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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The suggestion, how we 

 use the oak throughout the 

 day, led to excellent exer- 

 cises in oral English. In 

 one school a boy suggested 

 that miniature dining room 

 furniture of oak could be 

 made in the carpenter shops. 

 This was mentioned inci- 

 dentally in a newspaper arti- 

 cle and spread so rapidly 

 that when the suggestion 

 came that an exhibition be 

 held to show the public what 

 the children had done, it was 

 arranged with the little ex- 

 tra work. 



The children placed on 

 large mounting cards ma- 

 terial that would illustrate 

 their choice for the national 

 tree. These charts were ex- 

 hibited for four days before 

 the vote was taken and the 

 public asked to use them as a 

 means of education and then 

 vote. Thousands of people 

 visited the exhibition, boys 

 and men in great numbers. 

 The interest shown warrant- 

 ed extending the exhibit 

 three days. Three-minute speeches on the value of 

 various trees as a national tree were delivered by the chil- 



The fact 

 with the 

 ordinary 



CHARTS SHOWING USES OF PIXF. 



that pine is so easily worked in wood-using made it popular 

 pupils, who made various articles to show some of the many 

 uses of the wood. 



votes were counted in each 

 ings and sent to the central 



dren of the eighth grades to 

 the children of the grades 

 below and to the visitors at 

 the exhibition. The Ameri- 

 can boy or girl feels his 

 country's call deeply, be it a 

 call for war service or a call 

 to vote for the national tree. 

 Speakers in the recent presi- 

 dential campaign did not 

 take themselves more seri- 

 ously than these youthful 

 speakers. The speeches were 

 earnest, sometimes poetic, 

 full of patriotic appeal to 

 vote for a truly American 

 tree, and best of all, indicat- 

 ed a determination that the 

 voters should know the rea- 

 sons for their choice. It was 

 not always the boy who 

 spoke "longest" and "loud- 

 est" as one boy expressed it, 

 who carried his audience, 

 but the boy who clearly and 

 logically made his points. 

 During the exhibit one of 

 the daily papers printed a 

 ballot. The children took 

 these to school and voted the 

 last day of the exhibit. The 

 class, tabulated at the build- 

 office where the nature study 



ONF. RESULT OF STUDYING THE USES OF TREKS 

 In the exhibition of uses of wood aa part of their studies about trees, b oys f the Washington, D. C. schools m 



the bedding and draperies shown in this photograph. 



ade the furniture and the girls 



