Show A. A E. E CHAPLAIN F. F IN LETTER PRAISES PLAN FOR DEAD Bishop Charles H. H Brent Would Leave Choice to Next of Kin w WASHINGTON Jan 15 Bishop Bishop Charles II Jr Brent senior senor chaplain with the he American expeditionary forces forcee In inFra 11 Fra France ce ha has haIl addressed an open letter to Secretary tary Baker and the next of ot kin of the American dead In France regarding the return of ot the bodies s of ot American soldiers who fell overseas The letter was made public today by bythe bythe bythe the American Field of Honor association tion which Is la opposing the movement for the wholesale return of the bodies and follows charges presented In inthe the senate t nd house that the movement Is being fostered b by undertakers for their pers personal nal profit KIN TO DECIDE America wrote Bishop Brent has left to the the- decision of ot the near nearest st of kin In each case what the final resting place of ot our dead Is to be be- be whether in France or in this country C S S It Is conceivable that there are those who after learning the plan to establish and maintain in France an American field of honor for those who are forever overseas overseas may consider this the more excellent way us S C There will be he an American central field of t hon honor hondr r with as mapy departments as may be necessary Here each year ear on an appointed day commemoration of the dead will be observed Over all the sheltering folds of the Stars and Stripes forever wave LIFE WORK PERPETU PERPETUATED TED Those of ot us who have given for more than a year careful consideration consideration consideration tion to the American field of honor honorate ate alc moved by a single minded pur pur- pose It 1 I hs t the e work worl of ot love carried through by a sense of ot reverence for that sacred dust which though mingled mingled min rain with the soil of ot France Is forever forever forever for for- ever America It alms aims to pay high I honor to those to whom high honor honoris I is due It would preserve as far as may be the comradeship ot of the war among those who ho met meta a common fate It would express to all aU who are bereaved bereaved be bereaved be- be the thye undying value of ot the sacrifice made It would perpetuate in death that work worle begun n life to bind together nations nations' of like ideals Ideale |