The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-18
French High Commission
Representative Tells Ma
ton to Stick to 1t
PRAISES PRACTICE
FOOD ECONOMY
Banker Declares His Country Lost
100000 at Front, But Still Has
100000 in the Trenches-No Predic-
ton of End of War

NEW YORK, Feb. 49, Speaking as
a representative of the French high
commission, Baron j, de Neufize, rep
resentative in this country of the Bank
of France, said at the annual luncheon
of the Life Insurance Underwriters
association of New York at the Hotel
Astor Saturday that America was do
ing well her part in the war. He
thought some Americans were "unjust
against yourselves
"Our opinion-and by that l mean
the opinion of the French commission
is that you are doing very well, - he
said. ''Here and there you can pick
out mistakes, but taking it all as
whole YOU have done well. You are,
some of you, a little unjust against
yourselves. l say you are doing well;
stick to it -
In pieturing what France had done
and suffered, the speaker said that
since August, 1914, 1000 900 French
men had died at the front and 1,000,-
eco had been permanently ineapacitat
ed by wounds
But, he said, 1--WE still have an
army of 100000 men, 5000, 900 of
whom are in active fighting in the
trenches. And behind the lines there
is an equal army in war work -
| Baron Neufize expressed the hope
/ +ba& - - honn,,,o - !
| States would duplicate in size the
French army, Speaking of the war
! industries of France, he said that she
was turning out * guns day and
$4,000 shells
The banker declared that in the con-
| viction and sentencing of Bolo Pasha
the French people had shown the spirit
that marked their determination to ear
| ~ the war to a successful finish He
paid high thanks to the American
tpeople for praetiting food economy SC
that France and the other allies might
have what they need. He explained the
new French food regulations as evi
dencing the need of a continuous flow
of food from this country He sait
that all candy and all pastry were pro
hibited.
And / am asked he said ''whel
the war will be over. Here is the an
swer, perhaps-the Kaiser said in 1917
that he would be in Paris the mex
April. The other dav Hindenburg sale
he would be in Paris this April.
think it is best for US to say nothins
of when the war will be over
Charles d. Norton of the American
Red Cross war board said that tn
great growth of the Red Cross could b.
measured by the statement that fv
years ago the organization had 1000
members, while it now has 23,ooO,00G
The Red Cross today is the America,
people. = he said.
Mr.. Norton did not agree with Baro
de Neuflize that America was dom
!, very well in her war role He said tn
war here was ga moving picture PEI
Torrance as yet.
''There are strikes in our shipvard
? when ships are VITAL he said, ian
when | say ships are vital, | mean the
are vital. Our labor and industri:
leaders have not solved the problems {
! adjustment that were solved in Ems
: land and France in the first thre
l weeks of war. We haven t gotte
+ down to business
Mr.. Norton said that the war wouI
be won by the side that could site
it out.
cit will not be won by the armies
1t will be won by the folks at home
5 he said.
In telling Of the work of the Re