Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

TREES SERVE TWO PURPOSES Give Beauty to Town and Will Bo Source of Revenue to Future Generations. The women’s clubs of the country have organized for state-wide tree planting. In California each district of the federated clubs has been supplied with tree-planting data from the association. In Georgia the tree planting was done in the winter by the Georgia federation, when thirty-one memorial ’proves were planted under the direction of Julia Lester Dillon. In Delaware the' federation is to-op-erating with the great road-building program there in order to have the highways of the state become one big “road of remembrance.” “This Is one of the biggest programs before any state,” says Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Forestry, association. “Every state should watch what .General du Pont and the state of Delaware does. Samuel C. Lancaster, the highway engineer who built the Columbia river highway, has submitted a comprehensive plan to General du Pont. This includes tree planting on an intelligent scale. “The greatest educational campaign the country ever saw being worked out through the schools of the country. The coming generation will know the value of forestry to the country in., which it Ilves. Our forests are like: a bank. We must deposit in them if we hope to draw *out. Through the planting of trees and the study of outdoor lite the children will easily take up the economic side of the subject and understand what must be done toward saving our forests.”