lantic states, and the Southern Appalachian region are- 

 expected to furnish most of the supply. As reports 

 are turned in by the scoutmasters, they will be tabu- 

 lated by the Forest Service &nd reported to the "War 

 Department. 



THE SHADE TREES OF MASSACHU- 

 SETTS 



A WESTERNER is very apt to judge things al- 

 most wholly on a basis of size. There are at least 

 two very good reasons for this attitude. In the first 

 place, it gives his section of the country a decided ad- 

 vantage over all others which is his dearest desire, 

 and in the second place, he has made nearly all his suc- 

 cesses in big scale; extensive operations rather than 

 intensive problems. This accounts partially, anyway, 

 for the inborn contempt which the "Westerner almost 

 always has for New England. He looks on New Eng- 

 land as an almost negligible patch of stony ground, 

 crowded to overflowing with narrow-minded, money 

 grabbing Yankees, constantly shrouded in a dense pall 

 of factory smoke. Beyond that he does not see. 



Least of all does the uninitiated outsider ever think 

 of New England as a beauty spot, and yet there is 

 probably no more beautiful country in the United 

 States. Grandeur, which plays such a large part in 

 the "beautiful scenery" of the Western mountains ; is 

 wholly lacking, but beauty is there in overflowing 

 measure. Amidst those cultivated valleys and every- 



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