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In the minds of many there is, I sup pose, a very hazy notion of our long standing debt to the little republic across the sea. The mention of ‘‘our debt to France” is met all too often with a credulous smile on the part of those who should know better. May it not be worth while briefly to call to mind what she has meant to America. It may appear that we have only the common cause for gratitude which falls to civilization at large in that we, with Europe, were freed from fear of destruction by the gallant victory of Joffre and his little band at the Battle of the Marne. Or perhaps we are ex pected only to share in the world wide admiration for the gallant de fense of Veerdun, or applaud with mil lions the never-ending heroisms of those bloody days in the battle-scarred valley of the Somme. We must, however, go farther than that, for we are French in part by right of discovery. Though France was unable to hold w’hat she had acquired *in this way, we can find traces even Page 6 TRENCH AND CAMP NAVY SALUTES ARMY and the National Army are assem bled, a paper that is designed and intended for the men of our Army. For, after all, this war is funda mentally a war of ideals, and the Nation that thinks the clearest and feels the deepest will do more to win the war now and to repair its ravages hereafter. “I do not understand that the today of the influence of her manners and customs on the region she once called her own. There is not a ham let from the mouth of the St. Law rence to the tidewaters of the Missis sippi, where Frenchmen once lived and loved, that does not bear the defi nite impress of their gentle life and sweet and courtly, bearing. The French in Canada and Louisiana have found sympathetic and generous in terpreters in men like Cable and Wm. H. Drummond who have given us in all their simple beauty, enchanting pen pictures of the lives of the descend ants of those unassuming children of the country of chivalry and courtesy. Later on, when the dark days of the Reevolution came, it was France who loyally stood by us with men and mon ey. It is probably known by few that we borrowed from France, or better, France gave us, several hundred mil lions of francs in the course of the seven years of the war. For this we gave- security which we repudiated af ter we had won our independence. In addition to the money were thousands of men entirely equipped, when we needed men the most, and two fleets which were of no little help in cutting off England’s supplies. At the time of Y. M. C. A. Is printing papers for the naval stations also (I hope it will do bo) but I would like the men of the Army tS know that whether they see news of the naval stations or not that the Navy is doing its part with head and hand in this great war, and that on the sea as well as in the trenches the men of the Navy, both marines and the surrender of Cornwallis in 1783 there were as many French troops in the American army as Americans themselves. The first redoubt which led to the eventual defeat of the Eng glish was taken by the troops of La fayette which he had completely sup plied with uniforms and equipment out of his own private purse. We must not forget either that the inspir ation to freedom had its mightiest im petus in the writings of the great Frefich authors of the eighteenth cen tury. Strange as it may seem, one might almost say that democracy was born of the most absolute despotism that Europe has every known. When incarnated in the life and action of men like Lafayette and Rochambeau it became the goad that drove Ameri ca to final freedom and liberty. And then the language which we use in our daily intercourse is at least one half French in origin, while the vo cabulary in many fields is entirely takeen from the same source. The beautiful sideof English has its an cestry from the Romanic tongues, ■while the sterner stuff comes from the Anglo Saxon. The clear-cut logic and artistic symmetry of the French sent ence has done much to smooth out the Oct. 17,1 blue Jackets, officers and men in the rank, are with that great body of young men who have been called at this time of national crisis to save the world from absolutism and to protect the institutions and the race for which our fathers died. “JOSEPHUS DANIELS, "Secretary of the Navy.’M I wrinklees in our rougher tongue. The flowery rhetoric of the orator, the per suasive eloquence of the lawyer and the tender pleading of the divine find their most practical vehicle of expres sion in the language born of the soft and gentle speech of Sunny France. TRANSFER RINgTnATIONAL ARMY Announcement of the transfer of 6,804 men of the national army from Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina now at Camp Jackson was made recently. The men from North and South Carolina will be sent to Camp Sevier at Greenville, to fill the ranks of the national guard of these two states, while the Florida mer. will the Florida men will go to Macon to complete national guard at Camp Wheeler. Os the men to be transferred, 1,300 are from Florida, 3,800 from South Carolina and 3,704 from North Carolina.