El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-26
RUnSF From War
But Wants To
Return To US.
Colorado Man, Frightened
ByDraft, Says He Feels
Cheap In Mexico.

How love for America viii come
into a mans heart when all else seems
TO have gone was demonstrated re-
Gently in Juarez. when a Stacker
approached a newspaper reporter
there. The story the man told was
pathetic and showed how conscience
can hurt when it is once aroused. The
man was not broke-he had quite
roll OF bills on him and the only aid
he asked from the scribe was for as
sistance in getting back into the
7 am s. years old" the man said.
"and am proving up on a homestead
fin Colorado. When I read in the
papers a few days ago that the draft
age was going 10 be increased I be-
came panic stricken All my life I
have sickened at the sight Of blood
and the very name of war sends cold
shivers cOursinE through my body.
I left everything and came 10 FL
Paso. intent on getting across the
river TO Juarez. have enough money
to live in MeEico-but I want TO 90
back 10 Gods country. Just across the
river and vet a million miles away
Shortly before dawn one morning I
ran the gauntlet Of the guards and
forded the river.
Strange TO say 7 did not feel the
expected exaltation, but after I was
in Mexico I felt cheap and degraded.
Since coming here have heard about
the work 10 be done in the shipyards
1 can't bear 10 80 TO war. but II I can
only get hack I viii 90 20 the first
shipyard where I viii work until the
end Of the war. I am willing TO do
my bit love my country and I want
10 20 back"
The man was advised 20 go TO the
American consulate and tell the whole
story and IL Is thought that he VIII
be returned 10 the United States.
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