BICYCLE HIKERS URGE MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING 



TTNIQUE and interesting and productive of fine re- 

 ^ suits in the interest of Memorial Tree Planting was 

 the Fourth Annual Bicycle Hike given by Camp Wild- 

 wood during the past summer. 



Some of the boys who took the hike and who succeeded in arous- 

 ing enthusiastic interest in Memorial Tree Planting all along 

 the line from Pittsburgh to Gettysburg. 



The Camp is composed of boys of the Pittsburgh Dis- 

 trict, under the organization of F. C. Copp, who is an in- 

 structor in the City Schools of that city, and the mem- 

 bership of the Camp is composed of a group of manly boys 

 who are interested in civic matters in general and who 

 are promoters of the "See America First" movement. 



Mr. Copp is a member of the Allegheny County Civic 

 Ciub, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Pitts- 

 burgh Board of Trade. He has for the past four years 

 assembled a group of hardy boys for their summer va- 

 cation boys who take a deep interest in the things which 

 make for a better citizenship for both the State and Na- 

 tion. The trip of 1920 was made chiefly in the interest of 

 and for the stimulation of the promotion of Memorial 

 Tree Planting and the hand folder sent out to the pros- 

 pective hikers over the trail was headed "MEMORIAL 

 TREES." 



A party of twenty-six boys between the ages of 12 and 

 16 years, and four men counsellors, left Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania, on Monday morning, July 12, on bicycles, bound 

 for the State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, via Bed- 

 ford, Chambersburg and Gettysburg, over the Lincoln 

 Highway. The baggage of the party and the literature to 

 be distributed was carried in an automobile driven by F. C. 



Copp, accompanied by Bernard Otterman, of Wilkins- 

 burg, Pennsylvania. 



At the end of the fifth day the party arrived at Gettys- 

 burg, Pennsylvania, where a two-day stop was made to 

 visit the historic Battlefield which saw the turning point 

 in the Civil War. While in this city the boys slept two 

 night upon the Battlefield, .^.s one boy said after the trip, 

 "I slept the sleep of sleeps and snored the snore of snores, 

 those nights up in the Allegheny Mountains under the 

 fragrant balsams and pines." The hikers were received 

 by Governor Sproul. 



During the hike the party distributed thousands of 

 l)amph'.ets for the American Forestry .Association, of 

 Washington, D. C, urging the planting of memorial trees. 

 They were received with great ovation and welcome 

 wherever they visited and another hike for this summer is 

 l)b,nned by Mr. Copp and his boys. 



Booming Down the Canyon 



The ranger sat in his cabin door, 



With eyes that were swollen and lungs that were sore, 



While under his breath he bitterly szvore. 



For she was booming dmrni the canyon. 



The tourists zvho left tzvo days before 

 Will never visit their camp site more, 

 Nor gaze on the scenes they used to adore. 

 For she's booming down the canyon. 



A fezi' little sparks by a tree, quite dead 

 Just a fezv live coals that zvere "out" they said 

 Nozv look at her going, roaring and red, 

 A-booming dozvn the canyon. 



Forty good men, husky and strong. 

 Worked like demons all the day long; 

 But she crozvned and zvcnt over again she has gone, 

 A-booming dozvn the canyon. 



Hozv long it may burn or zvhere it may go. 

 Arc a couple of things that no one can know; 

 But it zvon't be all out till we get lots of snozv. 

 For slic's booming dozvn the canyon. 



Hundreds of years to grozv those trees; 

 Those same live coals and a little breeze, 

 Then zvaste and desolation are all one sees. 

 As she goes booming down the canyon. 



The ranger sat in his cabin door 



With eyes that zvere bloodshot and lungs that were sore. 

 And at someone's gross carelessness bitterly szvore. 

 For she zvas booming dozvn the canyon. 



REMINGTON ELLIS. 



