The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

help the parents, but not take their place. The school, therefore, should be- properly spesi<ing. . mere contin- uation Of the life of the family, and parents have the perfect right ana the duty to select q school wnich shall offer such religious instruction as thy desire their offspring to re-
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 In Franee there are two sorts oi schooIs-the Ecolo lfbro or Christian school, and the public school. or Ecole neutre. The pastoral ietter defines these two kinds of schools and deplores the disappearance or so many Ecoles flores in a country like France, where the immense ma jority of the popuiaticn are ho. man Catholics. The Ecoie neutre is described as involving "the syste- .matic exclusion of all religious in- struction and consequently as casting discredit on truths which all peoples have regarded as the necessary basis of education" The Archbishops and Bishops call upon French parents to form an association to supervise the schools.
 The excessive consumption of spir- It's in France is. according to several medical men who have recently giv- en voice to their opinions. one of the main reasons for the wine crisis now pending in France. Less than fifty years ago Frenchmen consumec per head annually less than l-2 pints of alcohol. Today the average adult Frenchman drinks seventy pints of spirits at 100 deg. of strength that is. almost equivalent to leS pints of brandy-za year.
 Thirty years ago France containee a wine shop or cafe for every 1os in- habitants. Today there is one Tor every forty. Liquor selling estab- iishments in, France number so,ooo more than double. has only 5000, pr. BertiIlon. the head of the municipa Statistical Department. says there ars l. 1.37s.o00 dIstiiieries in France. In some parts of the cointry the peopl' take aicohol as others drink water while London. whose population Il consuming nearly two pints daily An alarming aspect of this question is sthe rapid strides made in absinth' drinking and the fact that children are becoming familiar with the pois- Ion. .-s =. --. :. sss. =. ss,,s4 Of a class of forty-nine pupils thirty recently T acknowledged that they had tasted absinthe. and in a class of thirty three children between SIX. anu uiHe yc6tS oA o6V N"SfSs admitted they were given brandy ev- cry day. Whenever the consumption tsof spirits has Increased the drinking of wine has decreased.
 For Labor Movement.
 The first numbersof new paper entitled .L'Action Ouvriere." has ap peared. It is the organ of the moder- ate section of the syndicates known as the Reformers. It announces tha 1t will endeavor to bring back the la Dor movement, within It's. proper linn | It's severing It from all political or ti-Parliamentarism questions such as Anti Patriotism. It in sists also on the need of radica change in fhe statutes and methods of the General Confederation of La bor, and continues: The system o representation on the committee. of voting in the congresses, the admts sion of nominal subscriptions, tn | theory. of energetic minorities,' the doctrine of syndicalism as all-suffi' cient and the systematic organiza- | ton of violence and thes like were easily comprehensibiie so long as the labor movement remained plunged 1T | the darkness of inexperience and ig- norance. This historic period has now passed, and a new period is beginning based on experience and its lessons on reason"
 Paul LeRoy- Beauiieu, the distin' guisned economist. contributes to tn
 ''Figaro" an elaborate account of hil