Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
Trade Unions in Paris Are Trying to
Get Dancing Men and Women
to Come Into organi-
Zation

! who fail to join the colors at the re-
! quired date. Since 1906, when the num-
Der of refractory recruits was 1857, the
| figures have slowly risen, until they
have now reached 11,7S2.
The soldat insoumis may be pun
ished in France by imprisonment of
from one month to one year. But on
about an average of every two years
during the last twenty-five years in
France parliament has regularly voted
an amnesty bill in favor of deserters
and recalcitrant recuits or reServists
At the same time there has been a
! growing tendency in France ever since
| the Dreyfus case to show indulgence
| in the application of military justice.
Courts martial, in the words of the
Temps, are terrorized by the attacks of
certain politicians.
The great cause of the evil, now so
strikingly revealed by the statistics of
the France Militaire, must be taken
to be the development of anti-militar-
ism in the large towns. In Paris the
number of insoumis has risen from 2SS
to 1417.
Appeals to Baser Motives
The general confederation of labor,
which has been actively organizing a
militarist congress, distributes annual
IX InOuSdIluS VI oOlOlCA . oAAAiAASSAS5
which constitute the most dangerous
appeal to characterization and deser-
tion. The late government undertook
systematically to eradicate this evil.
No prime minister ever wol-.ed more
assiduously to stamp out this form of
anarchist propaganda than did Clemen-
ceau. The prosecution of anti-militar-
ist agitators, however, cannot sutf1ce
to arrest the progress of the trouble
so long as internationalist humanltar-
ianism remains an article OF falth oL
so many of the primary school teachers
For the first time since the war, saw
ing. of course, official occasions When
military attaches are present, Prusslan
officers appeared on French territory
recently in full uniform. A monument
was unveiled at Mars la Tour, near
Strasbourg, but on French soil, to the
memory of German troops who tell
there August 16, 1870.
The German government had some
time ago requested that deputaton
of twenty-five officers of dragoon
guards, the regiment which charged
on that occasion and lost many men,
should be allowed to attend the cere-
mony in full uniform. 1t was dell
cate matter for the French government
to handle. The sight of the full uni
form of the Prussian dragon guards
is still to this day not an agreeable
one to the French inhabitants on the
German frontier, whose neighbors ano
cousins have become German.
At length the French government re-
piled that, lin the interest of the
friendly relations between the two
countries it would be bettef that only
two officers of the deputation should be
present in uniform" Two only, there
fore, crossed the frontier in uniform,
the others being in multi. The deputa-
tion is said to have included the son
of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern,
whose candidature of the throne Of
Spain was at least the official cause of
the Franco-German war.
There Is no truth in the statement
that the government of France intends
to convert the ancient and interesting
ct lrch of st. Julien le Pauvre into a
museum. 1t is intended to clear the
space around the church and to make a
garden t1uare there, in which Will be
shown the rem-ins of the fortress of
Philippe-Auguste, which exists still in
the close. Those who know this most
Interesting quarter of l ~.r.s will rejoice
at this announcement.
The rumor, now contradIcted, appears
to have arisen from the fact that a
number of statues found in the course
of the demolition of the ancient Hotel
Dieu, the hospital of Paris, on the left
bank of the Seine, were then trans
ferred to the church of st. Julien lie
Pauvre. The church was formerly the
chapel of the hospital, and one Of the
statues now placed there is that of St.
Laundry, bishop of Paris, who founded
the hospital there in A. D. $50. The
church, dating from the fifth century,
is the oldest in Paris, and its triple
apsidal ending is peculiar. For some
time it has been in charge of a commu-
nifty of Eastern monks governed by an
archimandrite, and the high mass on
Sundays and festivals is carried out
in accordance with the Eastern rite
For the fame of Bordeaux wine the
council of state undertook some time
ago, and, as announced lately, COM
pleted a vast work, which consisted in
mapping out the exact districts grow
ing real claret, which alone henceforth
will be legally entitled to call their
wine by the proud name Bordeaux.
Instead of being delighted, the wine
growers are disgusted with the result
of the councils labors.
They are petitioning and visiting
cabinet ministers to seek redress for
two grievances. The first is that
the entire department of the Gironde.
in which the famous Medoc country
lies, has not been included in the priv
ileged area. The second is that, on
the contrary, the latter ovcrlaps into
the two neighboring departments OF
Lot-et- -Garonne and Dordogne, COM
prising a few communes for both.
Now to have excluded portions of the
Gironde and included districts of the
two above departments is considered
by Bordeaux to be an insult. The
council vainly argues that it has shown
no fear or favor, as is proved by the
fact that privileged districts of the
Lot-et-G -Garonne do not include one
taken in. and which is illustrious, if
not for its wine. at least for its owner.
The council has not inclosed Loupillon,
M. Falliere's vineyard, in the privi-
legged area, and the president of tho
republic therefore Is not entitled to
label his wine Bordeaux.
But winegrowers refuse to be mol
lifted by the impartiality OF the coun-
Gil of state, and are daily visiting min
listers. One of them, NJ Cochery,
French councillor of the exchequer, has
actually found a means of pacifying
them, and, what Is more marvellous
still, a new tax which the taxpayers
hail with delight. He proposes a gov
ernment stamp on every bottle of Bor-
deaux wine coming from the privileged
area. This stamp would be a warrant
of authenticity for each bottle bearing
It, and would mean that the state
vouches absolutely that the wine has
been grown in a district the vines of
which produce legally genuine claret
The growers jumped at M. Cocher's