PUTTING TOWNS ON DRESS PARADE 



HOW THE MEMORIAL TREE IDEA CAN BE INCORPORATED WITH CITY 

 BEAUTIFUL PLANS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY 



TOWNS and cities are 

 being made over as 

 the result of the cam- 

 paign of the American 

 Forestry Association for 

 memorial tree planting and 

 for "Roads of Remem- 

 brance." The United States 

 Army has just started an- 

 other motor transport corps 

 across the country to the 

 Pacific, this time through 

 the South. This caravan 

 will carry the message of 

 good roads into hundreds 

 of towns and to thousands 

 of people. In the almost 

 two years since the signing 

 of the armistice there has 

 come a great awakening in 

 tree planting. From every 

 section of the country the 

 American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation is getting reports of 

 what is being done. In 

 almost every case where a 

 memorial is under discus- 

 sion the plans include the 

 planting of memorial trees 

 as the setting for that 

 memorial. There is New Jersey for example. Alfred 

 Gaskill, the state forester, comes forward with the sug- 

 gestion that a memorial forest park at Kittatinny Moun- 

 tain be the State's 

 tribute to her 

 heroes. At Hamil- 

 ton, Ohio, a great 

 plan is under way 

 for making over 

 the city which 

 hitherto has never 

 had anything but 

 her back doors 

 facing the Miami 

 River. Now Ham- 

 ilton proposes to 

 turn herself around 

 and face the river 

 with a beautiful 

 boulevard in the 

 scheme of which 

 shall be memorial 

 tree planting. In 



A DEDICATION PARTY 



These children participated in the dedication of 

 of White Plains, New York. 



memorial tree to 

 the 38 men of White Plains, New York. The tree has been marked and 

 registered with the American Forestry Association by Mrs. Charles C. 

 Webster, of the Nature Study Section of the Contemporary Club of 

 White Plains. 



ROAD SIDE TREES 



Here is an example of editorial co-operation. This editorial was taken from the 

 Macon, Georgia News, which in turn found it in the Atlanta Constitution. The reader 

 will note that it incorporates the view of the Louisville-Courier Journal. Thus does the 

 message of the tree travel. 



The movement for planting trees along public highways, as a part of the general 

 development of the good roads scheme is growing in popular favor everywhere; which 

 is encouraging. 



A tree is not only a thing of beauty, but is of real value, and from both the stand- 

 point of beauty and intrinsic^ value, increases rapidly with the years. 



As for roadside trees, planted and cared for at public expense, there is every reason 

 for hoping that the present nation-wide movement to that end will eventually attain 

 its objective. 



"The time will come," the Louisville Courier-Journal prophesied in a recent 

 editorial, "when every State will plant and protect trees along highways. At present, 

 men are likened to faddists or cranks when they insist that no program or public 

 improvement is complete that does not include trees for public roads. 



"Delaware, a State which has come recently to the fore as an improver of roads, 

 will have tree-lined highways, and between tie trees, where conditions warrant it, 

 the roads will be bordered with shrubbery." 



Sir Walter Scott, in "The Heart of Midlothian," quotes the dying old Highland 

 laird as saying to his son, with almost his last breath: 



"Jock, when ye hae naethin' else to do ye may be aye stickin' in a tree; it will 

 be growin', Jock, when ye'er sleepin'." 



That was good advice for "Jock," and it is as good today for every citizen who 

 has access to a bit of ground, and it is as good for the nation, the State, the county, 

 the city, the town or the school district as it is for the citizen or even was for "Jock." 



And the need for more trees trees in which are combined the qualities that make 

 them useful in a utilitarian sense as well as ornamental, of which there are hundreds 

 of species is growing greater every day. Atlanta Constitution. 



Brooklyn we hear discus- 

 sion of a memorial boule- 

 vard on a most pretentious 

 scale. In Manhattan the 

 memorial idea centers 

 around a great memorial 

 bridge across the Hudson 

 into New Jersey. Here 

 offers a fine opportunity 

 for both sides of the river 

 to plant memorial trees 

 along the approaches to 

 such a structure. 



In a statement for Amer- 

 ican Forestry C. R. Greer, 

 of the Beckett Paper Com- 

 pany, of Hamilton, sets 

 forth the hopes of that city 

 in its plans for a city beau- 

 tiful. His statement says : 

 "A series of related 

 river front improvements 

 are in progress in Hamil- 

 ton, which it is believed, 

 will ultimately give to the 

 city the most distinctive, 

 useful and adorning de- 

 velopment to be found in 

 any of the smaller Ameri- 

 can cities. The present 

 population is above 40,000, but the accession of large 

 industrial concerns assures immediate growth and has 

 encouraged the citizens and public officials to undertake 



improvements that 



will make the city 

 worthy of its 

 metropolitan aspi- 

 rations. The Great 

 Miami RiVer tra- 

 verses Hamilton 

 from north to 

 south, a distance of 

 nearly four miles. 

 The site of the 

 town is naturally 

 attractive an ex- 

 tensive level valley, 

 flanked on all sides 

 by wooded hills 

 over which the city 

 is slowly expand- 

 ing. As in most 

 industrial 'owns the' 



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