Life — May 27, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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984 Our Soldiers’ Graves in France ECORATION DAY in France is going to be a remarkable international institution Ambassador Wallace, honorary president of the American Memorial Day Committee, ha issued an appeal from Paris to carry out the plan of grave on this side of the Atlantic.” This plan putting flowers on every American extends beyond France to Spain, Germany, Eng- land and the Orkney Islands, the paper says, but the main proceedings of course will be in France, where lie the bodies of the great ma- jority of the American war dead. Not enough is known about the cemeteries where they lie. There are about six hundred of them that will be like national parks. The American Committee for Devastated France, which knows about them, says that they will be turned into Fields of Honor, and that the best landscape architects of France are directing the work on them. The largest of them is in Romagne, where most of the dead in the great Argonne drive are buried. In that cemetery are twenty-three thousand graves. At Seringes in the Chateau-Thierry district there are nearly four thousand graves, at Belleau Wood twenty- Mr. Hippo: wwat's oLp Lion so TICKLED ABOUT? seven hundred, four thousand at Thiaucourt, Mr, Pelican: WY, BUSINESS HAS BEEN SLOW FOR A WEEK, BUT THE ¢ BROTHERS JUST DROPPED IN AND BOUGHT OUT HIS ENTIRE STO®K OF COLL\ about one thousand in the district of St. Cloud, a good many more at Brest, where men who died in passage of influen buried ashore, and more in other places. Pictures of these cemeteries a ing over, and people in general will know more about them presently understand how proper it is that attention should be paid to them, and fv vided to that end. A Biter Bitten for Once R =MARK one item of good news in a wortd overmuch supplied with news of the other sort. John S. Sumner, successor of Anthony Comstock as head of the New York Society for t! pression of Vice, arrested Raymond D. Halsey for selli moiselle de Maupin, which Mr. Sumner described as an obscene hook Mr. Halsey, being acquitted of this charge, sued for damages for his arrest, and got eighteen hundred dollars. But the verdict was set aside by the Appellate Court. On the sth of May there was another trial, the book was read to a jury before Judge McAvoy and this time Mr. Halsey got twenty-five hundred dollars damages. Let us hope he may collect them. Sumner is not as bad as Comstock, but he is pretty bad. The pro- pensity is very strong in persons employed in such work as his to get out of bounds and encroach into territory where they do not belong. When the Vice Society suppresses real obscenities, of course it does a public servic When it undertakes delicate literary censorship, it does mischief, It should recognize that to draw the line between what is tolerable in literature and what is not, is considerably a work that should be left to individual judgment, and that there must always be a literary No Man's Land into which readers may venture at their own risk, : IRST COMMUTER: The good old days fer mine. I used to go down with a little change in my vest and get a whole basketful of groceries. Wealthy Landlord (to agent): JACK UP THE RENTS OF Secon Comaturer: Still market? ALL OUR TENEMENTS—YES—JUST ABOUT DOUBLE, I'VE COT TO First Commuter: Yes; now I go down with a basketful of HAVE A LITTLE MONEY FOR PIIILANTHROPY money and bring back the groceries in my vest. comicbooks.com