The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-10
TREE SEEDS HEAL
WOUNDS OF WAR
Devastated Sections of Europe
Being Reforested.
AMERICAS GIFT TO ALLIES

Millions of Tree Seeds Sent to France,
Belgium and Great Britain by the
American Forestry Association to
Take the Place of Their Comrades
Who Fell in the World War-Amer-
lean Douglas Fir PIeases France
and Belgium.
American tree seeds, the most ia
nous ever sent from one nation to an
other are now healing the wounds of
war in the devastated sections of the
allied countries. From Boston three
years ago the American Forestry asso-
citation of Washington sent millions Of
tree seeds to France, Great Britain
and Belgium to take the place of their
comrades who fell in the World war.
The fine spirit with which the unique
present was received Is shown in the
report Of Arthur Newton Pack of
Princeton, N j., to the American For
estry association, which commissioned
him to go to Europe made public by
the association following his three
months tour. In this report is the
following general order by the French
ministry:
1.-The plantations made from the
seed presented to us by the American
Forestry association should be located
in places readily accessible to the
main travelled roads and, if possible,
on or near well-known sites, with the
view that such future forests remain
as a monument to the partnership of
France and America in the great
war"
In the British Isles, which lost the
most forest cover because it was
there cutting was done on a wholesale |
the same good feeling prevails. In |
Belgium, too, the work is going for
ward and in the once beautiful Ar
dennes mountains, where German axes
left nothing standing, patches of
American douglas fir are rearing their
heads where once was the mark Of the
German heel.
Where Seedlings Are Planted.
Here are some of the places the
seedlings are planted:
"In County Tyrone, Ireland, where
the best nursery showing of any
planted by the British Forestry COM
mission has been made.
"In the forest of Normal where In
a $4,000 acre forest of pine and beech
the German axe left nothing but the
.saplings.
''In the Ardennes mountains border
ing the old duchy of Luxembourg
"Along the Caledonian canal
Scotland known to all the American
navy because it was there the Ameri-
can submarine chasers were modified.
along the Chemin DIES Danes where
he Doughboy made history. $
around Lille, Valenciennes and
1irson at the doors of reviving in
lustry.
In the forest of Saint Gobain and
lround the ruins of the famous Coucy-
e-Chateau."
A tremendous task faces the Allied
and the magnitude Of it is $
hOwn In Commissioner Packs re- I
ort to the association which brings
ut the fact that Great Britain's pro- 4
ram calls for fourteen thousand
ounds Of seed per annum while {
rance needs an equal amount and be- ?
ause Of the summer drought Belgium I
eeds almost as much.
The seedlings were placed first Of Z
Il by the French government along the u
hemin DIES Danes where the glory
{ the doughboy is forever enshrined p
o awful was the artillery fire hardly II
charred stump remains of the once a
lick forest along the slopes. But a
,w row on row like the peoples Of II
Ianders the seedlings carpet the NJ
opes once gouged and torn by battles Ia
eel in the struggle against militarism. az
hese trees in the years to come will W
great memorial In the region q
wv supervised by the American Com -
ittee for Devastated France Amer bl
as trees too will be found taking @
e place Of their comrades who fell
the forest Of Saint Gobafn and n
ound the ruins of the famous Coucy-
Chateau dynamited by the retreat =;
e Germans.
Stripped by Germans.
ITO the north the Germany army be
t every stick of available timber for W,
own USE" says the report. "In the m,
rest of Normal stood acres of beauti- All
| pine and beech forest, of which tn
thing remains today except the A(
1mps. SO vast an undertaking Is ba
yolved in replanting everywhere at or
ce that here the French have wf
opted a somewhat different system Sc,
clearing and spading up only little pls
Gle here and there wherein our seed stl
S been sown directly without the In sh
mediate nursery state. The loss crl