Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17
Fathers of Large Families Are in
Line for Promotion.
LAW OF ESTATES IS AMENDED
Public Officials Are Bound to Com
pulsOry Marriage.
FRANCE is A LAND OF sPNsTER!
Maids Are Numerous In Service OF
Telegraph and Telephone Organ
tzatiOns-Fresh Graft scan
daI IL ON Tap.
BY PAUL vILLIERs.


PARIS, July 16.-(Special Dispatch to The
Bee. )-There is CONSERVATION in the French
bureaucracy over a bill before the senate
introduced by Senator Lannelongue for the
purpose Of checking the depopuation move
ment in France. 1t contains the following
provisions: Extra military service for sim
gle men over Is years OF age; compulsory
marriage for all civil servants and those
holding municipal or communal appoint
ments from the age of 25, and especial adj
vantages for those having three or more
children. and the suppression Of the ar
ticles in the code compelling a man to
divide his fortune among his children. The
father, in M. LannelonQue's bill, would be
able to dispose of his fortune how he liked,
and in this way the senator thinks would
not restrict his family in the fear that his
property would be cut up into very small
portions. The younger children would gain
from the fact that they would have to
make their own way in life.
Tough on the CeIibates.
All "functionaries'' are by no means mar
! ried men. In fact, the bachelors are prob
ably in the majority, while spinsters GER
tainly are in the posts. telegraphs and tele-
phones. Hitherto chiefs of all government
officials have, as rule. SHOWN an unmis-
taxable bias in favor of bachelors among
the male clerks. The idea generally was
that a functionary without home encum-
brances was more Jealous in the discharge
of his public duties He would not mind
working overtime. having only to run out
and dine at restaurant, whereas his mar
ried Colleague was afraid of keeping madam
waiting and spelling the dinner.
Now all this Is 10 be changed. 1t will be
rather hard on some A bachelor, having
severely starved his natural human ambi-
| ton to be the father OF family In order
! to get on in the administration" will have
some cause for complaint II the tables are
turned and married men pass over his
head, now that, perhaps, he has reached
an age at which it is no longer so easy to
find mate as It might have been.
For the Ladies', whatf
AS for the ladies of the posts, telegraphs,
and telephones, few years ago there was
actually a question whether marriage
would not be forbidden them by regulation.
Luckily, SO inhuman a veto never was APP
Piled or the postmaster who applied 1t
would hear something from Prof. Lannel-
ongue But in practice the marriage of
telephone girls is most certainly not en-
Outraged, and 1t is difficult to imagine
that It could be- The most efficient tele-
phonist is not likely to be the lady who has
most babies at home whom she would pre-
fer to mind, and, as a matter of fact,
ought TO be minding, instead Of connecting
wires for impatient people to exchange
usually idle talk over them. A regulation,
at all events, exists and is vigorously
enforced, forbidding any female government
clerks to marry without government per-
mission. Men clerks can marry without
leave of the authorities at present. Soon
} they may have to marry to comply with
tho regulations
Another craft Scandal.
France is rarely without a graft scandal
or so. As the result OF revelations made
r in the course Of a stormy debate in the
} chamber when two deputies declared that
5 under NJ. Combes' ministry they had been
offered the Legion of Honor In return fol-
) montary payment. Mr.. Rouanet (socialist)
has brought in a motion. for the total sup
0 preston OF all civil decorations in France
{ proposing that his motion be discussed Inn
Q mediately.
Amid some noise, the prime minister. NJ
{ BRAND, urged that NJ. Rouanets proposal
: was introduced under the influence OF the
? revelations and that the question OF the
abolition of decorations must first be thor
oughly considered. There were all sorts
Of Intermediates who sought to profit not
only by decorations, but by all kinds Of
= favors. There were also numbers OF good
citizens who did not deserve to see withei
in their buttonholes the decorations they
had well deserved.
n A curious example OF political corruption
e has come before the Paris courts. NJ
= Chevaux is suing NJ. Jacquenn for $500
q which he declares he expended on behal
; OF M. Jacauelln at the general elections
: last May II appears that M. Chevaux re
), signed his candidature in consideration o
. q payment OF this sum by M. Jacquelin.
. NJ. Chevaux was. according to the bar
!, gain, to do all he could to secure the re
a turn of NJ Jacquelin, and he says he dI,
), SO. Another man was elected In their dl
= vision, and Nj. Jacquelin refused to pa.
4 the money. Hence the claim OF NJ Chevaux
= Premier a Printer.
/ NJ. BRAND, the French premier. who ha
recently emerged successfully from a gen
eral election, is a solicitor by profession
although he started life as a composition
Ho represented the Saint Nazair
- Labor exchange and the Syndicate o
Metallurglsts Of Trignoe His presence wa
objected to by some OF the delegates, VIII
argued that, as a qualified solicitor, h
to ought to be excluded from a congress o
Ia workmen.
@ II am a workman myself" replied N
a BRAND. "a working composition. as ! com
a. pose by myself the newspaper that pub
". lish at Saint Nazalre."
be Where did you get the money to max
es yourself a lawyer" he was asked.
a. by working for IT," replied the futur
lis premier. So he was at once admitted.
he is interesting TO note that since he has ha
he the responsibilities OF office his opinion
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