NEW YORK. Sept. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—France’s “victory of
peace” in her reconstruction “nails
the lie that her people are not work
ing,” Herbert S. Houston, New York
publisher declares after a period of
research at Paris whence he recent
ly returned.
Offering statistics showing reli
able rehabilitation in former devas
tated regions, where German divi
sions wrought havoc in industrial,
farming and mining sections. Mr.
Houston characterizes the recovery of
thp French people as another “mir
acle of the Marne.” In an article
in the current issue of the World’s
Work he says:
With government support, including
%ans totalling 9,609,0S2,916 francs for
agricultural and industrial recon
struction in “devastated departments,”
the French people have reopened
5,345 out of 6,445 schools existant be
fore the war; built or rebuilt 28,200
temporary wooden and 16,800 perma
nent stone dwellings, and erected 28,
500 wooden barracks to replace the
houses destroyed; cleared 3,339,0000
hectares (a hectare is about 2y2
acres) out of 3,950,000 of barbed wire
and trenches.
They have employed 1.500 men in
pumping out and cleaning up flooded
mines; rebuilt 475 out of 600 rail
road bridges, with SO more in course
of construction; reopened virtually all
^ of 1.100 kilometers of canals de
stroyed and rebuilt 136 wharves and
built 28 new ones.
“Today, less than two years from
the armisitce, the population of th$
invaded regions has grown from less
than 2,000,000 to more than 4,00,000
approximately three-quarters of the
pre-war population,” Mr. Houston says,
adding that the return was “not that
of the prodigal son.”
American committees have done
much to help France rebuild, Mr.
Houston declares, adding that intro
duction of farming machinery to the
French peasant probably was Amer
ica’s best contribution.
“As a result to a considerable de
agree of this mechanical assistance,
greatly increasing the producing pow
er of the fewer workers, the devas
p tated regions in 1920 will raise crops
for food,” he predicts.
On the industrial reconstruction of
Franch, Mr. Houston asserts that 300,
000 workers now are employed in the
French mills and 2,627 of the 3,508
factories destroyed in the war have
resumed production. During the war
the destruction in mill centers was
very great, 80 per cent of the textile
mills in Lille having been destroyed;
all 40 mills in Armentieres wiped out;
in Fourmies only 50,000 bobbins re
mained out of 700,000 and Robaix and
Turcoing “had the same degree of de
struction.”
“So it was throughout the whole in
dustrial region of the north, the great
workshop of France,” Mr. Houston
says. “The tale of rebuilding, now to
be added to Frenchmen’s annals, will
always be a chapter of achievement,
almost as important and vital as the
defense against the German invasion.”
^ By 1922, Mr. Houston asserts,
France hopes to have her mines pro
ducing again, with about 8,000 miners
working where 17,000 labored before
the war. Within five or six years
after that she expects to be working up
to three quarters of before-the-war
production.
“The lie that France is not at work
should be seared on the lips of every
one that utters it,” writes Mr. Hous
ton. “If she is not at work how can
she be reclaiming her roads and her
houses and factories and towns, and
re-establishing the shattered life over
one-fifth of her territory? That she is
doing that, any one can see who visits
France or who takes the small trouble
a to look up the facts. An she is doing
it before she has received the in
demnity pledge to her by the peace
treaty and repledged again and again
by every one of her allies.”
Miss Gertrude Kendall, a Seward
school teacher visiting in the states
has resigned her position, owing to
the illness of her mother. Miss Viola
Triplett of Spokane has been appoint
ed to fill the vacancy.
If you talk much about yourself
others will talk much about you, but
they won’t say the same things that
you’ve been saying.
Best coffee in town served at the
City Bakery.
Don’t argue. The Club Billiard Hall
arries fresh tobacco. 27-tf
Professional kodak finishing. Scar
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PICNICS GIVEN
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PITTSBURG, Sept 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—More than 500,000 per
sons have this year attended the pic
nics given by industrial concerns in
Pittsburg to their employes, accord
ing to the estimates of amusement
park managers and a number of the
most important are yet to be field.
Arrangements for these great gath
erings of workmen and their families
are on a colossal scale and carried out
by an efficient organization of trained
engineers and office men. It oc
cassionally happens, as in the case of
the Clairton plant of the Carnegie
Steel company, that no picnic ground
was available. So the engineers se
lected a nice bit of virgin forest not
far from town, built good roads in
and through it, erected a merry-go
round and other traditional amuse
ment devices, built refreshment booths
and a dancing platform and when the
thousands of steel workers and their
families reached the place for a day’s
enjoyment, they found it as complete
as if it had been standing for years.
The quantity of provisions required
for the entertainment for a big plant
and its workers astonishes those who
know little of such enterprises.
At one industrial picnic held here
recently three tons of beef and four
tons of boiled ham were reqiured for
the sandwiches. Five thousand loaves
of bread were used, three men work
ing fifty hours to cut it to size.
For the 45.000 persons who attend
ed this picnic there were issued 65,
uuu iree ncnets tor par amusements;
15,000 American flags and 40,0000 toy
balloons for children were distributed
and 45.000 souvenir buttons were giv
en to the workers and their families
while 50.000 knives, forks and spoons
and plates were sent to the grounds
for the picnic supper.
To provide this feast the company
gave SO,000 pickles, 24,000 rolls, S.000
pounds of baked beans. 1,S00 pounds
of coffee, 50,000 pounds of frankfur
ters and 1,500 gallons of ice cream.
The food was cooked in an oven erec
ted on the ground by the company’s
workmen.
While this was one of the largest
picnics of the year, a number of
others equalled it and many more have
come within striking distance.
Mill managers and corporation exe
cutives look upon the industrial pic
nic as one of their best weapons
against unrest and gladly give to their
employes the day for enjoyment, while
bearing all the expenses, in many in
stances even to transportation to and
from the parks.
EMPRESS ATTRACTIONS
Blanche Sweet in “The Unpardon
able Sin,” shown at the Empress last
night and repeated for the last time
tonight, has won many new admirers
through the brilliant and effective
work she does in portraying the dual
role of Alice and Dimmy Parcot, two
charming sisters, who through the
hand of fate, suffer such atrocities
and disgrace as only the “Hun” could
perpetrate. It is a powerful story of
brutality and injustice, a tremendous
tale of love and adventure.
In Louis Bennison, the Goldwvn
Company secured the screen “find” of
the season. He plays western parts
preferrably. He is not in the least
like the stagy cowpuncher, nor is he
a typical screen “bad man.” He really
is a big six foot Westerner with a
contagious smile, a slow drawl and a
quick gun. He loved the part of Pohn
ny Burke in “Oh Johnny” because he
could just be his own natural self.
And that is why he is so convincing
and so entertaining, and why you will
all want to see “Oh Johnny” tomorrow
night at the Empress. Those who
have seen or read of the big stage suc
cess “Johnny Get Your Gun,” wherein
Mr. Bennison swept New York City
from off its staid metropolitan feet
something over a year ago, will need
no further introduction to this big
smiling boyish eyed man. Those who
haven’t will fond him worth meeting
tomorrow night.
While driving an auto delivery car
iii the vicinity of Whitehorse, the
driver, while dozing in his seat was
awakened by the breath of a two year
c!d brown bear striking him in the
face. He had driven close to a cut
bank and the bear had started to in
ve'tigate him. He threw the car in
high and was soon out of that vicin
ity.
There is no such thing as “harm
less’ gossip. At best it’s a waste of
time and time wasted is never harm
less.
Shower and tub baths at the Club
Barber Shop. Open day and night, 3-tf
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