The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
BY HAYDEN CHURCH

promotion. even should 1t come his way lest his voice should suffer through hav- ing. as an officer, to be giving constant orders.
 And then there is Jimmie l6-year- old Jimmie, who now holds the proud post of buger in the Twenty eighth corps of London Rifles, and who is the real hero of this story. Jimmie. who is a bright eyed, pink-skinned. well set-up little chap, chock full of fun and high spirits and who already has developed quite a keen wit, hardly has had time yet to deyelop any artistic gifts That may lie hidden in him, but he has, as l think you will agree, displayed rare pluck and quality of stick-to-it-iveness that is even less common and that is a pretty good be- ginning-at 16. When Jimmie was II. by the bye, his father, who thinks that q transatlantic training Is about the best thing that boy can have. sent him. as he previously had done his elder son. Allan, across to Windsor, Ontario, where the Barr homestead Is located, and where James Barrs father still lives, and there, for the past two years he has attended the high school, and incidentally became, for his age, one of the best buglers that ever came down the pike. There is q cadet corps at the Windsor high school, and Jimmie joined it. Quite an al-round little musician, he took to playing the bugle as a pretty girl takes to ham, mocks, and won a handsome silver in strument not long before he left the school, at the end of his second year, o1r tn rlat, 1 for
 And then along came the war! All three of the Barr boys were anxious from the first to serve their country, and their father and sisters were anxious to have them, all except Jimmie, nobody even thought of Jimmie as a potential warrior no one, that is, but the boy him. self, who, however, kept absolutely mum about his deep designs. And the end of 1t was that James, after all. was the first one of the three to be taken as Q soldier. Jimmie the first to get into uni form and Jimmie-save the mark--is now getting more from the country for his services as a military man than both of his brothers put together!
 How did he manage it? Well, once more in the phrase of our beloved coun- try, he got out and hustled" and needed not rebuffs Tuckng his silver bugle under his arm one line morning about q month ago, he started out to find regi- fnent that would accept his services as a tootier, and q tough time he had of 1t, and no mistake! He was too young, and too little, and nobody would take him seriously. A few burly, hard-htten and profane recruiting sergeants even went to the length of telling him that if lie didn't take himself off in a hurry they would bend him over their knee and administer corpOreal punishment and this, though it did not frighten hin, proved more than bit discouraging. Before his real chance came he had tried every territorial regiment in London and been told to get hence by each one. He tackled 13 of them in one day, and some of them he tackled twice. One of tho latter was the famous London Scottish, HOW at the front. After being shooed away once from the portals of it's big barracks in Westminster, Jiminies With the help of his father. who was now as keen to have him get in as even the boy himself. managed to get letters of intro