The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-24
James McCullOch Comes
Back Broken in Body
but Not in Spirit.
ENLISTED IN 1914
AND CARRIED ON
Eleven Of IA Idealists Now
Have ''Gone West" for
Beliefs.

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New York, Feb. 23.--"Bewarc of
German peace offers. Beware of this
trumped-up talk of German strikes!
Don't think it's true. Remember Kip
,ing's warning. Make ye no peace
with Adam -Zad, the bear that walks
like a man.
This was the massage brought
straight from the French front -
America yesterday by James McCul-
loch a mining engineer of Butte, Mon
tana, who went over to Europe to
fight as soon after the Germans had
marched into Belgium as hecould get
there He sailed from New York on
August 13. 1914, nine days after Eng
land declared war. He has fought ever
since then, except when he lay
wounded. in the hospital
Eleven Comrades Dead.
Fourteen Americans went over with
him to take a hand in things. Eleven
OF them lie dead In Flanders. One of
them was sent home disabled months
ago, and one, between life and death,
is in a hospital in Aldershot. James
McCulloch is the last Of that little
group of offhand idealists.
Half an hour after his ship docked
in New York he was in the Internn
tional Young Mems Christian associa
tion building.
Il came right here" he said. I'VE
fighting men turn to the " for every
thing. We get the habit. When ! was
released from the hospital this last
time, l couldn't get permission to re-
turn to America. l went to the Young
Mems Christian association and they
fixed it up for me in two days"
Arrangements were made for sending
him to his home in the west, and
james McCulloch sighed with relief
He will be glad To get home again
lie has come back from the war broken
in body, but not in spirit.
An Old and Broken Man.
About thirty-four years old the
passport he took to England read.
The James McGulloch who returned
is an old man. His hair. which the
passport describes as dark brown, is
gray, he has been twice badly wounded,
and he has suffered most of all from
gas shock. But he has never been
afraid. except for one thing.
The fellows who are fighting at the
front have just one big fear now" he
said. They are afraid that an easy
peace will be patched up with Ger
many, and that this whole thing viii
have to be gone through with again Il
dozen years from now.
Once Enough to Pay.
"All that we've done is wasted If the
next generation has to do it all over.
We've paid the price once, and once
is enough. We fought thinking that
we are making the world safe for the
kids, and if the politicians and those
who don't know what they're doing
make peace before there can be any
peace. we haven't gained thing
He returned to his Kipling. which
he quoted with an Irish brogue.
THE bear that walks like a man.
he said. Il never hear of the peace
proposals of the Germans that / don't
think of that poem. You remembel
how the bear came up TO the hunter
with it's paws outstretched, begging
for peace, and how the hunters heart
was touched with pity for the mon
strous. pleading thing So he did mo-
fire, and the steel shod paw ripped hi.
face away, when he would have taker
IL in friendliness, and left him foreVel
blind to the darkened years, and th'
little mercy OF men,"
This Is the Time to Fear"
James McCulloeh quoted, in a voic'
that was husky from shell-shock:
This is the time to fear
when he stands up as pleading, II
totfering near and near.
When he stands up as peiading. il
wavering, man-brute guise,
When he wells the hate and cunnin
of the little. swinish eyes;
When he shows as seeking quarter
with paws like hands in prayer,
That is the time of peril--the time Q
the Truce of the Bear
No Fighter Wants Peace Now.
None of these chaps who are owe
there fighting want to make true
with the bear" James MeCulioeh salt
No man who has stood tWenty-fou
hours In front of a German shell fir
and has been forced TO give way, an
later to watch the Germans come inI
a French village. while he looked q