children 

 being particularly active in planting trees in school 

 grounds to former students who had gone into the ser- 

 vice. In Cincinnati among the schools which planted 

 trees on that day were Whitter, Bond, Hill, Westwood, 

 Oakley, Vine, Washington, Carson, Opportunity Farm 

 school. At Millville, New Jersey, each of eight schools 

 planted a tree in one of the city plazas. Simple and im- 

 pressive dedi- 

 catory services 

 were held as a 

 rule with the 

 plantings. One 

 of the most 

 touch ing of 

 these was that 

 at Burlington, 

 New Jersey, 

 where the baby 

 hand of little 

 Eleanor Mac- 

 Farland t e n - 

 derly clutched 

 the branches of 

 the tree which 

 was planted in 

 honor of her 

 father, Dr. 

 James MacFar- 

 land. When 

 Mrs. Frank L. 

 Johnson, presi- 

 dent of the 

 Civic League, 

 at the conclu- 

 sion of an ad- 

 dress in which 

 she spoke of 

 the beauty and 

 the value of 

 trees and of 

 their fitness as 

 m e m o r i a Is, 

 came to the 

 naming of the 

 tree in honor 

 of Dr. Mac- 

 Farland, who 

 died on the 

 b a 1 1 lefield in 

 France, his lit- 

 tle d a u g hter 

 was lifted up 

 and her hand 



placed on a branch beside that of Mrs. Johnson. All 

 the schools in the city took part in the ceremony, which 

 included the reading of a letter showing how the dead 

 hero had won the Distinguished Service Cross for help- 

 ing comrades under fire. As these men fought for a 

 better America, so are they honored most in memorials 



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PLAN FOR .MEMORIAL PARK 



This is the way in whicli Fort Wayne, Indiana, has prepared to honor her soldiers. The large memorial 

 grove in one corner of the park contains four and a half acres of oaks, each tree a memorial to a fallen 

 soldier. Playgrounds, tennis courts, baschall diamonds and other means for community improvement 

 are provided. 



which represent service, which stand for civic improve- 

 ment and betterment and for the happiness, development 

 and uplift of all classes. A fine example of the new com- 

 munity spirit which is being built up, of the finer Ameri- 

 canism which is being developed was displayed by the 

 town of Reading, Massachusetts, on April 19, observed 

 throughout the state as Patriots' Day, when everybody in 

 the place turned out to help convert an eleven acre tract 



which had 

 been donated 

 to the city into 

 a soldier's me- 

 m o r i a 1 park. 

 P r o s p e reus 

 bankers and 

 shopmen, men, 

 women and 

 children, work- 

 ed t o g e t her 

 side by side 

 shovel 

 hoe, to 

 a place 

 where the com- 

 nmnity might 

 enjoy itself. 

 Thirteen elms 

 were planted in 

 honor of the 

 men from that 

 town who had 

 given their 

 lives in the 

 war, while sev- 

 eral thousand 

 other trees and 

 shrubs were 

 set out. 



In this 

 nection a 

 interest ing 

 group plan is 

 being worked 

 out by the 

 Sharon Coun- 

 t y Church 

 C o m ni u n i ty 

 Center, Farm- 

 ington, Iowa. 

 There a two- 

 d a y program 

 with exercises 

 devoted to the 

 development of 

 the park and playground have just been held and the 

 special tree-planting day was designated as Roosevelt 

 Day, because as Rev. Edward Roberts, pastor of the 

 church, said in his communication to the American For- 

 estry Association, "the present country life movement 

 began with the report of the Commission on Country Life 





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