JOSIAH 



an apparent blunder it is estimated that over nine million 

 trees were raised by the Watu wa Miti that first year. 



The Men of the Trees are organized throughout on a 

 simple plan. The organization in the tribe is known as 

 **the Forest"; the Forest is divided into "Districts" each 

 taking its name from the most important tree found 

 growing in that district; these again are divided into 

 "Branches"; each Branch being in command of a local 

 chief who holds the rank of "Forest Guide." Hence there 

 are the Forest, the Trees, and the Branches. 



Although started in Kenya Colony the organization 

 is rapidly growing into a tree-planting brotherhood, and 

 the ideals of The Men of the Trees are penetrating into 

 some of the most remote places of the great silent Con- 

 tinent of Africa. 



In Great Britain and in other countries of western 

 civilization youth finds relief in games and the like; but 

 games apart from tests of individual skill and prowess 

 are themselves the product of an advanced civilization 

 and do not readily provide a common meeting ground 

 for people to whom they are unfamiliar. In the first in- 

 stance at least, the appeal must be made to the imagina- 

 tion, and this was the appeal of The Men of the Trees 

 movement. 



Again, the uneducated must be shown a definite ob- 

 ject before they can be expected to devote themselves to 

 any constructive purpose; and as I have previously ex- 

 plained, the duty of The Men of the Trees is to guard 

 and protect their woodlands and to ensure that when- 



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