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Show OOli TO FRANCE TO IIELPJOLOIER BOYS LEliFIH Sigurd Russell, globe trotter by inclination, in-clination, newspapermen and lecturer by trade, and anything from bootblack to aviator during' Ills travels, came to Ogden this morning and departed at 1 p. m. for Washington, D. C. Mr. Russell was born in Des Moines. Iowa, and went with his parents to France when ho was IS months old. He 'returned to this country unable to speak his native tongue but highly proficient in tho French language. Ho is one of the few Americans who has graduated from a French university. Al his studies stud-ies were made in Geneva and Paris, he says. He bas also been to Europe half a dozen times and to Africa and Asia as well. Ho has just returned from his third trip to the Hawaiian islands and is going to Washington to offer his servicos to the government as an interpreter. in-terpreter. Mr. Russell is above the draft age and will try in this manner to get into active service for his country. coun-try. In discussing his proposition this morning, he gave the following interview: inter-view: "I have sent to Washington a plan by which I would lecture to the French troops in their own "language about America. I 'believe that a greater knowledge of our ways, our commerce and our history will tend to bring a relationship, not only between the two armies during the war. but more especially es-pecially during the period of readjustment readjust-ment after the war. "I shall also be ready to teach our soldiers going over there the elemen-tanes elemen-tanes of French conversation, with a simplified method which enables a man to get along anywhere in Franco after a course of three weeks. "Though the -war has been going on for over three years, it has been noted that troops do not learn foreign languages lan-guages sufficiently to be useful thov are loo busy training and fighting. So inGl n sreat.need for interpreters and boiled -down methods of teaching. teach-ing. sal? 7ralyS th?, WOnder of America," fin d ?Jr. Rusaell. "You find nothing the group contain in miniature all SvS fhbTi,ea ne flnds scattered tht Af Sbe- AsIde from is, since the American occupation it has become be-come the most important sugar factor of the country, this year producing sugar to a raw valuation of ?700C ?000 and Mer, half that mu in p neapples -aside from coffee, cotton, etc. Tho Hawaiian islands have since he war started, enjoyed a most am mg prosperity. The government has spent millions there for defenc e Mr poses in Honolulu, Pearl Harbo? and other parts. It is now our buffer Gi- r? l'a forcible "rgument-which will do more to stem thl tide of Tyel low peril, than all the doctrines and diplomacy In the world. nes and "The prosperity of the Islands Is spread among all the classes Laborers Labor-ers have done well. Merchants have done well and the 10,000 stockholders of the sugar plantations have done well. "This year all those working for tho sugar plantations received a 78 per cent bonus of their total years' wages as a Christmas present. A man earning earn-ing ?1000 a year getting $780, and so on, m proportion. Last year the bonus was 60 per cent and the year before -10 per cent." |