Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19
Will CONE
T. OUT BETTER
Such Is Prediction Made TO
France When War Is Over.

Paris. %Fuo. l~S---"FErance and the
| French after the War" Is the subject
of much speculation. by philosophers,
! scientists and. doctors. Smile BOu-
troux, the French philosopher, thinks
France will come out Of the trial bet
ter and greater in spite of all OF
the destruction Of, life and property.
so many human lives take, and
so many masterpieces of the past re.
duced to powder, So much artistic
and material wealth annihilated, stu
plies us and leaves: our souls in in
durable pain,". he says, "All. these
sacrifices, however, may in certain
ways contribute. directly TO the bet
terment Ut life in OH, country.
Our cities an dthe country cor.
tain a gleat many. .unh ealthy habita.
TONS" he declares. that we Were un-
able to decide ourselves. to demolish.
We hesitated before the difficulties
and before the expense. War has
put us face to face with the accom-.
plished fact. Unhealthy and incom.
modious buildings have disappeared,
and will be replaced r1by construc-
tons conforming to hygieni0l6ws and
to the needs OF modern live. Many
defective conditions Of our existence
will thus be improved by the recon.
struction that will be imposed upon
us.
Death awakens, life. After 1870
France pulled herself together and
pushed out vigorously in every direc-
ton. What shall be its power Of de.
velopment alter this. terrible trial,
above all il the issue is favorable to
us?
"The cause Of the low birth.rate,"
Monsieur BoutrouA thinks, resides
primarily in selfiskness and the dis
position to consider only the pres.
emit or the immediate future. With
confidence in the future, with a vast
distant perspective opened up, there
is awakened a. desire to- glorify ones
| self in ones descendants. A vast
career will open up before science,
'b%eforesare, literature and before prac-
| tical activity in afl%i.s forms.
Measures that are most contrary
to the indifference of yesterday, are
today accepted without objection,
such as the prohibition of the. traffic
in absinthe. Civilization has been
loaded down with a thousand ac-
~titious needs foreign and harmful to
nature; a great many of them are SO
many chains upon. nature and as
many causes OF fragility and weak
ness. Now, all at once. lacking all
these superfiuities, we feel no sense
of privation. We are conscious, OH
; the contrary. Of re-entering upon full
possession of our strength, and OF
being better able TO dispose of it
for the accomplishment OF useful
work. /
war" he says, mot only liber.
ates us from selfish passions. but
teaches positive virtues; the value =
decision, intrepidity, sacrifices of life
to honor and to the !fatherland; it
requires of us patience, and this peg
pie who were though incapable Of
supporting in silence long and pain
full trials, this people OF whom its
enemies said that they would come to
their aid by Instruction remained
calm and %resolute. The French, Il
was said. were no. apt TO act collect
lively. Their ipcurable individualism
precluded vivacity Of mind and talent
except to COMBAT enc another. E..
amples they have given of unity and
the efficiency of collective effort
Monsieur Boutroux thinks. will have
as important an effect upon France
Of the future as any other of the
lessons of the war.
From the medical standpoint, Pro
fessor Chauffard OF the Academy OF
Medicine, before the Alliance d.Hy'