The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
FRENCH SCHOLAR SU MS UP NATION Head of Historical Society, After Five Months Tour,
 Thinks Us Marvels
 of Energy.
COLLEGES TOO LUXURIOUS
Smith and Wellesley Girls Take Too Much COmfort-Our College Education is Too
 Thorough.

New York, March AM, Louis Madelin, the eminent French scholar and author, president of the Society of Historical Research, sails for home tomorrow on the steamedr Sayoie after a five months tour of America, extending from Boston to San Fran cisco and from Canada to New Or leans, as the official representative and lecturer of the Alliance t'rancaise. M. Madeln has been the guest of many universities and has visited workshps, factories and other centers of Amtri- can industry and production.
 Summing up his impressions of America M. Madelin said
 'I have been in the midst of so many marvels that it is difficult for men to render adequate tribute>to the remarkable energy of the American people l have given sixty lectures, including that on Napoleon as the Type of Energy But you have no need of such type of energy, as I said to your eminent president, Mir. Roosevelt American energy express es itself in the most striking manner in your great factories. The steel works at Homestead impressed me as a veritable prodigy of modern power. It realizes the utmost conception of mans control over matter The en- gineer of the Homestead works asked me what l thought of them I re- piled: This visit gives me the pro foundest admiration for mechanical genius. But this impression of mar vellous energy at Homestead l have seen repeated everywhere throughout America
 "The American soldier is destined tC bc great power because of the won. derful American energy he possesses My visit to West Point, where I was the guest of the cadets, impressed me with their aggressive force The liar. vard-West Point football game which Fl witnessed, was a scene calculated t make the deepest impression on a for. eigner. If America is ever called upol to defend her shorcs-which I sincere ly hope may not be the case-she car draw ar army practically without linn it from this sturdy American youth American sports mean much for gooC American soldiers. In this regard i seems to me that America can look tt the future with complete calm.
 'At Wellesley and Smith colleges had an opportunity to see the charm ing vol ng women who took part il this advanced form of female oduca ton. These colleges appear to giv, most complete education-pcrhaps tot complete. Do the young women retain it all? The same, perhaps. could b asked of young men pursuing highe l education. There is probably an ex aggerated luxury in some of these fc male institutions and it may be tha these young women habituate them selves to too much comfort.
 "The west gives the foreigner tn best opportunity to see America in it true state of development, growing al most under ones eye. San Francisc is a striking picture of natural beaut, and of ruin There is occasional tall of war there, and 1t is taken more ser ! lously than at Washington. where
 noted that the pest informed quarter were most skeptical as to tho possibil ity of war.
 i The dispatch of the American squad ! ron to the Pacific was undoubtedly a 1 excellent measure. Port Arthurs eX l perience showed the advisability o i taking precautions. San Francisco preparing magnificent reception fo 1 the fleet. The yellow population Q ! San Francisco appears to exist in th utmost tranquility. and there is no ap parent idea of renewed outbreak against them. Public opinion is entire ly calm. and it is clear that the Euro peon press has greatly exaggerated tn conditions at San Francisco. In case . conflict, French sentiment would | ! entirely with America. But l am con vinced that if there is to be a connic
 it is still far in the future. Havn
 visited San Francisco bay number ( times I am sure it will be no easy tas for a fleet 10 menace the city.
 NJ. Madelin spoke also of the deve
 opment and future of American art an
 literature, which he says are alread
 reilecting the vigor of American chal
 acter. He added that everywhere h
 reception in America had been mos
 cordial and sympathetic.