AMERICAN LEGION PLANS MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING 



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Lillian S. Evans was the chairman, planted trees near 

 the Lincoln Highway. The exercises were opened with 

 the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner and then prayer 

 by Rev. G. F. Hayes. General Shannon, or "Two-Yard" 

 Shannon, the hero and idol of the 

 Iron Division, spoke, and Reginald 

 Wright Kauffman made the ad- 

 dress. In this talk Mr. Kauffman 

 expressed his views of the tree as 

 a memorial. He said : 



"Just before the war started, I 

 was lunching in New York with a 

 friend of mine, a poet. Our talk 

 turned on a volume of his poems 

 that was soon to be published, and 

 among these poems was 'Trees.' 

 That poet's name was Joyce Kil- 

 mer. When America entered the 

 World War, he volunteered for 

 service and, arrived in France, he 

 always asked for the most danger- 

 ous work. A few months since, I 

 came upon his grave in the Ameri- 

 can Military Cemetery at Seringes 

 where there was no tree, no 

 green thing at all and close beside 

 it the graves of two of the boys 

 we are remembering today: Leo 

 Bittner and Cyrus Mathiot. For 

 the soldier dead I think that you 

 could have chosen no more fitting 

 memorial than a living tree. Man- 

 kind has always regarded the tree 

 as friendly and often as divine. 

 There was the mystic oak of the 

 Druids ; the sacred Bo-tree of Buddah ; the ash Yggdrasil 

 of Norse Mythology, whose roots were in the under- 

 world, but 

 whose arms 

 reached to the 

 Asa-gods above 

 the skies. How 

 large a part 

 the tree has 

 played in our 

 own Holy 

 Writ, from the 

 Tree of the 

 Knowledge of 

 Good and Evil 

 in Genesis to 

 that Tree upon 

 which the Di- 



IS YOUR TOWN KEADY FOR ARBOR 

 DAY? 



WITH the coining of Arbor Day there comes 

 a renewed interest in memorial tree planting. 

 The American Forestry Magazine wants all 

 tree plantings reported to it at Washington. The 

 Arbor Days this Spring follow: 



Colorado Third Friday in April. 



Connecticut May, on proclamation by the Gov- 

 ernor. 



Idaho April, on dates set by the County School 

 Superintendents. 



Illinois On proclamation by the Governor. 



Indiana Third Friday in April. 



Iowa Proclamation by the Governor. 



Kansas On proclamation by the Governor. 



Maine On proclamation by the Governor. 



Maryland Second Friday in April. 



Massachusetts Last Saturday in April. 



Michigan Last Friday in April. 



Minnesota Latter part of April, on proclamation 

 of the Governor. 



Missouri First Friday after the first Tuesday 

 in April. 



Montana Second Tuesday in May. 



Nebraska April 22, birthday of J. Sterling Mor- 

 ton. 



Nevada On proclamation of the Governor. 



New Hampshire At option of the Governor. 



New Jersey Second Friday in April. 



New York First Friday following May 1. 



North Dakota Option of the Governor. 



Ohio Middle of April, on proclamation of the 

 Governor. 



Oregon Second Friday in April. 



Pennsylvania On proclamation of the Governor. 



Rhode Island Second Friday in May. 



South Dakota Latter part of April, on procla- 

 mation of the Governor. 



Utah April 15. 



Vermont First Friday in May. 



Virginia On proclamation of the Governor. 



West Virginia Second Friday in April. 



Wisconsin First Friday in May. 



Washington (State) First Friday in May. 



Wyoming First Friday in May. 



Arbor Day, Mr. Pack points out, started in 

 Nebraska when the State Board of Agriculture 

 on January 4, 1872, heard the resolution of J. 

 Sterling Morton that April 10, 1872, be consecrated 

 to tree planting. This was adopted, but later, in 

 honor of the father of Arbor Day, the date in 

 Nebraska was changed to April 22 in honor of 

 Mr. Morton's birthday. 



NAME A TREE FOR ASOLDIER BOY 



One thousand soldier boys of Middletown are to be remem- 

 bered with a handsome living memorial consisting of one 

 thousand trees-a tree for each boy-to be planted along Dixie 

 Highway from Middletown to Engle's Corner. 



$2.50 -will buy a tree and a tag to name that tree for a soldier boy. 



Contributions can be made to Soldier's Tree Memorial Fund at the First 

 National Bank, or mailed to Mr. Chas. R. Hook, Chairman. 



WELFARE ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLETOWN 



this campaign, wherever taken up, the American Forestry 

 Association finds that rivalry of the most healthy kind de- 

 velops between organizations such as chambers of com- 

 merce and boards of trade, rotary clubs and like forces 

 for civic betterment. At Tampa, 

 Florida, is found, perhaps, a good 

 sample of the get-together and do- . 

 spirit. There the Rotary Club put 

 over a campaign for $7,500 for a 

 "Road of Remembrance." There 

 was no great fuss about it. The 

 thing was just done because the 

 club knows a good thing. The fol- 

 lowing outline from E. D. Lamb- 

 right, of the Memorial Highway 

 Committee of the Rotary Club, tells 

 of the plans : 



"Hillsborough County is now 

 building many miles of asphalt 

 road. One of these roads extends 

 from the city limits of Tampa to 

 the country line of Pinellas County, 

 and is probably the most traveled 

 of any county highway, as it leads 

 to the resorts and growing towns 

 of the West Coast. Suggested by 

 James Yeates, chairman of the 

 Hillsborough County Commission- 

 ers, himself a Rotarian, the Rotary 

 Club espoused a plan to make this 

 road a 'Road of Remembrance.' 

 For fifteen miles, from city limits 

 to county line, it is to be bordered 

 with the laurel oak, more familiarly 

 known as the 'water oak.' Between 

 the oaks will be set out oleanders and various colored 

 flowers. The road will be beautifully parked on both 



sides and, when 

 the trees reach 

 a sizeable 

 growth, will 

 undoubtedly be 

 one of the most 

 beautiful drive- 

 ways in the 

 country. 



"The cam- 

 paign for funds 

 to buy and 

 plant the trees 

 was conducted 

 and $7,500 was 

 raised for this 



HERE IS THE COPY OF AN ADVERTISEMENT WHICH HAD A BIG PART IN THE UNIQUE 

 CAMPAIGN FOR A "ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE" AT MIDDLETOWN, OHIO 



vine Sacrifice 

 was consum- 

 mated, I need not, surely, remind you." 



In "Roads of Remembrance" municipalities see oppor- 

 tunities not alone for an inspiring memorial, but for the 

 promotion of better feeling with other municipalities. In 



purpose. Pros- 

 pective sub- 

 scribers were informed that they could buy any number 

 of trees, to represent them on this highway, at $2.50 a 

 tree. Relatives and friends of the boys who gave their 

 lives in the war were thus given the privilege of suitably 



