Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-27 | Page 6 | Saving France

SAVING FRANCE. I The world will rejoice with the people of France who have been liberated by tho advance of the allied armies. The American people, hav ing the most lively recollections of aid from France in revolutionary revo-lutionary days, will be especially glad that the invaders are being driven out and that the captured regions are being saved to France to the France of today to-day and to the better and greater "France, let us hope, of tomorrow. The French cannot rest on their laurels lau-rels in this war. They have performed prodigies of valor. They have revealed ! their military genius almost as bril- i liantly as in the days of Bonaparte. They have done much of the fighting and intend to fight to the end. Their 1 praise will be great upon the pages of ; history, but thVy have a task ahead of them as mighty as that which they faco ; upon the battlefields of today. ; The Germans were not altogether ! wrong when they regarded the French ! as degenerate. Individually the French- ' man was as keen of intellect, as ener getic and progressive as ever, but his nation was lagging behind. It was barely bare-ly holding its own in population, while