Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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A MESSAGE FROM FRANCE Spirit of This Vffar Pictured by French Schoolgirl in Letter Received by John H. Finley. THIS letter is one of the many messages which have been received from the schools of France in response to the messages from American universities and schools, carried to them by John H. Finley, Commissioner of Education and President qf the University of the State of New York. It is reproduced here and comes from a pupil in the Lycee Victor Durny in Paris, which he visited last May, and there heard the pupils singing “The Star Spangled Banner” in French and crying in chorus, “Vive 1’ Amerique.” It is doubted if there has been a more graphic or poetic expression of that which separates the men in the opposing trenches or of that which brings America and France together. 0 **/t was only a little river, almost a brook; it was called the Yser. One could talk from one side to the other without raising one’s voice, and the birds could fly over it with one sweep of their wings. And on the two banks there were millions of men, the one turned toward the other, eye to eye. But the distance which separated them was greater than the stars in the sky; it was the distance which separates right from injustice. ** The ocean is so vast that the sea gulls do not dare to cross it. During seven days and seven nights the great steamships of America, •going at full speed, drive through the deep waters before the lighthouses of France come into view; but from one side to the other hearts are touching.” ,