Evening star., 1919-02-23

the shoulder by machine gun pro-
jectiles on October IA. He lay In base
hospital No. 81 at Beaune, In Bur-
gundy. where he had the luck to be
nursed by his aunt, and when ht to
travel he was taken by her to Nice.
Later he was ordered home. as a
wounded soldier. with the expecta-
ton of being assigned to military
duty as an instructor in the training
school at Princeton University, pend
its muster out. Then he will resume
his duties at Princeton, interrupted
by the war at the end of his freshman
year.
His aunt. Mrs. Webb C. Hayes. wife
of the colonel was librarian and
hostess at AK les -Bains since it's first
opening as leave area until last
November. At that moment she was
transferred to Nice, where she Open
ed the beautiful library and reading
room in the casino opposite the Hotel
Ruhl on the promenade des Anglais
The Y NJ c. A. opened up the entire
casino--the playhouse OF the rich in
pre-war days-and with its theater,
lounges. cinema, cantine, billiards.
library and writing rooms, 1T remains
a boon to thousands of American SOL
diers who go to the Riviera on con-
valescence or leave.
This corporal says: IF l had been
where I fell" When questioned why,
The boy seemed embarrassed. These
are great and deep affairs. as we'll as
personal, and soldiers are not disposed
to talk about them for publication
Finally 1t came out. however, that. for
one matter. lots of fellows remains
simply couldn't be brought back
home. and IL he had been killed along
with them he'd hate to have the look
OF quitting them" 1t seemed to me
Il beautiful delicacy Of sentiment
His uncle thinks the same.
Comparatively few of the bodies
of our American dead Will, In my
opinion. be returned to America when
the question is calmly considered by
the friends of the dead" said Col.
Hayes. Never, in the history of the
world. has the policy been pursued of
disinterring the dead In war and
transporting to their homes for burial
what only are assumed to be the re-
mains, save only. after our first war in
Cuba, the Philippines and China.
I'm all our domestic battles and in
our previous foreign war--the war
with Mexico-the American dead were
buried in national cemeteries near the
battlehelds where they FELL and few
lnueed nave Deen Durled at their
homes. The American cemetery in the
center of the city OF Mexico is one of
the beauty spots of the city and a
place of great interest to travellers.
The military cemeteries at HonEkong.
China. and near Constantinop1e (after.
the Crimean wary are truly shrines
and parks Of beauty in an interna-
tional sense--sacred areas of western
civilization and sentiment. Happy.
indeed. are English and Americans,
dying abroad, to be laid to rest In
their protection
Congress In 1906 made an initial
appropriation FOR marking the places
where American soldiers fell and were
temporarily inferred In Cuba and
China" 1t resulted. probably. very
much from a communication of Col.
Hayes. During the withdrawal OF
the last American troops from Santi-
ago de Cuba, at the close of the first
Intervention in January, 1904, he re-
visited the battlehelds of the Santi-
ago campaign. in company OF several
other Army officers. and n few
months later. during the Russo-Jap-
anese war; while serving as dispatch
bearer to the American minister at
Psking. China, and Seoul, Korea, he
revisited the battlefields of the China
relief expedition of 1900 at Tientsin
and en- route to Peking. On his re-
turn to America he called attention
to the unmarked condition of those
battlefields, Prompt action was
tlefiell commissions for China and
Santiago, on each OF which Col.
Hayes tas always been an active