The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-25
LIQUOR PROBLEM
PUZZLESFRANCE
Number of Drinking Places Re-
Gently Has Increased TO
Alarming Extent.
STARVING HUMORISTS IN
PARIS ORGANIZE BOYCOTT
Terrible Murder in Which Per.
petratOr Makes Difficulties
for Himself.
BY PAUL VILLIERS.
Special Cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
PARIS. Dec. 24.-For the time being
the fight against religion has been
dropped and French statesmen are devot-
ing their attention TO the liquor ques-
uon They have been compelled to do
something to alay religious excitement,
and. with this purpose in view. they have
buckled down to the task OF reducing
the number Of drinking places. which is
fast approaching the 500. 900 mark
throughout the country. The French sem
ate Is now considering a bill for the limi-
tation and control OF public houses There
were thirty years ago as many as 334. 900
ca barets in this city and the provinces,
but the figure Is now close on 500. 900,
with an average of one per eighty In
habitants. or one for thirty grown-up
men. Roubaix. as a matter OF fact con-
tains one public house FOR every thirty
six persons.
As NJ. Gucrin pointed out in the de-
bate. every one acknowledged that the
number OF the cabarets had grown ex-
cessively owing TO the unlimited freedom
granted by the law of 1880. Statistics
showed that the departments in which
alcoholism was most prevalent could not
be admitted to service with the colors
The bgure In the Seine nferieure was %
per cent Alcoholism progressed with the
tor maintained that alcohol was also
taken al home. at Is not the workman
alone who is addicted TO alcohol but the
wife and the children as well he said
Tribute to Blue Jackets.
American blue Jackets have had the
right Of way here and this is what Il
leading Partisan paper says OF them
TALL alert and bony. they go along the
boulevards and mix with the crowds
AZ first sight one might take them for
Ia ll,Nr
US and also their smooth faces. Their
caps are like those of our sailors, only
somewhat ilatter. These sailors are de-
lighted with the French capital. As FOR
the Parisians, they admire the visitors
bearing. their quiet and reserved man
ners. which does not debar them from
knowing how To get along. quality that
the sailors OF both republics have to an
eminent degree. We are happy to meet
them everywhere, and are sure that they
will not have a better time elsewhere
than here
a terrible crime committed recently at
the vilayct of Points de Ce. near Anglers.
recalls in some details the famous Gouffe-
Bompard murder, II Is supposed that
the victim. whose identity has not yet
been established. was enticed into the
house of n man named De1humcau and
there done to death with the assistance
OF the !atter's mistress. The assassin ap-
pears To have made every effort 10 rem
der The dead man unrecognisable by
shaving him and then sashing his face.
The most extraordinary part OF the crime
is the way in which he tried to dispose OF
the body. Instead OF throwing IL into
the Marine. or hiding IL In the neighbor-
hood. as he might have done. the mur-
derer appears to have deliberately made
difficulties for himself and Invited dis
coyery by pushing the body on wheel
barrow right through the most populous
part OF Angers while n fair was in prog
ress. stopping for drinks on the way. The
unexpected arrival OF two soldiers as he
was apparently about to throw the body
from a bridge caused him to abandon
his CHASTITY burden and take to Eight
II is rumored that the victim was "a Ger
man banker, who had had business rela-
tions with Delhumeau.
Humor Under Pressure.
The misery OF the humorst who is
bread Is illustrated by the strike of ur-
lists working for our humorous journals
The artists are headed by Adolphe VIII
lette. the famous black and white ar
list, and the strike ls directed against
tho editor OF fl humorous paper who or
gapizes every year the famous Salon
dos Huinorlstes," held In the Champs
Elysees. AT a large meeting held I'm a
Montmarte cafe the artists decided tc
boycott the salon and establish an cxhj-
bjton OF their own. NJ. Wllette said
to me: "Of course. VIC shall have some
blacltlegs' against US; strike could not
knew the misery OF some In our profess
sion. How many amusing drawings
witty phrases, light -hearted pcasantrles
they have TO produce In order to get lust
enough money to prevent themselves and
their dependents from starVing"