Trees.

Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1929, Page 6

Trees.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. [ An excursion into the hills end j among the trees appeals to the average ( person very much; but to know what j actftally is taking place in that great j retirement, is, indeed, to be aroused to t the extensiveness of the excursion. Great transportation system, milli-ons j of factories, storage systems of every . kind, distributing centres constantly ] active and busy, besides thousands . unon thousand: of bookkeeping ma ch- ■ inns arc at work in that so-called quiet . retreat. The transportation systems alone, arc enough to make a wondrous volume. Raw materials fere obtained from the air and from the soil The tiny root ; hairs take in such material as they ■ deem fit, and this material is carried ■ , up to the leaves by a system, of chan. ; nils and a powre not yet fully explain- p ed. There it meets other taw material', which has been drawn in from the airland the fac.Lory is spontaneously under ; 'headway as soon as the sun is up. The, manufactured product is then taken b back to the roots to feed them, and the|| provisions made for transporting this-' arc so orderly and so projected against traffic jams that they are worty of the study of every great business in. the commercial world. Not only when you walk into the woods are you in the midst -qf millions of factories and gigantic transportation systems, each of which is 5 growing and expanding each day, but < you are also witnessing a bookkeeping| ( system—a record of past growth, aj record of years and months wherein i ( raw material has been abundant and j easily obtained, and years wherein it r baa not been so, a record of vacations ■ and rest, so that when a log of whatever size is sawed, you can tell its age an 1 history at a glance. ] This tremendous commercial section , has not lost sight of beautifying the | factory sites. The plan is entirely co- j operative; not only is it co-operative ( within itself, er ch cell doing its work and receiving its remuneration, but it. furnishes homes and protection for J thousands of animals and insects, n'est-jr Ing places for birds, and resting places I ( for man. Compare the growing of ber and the distribution of exactly . the same amount of wood and lumber ) by the commercial world. The factory j site of the former is sought by bird,'man and beast, but not many seek a - lumber mill or railroad shops as a place!' for recreation and comfort and beauty. The ire; is valuable from the time itl; peeps above the soil until the time itsl ash is used for fertilizer, whether comes directly from burcinig the tree 1 ] as wood or whether it has served for'q years and years in buildings to be re-, turned ultimitely in one fotm or another to the soil to nourish in turn the future forests. Intelligence, harmonious activity, discernment, discrimination, eo-opera-tion, power, service, gnacc, beauty, economic efficiency, majesty, are all manifested here. The remuneration system in a tree < is a story in itself. Suffice it here to ■ say that not only does it care for and • support its employees, but its em-’ n ployees* descendants for many generations. It sends some of them into dis- j tant fields by water routes and air') routes, and provides for the establish--ment of these foreign branches by> sending within each seed the full, understanding of all transportationsystems and efficiency plans to be eorporated into the initial and its future development. This is but a sketch of what is real-'g ly happening around those of us who j go into the woods.—U.B.W. in the« • f Christian Science Monitor.’ 1