Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17
FRANCE CONFIDENT WAR WILL SERVE ID
 GLORIFY NATION
Reconstruction Will Be Gen eral and County Will Bene- fit Through the Knowledge That the Nation Possesses Many Virtues

PARIS, Feb. 16.-"France and the | French after the War" is the subiec. of much speculation by philosophers ] scientists and doctors. Emile Boutrouv. l the French philosopher, thinks France 1 will come out of the trial better and greater in spite of all of the destruc- tion of life and property.
 "So many human lives taken. 90 many masterpieces of the past reduced to powder, so much artistic and ma terial wealth aunihnated. stuDifes ms and leaves our souls in incurable pain" he says. "All these sacrifices. however, may in certain ways contri- bute directly to the betterment of life in oar country.
 Our cities and the country contain a great many unhealthy habitations he declares, "that we were unable toI decide ourselves to demoish We he's itated before the difficulties and be- fore the expense. War has put us face f to face with the accomplished fact. Trn-I healthy and incommodious buildines have disappeared and will be replaced by constructions conforming to hy-I gienic laws and to the needs of mod ern life Many defective conditions of our existence will thus be improved by the reconstruction that will te im- posed upon us
 Death awakens life. After 1870 France pulled herself together and pushed out vigorously in every direc- tion What shall be it's power of devel opment after this terrible trial. above all if the issue is favorable to us.
 "The cause of the low birtrate." | Monsieur Boutreux thinks. resides primarily in selfishness and the dispo- sition to consider only the present or the immediate future With confidence
 in the future. with vast distant per spective opened up, there is awakened a desire to glorify ones self in ones 1 descendants A vast career will open | up before science before art. litera- ture and before practical activity in 1 all it's forms
 Measures that are most contrary 1 to the indifference of yesterday are 1 today accepted without objection. such as the prohibition of the traffic i in absinthe Civilization has been loaded down with a thousand fictitious needs foreign and harmful to nature: ! a great many of them are so many ! chains upon nature and as many causes of fragility and weakness. Now, all at once, lacking all these superfluities, We feel no sense of pri- 1 vation. We are conscious, on the con trary of re-entering upon full posses sion of our strength and of being bet 1 ter able to dispose of it for the aa- cOmplishment of usefm work
 War he says, mot only hberates us from selfish passions but teaches ! positive virtues; the value of decision. ] intrepidity, sacrifices of life to honor and to the fatherland; lt requires of us patience, and this people who were | thought incapable of supporting in si-
 fence long and painful trials, this people of whom it's enemies said that ] they would come to their aid by in- | surrection' remained calm and reso- | lute The French, it was said, were not apt to act collectively. Their in- curable individualism precluded vivac- | fly of mind and talent except to com bat one another. Examples they have
 given of unity and the efficiency of collective effort, Monsieur Boutroux thinks, Twill have as important an ef- feet upon France of the future as any other of the lessons of the war"
 From the medcial standpoint, Pro
 lessor Chauffard of the Academy of
 Medicine, before the Alliance d'Hy-