THE TREE PLANTERS OF AMERICA 21 



PUBLIC OPINION 



A. G. Sherry, F. W. Edgerton Company, Troy, N. Y. 



I am in full accord with the plans for the "Tree Planters of 

 America." Get the rising generation started right, and "When they 

 are old they will not depart from it." 



For years I have wondered why hundreds of the steep hillsides 

 in this part of the country were not, long ago, planted with trees. 

 They are so steep the grass dries quickly, and they are of very small 

 value for pasturage and are good for nothing else. 



You have struck the right idea, and I hope you will have great 

 success. Along with this teach the young ideas to respect trees and 

 grass planted in cities and towns. They are very prone to destroy 

 these. 



Frederick S. Fish, First Vice-President and Chairman Executive 

 Committee, The Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, Ind. 

 Relative to the suggestion of a plan to reforest the country, 

 through an organization of farmer boys and youth, to be known 

 as the "Tree Planters of America." it seems to me if it can be organ- 

 ized along the lines as suggested, it is not only practicable, but it 

 will be a rational and successful way of solving the problem. 



Arthur Young, Arthur Young & Company, Chicago. 



I have been much interested in reading the pamphlet suggesting 

 a plan to reforest the country through an organization of farmer 

 boys, to be known as "The Tree Planters of America." 



Such a plan cannot fail to meet the hearty approval of every- 

 one that has at all considered the subject. It will be a good thing 

 for the farmer boys. If it is under the efficient direction that is 

 proposed, it should be a great thing for the conservation of the 

 country's resources. 



John Marsellus, President John Marsellus Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Syracuse, N. Y. 



In our opinion the people of the United States, after unaccount- 

 able and lamentable neglect, are at the present time thoroughly 

 united in demanding the protection of public interests, chief among 

 which is the conservation of our forests. Carelessness and indif- 

 ference are to be succeeded by practical as well as permanent efforts 

 towards the rehabilitation of our timber supply. We heartily com- 

 mend the organization, now suggested and being pushed by the 

 National Business League of America, to be known as "The Tree 

 Planters of America." It is our cherished hope that the youth of 

 this country are to be inspired to thus provide lasting results against 

 a lumber famine, as well as securing prevention against that prodigal 

 destruction of national wealth which has characterized our history 

 during recent years. 



