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i ,7-^. ^#V", ?• ^sT k* j W'" %' W ' jbr- !V)GriB(?ANCE f£#l &« *?€ 4WJ? Afrrs/j^^Acn .^OwAL 7j^ WORLD WAR 1917 - 1918 AOfiU5T oeY GREEN 01 CAPTAIN U.5.A.M.R.C -REG I STEREO AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON. D.C. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. NEXT to well-equipped and thoroughly up-todate railways, transportation means good' solid wagon roads. Even in normal times the economic value of such roads is well nigh, incalculable, but In a period of armed conflict victory or defeat may depend upon the condition of the common highways. All this Is well known. And yet, though far-seeing men have for some years been urging the good roads movement upon the people land some progress has been achieved, our highways (n general still remain among the Wont ift tha World. •--Albert J. Beveridge. - ^ I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree-- " A tree whose hungry mouth Is pmist <Agalhat the world's sweet flowing »;:A tree that looks at God all day i And lifts her leafy arms to pray; '*-f A tree that may In summer wear A nest of robins In her hair; • • • . Poems ate made by fools like me, But, only God can make a tree. -^Xoyee KSaw. If you want to build a road, let the people plant memorial trees along that road and your project Is a success.--Charles Lathrop Pack. Thus come closer to the Great Tree-Maker. Plant memorial trees In honor of the men who gave their lives to their country--in honor of the m their lives.--Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark. Roads end trees for remembrance! Victory highways In honor of America's lighting men in the great war! Roadsidr planting of trees in memory of their Individual deeds! * . It is a truism that the economic and moral liber of any community Is shown by the condition of its highways. Give the community the right kind of roads, schools, churches^ factories and 2 banks and the other # signs of advancement will soon be In evidence. Memorial roads! What more titting monument can we build in honor of our heroes? Permanent, roads dedicated to them! How can a community better commemorate their achievements? And all these memorial roads planned and built as parts of a great system of victory highways-- Victory highways that food may move from farm to city and manufactures back to the farm! that the way of the children to the school house may he made easy; that the defense of America against armed force may be certain. Victory highways that not only serve the nation's needs but delight ,the people's eye--victory highways beautified by roadside planting of American trees and shrubs and flowers. No walls and gates and arches with their suggestion of something closed and set apart, but memorial trees and groves rfnd little parks and wayside, camps for the American traveler and food trees for the birds. To Abraham Lincoln have probably more memorials been erected than to any other man. Which of all these memorials is most impressive --most fitting? Consider now the Lincoln high- # way as It Is and as it is Roon to he. The Lincoln highway is an object lesson of what is find what Is to be In a memorial road. (More than 3,000 miles in length, it runs east and west through the heart of America, with giant north and south feeder highways, joining the Atlantic and the Pacific. It traverses 11 states. Fifteen millions have been expended on it In the feast five years. Already there are nearly 400 Smiles of concrete and brick and paving and more than 1,000 miles of macadam. It Is in operation from end to end. It carries an endless procession of Americans In their own automobiles. The year round U Is dotted with freight trucks. At this very moment the federal government lias under way on the Lincoln way a cross the (continent an exhibition train. It started from Washington, and from Gettysburg. Pa., the route Is over the Lincoln way to Pittsburgh, Camden and Bucyrus, O.; Fort Wa.vne, Ind.; Chicago Heights, 111.; Clinton, Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown, la.; Omaha, Neb.; Cheyenne. Wyo.; Salt Lake CKy, Utah; Carson City and Ely. Nev., A. zomzAza? m&pjpozzjix. finally dropping down the Sierra Nevada to „KWnento, Cal., and then to San Francisco. < , This train consists of 60 motor-vehicles of the types employed by the motor transport corps In tike conduct of the winning of the war. In addition, accompanying this train are several other ^ranches of the United States army service, lntfludlng representatives of th^ engineer corps, • with antiaircraft defense tracks and searchlights, and certain specially detailed observers who will make an intensive study and report to the war department on. road conditions. Jrhe trip is being made for both military and national purposes. Including: An extended performance test of the several standardised types of motorized army equipment used for transportation of troops and cargo and for other special military purposes; the war department's contribution to good roads movement; demonstration of the practicability of long-distance motor post and commercial transportation and the need for judicious expenditure of federal governmental appropriations in providing the necessary highways. So much for the Lincoln highway as a means of transportation--a transcontinental road linking the United States by states. Consider now the Lincoln way as a beauty spot--and a memorial, not only to the Great Emancipator, but to the heroes who followed his example and won the freedom of the world In the great war. The roadside planting of the Lincoln way la in charge of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. This organization, has a membership of 2,500,000 members. It has a state federation in every state in the Union. Mary K. Sherman, chairman of the conservation department of the general federation, has secured a comprehensive planting plan for the way. This plan has been worked out by Jens Jensen, a noted landscape engineer of Chicago. In general It provides for the planting of trees, shrubs and flowers Indigenous to the locality. For example, blue prints have been made for the planting of the way through the 180 miles of Illinois. These prints give all nocessary details--kinds of trees, shrubs and flowers for each locality: suggestions for grouping each. The clubs of the several states Now the time for national action has arrived. Thus the time is ripe for roads and trees for remembrance. The United States Is going to expend $500,000,000 In the next few years on a national highway system of interstate arterial routes. It only remains to be seen what agency of the federal government Is to have charge of the construction. If the department of agriculture and the state highway commissions do the work, the government and the states will share the expense, half and half. If a highway commission is established by congress to have charge of the work the share of the states will bo apportioned In order that states like Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona shall not be too heavily burdened. As to the feature of memorial trees, this is also the chosen time. Public sentiment turns toward the Idea. Events all over the country forecast a general memorial planting. The American Forestry association, of which Charles Lathrop Pack is president, has Issued a call for memorial tree planting. It Is registering all memorial trees and giving certificates of registration ; also instructions for planting. Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark has called- upon the Christian Endeavor societies to plant memorial trees. Georgetown university remembered Its war heroes at Its one hundred and thirtieth commencement by planting 54 memorial trees In honor of its heroic dead. To each tree was affixed a bronze marker, of which a sample Is given herewith. To the next of kin goes a duplicate of the marker. "My boys made a wonderful reputation for this country on the battlefields of France." says Daniel Garter Beard. "I say my hoys ltecause I believe that there were boy scouts in every American division that participated In the war. The boy scouts' slogan is, 'Once a scout always n scout.' A plan that we are taking up Is the planting of trees as memorials for our heroes. This is being done In some parts of Long Island and should be done in all sections. After the tree has been planted a small tablet should be placed on It bearing the name of the man who made the supreme sacrifice, and when and where "-through which the ws.» will see to If" that . and how* he was killed and his branch of the the planting Is done. Many clubs in other states service." will plant memorial miles on the way and In addition carry out the same plan In application to Lincoln way feeders In their own states. Features of this roadside planting of the Lincoln way by the general federation are memorial trees In honor of Individual heroes; groves, foun- „ tains, camping places along the road: fruit and nut trees for the birds and a bird sanctuary from ocean to ocean. For ten years America has been spending frem $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 i year for highway construction and maintenance--without national plan--without relation to the broad needs of the country as a whole and with little co-ordination of effort between states. After spending over $2,000,000,000 in a decade, we are, broadly speak-' Ing. as far from a proper connecting system of radiating highways in the United States as ever. The latest government figures show a total highway mileage in the United States of 2.45T,- 334 and of this total, even after the tremendous expenditures noted, but 12 per cent, or some 298,- 000 miles, hnve received any attention whatever and these Improvements are scattered in 48 states, in a loose and utterly ineffective way, over various sections of our entire 2,500,000 mllM. Many victory highways to be planted with memorial trees are tinder way throughout the country. The National Defense highway, between Rlandensburg and Annapolis, is Maryland's contribution. New York Is planning a Roosevelt Memorial highway from Montauk Point to Buffalo. In Ohio Col. Webb C. Hays has offered to give memorial tablets on memorial highways In Sandusky county, and William G. Sharpe. former ambassador to France, will do the same for Lorain county. The poem by Joyce Kilmer, who gave his life for his country fn France, Is most touching. What is more fitting than a tree for a memorial? We may attain the most magnificent effects In stone and bronze. Compare them with a permanent road--enduring as the Applan way. built 22 centuries ago--and shaded by the Maryland tulip poplar or the Engelmann spruce or any other of our magnificent American trees. The glimpse of an Estes Park road in the Rocky Mountain National park shows nature's way of beautifying a highway. Consider how the trees on guard add the crosmlqg tp, the WaahUigtoa n»onu- •ment. VvT-,,:'. ILLINOIS BREVITIES SURELY A BOSTON BABY "Mother?" "Yes, darling." "What is that phewomewwh. Occurring at alarming intervals, by which the whole firmament appears to 1m illuminated for an infinitesimal •pace of time, then subsiding as quickly as it came, leaving all in impenetrable darkness?" "That, my precious, is lightning. Ton must go to sleep now." "Just one thing more. I note after each manifestation of nature you call lightning, there follows a dull, lingering reverberation, commencing sharply and fortissimo, rambling, tumbling away with the most gradual diminuendo, vanishing at last into silence aa black as the darkness that swallowed the light. What is that r .... "That Is only tliunder, caused-from the lightning." The baby, mother explains, was born only last November, and had never observed a thunder storm until. Wje$oe& day night.--Kansas City Star* f , Live on the Sunny Sltffe. There are two classes of people to he met elmost daily; the people who live In the shadow and gloom, and those who live on the sunny side of the street. The shadowed ones are sorretlmes called pessimists, sonie- Wherever they go their characteristic Is this--their shadows always travel on before them. Most people will not heai thels own burdens, but expose all their wounds to others. They are so busy looking down for pitfalls and sharp stones on which to step that they do not know that there are stars In the sky. These people live on the wrong side of the street, and yet. If Hey would ortly walk 20 feet to the other sidewalk, where they would feel the warmth of the sun, It would make Galena.--Lack Of Ice. which most poor families are now unable to buy, owing to the high prices, is blamed for a new form of intestinal disease, common here, affecting both adults and children. Pekin.--Plans have been drawn for the Tazewell county sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, which is to be erected on a site recently purchased near Mackinaw. The building will cost about $45,000. Carllnville.--H. O. Clark, fifty, a well-known business man, died in St. John's hospital in Springfield from the effects of an operation for appendicitis. He is survived by his widow and one sou, Sergt. Lloyd O. Clark. Aurora.--Despite liberal response to the Victory loan, large purchases of War Savings stamps and largely Increased expenditures for lining, savings deposits In Aurora banks total $40,000,000 more than they did a year ago. Mount Vernon.--Two women and a baby were killed instantly and four children were Injured seriously when an automobile in which they were riding collided with a train near here. The dead are: Mrs. A. B. Collins. Mrs. Herman Collins and her infant son, all of this city. Aurora.--The Aurora Trades and Labor assembly, representing 4,000 union workingmen, has called upon Congressman Copley and Senator Medlll McCormick to end food profiteering. Prolonging of profiteering, said a resolution they adopted, will produce want and bloodshed In this country. Qulncy. -- Wales R. McCormick, eighty-seven years old, oldest past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias In Illinois and former personal friend of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), died In his home here. Mr. McCormick and Mark Twain were printers' devils together in Hannibal, Mo., when boys and aiftertirard were lifelong friends. Rockford.--Parents of Winnebago county soldiers, who are serving in Siberia, want their sons back. About a hundred of them held an indignation meeting and drafted resolutions demanding expeditious return of the boys, and sent copies to President Wilson and other government officials. They believe the cause for Siberian service Is over, Sprlngfield.-r-Whlle a large crowd of thirsty bystanders painfully watched, several hundred dollars' worth of confiscated liquor was emptied in a sewer here. The Joy water had been taken In a raid. It is believed the first destruction of such liquor in Illinois since the search and seizure law became effective. The intoxcants were confiscated under the new law when a number of well-known residents were arrested at Clarence W. Francis' place. Jerseyvllle. -- The committee in charge of the soldiers' homecoming celebration of Jersey county's eightieth birthday on August 5, has engaged the White Hussar band of 30 pieces to come here from Alton and aid In the festivities. The other band Is the Scottish Pipers band of Gillespie. An Invitation was sent to Gov. Frank O. Lowden to be present and deliver the address of the day, but "owing to the press of business" the governor can't come, so Judge Norman L. Jones of Carrollton will speak Springfield.--Fire insurance companies doing business in Illinois are receiving letters directing them to pay back to policyholders by October 15 surcharges amounting to $2,000,000 collected, It is said, because of extraordinary conditions due to the late war. The order to make the refunds was sent out by the state department of trade and commerce following adoption by the house of representatives of a resolution charging the companies with violating an injunction issued by the circuit court of St. Clair county. Springfield.--Telephone companies of the state have begun their fight to prevent a repeal of their advanced rates when the lines are freed from government control. The companies filed a petition before the state public utilities commission asking the commission to continue the present rates after August 1, 1919, when government control ends. The rates as they stand now In Springfield and other cities were set by the government on claims that Increased expenses had made increased charges necessary. The cities mentioned in the petition are Springfield, Decaiur, Quincy, Peoria, Mount Vernon, Rock Island, Moline, Kankakee, Champaign, Urhana, Alexander, Beardstown, Dwight, Brownstown, Centralia, La Salle, Watseka, DeKalh, Danville, Effingham. Petersburg. Galesburg, Greenville and Gibson City, and the towns with which the systems in those cities are connected. In the Springfield district are Buffalo, Mechanicshurg, Rlverton. Cantrall and Riddle Hill. In the Petersburg district are Athens, Oakford and Tallula. La Salle--As a reward for faithful service during the war, 000 employees of the Marquette Cement company have been presented with Insurance policies ranging from $500 to $1,000, according to length of service. Decatur, III.--Because of the refusal of Judge J. H. McCoy to admit the will of the late John C. Good to probate. following the admission of the witnesses That they did not know him and could not testify to his mental condition, the principal beneficiary, the Presbyterian college of Findlay, O., has taken an appeal to the Circuit court. v Odin.--Mrs. Hiram Sommervllle, an old resident of this section of the state, died here, aged eighty-six years. The Sommervllle family came to this <*ountry In the early part of the cen-1 dropped to zero when It was proven to Springfield.--A local brewery hem has made an ice plaint out of Its establishment. Lincoln. -Fire destroyed the three* story factory of the Lincoln Horse Col* lar company here. The loss was es time ted at $35,000. Kankakee.--Three companies of the Illinois reserve militia here have disbanded because of a disagreement over encampment orders. Grayville.--W. F. Westfall has un* der construction a concrete building which he expects to use as an icecream factory and creamery. Rockford.--A zoo will be established In connection with the city park system as the result of a movement started by the chamber of commerce. Rockford.--Private Charles Lowe couldn't stand to be away from home. He shot himself to death at Camp Grant. Homesickness Is believed the cause. Carllnville.--Because Charles Kuester ran an automobile truck by her house with hte muffler open, waking her Infant child, a woman had him arrested. Carlinvllle.-^H. O. Clark, wealthy Macoupin county resident and prominent liveryman of this city, died at St. John's hospital In Springfield at the age of fifty years. Mattoon.---Excessive heat canned a ten-foot section of street pavemeftt to burst here. It reduced the brick to bats. Several siifkilar explosion* have been reported recently in-, various parts of the city. Pana.--Lewis E. Jester, CivCl war veteran and live times married, outliving four of his wives, has died at Tower Hill, east of here, aged eightyfour. His fifth wife and eight children survive. Freeport.--By the death of Mrs. C. H. Little, widow of a merchant, this city is to receive $25,000 toward the establishment of an old people's home, providing a like sum is raised by popular subscription. Rockford.--Commercial club secretaries of Illinois to the number of 100 are expected to attend the annual convention of the Illinois Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries here August 2 and 3. Aurora.--It is announced at Mooseheart, headquarters of the Loyal Order of Moose, that the order will in the near future erect in France a memorial monument in honor of gold star members of the fraternity. Dixon.--Benjamin Chase, a commercial traveler, has filed suit against S. A. Svensden of Aurora for $10,000 damages, alleging Svensden caused his arrest on the false charge that Chase unlawfully retained possession of a watch, Batavia. -- Emmett McKee, the "candy tree man," Is dead. He was a lover of children and scores of them flocked to his little house every day to hear his stories and to shake, the "candy tree," from which packages of sweetmeats fell. Chicago.--Two well-dressed youths held up Phillip Fleming, twenty-yearold messenger for the Austin National bank and robbed him of $10,000 in currency, $35,000 in checks, many of which were negotiable, and $399 in Liberty bonds of various issues. The robbers escaped in an automobile. Bloomington.--Former Gov. Joseph W. Fifer, Republican, has prepared his petition as a candidate for delegate to the constitutional convention in Springfield next January from the Twenty-sixth senatorial district. T. C. Kerrick is another candidate for one of the two Republican nominations. Beardstown.--The celebration of Labor day, Monday, September 1, which Is being planned by the labor organizations of Beardstown, promises to be the most extensive occasion of the kind ever conducted in this part of the state. The big feature of the day will be a parade by union men in the forenoon. Beardstown has approximately 2,000 union members. Springfield.--A three-cornered race' with an airplane, the Chicago it Alton Limited and an automobile, competing from Joliet to Springfield, will be the attractive feature which will mark the opening of the Illinois state fair of 1919. Plans for the race were outlined by B. M. Davison, state fair superintendent, and the event promises to attract a large number of persons to Springfield on August 14. Springfield.--Plans for the new million- dollar Illinois centennial building t<> be erected south of the statehouse were accepted by the Illinois centennial building commission. The con>- mission ordered that the building be commenced at once. The foundation Is now being put In. The building is to be built of Bedford stone and marble. The main portion will be three stories In height, with twelve marble pillars extending along the front for a height of two stories commencing with the second story. The building will house the memorial hall, where are the battle flags and other relics of Illinois' participation in the wars of the nation, the museum of natural history, now housed in the state arsenal; the state library, the state historical II brary and the offices of the state superintendent of public instruction. White Hall.--This city has the largest apple orchard In the world, according to federal Investigators. It is owned by A. L. Clay, Sr.. and covers I,400 acres. It Is In one body and the acreage Is being Increased. Chicago.--"You're the father of a baby boy," said a voice over the telephone to Edward Flannagan. Flannagan jumped In an autotnoblle and raced toward home. Arrested for passing another machine on the right side he told Judge Stelk he wanted to name the boy after him. The judge declined the honor and fined Flannagan $13 and costs. Charleston.--Henry Smith went fishing. He caught a peculiar looking fish. Somebody told him it was one of the rare scaleless bass. But hlfe elation WHY BBU6G1STS SWAMP-ROOT ' flar away years druggists have waUSsd with much interest the remarkable rntr< maintained by Dr. Flh--^s *nmr tiil, the great kxiaer. liver aad Madder SMAIt is a physMaa's prescription. Swamp-Root is a strengthening astt-t cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad-f der do the wofrk nature intended they' should do. ' Swamp-Root has stood the test of years. | '^fk It is sold by all druggists on its merit ^ and it should help you. No other kidney* medicine has so many friends. > Be sure to get Swamp-Root sad start ^ treatment at once. However, if you wish first to test this ;'«||| peat preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a '•' J? sample bottle. When writing be sars and : ' J - •entian this paper.--Adv. ^ J They Sound the Sam. ^ -t 1 According to Frederick Palmer, J war correspondent, the officers who . :fM managed to get leave from the front .;.*$||S line and take brief rests in Paris were . lionized to boredom, but once in a while managed to get their innings. "One day." says the correspondent, "I overheard an officer endeavoring to* make his adieux, pleading: " 'Ladles, I have been in the front- » line trenches for the last four week® ' „ i and I can truthfully say that in all that time I have not had a single hour's sleep." • " 'Heroic duties,' murmured a sweet young thing. " 'Hungry cooties,' corrected the officer as he made his exit." 1 T» Have a Clear Sweat Touch pimples, redness, roughness^ V'If or Itching, if any, with Cuticura Oint- . ment, then bathe with Cuticura Soap(?l,'»\ and hot water. Rinse, dry gently am) dust on a little Cuticura Talcum ten leave a fascinating fragraaee v ; v Everywhere 25c each.--Adr. Y ffg She Burns That. ' Mrs. Flatbush--I see you have new cook and she appears to be very*1 {Zgi dressy. '~:i. Mrs. Bensonhurst--lent sfce dressy, though?" J;' *»%§| "How much do you pay her?" ^ "Oh, $50 a month." ^ "Is she a good cook? I mean, doe* a|| she burn anything?" ; ' , "Only the $50, I beneve."-r-Yooker« . ^ Statesman. ' WM "BAYER CROSS" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN pAvauj m m "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" to b* ' genuine most be marked with Or safety "Bayer Cross." Always buy am unbroken Bayer package which contains proper directions to safely re- t lieve Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tla . . boxes of 12 tablets cost but a tew .. cents at drug stores--larger package*, also. Aspirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of acldester of Salicylicacid.--Adv. Qettlng on Hie Nerves. ^ - "Do you aspire to great riches asked the genial loader. v "No," said the harassed man who» had Just shouted, "Hello!" "I merely want to be rich enough to hire somebody to answer the telephone aad say rm out." Incentive to tpsed. 1 $ "Better not keep that nan waiting |1 any longer." " ' "Why not?" demanded the magnates•••/|||| "He's been waiting so long that her has become acquainted with your stenographer. Their acquaintance has Hpened into friendship, love Is a natu- '/ . ral sequence, marriage followe | then you'll be shy a good stenog." / FOR SUMMER COLDS Nothing gives quicker relief than Vachetlialin. It Is harmless, and also relieves Vervous Headache quickly, and any superficial Inflammation In a short' time. Try It for Mumps, Hay Fever, or any pain. If yon cannot buy It locally, said for a Frte Sample, and Agent's terms,' or send 50c stamps for 2 25c tubes. r Avoid Imitations. E. W. VACHER, Inc., New Orleans.' La.--Adv. • * , His Comfortabffc Way. t * "Ah, Squire!" saluted a neighbor, "how did you find the speech last night by the Hon. Bray Lowder on the burning Issues of the day?" "Splendid!" replied the Old Oodger. "I don't know when I have enjoyed the outburst of an Hon. so much." "But you ah! appeared to be asleep the most of the time, aad--" "Appeared to be? By gosh! I was a* sleep all the while after the Ant 1ft minutes."--Kansas City Star. times people of melancholy tempera cicui : sometimes disagreeable people. 1 all the difference to their feelings. tury. They were of English and Scotch descent. Galesburg.--The first agency for the airplane In Illinois outside of Chicago goes to the credit of Galesburg. Lee Wright and Rollo Allensworth of this place will handle aircraft of both the American and British make i.nd will do a general passenger and package delivery service, carrying persons and nackaies to any point la Illinois. be nothing more than a lowly dogfish. Chicago.--A complaint that the big Chicago packers are seeking te control the coffee market and are crowding the coffee roasters and wholesalers out of business was contained In i letter received at the office of the United States district attorney. The letter was signed by a number of large Chicago wholesale grocery firms and coffee deed era. Vrr.portant to Examine carefully every bottle ef CASTOKIA that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that It Bears the Signature ot| In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's CastBTM Tee Promiscuous. "A wonderful invention, tin vtot* lesa." "But not yet adapted to marttag love messages." -No?" "There's no telling who would pick up Ten thousand kisses.'"--Birmingham Ase-Hera'f! tbeyure. Smart fiboi or Burn, if Sot* Ixx**e4 InflamadorGnttdalst OH Murine often. Safe for Infsat or Adult ^^Dra^gats^Vrite for Free Sys