42 THE TREE PLANTERS OF AMERICA 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS 



that which they shall practice when they become men; so should 

 girls be taught that which they should practice when they become 

 women. It is a good sign of the times that many employ their 

 leisure, their command of their own time, in educational work that 

 is inspiring and useful in about the same degree. 



Many think that the salvation of the country depends on the 

 expansion of the boy scout idea, which is no doubt, well enough in 

 its way, though the tendency of our country has always been away 

 from militarism for daily use, but all will agree, without exception, 

 that training children to appreciate the value and the vital need of 

 a proper proportion of forests to other lands, is a work in which 

 there is all good and no evil in itself. 



It is, however, particularly desirable that boys should be taught 

 to have regard for trees and to be active in their preservation until 

 large enough to grow. The reason is that boys are more apt than 

 girls to be careless in such things when they become men in charge 

 of public affairs. The carelessness of youth is apt to be continued 

 with consequences that are damaging beyond calculation to the 

 commonwealth. 



Every such good work as that of tree planting should have 

 every reasonable encouragement on the part of citizens. Much 

 more can be done by an energetic and enlightened public opinion 

 acting upon citizens than by mere appeal to the Government to 

 resort to taxation, and through that highly expensive method to 

 reach an end greatly desired. 



THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY 



The National Business League of America, with headquarters 

 in Chicago, is trying to interest the farmer boys of the United States 

 in the reforestation of the country. To that end, it is proposed to 

 form an organization to be known as the "Tree Planters of 

 America." It is designed to push the movement largely through 

 the co-operation of farmers' institutes, unions, societies and State 

 and local associations. 



Once the organization is effected with State, county and town- 

 ship groups, it would be expected to bring about systematic tree 

 planting in "profitless pastures, nooks, ravines ; on useless or worn- 

 out spots or partly denuded forest acres on the farm, and in every 

 place where the soil is not yielding a reasonable contribution to the 

 general welfare." These forestry enterprises would be visited from 

 time to time by experts from the United States forest service, and 

 there would be systematic effort through these visits and by publica- 

 tions, to instruct the "Tree Planters" in all the branches of scientific 

 tree culture. 



