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Show French Cling to Old Ways - -V . . Prejudices Hamper Work of Rebuilding Re-building Area Devastated by War. DON'T TAKE TO NEW IDEAS Hard to Convince Inhabitants That What Was Good Enough for Their Grandfathers Is Not Good Enough for Them. New York. Model cities and villages vil-lages will soon be springing up in the War districts of France provided the Inhabitants can be convinced that what was good enough for their grandfathers grand-fathers is not good enough for them, j There is the rub. The civic idealists, i many of them Americans, who set I nut with a vision of mode! towns j rising from old ruins are running up against the same quirks of towns and villages throughout the 'devastated areas, it finally selected the village of I'inon. on account of its having hav-ing a population typical of northern France, both from the farming and industrial points of view, and also on account of its being near I'aris on direct rail and road routes, which will make it easy of access both to Frenchmen and foreign visitors. Natives Grumble. I'inon was completely destroyed in the war. At least one member of practically every family that lived there before the war has returned, to live in some sort of hastily built shack, waiting for the old homos to be rebuilt. At first most of the natives na-tives did not favor the idea of having I'inon used as a model village, but after long discussions tl.ey decided tn let La I'enuissMioe des Cites create one for them. The general plans were tlrawn up by ('buries Abella. a winner of the much coveted Prix de Rome in architecture. An American committee lias been formed to get funds from the United States to he expended in the reconstruct inn of Pinon. This committee com-mittee has representative.1, in many large American cities. Tbe committee plans to turn over to the French or-'.'"tiization or-'.'"tiization an amount sufficient not only to rebuild one devastated town, bill to provide a number of homeless war viefms with permanent shelter. Tie planners continue with their work, hut some of tbe old natives art reluctant to fake up these "newfangleS fads." |