Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1918 — THAT GOOD AMERICAN SPIRIT [ARTICLE]

THAT GOOD AMERICAN SPIRIT

Letter of Youngster Shows Type of Men Uncle Sam Has Sent Across the Water. Fiery Is the story of a plucky boy of Louisville, Ky., who overrode all bari rlers, ran away to war when he was fourteen and experienced all its horrors and wonders. The reactions and ■ Impressions of this boy are unique and thrilling. He says: “Of course, I was only fourteen when I enlisted as a stretcher bearer In the British royal army medical corps. In October, 1915. Maybe a kid like me wouldn’t get as much out of being In the war as an older fellow would —but maybe he’d get more, just because he had more to get! As near as 4 1 could figure it out, everybody •over there’ was getting some things they never could have found anywhere else. I know I did. “I guess the biggest thing I got was —well, I don’t just know what to call it. It Isn’t exactly any one thing. It’s a mixture of being sorry for somebody else and not being sorry for yourself.*’ —The Red Cross Magazine.