"MEN OF THE TREES"

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 24

"MEN OF THE TREES"

(From*"The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, May 25. "Well established is the movement which was started in England with the objective of creating a universal tree =ense" and "encouraging all to plant, protect, and love trees everywhere." It is called "The Men of the Trees" and was founded by Captain St. Barbe Baker. Its activities have included arranging for the planting of derelict slag heaps (in which Durham has taken a lead), the establishment of a roll of qualified nurserymen to advise prospective planters, assistance for threatened tree areas, and the inauguration oE an Arbor Day to be held on Armistic Day, November 11. Plans aro also in hand to reforest the Valley of Esdraelon, in Palestine, funds for which are being largely produced by British Jewry. A nation-wide campaign was started in London this week, and a play, written and produced by members of the society, was staged. This emphasised the gradual encroachment of the industrial world upon the countryside, and the heavv burden placed on land | owners by'death duties. Two New Zealand 'characters were included, both having been sent to England to learn forestry. | Protestantism to be even more dan- ■ gerous than Roman Catholicism. And ■ if the Nazi regime succeeds in separati ing Church and State—it can be done !by a mere stroke of the pen—then I Ludendorff will be able to marshal his I forces and begin his real fight for the : spiritual unity of the German people. I He considers that no greater disaster could overtake Germany than to i become involved in a war before this Spiritual unity becomes a reality. He | believes thai a pacification of the world I \vi|| be the outcome of the final defeat ''of all the "super-Stale forccs,"