YEAR 83, NO. 286 A REJUVENATION PAGES 9-14 5 SECOND SECTION | state for munitions, food, and trans- | port has been ereated, Do not, for example, hygiene and other great public services demand the adminis- trative organization and supreme "Thirdly, after two years of war, te . ARY = of thé state? , | Regeparation Necessary. and after great baltles, is not the revision of the supreme command Throughout the Enteate Allies Countries, necessary? There ure men bred of Says 2 French Writ { their great efforts for whom advis- ory posts e¢ould be reserved in re- { cognition of the great services ren- | dered, and there are others whose Italent has been revealed, who could | be prometed to positions which need At a OF RAPID DELIBERATION AND ACTION, HE SAYS, In Speaking Particularly of France, He Says Everything Should Be| capacities are no longer up to the' Under the Direction of the Gov- ernment, Paris, Dee. 7.--A French political writer of note who has exceptional inside knowledge of affairs has writ- ten the following article on the Al- lied political situation: "Sir Edward Carson said a year ago: 'It is a terrible error to.think one can preserve all the organizations of peacé time during a war.' The French crisis, which is not really a crisis, but a regeneration, has no other order but this. "The Institution of a new order of things is incumbent on the French as on the British and Russian gov- ernments. Everywhere military meth- ods, discipline, co-ordination and se- lection are essential to the supreme necessity of immediate action, When one has constructed cannon able to hurl shells xt an initial speed of so many hundred yards a second, it is impossible for thé men behind these cannon--the military leaders andl political organizers--to have a thinking capacity the rapidity of which Is not in relation to the powers of these engines. And when one has shells weighing a ton, which strike a target with the force of a mountain hurled from its base, the mén who directly or indirectly. have unloosed this defensive cataclysm, must pro- tect their ideals from the state of conception to that of realization with the same lightning raving and the same formidable impaet. In all the European states now. at war. there fs a search for these men of rapid thought and immediate getion. "It has become impossible to keep the efvic population behind the line ot the armies without sd inimiediate Hk of co-operktion with the com- batants, . The zone of the armies Is a fiction, 'The general mobilization of all able-bodied 'men after two years of war entails the mobilization of the whole population, It might have been foreseen. Make peace or act. Make peace or have universs! state control. . There is no question of making peace. After a week of the Chamber's secret session, if anything has transpired of parliament's delib- erations, it is the unshakable resolu- tion of the country to pursue the war, to make new efforts and sacri- fices, ! i '» Deliberate Rapidly. "Another sentiment is also becom- ing more and more pronounced after eight days' debating--the necessity to take quick resolutions rapidly. The Chamber has decided to hear in public the questions put down for secret hearing, and it is even re- solved to eliminate some to shorten the secret sessiof, It is necessary to deliberate. It is of capital importance to deliberate rapidly. Is the present governmental organization of France in conformity with the great exig- encies of the war and of the inevit- able transformation which it entails, morally and materially, in this coun- try? This, in short, is the great question now under discussion. Firstly, there is at the top the su- preme chief representing the nation. Are his powers sufficient--too re- strictive or badly restricted? The President of the French Republic re- sembles in nothing the President of the United States. He lacks the war powers which make of the American Chief Magistrate the leader of direct action. "Secondly, does the actual number of ministers answer the requirements of the House? An under-secretary of | their energy and initiative. | time when once niore the flower of | French manhood is to be called to | arms, regeneration is necessary; be- | ginning at the top, whatever the civil or military situation of indivi- duals who by their age, vigor and {level of what the hours calls for. { Here again comparison between men and their armaments comes in. Big guns ane very efficacious, but quickly wear out. Frante has had not only [ to renew her armaments, but to in- | vent and create new ones. That is the task she is now engaged on. She is creating new human material, new brains, new energies. It is necessary | to hurl at the enemy with increasing | rapidity a new crushing weight of | our resolution to conquer." A---- r-- > + FOE WANTS BACK | * ALL HIS COLONIES, | ® ---- . |# Amsterdam, Dec, 7.--A Ber- | # lin despatch says that the war | % aims of the German Radicals have been set forth by Prof. Karl Doormann, leader of the Radical party in the Reichstag, as follows: "We don't reject annexations if our rulers believe them neces- sary from a military or econom- ie point of view. We cannot permit the Entente to declare an economic war against us after the present war, We # must get back all our colonies, + Germany must be assured of & her right to exist independently ¥ and -Adevelop as she chooses." I EPPS 4400 PRP PEP Pee Vee ge CPPS FPPP rr POP eee SA ------ ~~ Death claimed for her own the childhood life of Hilda Provins sec- ond 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. KE. 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