New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1917, Page 5

¥ COMES BACK HOME - MINUS HIS LIWBS ", Aubrey McLeod Loses Legs But Is Not Dispirited Longing for his mother's cooking, Aubrey McLeod, the first American casualty in France, is on his way Jhome. He lost both his legs when a German airplane dropped a bomb on & base hospital where he was -on guard. ¢ McLeod is a former student of -Pur- due’ university and a resident of Bos- ton, He served in an Indiana Battery on the Mexican, border last year. He » Speaks of himself ‘as “‘“‘the happiest boy in ‘the world.” Those who'have met him declare that he is ‘“the nerv- iest boy in the world.” Calling . him_ “oun first - blesse,” Howard Kahn, of the National ‘War Work:. Council of the Y. M..C. A. writes 'of meeting him in France, as follaws: T “When the transport —— sails from this harbor in'a few days, it will carry ‘the happiest boy.in the world. That'is the 'way he characterizes him- self. T 'would.call him ‘the nerviest boy in.the:world. - \', Tere “‘His name is Aubrey McLeod. He is a former student at Purdue univer- sity,” a resident <of. Boston,:and ' he| served 'in an Indiana.battery: on the Mexi¢an border: last year. “Afi of which' has nothing ‘to do' ‘with why he is the happiest and the nerviest boy in the world. “When histories of the present war are written, Aubrey McLeod’s name will go down as the first American casualty. The air raid on Base Hos- pital No. ——, Wwhich resulted in the death of Lieut. Fitzsimmons of the medical corps and three privates early in July, injured McLeod so seriously that his two legs had to be amputated stx inches above the knees. This much has been briefly mentioned in official newspaper dispatches. But nothing has been said about McLeod himself or his hopes for the future. “I met a hospital sergeant on a train bound for this port the other day. ‘We're taking Aubrey McLeod home,” he said. ‘Would you like to see him?" “I was not sure. I had seen a lot of French and German ‘mutiles’ dur- ing four months at the French front, and the :memory of some of them was still with me. I did not know whether I wanted to see a pale-faced, drawn and suffering American.: I had known some of McLeod’s friends on the Mex- ican border last summer, however, and I thought some news of them might cheer him a bit. “] entered his compartment. Two soldiers were there. Both were hearty, red-cheeked, fresh-looking Americans, neither of whom appeared to have known what a day’s illness meant. ‘Where's McLeod?” I asked. “ My name is McLeod,’ replied one of them smiling. “Then T noticed that the lower part of his body was covered with a rug. “If the American wounded and the American people accept their misfor- tunes like Aubrey McLeod has ac- cepted his, the receipt of the long casualty lists which are sure to come AIN DAILY Cured His RUPTURE T.was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no good. Finally I got hold of something that quickly and completely cured me. Years have passed and the - Tupture has never returned, although Iam doing bard work as a carpenter. There was 0o Opera- tion, no lost time, no trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give fultinformation about how yotx may find a complete care without operation, if you write to me, Bugene M. Pullen, Carpenter, 898D Marcellus Avenue, Manasquan, N. J. Better cut out this notice and show it to any others who are ruptured—you may save a life or at least stop the misery of rupture and the worry and danges of an operation. will cause no alarm as to American morale. No Sick Man There. “*“Looking for a sick man?’ laughed McLeod, reading my thoughts. ‘There’s nobody sick around here. I may get a little seasick in a few days, but there won’t be anything serious about it.” *““Just what happened?’ “‘A fleet of Boche planes. They dropped six bombs. One of ’em got me. Now I'm minus two legs.’ “McLeod said all this with a smile on his face. “‘I had been on guard. Somebody relieved me, and I lay down for some sleep. I heard a commotion and jumped to my feet. Two bombs went ,off and I knew it was an air raid. Then a third exploded very near me. Another man in my unit began yelling, ‘help me,” and I saw that he was wounded. Then I looked down and saw that my right leg was cut almost in two. 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There was merely an air of sat- sfaction—satisfaction at having done his duty. He did not show the least indication that he considered that he had done more. “‘I called for my nurse,” he con- tinued, ‘and I remembered that I had a long argument with her before I sank off to sleep again. I told her that she had promised they wouldn't amputate my leg, and here they had amputated both of them. I told her that I thought it was not fair to be lied' to like that. But there was no heart-breaking realization that I was a cripple for life. . I was too full of | morphine for that. And by the time the morphine had worn off I suppose I had quit worrying about the future.’ ‘“*‘And now?’ “‘Well, I'm going home. I want to hear ’em speak English like Amer- ! icans. I want the kind of food my mother knows. how to cook. When they get me pretty.well patched up I'm going to try to find something else I can do for the government. I don’t know what it will be,. but T've got two good arms, and I know some- thing will turn up. I'm far from being ready for the junk pile.* “And Aubrey McLeod smiled again —a smile that brought confidence to the other Americans who had crowded into his compartment during his re- cital. For they regarded McLeod as a typical American soldier, and if a typical American soldier has this phil- osophy of life, what is there to fear? “McLeod will start for home amply supplied with everything to make him comfortable for the long trip. The government is taking the best care of him, and the American Y. M. C. A. has seen to it that he has books, candy, and everything else a traveler could want. The boy attributes happy state of mind to the fact that Americans, particularly Y. M. C. A. secretaries, have watched out for him so carefully. 7 “‘I'm not nearly so unlucky as I would have been had I been born a Frenchman, an Englishman—or a German,” he concluded.” FOOD REGULATORS ARE TRAFFIG COPY Robert Scoville Explains Chief Aim of State Administration Hartford, Dec. 20.—‘‘As between the Food Administrators and the traf- fic policemen of a large city, there is more of an analogy than many people T e,”” remarked Connecticut’s Fed- eral Food Administrator Robert Sco- ville, the other evening, as he sat in the lobby of his hotel. Continuing Mr. Scoville explained: “If the traffic policemen were taken off Fifth avenue, and if just half the people who use that thoroughfare at any given hours were to try to go their accustomed ways upon it, there would be such a hppeless tangle that nobody - would get anywhere at all. “The traffic squad makes the thor- oughfare useful to the largest number of people possible. Food Administra- tion, in spite of abnormal conditions of supply, trade, labor and trans- portation, so directs consumption and distribution that each food commod- ity finds its widest possible use, in- stead of being thrown upon the mar- kets in a way that would make it clear sailing only for the speculator. “The case of wheat provides a fine instance of the advantage of food ad- ministration in the present crisis. Not only is wheat being found for the al- lies by steering it out of the usual channels of consumption in this coun- try, corn being used in its place, but an economic gain is made in the man- ner in which it is sent, as a few fig- ures will reveal. “The wheat exports from this coun- try for the period between July 1 and November 18, 1916, were 127,218,000 bushels. The flour exports for the same period were 5,291,800 barrels. For the period from July 1 to No- vember 17, 1917, the export of wheat was 68,605,000 bushels and of flour 6,091,600 barrels. The percentage of increase in flour exportation was thus 15.11. The exportation of wheat on the other hand, decreased 46.07 per cent. during the same period. ““This means several things that are of importance to us as well as our allies. As far as we are concerned, this sending over of flour instead of wheat means the retention in this country of large amounts of fodder for our stock. It also means that our mills grind the flour. It is a case, however, of equally divided blessings. It means that the allies do not ve to release man-power, more needed elsewhere, for work in the mills. But most of all it means more actual nutrition for the allies for flour has less bulk than wheat, and since shipping is the crucial problem, what- ever puts more nutrition in a given amount of space is an unmixed bless- ing.” SAVE TEA LEAVES. 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