GUARDING DARTMOUTH ELMS

THE REPORTS FROM Cornell that the dreaded Dutch elm disease had spread from lower New York State into the lake region caused some apprehension on the part of Dartmouth alumni who remember the Hanover elms as part of the great beauty of the campus. The three or four famous elms in Hanover which "tree men" all over the country know about are usually noted by almost every visitor, one of these elms being the composite elm tree structure in front of the chapel, and another the tree with long extending branches in front of Bartlett. Besides these interesting trees, there are those which Dartmouth classes until recently planted about the campus.

While this disease is still limited to Ohio, northern New Jersey, and parts of Connecticut, forest rangers and state police are making a battle in the Connecticut valley to hold back the plague. In addition to the enormous amount of work done in Hanover itself to preserve the beauty of the campus, a dead line two hundred miles away has been thrown across the path of the scourge. The disease came originally from Europe in a shipment of lumber in which the bark was left on logs, but at the time it was considered that there was nothing harmful in the malady since European trees were not especially damaged by it. It turned out however that its long continuance in Europe had created a kind of immunity on the part of the trees themselves, and this accounted for the phenomenon. American trees, however, unused to the disease, succumbed almost at once.