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New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Cemeteries in France

American relatives and friends
who wish to visit the graves of their
dead soldiers in France will be aided
by the following table of American
burial places and how to reach them:
The largest American cemetery is
at Romagne, with 23,O61 graves, in
which lie most of the Americans who
gave their lives in the great Ar
gonne drive. From Paris by train
to Nerdun (Gare de l'Est). then to
Dun-Doulcon; American Red Cross
transportation for relatives from
Dun-Doulcon, commonly known as
Dun-sur-Meuse. Here the Red Cross
has opened hotel with sleeping &C
commodations for twenty persons
and dining room.
At Thiaucourt, reached by con-
Veyances from Toul or Verdun, there
are between four thousand and five
thousand graves. From Paris by
Train tGafe de EST to I0ul or
Ferdun
More than fifteen hundred New
Workers who took part in the smash
ing Of the Hindenburg line are
buried at Bony, reached by convey
ances furnished by the American
Red Cross to relatives from ST
Quentin. From Paris to St. Quen-
tin by train fsom the Care du Nord.
Three miles from scissors is the
cemetery OF Ploisy, with two thou
sand American graves. From Paris
to Soissons by train from the Care
du Nord.
At st. Nazaire, reached direct by
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

nothing in my heart to say for the
Boche except bad
She showed ne the same black
bread that they had been happy to
pay 40 cents for In 1916 the town
was evacuated, and when they were
allowed to return She SAID the Ger
mans had not left one single thing
in the house y tiny peasants
house and not a chemise, not
towel not a cup, nor chair-noth-
ing but bare waIls-and most Of the
woodwork, all of the floor, torn off
for hrewood. She showed ne her
laisser-passer for Germany, but l
did not need that to make her story
ring true. She was so intense. so
bitter. Oh, father, what story it
was.
"A week ago she saw her son-a
soldier of France since 1914-and
tears came to her eyes and rolled
down her fat, wrinkled cheeks. Per
haps you can understand, mademoi-
selle, we We're happy TO find our
boy again | thought | could and
we talked of Stuart, and she re-
membered about him and knew his
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
A Complete List of the Cemeteries
in Which Our Soldiers Lie and
How to Reach Them

station and the cemetery, Is for
Americans who wish to remain moro
than a day.
$ The cemetery at Toul is a ten
minute walk from the railroad sta
tion. Toul is reached from Paris
by train direct from the Care de
FEST. There are more than twelve
hundred graves.
Near Paris, at Suresnes, there are
more than a thousand graves. This
is forty-hve minute ride by train
from Paris. Take the St. Cloud car
and change for Suresnes.
A cemetery of nearly four thou
sand graves is located at Seringes,
reached from Paris by train to
Fere-enTardenois, from Fere-en-
Tardenois by auto or by train TO
Chateau Thierry and from Chateau
Thierry by Red Cross bus (for rela-
tives only.
At Lambezelles, reached by auto
from Brest (from Paris to Brest by
train from the Care Montparnasse).
a cemetery of about eighteen hun
dred graves.
The isolated grave of Lieutenant
Quentin Roosevelt is four miles from
the railroad station at Coulonges,
near Fere-enTardenois, which Is
reached by train from the Care de
lEst, Paris.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

near the top of low broad hill was
little cemetery in a rectangle of
tall pine trees, with d vine covered
wooden fence around it.
cit is a country of low rolling
hills, and, as far as the eyes can
reach, nothing but unfenced fields.
No trees anywhere and few houses,
for surface water is rare and wells
are expensive.
"Stuart is almost in the middle
of the rectangle, with perhaps two
hundred others. A big wooden
cross heads his grave with his name
clearly marked. 1t is the biggest
cross in the little cemetery, look
ing oN toward the soft purple hills.
Daddy, I was so glad to find our
boy, SO happy to find him, and as
lnelt there in the cold and wet, l
thanked God he wasn't American
unknown.
He could not have a happier rest
ing place, I think, buried there with
French on either side, in a real
French burying ground, with peas
ants stone crosses from before the
war and flowers.
Last night l was discouraged.
There were no motors going my
way, and l saw myself going back
to Paris without getting to Latin
court. Then l happened to think Of
a bicycle, and sure enough Francois
knew of an old one that he thought
might go, so by 10 o'clock this
morning | was en- route, pedaling
down a muddy road in the rain,
on a mans bicycle, rusty and old,
But it had wheels.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
At Belieau " oOds

At Belleau Wood, reached From
Paris by train to Chateau Thierry
and from Chateau Thierry by Red
Cross bus (service for relatives
only), cemetery Of about twenty
seven hundred gravesN There is
Red Cross hut at the cemetery.
At Fismes there is located per
haps the most beautiful American
cemetery in France. a plot of seven
teen hundred graves. Behind it roll
The glstening hills, now green ex,
cept where the patches of red pop
pies, bluebelIs and white daisies un-
furl the flag of France beside the
Stars and Stripes; before it, nestled
IN the valley, are the splendid ruins
of torn white stone houses. schools.
stores and churches, crumbling, pull
verlzed dust and broken rock. Fismes
IS reached direct by the train from
the Care de PEst, Paris. The
Hotel des Ruines, just between the
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Ruined Villages

"Nine miles to Mount St. Remy,
then nearly two to Laffincourt,
through mud, uphill and down,
through villages that tore my heart
quaint little towns that had not
been fought in to any extent, but
that, before leaving, the Boches had
set fire to, sacked and pillaged and
ruined to the fullest extent. Then
miles of rolling desolate country, no
cultivation, shell holes, whitening
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
By Faith Hunter Dodge

H " ~: :;:::.. : !: : v''': 's'''' Shaker s:'
Here's flowers for
ou. repeat Americans and French,
syish in their giving for Our Boys
Memorial Day. Here's flowers for
vol" echo the sun-kissed hills and
valleys of France, never more prodi-
esl Of blossoms. And every Ameri-
can soldiers grave in France is
heaped high with wreaths and flow
e-s to-day. Dafodils in wild pro-
fusion, blue iris. red poppies and
peonies, sweet swelling white syrin-
gas and pale primroses have found
their places among the numberless
vreaths Of immortelles.
From the grass and gravel bor-
dering the long white roads leading
past the American cemeteries rise
.ong stemmed poppies, waving in
the almost imperceptible breeze of
early summer and glistening under
the bright May sunlight, With the
poppies and wide patches of blue
bells and scattered daisies nature
herself spreads the glorious shroud
of Red, White and Blue.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Where 500 Americans Lie

But in the little white-cross GENE
ery at Ferdun, where lie five hun
0Fed khaki-clad heroes under the
stars and Stripes, anemones, mar
CSsus, hyacinths and lilies are
swinging in the breeze, shedding
'nelr perfume like censers in a tenn
pie,
And down in the ravine through
winch I walked not long ago there
'S $4,000 German dead who fell in
'ns attack. The ravine is called
ne valley of Skulls"
lhen new element entered the
war Before September, 1918,
america had taken over the St.
N'Alel salient. America undertook
guard Verdun. St. Mihiel pre-
'eAted to the waiting world the ap-
psarance of one gigantic brazier;
ne intensity of the bombardments
doubled.
Now a few French families are
wing here in deserted dugouts.
women are filling wheelbarrows
''n klndling wood, old men are
'slllng board over holes in the roofs
VI 'Aer underground houses. Ford
r''S H OF the American Committee for
"''as'ated France are chugging up
| s4u down the roads bringing pro-
,S'ohS' seeds and garden tools, for
,'"'erlcan women refuse. to believe
- slat the soil which can produce wild
s0|ers cannot produce food as we'll,
'''o ~ the French agree with them.
D children trudge daily out to
'Y"agne, their black aprons filled
.'.a flowers and plants which their
ing hands transplant to the
~ aaerlcan graves guarded by their
S '''oOo shining white crosses and
,ss ssir $4,000 flags. And fara away
syoho the plain of the Woevre the
:, 'iet blue of the clear, soft atmos-
y4efe - meets the infinite blue of the
skies.
A. 'ast northeast of the plains of
: "oevre rises the lofty bulk of |
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Flowers Everywhere

From slimiest she'll holes and poi
sonous trenches myriad violets are
springing; they seem to have sought
each sacred spot where a soldier
fell, Down in deserted dugouts we
pick up bits OF shrapnel and under
Meath find violets and anemones !
They thrust their petals through
the wreckage Of crushed and crum-
bling stones and plaster of ruined
houses; they hug the twisted rails
Of abandoned Zeppelin-torn railroad
tracks; they wind their slight stems
about barbed wire and peek through
the fallen, tattered, torn remnants
Of camoufage. The sobs which rise
rnbidden in the throat of every vis-
tor to this holy ground are stihed
at the sight Of them; for they bring
an indisputable air of beauty, purity,
peace, hope and happiness to this
lesoLate. devastated. stricken land.
Recently I went back to the bat.
leaslds Of Nerdun, st. Mihiel. the
ieSoaae, Gelleau Wood and Sois
sens. There 7 found ruin, desola-
ton, destruction indescribable-ani
asae-
Bl. the pussy willows were ia
bad beside the road, and perce-neiee
thrust their snowy petals through
broken stone and rusted iron. Out ia
the American cemetery at Plolsy
every grave had its own fresh, dew
noistened roses; ON the graves at
Juylgny were hyacinths and lihes.
IN BeIleau Wood buttercups paved
the ground with gold and in the Ar
gonne violets and anemones bios
somed unafraid.
And Verdun. For five years and
more it was the center Of the earth's
turmoil, beaten, broken. torn
aSunder, receiving blow on blow.
Down upon Nerdun rushed the Ger
man hordes, but on Verdun, as on
Pr0truding nail, they were caught
and suspended. |erdun, like an in
HnciOlo rock, blocked the path TO
world conquest Verdun's work is
zone And Nerdun lies III dust and
ashes.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Flowers More Luxuriant

They have told US no living thing
could exist here, no growing thing
could bear the tortures of the gas
poisoned earth. They have said the
birds forsook forever the gas
drenched air Of France. But vol
mothers and sisters and wives of the
ooys who are resting in the land
thelr deaths made hallowed ground
you Will come, and you will see.
as | have seen, the flowers eyerv-
where, more luXuriant and exquisite
than ever before; you will hear the
BIRDS through the long daylight and
the nightingale before the dawn.
And you will understand.
The very soil Of France, revivi-
fed and triumphant, is joining in
the peoples paans of praise to the
heroic soldiers who fell for a lust
cause.
How kind the world isw ex-
claimed Helen Wolcott when she
found her aviator brothers grave.
at Laffincourt. "How kind tho
world ISL she cries in a letter to
her father, DR.. Wolcott, head of the
Smithsonian Institution, at Wash
lngton. And because that letter Is
typical. because it tells the story
of the American graves in France.
here it is for others who have known
the anguish of bereavement:
An American Boys Grave
"Oh. Daddy dear, found our
boy to-day, just above poor little
ruined town, town of quaint mar
row streets. hollow-cyed houses.
crumbling walls and burnt-out desc
lation everywhere. Just above and
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Other Cemeteries
Other cemeteries are:

Allerey, AGO graves. Train from
Paris to Beaune, by Care de Lyon,
Beaune was the seat of the largest
A. Z. F. University in France. Gene
terry nearly a mile from the station;
at present no conveyances.
Bonvillers, 800 graves. Train
from Care du Nord, Paris, to Bre-
teuil.
Anglers, $50 graves. Train from
Paris, direct. Care d'Orsay.
Bazoilles, between 700 and 500
graves. Train from Care de lEst.
Paris, to Nancy.
Brest. All night trip from Care
Montparnasse, Paris, direct to Brest.
Streetcar to Kerfoutras.
Chaumont. More than 500 graves.
Chaumont wS for many months
General Headquarters for the A.
+. F.
Hericourt. More than 400 graves.
Train from Care de TEst, Paris, to
Vesoul
Juvigny, More than 400 graves.
Train from Care du Nord. Paris, to
scissors. Cemetery nearly four
miles from scissors.
La Ferte- e-sous-Jouarre. Nearly
400 graves. Train direct from Care
de Pest, Paris. Cemetery half mile
from station. La Ferte- -sous-Jouarrc
was for some time General Per
shing's headquarters.
Langres. About 400 graves. Gene
terry some distance from station and
conVeyances hard to get.
lie Mans, 750 graves. Train direct
from Care Montparnasse. Paris.
Letanne. More than $50 graves.
From Paris (Gare de TEstl, via
Nerdun.
Mesves. More than 700 graves.
Train from Care de Lyon, Paris, to
La Charlie. From La Charlie by
auto.
Nantes. More than 300 graves
Train from Care dOrsay. Paris.
direct to Nantes. Cemetery five
minutes walk from station. Nantes
was an American Red Cross hospital
center
Nevers. Nearly $50 graves. About
three-quarters of a mile to mile
from the station. Good convey
ances. Train from Care de LYON
Paris, direct.
Meyers, $50 graves. Cemetery
two hours drive from station. Train
from Care d'Orsay, Paris, to Tours.
Fimacourt, 342 graves. Cemetery
two miles from station and no con-
veyances. Train from Care de Pest.
Paris, to Chaumont.
Saveney. More than 400 graves.
Train from Care d'Orsay, Paris.
direct to Saveney.
Senoncourt. Nearly 400 graves.
Cemetery nearly three miles from
station, Conveyances difficult. Train
from Care de Fest, Paris, TO
Lemmes.
soilly. About 500 graves. Train
from Care de Pest, Paris, to Yer
dun. Train from Verdun to Soillv
station. Three and half miles more
to cemetery. No conveyances.
st. souplet Nearly 400 graves.
Train from Care du Nord, Paris
to LIE Cateau. Cemetery one mile
from station. Conveyances.
Talence, About 500 graves. Train
from Care d'Orsay, Paris, to Bor-
deauX. Streetcar abou. three miles
ride from Bordeaux.
Nerdun, sos graves. Train from
Care de lEst, Paris, direct to Yer.
dun.
Villers-Tournelles 544 graves.
Tram from Care du Nord, Paris. TO
Breteuil. About three miles from
Breteuil
To December /, 1919, the Graves
Registration Service had registered
1851 graves, distributed over eight
countries CT Europe.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
q RAVES of the Marines
~ at Be}ledu Wood

husband and land how I hate
themv
Il asked her if she had met with
any kindness ever-if perhaps some
had been decent?
Never. I have been kicked and
beaten-my man here, too, starved
and worked to death. There is
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

grave. The two Germans he killed
were sent back into Germany, their
families came for them, and she re-
membered. And, too, her husband
took care Of our boys grave, and
then l understood why it was so
neat, the mound all tufted and reg
ular. 1t was not much he could 90,
he said.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
7r1can Dead In France Sleep Under Mounds of Flower
Poppies, Daffodils and 'Wreaths Of
lmmortelles Are To-day Piled
High on Every Grave

Montsec' the detached hill occupied
by the enemy, and which for miles
dominated the Allied lines in the
valley. Here all is calm with the
peacefulness of sleen.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

train from the Care d'Orsay, Paris,
is cemetery 'of more than twelve
hundred graves.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
No Good Ger1nans"

Then a dear old lady with d
mustache came clacking in in her
wooden shoes and they explained to
her who I was. She was all kind
ness. 1t was her house. She had
been there all during the war and
told me of the Germans treatment.
Think, mademoiselIo, it is my
house and would ! have known it,.
No, They were masters alway.
and oh. how we had to work 70.
them. We were like slaves, ~
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

ing away about peace and the Boche
etc. etc.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
CARE OF HARNESS is .
or MUCHIMPORTANCE
Wash Thoroughly With Soap and
Water Before 0iling.
1t Will Last Longer II Kept Clean ana
Is Less Liable to Cause Sores on
Horses-col;ars Should Be
Examined often. H..

Harness should be kept clean ana
well oiled. 1t will then be less llaDle
10 cause sores on the horses ana VIII
last longer. Before the harness Is
oiled II should be taken apart ana
thoroughly washed with soap anu
water. When nearly dry apply meats
foot oil with a sponge or Wooieh
rag. Do not hang harness In neat OF
In the sun to dry. A tablespoonful Vi
lampblack with two ounces OF meiteu
beeswax may be added to the OIL Ior
black dressing. Fish oil may be USED
on harness, or prepared oils may DC
secured at harness shops. All parts
of the harness should be strong.
Every horse should have Its own col
lar, which should fit snugly to the neck
from top to bottom. Most sore nechs
are caused by large collars or os
drauglt being too low on the point o.
the shoulder. To fit a new or an Ole
collar to horse soak the collar over
night in water, wipe 1t off in h'
morning, and fit it on the horse. Worf
moderately through the day. The col
lars should be examined every morn
ing and the bearing surface kept clear
and smooth The horses neck shoui'
be kept clean. A good plan IN no
weather is to wash it every night VIII
n weak solution of salt water. heel
the collar and names buckled tight.
Before hitching to a wagon be sur
that the neck yoke is safe and that III
traces will not become unfastened.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
We Know Too Much.

The average schoolboy of today
knows infinitely more things than his
grandfather ever dreamed of, but 1t Is
to these grandfathers we look for
models of excellence in high char
acter. clear thought and rich achieve
ment, Why? Because, while the
granfathers world was a small one
he completely filled it.
The abundance and extent of knoWl-
edge available to us today Is astonish-
ING as compared with that available to
the ancients. Even the common-school
nupils of our time are taught Infinite
" more than Socrates, Plato and Ho-
mer knew.
And, yet, the greatest works come
from these ancients. From them we
inherit the worlds highest literature
its greatest paintings, its finest archi'
lecture. its best road building.
Why Is this?
Simply because the ancient, while
his range of knowledge was small
thoroughly studied one thing and thus
completely mastered it.-Charle:
Grant Miller.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
BRUSH UP ANCIENT HISTORY
Possibly You May Not Have Heard
of This Goddess and Her Tenn
pie at Emphasis" ...-

There is employed in Richmond
household an old darby who prides
himself on his learning. On one oc-
casion, when he was engaged in clean
ing I'D the library of his employer, he
had with him his son, aged nine.
Now, this youngster became much
interested in certain engravings hung
on the wall. Stopping before one OF
them he asked his daddy:
"What picture is that?"
"You don't know what that's pic
ture OFF," demanded the parent. you
ought to read your ancient history
more. That is the temple of Dinah at
Emphasis"
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
~HUNGER STRIKE" NOT NEW
Was Successfully Employed as Far
Back as the Days of the Early
Roman Empire.

The hunger strike, as means tc
gaining ones end, is not q modern IN
stitution. Like so many other things
that relate to personal and natlonai
conduct, 1t becomes necessarJ to hark
back to the old Romans to find an In
stance of where 1t was successfully
employed.
1t was in 6 B. C. and Tlberius, the
famous general Of Emperor Augustus,
was the man who put 1t over with
dispatch that would have brought
| praises from mOderns.
Tiberius was a man of dignity ana
| spirit, who represented traditional
conservatism. He was married TO
Julia, daughter of Augustus, widow
of Agrippa, by whom she had five chill
dren, among them Caius, who figures
in this tale. She was given to tnat
luxurious life which was feared by
the philosophers and legislators OF the
time.
While Tiberius was engaged in the
campaign against the Germans, Ju'la
commenced to cut up with young
aristocrat, Sempronius Gracious. Au-
gustus had, IL years previously
made law which just fitted her case
and under which she later was OK
lied. 81.
Julia not only continued her lax
career, but also started on outlining
political career for Caius, then
fourteen years old. 1t was in direct
opposition to the aims of her husDahu
that she started a campaign TO nave
Caius appointed pro-consul ana she
worked her propaganda so well that
Augustus was finally compelled u
heed the popular clamor. Augustus
knew at the time that this would DC
, offensive to- Tiberius, but thought ne
might smooth it over by giving
Tiberius tribunlcian powers and chalg
ing him with subduing a revolt In AT
menia.
That is where Tiberius baked. liz
, looked upon the whole business as al
insult and demanded permission to re
tire to private life. This caused
clash with Augustus. 1t was tliei
e Tiberius threatened to let himself Oh
: of hunger. Augustus remained rrn
: for while, but being unfamiliar VIII
e the length of time human belnl
t might go without food probably no
d having heard of the 40-day fast b!
e Moses, he yielded at the end OIL IN
fourth day of Tiberius' fast Ate
| the senate had granted the PERMISSION
| Tiberius took his departure for ltai
| and remained in exile for severa
| years.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
HARD TO LIVE UP TO THESE
Speakers Would Do Well Indeed 1t
They Matched the Work Credited
to the Painters.

John Brookbank, commander-in-chleh
of the $50 Richmond business men
who are soliciting money for the $ooo'-
900 endowment of Earlham college,
was speaking to the men at the daily
noon luncheon held..in~ the basement
of the Grace M. E. church. He was
congratulating them on their good
work and exhorting them to greater
efforts in the future. He said:
ITO gain success in this enterprise,
AS in any, we must make 1t real and
l,felike, g.. something that peo-
nile can see Is worth while and vital
and living. Why, we must do as good
as the painter who drew a picture OF
q cat so lifelike that ten minutes after
he hung it on the wall there were tleas
on It,"
President Edwards arose and said:
"Or we must do as well as the other
pointer who drew picture OF hen.
This painter threw the drawing OF the
hen in the waste basket, but 1t was
so life-like that it just lay there."-ln-
dianapolis News.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
SUPPLY OF EGGS INCREASED
Ari,oa; Food Essential to Diet of Fowl
Must Be Supplied in Winter as
Well as Summer.

bone cutter is an important part
of the equipment for every farm poul-
try department. In summer when the
fowls can range over the farm they
cop SIMPLY for themselves the animal
food so essential TO their diet. But
in winter the supply of eggs will be
greatly increased if attention is given
to this part of the fowls ration.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
SALT FOR CATTLE AND SHEEP
Animals Require Considerable Amount
and They Want 1t at Regular
Intervals.

Cattle and sheep require a consider
able amount of salts, and they want it
at regular intervals. In some dairy
herds the flow of milk is materially
decreased when salt is neglected. In
the case of beef animals it Is reason
able TO expect that they will not make
as GOOD gains where the amount OF
salt is limited as where 1t Is fed regu-
iarly.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-19
What "cenotaph" Means.

Several readers have written asking
the meaning of "cenotaph." The word
Is derived from the Greek words
"kenos," meaning empty" and "ta.
nbos," meaning "tomb." In other
words, a cenotaph is a sepulchraI
monument erected in honor Of per
son whose body lies elsewhere. -
London Tit-Bits.