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Show Forests Advocated as Memorials to Heroes Nalional "memory forests" as tlie mosf enduring and practical memorials the nation can dedicate to its dead of the World war were advocated by P. O. Anderson, state agriculturist, in an address. Mr. Anderson, a World war veteran and n member of the American Legion, declared: "We of the American Legion were able to get first-bund information re-j re-j garding what provision the older countries coun-tries have made regarding their timber supply. Europe has commercial forests. for-ests. A timber shortage is inevitable In this country unless reforestation is done widely why not memory forests which will perpetuate the memory of our boys enduringly . . ." The American Legion, both In national na-tional and state conventions, has pledged Itself to a program ft conservation con-servation and reforestation. |