16 THE TREE PLANTERS OF AMERICA 



PUBLIC OPINION 



Honorable Elihu Root, United States Senator from New York. 



In re "The Tree Planters of America," I think it would be 

 a very useful thing to impress upon the minds of American boys 

 generally the idea that it is a good thing to plant trees. It seems to 

 be getting hold at the right end of the process of public education 

 on that subject. I should think that a great many boys might be 

 led to get their fathers to permit them to transplant small seedlings 

 into lands that are now waste and unproductive, or to let them 

 plant nuts in such land. The business is so fascinating that if you 

 get a boy once interested in the growth of a single tree of his own 

 raising he will be a tree planter all the rest of his life. If you 



fet boys enough into this attitude we should very soon be changed 

 rom a tree-destroying to a tree-raising people. 



C. H. Williamson, formerly President The Quincy Chamber of 



Commerce, Quincy, 111. 



The idea is most commendable, and is of a very practicable 

 nature. It is a splendid channel for youthful enthusiasm and should 

 be of untold benefit to the country. 



George H. Barbour, Vice-President and General Manager The 



Michigan Stove Company, Detroit. 



Concerning the plan of The National Business League of 

 America to reforest the country, through an organization of farmer 

 boys and youth; it seems to me this is a very important step, and 

 if the plan had been inaugurated years ago, when our forests were 

 being devastated, we would now have a new growth of timber in 

 many sections where now we have but brush and stumps, etc. It 

 is not too late to start, and I hope every one will feel interested to 

 encourage and foster this work and that you may secure an organi- 

 zation necessary to carry on the work, thus insuring to the country, 

 in the future, a fine growth of timber, which will be of inestimable 

 benefit to all. You have my hearty approval of your plan and I 

 trust it will prove most successful in every way. 



Frederick H. Brennan, Secretary and Treasurer The N. K. Fairbank 



Company, Chicago. 



The plan for the "Tree Planters of America," seems to us very 

 well devised to accomplish the purpose in view. If the farmer boys 

 of the country can be interested in the subject of reforestation, and 

 be induced, from patriotic motives or obvious material advantages 

 that will result to themselves, to plant trees upon the rough, waste 

 or otherwise non-arable lands, there can be no question of the 

 enormous benefit to the country from such a campaign. 



