Show A FITTING MEMORIAL A the ile Ameri american cark people rather pride them settee upon icing being hard headed practical matter 0 a fact Ine mental fital but there is 13 one sentiment entime nt of which no american is ever ashamed a f errant fervant and burning patriotism therefore wherefore it ii is that the dedication to the memory of the late president harding of the second largest living thine thing in all the world a giant red wood tree tr in sequoia national park by col john IL white superintend ten dent of that reservation has brought bro aught tears to more than one eye ele in official washington e joyce kilmer gentle poet who gave hia his life for his country in flan wrote poems are made by fools like me but only god can make a trees tree and excepting only the herman tree the 1 Irest 1 resident dent tree 1 is I uie most beautiful example of god gods tree handiwork tn n the world it seems peculiarly fitting that two men nien who caye gave their lives for their country should be he linked in this way kilmer A humble soldier in the A I 1 E Ft F whose delicate kill skill with words will live long ion after the wounds wound of war have healed and harding whose kill at understanding people drew a nation together in closer bonds of unity and love kilmer loved trees so to much thai that he wrote of them often one of greatest trees in the world is forever to be linked with the name of a much loved patriot generation generations yet unborn will ill revere the memory of him whose is now given to the huge se S quota and will quote again from ail inri mer i A tree depicts diviness divi div nesi inest plan bat but god himself lives in a man min I 1 |