The Mankato free press., 1922-06-02
MEMORIAL TREE
ROAD DEDICATED
PROGRAM CARRIED OUT AZ
YORK, PA, TODAY
GREETINGS ARE SENT
Special Messages From Mrs.
Harding Bead During The
Ceremonies.
Luni,ed Press Dispatch. ]

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York, Pa, May 30.-The longest
stretch of transcontinentai me-
mortal rree planting, twenty five
miles of the Lincoln Highway, was
dedicated as Road of Remem-
brance today by York county.
Greetings were sent by the Lin
ton at South Bend, Ind, and to the
Lincoln Highway Association of
Stark Co., at Canton, Ohio. where
similar planting has been done
along this highway. Municipalities
all across the continent are taking
up the work.
Under the direction of Mrs. j. B.
Hamme, Mrs. r. S. Cannon and
Mrs. A. Fl. Hayward, the York Wo-
mems Club have been at work for
two years on the tree planting in
County. Charles Lathrop Pack.
president of the American Forestry
Association of Washington, d. c.,
and Mai. r. Y. Stuart, the forester
of Pennsylvania, were the speak
ers at the unveihng of the tablets,
at either end Of the 25 mile stretch
today.
Mrs. Hardings Letter.
Pack presented to the Women's
Club Of York the following letter
from Mrs. Warren G. Harding, =
estry Association:
1.-THE Women,s Club, York, Pa.
Please allow me to congratulate
you on the wonderful work you
have brought to conclusion in the
dedication on Memorial Day OF the
Road of Remembrance along the
Lincoln Highway. In the planting
of twenty-f miles of the famous
highway you have erected a me
mortal that the entire country can
enjoy in the years to come. May
placed in the care of the lincoln
Highway Memorial and Hfbute
Tree Association. Sincerely yours,
Florence King Harding.
The memorial trees along this
Road of Remembrance are allotted
to the heroes of the World War.
The only other tree planting ap-
preaching this work in scope has
been done by the Rotary Club at
Tampa, Florida.
Address President Pack.
At the unveifing of the first tab
let President Pack of the American
Forestry Association said:
"At Washington today. where the
Lincoln Highway begins, is being
dedicated great memorial to Abb
raham Lincoln. / like to think of
these memorial highways, planted
with memorial trees for those of
another war, as being the Roads of
Remembrance that bind together the
nation Lincoln kept together.
These highways are civilization
highways. They bring brother
closer to his brother, neighbor clos
er to neighbor. Thus the stranger
meets stranger and is no longer
stranger Het gets the viewpoint Of
the other fellow and that is just
what Lincoln, after all, worked for.
"The memorial tree with its ever
renewing life is the living reminder
of those for whom it is planted. 1t
is the reminder that they live in
the great world idea, that freedom
of peoples hves and will continue to
live.
"Such dedication as this on Me-
mortal Day bring me to the thought
that the Memorial Days of the fu-
ture viii be tree days. / believe
that around these trees on future
Memorial Days there will be re-
newed conservation by the people.
The tree is the greatest handiwork
of nature and I can see in the In
ture a strong current tending to
make this nation a tree planting ma
ton. From trees the nation gets its
strength"