The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
PEACE DELEGATES
 ARE VERY AMUSING Mir, Carnegie Also Causes
 Merriment WAR A SCHOOL OF LIFE The Conference Has Reached the Height of Naive Absurdity-Heat
 Is Given as the Cause of
 Crime Epidemic.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

BY MARQUIS DE CASTELLANE. Copyright, 1907. by W. R. Hearst.) Paris, September An those good diplomats who gathered at The Hague with the idea of forcing the world to matain peace are really very amusing, and amusing also Is Mir. Carnegie. who places an unlimited number of dollars | at their disposal for the purpose hence forward of sheltering them and heir | successors.
 They have just been discussing d pro
 posal to prohibit the throwing of pro- ] iectiles from balloons with the result | that the voting was twenty eight for ] and three against. As there are only three powers in possession of steera- ble balloons, it is easy to come to a conclusion as to which of them it was which refused to subscribe to the pro- posa
 But as it was necessary to have an appearance of havng done something while really doing nothing at all, the authors of the proposal then request ed the conference to pronounce as to the point whether war balloons should
 be manned by military crews, obliga- torily or whether it should be forbid den to throw shells from these airships over open towns and villages. Well. no more for these proposals than for the other was the congress able to obtain the unanimous vote nec- essary to force the suggestion on the powers. Never will nations in possess sion of an instrument of destruction which is superior to those of other peoples agree to deprive themselves of it's use.
 The Hague conference, in trying to make war a school of life instead of what it really is-a sch ool of death- has reached the height of it's naive labsurdity. It resembles the mountain
 eers who, with pick-aXe in their
 hands, await the avalanche which Is falling on them from the height of Mount Blanc or tie Himalayas One must be foolishly naive to sup pose that in war time a nation will respect any of the undertakings they have made in times of peace. Before twenty years are past we shall see fleets of balloons. just IS there are now fleets of submarines, and no one will think of asking The Hague conference for permission to make use of them. l have been following with the great est interest the discussion over here as to the causes which have brought about such d strange simultaneous outbreak | of atrocious crimes lately both in Paris and New York. Almost all those who | have spoken on the matter at all have l put it down to the heat. This, there l can be no doubt is a great mistake, for l never have we had so cold and dreary
 spring.
 At the risk of being treated as an old gossip, 1 give it as my firm opinion that one must attribute the sad events which have shocked the civilized world to moral
 and not to material causes. New York and the whole of the United States are the dumping ground for the
 scum for the French population, and this
 itself is made up of all the unwhole- some elements from throughout Europe. This scum with us is not in any way checked. From our schools religion
 has been banished, and outside them, in
 the press and the public assemblies, all ] religions, whatever they may be, are openly mocked at.
 Hence the children know no other moral
 than that which is called natural, which means that they are reduced to following their instincts instead of possessing prin-
 ciples
 1t is this bringing up which gives the
 mentality of the young scoundrels who throw the world into horror with their ] murders of women and children. And the children of people thus brought up, through the immigration to your country which you encourage. bring their immor- 1 aity and their brutal instincts into your | midst.
 Two men have Just been decorated with
 the Legion of Honor by the French gov ernment for similar services rendered and l to honor lives of toll. These two men be- l long to different continents. but each one has used his great fortune to creats art associa tions.
 One of these Meacenases is MT. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia: the other is M Chouchard. the founder of the cele- | brated magazine due Louvre, in Paris. M. Chouchard has been made grand cross Of the Legion of Honor, thus receiving the highest recompense that can be given to a Frenchman and it is a just reward, for | this man founded one of the great | commercial houses which has nourished | and kept in comfort more than three thousand employs in the last forty years
 Mr. Wanamaker has been raised to fhe rank of officer of the Legion of Honor This also is just for although his indus try has not been exercised in France 1t has in a measure had its ramfications here as elsewhere.
 Mir. Wanamaker recognizing that France is the possessor of all the sources of art and architecture, has been eN tremely liberal to all the young people who have come from America to attend
 our school of fine arts. In this he has
 acknowledged the superiority of France: and it was only right that France should return the compliment.
 Comte Henri de Ftzjames is engag aged to marry Nme. Guillot the daughter of M Collignon. eX-director of the studies
 at the engineering school. known as the
 Ecole des Fonts ct Cheussees It is, of course. a love marriage. Comte Henri de Fitziames, who is an eX-officer of cav
 airy and the descendant of one of our
 most illustrous French families. is one
 of the finest types of masculine beauty.
 He is also an example of the power Of
 will and intelligence Having had to strug-
 gle against great difficulties he has sur
 mounted them all, never becoming dis
 couraged and relying entirely on himself
 and his intelligence to overcome them.
 His young wife will. in the fashiona b,e
 society where her husband will place
 her very soon. hold the position which
 the great name she will bear entities her
 to.