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SAYS LET HEROES
t REMAIN IN FRANCE
Spartanburg Visitor Talks Of .Conditions
in United States War
Cemeteries
The $300,000,00^ appropriation
for the removal of the bodies of
United States soldiers who fell in
battle and rest in French soil is
money thrown away in the opinion
of Col. George M. Carpenter, locomotive
fuel engineer of the Clinchfield
Fuel Company, who returned
from France several weeks ago.
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, Fathers and mothers whose sons
fell on the field of honor would pot
have their bones exhumed if they
knew with what zealous care the
French people tend the graves of America's
dead, says Col. Carpenter.
The veteran engineer visited the
cemetery of Soissons and the burying
grounds at other places and
found the graves of American soldiers
kept in a manner worthy of
the cause in which they fell. He
says the French take great pride in
keeping the resting places of Am-!
erica's dead in perfect order, and
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Hhat nothing pains the Frenchmen
'more than the fact that the Amerijcan
government is now removing
the bodies. After all they have done
I to beautify the grounds, he says the
French consider it unkind, and
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some expressed the view to him that
had the story been reversed, and
(French soldiers fell in battle on Ajmerican
soil by thousands France
would have considered it a sacred
honor to let her sons rest in the
land where they made the supreme
sacrifice.
The Unknown Dead
I Col. Carpenter, in speaking with a
reporter for The Herald last night,
said that a writer for a Chicago
paper had stated there were 18,000
graves in France with remains of
American soldiers marked "unknown,"
but that personally he believes
there are more than that
number. There is no way . of positively
indentifying the remains and
a body shipped to a family may be
the son or brother of some other
family. When the battles subsided
those who cleared the fields wrap-i
ped the bodies ^in blankets and buried
them three and four in a hole.
Later when .these \bodies were removed
to the cemeteries, though
they were taken up with extreme
care the identification tags often
became mixed. The remains of three
or four soldiers would be taken up,
skull and trunk first, then the
limbs. The bones of each would be
laid side by side, and then the iden- j
tification tags would be laid with I
them, but to what set of bones did
John Smith's belong? Col. Carpenter
says those in charge of the work .
did the best they could, but it was a
task in which there could not help
but be many errors made.
A Wa*te of Money
Col. Carpenter savs at one hotel
at which he stopped there were j
Ithr6e of'these superintendents of i
exhumation, each receiving a
salary of about 5,000 francs per
'month. "The $30,000,000 approjpriation,"
he declared, "in going up
in wine, song and women." Col.
Carpenter said that he could not
help but loathe these "grave diggers,"
and said that he told them
face to face that as an American
j citizen he was ashamed of them. He
says if the mothers and fathers in
(America could but know how tenderly
the graves of their sons are
'kept they would rise up in their
righteous indignation in remains of
heroes which is being carried on because
of the money the undertakers
and casket makers and a hoard of
others are making out' of it. Col.
Carpenter says that the facts have
teen misrepresented to the parents,
that they have been led to believe
the graves of their sons on foreign
soil have been englected when there
never was a more malicious lie circulated
<beneath the sunVisit
to Soiuons
i ',1 will never forget.my visit to
Soissons cemetery," said Col. Carpenter.
"At the entrance of the
beautiful grounds there hung the
largest American flag I have ever
seen. I was met by the officer in
charge; he was an American from
Mississippi. It did my heart good to
see how well the graves of our soldiers
are kept. The grass was cut
closely till it looked like a green
carpet. The graves were kept ex!
ceedingly clean. Thousands of graves
were there, with the crosses bearing
the name and the unit to which the
soldier belonged. I asked the
Mississippian how many graves in
Soissons cemetery were marked unjunkown,
and he replied between
seven and eight hundred."
j "For these graves to be disturbed
is an outrageous thing. If
;the parents could see them they
would not stand for it a moment.
;These Frenchmen are proud of the
trust to care for the resting places
of American heroes, and nothing
hurts them worse than this removal
of bodies, which after all they have
done, cannot be interpreted by
them otherwise than gross lack of
appreciation."
I Col. Carpenter went to France
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Clinchfield Fuel company in that
country, the company having a
large contract for supplying coal to
the greater of the four greater railroad
systems of France. He left America
last November. During his
stay in France Col. Carpenter had
(time to look around and see for
self what is going on. He becamc
,very much interested iji and was
'anxious to find out why the soldier
J dead were being removed. He went
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vestigated personally. He was
J struck with the pride of Frencli peoiple
take in keeping the burial places
'of American dead. Col. Carpenter
returned to America on the steamer
iLa France, reaching New York
about two weks ago.
Coal High in France
Speaking of the fuel situation in
j Europe, Col. Carpenter says that
I when he left coal was selling in Paris
at $40 to $50 per ton, and that Italy
was paying $100 per ton in gold.
| France is recovering fast from
the war, says Col. Carpenter. He
visited several expositions and what
he saw was a revelation. The slogan
everywhere is "made in France."
The country, however, has suffered
terribly from strikes. It has been
one strike after another, but
through all her misfortunes. France
comes out smilingly. Belgium, too,
is fast recovering from effects of
the war, says Col. Carpenter. She is
shipping her vegetables and creamery
products into France ar.d is getting
on her feet again in a manner
that calls forth the admiration of
^the world.?Spartanburg Herald.
WILSON SENDS FLOWERS
TO OLD NEGRO'S FUNERAL
i Trenton, N. J., July 14.?With
floral tributes from President Wilson,
Secretary Jos. Tumulty and
former Governors Fielders, Runyon
and Stokes embanked around the
grave, Samuel W. Gordon, colored
mpssenper to New Jersey governors
for more than 46 years, who died
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