Evening star., 1916-01-13
the speaker forced a note Of rapture
into his throaty tones.
A British Bulldog.

the speaker forced a note of rapture
into his throaty tones.
A British Bulldog.
There's one" he shouted, "oDe OF
the bulldog breed-'im with the red
tie"
1t seemed to the New Yorker that
this specimen of the bulldog breed
sought to escape. He certainly turned.
But the retrieving sergeants were on
his heels. One had him by one einow
and one by the other. they pISiseu h,ins
but one of them shouted to the orator:
THE right sort, he is. He'd have en-
listed before. but he just come eishe-
cen yesterday"
Sixteen" mouthed the boy through
Fright you are," shouted the lusty
sergeant. Eighteen it is"
The boy was shaking as he was nali
pulled forward by the two big men:
the end of the little tragedy. He mas
no word of criticism. for he sees the
utter need of the mother country. he
believes she is justified in any
steps she may take to fill her Ianks
But he did not want to watch that PIN
ply, undernourished, frightened ooy
shanghaied into the army. During the
month he stayed in England he was
approached every day by some one
who wanted him to do his bit. He found
that each of the thousands of soldiers
home from the trenches for four days
leave is granted an extra day for each
re ccruit he can bring in. They work des.
perately, poor devils. Day and nisnt
and the country byways. trying to
catch their ticket for one more day at
home.
Sees Enough Of War.
ct funked it," the British born said.
simply. I'm perfectly candid about It,
I have had a little glimpse at what
war is. I've seen men with half their
faces shot away, and smelled them as
they lay putrefying in hospital wards
and watched them hold their raw
stumps up to the sun that the scanned
ends might heal the sooner. coward,
or no coward, / quit. l determined NOT
to enlist even in the hospital service
But it was not SO easy to get out
of England for British born ne
could not get permission to return 10
Others could. He stood in railway
station and saw other young English,
men take the boat-train he had hoped
to take. He isn't bitter about II. run
accomplishes miracles everywhere. IN
no country is pull of more ardent
value than in our United States. But
it seemed as though he were trapped
Every day he was beset by those who
wanted him to do his bit. His money
began to ruin short. He knew what
would happen If he were to go broke
in England. .,,
80 1 went to France" said he. Il
had trouble enough getting that per-
mission Every man I spoke to asked
me why 1 wasn't in the trenches
doing my bit But 1 had an excuse
that pulled me through. AS soon as
1 could sailed for New York. France
may not admire the United States
but France loathes the Englishman
who isn't doing his bit And l can't
disguise my tongue. I'm known for
an Englishman whenever 1 open my
mouth"
So he came back. He will never vol
unteer, but the experience has MADE
him an ardent advocate of universal
men, and pale and weedy youths forced
into service because they lacked the
moral courage to resist the continuous
compulsion of the bullnecked recruit
ing sergeants and the staring crowds
and the pointing finger He saw young
sters of family and wealth escape these
annoyances, because of park gates and
buffers and hotel porters. He saw
husky men repel appeals with curse
and thrusting shoulder and others
hardly fit to carry a gun leave utterly
helpless women to shift for themselves
because they believed that duty called
"Compulsion is fair said this man
of British blood. "Noluntaryism is
criminally unfair. But that isn't why
came home. I funked."