Show FRENCH CULTURE IS ISTO ISTO TO BE OFFERED Universities of France Arc Are I r I Placed at Disposal of It i J U. U S. S Army r t SW z e By Associated Press Prell iv PAINS April 11 11 Tho n.-Tho The ministry of or Instruction has placed at the thet t r r i of ot the American army all an the j educational facilities of ot France This s announcement I was made today at a It to the rectors of the French given by James Hazen llyde at the American university I jg The offer olter of ot the tho ministry will be Jn cd by the army through a a. com com- mUM of the Young Mens Men's Christian I 4 Oh i according to a 0 plan prepared pre pre- pre pre-I it pared r rid d by ly Rev nev Anson Phelps Stokes of rale le lc Mr Ir Stokes StokE'S explained to the recA rec- rec A re s at the request of Mr Hyde that f it t was vas the tho intention to provide soldiers hi the United States before they come f 3 Rp to io France with especially prepared tt dealing dealing- with French ideals j j and nd French history so that on ng In I IVance rance they may know the sort r people they are arc coming among r SPECIAL COURSES 1 Special courses will be arranged in French universities in languages his hiss histOry history tory art and other subjects for soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers particularly during the long long- pe- pe f of demobilization which may re- re a year or more after the conClusion con con- of the war Thus French culture cul- cul Iture ture turl will be bo can carried led back to the United Stales Dr John II Inley Finley New York state commissioner of education Is to France to take tako charge of or h the Hh th work r r James Kerney and Hugh Gibson representing the tho committee on public information were present at the luncheon Mr 11 Gibson outlined the obJect ob- ob I 1 and purposes of or the of information throughout France con- con earning Americas America's part in the war and about her army Mr Kerney has prepared prepared pros pre pro s pared illustrated leaflets for distribution by authority of the minIstry ministry min mm- of ot public instruction throughout the schools in France so that the children children chil chil- dren may know and take tako home with them easily understandable descriptions descriptions bons of ot the unselfish purposes of ot the American people in sending sending- their army to l France not to return until a a. victory victory victory vic vic- tory is won Lucien Poincare rector of ot the Sorbonne Sorbonne Sor- Sor bonne spoke with great feeling of ot I Frances Franco's appreciation of ot the spirit In which the tho United States is fighting InthA in inthe I th the thA war |