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Show LL-.-NLBERJACKS ABROAD ' England's ancestral forests, Jealously Jeal-ously guarded by many generations of Englishmen, are rapidly being cut down by American brawn. Word of this latest sacrifice of sentiment to necessity,' came to this country recently in reports of the progress of the ten sawmill units which New England contributed to the common warfare against autocracy. autoc-racy. These units, numbering over three hundred sturdy lumberjacks, recruited re-cruited by the Boston Committee on Public Safety from the backwoods of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, Ver-mont, have been busily engaged for some time in the forests around which much of the best of English literature has been written. History in the making rather than that of centuries past, however, leaves its Impression upon the north-woods north-woods representatives of America as they turn out in hundreds of thousands thou-sands of feet the lumber so necessary to army progress in constructing billets, bridges, trenches, dugouts and the other requirements of Mars. As they level the forests which are the last strongholds of the Old England Eng-land many of their forefathers knew, the men are unmoved by imagination, imagina-tion, except when some lumberjack conjures up a mental picture oj the forces responsible for Belgium and the Lusitania, and swings an extra vigorous and vicious stroke In consequence. con-sequence. The units are scattered along the banks of a river for ten miles and each is a small community in itself, gathered around a central hut presided pre-sided over by a Young Mon's Christian Chris-tian Association secretary, where the men assemble for amusement in their leisure hours. To illustrate the inexhaustible energy en-ergy of the men, the statement that basket ball is the most popular amusement after hours of vigorous work means much to those who know the streunous possibilities of the game. During their Christmas holidays over half the men paid a visit to London, where they were accommodated accommo-dated at the Eagle Hut of the American Amer-ican Young Men's Christian Association. Associa-tion. Several days were spent acquiring ac-quiring experiences which will be retold re-told in American lumbering camps for many years to come. a |