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House & Garden 
ALL MUSIC FINDS FULL AND TRUE EXPRESSION IN ITS MELLOW TONES 
wonderful instrument—the violin—is a distinc' 
tive feature of The Cheney’s musical quality. 
CHICAGO 
NEW YORK 
THE CHENEY TALKING MACHINE COMPANY 
DEALERS EVERYWHERE 
The Cheney Resonator 
The American Committee has workers busy in the fields 
which they have reclaimed and brought back from devasta¬ 
tion to a state of fertile productiveness 
The French farmer is naturally thrifty, but the restoration 
of his pre-war prosperity is a tremendous task. Cattle, 
crops, houses—all must be supplied 
VIOLIN’S Resonance in ty (9/ie (Cheney 
The essential principles of violin construction 
are found in the resonator of each Cheney. 
The form, the wood, the principle are identical. 
(Continued from page 51) 
the soil plowed and seeds planted. Cable 
tractors remove the barbed wire and 
wreckage. In the Department of Coucy, 
where the American Committee for 
Devastated France has established 
twenty agricultural syndicates, and 
where they have twenty tractors that 
they loan to small farmers, three thou¬ 
sand acres of devastated land have been 
reclaimed and are growing. Similar 
progress is reported in other districts 
of Northern France. 
In the Department of the Aisne 
(where the American Committee works) 
there were approximately 25,000 hec¬ 
tares (a hectare is 2)4 acres) which were 
so badly scarred and so utterly de¬ 
stroyed, that no attempt was made, be¬ 
cause of the expense, to clear and level 
the soil. The American Committee in¬ 
vited an expert from this country, Mr. 
Hal Fullerton, to give practical advice 
in this matter, and he is in accord 
with the Director of Agriculture for 
the Department of the Aisne, that it 
is not a question of uncultivatable 
lands; on the contrary, there is vege¬ 
tation at the very bottom of the shell 
holes, proving the soil to have retained 
its value, but until France has settled 
some of her more pressing needs, these 
25,000 hectares will remain untouched 
pending the settlement of her indem¬ 
nities. The work accomplished by the 
French Government in putting the high¬ 
ways into condition, as well as the very 
great number of temporary barracks 
which serve as school buildings and 
homes which have been erected by the 
Government, is staggering. Andre 
Tardieu in an article recently issued by 
him, reports 3,500,000 hectares of shell- 
torn ground cleared; 1,500,000 hectares 
placed under cultivation; 1,799,000 
houses fully repaired, 50,000 provis¬ 
ionally repaired and 3,500 constructed. 
France has confidence in her destiny. 
There is not a shadow of pessimism. 
The reconstruction of her devastated 
areas will be slow, but today, fields 
and gardens, tilled and sown, triumph¬ 
antly frame her ruined villages. The 
people are fully aware of the pressing 
problem before the Government and 
the magnitude of the task before M. 
Millerand to secure her claims of in¬ 
demnity with which to reconstruct 
shattered homes, and to maintain 
France’s position in the world. 
The American Committee for De¬ 
vastated France is planning to organize 
a French Agricultural School, in close 
cooperation with the French Govern¬ 
ment. It will consist of a demonstra¬ 
tion farm of 375 acres with sufficient 
housing capacity for eighty boys and 
eighty girls—war orphans—and the pur¬ 
pose of the school will be to make it an 
educational and demonstration center 
for the young farmers of the district, 
many of whom have been denied edu¬ 
cational advantages for five years dur¬ 
ing the war, although they are now be¬ 
yond school age. There will be prac¬ 
tical demonstrations, for instance, of the 
use of the wheel-hoe, one of the most 
useful of modern implements, the use 
of the plow for opening furrows, of 
motor-driven implements and the trac¬ 
tors that have proven of so much worth. 
