Weekly journal-miner., 1922-08-09
Alexander Mcdonald, Scottish Bred, now an American, was
 Spared on Four Continents to Labor for Unity of His Clan.
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OFrom Tuesdays Daily
 Reluctantly, Alexander C. Mac Donald told a Journal-Miner man yesterday about the seven wars he had participated in and with much prompting, admitted to numerous wounds, hair-breadth escapes, murder ous escapades with every sort of army from the finely. disciplined Scottish Black Watch to the ragged revolutionaries of Honduras and Mexico. And then he said:
 T don't know what they spared me for out of all this, and now the German gas that's put me in the in valid class"
 But McDonald's very next words possibly revealed the purpose for which he had been carried scathed, but living, through the battlefields of four continents, the life-risking work of the Royal Northwest mounted police and the intelligence work of the American army.
 As commander of Jose C. Salazar post, Veterans of Foreign Wars at Tucson, as a member of the Disabled American Veterans, as an active worker in the American Legion, Nc Donald is striving for that ideal the ex-service men of England have al ready reached-a unified, organized body of the veterans of the American wars.
 Already success looks upon this scared veterans efforts in his home county of Pima. Already he has be- gun to work outside of that county.
 Mcdonald is a firm believer ill unity of purpose and community of action. He is deeply imbued with the theories and practices of fra ternities, for more than ,56 years ago he was made a master Mason in Scotland, and now that he is a nat ura1ized American citizen, his mem- berslIp in orders of that fraternity is scattered from Canada to the Mex ican border.
 Despite his shaky physical condi- ton due to the accumulation of wounds, topped off with a nice shot of gas, Mcdonald looks about 5. He was born in Scotland-Invernes July g, 1867. He was $ years old late last month.
 But what strength he has left will go to the two-fold work of restoring the once vigorous Mcdonald physi- que and erecting on the basis of sev- eral existing soldiers organizations, a larger and broader one for veterans one in which there shall be no dis tinction as to class or caste, but which of itself, will be distinctive; its membership proving that the wearer of its insignia has been an honorable and a true soldier.
 Mcdonald speaks six languages. He learned Scottish, or Gaelic, with his mothers milk and until he was IA. spoke nothing else. He learned English in England, Spanish in Spain, German, Italian and French in the countries Of their source or among their colonies. He has fought in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and Central America.
 At the outbreak of the World war, Mcdonald offered himself for enlist ment at Tucson, but they were onto him there, and rejected his applica- ton. He went to Fl Paso, lied about his age and on May 8, 1917, became a soldier in the United States army. | On July g, 1918, when he was 50 | years old, he was aboard ship be- tween Hobolen and France, as a member of the Second engineers of the Second division.
 He landed at Brest and at once be- gan to take an interest in the World | war. In the Argonne, for distin- guished and meritorious services about which he refused to talk with d reporter, Mcdonald earned the at tcntion of one John Pershing, who . conferred a citation over his own signature.
 Mack was naturalizcd at San An tonic, Texas, in 1900. He had put in three. years with the Royal North west mounted police. His subsequent work was entirely with the stars and stripes, even during his excursion in to Mexico, where he participated in {? some of the recent unpleasantness.
 His "wars" arc:
 Chitral campaign in northwestern India as a member of the Forty !! second Black Watch under Sir Will liam Lockwood He had served 10 i years in one regiment of the Scottish E--.-Ir