The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-29

fNNf Ntu IIN ftilfiiIIt liAl' ~
Houghton. at my elbow taking my
ward junior who got his schooling
In France, interpreting my tlikE
with the p"opl" IN addition the
government has given me q guide IN
the person Of Lieut. Robert Dcs.
rousr'auN q man who was wounded
and gaEscd dozen times during the
war, ana who knows the battle fields
aA you know the palm of your hand
We started at Rheims and rode
back and forth. making many de
tours ana going through Chateau
Thictry. along tho Chcmin des
Danes. by SoiWons. ~. Quentin.
Arras. Albert and q score OF other
cities ana towns, travelling through
the valleys - the Marnc. the Aisno.
the Disc and the Sommo. and ending
our journey here at Lille, In tho de-
partment " the Sord Some Of the
time we were 80 close to the FROM
,ior that ! could have thrown atone
from France into belgium and
again as far south a. the Germans
got In their rushcs toward Paris
Before that ! had travelled sthrough
other parts ot the battle fields 30
that I have, as n we're almost tho
whole OF recreated France In my
eye.
I,ccrcntcd France
say rccreated France. Tor the
country I have seen is "A new France
rising more rapidly out OF the ruins
than did san Francisco after the
earthquake or Chicago or Baltimore
after their fires. We thought those
works OF rebuilding enormous,
rhey we're like fitting together the
toy house OF baby. compared to
l.. L.. N.at
reConstruction II 70 vast nnd 10 rapid
hat despair Of making you realize
The marvelA that have sprung up
since the treaty of peace was signed.
Villages, cities ana factories rising
like magic out of the most terrible
ruinsi Mines, blown up and flooded
pumped out and at work again
undcr the mighty SHAFT houses
which have risen above them
Farms, cut up by she'll holes ana
covered with net ot harbed wire
now as smooth ana AZ clean ~ your
garden, and loaded with crops. New
roads and railways. The work re
calls that mighty event OF 5,g26
Years ago when God divided the
light from the darkness. and in tha
space OF six days laid the foundation
upon which man since then has been
building
but before describe what has
been done and is doing. let me give
YOU "a glimpse OF the region through
which have Travelled and what II
looked like before tho ucrmans he.
gan their work OF destruction,
have the facts and figures from
Monsieur Charles Rebel. the min
tster OF the liberated regions, but
| shall take the liberty of trensiniing
the hectares into ncrcs, the kilo'
meters into miles, the francs into
dollars. and " using round NUM-
bet. and plain simple American
comparison that you may the more
easily crasp lust what II all means.
The Extent of tnr Battle Scared
Region
In the first place the country de~
stroyed by the Germans lies IN the
north of France, this side Of bel-
slum, running from the North sea
10 the RE,nc and reaching south
almost to Paris. II comprises 5000
square miles. II IL one-siNth as big
a. Indiana and two.thlrds the nizo
OF Massachusetts, II embraces ten
of the richest departments or states
OF the republic of France and one
thirty sixth OF its territory Divide
France into fields thirty-siN acres
and one acre In each field was
fought over. Collect all is people
and one In every six lived IN thiS
battIe-sCnrrcd rcgiO1 and thht sixth
paid more thnn It's share OF the
taxes. The actual number was about
twice ns many people as We have IN
philadelphia. or ns many as there
are In chicago, Detroit and CleNe'
land combined, TO appreciate how
dense was the population OF TIM
nrca. let US continue our comparison
with Indiana. In 1920 that ntht'
had lcss than l,0o0,0O0 HuoslcrN
You could multiply is population hN
nlns and e would attn he less thlckl>
settled than was this section bc'ot'
the fate Of Sodom and Gomorrnl
~ uvoN u out of the skies. W.
have more souls In Rhode lslan'
'IIn ia any other part OF the Union
The number equals SOC Tor ever,
square mile. These ten department.
had 500 per square mile, Whlci
onuals a family OF five for ever
four acres. and that notwithstand
ing there were no large cities "
towns in our sense Of the word.
-Four OF the states or department
wcro almost ns busy as the reg ni
around Pittsburgh. They were h,t
hives OF factories and foundries o
ftcei works ana glass works hn'
t,reat textile mille. From und'I
their surface came 90 per cent q
the iron ore. and more than half o
ali the coal produced by france
'chey made more than thrce-tnurlh
of the pig iron. II II In those tou'
ntntcs that | now find the most ac
tive rebuilding going on.
In the whole ot the devastated
region. not onc-tcuth as big as MIS-
rourl there were 1900 tactorlei
out OF which came 95 per cent OF m
wooden goods. and 50 per cent OF th'
rottous which France made Tor eN
mort and domestic consumption, ant
II produced also scvou.tenths of th'
beet sugar consumed by the people
Al toget ther IL had more than $4,000
Industrial establishments represent
ing one-third Of the wcaltn OF th'
ErenCh In the mills about Mint
hundred thousand men were a
work, and 10000 men We're en-
ployed I'm the mines. Several hun
drcd thousand were engaged In
spinning and weaving
WHAT the War Did
Now look at the conditions afte
the armlstice when France began I
count UP its losses. Remember Al
giving the figures prepared by IN
government department that ha
charge OF this vast work of recres
tion. when the Germans left. IN
population OF The 10 department
had so shrunk that there were tw