MORE TREES TO HONOR OUR HERO DEAD 



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S'ational Photo 



ONE OF THE TREE PLANTINGS ON* THE FIRST ARBOR DAY OBSERVED BY THE 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



To mark the first Arbor Day celebrated in the District of Columbia, the Forestry Committee of the 

 District Federation of Women's Clubs planted a tree in Rawlings Park on May 4th, in honor of the 

 memory of J. Sterling Morton, the father of Arbor Day. Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith made 

 an impressive address, and Colonel C. W. Kutz, the engineer commissioner of the District, presented 

 the tree to Dr. S. M. Huddleson, chairman of the Forestry Committee. Each club president placed a 

 shovel full of earth on the roots of the tree. 



in the fall. Mrs. 

 Maggie Haines, 

 of the United 

 Daughters of 

 the Confeder- 

 acy, writes the 

 Association and 

 calls attention 

 to the fact that 

 "the magnolia 

 is on dress pa- 

 rade the year 

 p.round." At 

 T u s c a 1 oosa. 

 Alabama, the 

 United Daugh- 

 ters of the 

 Confederacy in 

 co-oper a t i o n 

 with the Amer- 

 ican Legion 

 and veterans of 

 other wars. 

 have planted 

 willow oaks in 

 a double grove 

 that connects 

 the University 

 with Tusca- 

 loosa. The 

 American Legion is taking up memorial tree planting 

 everywhere and co-operating in the tree day program that 

 is being sent out by the American Forestry Association. 

 At Warren, Pennsylvania, on Memorial Day, people 

 from every corner of the county gathered for the 

 memorial tree dedication in honor of the county's heroes. 

 Mrs. Silas E. 

 Walker, of the 

 Daughters of 

 the American 

 Revolution, was 

 chair man of 

 the Memorial 

 Park Commit- 

 tee. At Scran - 

 ton, Pennsyl- 

 vania, an im- 

 p r e ssive me- 

 morial tree 

 dedication 

 marked Me- 

 morial D a \ . 

 Mrs. Grace 

 Storrs Watson, 

 of the Scran- 

 ton Shade Tree 

 Comm ission, 

 registered the 



PLANTING 173 MEMORIAL TREES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 



Thif photograph shows the speaker's stand and the trees, covered with canvas, 

 captain stepped up for his tree and with his crew of five men planted it. Som 



At a signal, each tree 

 stepped up for his tree and with his crew ot five men planted it. Some parents came over 150 

 miles to attend this exercise. Each tree was marked with an American Forestry Association marker. 



trees planted 

 with the Amer- 

 ican Forestry 

 Association. 



To every 

 section of the 

 land the edu- 

 cational cam- 

 paign of the 

 American For- 

 estry Associa- 

 tion has carried 

 the message of 

 the value of 

 trees. The idea 

 of the munici- 

 pal wood lot is 

 also being car- 

 ried far and 

 wide. An ex- 

 ample of this is 

 reported by the 

 Hymera High 

 School of Indi- 

 ana. This re- 

 port follows : 



"The High 

 School in co- 

 operation with 

 the grades, the district schools and the public has set 

 out the vacant lot east of the present high school as a 

 grove in young forest trees. This lot was formerly a 

 part of the old White Ash Coal Mine and is low ground 

 with many sink holes, making it unfit for cultivation. 

 Township Trustee E. A. Marratta conceived the idea of 



setting it out 

 in young for- 

 est trees, thus 

 providing an 

 ample grove 

 for future gen- 

 erations. He 

 presented h i s 

 idea to the 

 Jackson town- 

 ship teachers 

 who accepted it 

 with enthusi- 

 asm and ap- 

 pointed Miss 

 Eleanor Stew- 

 art, teacher of 

 Botany and 

 Agriculture in 

 the Hymera 

 High School, 

 and Miss Nell 

 Farley, Agri- 



