54 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



One effect of the spreading of this type of community betterment 

 by the judicious and general planting of trees has been to turn the 

 attention of civic organizations to the question. The majority of 

 them today have their tree-planting committees. City and town 

 governments have been brought to appreciate the immense value 

 of tree lined thoroughfares and pleasingly shaded entrances to 

 their community. 



Main- or trunk-line highway tree planting, also, has received atten- 

 tion and cooperation by the American Tree Association. A great 

 deal has been accomplished in this direction. Much planting has 

 been done along the Lincoln Highway. The road leading from this 

 highway to the tomb of William McKinley at Canton, Ohio, has been 

 beautified. Almost every community along the routes of the Bank- 

 head Highway, the Lee Highway, the Dixie Highway and the Old 

 Spanish Trails has been organized for this work. The American Tree 

 Association has cooperated in the plans for the planting of the Harding 

 Memorial Highway to the late President. 



In its work the American Tree Association maintains a close 

 contact with the editors of the nation's newspapers. It supplies them 

 with educational and informational material both on the progress of 

 tree planting and the forestry problem. It has frequent calls for 

 special articles on both subjects. With the press aroused to the sig- 

 nificance of the diminishing wood supply, and generally enthusiastic 

 about both the idealism and practicality of tree planting, the editors 

 have cooperated whole-heartedly with the American Tree Association. 

 This spirit has been furthered by the knowledge that the Association 

 has nothing to sell except the educational idea, which costs nothing 

 to those who grasp it. 



On the forestry side, the American Tree Association has been 

 active both in supporting legislation and advocating a national policy. 

 Through its president, Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack, it has cooperated 

 in the National Forestry Program Committee, which has joined vari- 

 ous interests in the formulation and support of a national forest 

 policy. The Association has been represented before committees of 

 Congress at the many recent hearings on proposed legislation. 



In support of the McNary-Clarke Forestry Bill, the outcome of 

 investigations made by the special committee of the United States 

 Senate, the American Tree Association called upon its membership 



