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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



This point of view is told in the Anioroc News, which was 

 published by the American Army of Occupation at 

 Coblenz in these words: 



"The most urgent necessity of our country is good 

 roads — permanent roads that can be used twelve months 

 in each year. The roads of America today are abso- 

 lutely inadequate, inefficient, and antiquated. They are 

 not designed to carry heavy traffic. It is a vital problem, 

 this question of good roads, one that reaches down into 

 the very foundation of our social and economic scheme of 

 life, for roads are the clearing houses for the various 

 States and the only means of free travel. Our national 



municipalities have planned their own memorial highways 



or victory drives. In St. Albans. Vermont, for example, 

 a memorial avenue a half mile long has been planted 

 by the Woman's Club. At Bridgeton, New Jersey, a 

 drive has been planted with trees in honor of that town's 

 heroes. These tree plantings are being reported to the 

 American Forestry Association for registration on the 

 National Honor Roll of trees the association is compiling. 

 Street tree planting has been taken up anew and a fine 

 opening for the community spirit is found in the neigh- 

 bors along a street or a block getting together and de- 

 ciding to beautify their surroundings. The movement 



1917 --WORLD WAR-- 1918 



SCHOOL 

 HOUSE 



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CORP FRANK McNAMARA JOHN CONNELl 



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FRANCIS CARBERRY 



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EARL KEARNEY FRANK KEARNEY 



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S'G'T FRANK D.V-COUGHLIN 



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ALFRED KEARNEY JOSEPH J KEARNEY 



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 CLARENCE KINGSTON 



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 ARZIE GILLESPIE 



CLARENCE MILLER 



LIEUT. FRANCIS TRACY 



KILLED IN ACTION 



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DANIEL MAHONEY LIEUT. URBAN LAVERY 



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LIEUT. PAUL LAVERY 



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SIDNEY E.HARVEY LIEUT.JAMES F.LAVERY 



ACADIA SCHOOL 



This bronze tablet (without the picture inserts) is one of the most unique memorials marking memorial tree planting in the United .State 

 The tablet hangs in the Acadia School, at Lavery^ Pennsylvania, and each star on the tablet marks where, in tin- school yard, a memorial tre 



an oak. T 



Raycroft, was chairman of the dedication committee 



has been planted in honor of the former pupils. There is one star in gold, that of Lieut Francis Tracy, who was killed m action. This tree 



The others are maples. Lieut. Tracy was killed in the Argonnc on his thirty-fifth birthday. The other insert, Mrs. Annie Lavery 



From all over Erie county hundreds came to the dedication. 



prosperity demands that this disadvantage of roads be 

 overcome. This can only be done by honest legislators 

 making laws, the enforcement of which shall be placed 

 in the hands of men who have passed the test, by service 

 in the construction and maintenance of highways." 



With nearly a billion dollars appropriated from one 

 source or another for good roads the opportunity for 

 beautifying these roads comes right now. The move- 

 ment is well underway and growing every day. Many 



has spread around the world for the American Forestry 

 Association has just received word that New Zealand has 

 plans under way for "Roads of Remembrance" following 

 a meeting of borough council presidents and automobile 

 officials called by P. J. Luke, the Mayor of Wellington. 

 One road under discussion is between Wellington and 

 Auckland, straight across the dominion. Take up the 

 work in your community and start the movement going as 

 a representative of the American Forestry Association. 





