Show I 1 aal communities look to their future highway the american nature association calls on the clubs and tile tho bw bus luesa organizations to inquire into the question of roadside beautification and thus look to tile future on vila this point the bludson new york st star says bays the ilia roadside tree Is at I 1 last at co coming nto into its own those that h havo vu survived the ravages of modern traffic are being protected and new trees are being planted along ancient clent enemies of tho the roadside tree are the sign and bill 1111 poster the road builder the lineman and the alie landowner for years they took au an appalling toll in trees but nil all are now on the defensive it if not giving volun tary cooperation co c in the pres preservation irva tion of trees along alone the highways there are times when tho the removal of a tree or a whole row of trees Is in necessary to eliminate a dangerous curve or to widen a highway under the old order of things such trees were removed and forgotten today trees thus removed are being replanted in many states no longer do the linemen of telephone telegraph and electric power companies recklessly hack and saw at highway shade trees because their limbs interfere with the wires uw un scientific trimming by linemen killed countless valuable trees before tho the government began holding tile owners of the tha wires accountable for the trees tree a damaged by their employees the motor highway of the future will be a broad thoroughfare bordered on both sides by shade giving trees and with nil all communication and power transmission lines running free of the trees and concealed by the tree from the roadway towns aspiration for ideal means progress there are many ideals for towns and somewhere there Is a to town w n that la Is TIng toward each ot them for instance reads tin nn editorial in tho the household the richest town in the state the cle cleanest anesi town the most beautiful town the th busiest town the most fashionable town the most moat homelike 6 town the most modern town the most helpful 63 jovn i the most religious town tile the most co operative town tow n tho the gayest town the intellectual town the most enterprising town the most public town the best town in which to bring up children what Is your towns ideal continues the editorial Is it tedi best ideal or your town or does your town lack lacka a con melons belong lda ideal eat if so la Is it not worth while to develop a conscious ideal y |