Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-25
PLANT TREES TODAY
IN HEROES MEMORY
Special Tribute to Be Paid to
SoIdier-Poet Who Lost
His Life in War
MANY ARBOR-DAY EVENTS

Poem by Joyce Kilmer. who Gave His Life
in France
J think that shall nercr see
A poem lorely as a tree.
A tree ,Chosc hungry mouth is preSt
Against the edrth's srcet foicing breast.
A tree that looks nj God all day
And lifts her lcdfy arms TO pray.
A tree that may in summer redr
A nest of robins in her hair.
Upon phose bosom Snop has lain;
Who intimately lircs rith rain.
Poems are made By fools Ike me,
But only God can make a tree.
In memory of Joyce Kilmer, the poet
and nature lover, and hundreds of other
heroes who lost their lives in France,
trees will be planted today in public
squares, in schoolyards and along the
Parkway. More than 600 trees will
be planted by different organizations.
aside from those the school children will
set out. The committee on municipal
art and tree planting of the Civic Club,
the Society of Little Gardens and the
tree planting committee of the Humane
have been the leading organizations in
planning today's events.
Exercises in honor Of Joyce Kilmer
will be held by the Humane Education
Society at 3 $50 o'clock in Logan
Square. Robert Il. Logan will be
chairman. The presentation will be
made by Miss Katherine Bregy, per
sonal friend of the hero poet. Judge
John NJ. Patterson. the Rev. Father
Lallou, war chaplain; the Rev. Floyd
Tomkins and the Rev. MacColl will be
speakers. Patriotic airs will be sung
by public school children and there will
be band music.
Exercises i'm Parkway
The Civic Club will have elaborate
Arbor Day exercises in the Parkway,
between Twenty first and Twenty sec
ond streets. at ) 10 o'clock. The Navy
band will play. company of marines
will march and there will be commu
nifty singing.
The opening address will be made by
Mrs. Edward Biddle The Rev. Carl
f. Grammcr. of st. Stephens Church
will deliver the invocation and General
l.. w. II. Waller. of the marine corps.
will speak. Members of the Civic Club
whose sons were killed in the war will
assist in the planting of the trees.
- Great interest has been evinced in
. the tribute tree movement. The United
States marines will plant the main
avenue of the parkway with go trees
in honor of the marines who fought at
st. Mihiel. The Civic Club will plant
more than 80 trees in Logan Square.
The Philadelphia Orchestra Association
has taken fifty the National League
for Woman's Service, fifty. anG
Urquhart Auxiliary of Red Cross.
thirty; the Matinee Musical Club and
the Current Events Club have each
taken five trees; the Garden Society
has taken, eleven. The New Century
Club will plant forty trees. School
children have been greatly interested in
Arbor Day memorials. In many
schools they have raised the $40 neces
sary to buy one tree, and in several
schools the children have bought more
tnan one. Inc Idrk commission VIII
get the trees, plant them, care for them
and see that those trees which fail to
take root are replaced. Permission to
plant trees lin fifteen public parks has
been granted schools and civic organi
cations.
At the r. r. Reed School, Seventy
eighth street and Buist avenue. seven
oak saplings will be planted on the
school grounds. One is to honor Frank
lin Greenway. graduate of the Reed
School in 1909, who died in France.
Others will be dedicated to Generals
March, Pershing, Crowder, IIaig, Foch
and Joffre. Every child in the school
will participate in the exercises.
There will also be Arbor Day excr-
cises at the Sartain School, Thirty first
and Oxford streets, at 2:15 o'clock.
Miss Seinda Koran, principal, is in
charge of the program.
Men of the navy will plant trees on
the boulevard at League Island this
afternoon in honor of navy heroes.
Plans of the city forester for Arbor
Day had to be changed BECAUSE of de
lay in shipment of trees. Nearly 200
trees, ordered by the forestry depart
ment. will not be here till April 30, SO
their planting will take place some time
in Nav