Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-18
GOOD OLD pep" never LEAVES
YOUR UNCLE SAMUEl'S FIGHTER
the Battle Line Lying Wounded in Hospital His Chief Charac
teristic Is His IndomiabIe Sprit- There Is Yet an
American Who Does Not Hate the Hun He Should Hear
the Tales of the Heroes of Chateau Therry.

Paris.-The indomitable and uncon-
querable spirit of the soldiers from
the United States is one Of the out
standing characteristics that excite
the admiration Of all who come in con-
tact with them. They make the Amer
lean proud Of his nationality and
arouse the envy of those who, by cir
cumstances over which they have no
control, are denied the privilege to be
one OF them.
If there is yet an American who
does not hate the Hun, he or she
should have seen the first trainload
Of American wounded that arrived
here from ChateauThierry. AS these
heroes modestly related their expert
ences, one had mingled feeling OF
worship for them and intense hatred
for the blood-maddened beasts who are
responsible for the awful agony which
the world is now suffering.
In a compartment with a number of
French wounded was a nineteen-year-
old boy from Chicago. He was all
alone and surrounded by men who
could not speak his language. He was
in the most terrific pain, but managed
to keep down the slightest grOan.
Nothing could have drawn q whisper
from him before his French comrades
In arms.
A Red Cross doctor asked him if
there was anything he wanted.
1..:~ ~
the low answer.
He got it. The doctor asked If there
was anything else he wanted. The
boy wanted to be turned on his side
With a machine-gun bullet through
his leg and wound that had scorched
its way across his hips, to say moth
Ing Of an injured arm, he was perfect
ly incapable of helping himself
The doctor turned him on his side
and then discovered the lad had ha(
nothing to eat for so hours Unfor
tunately he was only one of many II
the same fix. The Red Cross did tt
best and soon had what emergenc.
food 1t had In the hands Of those wh'
were still able to use them. The NOR
seriously injured, Of course, were tn
first 20 be removed by the long lin
OF waiting ambulances.
lndomitabe Spirit
Before the train pulled in the ambr
lanceS were drawn up and waiting. S
was u small crowd. AS the first an
bulance quit the station the crow
started to cheer. There was a dough
boy on the front seat with the drive
one arm in sling, the other stuffin
sandwich into his mouth. He wave
the sandwich in acknowledgment
while contented look came over HI
drawn and tired face.
The crowd increased as the amb,
lances formed almost continuor
train. Words Of sympathy were hear
on all sides not unmingled with tea
as the flower Of Young America tn
had marched forth so valiantly a fe
shore months before was painstakin
ly transferred to base hospitals.
At the end Of the procession can
q cortege that the crowd grasped Il
meaning of In a moment They we
ambulances, but their destination w
the cemetery and not the hospit
The women wept openly and cross
themselves, while the hat of eve
man in the crowd came off in a
spectful salute to the dead.
The sight was one to wiring t
heart, but the indOmitable spirit
America hobbed up whenever q. m
nble to talk above a gasp was -four
Many Of the wounds were from shr;
mel. Where they were not rea
serious the pOssessOrs told the t
OF what they had been through
1t was five o'clock in the morning
July 10 before the platoon to VIII
Louis Cooke Of Rayville, La. belon,
saw the Germans approaching.
"Our officer just yelled, Let's
'ern, boys! and we started 81
them," said Cook. 1.-THE Heinies "
coming AZ on the south bank of