LIVING MEMORIALS 



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At Bordentown, New Jersey, the Bordentown Military 

 Institute placed twenty-two trees in memory of the Insti- 

 tute's boys who gave their lives in the World War. Colonel 

 Thomas D. Landon, the commandant, arranged the pro- 

 gram which included an address by Judge H. B. Wells. 

 Maxwell Emerson, a nephew of D. Edgar Maxwell for 

 whom one of the trees was planted, gave a recitation and 

 the public school pupils rendered "What the Trees Teach 

 Us." Rev. James Burns offered the prayer and the tree 

 song from the American Forestry Association's program 

 were sung. All of the 22 names have been registered on 

 the national honor roll. 



Tree planting activities have really but begun. The 

 living memorial is appropriate to any and all memorial 

 plans whether it be the single tree or a "Road of Remem- 

 brance." The "Road of Remembrance" idea has been 

 taken up most heartily. The Association's suggestion 

 that the Bankhead Highway be made a "Road of Remem- 

 brance in honor of the late Senator John H. Bankhead 

 has received the most welcome editorial comment 

 throughout the South. 



A great Liberty Memorial Park was proposed by the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution in Congress at 

 Washington, D. C, in April. This follows the lead of 



the American Forestry Association, which organization 

 has suggested to Governor Westmoreland Davis, of Vir- 

 ginia, that the highway to Mt. Vernon, the nation's shrine, 

 be made a great "Road of Remembrance" and become 

 a unit of the drives that should lead to such a memorial 

 park as the Daughters of the American Revolution 

 sponsor. The Association urges that Governor Davis 

 invite the states to plant memorial trees along the high- 

 way to Mt. Vernon. Connecting as it does with the 

 beautiful drive to Arlington, the drive in Potomac Park 

 and the proposed river drive from Potomac Park to 

 Rock Creek Park, the nation's capital has the greatest 

 of opportunities to erect a memorial to the heroes of the 

 World War such as no other world capital can hope to 

 duplicate. The plan of the Daughters of the American 

 Revolution called for the construction of a highway con- 

 necting the city of Washington with the park, which 

 would be called Liberty Memorial Highway, and the 

 suggestion was made that the park be used for study and 

 experiment in forestry and agriculture and for the estab- 

 lishment of vocational schools. The resolution asks the 

 United States Congress to appropriate money for this 

 project, and to place the selection of the site and the 

 development of the lands in the hands of a Liberty 

 Memorial Park Commission, to include the Secretary of 



Underwood & Underwood. 



MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING FOR SOLDIERS AT BORDENTOWN, NEW JERSEY 



To perpetuate the memory of men from the Bordentown Military Academy who fell in the war, memorial tree planting exercises were held 

 at the academy on Arbor Day. Children of the city and Bordentown cadets participated in the exercises. 



