Show TO HELP government president wilsons Wll Wil sons appeal to tue t ne poy scouts of america to help vu the war by locating supplies ot of black walnut trees has been followed b arrangements under which the war Depart department rilent the forest service and the hie boy scout organization have have joined efforts to find the needed thriftier ier As president wilson pointed out the war department program males makes the securing of black walnut lumber for use in manufacturing airplane propellers propellers and gunstocks gune gun locks stocks of the utmost importance war department and forest service officials are arc combing the country tor for black walnut timber which can no longer bo be found in ili abundance anywhere but has to lie a culled often as singla trees from mixed forest growths much aluch of the lilack black walnut that is left Is in farmers woodlots wood lots and it is I 1 primarily to locate this that the boy scouts have been called into service in the aggregate there are said to be large supplies thousands ot of blanks aidi letters lettai s of instructions are arc being printed Irin ted liy by the government ment for distribution to scouts and scout masters throughout the region in which black walnut occurs in commercial com mercal quantities individual trees may be found as tar far east as connecticut northward in fit new york to and beyond the canadian line southward almost to the cult ot of mexico and amrid westward far into the brair prairie a states out nut tile the ohio and Alis mississippi sissi tip I 1 valley states tile the middle atlantic atia antl c states land and the southern appal appalachian sell ian region are expected to furnish most ot of the supply As reports are turned in by the scout masters ni they will be tabulated ly by the forest service and reported to the war department |