Show FRANCE PLANS TO TOil REPLACE VICTIMS OF GREAT WAR NAR Go Government Asked to CoGo Cooperate Cooperate Co Co- operate in In Repopulation tion of Country By H HENRY WOOD United Pr Press Staff Correspondent PARIS Government 1 co cooperation cooperation co- co May 1 operation in solving the great at problem problem lem of ot repopulating France when tho the war is over was waR today asked by the National alliance for the lie Increasing of or the French population population- For a number of or years past this so society society so- so clety has been hard at work worl on the birth birthrate birthrate question of oC bringing Frances France's rate rute up above Its Ui mortality With Uh the tho possibility of Franco Fiance losing In tho the present war at least ast 1 of ot the tho the al allIance alliance at- at Cr very flower of or her manhood liance has redoubled d Its efforts It has Just jUAt submitted to the government gov gov- government nt a long list of ot French families families lies who have all nil the way from half halt halfa a dozen to a 11 dozen and a half children children chil chil- dren at the front It is urged that governmental recognition bo be given en 1 to these families to such an extent as to serve as ag a n permanent encouragement encouragement nt in the future to tho the raising of or large families as a mere patriotic duty One of ot the most interesting die die- erles co made by the tho alliance In pro- pro paring the tho list of ot families that have contributed the most sons sona to tho the present defense of oC the patrie Is that these large families have been I Just as common among the Intellectual classes of or the tho country as ns among the poorer The idea that any ono I class for tor economic reasons has restricted re restricted restricted re- re more than another the raising raisInS raising rais rais- ing InS of ot largo large families has been thus entirely disproved List Is Given Following is a list of ot somo some of ot tote the th families which the alliance has hasa a asked ked the gov government to recognize Professor Protessor Charles Richet member of tho the French institute father o ot of Eh ht children of or whom the five sons as as well as one ono son-in-law son are servIng ser servIng Ing under the colors The late latt Alfred de llIe Fo who In addition to being a member of th the Institute of oC France was the permanent permanent perma perma- nent secretary of the Academy o atM of at M Moral ral Sciences He Ho had four tour sons son and four daughters All AU four tour o othe or of the tilt sons are with the arm army a as ar arc also the husbands of ot nil alt four of or th the daughters Two of oC the sons have hav been wounded cured and antI are badat hack bad at it the front Ot Of the tho nine nino sons of oC Professor ProCessor Camille JOI Jordan dan also of or the institute eight are with the colors All Alt seven of ot the sons sona of ot General d de went to the tho front except the youngest who Is a mere schoolboy schoolboy school school- boy yet Three have been killed Workmen Praised Side by side with these theM families o or of intellectuals f rc listed Hated o ot of working men who have ma made e equal ull 1 if not greater contributions to the thc nations nation's no na- lions lion's defense ef nse The most startling of oC these is a gamily family by the namo nano of ot Blanc DIane living at rt Saint Paul near ne-ar l Evlan-l Ics Evlan s Rn In I Upper S O Savoy There six brothers alt all a of tf whom were married had amon among them hem a total of or se seventy children So n far the alliance ha has not b been en able abl to o get complete fi figures ures on this fam fam- amly am- am lly 11 ly but It Is known that all six o othe of the the- brothers are arc under arms arms arms' as wellis well as is the majority of ot their male chil chil- dl fn One Ono brother alone Maurice Blanc has hns cI eighteen sons scattered out about at the tho M 1 Foret a farmer at sur RIgny-sur larroux has lias all nine of ot his sons son under order tho the colors an and all three e of hi his sons in Jos Joseph ph Bonnet Donnet a wood worker a at sur NV and who himself was vas wounded in the Prussian Franco war vat in 1870 has ten sons with th the thc army Nine arc are on the firing line but tut the tho tenth has been a assigned t to other ether service |