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Show URGED TO REBUILD HOMES Premier Clemenceau Points Out Duty of Former Dwellers in Devastated Devas-tated Regions. Paris. rreniier Clemenceau began a visit to the devastated regions, entering enter-ing the zone of protracted warfare at St. Quentin. The premier encouraged the people to question him and bring forward any complaints which they had to make, and they were not slow in do-'ng do-'ng so. In addressing the popilation of St. Quentin, M. Clemenceau declared de-clared that, now that peace is concluded, conclud-ed, the work of construction and reform re-form would be tli e government's foremost fore-most care. "The difficulties we meet at every step," he said, "cannot be resolved by old rules. New methods must found for new requirements, and we must, above all, learn to use that free individual indi-vidual initiative which the republic must strive to develop. It in not good practice for a democratic country to leave everything to the government. "You will have to rebuild your homes, and perhaps the habit thus required re-quired by the Frenchman of depending on himself to make the effort will contribute con-tribute to still further democratize our country. "One of the advantages of peace is that it is based on the unions of peoples peo-ples who have saved the world. We each have need of the other. Barbarism Barbar-ism is definitely destroyed, but only on condition that we all see to it that the stipulations of the treaty are executed." |