THE COMMUNITY AND ROADS OF REMEMBRANCE 



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although the Detroit Rotary Club has planted memorial 

 trees for its members. The Rotary Club of Hamilton, 

 Ohio, is going in for tree planting as a memorial on an 

 even bigger scale for that organization will plant memorial 

 trees for the soldiers of Butler County. Perhaps one 

 of the most unique forms of hearty response to the call 

 of the American Forestry Association for memorial tree 

 planting is found in the Burroughs Clearing House maga- 

 zine. This publication, which goes to the banks and 

 bankers of the country and is devoted to office manage- 

 ment and efficiency, gives a full page to "Roads of Re- 

 membrance" and urges the bankers of the country to 

 visualize the possibilities for a better country and better 

 business in the building of good roads and their beauti- 

 fication. 



Frederick Stuart Greene, State Commissioner of High- 

 ways for New York, has outlined a plan whereby his 

 department will plant fruit and nut bearing trees along 

 the roads. On this point Commissioner Greene says : 



"The productive fruit or nut from these trees would 

 be ripened at just about the time we now lay off our 

 patrolmen or repair gangs and instead of laying these 

 men off they could be used to harvest the crops which 

 the trees produce and with the number of trucks which 

 the government is now turning over to the department 

 these crops could be quickly and economically transported 

 to markets. 



"The yield from trees planted along our highways 

 represents but a small part of their value to the State. 

 There are few things we can do toward lengthening the 

 life of a road more effective than the planting of trees 

 so that the pavement is shaded. On some of our mid- 

 summer days it is not unusual to find a temperature of 

 from 115 to 125 degrees on the pavement itself where 

 it is subjected to the direct rays of the sun, whereas the 

 same pavement under the shade of a tree will show at 

 the same time not more than 90 degrees of heat. 



WHAT LARGE M ANLFACTURING CONCERNS CAN DO I.N MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING 



This picture shows the avenue leading to the works of Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., of Philadelphia. 

 The management planted this avenue of Norway maples twenty-three years ago. Why cannot every 

 manufacturing plant in the country plant a memorial avenue in honor of their men who offered their 

 Jives to their country? 



By American Photo Service. 



PERSHING PLANTS A MEMORIAL TREE 



One of the first things (after the cheering) when General John J. Pershing 

 arrived in New York from over seas, was the planting of a memorial 

 tree in Central Park. This pin oak from the Amawalk Nursery was 

 planted as a memorial to the men who lost their lives in the war. The 

 General also planted a memorial tree in Independence Square, Philadelphia. 



"It is during these hot days that we most frequently 

 get our sudden showers. The temperature of the water 

 from one of these showers runs from about 65 to 70 

 degrees. On an unshaded pavement we have, therefore, a 

 sudden drop in temperature from say 120 degrees to 65 

 degrees, or 55 full degrees. On a pavement protected 

 by the shade of trees we have a 

 drop of from 90 to 60 degrees, 

 or a total of 30 degrees, just one- 

 half the change in temperature 

 of an exposed pavement. 



"The stress and amount of 

 shrinkage set up in a pavement 

 which is subjected to the sudden 

 change of 55 degrees are a detri- 

 ment to any type of road. Fur- 

 ther than this, with an unexposed 

 pavement this sudden change in 

 temperature is more gradual, due 

 to the fact that the leaves of the 

 trees retard the water to some 

 extent and the pavement does 

 not get the full rainfall at one 

 blow." 



The soldiers, now back from 

 France, are the strongest advo- 

 cates of good roads for they 

 know their value as perhaps no 

 other one set of men know it. 



