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Show FRENCH PLAN FOR MODEL VILLAGE ONJfS ' Rebuilt Areas to Be Much More Sanitary and Neat. By Newspsper Enterprise Association. PARIS. Iec. 13. Motif 1 vlllngs are to rise on the ashes of those destroyed by the Hun. Tho French, glorying in victory. are ajolntx to huve an eye to the benutlful and t" the aesthetic, as wll hs to the sanitary n-pectH of their rebuilt home. A patriotic organisation has been formed to aid reconstruction. Its name is "le Vlllape Reconstitute" The Village Rebuilt!, formerly called the "Association for the Rebuilding of Kutned Villages." Kven .the name wu changed. The old on wasn't distinctive enough. Her are the alma of the society, which in under the patronage of the French Red Cross: First To come to the help of the rural working population whose homes have been destroyed by the war. Second -To combine, in the work of reconstruction, a love of art with the rggrntHi iw in1 mmr?Tt an'inieuuic nnfl rural hygiene. RUINS AS MEMORIALS. In many ca! It will lmpoat-ble, lmpoat-ble, from a finant-lal and labor Btand-poli.t. Btand-poli.t. to clor awaja th tona of dehrta and bt-Kin reconjttrurtion. VIUaxTt ar to ! built narhy. Th other will ' retrain '.nuterleii of humcs, mfino-ria mfino-ria : li tha dfad. Stii-t aanltary mMBiiron will l taken In rehulldlnc. yndrr tha llrc-tlon llrc-tlon of an hygienic commiaaion ap- . pointed by the minister of the Inta ; rior " : I The society will aee that the style. 1 j .f . illHtriel dwelllnua la In conformity, I to plana based on economic princl. pics of architecture, comfort and ven ! illation. I Famous architect are Orawlns; up standard tlana fir houses, farm bulld-InKs. bulld-InKs. barns, workxhop and municipal bulldlnKS. The town -counclla and In-! In-! habitants of ruined villages will b 1 invited to adopt the society's plans. PREMIUMS FOR VILLAGES. - I'ri mlums will he off,red vtllagea ae-cepllng ae-cepllng Thia will b to their Interest, ; beiause. thounh the hill passed by tha rharalNT i f deputies In January, 1917. charKcl the i-'rench lovvoniirni wiih makinr Kood damagea caused by war, , it expressly stipulated that Indcmnltlea exacted from the vatiquisnea enemy and iald the ruined villages would not.' eiual the value of the ruined build- mas when new. m Mi)ni minim umi'iiiiiiiii1". the value of a building Is to be based on what It was August 1. 1914 not what it wns when new or what It talcea to replace It with a new building. The new s.a-lety will hrlrtga the gap between those two valuatlona. Town councils will b frea to chooae their own urchltects and- contractu. There will be no contractora' trust and no profiteering. . Home of the distinguished people on the committees are Senator fiivlnot. (bibriel Hanotaux, Comtesse U'Haua. Konviile. M. I'aul Camlion. I'rench ambassador am-bassador to tireat Itrllaln: Marquise lb' (ianay. Marcel Tr"lat, Baron Lwvll-lo'r, Lwvll-lo'r, 1'rlncesse le Kauctgny-I.ueigne, MarqufM le Vogue and Vlcomte le Kuiitcu.illleB. ' |