122 Common Trees 



TURNING to the tree and the part it plays in man's exist- 

 ence we find it the corner stone of his existence because of 

 the part the forest products play in commerce. 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT expressed it well when he said: 

 "A people without children would face a hopeless future: 

 a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which 

 are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon van- 

 ish, and with them all their benefits. When you help to 

 preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part 

 of good citizens." 



WE live by example. So in planting trees we set a fine 

 example to others, for they see what you have done 

 and thus the message of the trees is spread. 



THAT this is of the utmost importance is set forth by Mrs. 

 John Dickinson Sherman, President of the General Fed- 

 eration of Women's Clubs, when she says: "There can be 

 no more important educational work than turning the atten- 

 tion of the new generations to the importance of trees. On 

 every hand we will see this importance if we will but look. 

 The thing is to get us to look." 



CAMPAIGN of education must be carried on all the time 

 on behalf of trees because the trees cannot speak for them- 



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selves. 



WE must get more people to consider the beauty of trees; 

 the value of trees; the economic situation bound up 

 in trees: all the trees mean to us. 



f^AN you imagine this country without trees? 



IF the planting of a tree carries you into the world beyond 

 its beauty, into the world of service all trees perform, then 

 the tree has, indeed, opened up a world of thought into 

 which all must enter, for the vast economic problem is a 

 national one. If the tree then succeeds in doing this it has, 

 after all, spoken more loudly than any of us can speak for 

 them. So may all of us, as Theodore Roosevelt pointed out, 

 become "good citizens," and may there be new millions in 

 the tree planting army. 





