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Show RESPECT FOR THE GRAVE It seems almost to have become a . 1 fetish in some sections of this country to invade the resting places of those W on whom history hus placed garlands, -i """' exhunifc their bones and convey then) j to some new shrine nearer the scene ( of the deeds which made them famous. , ; This tendency may have been the out- j growth of the more natural desire of j gold-star parents to bring back the i bodies of their boys from the fields of - ; France. It should be a matter of sincere sin-cere regret, however, that a shallow, mawkish sentiment should disturb those whe have slept peacefully during dur-ing the storms of more than a century. cen-tury. The records as written in his- tory's page cannot be enhanced by j the knowledge that the crumbling bones of patriot or scholar rest beneath be-neath a new shaft dedicated to their memory. One of the first cases of this misguided zeal was the effort of an American archeologlst to recover the remains of Pbcahontas from her grave In an English cemetery. Time had effaced the record of the tombstone tomb-stone and the activities of the ex- .V" plorer violated the reverence which s the simple villagers had for the graves of their forefathers. Official protests over the desecration of the cemetery finally reached parliament Whether they sufficed to check the opening of graves Is not clear, but the quest dl not prove successful. |