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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



and perpetually express- 

 ing their acknowledg- 

 ment of the 'supreme 

 sacrifice.' The trees 

 are to be fully protected 

 during their early growth 

 and will have the con- 

 stant attention of ex- 

 perts. At the city limit 

 line, where the memorial 

 highway begins, the city 

 is to erect a permanent 

 and imposing arch, and 

 the County Commission- 

 ers are to erect another 

 at the county line, where 

 the 'Road of Remem- 

 brance' ends, these 

 arches to bear the 

 names of the heroes 

 they commemorate. The 

 idea has proved very 

 popular and it is assured 

 that Pinellas County will 

 do likewise, joining the 

 Hillsborough Highway 

 with one for its own 

 young men, making at 

 least a thirty-mile con- 

 tinuous stretch." 



The keynote is in the 

 last line of the statement 

 which says that it is 

 assured that Pinellas 

 County will do the same. There we have the possi- 

 bilities for a magnificent system of roads throughout the 

 country when something is started for of course the 



PLANT A TREE 



By DAVID H. WRIGHT 



Ir when I am gone 



Thou would st honor me 



Then plant a tree. 



Some highway, bleak and hare, 



Make green with leaves. 



So radiant and fair 



And full of leaves my monument 



will he, 

 So ever full of tuneful melody. 

 My monument will he 

 A sight most rare 

 Trees planted everywhere. 

 A highway hroad from city to 



the sea 

 Plant this in memory of me. 



next county will not lag 

 in this great work. Thou- 

 sands of dollars have 

 been voted for good 

 roads. This money is to 

 be spent within the next 

 few years. To no coun- 

 try, except France and 

 Belgium, does there 

 come such an oppor- 

 tunity to beautify while 

 building. It is an op- 

 portunity that must not 

 be missed. And it will 

 not be if the answer to 

 the call sent out by the 

 American Forestry As- 

 sociation continues to 

 grow in volume. At 

 Middletown, Ohio, a 

 unique campaign for 

 memorial tree planting 

 has been conducted. 

 Mrs. Charles R. Hook, 

 wife of a vice-president 

 of the American Rolling 

 Mill Company, helped in 

 a campaign by the Wel- 

 fare Association. Half 

 page advertisements were 

 inserted in the newspa- 

 pers and in quick time 

 a fund for a thousand 

 trees was raised and 

 these will be planted along the Dixie Highway from 

 Engle's Corner to Twelfth Street, in Middletown. Mrs. 

 John B. Hamme has completed plans for the memorial 



CEREMONY AT THE MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING OF THE ARS ENAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 



