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Show URGED TO REBUILD HOMES Premier Clemenceau Points Out Duty of Former Dwellers in Devastated Devas-tated Regions. pnrS. rremier Clemenceau began a visit to the devastated regions, entering enter-ing the zone of protracted warfare at St. Quentin. The premier encouraged the people to question him and bring forward any complaints which they had to make, and they were not slow in do-n do-n g so. In addressing the population of St. Quentia, M. Clemenceau declared de-clared that, now that peace is concluded, conclud-ed, the work of ("instruction and reform re-form would be the government's foremost fore-most care. "The difficulties ws meet at every step," he said, "cannot be resolved by old rules. New methods larrit b? found for new requirements. eJd we must, above all, lenrn to use fLM free Individual Indi-vidual initiative which t::. republic must strive to develop. It !s it good practice for a democratic cou'y to j leave everything to the corernm t. I ! "Tou will have to rebuild your homes, and perhaps the habit thus required re-quired by the Frenchman of depending on himself to make the effort will contribute con-tribute to still further democratize our country. "One of the advantages of peace Is that it Is based on the unions of peoples peo-ples who have saved the world. We each have need of the oth-r. P.arhnr-i.-m is definitely d.-stroycl. but only ; on condition that we all se to it that j the stipuiutions of the treaty are executed." |