These are projects that offer unlimited possibilities for inaugurating
and perpetuating worthwhile living memorials.

It is planned, for instance, that in the next ten years approximately
one billion dollars may be spent on airports in the United States. What
better location could be selected by a city or community to establish a
memorial than one to greet travelers and visitors at an air-park, or along
the boulevard leading to an airport?

Bird sanctuaries, another type of memorial, appeal not only to children
but to adults as well. In congested areas where a knowledge of nature is
frequently obtained from books, this would have an educational value, as
well as be a center of beauty and song.

An arboretum is also an interesting possibility. Here shrubs and trees
would be planted . . . each would be marked so the public could easily
identify the variety. ‘This, in addition, could become a scientific project
for study by students and others.

A very important phase of memorial planting should be the universal
recognition of the vital part conservation plays, not only in the war effort
but in normal peace-time pursuits and in helping preserve life itself.

Tt is fundamental that children will prove the best disciples of con-
servation, for children are more easily educated than adults. A splendid
method of motivating conservation education is to develop a memorial
conservation project in close proximity to the grounds of any city zoo.
Thousands of persons particularly children, visit zoos, consequently the
educational value of this type of memorial is unlimited.

Louis Bromfield in a recent article said: “Lately there has grown up
spontaneously throughout the country a movement to make of the
memorials to the dead of this war something not only beautiful but useful,
which will contribute to the health, well-being and strength of the nation
in the future. I have discovered the impulse in the minds of many wise
citizens as well as in the plans of organizations and planning commissions,
from Washington all the way to small
towns and villages in the Middle wy
West.

“The plans for a new kind of
memorial have manifested themselves
in many ways. The possibilities, of
course, are endless. Frankly those
projects which have interested me
most are those which have to do with
the out-of-doors. Several communities
have under consideration plans for
local forests to be dedicated to the