Evening star., 1937-06-14
C.L. Pack, 80, Dies in Ne,v York.;
Won Fame as C0nserruti0nist
4 drised Planting of
Gardens to Help Yin
World Var.

Charles Lathrop PACK, 30, founder
and president OF the American Tree
Association, died today in Doctor,
Hospital, New York, following ar
emergency operation, it was announced
at the organization headquarters al
1914 Sixteenth street
Mr.. Pack, whose home was in Lake
wood, N. j.. is remembered by many
as the man who told them TO help
win the World War by planting gar.
dens.
Mr.. Pack wrote the War Garder
Primer and conducted publicity
campaign which was estimated Il
have inspired 100000 new gardens
the idea being to permit usual fooc
supplies to flow to the Army and Navy
in Europe.
A former Cleveland banker, Mr.
Pack had been leader in forest con-
serva ton work since the days Of Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt.
Funeral services, the association
said, would be held Wednesday morn.
ing at Lakewood He will be buried
in spot Of his own choosing in The
Charles LAthrop Pack Demonstration
Forest. which skirts the Hudson River
near Warrensbur2, N. Y.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Alice
Gertrude Pack: two sons. Randolph
G. and Arthur N Pack, and a daugh.
ter, Beulah Pack OF Lakewood. N. j.
and two sisters, Mrs. Amos McNairy
Manchester, Vt. and Mrs. PhiliI
Ashton Rollins Of Princeton.
To make the American people
forestry minded" was Mr.. Pack!
ambition and life work. "All wealth
comes from the soil" he once tolt
his friend, the late John Hays Ham
mond. and this country must realize
that fact and save the soil and thu.
perpetuate the wealth that soil pro
duces.'
War Garden Primer.
His first primer WAS the war gar
den primer and the next the forestr.
primer. His tree-planting books
given away by thousands to mark th
bicentennial Of the birth Of Georg
Washington and another to mark th'
sesquicentennial Of the formation o
the Constitution. are widely known
He gave away 100000 war sardel
primers and the free distribution o
the forestry primer has now reached
4,3ooo 900 copies.
Mr.. Pack did not believe the Unitet
States could keep out of the Worlt
War and believed food would win thh
war Some months before Presiden
Wilson went before Congress and de
clared war. Mr.. Pack organized tn
National War Garden Commission t.
distribute his War Garden Primer.
At the end Of the war Mr.. Pacl
again turned his attention to forestr,
| education. AS result. Great Brit
ain, France, Belgium and italy vii
be largely reforested with American
trees
Remembering the success OF the wa
garden army Pack organized the tre
planting army. Through the Amer
an Tree Association, with headquar
ters here Pack called upon the schools
Scout organizations, women's clubs
civic societies and everybody else t.
plant q tree and register the actor
on the national honor roll Of tn
American Tree Association.
Dedicate Primer to c. c. C.
One edition Of the Forestry Prime
Pack dedicated to the C. c. c. an
the last one, marking the 60th an
niversary of the flrst step in forestr
by the Government, he dedicated t
the memory of Franklin B. Hougr
the Nations first forest agent in 1876
| Under Packs direction, the asso
citation also published the Forestr
News Digest containing p-to-dat
news on forestry. This is distrin
uted free.
Before retiring from business Pacl
was an organizer of the Clevelan,
Chamber of Commerce and one Of it
early presidents. The span Of hi
business activities reached from
Michigan lumber town, where h.
knew Thomas A. Edison rs 4 new
butcher" on train, to becoming or
of the leading citizens OF Cleveland
where Pack organized the Clevelan
Trust Co. He also spent some tin;
in Asheville, N. c., where Pack Squar
and Pack Library are named for hi
father.
Born at Lexington Mich, May
1887, son Of George Willis and Fran
ces (Farman) Pack, Charles Lathro
Packs first paternal American an
cestor was George Pack 1634-1704)
who emigrated from England and set
tied near Elizabeth, N. j., and was on
Of the original founders of Elizabetl
! Town.
Studied in Germany.
Educated in Brooke School, Cleve
land, Pack went abroad to study for
estry in Germany. On his return h
spent several years In exploration
throughout Canada, Northwest Louis
lana and Mississippi, and vas anon