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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



member of the association to work on m his own locali- 

 ty. The permanent tree would, if properly placed and 

 cared for, prove a wonderful inspiration the year around. 

 Alfred Gaskill, the state forester of New Jersey, urges 

 the organization of community units to plant memorial 

 trees in park, public square or school yard. The sug- 

 gestion has been made by Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman 

 of the General Federation of Women's Clubs that the 

 school children of Chicago plant memorial trees in honor 

 of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. This suggestion can be taken 

 up by other communities 

 who wish to honor educa- 

 tors in a similar way. J. S. 

 Holmes, the state forester 

 of North Carolina informs 

 the association that the 

 General Federation of 

 Women's Clubs in that 

 state has planted "Persh- 

 ing" and "Liberty" oaks 

 and that the tree planting 

 idea is being taken up by 

 the schools. F. W. Besley, 

 the state forester of Mary- 

 land, has a forward going 

 plan which includes the 

 planting of trees in honor 

 of children, thus the tree 

 becomes an object of great 

 interest to the growing child 

 and he comes to take the 

 greatest care of the tree. 



Frank William Rane, the 

 state forester of Massachu- 

 setts, is urging memorial 

 forests. He points to the 

 fact that there are millions 

 of acres in the country 

 waiting for just such noble 

 endeavor and he suggests 

 that the returning soldiers 

 be employed in this great 

 work. In Oakland a "Vic- 

 tory Park" is being dis- 

 cussed and M. B. Pratt, the 

 deputy state forester of 

 California suggests memor- 

 ial trees in the municipal auto 

 parking areas that are being 

 established all over the state. 



The college campus of- 

 fers a fine setting for me- 

 morial trees and the suggestion has been made that the 

 "old grads" get together and plant trees for the men who 

 answered the call of their country. The elms at Yale, 

 for instance are famous. Every Oberlin man and woman 

 knows Tappan Walk and the famous elm at the corner 

 of the campus of that Ohio college. To enumerate trees 

 with a history would go beyond all space bounds but 



A LIVING MEMORIAL 



Mrs. Louis Boex is placing the last spade full of earth around the roots 

 of a silver maple tree a memorial for her son, Louis Boex, gunner on the 

 Ticonderoga, who lost his life when he was answering the shell-fire of a 

 submarine which afterwards sank the troop ship. 



some of those most widely known are the elm in whose 

 shade William Penn made his treaty with the Indians ; the 

 Charter Oak in Massachusetts ; the palmettoes of Charles- 

 ton, S. C. ; the cypress trees at the Jumel mansion in 

 New York City ; the Washington Elm at Cambridge ; 

 the pin oak trees in Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, 

 dedicated to eight Maryland men on Washington's staff. 

 More recent plantings have been the 150 Liberty Oaks at 

 Liberty Heights just outside Westminster, Maryland, set 

 by high school boys for the Women's Civic League of 



Westminster. State Fores- 

 ter Besley believes this is 

 the first memorial tree 

 planting on such a scale, 

 the trees being distributed 

 along a mile of the road. 

 Look for the opportunity 

 in your city ; picture to your 

 fellow-citizens the beauties 

 of forestry and urge the 

 planting of trees in connec- 

 tion with any memorial 

 adopted. Well may we con- 

 sider France for as Richard 

 Lieber, secretary of the In- 

 diana Board of Forestry, 

 says: 



"The Argonne Forest 

 stands as a huge memorial 

 grove to the memory of 

 American and Allied he- 

 roes. The Argonne is also 

 a symbol of what a forest 

 will do in war and in time 

 of national peril. Trees are 

 man's best friend. 



"Stone and bronze monu- 

 ments may be heroic and 

 military, they are more of- 

 ten vaingloriously dynastic 

 in purpose. A monument 

 of trees in a well ordered 

 grove is human and hu- 

 mane ; it speaks the lan- 

 guage of freemen. It is 

 full of solace and hope to 

 the bereaved. As a living 

 and a breathing thing it 

 speaks of victory over 

 death. It is expressive of 

 thanks and devotion by the 

 people to its heroes, dead and living." 



The appeal of the living, growing tree is universal 

 and the American Forestry Association finds that hun- 

 dreds of organizations are eager to furnish the plan. One 

 of the most recent indorsements of the plan came from 

 the Women's Association of Commerce with headquarters 

 in Chicago and another from the Woman's National 



