The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-23
H 4 FRENCH RADICALS
 ARE DETERMINED Will Continue Fight Against Church Schools IN THE PARLIAMENT Turkey Will Make a National Loan in France on the Terms Laid
 Down By the Later
 Government


 Paris, October p Especial French radicals are determined to continue the war against church schools as soon as the parliamentary session begins. But there is an obstacle in the way that threatens to cool their ardor pretty con- slderably.' Twenty thousand church schools have been suppressed during the last six years, and the consequence Is the growth of Apachism..
 The education given in the state schools imparts certain amount of knowledge and discipline but it does not overawe the young mind with lessons of morali- ty. M. coombs himself has pointed out that an effective moral code is wanting in the state schools.
 Most, of the criminals now are youths or very young men. A Paris magistrate recently appealed ip the press for a re- turn to the old principles as a necessary remedy. The guillotine is busy just now. yet the papers reek with stories of blood and crime.
 Dr. Borel, who has made a study of they effects of heredity and alcoholism on crininality, makes some reflections in an
 
 lence or indecency are. he says, let out after a few days detention. Prison to them Is house of rest. and the more known the offender the greater the in- dulgeace of. the magistrate. Alcoholics and degenerates ought to be conveyed to an asylum after they leave prison, and not let out until the medical specialist certifes their cure, and that would be once In thousand cases.
 He holds that when the miscreants know that perpetual detention, the douche and inc straight-jacket are before them the effect on them will be more salutary than the uncertain perspective of the guillotine.
 Dr. Borel suggests the cure, but pre- ventipn is better than cure, and in that the legislator has sacred mission.
 Tht little game of international poker that was played among the powers of Europe over the Turkish loan ended, as everyone knew 1t must. Turkey played a hisa hand, Haunting her alliance with little Roumania in the face of England and France, the Kaiser bluffed and bang ed his fist, this time in the form of an offer from the Deutsche bank to supply Turkty with all the money needed. but the tiuff was called and fell miserably flat
 France has once more asserted her po- stiot as the worlds banker and Turkey will get her money in France on the condition originally laid down by the Fren,h government The Kaiser will havato be satisfied with the profits he mad@lon the sale of the two out-of-date battBships that are now the pride of the Sultan's navy. Apropos of battleships. it is how known that the Turkish ambas- sadoi made an offer to France to buy one of htr battleships Failing to get a req sponse in the affirmative. the Turkish government turned. to Germany, but here be itlmarked, she no longer required a newtbattleship, but took two that were by 10 means new El
 Admiral Boue de Lapeyrere's resistance to he Turkish demand, on the ground that France could not spare one of it's newshi was in accord with the min ister of marines endeavor to give France a modern fleet If parliament votes the naya programme, France will have but 2s frst-class battleships against 5S by Gernany ten years from now; but, at least they will be homogeneous and not inert targets for experiments.
 Tin great fault of the naval admnistra- tions of the past Is that they have lis tened too often 10 the voice of the in vent,r and have changed and changed again the plans whilst the ship was build ing There were, in consequence, great delays In the execution of the programme and when the ship finally took the wa ter, 1t was a little bit of everything an autumn salon of naval impressionism, instead of hard-hitting serviceable unit
 It was no mere boast of the aviation enthusiasts that the time would arrive when it would be possible to establish an aeriaI postal service from Colomb Becfar to Timbiictoo Some years ago 1t took Captain Arnaud and Captain Carter 1os days to travel from Algiers to tke Niger. Today the French couriers take at least % days, often 80, to reach Tinbuctoo; 70 days to proceed to Tchad, i. sndi iao days to reach Bangui. But when aeroolanes begin to traverse the Sahara at the rate of 5oO kilometres day. Tim buctoo will be reached from Algiers in five days and Tchad in nine days.
 Information hearing on the proposed Sahsran routes is already 1ortncom- ing. The project Is not without its Hangers. In some parts of the desert the sand blows to a tremendous height, from 500 to 800 feet. and 1t would be bad for the aeroplane caught in storm of this aort.
 The region of the sand storms will be located on maps and the, aviator will Know when he has to keep well above the sand clouds When there are no tornadoes to contend with there will he heat. but aviators who know the desert affirm that it will be possible to rise above the heat wave and fly fin a springtime temperature.
 The military authorities are at pres. ent mapping out the great route across the Sahara. Aviation centers will be established at Colomb Beche and Tim buctoo. At each of these centers aero planes, in twos and threes, will recon hotter the adjacent country and pre- pare the points of landing, hangars, etc.
 In year or IS months the aviators of Algeria and the Soudan will ex- tend the field of their operations and it is confidently prophesied that one fine day the aeroplanes of Timbuctoo and Bechar will meet, and thus the bridging of the Sahara will become an accomplished fact.
 Captain Cartier considers that it