Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-27 | Page 6 | The War a Year ago Today

The War a Year Ago Today March 27, 1016. British carry 600 yarns of German first and second line trenches at St. Eloi, Belgium. German aeroplanes attempting to bombard Saloniki kill twenty Greeks. Austrian aeroplanes raid Venetian provinces; four machines brought down. Germany was. racing toward the lOn,-000,000 lOn,-000,000 mark. France was becoming a second-rate military power beeaaso of the stationary birth-rate. Despite all that France has done in this war she has been rescued from destruction by the help of Great Britain. Were it not for England's armies all of France would be in the hands of tho enemy. France has been saved in this war, but in future wars she must be prepared .to save herself, feho cannot rely upon allies. She must find some means of increasing the population, popu-lation, ami one of the best means is immigration. im-migration. France was once made stronger by the incursions of invaders. Practically tho same Germanic people wdio now hold northern France invaded the country centuries ago. They overcame over-came the Gallic population and established estab-lished a new people the strong, brilliant, bril-liant, progressive Frankish' people, for the invaders were the Franks. France should not shut out the foreigner for-eigner and fear to chango the blood of tho nation. If the French people are to survive they must increase their population, popula-tion, if possible, to 6o,000,000 or 70,-000,000 70,-000,000 souls within the next twenty-five twenty-five or thirty years. If Germany can support a population of 90,000,000 France can support a population almost as numerous. If the United States enters the war it should do its utmost to help France. It has been 6Ufrested that we ought to loan her $1,000,000,000 without interest. Just what our gift shall be cannot be determined at this time, but certainly the American people, remembering Lafayette, La-fayette, and the aid rendered by the French government during the revolution revolu-tion of the American colonics, will be eager to do something big for France.