Evening star., 1918-01-20

he spent as personal physician to
Queen Ranavalo he acquired knowl-
edge and practice of native character
which makes him influential in obtain
ing his desires from them. And it must
be due to his long colonial experience
that he speaks English without the
trace of an accent.
"It is the best thing possible for
France also," adds DIR. Suzor. "If you
take orphans to these rich and healthy
climates, you can create colonies of
population equal to those of Australia,
best thing possible for the children,
because, by French law, they can be
legally employed from the age OF thir-
teen, and here you have growing re-
sources to pay them wages, both girls
and boys. on a sliding scale. until they
become of age, and their accumulated
savings (added to by what may be ac-
corded them by the French government
or otherwise) will enable them to buy
live stock, machinery and material and
employ native labor in beginning to
operate the industrial plantations
which have been preparing for them
whose technique they will know per-
fectly. to selling at Conakry, Freetown.
Bordeaux and Marseille-and all their
own"
1t is too early to give the names OF
French and American personalities be-
hind this beautiful work.
Membership of neither board nor com.
mittee is complete, but Americans who
may be interested by this account can
get into touch, for the future. by adj
dressing inquiries to DIR. Suzor. No. IL
Rue st. Pierre. Neuiliy-sur-Seine (Seine)s
France.
People can give lump sums as gift.
1t will probably appeal to American
adopters of war babies who wish to
provide, once for all, at no very great
expense, for the orphan child far away.
to whom they have, nevertheless. be-
come attached. They can feel sure that
a lump sum equivalent to a few habit
ual contributions of s73 will probably
suffice to settle handsomely in life q
child who is today five years old and
who must be supported entirely until |
the age of thirteen, after which, only,
he can be legally permitted to work
and earn the slightest wage or keep.
Also. the work requires initial capital.
for buildings. installations. machinery.
live stock and SO on. Probably S260,000t :
will finance it,
The thing is really a repetition, mu.
tatis mutandiS. of the work of Jacques
Cartier, Champlain and others. viz. tho
creation for France. in her own tropical
African colonies. with her own war orr
phans. of one or several Canadas.
With sufficient help at the start,s
says DIR. Su-o:. the French populations
in such new colonies. by the end of the
present century, ought to be greater
than it is in old Canada after 800 years.
existence. Colonization work is much
more easy and safe nowadays"
Here is new way to help France, in
one of her needs which is most vital
population.
Do you want your war baby to grow
up a farmland in the Somme? He will
surely fit to Paris for a chauffeur. Do
not expect him to marry and bring up
children VINO will venerate your name.
He won't have means!
But at Fouta-Djalon. as he grows up,
can't you hear him tell himself with
glowing hope and courage). as ho
points to the sisal fields and little facA
tory by the river:
Those will be mine when I'm twens
ty-one"
And. sure, at forty years of age he
will take a troop OF children on thae
annual Paris visit! 81
Here are sons for France-more sona~-
for France! STERLING HELLO. 1