Show I The question of the propriety of bringing home the bodies of the soldiers who dla In tle Philippines is raised by l the Rev Oliver C Miller chaplain of the Thirteenth cavalry He thinks this practice Is unwise as It only revives i the sorrow of relatives and friends while as the steel cases cannot or I should not be opened and the Identity certainly established as It has a depressing de-pressing effect on the soldiers ordered to the Philippines an the return of the bodies shows n feeling that tho Philippines Phil-ippines are not United States territory and nothing would serve to fix tho status of the Philippine Islands as American territory more than the burial bu-rial of our soldiers there There Is something in that to be sure but It would be a shame to refuse the request of relatives to have the body of 1 dead soldier returned As to those where there is no request for the return of the body there might well bo n National cemetery established nCI Manila similar sim-ilar to the National cemeteries In this country where the bodies should be honorably burled It would be a consecration conse-cration of Philippine soil to patriotic memories that would be Invaluable |