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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ON THE WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY, NEAR YELLOW 

 PENNSYLVANIA 



SPRINGS, 



This gives a good idea of what needs to be done to make our motor 

 routes "Roads of Remembrance." . Note the most unattractive 



. of Remembrance." - 

 stretch of barns and teleeraoh noles on the rieht of the road. 



to save for the future what our ancestors have left us. 



The national forest reservations are a wonderful step 

 in saving for the future some of the beauties nature has 

 bestowed upon us. More must be done. The great state 

 highway project should be made to mean more, and in 

 building such highways advan- 

 tage should be taken of natural 

 beauties that can be preserved. 



In Humbolt County, Cali- 

 fornia, a new state highway is 

 in process of construction. It is 

 flanked with noble redwoods 

 dating from before the time of 

 Christ. Unless public sentiment 

 bestirs itself, the trees along this 

 great aisle of the cathedral of the 

 woods are doomed to the saw 

 and the mill. The man-made 

 buildings destroyed in devastated 

 France are easier to restore than 

 one of these ancient monarchs of 

 the forest. 



The problems of tree planting 

 and tree saving have only been 

 briefly touched upon. It is to be 

 hoped that the example of 

 France and England may not be 

 lost on our soldiers who have 

 been across and that we may 



look forward to roads and streets better kept and more 

 artistically treated. 



THE COMMUNITY AND ROADS OF 

 REMEMBRANCE 



POSSIBILITIES of highway tree planting pointed 

 ■*■ out by Philip P. Sharpies in the article are only 

 limited to the number of miles a road may extend. 

 The community spirit that was reborn of the war may, 

 with the planting of "Roads of Remembrance," be kept 

 alive and bring about a more united country. The great 

 burden of our roads is civilization. A striking example 

 of what may be done is seen in the plan worked out at 

 Dryden, Michigan, by Major-General George O. Squier, 

 chief signal officer of the United States Army. The 

 General took a green scum covered mill pond and con- 

 verted it into a beauty spot by building a miniature 

 dam. A small club house was erected on the side of 

 a hill. The General demonstrated right in his own home 

 town that the beauties of a place are seldom seen by the 

 people who live there. The result was that the little club 

 house has become a real country club and it is the meet- 

 ing place of the farmers of that county. The boys and 

 girls of the farm community now enjoy this interesting 

 place. Let our good roads program include such com- 

 munity centers and the planting of memorial trees such 

 as General Squier is going to have planted at his home 

 town and we will shortly have a transformed farming 

 community. 



Nearly every State in the Union is alive to these 

 possibilities and various organizations are backing plans 

 for memorial drives and victory highways. The Rotary 

 Club at Bluefield, West Virginia, is one of the first 

 branches of that organization to plan a memorial drive 



A BEAUTIFUL STRETCH OK ROAD AT TOPSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS 



This shows the wonderful possibilities for Memorial Tree planting along the good roads now under con- 

 struction. Compare this picture with that of the William Penn Highway in Pennsylvania. 



