--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 9 number: 4 published: 1906-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, \"France's New President,\" *Improvement Era* 9, no. 4 (February 1906): 319." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera0904unse start_page: 319 end_page: 319 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse publication_year: 1906 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # France's New President ■ MEMORIAL MONUMENT DEDICATION. 319 brought to earth by the man— Joseph. Here is the beginning! Back to the very birthplace of the Prophet, starting at the very fount, the Saints have begun to build up the waste places of Zion. That work is begun! It will never cease! And, as was foretold by President Lyman while on the trip, the spirit which was a very part of the Memorial company, and the work which they did, will be felt throughout the Church. That spirit, he said, was a foretaste of the influence and power which would accompany every such future expedition. The upward trend of such events is accelerating with each succeeding year. One other solemn thought rested like a benediction above the tried and troubled heart. The babe Joseph — he who played at his mother's knees at that very hearthstone — belonged to his tender, loving mother. The youth Joseph belonged to his devoted and still somewhat exclusive kinsmen. But the man Joseph — he of the heaven-seeing visions, and of the earth reforming principles— this man Joseph belonged to the people ! To me, to you, aye, and to all mankind. Who are his kindred and his friends today? They are even as the kindred of his worshiped Master — those who serve God and keep his commandments. God manifested in his own way that Joseph belonged wholly and solely to the people; only so can the peeple belong to him. (to be concluded in march number.) FRANCE'S NEW PRESIDENT. On the 18th of December, President Loubet of France closed his seven-year mandate, and according to law his successor was elected on January 17. M. C. A. Fallieres, age 65, and president of the French Senate, was the man elected. He is said to be roundshouldered and ungainly, with no special talents, but with a smooth political career. He got office before he was forty, and has been president of the Senate for nearly ten years. He is the regular type of the old fashioned Republican, and is strongly anti-clerical.