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Show TO HELP REBUILD FRENCH CITIES. Americans are to help tho French In more ways than one. The latest proposal is for American students to aid in rebuilding the devastated regions reg-ions in Franco and Belgium as rap-Idly rap-Idly as the Germans are driven back, and Ambassador Jusserand, to whom the offer was made, has forwarded the proposition to his government. Tho plan is to send city-beautiful units of architects and engineers to Europe to reconstruct tho ruined municipalities municipali-ties along model lines In order that the war zono In Franco and Belgium may emerge as one of the most beautiful beau-tiful regions on earth. Dr. Edmund Janes James, president of the University Uni-versity of Illinois, brought tho offer to Ambassador Jusserand. The university univer-sity will open a special city-planning school in order to train professional men for service in these units. Each unit, Dr. James explained, will consist of an architect, a landscape architect, an electrical engineer, a highway civil engineer, a municipal and sanitary engineer, en-gineer, a chemical engineer, and an economist. The training school, which wjll combine special courses of the university's school of architecture and its various engineering schools, will teach the co operation necessary to make the building units effective The course will last six months, at the end of which time it Is hoped to send the first units abroad. |