Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-14 | Page 17 | Kipling Poem Suppressed is Regarded as Offensive

KIPLING POEM SUPPRESSED IS REGARDED AS OFFENSIVE i th" ?. sir I , f -r' X , . j It- ' , . 'J 1 i -r. ' A - t' r ;a t A- r 'i Reference to "Clergyman's Daughter Who Takes to Gin" Is Fatal. LONDON, Jan. 13. The . soldiers at the front who might have been expecting ex-pecting to enjoy a Christmas poem by Kipling were sadly disappointed, for his holiday writing, written especially for consumption by the army, was suppressed by the publishers because it made aJlusion to a "clergyman's daiighter who takes to gin." It was thought that this might give offense. Some of the other passages of the poem also criticized the "powers that be." "The Sons of the Suburbs," as the poem was called, will probably never be known to the general public. Rudyard Kipling, Whose Christmas Offering to Soldiers in the Field May Never Become Public