12 THE TREE PLANTERS OF AMERICA 



PUBLIC OPINION 



From George H. Maxwell, Executive Chairman and General Coun- 

 sel, American Homecroft Society, Chicago. 



Concerning the splendid article in the Chicago Evening Post, 

 about your plan for "Banding the Boys of the Country to Rear 

 Forests," it does seem to me that you have suggested something here 

 which is an idea holding real, splendid possibilities of inspiration to 

 thousands of young men in every part of the United States, from a 

 purely patriotic and philanthropic point of view, if you can get those 

 who are interested in the propagation of forestry ideas to take up 

 your thought and push it forward. I most sincerely hope that they 

 will do so. 



This country will be what the young men who are now growing 

 to manhood will make it. Every boy who is inoculated with the 

 right ambition and inspirations in reference to the future of the 

 country during the next few years will do a work that will leave an 

 enduring mark on the sands of time through all future years. There 

 are very few who realize that "As a man thinketh, so is he," and "as 

 the people of a nation think, so will the nation be," and if you can 

 only get people interested in a thing, they will carry it out. If the 

 boys of this country could be interested in forestry as much as they 

 are now interested in baseball, we would soon have an end of all 

 our forestry troubles. 



M. P. Lilienthal, Cashier The Anglo-California Trust Company, San 



Francisco. 



I am heartily in accord with the plan to organize an army of 

 boys for the reforestation of our waste lands, and trust that the 

 League will meet with success. 



George W. Sheldon, G. W. Sheldon & Company, Chicago. 



The plan as outlined can no doubt be carried out if it can get 

 a start, and when started, I feel sure that it would arouse wonderful 

 enthusiasm among the farmer boys of America. 



George Frederic Stone, Secretary, Board of Trade of the City of 



Chicago. 



Concerning the very interesting, practical and patriotic article 

 entitled "Banding the Boys of the Country to Rear Forests," I hail 

 not only with approval, but with delight, the movement which is 

 making such progress in the direction of the conservation of our 

 natural resources, and the determination to stop the waste of our 

 splendid natural wealth which has been going on for generations. 



