Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — HEROES’ GROVE FOR GERMANS [ARTICLE]

HEROES’ GROVE FOR GERMANS

Such a Plan to Honor Soldier .Dead Has Popular Approval in Germany. Berlin.—“ How shall we honor our dead?” is a question which is being widely discussed in the German press just now. The majority of German editors is averse to a repetition of the erection of innumerable “Krieger Denkmale,” soldier monuments, such as were In vogue after the FrancoPrussian war. Nor does the plan to scatter throughout the empire monuments of the kaiser and the leading generals find any approval. The most popular proposal yet made for the commemoration of those who have fallen on the battlefield is the formation of a “Hain,” or grove, to be called “Heldenhain,” or Heroes’ Grove.