Evening star., 1928-04-24
NEW BOOKS
AT RANDOM
I. G.. M.

hopeless future; q country WITHOUT trees
is almost as helpless; forests which are
so used that they cannot renew them
selves will soon vanish, and With them
all their benefits. When you help to
preserve our forests or plant new ones
you are acting the part OF good clti-
zens."
Minds running along with that OF
Mr. Roosevelt in this respect thought
out and set upon It's feet the American
Tree Association, which Is open to you
open, indeed, to every man, woman
and child in the United States without
a cent of money cost, but by just one
simple act OF personal effort instead.
Already the American Tree Associa-
ton counts more than 10000 good
citizens" as its membership, steadily
growing army. Let's go! Let each of
us plant a tree, since that Is the price
Of admission. And, having put that
much of ourselves into the permanent
beauty and Joy of the earth. let us
speedily send an application to enlist
in the ranks OF these active tree grow
ers. There is no other way to get in.
Membership simply cannot be bought:
PLANT tree" is the sole password and
countersign here. Now, belonging, we
are entitled, without COST to certain
books issued by the association. Here
Is one of them:
TREE PLANTING BOOK. Washing
ton. D. C.. American Tree AsSocia-
ton.
Designed for practical use, economy
is the keynote of this book. Not the
sort of economy. however that narrows
information and skimps material. The
kind. instead that admits none Of the
verbal padding and familiar word
pumping of most print. Here Is def
mite instruction concerning every step
in the process of planting trees. Here
is a study of soil in its affinity for GER
tain trees to the exclusion of others;
here Is a survey of climate in its bearing
upon this growth or that one; here is
specific teaching of the care of the tree
through It's infancy and youth on up to
the time of its majority when, barring
disease or accident, it Is able to look
after itself. Wherever in the United
States you may be living lists of trees
suited to that environment are here
offered for your choice. Whatever may
be the special purpose OF your planting,
here are the trees to f1t that purpose.
Right here are little stories of this To-
memorial trees, roads of remembrance.
and just highways blessed with the
shade of beautiful trees marching along
with them. One story is that of Char
lotte, Mich, which turned waste and
unsightly spot into a lovely park hon.
oring It's soldier dead through COM
munity enterprise. Minneapolis and
st. Paul have, in common, Road Of
Remembrance whose care Is insured by
an endowment sourced in one mans
love for trees. Here in Washington, out
Sixteenth street way, is Road of Re-
membering, for each tree Is marked in
honor of a soldier of the District of
Columbia. And so this compact little
book offers body of facts for imme-
diate use in the altogether beautiful
business OF restoring the waste Of our
forests, of stretching rows of trees along
the highways. of planting individual
trees for the shade and beauty and
utter Self1eSsness of their growth and
wide well-doing.
Behind this forest renewal and care.
behind this general patriotic fervor in
behalf of our tree population. there
stands, so far as / can find out. just
single man. Yes. TO be sure, thousands
are now lending a hand. but the in
spiration and the sustaining power lie
chiefly In the efforts of the man who
has given forest tracts to at least two
universities for scientific experimental
tion under the cooperation OF state
forestry agencies, all to the end that
an awakening public interest in this
subject shall be met by everything that
scientific forestry can offer to promote
so beautiful and beneficent an enter
prise. A wise man, this one, who knows
that 1t rests with the growing young
sters. that this tree business depends
upon the feeling Of friendlineSs that
can be developed In the children of the
country. And so he is putting out free
books TO- schools-simple books. like
through the most potent of all feelings.
that of love and friendship.
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TREES AT NIGHT. Art Young. Boni
& Liveright.
the wooded hills one Summer night, a
ing along the sky. They were trees, of
course. but enough like camels"--and
so, as camels this poet with pencil and
picture to set feet TO his verse. passed
them over TO us, to whom they still seem
TO be humping along the sky" The
incident opened new game for Art
Young. Caring a lot for trees. he de-
cided right then that he would keep an
eye out for their nocturnal behaviors
and pursuits. II group or a line of
them could under the moonlight turn
into completely real caravan of the
desert. no knowing what many another
Of them might be doing under the lunar
bewitchment.
IND ta i<t
tree In the northwest corner Of Franklin
Park. broad and low-linlped. whose two
main branches are. right In broad day
light. huge serpents waiting only for
the moonlight to come. when. i'm suffo-
eating folds. they will writhe and twist
around the bodies OF old LAGOON and
his sons in punishment for the priests
announcement: For my part. ! fear
the Greeks even when they offer gifts"
Only the moonlight and mere flick
of fancy are needed for the Trojan
tragedy to create itself anew, up there
In the northwest corner Of Franklin
Park. where many a flashing motor light
will add TO the potency Of the moon
itself in the art Of picture making,
However this Is merely corrobora-
tive touch ca the clear Mnacy OF Art
Young. Let us hurry back To him
under the moon. colloguin'. pencil-wise
with the secret antics and nightly
sports OF the tree world. Here Is q
beautiful, and authentic. book of tree
pictures. The first one~-only trees in
a mighty alignment Is Cathedral" a
breath-taking surge OF beauty. lifted
toward the skies. Beyond this one are
the trees in q wind dance of ethereal
ioyousness and beauty. and Birds In
Their Flight" and ''They Were Lone
some" Here are bogies and archan-
gels and q rooted Pegasus" A Mid
night Joy Rider" hurries along his
way, while Beauty and the Beast"
stage the immemorial conflict Good
by Summer" Is n dream---and all OF
these are of q beauty that Is hard to
describe but So easy TO feel and 20
dip ones self into with tlne and gest-
ful pleasure. Readers Of Saturday