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Show FOREST OF STATES IS REPRESENTATIVE j IX)S A NO ELKS, March 11 A "for- I est of states" Is planned for Kxposition park here, by the Loa Angeles chum-I chum-I ber of commerce. j It is hoped to obtain from every state . In the I'nion, as well as from Hawaii, l'orto Kico. Guam. I'hlllppines and Alaska, a tree representative of the . district from which it comes. They will be planted and cared for by the Ios Angeles municipal park commission. The governor of each state Is to be asked to send a tree typical f his state. In srme c's-s the requests al- ty hnve been forwarded and, in O cases of Idaho uhu uuu.ii.umi, favorable responses have been received. Idaho will he represented by a white pine and Louisiana by a magnolia. Kvery state In the Union Is represented repre-sented here by a society of Its former residents, who, because of ihe plan for a "forest of Mutes," look forward to the time when they may hold their annual an-nual outings In l-o Angeles In the shade of u tree "from their own home state." |