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conclusion he pointed out how whole communities could 

 be brought together as in no other way by memorial 

 tree planting and said. 



"Such dedications as this on Memorial Day bring me 

 to the thought that the Memorial Days of the future 

 will be tree days. I believe that around these trees on fu- 

 ture Memorial Days there will be renewed consecration 

 by the people. A greater number of trees will be planted 

 each year and a stronger current tend to make this na- 

 tion a tree-planting nation. From trees the nation gets 

 its strength. From trees 'that look at God all day and 

 lift their leafy arms to pray' there will come a new life 

 to the Union when the nation comes to know what trees 



western terminus of the Road of Remembrance another 

 tablet was unveiled. Here the invocation was said by the 

 Rev. J. H. Nicely, of Hanover. Miss Mildred Elizabeth 

 Lowe unveiled the tablet. The Rev. Abner S. DeChant 

 presented the tablet to the American Legion, Lieut. Neill 

 making the acceptance speech. 



For two years the women have been at work on this 

 Road of Remembrance and it is a fine example to the rest 

 of the country of what can be accomplished. Leaders 

 in the movement are Mrs. J. B. Hamme, Mrs. Ralph S. 

 Cannon, Mrs. A. H. Hayward, Mrs. Carlton Hoff. Asso- 

 ciated with them in the Tribute Tree Association are 

 H. C. Ulmer, A. B. Farquhar, Mrs. Charles Moul, VV. D. 



AT THE UNVEILING CEREMONIES AT YORK 



Some of those present at the unveiling of the tablet marking York's now famous Road of Remembrance. Right to left : H. C. 

 Ulmer, Mrs. A. H. Hayward, Major R. Y. Stuart, Commissioner of Forestry of Pennsylvania; Mrs. J. B. Hamme, President 

 Lincoln Highway Memorial and Tribute Tree Association; Charles Lathrop Pack, President American Forestry Association; 

 Mrs. Ralph S. Cannon, Hon. A. B. Farquhar, Mrs. James G. Glessner, President Woman's Club of York. It was under the super- 

 vision of the club that the Highway was planted. The next man, with the hat off, is Ralph S. Cannon, and the little girl in 

 front of the tablet is Miss Betty Cannon. 



mean. Trees, like this highway, are for the people just 

 as was the man for whom the highway is named. May 

 these highways in their windings over the country bind 

 its citizens more closely together and may every Mem- 

 orial Day find us ready to consecrate them and ourselves 

 anew to the memory of those for whom the trees live. 



"Memorial trees are living monuments of memory 

 for they lived gloriously just as did those for whom they 

 are planted." 



The Hon. A. B. Farquhar, who hreard Lincoln make the 

 famous Gettysburg address, recited that speech. At the 



Broughe, R. S. Cannon, }. C. Schmidt, Robert McPher- 

 son, Samuel Small, Jr., while at Hanover the Women's 

 Club, under the direction of Mrs. T. J. Little, Mrs. Emma 

 Shirk and Miss Bertha Zeibel, greatly aided the project. 

 York County is one of the pioneers in memorial tree 

 ])lanting on such a scale. More and more Memorial Day 

 comes to be the nation's tree day. In Washington the 

 American Legion dedicated anew the Memorial Avenue 

 on Sixteenth street reaching to Walter Reed Hospital 

 From every section of the country come reports of mem- 

 orial tree dedications and new plantings. 



THE MEMORIAL TREE 



The living monument is Light, In Holy Writ; and when its flight 



True emblem of our Liberty; A soul has taken to its rest, 



'lis Faith and Hope and Charity; And when a form is but a clod, 



'Tis ever Youth, gay, strong and bright; That monumental tree is best 



'Tis heartbeats. Death's decree despite; Whose great limbs shower on the sod 



O'er Death it is a Victory; Its fruit, as would good deeds attest. 



The life of man is called a tree To feed the little lambs of God. 



Maria Scott Conser. 



