Show the Bear Ware The Truce of Says Fighting Irishman Who Brands Hun Han Offers Trickery Engineer Tells of 0 Fighting That 11 Made ade 11 Him Old 11 Man luau an at 37 Says Germany Is Kipling's Bear Beal That WI Walks all s Like a l I 11 Man all New ew York Feb 23 Beware of ot German pence peace offers Beware of ot this up trumped-up talk of or German strikes Dont Don't think Its It's true Remember I Kipling's Kipling's Kip Kip- lp- lp lings ling's warning Make ye re no pence peace with Zad Adam-Zad the thc bear that walks like a man This was tho the mes message ase brought straight from the French front to America yesterday b by Jnes Jmes McCulloch a mining coining engineer of ot Butte Mont who went over o to Europe to fight to-fight as 09 soon coon after the Germans had marched into Inlo Belgium as he lie could get et there He lie sailed from New York on Au August 13 13 1914 nine days das after aCter England declared war He has fought ever cr since then except when he la lay wounded In hos hos- pital I List At st t of 11 Volunteers 11 Fourteen Americans went vent over with him to take a a. hand In things Eleven o of them He lie dead deall In Flanders One of or them was sent home disabled months ago an and one between life and death is h in a a. hospital in Aldershot James McCulloch Is tho the last Of ot that little group of at off hand idealists Half Halt an hour after alter his ship dock docked d dIn In New et York he ho was In tho the International International International Youn Young Mens Men's Christian associatIon association association tion at E. E el Twenty eighth street treet I iI came came- rJ right ht here he said Wo 0 fighting men turn to the Y YO for every everY- thing We 0 get th tho habit When hen I was wa released from the hospital this last time lime I couldn't get permission to re return return return re- re turn to America I went to the Young Mens Men's Christian association and the they fixed It up for forme me In two days Gro Grows Old In lu Three Yearn Ho lIo had br brought a letter to C. C V. V HIbbard associate general se secretary atthe of at the Young Mens Men's Christian association John F. F Moore who bo turned him over to International railroad secretary of or the association Arrangements were made for sending him on to his home homo in the tho west and James McCulloch 81 sighed hed with relief He Ho will bo glad to get et home again as Ho has come back from tram the tue war bro broken en in body but not In ip spirit About 34 years ears old the tho passport he took tool to England read The James McCulloch who returned is an an old man His Ills hair which h the thc passport describes ne no nas uv us ns dark brown Is 15 gray ho has suffered nut suf and twice badly wounded most of ot all from gas cas shock But Buthe Buthe Buthe he has haft never been afraid except of or orone one thing The uThe fellows who are fighting at the front have Just one big fear tear now he said They arc are afraid that an ens cas easy peace will be patched up with German Germany Ger Ger- and that this whole whole- thing will man mail many have to be bo gone gono through with again a from now dozen years cars All that weve we've done dono Is wasted If Ir the next generation has to do It all aU over Weve We've paid the tho price once and once Is enough Wo We 0 fought thinking that we wo were cre making the world safe afe for tor the kids and It if the politicians and those who dont don't know what hat they're doln doing nake peace before there can be any peace peace wo haven't gained a thing r He lIe returned to his Kipling which he quoted with an Irish brogue Cites Cite Kipling Allegory The bear benr that walks like Jlko a n. man he lie said I r never hear of ot the tho peace proposals of the tho Germans that 1 dont don't think of ot that poem You remember how bow tho bear came up to the tho hunter Its outstretched begging for vILh ith paws peace and how the hunters hunter's heart was touched with sith pit pity for tor the tho monstrous pleading thing So le l e did not fire ripped his face a e and nd the steel-shod steel paw sway away a when he would have havo taken It in friendliness and left him forever blind to fo the darkened years ears and the little merc mercy of ot men mn James McCulloch quoted In a a. voice that was husky from shell shock This is the time to fear tear fear When he lie stands up like Uke a a. tired man tottering near and near When he tand up a as pleading In wavering man man-bruto guise When he veils tho the hate and cunning of ot the little swinish eyes ees When he shows as seeking quarter with paws lute like e hands bands In prayer This Thin Is ts the time of at peril the peril the time of ot I the Truce of at the Bear Beart None Want Truce With YUh Teut D I None of at those chaps chapa who are over there fighting want to make snake a a. truce with the bear James McCulloch said No man who has stood twenty four hours In front of at a a. German shell fire tire nd I has been forced to give Wa way and later to watch the Germans come como Into a. a French village while he looked on at the outrages there Is going to have any Illusions about what the Huns Buns will tb do If Sf we wo give she in before the fight tight in Is fought to toa tora a. a finish I s saw w Something over there on the that Kipling would have loved to write a a a. poem about Ill I'll bet it It tickles me yet whenever I think of or ofU U It tt It was after alter the Iho battle and a little Highlander four tour foot toot nothing or BO so had bad got hung up on the barb wire wiro en en- en All of at a sudden den a a. big bigGerman bigGerman bigGerman German saw him and rushed back to get Jel him his ugly face tace grin a-grin And Arid ju Just t as I thought the little chap was done for tor ono one of the huskiest Highlanders Highland Highland- ers rs I ever saw caught on to what was as happening let out a a. bellow and started started start start- ed d backI back It was a race raco for tor the little fellows fellow's I 4 life and the devil de take him If IC the Scotty Scot- Scot ty 0 was the tue hindmost But he lie Ho lie got there In timo to run his bayonet clear through h the German 1 was ns wounded but I lau laughed hed when I saw gaw that Then he lie Just yanked the little fellow off the barb wire and ond the they strolled Off ff saing nothing being and acting a as calm cairn as If the they had been to the corner cornel for Cor or a 0 mornIng morn- morn lag Ing paper errYe er Ive rYe 8 seen a lot of ot Germans before beCore this Wherever here m my work has taken me and that's pretty prell much all over o tho the world the they 1 all had the same notion notion- nothing but rel relentless expansion Ive I've watched them in Mexico in South America in Australia the South Sea Sen islands and half halt a dozen other places and the thern rn all nil I the Iho same Their souls arc are poisoned with their desire for tor foro I o world rid poss e ss I 00 E liven n Babies Imbibe German babies get ct that Idea with their milk and have ha since Frederick the Great Owe Onro I fought ouGht with two husk husky Germans at once in the tho San 1 f In 1 hn u 01 r countr country would own the United States In a a. few fe years ears 1 may be a a. hot headed Irishman but I couldn't stand for tor that The Tho D Belgian outrages es stuck tuck In my un- gullet Just as soon oon as ns I could fix lx things up In the west I started On the boat I met the tho others and the fourteen fourteen four four- our our- teen of or u ua us stuck together There were Car Cargill and Miller and I Evans and FraIer Frazier Fra- Fra zier Ier and Sutton Sutton Sutton-ho ho was a newspaper editor from Just four days das after aCter wo we enlisted In the medical corps of oC the royal roal army I l was wa later transferred transferred trans trans- termed to the engineer corps there re was wasa a a. little blue puff of or smoke and Sutton went west Well he had a whack atthe at atthe I Ithe the Germans for four our days das anyhow j Swede One of or Little Squad Then there was ns jenson Jenson a a. Swede S from tho the middle west vest and Burke the staunchest of or Irishmen Id I'd Id I'd know him himIn himIn himIn In Chile Chile and and Henderson Henerson a a. wealthy little chap brought up In the cities but all grit hes he's In the hospital at nt Aldershot now And the tho others are arc dead Tills This war onar has put lilt m hi my hair white I but Im I'm glad llad I went It was mud monotony mo- mo 1 nod and nh pr rv hut hn I in tho sh K r h. nV ground t there r was a always th the angel l with the flaming sword old Omar talks about I 1 led cart Omar in m my pocket He lie and Kipling are good old sports sports- the tho kind you can read even eYen at war How do men feel Ceel as they he go over the i top The They dont don't much till afterwards 1 or or maybe I hadn't an any imagination But you ou dont don't ne need d imagination much In wartime Going over oyer the top when when all Is Js said Is just one foot toot after an another another an- an other and there you OU are with something something some some- thing worth while to see through and glad lad to do It IU You ma may wish It well over but hut you ou never wish Ish yourself out of It Wants V nt to Try Fry It A Again en In I He will spend two tono weeks at Sulphur Springs In Virginia and after that will return to tho the west When air has washed the gas from his lungs ho he wants to enlist again this again this time with the American forces He lie looked so old and broken a as he lie told of or his hopes to get back on the Job that one needed all James McCulloch's McCullochs Irish optimism to listen to him untouched Im Irn glad I went he lie said But I 1 thank m my stars that when I get Set well enough to bo be of ot some use uso again I can go so with the tho American arm army Gee whiz but I was getting tired of being an Englishman |