Evening star., 1915-06-06

to the nearest hospital. where surgeons
are waiting with assistants and nurses.
with operating rooms and equipment
unsurpassed in all the world, to take
these shattered human forms and
wrestle nightly for a victory over
death itself.
in Europes field of unexampled car
mage by college lads from the United
States, this very day, this very night.
Nothing like it is known elsewhere in
all the world: nothing like it ever was
seen anywhere else at any time. 1t is
an example of altruism. of human
brotherhood, of utter self-sacrifice that
makes the blood tingle with pride in
every man and woman worthy to be
called American. by birth or by adop-
ton. 1t is carrying out literally and in
most practical, important way Pres1-
dent Wilson's pronouncement that IN
this awful struggle abroad the people
of the United States have but one thing
at heart, and that is true service to
huma nifty.
Already seventy-four young men
from various parts of the country are
serving as ambulance drivers and
stretcher carriers; eleven more are
sailing in June. soon their col
lege year ends. and scores of volun-
teers are ready and anxious to go as
soon as ambulances are provided. so
they may have chance to work
And where do they come from, these
American lads? Thus far the larger
number from eastern states, simply
because they have a nearer and more
vivid realization of the European war
than other fellows living far from the
Atlantic seaboard. That. too, is the
reason why few of the western uni
versities are represented as yet: but
as the war goes on the great colleges
of the great west will send their
quotas of men and ambulances; there
is no doubt of that, and they Will De
nost heartily welcomed by those in
authority.
Dallas McGrew, captain of the Har-
ward crew few years ago, is a field
officer of the American Ambulance
Corps. and A. Piatt Andrew, erstwhile
of Princeton, and S. H. McFadden, jr.,
of Philadelphia, University of Pennsyl-
vania, 1872 also H. W. Dunning, known
and looked up to wherever Yale men
gather. In New Haven and in almost
every city and hamlet in the land Yale
men are eagerly waiting to hear every
possible word about Harry" Dunning's
work in the field.
There is Frederick Hunter All of
Anendale, S. c.: Edward May, jr., of
Princeton, whose home is in Norfolk,
Va, and Edwin c. Wilson of Detroit,
known wherever University of Michi-
gan students and alumni meet to talk
over those who bring honor to their
alma mater Robert Leslie Howard.
from Titusville, not far from Pitts
burgh, is doing mans work in the
feld of rescue, as are Herbert Towns
end and his brother Edward, from Prince
ton; Levin B. LIE Due of Columbia and
Dudley Lawrence Hill of Cornell-all
oF than widely known to an enormous
number of students and graduates of
the various institutions now living in
almost every city and town of the
United States.
And more are coming than the num-
ber already selected For example
there is Harold H. Gile of Colorado, a
nne, outstanding young fellow in the
early twenties. graduating from
Princeton this month of June-and
then aboard ship and of to the work
- Of an ambulance driver. Melvin P
Talbot of Portland is going too, and
J. T. A. Doolittle of Utica, N. Y, as
well as Leonard Ober. widely known in
Washington as in Baltimore. the city OF
his residence.
1t is because the volunteers come
from so many places that interest in
their present situation is SO keen. II
has assumed latter1y a scope of ma
tional interest. for the reason that
every son of Harvard. Yales Princeton
Columbia, Cornell and the other uni
versities is keenly alive to the doingl
Of thiz man Or that who is personally