"ROADS OF REMEMBRANCE 



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IN THE days when all Gaul was divided into three 

 parts the wise men knew the value of good roads. 

 The Appian Way, built in 312 B. C, is still an ex- 

 cellent highway and France today has good roads, for 

 she began building them in 1556. In 1820 Macadam, the 

 English highway engineer, introduced his methods into 

 France. In this country, however, the good roads idea 

 had to pass through the "crank" stage and then the "en- 

 thusiast" stage until now the country has a road building 

 program under way that will cost about a half billion 

 dollars, counting state and federal activities. Good roads 

 have suddenly become a business proposition and they 

 should also become a basis for the beautification of the 

 country and something more than a strip of concrete 

 baking in the sun in summer and smothering in the snow 



bridges and libraries, all to be included in one country- 

 wide plan or unit. 



Here in our own country Minneapolis has the greatest 

 plans for a memorial drive under way, for the Board of 

 Park Commissioners there is planning for fifty years 

 from now. Theodore Wirth, the superintendent, is go- 

 ing ahead with plans by which he claims Minneapolis 

 will have one of the show places of the American conti- 

 nent in 1950. Improvement of the Glenwood-Camden 

 Parkway has been begun and C. M. Loring, "the father 

 of the park system of Minneapolis," has set aside 

 $50,000 for the care of the trees. The vase type of elm 

 is to be used and these trees are now being shaped in 

 the nurseries in order to be ready for planting in the 

 spring of 1921. There will be six rows of trees for 



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Thirty-six trees were planted at the Michigan Agricultural College in honor of the graduates who gave their lives in the war. A memorial tablet 



imbedded in a big boulder was unveiled. 



drifts in the winter. To avoid this the American For- 

 estry Association has pointed, as a solution, to "Roads 

 of Remembrance" — the planting of memorial trees, 

 memorial groves and even memorial forests at such places 

 as are deemed best. We hear much of memorials but 

 why not let memorial of stone wait until the proper set- 

 ting along a "Road of Remembrance" can be found? 

 Memorial tree planting on a big scale is planned accord- 

 ing to William Carroll Hill, secretary of the Pilgrim 

 Tercentenary Commission, in connection with the three 

 hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims' 

 in 1920. Daniel Boone died in 1820 and as there 

 is now a Boone Memorial Highway the American 

 Forestry Association has suggested that memorial trees 

 be planted along the road to mark the centenary. There 

 are several proposed highways in honor of Colonel 

 Roosevelt, the leading apostle of the great outdoors. In 

 Great Britain memorial plans are of the widest scope, 

 for they include housing, "Roads of Remembrance," 



nearly two miles and four rows of trees for one mile. 

 The trees will be planted 60 feet apart in both directions. 

 Cincinnati, too, has under consideration a wonderful 

 plan for a memorial drive that includes the widening of 

 Fifth Street in the down-town section, and connecting 

 up with a boulevard now in existence. James P. Orr, 

 who, with F. W. Garber, the architect, was first to sug- 

 gest the plan is enthusiastic for memorial tree planting. 

 In Canada, the Ontario Highway Association has plans 

 up for a highway from Ottawa to Sarnia, across the 

 river from Port Huron, where the Victory Highway 

 cuts across Michigan. This in turn connects with the 

 Lincoln Highway which crosses the Jefferson Highway 

 near Ames, Iowa. The Jefferson Highway runs from 

 New Orleans to Winnepeg. Thus it will be seen there 

 are great possibilities for memorial tree planting along 

 an international drive. The tree planting in Michigan 

 is assured and the stretch of the Jefferson Highway in 



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