Show FALLEN SAM TO TOBE BE BURIED IN FRANCE S Spending Time Colle Collecting ting i Dead Means Less Care for Living Wounded By United Press WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY EXPEDITIONARY EXPEDITIONARY ARMY IY FRANCE Ian Tan Jan 25 By By Mail Mail Someone Someone who knows should have tipped off oft the Purple Cross that it cant can't be done The campaign of that organization aiming to transport transport transport trans trans- port back home the bodies of soldier killed kill in action is causing nothing but regret re ret in the army s The Sammy the backbone and substance subI substance sub sub- stance of the army is sorry the gruesome gruesome gruesome grue grue- I some side of this fierce war business has been shown I In such cruel detail to hIs hi family back home Mother and dad are worried enough an anyway way The absolute proven futility of the proposition makes army people people off l- l cers ceis and men rather men rather impatient at st the well meant propaganda of the Purple Cross The working plan Is understood to tobe tobe tobe be this To provide a corps of men physically unfit for fighting but brave bravo enough to face fac J shell fire who will collect the dead from swept shell-swept battlefields bat bat- and front from no mans man's land To 10 embalm the bodies and send them home without cost to the individual families es It is understood that the Purple Cross wants either a government subsidy subsidy sub suu- sidy i y or permission to raise a fund buchas such buch as the Y M M. C. C A A. A fund Also the to or organization organization or- or I wants official army rank for its officers I The subsidy or fund and the rank ranI for officers would come anyway if the I big plan of the Purple Cross were I recognized But the scheme looks liI like e ea a loser if sentiment among the people most concerned in its operation will w have any weight In the matter First of ot all it is a terrible task to collect and evacuate the suffering wounded In the British army aimy the medical corps stretcher bearers have havea a greater per cent casualties than any other branch It would be a waste of splendid manpower manpower manpower man man- power to expose such brave men to such a great danger in order to collect collect collect col col- lect the dead They would have to be strong men to do the work at all And if they're strong enough armed with their unselfish courage wh why shouldn't they bring In the living who still have havea a chance to pull through It may sound callus but In the military mind such sucha a labor as the Purple Cross wants to perform is regarded as unnecessary From a sentimental standpoint the idea doesn't appeal to our soldiers at atA atall all L allA A Toledo boy gas boy gas expert now civilian ci civilian ci- ci vilian three months ago summed ago summed up the soldiers soldier's view of the sentiments In in- in Said he Anyway I dont don't want to be sent home if anything happens to me Bury me where I fall It will be b. b blow tomy to tomy tomy my mother but jut she will always be proud of me nib and that pride will help her to get over the shock Now if that's the case why should someone carry me home after aCter about six weeks and make my mother go through it all again |