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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Calumtt Sews: Wc have this year, then, 

 the golden jubilee of an event which has 

 meant much to America, which might have 

 meant more had its spirit been better 

 obeyed and which in the years to come will 

 mean increasingly more if Americans are 

 true to their continental heritage. Morton's 

 happy thought of fifty years ago and Ne- 

 braska's quick adoption of it started a 

 course of popular education in forestry 

 that generations of people will turn to the 

 glory of their country. 



much in Flint as in any other community 

 in the State or nation because of its large 

 number of magnificent trees and the abun- 

 dance of foliage, that, in the summer 

 season, makes cooling shade and an at- 

 tractive city. Fortunately the people are 

 beginning to realize that the conservation 

 of our tree growth is a vital necessity. 



Jackson Patriot : Our national Arbor Day 

 this year, April 22, is of more consequence 

 than usual, because it is a golden jubilee. 



Omaha Nnvs: If you have children, 

 teach them that preservation of forests is 

 the only way to insure an ample supply 

 of lumber for the future without paying 

 sky-high prices. Plant a tree for ornament 

 if not for practical use. Do it for the 

 moral eilect. The chief value of forest 

 protection week is to get us as a nation 

 to realize the value of trees. In time, per- 

 haps, we may be persuaded to raise a yearly 

 crop of trees just as we raise wheat, corn 

 and cotton. 



Benj. Karr in Cleve- 

 land Snrs: The ideal 

 combination which em- 

 ploys trees, in part, for 

 memorials is the one 

 which makes many 

 Clevelanders proud of 

 their city every spring. 

 That is the use of jon- 

 quils, oaks and bronze 

 tablets to honor the 

 soldiers of the great 

 war who went out 

 from this city and died 

 in the service of their 

 country. 



Our "Liberty Row" 

 blooms every April in 

 its golden beauty of 

 flowers which typify 

 the unending resurrec- 

 tion of nature, the an- 

 nual triumph of life 

 over death. And all the 

 while an oak is grow- 

 ing where every little 

 bunch of daffodils 

 blossoms. The oaks 

 may last for a century, 

 or much more, despite 

 the unfavorable condi- 

 tions inseparable from 

 a city environment. 

 .\nd at the roots of the trees are the 

 bronze name plates of the soldiers they 

 honor, metal memorials which should en- 

 dure for many hundreds of years. 



Here are the, loveliness of flowers, the 

 strength and beauty of trees, the perma- 

 nence of the almost imperishable bronze. 

 The combination is so fine that the plant- 

 ing of such monuments was an inspiration. 



ROADS OF REMEMBRANCE ACROSS NEW YORK STATE 



One of the leatures of the three-day meeting of foresters and lumbermen at the 

 New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, on April 20, 21 and 22, 

 was the unveiling of a bronze tablet and planting of the first tree on a Road of 

 Remembrance extending from New York to Buffalo, in memory of those of New 

 York State who lost their lives in the World War. 



Fifty years ago this month the first Arbor 

 Day was celebrated in Nebraska, in re- 

 sponse to a recommendation of the State 

 board of agriculture. From that small 

 beginning it has grown into an institution 

 of vast scope and influence, whose possi- 

 bilities are even now only beginning to be 

 realized, as Americans see the depletion 

 of their forests and appreciate more; fully 

 the need of new planting. 



Detroit News: If 50 

 years ago the truth 

 could have been 

 brought home to the 

 people of the United 

 States that their then 

 vast and magnificent 

 timber supply was not 

 inexhaustible and that 

 it should be conserved 

 and renewed and used 

 only in accordance with 

 the rules of forestry, 

 even then wejl-known 

 in Europe, we should 

 not be in the pitiable 

 plight in which we find 

 ourselves today. 



The American For- 

 estry Association is 

 pleading that the com- 

 ing Arbor Day shall be 

 a celebration of the 5O1 

 years of Arbor Days.< 

 There is little to cele- 

 brate in this connec- 

 tion, but if anything 

 can be; done to make 

 the American people 

 serious on the subject, 

 of protecting their for-i 

 ests and renewing then 

 in some effective, scien<j 



Providence Tribune : Arbor Day, which 

 is observed in this State on the second 

 Friday in May, the American Forestry 

 Association reminds the public, will have 

 its fiftieth anniversary this month. There 

 was no such imperative need of forest 

 conservation when the observance of the 

 day was begun that there is today. 



Tuscola (Illinois) Journal: Start the boys 

 and girls with admiration for trees and 

 birds and when they grow up they will 

 not ruthlessly destroy either. 



Flint (Michigan) Journal: The public has 

 been reminded by the American Forestry 

 Association that this month marks the 

 fiftieth anniversary of Arbor Day in the 



New York Herald: A rounded life of 

 public usefulness was Morton's. On his 

 ninetieth anniversary of his birth the 

 American Forestry Association planted a 

 tree in Washington dedicated to his mem- 

 ory. That it may thrive along with the 

 movement it typifies will be the general 

 wish. 



tific way, i)erhaps Arbor Day is the prop 

 time to begin. 



Chattanooga News: Promoting refores- 

 tation the purpose of Arbor Day is nc 

 longer an academic issue. It is one of the 

 urgent needs of the time. So far as warn-il 

 ing the people of the near approach of thel 

 final destruction of our remaining forests^ 

 is concerned, it might about as well be( 

 discontinued. Everybody understands thai 

 it is agreed upon. What is to be don 

 about it? The remedy is simple, notwithf 

 standing our slowness in finding it. Qui 

 wasting timber and plant more trees. For 

 mal celebration of Arbor Day may be well 

 but practical observance is better. Plan 

 trees, and more trees, until the pe.opl 

 get grounded in the habit. 



Battle Creek Journal: Trees are for ;i' 

 moods and all ages, bestowing their ble.ss 

 ings on any who will deign to accept their 

 If you want a sure, true friend for lift 

 plant a tree. 



