Word: pinons
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Your article on "Reconstruction Unit Needs More Contributions" in your issue of May 12, has been called to my attention. May I point out that the town of Pinon which you mention, is not going to be built by the French government, but by La Renaissance des Cites which is a voluntary, private association of a group of leading Frenchmen who see in the present conditions, an opportunity to remake a large section of France in a way to insure its four million inhabitants a better and healthier life than ever before...
...June 28, and on arriving in France will start a three-months' program of work in that part of the devastated regions lying between Rheims and Verdun. The members of the Unit will assist in the reconstruction of towns and villages in the areas ruined by the German invasion. Pinon, a town which is being rebuilt this summer by the French Government, will serve as a model for other reconstruction work...
...Pinon, a town between Soissons and Laon, will be combined all the artistic features that make French villages beautiful and all the sanitary improvements which make American cities healthful. The town will have a community house and a playground attached to the school where the French children can play the Rugby they have learned from the English soldiers. Pinon will also have an adequate system of waterworks, a public bath house and laundry, and a dispensary and emergency hospital. These features will practically all be entirely new to French towns...