Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1919 — KIPLING URGES REVERENCE TO HEROES’ GRAVES. [ARTICLE]

KIPLING URGES REVERENCE TO HEROES’ GRAVES.

Rudyard Kipling, on behalf of the imperial war graves commission, .has written an earnest appeal to those visiting or intending to visit the Erench and Flanders fronts to observe reverence for the dead. “It should be remembered this is holy ground, consecrated in every part by the lives of men, and for that reason not to be run over with levity,” he writes. “It is inevitable that the handling of suh multitudes of sightseers as are expected next year must be managed along ordinary tourist lines, so it rests with the individual tourist to have respect for the spirit that lies upon that land of desolation and to walk through it with reverence.”