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Show DESEEEtEYENING NEWS. Cfaartftod ad fa VewiNUM' YVfarther worry. It's alwaj C PMIUM, haMcM 1X1 eoneiafea In lb Kewi will right aide ai the Wl jm ldmlfnthe . TRUTH . section floM Saturday March three AND UBEBTT. salt lake city utIh 23 1918 EIGHT PAGES Ready For Arrival of Time of Reconstruction Scenes of Famous Battles Mouquet Farm, Arras Sugar Factory, and Fisherman's Hut to Rise Again Help From the State Great Competition Organized Attracts Best Work of Artists and Architects Local Characteristics Preserved Opportunity For Inditndaal Americans to Aid in Reconstruction of Rained Farms and Hamlets French Artists Have Lovingly Planned Rebuilding of Devastated Areas With an Bye toPreserving Native Peculiarities and Art of Widely Varying Districts Hour Red Scar of War X ' Witt be Healed. , l ' , , iff? :;r j (Special Correspondence). ' Vj Do you remem- . lTfT'1. March 13. bee Mouquet Farm? Do you still recollect your bewilderment ifbout ( the Ferrymans House? Hare you Forgotten the brickyard a Givenchy or the sugar factory at Arra? In the terriblj) distant f the war, wasn't there a Fosse 8, which pit No. 8? In the special storiea written by correspondents how many Moutins were men ' 7 work oFsoldTers born on Uiatsoif and loving it more than the adopted cities of theor grown-u- p years. One . 'v, TV" :sfv :. k rM 'iUu 1 e "... , 1 s 0? JT - 1 y rf, s4 the stork of' Alsace, "the m thee emmneys-fo- r 4 titnl birds of good fortune. r ' NOTHING FOR THE TOURISTS. Nothing in all these plans has been put in for. he tourists from foreign lands, and this ia especial y true for tbe two provinces, for the reconstruction t f j jK work is to be in mountainous and inaccessible re-gions, far from the smooth worn track of the sightseer or student. Nevertheless the best talent baa given itse'f to beautifying this region. -For the other districts the tourists and traveler tbeedf i -War at a distance is so mysterious that people have been taken into consideration in the designs for the auberges. or inns. Many persons have ro- hrdly realisd some of its simplest terms. one of the easiest things to understand is that marked that the large number of plans for such in-stitefions seem to point rather to tbe spread of what Koeqoct Firma simply a farm. In the house and as waged one bf the most dreadful tbe French call "akoolism, but the truth is that JG ground it the inns of France are strangers always to drunk- - jf attics of the war. But what happened to the farm? t enness and disorder, and are in reality a social cen- - 1 .L fbt will M. Mouquet find wiien he get home and A. ter and a peasants forum, and it vras with the ides f h ifady to start his simple French farming again? K His Cat old boat 4' of extending their usefulness for these functions jbd the Ferryman at Dixmude? t ' (I ,, that the pans were made. sit destroyed long ago then his house, that worth house which meant so mpch in thl fas Ferryman Fqr the tourist and traveler the inns built from 3 What will he find when he returns maniniques. the new plans wilt be s haven of light and com- - (, l fa. Someone will have to make bricks again at Givenchy fort, for if they retain, as they are sure to do, $ What will they find to go on ud sugar at Arras. their spirit of hospitality, their excellent cuisine, f rj iii? Where will they live?J their reasonableness in prices, and eliminate the j: OF HEMKP FRANCE. !! These are questions which, thank Heaven and K Farmstead In ABOVE physical defects according to the architects orders, Pasnt). ' fa Atlantic Ocean, will never have a direct appeal UPPER IUGI1T KrosHnnlnl Ina tn Flanders. they will be very close within a Stone's throw of c A VoHgea Farm House, Where (he Dwrllm Lite Plenty of b Americans. It ia not likely that Joness place - - , IjOVVEK the perfect resting place for wanderers. . . st the fork of the roads in the county of Salem, ' light and Air. are Healthfulness, elealinese, picturesqueness Sew iersey, will be shelled tomorrow or next t provided for not only in the aubergea, but in tbe jrear. Bat America has show its sympathetic interest in window many kinds of small artisans' cottages, the peasants space. In the winter the living room is enSPIRIT OF OLD LORRAINE. rethe and roads still dwellings, although they fa French question already and the effort of titled to all the sunshine it ran and workmens homes, the architects have met j main close to the heart and pride of the peasants. get, because the French irtist to answer them must have a great 1 a Artistic of tradition tbe one been has chief npcan-nrefarmer and his family are always there. The arBut in sll, the changes are acceptable to both the problems similar to those which would confront sorest. So far, however, Americans havd occupied ' for judging the plana submitted at the Paris American if they were told to plan for homes in all f , chitect has even put in a dripping-boar- d for tbe the artists and inhabitants. faaaeives with large cities and towns. Tlt French, , parts of the country, each part to have its own style, wear. With competition, and it U interesting to note in this reheavy sabots which the Vosgian Americans have been careful in retaining she are an intensely rural people, have mean a stable for eleven cows and fivepeasant this bouse lation that in the rebuilding of Vitrimont the Ameri-lea- n t If the tradition and art. There ia the question of climate. in native the Frenchmen horses, have the art architecture, wbk devoted themselves to the problem of the very of the new town have retained been France, like the United States, has provinces con- j . can be built for about 9,000. , ; passionate for the same ideal. What was done mall Tillage, thg isolated farm house, the and old the Lorraine. art of village spirit tinually enjoying flowers and palm trees and a sun- - T.j All the architects had to fight out the problem mean-t- o in in do all .at Vitrimont, Lorraine, they - " faje, the mills and. estamlnets, the rural Vitrimont is a good example! . Although ft yips, of tbe stable.- - Tbe first principle of good farmingthe villages and farms in Alsace. The task here u light, and others accustomed to terrific winters. Part , wk stake Journey through the French country-sd- r in France ia that the farmer must be near hi aniof Francs is mountainous, part arid, part irrigated. in German hands Tor only 48 hoars in August, 1914, - a great one. For many years the Germans, in In tome as attractive, , parts stone is unknown and everything is mals during tha night. It is said that this is in or'" some 30 or 35 of its 0 houses ard cottages were determined to Kultur enforce and their' attempts Before describing what the French artist hav T built of wood; in others quite the reverse is true, blown set on and The rest the fire. save 'them, by up stove one both. for But been Germanise have the of beating using detu Alsace, " by people effacing An, my' suggestion may be made. It is that the truth if that the and all these elements enter into the problem and French government sent men to repair fa few of everything French, and simple stables of the Frem-everything native, both Amervaoi who can afford H (after the spirit of its architecture. And incidentally R ia patriotically homes which suffered from the least bombardment being equally nnder suspicion. arc no safeguard of a horse's health, and in peasant , pirisf (heir full income tax and all of their excess case of accident the farmer must be this divergency of - things geographical, But Mr. William of San Crocker, racial. recently to Francisco, save is when Now tbe to France will hive ready coming day profits, and after subscribing to Liberty Bonds), and Miss Daisy Polk began the real reconstruction. his horse from strangling or from any other ill. efface everything German in the two provinces, and meteorological, packed tight but yet distinguishable Amid look st the work done by these artists and The architect who used to build apartment houses In most esses the fonndations were retained. Sev- in this work she is certain to have the approval of. in k small arem, that helps to give France the char- fas pick oult a house they like, and order it built acter and beauty which makes It the most interest- - fi in Paris have solved this problem. Some-pvilla and eral changes were made, if is true, these will add to the best part of the world, fartistic and sentimental. fir jorae poor. Frenchman f repatriated to a house of ing country for the traveler. the shed between the servants room and tbe the health and pleasure of the inhabitants. Moreover it will be wwrk of double restoration. The sable and ruin. The "great American cities may f some put the stable next to the proprietor's DIVERSITY s, STYLES. OF school has been moved. Tha fumiers those manure-heap-s inns for The and stable, artisans plans afcpt French orphan-citie(j but it is up to Ameri- - bedroom. But all of them hare followed the tradiso well known to everyone who has ever passThe barest experience in tbe countryside of t shops and dwellings in Alsace and Lorraine are esas individuals to let the French architects supply tion of the couptry. ed by a French village have been shifted far from pecially picturesque', and in many instances are the France is enough. A visit to the galleries where the ' fa plan for the humble cottage while they Ihem-dM. Paul Leon, of the Beaux-Arthe g as j put up a for money head the of architecture what department, is exhibiting f they have not suffered. the plans to the public; convince the amateur that f . the style for one district Will never do for the other, I . . the red A and that the draughtsmen have done their work well. ; great writer, Mr. John Masefield, has written It is interesting to compare these plan with the i bk about The Old Front Line," which millions ' corres- soldiers and a few hundred newspaper, accomplishment of the British architect who built a ) -whole town under the auspice of Hi Majestys Of- - I Mdmt will appreciate morevthan any other book f the war. It is the book of the desolate fice of Work. The problem for this architect waa i country different. He bad to build a munition town to or- - i Ihrougk which the reel scar of battle runs. Some- With Flowers Blooming in the Wilderness o( Factory Soot, and With Beal Home Atmosphere, They Have Pushed Labors hei Mr. Masefield der. Instead of running up any sort of buildings be says that in time the flowers Cause Ages Ahead Working Conditions As Safe and Healthful as Human Ingenuity Can Make Them Skirtless Unitill gnjr again on the black, torn earth and to follow the old village style of England, decided people forms Almost Universally Worn, No Outside Pockets, Nothing to Catch On Machinery AO Recent Steps Directed rB forget. Before particularly of Kent, He had the advantage of be-- I they forget, before the flowers Toward State Socialism. tiov, the peasant and the shepherd must be restored ing free to plan the whole town as well as the in- - j h hf land; his house must be rebuilt, hit stables dividual houses, so that he put in curved streets and I FOR THE SATURDAY NEWS BY KHETA CHILD E DORR. fade ready, and a little im must be set left a little common ground here and there. But 1 up in the his work showed the benefits of, the French idea for himnd his wife to viVt. - . , ON' DON, (By Mall.) It was la Tbs is the wogk for which a a bright-eve- d era, family photographs and small per- J clearly. He also made his houses as people in that ing In a , engineering trades hitherto menope- -. prise competition Used by an aristocracy of men. Kt t one of .. the' great Industrial ng sparrow sailed out of tbe dingy sonal belongings made the bedrooms country bad always made them. ' And heid under the although he auspices of the French ministry so close to 'A hinterland and hovered homelike. all this moving and transferring and suburbs of London, a place of (gnculture- -. In this competition there were 1,498 tha sand heap thaz the children In tha big tiring room was usually had to put a thousand of them up in an area which changing about involved difficulties narrow cobbled streets flunked a. bright open flrtand a piano or a would once have sufficed for new and unforeseen. slopped playing and tried to catch ft. wifatants, the greater part of whom were men and on both sides only a hundred or So, by friedfiah shops, pub- . Labor la not Babies, flowers, wood birds in tbe tnere commodity, it phonograph. There were newspapers, home on 20 days leave, who left the trenches work so done was well Well Hall, near the that to books devoted a human and of a midst to town, comfortable and lie when factory houses, green grocers and other magazine, proposition, h do another bit for France. Some sf them bad purveyors. chair like a country club. M out of Woolwich, the great arsenal town, already looks Double decked train cars engines and materials of death - you move a mass of men and m the botela a I had either smalt seemed to me eo Incongruous that from one rises to another, you hate jangled noelly along the ways, anlike s real Engl'sh town. The Frenchmen, deal, VC17 spots for which they designed their ff or a dispensary with a trainedhospital nurse to peov'de them with food, abetter for explanations. Tbe d& over all, atreets, shops, trams - and begged in 0ld.ngs. Others, by the hard irony of war and and o? all out attendance, and was had a if other besides crowds of superinnursery, ing only with isolated bouses, or at best with little grew many a admitred.y people, working things hurrying tendent who was Now. fa cruel fata of an invaded country, had trained social groups, will have an easier time. Both the. French England's necessity, not benevolence. pall of smok) fog which In suih neigh actually worker. In . labor fore waa w Industrial net s answers alien.. It borbooda for atmosphere. neighborhood) many -- fi the and the English have shown that sound architectural There were few rules or regulations. guns which destroyed what they were now To the left. -- behind high walls English fxotch. . Welsn. Irish and throughout the United Kingdom tl s The hotels were boarding homes and and artistic most of the fores was' used to decent chief reserve of .labor wan found timing to rebuild. Of the 340 contestants for the guarded at every gate by many policeprinciples can be employed in the buildtbe were as boarders free aa to there women with men. loomed one of she largest muni, Jwl Itving. Confusion, unrest and genamong married young prizes, 270 were mobilised. Some of the re-ing of modern towns and bouses. any other kind of a lodging. ulne suffering followed their transferchildren. , 8omf of these ..women tlona works to Brest Brl'ain. As far This waa Just, the firm step. When ence to the munitions towns. warn war widows;'" some had husThe plans in the Freneh exhibit belong to tbe fat little more amusing than useful. For as the oye could see. huge buildings an English girl, completing her bands invalided home from France, from which poured the roar of ma(iomethlsg had to be done, ami pie, disturbed by the huge propor In one of tbe iO or more republic. Hundreds of sets are being made up, and training since some the In had the of minister steam husbands the trenches, hammer munitions of at chinery. clang OM of the schools for munition workers, goes will be sent to the mayors of the liberated towns. stable he was required to plan, delib- - and that - time happened to be David and others still had husbands in the the whir and beat of wheels, to a distant point to take on a job Others will factories. falo'y separated the cows from their calves, Othera, was done. overhead." towering chlmnea beicii-In- g something be'kept until such time as the FVench and making or filling sheila, building In all government owned and conThe great loss of inen and the smoke and Dame. fa knowing country life .any too. well, designed cot- aeroplanes or whatever else, she is British and the American guns, doing work of destrolled munition works, shipyard, dearth of workers. among was. in fact, a consideraThe place met at1 the station by a fa and Interiors which would be more suitable for ble town Idevoted during 24 hours of mea mads tbe work of the women shall restore more land to France. aeroplane factories and other places woman official, and given responsible her choice truction, where war materials were produced, e necessary to the stale. Tbe women - every day to the production at highof the rich than for y of several comfortable lodging. Then, also, the returning refugees will get these an administration was organised to refused to work In number unless est pressure of arms and ammunition When she enters a factory she Is establish and maintain good living dwellings. But the greater part of the and war materials for Britains army their babies were cared for. Hence met and welcomed and thereafter free plans. conditions for the workers both were admirable, and In the day nurseries. And growing out to the field. The peasants and the mayors are at liberty to looked out for by a woman physician many of the pnae'-win-and out of tha factories. As for tha of England's great need of more and The street running through this fa and honorable-mentioand a woman superintendent. At change or modify, .but the hope is expressed that the in wood will housing problem, they tackled that more man power, which means womwere town with coal paved noon factory she to a big. essentials will be maintained. every day as they had from time immemorial M stucco and tile in tbe gjes an power also, other welfare work oa It is the intention of good time when the Ger- - ashen. The motor lorries running up dean, airy canteen Where, for a modfor the armies in the field. a is driven a scale undreamed of in pre-wand down were dirty gray like the est a she sum, bays nourishing meal, the government to pay a large part of the cost of reaway. billeted They, on the workers the days. buildings. It was, on the whole, about The French planned by dietary experts and pretowns. Not arbitrarily or tactlessly, these homes, and to lend the rest of the artiste set out to save the spirit of the moat hopelessly ugly and utilijVe know something kbout welfare pared by protewd.ina! cooks. , constructing however, but by persuasion. Women work Iq the United K tales, welfare h She works under conditions as safa required money at a low rate of interest. Undoubt-its buildings. Several tarian spot my'ptlgrimage through welfare workers, aided by voluntary work In department stores. Indiwartime England had provided. committees of woman, went from pIioo Americans will know in a Jew months that ny wealthy. Fnch men and Frenchwomen cTn vidual factories, or even In sn indusThen suddenly I came on a small to house, explaining the emerhouse, is not one habits. welfare oasts and of tows. In But customs a the will follow the example of Mr. Crocker and Miss Sahara If ugliness. They try dominating lump of gency: to appealing patriotism, ami was work as a government policy, instiknow the difference 'between wa long, low building surrounded wlthout much difficulty they obtained Tolk and rebuild villagev while the cities of the Picardy and the with aWooden .i'Thumanely tuted and largely paid for by the and her hours of work are palinga My guide rang an enormous number of eiean, combetween Artois and Alsace. The French United States are rebuilding the cities of France. a bell, a door opened and we stepped stats. Is something w have not yet limited. fortable and safe lodgings for muniBhe Wear .working mafa R clothes dedeveloped. But we may have to brightest and must Meantime the opportunity is great for individual tion workers. special point to submit no plan into one of the I hare t if this War lasts a long as signed for her comfort, health and Americans td build These lodgings have been suppleas not in keeping with the spirit of the charming day nurseries white and up individual dwellings, somesome Babies, pink and thebe, even, in safety, babies, predicted by some of the experts. mented all over the kingdom- - b hoy for which it was intended Take, toe ex- - fat. contented and gurgly. toddled and cases to the shoe, are provided fre where in tha unknown but none the less deserving tels. some established to rented Trained to Work. of cost by the employers. crawled over the white floor, played Pl, a little farm in the Vosges district. houses, others In portable houses parts of France. The plans Jiav been made, and I hare told of the titsnic tsvk aswith blocks at low tables or slept Kklnle Uniforms. similar to the Y. M. C: A. hut which i,re In Bt known in that district; you push th sumed British are to be had for tbe asking.! to corners. the government by now familiar sra to peacefully I beforeme have a objects Europe. pamphlet door open and there creating a new working uaa for tbe And in addition, these Americans who help reFlowers to WBdcracwa. 'Protective for you are. The country is , Clothing Plotter la Roonvt. production of munitions: how mass? f. but the sunshine is intense and pleasant, and ' There was a covered veranda ad.Women and titrl Workers in Facwill have the satlsfacrf're of participating in of labor were moved from on par build, Bom of these hotels where I have tories and Workshops." This pamphtarme there joining the main room, and beyond of the country to another: how thouseen hundreds of women and girl likes both the sun and the keen the renaissance of France- - anti the renaissance of let waa prepared for the British gova garden space where, the head that sweated sands were and of unskilled lodgers every bit ss attractive ernment from Information supplied J- Therefore, M. Henri Vidal ha planned him a nurse assured me. they were able in a. French art in the country. to skilled and and as comfortable a a girls' boardwrkr were trained how by factory Inspectors, superintendsummer to grow flower. It seemed thousands school. on the mountain side, woman Each had her own ing trades; tree, up ents H. GEORGE and physicians. AJjJD GILBERT SELDES. j n Impossible, but, even as I paused to more were transferred from tiny cubicle, unless she preferred to Adding with tiles for facings, and plenty of watch . a group of older babies play double up with a friend. Potted flow- women's trades to the sacred (Copyright, 1918, by Edward Marshall). (Continued Oa page two, jo ii tV- - TS n irrt Cer-ou- ly 1 ' Wvfat t 1 1 -- a : ts , -- " ut farm-house- s; under-secreta- ry thank-offerin- scar of battle. GOOD HOMES MAKE BRITISH WOMEN CONTENTED WHILE DOING WAR WORK sand-heap- 1 , - nevrly-mobilu- t, Lioyd-Oeorg- e, able-bodi- 'fary-house- work-a-da- jf! ar . rneSpro'U" , ever-see- Cor-odo- rs ' semi-skille- d ed 1. S |