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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



NEW FRIENDS BEING MADE FOR 



WflTH the coming of Spring the editors 

 " of the country are continuing their 

 co-operation with the American Forestry 

 Association's drive for the planting of 

 memorial trees and "Roads of Remem- 

 brance." These two campaigns have 

 awakened new interest in trees all over 

 the country and, together with the "Hall 

 of Fame" for trees with a history, the As- 

 sociation is being introduced in new places 

 every day. The first shipment of tree seeds 

 to Europe brought forth widespread com- 

 ment on the good work of the Association 

 and again directed attention to its cam- 

 paign for a national forest policy. Taking 

 up these subjects, we find editorial com- 

 ment from coast to coast. Some of this 

 follows : 



Seattle Times: 



A campaign is being carried on through- 

 out the United States by the American 

 Forestry Association of Washington, D. C, 

 urging motorists to help, by planting me- 

 morial trees along the highways, to beau- 

 tify the roads for which hundreds of mil- 

 lions of dollars have been voted by the 

 various national, State and local govern- 

 ing bodies. Motorists everywhere will 

 gladly aid this excellent movement, and 

 will undoubtedly join the Association so 

 as to work in conformity with its plans. 



Local communities and commercial in- 

 terests will benefit, and motorists, who are 

 the greatest users of roads, will derive 

 pleasure and reward for generations to 

 come, if they, individually and collectively, 

 co-operate in the actual planting of trees 

 in accordance with the general plan. 



Cross-country touring from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific is becoming more popular 

 every year, and it will be possible even- 

 tually to have trees growing the entire 

 distance on both sides of the 3,000-mile 

 highway, making it the most wonderful 

 monument and "Road of Remembrance" in 

 the world. 



Morgantown, W. Va., Post: 



The plan of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation to cast a halo of sentiment around 

 good road construction is an excellent one, 

 both for the promotion of road building 

 and the creation of large popular interests 

 in the purpose of that Association to pre- 

 serve and restore our vanishing forests. 

 We have heartily commended the idea of 

 these memorial trees and the sentiment 

 they would perpetuate, and we welcome 

 this practical move on the part of the 

 American Forestry Association. Tree bor- 

 dered highways, with such sacred associa- 

 tions, would be something more than mere 

 roads in the minds of the people, and the 

 voting of bonds or taxes for making them 

 good roads would be far more popular. 



Providence Journal: 



"Roads of Remembrance," advocated by 

 the American Forestry Association, have 

 material as well as sentimental value. Me- 

 morial trees at this time are as appropriate 

 as memorial highways, and no State can 

 afford to overlock the possibilities of well- 

 shaded roads. This is a good time for 

 tree planting, and existing road depart- 

 ments can do the work without calling 

 upon the taxpayers for large appropria- 

 tions. Trees are comparatively inexpen- 

 sive, the land along the roads need not be 

 bargained for, and forestry experts for 

 supervising the preparation of the ground 

 and the setting of oaks, pines, elms or 

 maples are always available. For nearly 

 300 years Americans have been destroy- 

 ing their forests; it is time for the in- 

 auguration of a different policy, and me- 

 morial highways, while offering, of course, 

 no large solution of the problem, would be 

 a step in the right economic direction, in 

 addition to their esthetic and sentimental 

 value. 



Wisconsin Motorist: 



A very worthy compaign is being car- 

 ried on throughout the United States by 

 the American Forestry Association of 

 Washington, D. C, urging motorists to 

 help, by planting memorial trees along the 

 highways, to beautify the roads for which 

 hundreds of millions of dollars have been 

 voted by the various national, State and 

 local governing bodies. 



Motorists everywhere will gladly aid this 

 excellent movement, and will, undoubtedly, 

 join the Association so as to work in con- 

 formity with its plans rather than go about 

 planting inappropriate trees in undesir- 

 able places. 



Meridian, Miss., Star: 



When a given product bids fair to last 

 thirty or forty years ahead it is rather diffi- 

 cult to awaken public interest to the neces- 

 sity of seeing that the product, if it be 

 worth while, lasts longer than that number 

 of years, to see, in fact, the need for pre- 

 venting exhaustion of that product. 



Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the 

 American Forestry Association, is endea- 

 voring to awaken the public mind to the 

 need of replacing the American forests. 

 He has been at it for several years, but 

 has, we presume, found it "an endless job," 

 though he has never given up hope. He 

 is distributing literature, through woman's 

 clubs, churches, civic organizations and 

 the newspapers, in his efforts to reach the 

 public and to create an interest in forestry. 

 Among his first steps was to endeavor to 

 secure the co-operation of owners of tim- 



ber land and forests in adopting a fire-pro- 

 tection policy. 



He suggests, through clubs and civic 

 bodies, that as new highways are built and 

 old ones rebuilt, trees be planted along 

 these highways, as memorials to men who 

 gave their lives to their country the 

 doughboys, the marines, the sailors and 

 others. This suggestion is meeting with a 

 generous response. Trees are being plant- 

 ed as memorials, remembrances and monu- 

 ments. 



Paterson Evening News: 



The American Forestry Association has 

 issued an appeal to every school in the 

 country to plant a tree. Tree-planted 

 schoolhouse grounds will serve several 

 ends. If every schoolhouse could be made 

 a center of pretty landscape gardening, the 

 idea would spread from the children to the 

 homes. People would want the grounds 

 around other public buildings improved. 

 The unsightly railroad stations and other 

 structures which now serve the public so 

 shabbily would be given a setting of 

 foliage. 



Children who acquire this idea of beau- 

 tification will keep it when they grow up. 

 When they move to a newly laid out street 

 they won't be content with treeless land 

 and shrubless soil, but will want a nest of 

 verdure around their homes. This will 

 improve property, make real estate more 

 valuable and give a town a reputation for 

 improvement spit it. These children would 

 be apt to become more interested in trees, 

 learn how much value they add to waste 

 land, and perhaps do some reforestation if 

 they ever own land. 



White Plains Reporter: 



If the people of the United States want to 

 establish a memorial for all time in honor 

 of Theodore Roosevelt, let them link his 

 name with a nation-wide movement to es- 

 tablish a national forest policy. This was 

 the message to the Tristate Forestry Con- 

 ference by Charles Lathrop Pack, president 

 of the American Forestry Association of 

 Washington. Mr. Pack urged everyone to 

 join the American Forestry Association in 

 its campaign for a national forest policy. 



Hammond Times: 



If there is one man in American history 

 besides Washington and Lincoln who de- 

 serves a memorial that the entire nation 

 should take pride in, that man is Theodore 

 Roosevelt, because he would have been the 

 last man to seek such an honor. 



Nation-wide planting of memorial trees 

 and the naming of a great national high- 

 way in honor of Theodore Roosevelt have 

 been suggested by Charles Lathrop Pack, 

 president of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. 



