THE TREE PLANTERS OF AMERICA 19 



PUBLIC OPINION 



Charles T. Page, President Page Belting Company, Concord, N. H. 



The plan of the organization to be known as the "Tree Planters 

 of America" has my hearty approval. This organization will be an 

 effective instrument for the promotion of the cause of reforestation. 



John D. Hibbard, President North American Securities Company, 



Chicago. 



Concerning the "Tree Planters of America," I believe the idea 

 an extremely valuable one. If ways and means can be found to 

 interest the "boys," and the plan can be made effective, nothing but 

 good can result, the measure of which no one at this time can state. 



E. O. Painter, Jacksonville, Florida. 



I am heartily in interest with an Association of Farmers or 

 Boys that will help renew the forests of our country. We need it 

 in this State, especially as large areas of land are being cleared of 

 timber by the saw-mills. Only a small portion of this land is taken 

 up for cultivation. Of course, a small growth of pine and oak 

 followed, but it will be a long time before such growth will be 

 available for use. 



John M. Nelson, Hambleton & Company, Baltimore, Md. 



I am much interested in your wise and practical plan for inter- 

 esting the boys of the United States in planting and caring for trees. 

 An organization, such as is proposed by The National Business 

 League of America, to reforest the country, must appeal to everyone 

 who has given any thought to the vital importance of this subject. 



Honorable James O. Davidson, Governor of Wisconsin. 



Madison, November 14, 1910. 



I am in receipt of your pamphlet suggestive of a plan to reforest 

 the country through an organization of farmer boys and youth, to 

 be known as the "Tree Planters of America." 



I approve most heartily of the plan you have worked out. The 

 fact that you propose to interest the children is the strongest evi- 

 dence that the project has breadth and proposes to meet the neces- 

 sities of the situation. 



Wisconsin feels keenly the need of doing a work such as you 

 propose. We have not yet outlined a comprehensive plan for it, but 

 are endeavoring to do something through the agency of the State. 

 I have no doubt that Mr. McGovern, who will become Governor 

 of the State the first of January, will give every assistance that he 

 will be able to in his official capacity. 



Personally, in whatever position the future may place me, I 

 shall be glad to give such help as I can to the movement. 



