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Show URGE TREE PLANTING TO HONOR SOLDIERS NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Directors of the American Forestry association, meeting meet-ing here today, sent messages to the board of commissioners of tlie district of Columbia and to Mayor I-Tylan of New York urging the planting of memorial trees in honor of soldiers killed on European Eu-ropean battlefields. It was suggested that the Washington board select an appropriate place for planting trees for the allied nations, while the New York executive was requested to have "victory oaks," or "victory elms" planted as a part of the city's memorial to her soldier dead. The forestry association asso-ciation offered to co-operate in such work. , Charles Lathrop Pack of Lakewood, N. J., president of the association, speaking' tonight before the New York Association of the Appalachian Mountain club, said the United States could provide no more! fitting memorial to its soldiers than long rows of trees planted along the principal highways by the various states. |