Show I I il l No Commissions in Heaven I I E IMAGINE that no buck soldier soldier- either hers here or beneath the thet WE t I Flanders fields cares much about all this but as a nation natio n of freemen the rest of us are somewhat concerned over this proposed proposed pro f posed division of the graves of the soldiers in France It is proposed to bury the officers in one set of plots and tl the I e privates and non corns in others C Certain of our high military minds may have revamped the scriptures so they now are assured of two separate and distinct resurrections One on Friday for the officers hours from t 11 t to 3 3 and another for the buck privates early Monday morning following Yf after the last of the sacred spirits of the official caste have passed Pi over the Styx and taken up their allotted abodes Maybe they are going to have two or three distinct heavens heaven S for the various branches and personnel of the service And doubtless they dont don't worry about hell because in their r j judgment most buck privates will go there and any place a bucY buck buc k Y private is will be hell enough for the unfortunate shave tail wh who 0 misses the more ethereal officers' officers mess Our opinion and it i is s that of 99 per cent of the American people outs outside de the war department department de de- t. t is that the fighting officer can b be honored in no greater degree than to be buried in the midst of the men who fought an andied and died with him and who followed him or preceded him right up to the gates of hea heaven ven without missing a step And Ald we imagine that the average worth while officer holds hold with us T The e buck private doubtless is not greatly worried over th the e officers' officers absence from his private graveyard In life he regarded officers officers' as necessary but none the less unmitigated evils and in i ideath death if jf he bothers at all about it he would just as soon they hi hid hid d the gold gol laced gentleman gentleman we we believe they still use dress uniforms uniform at military funerals if nowhere else else else-as as far away as possible But as a nation standing for ideals of equality of freedom I of giving of-giving giving every man his due reward we can make no distinction i ideath in n death between officers and men the officers if they were goo good 1 ones were men and the Great Father wont won't look for the commisSion commission commission commis commis- sion papers when he gathers heroes to his heart The idea that officers ar are a caste apart brought Germany I most of her troubles now is a good time to bury that impression and in fn m Flanders is a good burial place |