. The Ladies' home journal. rys triumph at this farms and ranches, on Main Street, in great cities, thoughts are turn-ing to monuments to honor Americas war dead. Already the crop of good,bad and indifferent monuments has begun to appear, as it did after eachwar. What will it be this time? the local citizens committee wonders. An-other stern shaft of concrete? Another bronze lady holding out a giltwreath? Another battery of guns to threaten the courthouse square withoutmoded instruments of death? Rich communities may have pretentiousmonuments—if pretentiousness is what seems fitting! T


. The Ladies' home journal. rys triumph at this farms and ranches, on Main Street, in great cities, thoughts are turn-ing to monuments to honor Americas war dead. Already the crop of good,bad and indifferent monuments has begun to appear, as it did after eachwar. What will it be this time? the local citizens committee wonders. An-other stern shaft of concrete? Another bronze lady holding out a giltwreath? Another battery of guns to threaten the courthouse square withoutmoded instruments of death? Rich communities may have pretentiousmonuments—if pretentiousness is what seems fitting! Those less well offare discovering that in art, or any man-made kind of beautv. you get(alas!) about wdiat you can afford. But there is a new kind of monument, a War Memorial Forest, whosebeauty is God-given. So it can never go out of fashion, look dowd\.pathetic or inappropriate in the eyes of the next generation, as sonic >>lour ancestors bronze tributes seem to us. (Continued on Page ..>] PHOTO BY CORDON COSTER. / With the forest as an outdoor laboratory, ten-year-old Jill Mulvihill. of Merrill,\\ isconsin, learns firsthand how everyday life depends on forests and their products. beauty cream shampoo /f leaves your hair more / ^JL beautiful #&<jta/ay£/ ff}


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