Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1919 — Plant Trees. [ARTICLE]

Plant Trees.

Let us plant trees as memorials to our fallen heroes. Let us plant trees not only along the great transcontinental highways, as the American Forestry association so opportunely suggests, but let each community plant trees for its own dead, in addition. ■ .■ - In Mohammedan countries it is regarded as an apt peculiarly pleasing to God and man to erect drinking places as memorials for the dead. These fountains, with their supply of water in arid lands, help greatly to beautify roads, to lighten the burden ot-life and refresh bodies and souls, while they testify in memorials of stone, brick and marble to beloved dead. Let us plant trees as memorials to our own beloved dead, whose deeds shall live so long as the world lives.