The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-31
MINISTER Of WAR HAS
TWO NEW ASSISTANTS

PARIS, July 15. The passage OF
the law framed by equity Jean Hen
messy, empowering the French gov
ernment to appoint two more under
secretaries of state for war, in addi-
ton to the one now charged with
overseeing the production of mu-
nitions, is still another step along
the line of centralized development
of the governments military organi-
cation. The new under secretaries
lister of war, precisely as is Albert
Thomas, the under secretary charged
with the production of munitions. In
France, in contrast to England, there
is but one civil head of everything
pertaining to land operations, and
that head is the war minister.
The two posts just created include
the sanitary service of the army on
the one hand and the feeding and
clothing the fighting men of France
on the other. The administration of
both has been the subject OF some
little parliamentary criticism late;
II has hitherto been thought wise to
give the parliamentary critics some
definite personality to whom to al
dress their observations.
Justin Godart, himself a deputy
and one of the vice presidents of the
chamber of deputies, a radical social
;st who has made a speciality of legis-
lation dealing with labor problems,
, and especially those phases having to
do with the hygiene of labor, has
been appointed the under secretary
CT state for war with the control Of
the military sanitary service. His
job is to be a sort of civil colonel
gorgas in the French conduct of their
great task. Mr.. Godart is a lawyer
and a young man, having been born
in Lyons in 1871. Hebegan his pO-
litical career as deputy for the Rhone
in 1906.
Speaking of his work, and particu-
larly that part of it which will have
to do with solving the problem of
what is to become of those SO badly
wounded in the war as to be inca
pa citated for ordinary occupations,
MI. Godart said to an editor of LIE
Matin:
1T is not enough to nurse and to
care for them; the social values
which they have lost must also be re-
gained somehow. l am speaking
more particularly of those who have
been permanently mutilated by war.
Those whose faculties and aptitudes
have been diminished by the war
must be followed up in their civil
life when they have returned to it,
and ~re-educated for their new exist
ence. This work is, of course, es-
pecially a work for the future; but
it is better to begin to think about
it now"
The man who is to be a sort of
civil quarter master for the French
army is known as "Thierry of AL
SAGE" He was born in Alsace, at
Haguenau in 1857 = when Alsace
was still a part of France. After the
Selling of Alsace by Germany in 1871
Joseph Thierry moved to Marseilles,
where he practiced law until elected
to the chamber of deputies in 1898.
From that time on he has given the
greater part of his life to politics.
He is a distinguished economist, and
has been chairman of the tariff COM
mittee of the chamber of deputies
as well as vice chairman of the bud
get committee. At one time he gave
a great deal of attention to the
French merchant marine and was
the author of a bill dealing with
that question.
On March 81, 1913, in the cabinet
CT which Barthou was premier, Jo-
seph Thierry was minister of public
works, a post for which he was con-
sidered eminently fitted.