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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"Your people are going to glorify the highways of 

 Delaware. In outlining a plan, I have spoken to you out 

 of the experience of a lifetime and have given you the 

 best there is in me. The work which you are doing will 

 live and if you plant the trees by the roadside, future 

 generations will call you blessed." 



Of course, there is not a Coleman duPont in every 

 State, and Delaware is to be congratulated upon having 

 the service of such a man. But what of other States? 



There is Georgia, with the "Roads of Remembrance" 

 work and memorial tree planting being directed by Julia 

 Lester Dillon. In Bibb County two memorial roads will 

 be planted so as to form 

 the shape of a cross. 

 This will be one of the 

 most unique memorials in 

 the country as outlined by 

 F. Roger Miller, secretary 

 of the Macon Chamber of 

 Commerce. The Woman's 

 Auxiliary of the Chamber 

 of Commerce of Macon is 

 making the plans for this 

 "Road of Remembrance," 

 and Mrs. W. O. Kinney is 

 the chairman of the com- 

 mittee that will plant the 

 trees and gather the data 

 which will enable the 

 American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation to register the trees 

 on its National Honor Roll. 

 Each tree along the high- 

 way extending fromLorane 

 across the county to a point 

 near Dry Branch, and from 

 the direction of Clinton 

 towards Echeconnee, thus 

 forming the cross, will 

 bear on a metal plate the 

 name of a Bibb County man 

 who entered some branch of war service. Gold stars on 

 some will indicate those who died in the service. Rela- 

 tives and friends of the "heroes" will be given the privi- 

 lege of furnishing the trees and markers, and the property 

 owners will be asked to co-operate in planting the 

 memorials. That is the way to interest the public in a 

 real way in road building. Give them a real intimate 

 part in the road. Make it, through memorial tree plant- 

 ing a "Road of Remembrance" and therefore their road. 



At York, Pennsylvania, the Woman's Club has under- 

 taken the planting of memorial trees along the Lincoln 

 Highway. Mrs. John B. Hamme, the president of the 

 club, has organized the county for "tribute tree" planting 

 to make this stretch of the famous highway a "Road of 

 Remembrance." In her plan, which may well be followed 

 by similar organizations, she says : 



"There is a general movement to plant trees as the 

 most fitting memorial to the boys who so nobly laid 



Courtesy the DuPont Magazine. 



DELAWARE ROCK FOR DELAWARE ROADS 



General Coleman DuPont has given four million dollars for good roads 

 work in Delaware, and a systematic plan of roadside tree planting has 

 been worked out by Samuel C. Lancaster, the engineer who built the 



Columbia River Highway. 



aside their own interests to fight for our homes, our 

 country, and liberty in the great World War. The 

 Woman's Clubs of the United States have undertaken the 

 planting of trees along the Lincoln Highway from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. The Woman's Club of 

 York started the movement to plant trees from Wrights- 

 ville to the Adams County line, the York County portion 

 of the Lincoln Highway, which will eventually be one of 

 the great roadways of the world, as a tribute to all the 

 York County boys who served in the great war. The plan 

 is to plant the roadway on both sides with very long- 

 lived, deep-rooted trees, set about 100 feet apart, and to 



mark a tree for each of the 

 220 boys who gave their 

 lives, and to mark the road- 

 way at either end in some 

 way to show that the whole 

 planting is a tribute to all 

 who served, living or dead. 

 The trees chosen are red 

 oaks, American elms, sugar 

 maples and tulip trees. Two 

 dollars and a half plants a 

 tree, an additional dollar 

 marks it for some fallen 

 hero with a small bronze 

 plate giving his name and 

 department of service. In 

 the price of the tree is in- 

 cluded the replacement of 

 the tree, should it die, and 

 expert care of it for a year. 

 Every loyal citizen of York 

 County will do all he can to 

 further this avenue of Trib- 

 ute Trees, this 'Road of 

 Remembrance,' which not 

 only honors our soldier and 

 sailor lads, but also adds to 

 the comfort and pleasure of 

 all, and to the beauty of our 

 York County. This is distinctly a community project." 

 An organized plan of campaign now, such as we have in 

 Delaware and on the part of the women's clubs in co- 

 operation with the American Forestry Association will 

 result in a memorial such as the doughboy never dreamed 

 when he embarked for France on the great adventure. He 

 will have made his country a better place in which to live, 

 and that is what he fought for. These highways of civili- 

 zation offer the great opportunity. Our methods of trans- 

 portation have progressed at an astonishing rate, but, pe- 

 culiar as it may seem, the roads have remained unadorned 

 through all these years. Shall we beautify our roads as 

 we build and find outselves in the years to come with a 

 nation-wide memorial in which trees man's greatest 

 friend shall have the greatest part ? Perhaps somewhere 

 a memorial road can be built in honor of Jean Frederic 

 Oberlin, who long years ago saw good roads as the 

 solution to many problems. 



