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Urges Relatives of Soldier Dead
to Let Their Bodies Lie in France

continues so persistently. to arouse
the women to unite in action and
appeal for the return of their
hero dead. and for the added fact
that unless something is said to
the contrary the agitation may
force the government to act, that
policy of silence would be main
tanned forever. But what grief
may be caused by this statement
would be as nothing when COM
pared to that which must come if
ever the attempt is made to bring
home those thousands of caskets
that lie under the soil of France.
Belgium and Italy.
Statistics could be obtained from
the graves registration bureau to
tell accurately the number of
known dead in France. and to give
the co-ordinates of each grave.
Perhaps records could be found
to tell what part of this total had
been buried in caskets; how long
after death and field burial was re-
quired to obtain caskets. dlslnter
the bodies and RENTER them, and
to tell how may American ceme-
terieS there are today.
But 10 human agency can tell
how each soldier met his death.
Some were killed by machine gun
bullets. muske:ry. bayonets. gren-
AIDES, gas, mines and the many
other instruments of war. Others
were blown into bits, TORN limb
from limb In many instances
nothing recoGnizab BILE remained of
the body. Identification was i'm
possible. Heavy artillery. high ex-
plosives. bombs and the like had
that effect, particularly when di-
rect hits were made.
1t is for the widows, mothers
and friends of these unfortunate
dead that l now call attention to
these facts. For it is they who
can never regain the bodies of
their soldier-men.
Briefly. would it be fair or just
to have them await anxiously, day
by day. during those years of
transition: to see their friends re-
selves regain theirs? The War
Department has never told the de-
tails Of each mans death. 1t cam
not tell 1t does not know, and
cannot reasonably be expected to
know.
There was little time. if any.
during those days of war-heat to
write vital statistics. particularly
in such detail. A more important
work had to be done-the mission
was first to bring about the defeat
of the enemy. That was done
almost first. and often the dead
was left to bury their dead. That
was policy of expediency. of self
preservation, of military neces-
sity.
Whenever the lines moved for
- l., in,
some other manner to tend the
dead. they were buried. One of
the most vivid war pictures ] have
is the memory of the regimental
chaplain. with the burial squad.
holding services on the field
standing there in utter disregard
to the falling shells. determined
that the man whose body lay in
the shallow hole should receive
the last rites of the church, an
honor never denied an American
soldier, to my knowledge.
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HOW SENATOR NELSON
WON FOOT BALL CLASSIC

knute Nelson. senator from Mime
sofa. who fought and was wounded
in the civil war and who is now sew
enty-siy years old, won the Army
Navy foot ball game for the Navy this
season-sitting right in his Office here
and without even seeing that gridiron
classic.
Strangely enough. Senator Nelson
only just found cut that it was he
who won the game, and nov he is
nightly pleased with his work. 1t
was Pop" Busby. longtime secretary
and adviser to Uncle Joe" Cannon.
who acquainted senator Nelson with
his great achievement. 1t happened
this way: When Representative Lun-
deem went out of Congress be had
but recently appointed a. young man
from his district to Annapolis Then
some medical board at the academy
decided the boy wasn't mt physically
and he was about to be sent back
home.
Busby had son at the Naval Acad-
envy, and he wired Pop" to get busy
and get the young Minnesotan retain
ed Busby saw Nelson and Nelson
saw the department. and an occulist
was sent to Annapolis to make an
examination. He ruled that the trou-
Bile with the young mans eyes was
only temporary, and he stayed at the
academy.
During the Christmas holidays
young Busby came home, and one OF
the first things he said was: Dad.
your boy Larson won the game for us;
now aren't you proud of your work.
Larson didn't do the kicking that won
the game for the Navy. but he passed
the slippery ball in tense moment
just right for the kick to be made.
So these two veterans at the Capitol
who didn't see the game are now very
proud of the part they played in win
ming it
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they are beautiful and though the
flowers other hands have placed
there are beautiful, tOo-but they
are not my flowers. and my vines
are gone, Monsieur. how old was
he. and what did he look like"
He was twenty-five. Her Jean
was twenty-three. and she wept
some more. And he must have
been like Jean-ta1l. dark haired
fun of an old woman's fears. Yes.
he would always be to her as her
own boy buried in an unknown
grave.
she did not weep again. The
grave. she said, would always he
watched Her husband came, too,
sometimes. she said.
Il have no fear" said the 'Yank'
in conclusion. ''of any misunder-
standings arising when those
mourning fathers and mothers OF
America come to France to stand
by the graves of their own. 1 have
seen the spirit of motherhood that
needs no language to make itself
understood"
These are true words More
could be added to give those in
America a comprehensive account
ing of conditions "over there" and
to tell them more clearly what the
result must be if those graves are
reopened and an attempt is made
to return the bodies to the United
States. But, after all is said and
done. who is there to tell a mother
that she can or can not have the
body of her son. We can only
advise, and even advice should be
given with apologies.
The facts to be met are these:
The American dead are tended with
care and love in the land where
they lie; they cannot be returned
to or even divided among the fam
lilies they came from because the
dead exceed the identified buried
and hundreds of heart-hungry
same bodies they knew. This was
the gruesome lesson brought home
with the soldier dead Of Siberia
comparatively small in number but
nevertheless sufficient to illustrate
what must inevitably result if the
dead of France are disturbed.
Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelts father
and mother asked the War Depart
ment to permit his body to remain
in France. 1t was their feeling
that the American soldiers who
fell should lie as a part of the soil
they died defending.
The government of France has
pledged itself to care for the
American dead. President Wilson
accepted the pledge last Memorial
day, when he stood in Suresnes
and heard these words from Pre-
mier Clemenceau:
France will always cherish their
memory. With America she will
keep. in peace. as an inspiration
and as an example. the immortal
memory of their enthusiasm. of
their discipline and of their brav-
cry.
"She CROWNS their graves. She
will take care of them with that
piety and with that same gratitude
with which she surrounds the
graves of her own soldiers
where the tree falls. there let
10
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AsI write. l picture other scenes
of tender mercy and homage to the
American dead in France. | recall
instances where the women of
France, peasant and cultured alike,
tended with loving care the graves
of those khaki-c1ad dead. Anc l
know that they are doing this to-
day and that they esteem 1T an
honor and privilege to be permitted
to carry on that work
Then, too, l see again the tragedy
that came into the life of those
women when the burial squads
went out to collect the dead in the
fields and forests in order that they
might be placed together in one
of the great American cemeteries
like that near Cunel. little viii
Iage in the Argonne sector They
surrendered their charges. although
Voluntarily assumed, with heart
felt grief, and often they resented
openly the actions Of the comrades
who had come for their dead. They
resented it because they mad come
to know those boys anu 70 loHe
them and they wanted to personal
ly care for their graves. The sentl-
ment was deeper than l can tell. L
can only feel it.
A striking illustration of the ad-
ministration. care and protection
of the American graves in France
nv the French people is found in a
latter written by "a Yank' to the
editor of the Stars and Stripes.
the official newspaper of the A.
L. F. .,: ,,,;
writer, "the shadow figures of the
mothers of the world. who. behind
the curtain of distance. have spent
dream haunted years waiting for
messages that came or did not
come. But ! saw. the spirit of the
motherhood of all the world last
Friday afternoon in the cemetery
of Suresnes. where 1000 American
70 soldiers heard President Wilson
give his Memorial day address.
"I had gone to the grave of one
who had been my best friend. !
found there plainly dressed old
mother of France. And she was
weeping. Had she made mistake.
in spite of that little American flag
which fiuttered under the white
cross?
II intruded on her grief.
asked gently why she cried. She
answered me in French.
Monsieur. his grave was Civ
en- me to keep green she said. His
grave, and the grave of the other
boy over there. The women of
the town had been tending the
graves--and these two l had TAX
en-. My husband works hard and
of money there is not much! But.
! bought the little plants and the
flowers and the vines-the green
things that should hide the ugly
earth. ! planted them and they
all grew. And as I tended them
l prayed for him. for l thought of
him as my own Jean, who died
three years ago and is buried
where / do not know. / prayed for
his mother, who must be thinking
as l have been thinking.
but, monsieur, when 1 came
today. the vines were gone. the
plants were gone-all that l had
planted with my own hands was
gone. 1t meant SO much to me
that 1 weep, even though the flags
Evening star., 1920-01-04
CITY OF COLOGNE MUST
PAY FOR STOLEN GOODS

BERLIN. December 29.-The ma.
tional court has decided that the citv
OF Cologne must reimburse citizens
for damage suffered at the hands of
the Spartacans. according to the
Vossische Zeitung. The decision was
given IN connection with suit
brought by the Tietz department
store of Cologne, which a mob storm
ed on November Is and pillaeed of
food valued at $4,000 marks.
The courts ruling, It is pointed
out, establishes an extraordinarily
far-reaching precedent.
The Vorwaerts reports that the
conference regarding q six-hour day
between the leaders of the Old Mine
Association and the present mine in
dustrial councils in the Ruhr dis
trict has resulted in the adoption of
resolution in favor of the six-hour
principle. In view of the great de-
mand for coal a six-hour day is con-
sidered at the present time extremely
undesirable.
Another resolution indorsed the de-
cision of the Bielefeld congress last
June that the six-hour day must be
introduced by international agree
ment, and called urgently upon for
eign miners to cooperate with the
Germans in order to bring this about.
Evening star., 1920-01-04
BY STEPHEN r.. EARLY.

Ex-Captain, Infantry, U. S. A.
w YJDOW IS: mothers and
\N/ sweethearts of Ameri-
" " can soldiers who made
the supreme sacrifice in
France have been asked to organ
ize. The purpose of organization is
that they may. by their united ap-
peal. have the bodies of their dead
returned to them.
They feel that the government
of the United States could not do
less And it is not to be supposed
that they are moved by any force
other than that of purest senti-
ment. None can question the sin
cerity of their purpose and doubt
less Congress would respond
promptly to their appeal. 1t
would probably authorize the War
Department to bring home imme-
diately the American dead and
would willingly appropriate the
essary funds.
X X X *
Human as the appeal is. it is not,
however. without fault. Congress
could authorize and appropriate.
The War Department could exert
Its every power. but it would fail
The task would be one impossible
of execution. Ask those who went
over" and came back and they
Will advise with one voice not to
make, the appeal. Their reasoning
would be something like this:
They are buried where they
would have chosen had theirs been
the right to choose
1T would be practically an i'm
possible task to disinter the bodies;
to haul them hundreds of miles by
automobile and railroad trucks; to
load them on the ships: to bring
them to home ports and ship them
again by railroad and truck to all
parts of the United States.
1T would require years to COM
plete that task. During that time
homes that have suffered the first
pangs of sorrow and have become
reconciled would be creped again;
new sorrow and grief would come.
The nation would pass through an
ordeal more gruesome than one
can conceive. Scarcely a single
community would escape Every
village would learn again the mis-
cry that only the funeral of hero
can bestir.''
X X *
These are cold facts, but there
are others, ugly and still more dis
agreeable. They have not been told
for the simple reason that those
who know have thought it best to
keep silent. And they have kept
silent out of consideration and
compassion for those who lost.
They did SO. perhaps. in Difference
to the old story about ignorance
being bliss and decided those moth
ers and friends should not know
the all.
1t is with great reluctance that
the writer tells something of those
circumstances which make the ap-
peal. however worthy 1t may ap-
pear. one impossible of execution.
Were it not for the agitation that
Evening star., 1920-01-04
DOUBLE PERIL TOU. S.
IN RUSSIAN SITUATION
Bolshevism, Spreading, May Bring Revival
of Prussiianism, Simonds Says, De-
plorine American Indifference.

it. We cannot make peace. effective
ly with state of war. even though
we sign endless papers and retire our
influence to its own territory. Ameri-
can liberals fill the world with de-
nunciations of the western govern
ments for their invasion of Russia.
but what of the Russian invasion of
America, Italy, of all western coun-
tries?
My neighbors are immensely exciteh
at the presence in their community of
one or two or half a dozen Russian
reds. But the prospect of the occu-
patton of whole province on the
Baltic by the Russian red forces, the
virous of Riga. leaves them cold. Ex-
actly in the same way for nearly
three years We were terribly excited
over German propagandists and
agents in America. but admirably
self-restrained when German armies
came to Brussels. to Antwerp, to Con-
Stantinople. Those of US who in that
hour warned our fellow countrymen
that in the end we should have no
other choice than to fight the German
Were rega rded as mad. were treated
with contempt and even with anger.
as disturbers of the invaluable peace.
which was being illustrated by the
Lusitania and other massacres.
Sending the reds home to Russia
and permitting the Russian reds TO
n
icy as dispatching notes at tho
heads of German officials was. not
SO many years ago.
Recalls View In 1915.
The atmosphere of Washington to-
day reminds me of the atmosphere
which prevailed in the early autumn
of 1915. when visited the city There
was the same indifference to the
world problems. the same confidence
that America was unconcerned. There
was. too. the same irritation at the
domestic circumstance of German
activity. But tn. idea that we should
be dragged or drawn into the world
pOrtance.
Europe cannot long continue half
! bolshevist and half democratic. Nor
can Europe. left to itseslf. find the
moral or the material strength to
defeat bolshevism. The situation is
the situation of the war. when the
western nations were only saved
from defeat by the enlistment OF
! America ! confess that every shred
of evidence that comes to me in
Washington from European sources.
save in the case of Britain and France.
points straight toward the triumph
of bolshevism on the continent or
else to the restoration of German
, militarism to full strength and vigor
| as the opponent of the reds Either
solution is hardly less dangerous for
America than for Britain and for
France. AS between Ludendorff and
Trotsky, what is there for US to
choose?
The way to get into trouble is to
run away from tive proved that
! in the German case. You can't stay
/ long in Washington at the present
/ hour without feeling that our Rus
! sian policy is an exact replica of our
| German course and that it will lead
! us back to Europe by the same ig
noble and expensive method.
Evening star., 1920-01-04
HUGE FOREST OF PINES FELLED
AND LEFT SLOWLY TO DECAY
Exhibit of Waste In West Virginia Traced
to Governments Demand for
Lumber In War Period.

were felled in such fashion as to make
it Impossible to get the logs out Most
OF the sawn logs were trimmed and
harked. and then left.
These millions of feet of lumber in
log form have lain on that mountain
side for more than three years. BY
this time they are useless for any
purpose. even for use as firewood. be-
cause every log is badly rotted by ex-
posure to the weather. In a few
the destruction, and over the black
ened ground and the charred stump
and logs and limbs have grown great
thickets of wild raspberry and black
berry vines. Storm water rushing
down the slopes has eroded the hill
sides until in places every particle of
soil has been washed into the creeks
and carried away, so that nothing re-
mains but the bare, rocky skeleton of
the hills.
Meanwhile the pine timber of the
state is rapidly disappearing. The
forests are being cut and the sawmills
are humming in almost every cove
along the railroad and back in the
hills. where only little narrow gauge
lines can run. 1t will be only a few
years until the lumberjacks Of West
Virginia will find their occupation
longer will clatter along the plank
walks of the little lumber villages
There will be fewer and fewer men
whose faces show the peculiar waff1e-
iron scars that bootcalks left in some
hght; fewer men with one ghastly
empty eye socket, mark of the gouE-
ing thumb of an intoxicated lumber
jack antagonist in the rough and
tumble fight.
Lumberjacks to Migrate.
The 1umberjacks will move on: they
are migratory breed, anyhow The
huge piles of sawdust and slabs that
mark the. location of every sawmill
VIII molder away. The gaunt. de-
nuded mouneainsides will climb ma
kedly toward the clouds that wrea the
the submits during the spring and
autumn and winter. and fiji the
Eulches with mist drifts. But the mil
hons OF trees that were cut and left
10 rot Will remain for years after the
iast iumoerJack has gone, and after
the big circular saws have shrieked
1helr way through the last pine logs.
Ihey will lie there. mute evidences
OF the waste, the appalling destruc-
tiVeneSs, the Wanton butchery that
look the worlds exigency and urgent
need Tor excuse, and, like holocaust
passed over miles upon miles of for,
est, and left it blighted-and beyond
the ability of century of unchecked
growth to replace.
Evening star., 1920-01-04
ENGLAND AND GERMANY
TRADING SINCE ARMISTICE

ence of the Associated Press).-Great
Britain has imported from Germany
since the armistice material to the
value of f217.6eo and exported to Ger
man. f1l6.6n0 worth of goods
Evening star., 1920-01-04
By LEONARD ORMEROD.

A TER-THE-WAR problems con-
~ fronting the country in con-
n nection with the reorganiza-
Evening star., 1920-01-04
By FRANK G. HEATON.

n the heart of the northeastern
Allegheny mountains, away back
in central West Virginia, the old
Evening star., 1920-01-04

TIME more one touches the sit
uation at the National Capt.
tai at the present hour the
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Yes, this mass of thirteenth cen
tury glass was taken down. 1t has
not y,.j n-en replaced Yet it is not
in this exhibition. Why not? Like
that of Notre Dame, it is precious
Evening star., 1920-01-04
PARIS. December "a. 1919.

A LII Paris is running to see a
~ glory burst of color unprece-
~ dented in art.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

Men who witnessed the destruction
of these forests and who knew how
the work was done, declared that not
more than one tree out of every hum
dred felled got to the sawmills. They
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Ligeras llneas para los "
Maestros Rurales

La Association Rural ha surgi-
do con los mejores propositos; ha
surgido con ell fin de ayudar a pre-
parar Y defender la lauguida, ella
Sc de profesores rurales en- Puer-
to Rico. Sc nos trata dentrO de
los maeStroS COMO meroS campo
sinos iliteratoS; dentro de In So
cIrGad sc nos dcsntecia por llcvaY
ell calificativo de rurales, por con-
vlvir con las mlSa, arlAsiEaS,
por agitarnos Y desehvolvernos Ell
IA T.. "a rural qu, cS n z0ra IL Ii
agricultural Y la riqueza Y donde
Sc hallan las cosas mas bellas !. las
almas mas puras pero no impor-
ia, nosotros con honor ostentamos
ese calificativo,A que en- vez de de-
nigrarnos nos enaltece.
Esta clase por su inercia es la
verdadera culpable de .cuanto lie
sucede, porque estando integrada
por hombres V mujeres intellectual
les, no Sc ha preparado para allie
gar ell dfa de su redenci6n.
No hay redeneion sin calvario.
Tenemos que laborar por ell en-
grandecimiento de nuestra clase
con valent5a, con teson, Y con ver-
dadero amor Y patriotismo con
que los mobiles patricios romanos
defendian la libertad.
Tenemos que demostrarle los
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mos que demostrarle que cada uno
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darle al CESAR 10 QUE ES
DEL CESAR" y a DIOS LO QUE
rs DE DIOS".
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disgregados, desunidos, sin mar
char en- ammonia; somos particu-
las; formemos ell TODO que es una
" Association Rural" grande y pre-
potente que pueda defender los
intereses Y derechos del Magiste-
rio Rural. Somos.e cerebro de es-
tie gran cuerpo social V aun no 10
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mos EN- un sueiio cataleptico des-
pertemos Y permitamos que anna
nezca para nosotros. iQuien a la
llegada de la aurora no Sc apurara
recibir ell nuevo dia que sc apro
xima?
Companeros rurales, formemos
una cadena potente. nutramos .el
seno de nuestra Association Rural.
Esta es ell faro luminoso del macs
tro que no esta bien preparado Y
que desee progresar Y poderse pre-
sentar con la cabeZa levantada sin
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