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Show FRENCH PATRIOTISM RESULT OF NAPOLEON Denver Attorney Says Credit IB Largely Large-ly Due to Warrior's Teachings. Teach-ings. 'Credit for the truly wonderful Pat''J-otlsm Pat''J-otlsm of the. French nation Is largely due to the. administrative genius of .Napoleon said Jabez Norman, a Denver ottoinej, who Is at the Hotel Utah. "I admit Napoleon s greatness as a soldier, sol-dier, bill he was greater still as an administrative ad-ministrative officer. It my memory of historv is correct. It was in liOo that he sent out his great commission directing the members to ascertain just how small a tract of average land the average French family of five could live upon without the pinch of extreme poverty. "The commission reported that a tract equivalent to about five American acres would suffice. Then Napoleon had enacted en-acted the law that the owner of this little tract was exempt from taxation on it. but that the addition of more land meant the addition of taxation In ever-Increasing scale The result was a nalion of small homes And it Is these small homes that Ihe French are righting to keep and -will keep, for tho allies are certain to eon- """liow long do you think the war will last?" a friend asked Jlr. Norman. "Until there is no more kaiserism. no matter how long that takes." came the replv "I am well past sixty years of age' but If men of iny age ran he of any service on the front 1 am ready to go.' 1 have one of the riuu.lifhtions of a soldier, 1 cannot run' |