SALT OF THE RACE"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2944, 2 December 1916, Page 3

SALT OF THE RACE"

ONE-EYED MARKSMAN "TURNED DOWN." In the course of a breezy letter to Senator Lynch, Minister for Federal Works, asking the Minister to use his influence- to induce the military authorities to accept him /a 9 a volunteer, Mr. Thomas M'C'arthy Lowry, of Wickepin, W.A., states that he has tried five times and appealed to the Minister for Defence twice, hut had been rejected because lie had lost his left eye. "He comes of tho salt of the Tace," said Senator lynch. "Ho 19 a sturdy sample of back-country life who has taken tho rough with tho smooth: Ho has always been a hard worker and a clear thinker, and I am not surprised at his desperate efforts to enlist." Mr. Lowry is one of tho:best riflo shots in West Australia. The persistent refusals, ho contends, have unstrung him. He says: "They are taking. men with families, and mere boys whom I could carry on my back all day and then bear more hardships than they could! These men have homes' and families, while I am like the one in the 'Son? of tho Wallaby.' 'From wherever ho comes nobody knows, whither he goes nobody cares.' I am one of those who are pessimistic enough to doubt the final issue." the letter concludes, "and as I mortally hate the Germans, as nearly every student of Irish history or lover of Ireland ' does, I would liko to bo thero to prove with my life that they shall never rulo lover my country." I ' ■ —_