Show JESUS GARCIA HERO Somehow the look for fr much cool courage among the Latin races In our pride of or achieve achievement men ment and our long record pf of heroic deeds we have come to imagine that we are ar the only people who In n great occasions forgot forg t ourselves and think of he h welfare of others When we do find a splendid example of ot heroism out outside outside side lIide of our numbers numb rs it ft Is ls a a sort of shod shock to l us ua But Butt it is pleasant to that AngloS on l and n especial especially ly Iy Americans fage when they find It Mark now the case of ot Jesus Garcia Mexican Garcia was an engineer Last Thursday near flear n ar Nacozari Ni qz rl in the Mexican state of ame cars in inthe Inthe Inthe the freight train to which en engine Im ImIn engine gine In was attached caught cat fire In the train were two cars loaded with ex explosive plosive Garcias first thought was to save sava the ot the town fown He lie could co ld have saved saed himself by uncoupling his engine and making a run away aay from the danger langer that threatened would have luve the th loss of many li Ihs 9 and the destructiOn of ot much property in the town ton Garcia deliberately l chose to sacrifice e himself He called to the other mem mein members members bers bets of the train crew to Jump Then he opened o wide the throttle of his en engine engina gina gine and Ind dashed dashel away a wa with the train At a distance of ot half a mile from Na cozad the explosion came The reports say sa that Garcia Garda was blown to atoms No Xo human being could have haye given gien a finer example of unselfish heroism The act of Garcia deserves to be known as n far as public nubile Can tian an car ry r it t He laid down his ills life lite knowing full well veil what he lie was doing to save sae the lives of ot others And he laid it down as as though he were performing perform In a very ordinary act I Somehow we expect those thosa things I from people of our own type Stories of or bravery displayed by American en engineers are am told so frequently that they k fall to cause much comment Considerably Consid Considerably Considerably more comment would be caused if Ir one of them should fall fail todo to do his duty dut at a critical time And if It the truth were known we would probably find that examples of ot hero heroIsm heroism Ism lam are about as a common comm n with others as 0 with ourselves However The Herald hastens to place Its tribute upon the bier of Jesus Garcia His ms nation should be proud of him for tor he was waz every Inch a man |