Show Volcome Do Rochnmhoau Its 122 years since Jean de Vimoiir Count de Rochambeau landed In Newport New-port with GOOO soldiers of the Bourbon King of France who were to help beat Cornwallis at Yorktown and make possible pos-sible upon American soil a government of the people by i the people and < for the people Once again a de nOt ham btau Is with us as a guest and friend j and like his predecessor he Is welcomed by a Lafayette I a grealgrcutgrandson of the man who was for half a century an American Idol But the analogy cannot be pushed very far Our visitor did not need to dodge about New York a straggllng village held by a hostile garrison but was welcomed here to the heart oC a metropolis greater than Paris Ant where Count Jean found a fringe of Ill united colonists along the Eastern const Count Rene will find ns he Journeys Jour-neys a welded nation far more extensive exten-sive that France and twice as populous popu-lous and not we hope forgetful of Its debt of gratitude to that generous land Count tie Rochambuaus errand Is pleasanter than that of his illustrious namesake He comes to wltnets the unveiling In Lafayette square Washington Wash-ington a site where no stranger In the capital can easily miss seeing It at j statue of the earlier visitor It Is as fitting that our Nation should erect this memorial rUt It Is pleasing Unit his successor has crossed the mica to witness the ceremony HG welcome will be hearty enough to leave no doub In his mind of American friendship for lilrn and for his country New York World S |