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Show Instant Response to Call of Human Need Welldiggers felt queer as they dug down in excavating a new well near Vancouver, Wash. They ascended to the top. J. A. Winston, a professional well-digger, well-digger, later had himself lowered into the well. Soon he shouted for those at the surface to draw him up. Halfway Half-way up his limp hands slipped from the rope, and he fell, a victim of deadly dead-ly monoxide gas. Arthur Ames, twenty-five, volunteered volun-teered to go down to hring the unconscious un-conscious victim out. He attached a rope to Winston and gave the signal to be raised. He clung to the rope, and when half-way up, he, too, was overcome by the gas, which snuffed out his life. I "The whole story of the wreck." says a description of the lost Nevada, "Is one of outstanding seamanship and heroism," marred only by loss of the Nevada and most of her crew. In a terrific gale boatmen from the President Pres-ident Madison strove to rescue. Outstanding Out-standing was the deed of the radio operator, who locked himself in his room to broadcast appeals for help for the sinking Nevada, remaining at his post, and was among the lost. There's your story of the real heart of man. In the moment of peril, when help Is needed, there is always the j hero young Ames, who went down into the gas-ridden well; the radio operator, who locked his door and stayed with the ship. In these days of crime, rackets and disrespect for law, days of bootlegging bootleg-ging and graft, these acts of heroism stand out as a beautiful isle in a murky sea. They prove that which we all know that in the general run of men and women are goodness, nobility no-bility and majesty, all ready to be brought into the light when need beckons or humanity calls. Portland Port-land (Oregon) Journal. |