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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



tor the American boys who paid the supreme 

 sacrifice In the war for democracy. He points 

 oat that in addition to being beautiful living 

 memorials to the nation's heroic dead these trees 

 we plant will be a thing of beauty and joy for- 

 ever to those who live not only now but in the 

 years to come and in some places It may be 

 deemed advisable and possible to set out great 

 forests in honor of the soldier dead." 



The Times then goes on to point out what 

 can be done with the proposed civic center 

 if adorned with trees not only as memori- 

 als but as an artistic setting for the city 

 plaza and any buildings that may be erected 

 on it. 



trees gives a new significance to the next 

 Arbor Day, writes the editor of the Geneva, 

 N. Y. Times: 



"There is hardly a community in America," 

 continues the Times, "to which the suggestion is 

 not a practical appeal." 



"We venture to say there is no suggestion that 

 would have pleased this great American better." 



In a special dispatch to the New York 

 World from Greensboro, North Carolina, 

 the statement is made that: 



"Unless some action is taken by the Federal 

 Government, and that quickly, the Brevard sec- 

 tion and with it much of the best farming and 

 timber land in western North Carolina will be 

 washed away by the high water during the next 

 five years. During the last year this section has 

 experienced three damaging floods." 



In an editorial in The Post of Boston, 

 the editor points out that Lynn City Coun- 

 .cil has taken action in the matter *of 

 memorial trees and says the Post: 



"The beauty and fitness of these planted 

 memorials is very apparent. Trees are always 

 things of grace and as proposed would be grow- 

 ing stars of service well done. How could the 

 memory of our heroes be better perpetuated than 

 in a beautiful forest park?" 



In the opinion of the editor of the Ham- 

 mond, Ind., Times: 



"Colonel Roosevelt deserves a memorial in 

 which the entire nation can take pride" and then 

 it goes on giving an indorsement of the sugges- 

 tion of the American Forestry Association for 

 planting trees in honor of the Ex-President. 



The Observer at Hoboken, N. J., com- 

 ments on a suggestion to make community 

 Christmas trees permanent. 



According to the Houston Post: 

 "The Texas Forestry Association has never re- 

 ceived the attention that organization deserves 

 from the people of Texas. With 25,000,000 acres 

 in woodlands, Texas has a greater interest in 

 the present forests than has any other state. With 

 more than that number of acres in what appears 

 at times to be desert, Texas cannot afford to 

 ignore the forestry problem." 



The editorial goes on to say that W. 

 Goodrich Jones, President of the Texas 

 Forestry Association, has sent to the papers 

 of the state letters in which he pleads with 

 the press for the forests of Texas and the 



Post adds: 



"The State Forestry Department deserves the 

 intelligent support of the legislature." 



Papers of Illinois are commenting gen- 

 erally on the suggestion for tree planting 

 made by Governor Lowden: 



"So great is the need of more trees," says the 

 Clinton, Illinois, Public "and so manifest their 

 benefit to future generations that society would 

 be justified in going to great lengths in stimu- 

 lating tree cultivation." 



The Manufacturer's Record carries an 

 article from W. W. Lee, county superin- 

 tendent of education, Prentis, Miss., who 

 urges a reforestation plan to be undertaken 

 by the school children. Mr. Lee has a 

 plan for organization of pine tree clubs. 

 With pictures to illustrate an article "The 

 Coos County Forests," The Scientific 

 American gives the leading position to an 

 article on the wonders of the region on 

 the western side of the Coast Range Moun- 

 tains. The Morning Press of East Strouds- 

 burg, Pennsylvania, urges the planting of 

 memorial trees in an editorial in which it 

 used the poem by Joyce Kilmer. 



The Review of Decatur adds its in- 

 dorsement to tree planting. The Hayfield, 

 Minnesota, Herald in an editorial sug- 

 gests that the planting be not attempted 

 all in one year, but that every Arbor Day 

 be made a memorial tree planting day. 

 The editor of the Press at tTtica points out 

 that: 



"If three or four thousand trees were planted 

 in Utica as memorials for soldiers who wore the 

 uniform it would be a splendid contribution to 

 the shade, the beauty and the general attfac- 

 tiveness of the place." 



Editors take up other subjects having to 

 do with outdoor life. In addition to com- 

 menting on trees, and their value, the Bos- 

 ton Evening Transcript comments at great 

 length on "The Bird Treaty Makes the 

 Birds Safe." Mr. Winthrop Packard takes 

 up the discussion of the mistatements and 

 the conflicting views given in recent news 

 articles on this subject, and in the intro- 

 duction to his article says: 



"Birds are safe so far as good laws can make 

 them. Let not your heart be troubled." 



A great lesson has been learned from the 

 war, the Northwestern of Oshkosh, Wis- 

 consin, points out in an editorial: 

 "More attention to Forestry." 



Scientific forestry now is being taught 

 at twenty-three universities and colleges 

 in the country, the Northwestern says, and 

 points to the heavy drain on lumber sup- 

 plies and the fact that the coming period 

 of reconstruction will perhaps call for even 

 larger quantities of the raw materials fur- 

 nished by the lumber industries. The In- 

 quirer of Owensboro, Ky., comments on 

 the offer of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation to help reforest France and points 

 out the great opportunity for further 

 cementing the cordial relations of the two 

 countries. 



The Dalton, Georgia, Citizen in an edi- 

 torial says that: 



"Out of the maze for suggestions for memorials 

 that have followed the signing of the armistice 

 stands apart from all others because of its sim- 

 plicity and lasting qualities the suggestion for 

 the planting of a tree for each one who made the 

 supreme sacrifice." 



The editor of the Republican of Colum- 

 bus, Indiana, says the planting of memorial 

 trees along highways is peculiarly fitting. 



"It seems to make visible, says the editor, 

 "that glorious immortality for which the soldier 

 laid down his mortal body." 



The memorial tree suggestion is very 

 pleasing to the editor of The Times at 

 Chattanooga who says: 



"It is a fine thought that we should plant trees 

 in memory of the men who gave their lives to 

 the nation In the great war. More and more the 

 common sense thought of people is steering 

 away from the notion of respect for the dead 

 by erecting over them at home or elsewhere 

 monuments of dead stone; structures often the 

 very reverse of artistic or ornamental." 



Chattanooga, The Times goes on to say, 

 is subject to some extent to the "Monu- 

 ment Habit." The planting of memorial 



The American City in an article called 

 "Tree Planting an Important Part of City 

 Reconstruction Program," devotes exten- 

 sive space to the possibilities of city beau- 

 tifying. "A great benefit to the people of 

 the state" is the view of W. E. Barber, 

 chairman of the Division of Wild Life 

 Conservation, in a letter to the Milwaukee 

 Journal. The editor of the Lafayette, In- 

 diana, Courier calls the planting of me- 

 morial trees a most appropriate method of 

 supplying fitting memorials in honor of 

 our sailors and soldiers. In commenting 

 on the suggestion for planting memorial 

 trees in honor of Colonel Roosevelt, the 

 editor of the Telegram of Portland, Ore- 

 gon, says: 



In the Denver Post "Lord Ogilvy" has an 

 article pointing out to the farmer why he 

 should make' a friend of Bob White. 



The Times-Star of Cincinnati, has an 

 editorial on "Man's Ingratitude to the 

 Bird." The editor of the Times-Star points 

 out the tremendous reproduction abilities 

 of the insect, and shows how the world 

 would become a desolate waste and man 

 starved out unless the insects are checked, 

 but says the editor: 



"Between man and this state of desolation 

 stand some natural barriers. One of these is 

 the army of birds which feed on insects. With 

 the destruction of the tirdj who stand guard 

 over our fields and forests, a catastrophe beyond 

 imagination to perceive would ensue. And yet 

 man plunges blindly along the fulfillment of the 

 grim paradox he has conceived. Every year he 

 slays by millions the feathered friends who are 

 his." 



These short reviews, showing what the 

 editors are ready to do in the way of co- 

 operation, should be an inspiration to the 

 members of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation and again the call is issued to each 

 of our members to co-operate with his local 

 editors in every way by calling their at- 

 tention to forestry needs in his own locality. 

 He will be glad to listen to you or to hear 

 from you if you make your point clear and 

 keep it short. 



