The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-31
FRANCE IN TURMOIL
0VERSCHOOL CLOSING
Congress in Paris for the Pro-
lection Of Women.
LION OF TIE PARIS SEASON
Automobiles Allowed to Run at the Rate
of Thirty Miles an Hour Through
the Main Thoroughfares-"lhe
Hotel Cecil Unlimited
LION OF THE PARIS SEASON
BY Max O'ReH

Especial Gable to The Times-Copyright 1922
PARIS. Aug. 3O.-The White Slave
Trade Congress in Paris is over. It can
not be said that they have achieved moth
ing, because they have unanimously de-
clared that it should be crime TO de-
coy women under age for immoral pur-
poses and also to deCoy women or any
age by force or treachery. But TINS. TO
my mind, is not altogether saustact-
Dry.
i think that the infamous scoundrels of
both sexes who profit by the poverty or
the unprotected state of women to lead
them to irretrievable ruin should be ner-
ciiessly sent to penal SerVitude. Not I'M
til this is done by the Legislature Of
all civilized nations in the world Will
the disgraceful, crying evil be put
'Nop - rRANcE=IN TURMOIL.
France is still in q turmoil on account
of the enforcement of the ASSOCIATIONS
law. All the congregations and schools
which are being closed by the Govern
ment, and their inmates expelled by the
police. should have received q six months
notice to leave, at the very least Dur
ing that time they could have made their
preparations and set themselves right
with the law; but they are being dealt
with as ndiscrminateIy and roughly as
If they were gambling hells or disorderly
houses. and the people are getting IN
Colonel de Saint emy. of the Eigh-
teenth Chasseurs, is going to be tried be-
fore a court marital for refusing to lead
his soldiers as a regiment OF policemen.
Now, the army is instituted to protect the
country against foreigners, and although
it may be used to suppress revolution
in arms, it never was meant to play the
part of the police.
The advanced Republicans who are in
power at present. the the very first to
Insti into soldiers the respect Oh "a t t1,a
a gallant officer should be unable to re-
spect his own, and be compelled to I'M
dertake q loathsome piece OF work which
Stinks in his nostrils.
You speak of tyrannical monarchs, but
for tyranny give me the government OF
the mob, from the reign o. or tie, terror 81 to
sian autocrats are not IN IT.
LION OF THE SEASON.
AS you know. the lion of the last Paris
konnen, Prime Minister and Special En-
voy of Emperor Meneiii. OF Abyssinia.
He has made a great hit with US all. |
should have been surprised if the Scotch
had not discovered that the econy mag
nate was of Scotch origin.
The world is full of CALIFORNIAN soc;e-
ties, the main object of which is to dis,
cover that all the great men of the world
are Scotch extraction Shakespeare was
the only one who escaped 1t, but, con-
sidering the way he wrote there are
be taken for granted he had some Scotch
It appears that member of the Clan
MacKinnon lived in Abyssinia many
years ago. He was such favorite that
a whole tribe OF natives FORMED a clan
in his honor and adopted his name. Meme
likS chief adviser is probably one OF this
| clan. The statement that the name Ras
Makonnen is n thin disguise for Ross
AS,ckinnon is therefore peshaps cor
THIRTY MILES Ar5 HOUR.
| have to avoid their cabs which aim at
them, or to do their pest to get out OF
allowed to go at the rate of thirty miles
an hour in the main thorougnfares of
Paris. but they will have to be careful
to escape electrocuion on the very wood
In many parts of the French capital
the street car rails pass SO much On the
wood pavement that the cables, which
into an electric battery. The other day.
on the Avenue de IN RepnbliQue, it was
| amusing to witness horses and foot pas
sengerS executing WIG dances over which
they had no control.
! HOTEL CECIL. UNLIMITED.
| OF course the readers of the American
Marc! Marquis Of Salisbury Sal is Cecil. and that
the late Premier of England first made
a great hit as q journalist under his own
| name of Lord Robert Cecil: When, a
few years ago. he appointed Mr. A. j.
Balfour, his nephew, First Lord of the
Treasury: when after that, came the
appointment of the lattefs bcother, MIR.
Gerald Balfour, as Secretary for Ireland;
when these appointments were SUCCEED
ed by official posts given to Lord ord Salts SAT-
borne and his other sons. Lord Hugh
Cecil and another, people began to ac-
cuse Lord Salisbury OF nepousm and
! said:
He evidently thinks the good things
are all for his family
| a wag even went SO far as 10 baptize
the British Cabinet The Hotel Cecil, un-
/ limited"
| popn]ar So respected by followers and
opponents alike that there never was any
sign of popular indignation, nor even OF
| discomfort. But am not quite sure mat
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain Will do the same
! thing with equal success
The Colonial Minister has a strong fol,
lowing, but his opponents hate him, and
many many Of the supporters Of the Govern
ulent only endure him his Oldest son,
orchid buttonholed and sin g!
like his father. quite as stiff and as well
/ frockcoated as he, has just been appoint