The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-25
Guest Paris Attends Church
and Takes a Rest
COMMENT OF NEWSPAPERS
Very Complimentary Passages Appear
in the Leading Parisian Journals
Regarding Personality of
Colonel Roosevelt

Peris, April 24.-Mr Roosevelt spent
Sunday in comparative quietude. Accom-
PANEL by Ambassador Bacon in the morn
ing he attended services in the Amer
lean church in the Rue de Barri and list-
ened to the sermon of the Rev. Chaurcey
w. Goodrich, who preached from the
gospel of st. John, chapter IT, verse XIV.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by Kermit
and Miss Ethel, attended the American
church in Avenue De rAlma.
Colonel Roosevelt and his wife lunched
with Ambassador Jusserand and his wife,
the other guests including Premier Rri-
and. M Barthou, minister of justice. and
Consul General Mason. In the afternoon
there was an automobile trip to st. Ger
main, where Colonel Roosevelt visited the
chateau of Henry ". On returning the
Rcosevelts dned quietly with Ambassad dor
Bacon and his wife at the American EN-
bassy.
Although the general elections wero
held today in France Mr.. Roosevelt did
not take the trouble to visit the voting
booths, saying he had no time to investi-
gate matters polite which did not con-
Germ him directly, after delving into the
haii splitting PHILOSOPHERS and theologies
Of Robert de Sarbon, the former chap.
lain of Louis TX and founder of the Sar-
bonne foundation
Tomorrow Colonel Roosevelt will be the
guest of the municipality of Paris. The
city fathers will receive him at The Hotel
deVille, where luncheon will be served in
his honor, after which he will sign his
name in the '.Livre dor" which contains
the signatures of all the monarchs and
notable personages who have been the
guests of the city. In the evening he
will dine w.th General Brugere, and
from there will go to the opera, where
he will occupy the presidential box.
Salome was the play bill but by Mr..
Roosevelt's request this was removed and
another play produced without ballet.
At the close of Mr.. aoosevelts lecture
in the Sorbonne yesterday some one in
the gallery made kissing noise but this
was passed over unnoticed by the ac-
companying applause. 1t is sad an
Egyptian who did 1t later explained that
he desired to protest against the Cairo
speech.
The lecture has created tremendous
impression in France. The newspapers.
despite the fact that the electoral cam
paign closed last night, devote an equal
amount of space to the lecture, and
Colonel Roosevelt has not refused to re-
ceive the different shades of opposing
lines of civil morality.
Some of the ultra religious organs are
silent, but others attack Mr.. Roosevelt's
definition of the rights of the minority.
The Temps, Gaulois and Paris Journal
des de Bats declare that tho impression
produced Is all the greater because Mr..
Roosevelt did not prevent theories tha'
he himself conceived but spoke from
actual experience. They find many les
sons therein, they declare, for France
and one of them concludes with an 1-
peal to France ito take the advice of an
honest man, whose deeds and life during
30 years qualify him to speak,
The Journal says Mr.. Roosevelt's words
are the echo of the old puritan spirit
which made a conquer1ng England,
and bear strange significance when ho
breaches a sane and vigorous life of
which he is the embodiment of Napoleon
and is honest in his probity doctrines OF
politicians. The paper says his common
sense Is no utopia-seeking advice.
"Democracies," says the Temps. 'are
experiments in republics. From the be-
ginning of all time democracy has leaned
toward the anatomical geographical heare
of humanity and has never produced
Hercules with club that has been
welded more effectively and that augurs
as well as Mr.. Roosevelts.'
La Liberte, under the caption of "A
Magnificent Lesson" says:
eve have few men in France with
energy equal to Mr.. Roosevelt's store,
but have thousands upon thousands who
think as he does
The Gaulois says further on:
mo better lesson of civic duties ever
fell from human lips"