. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1652 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 Lumberjacks on Liberty Tour The picture shows four employees of the Brown Corporation, Berlin, and Tuque, Quebec, who recently penetrated the snow-bound fastnesses Df the lumber camps and sold war savings stamps worth $4,185 in five days. Equipped with a melodeon, which made up in volume of music for what it lacked in size, a violin, and hundreds of leaflets on which were printed the words of patriotic songs, these four men chartered a stout pung, painted a vivid blue,
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1652 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 Lumberjacks on Liberty Tour The picture shows four employees of the Brown Corporation, Berlin, and Tuque, Quebec, who recently penetrated the snow-bound fastnesses Df the lumber camps and sold war savings stamps worth $4,185 in five days. Equipped with a melodeon, which made up in volume of music for what it lacked in size, a violin, and hundreds of leaflets on which were printed the words of patriotic songs, these four men chartered a stout pung, painted a vivid blue, and started off on the oddest concert tour New England has ever seen. ^, Besides all the regular patriotic songs their repertoire included "Over There," "Good-by Broadway, Hello France," "Keep the Home Fires Burning," "The Long, Long Trail," etc. The lumberjacks now have choral clubs. The party met temperatures of 52 below, and some- times had to resort to snowshoes. In all, the concert tour covered 136 miles of snow-bound country. They returned with stamps worth $4,185 accredited to the "lumber- jacks" of the North Country, and the firm conviction that the "up river" folk have as warm hearts, as lusty voices, as wideopen pocket- books, and as strong a patriotism as anv to be found in the LOOKING OUT FOR 1950! A letter to Toronto Saturday Night London, Ont., March, 1918. Dear Sir,—Following up your time- ly article on the advisability of laying up a supply of wood for the coming winter, thereby avoiding another fuel shortage, would it not be well for our Ontario Government to take up the matter, if it has not already been done, of making the province a producer and not a consumer alone of this kind of fuel? Many sections of Western Ont- ario in particular, which were once heavily wooded are now practic- ally bare and in a few years time good timber will be as little seen as the Buffalo on our western prairi
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