Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — SOIL FROM FRANCE [ARTICLE]

SOIL FROM FRANCE

Earth for Filling Purposes About Statue of Liberty

Here is a striking instance of thrift manifesting itself in poetical justice. The tiny island in New York harbor on which stands Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty is being enlarged. The soil used for fllling-in purposes comes from France. It is the debris from the trenches, military railway lines, warehouses and wharves. It was brought to America as ballast for the transports that carried our mighty legions of liberty to France. Thus is mingled the soil of the two republics as a setting for the world’s most typical symbol of liberty, just as the bodies of thousands of American sons are today mingled with the soil of Francs' under the crosses where they lie. In this humble yet beautiful demonstration of the kindred ideals of the two nations, American thrift, which did so much to make victory possible, was the underlying impulse. —Thrift Magazine.