MONUMENTS WITH A MEANING 



THE American doughboy had an important share in 

 making over the map of Europe. Now, but in a 

 different way, he is making over his own country. 

 This is coming about through the memorial plans which 

 are being worked out in hundreds of places throughout 

 the United States. 



The memorials of this war are not going to be the 

 "meaningless mausoleums and monuments" which the 

 late Colonel Roosevelt one time condemned : but they will 

 in most instances typify the service and the sacrifice which 

 the nation's fighters endured in order that others might 



their soldier and sailor dead, or to those who offered 

 their services. It is combined in park and city beauti- 

 fication systems, in the laying out of Victory driveways 

 and in the setting for other forms of memorial. All 

 this is in line with the suggestion of the American For- 

 estry Association that trees be planted as tributes to 

 the sacrifices of the country's heroes. 



Arbor Day took on a meaning in many states this year 

 which it has not possessed since its first observance in 

 the United States more than forty years ago. It was 

 made the occasion in many places for dedication of the 



THE "FATHER OF FORESTRY" IN PENNSYLVANIA-DR. J. T. ROTHROCK, OF WEST CHESTER 



Known, loved and honored as a pioneer in forestry, not only in his own state but all over the country. Dr. Rothrock, who is a vice-president of 

 the American Forestry Association, recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, and on Arbor Day the State planted eighty trees in his honor. 



enjoy greater happiness and peace. The men who gave 

 their lives for their country would ask no better, no 

 nobler, no more lasting memorial than that they live in the 

 hearts of their countrymen. This is being accomplished 

 through the parks, community centers, memorial drives 

 and roadways and similar city, town and county better- 

 ment plans that are being worked out. 



Tree planting is a feature of most of the memorials 

 which communities all over the country are erecting to 



trees planted to men who had paid the supreme sacrifice, 

 as well as to some of the leading figures in the war, in- 

 cluding President Wilson, General Foch, General Persh- 

 ing, and others whom the community took this fitting 

 opportunity to honor. In Pennsylvania, for instance, it 

 was selected for the setting out in one of the state for- 

 ests of eighty trees in honor of Dr. J. T. Rothrock, the 

 "father of forestry" in that state and a vice-president of 

 the American Forestry Association. Arbor Day was very 



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