The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
FRENCH NAVY ID
 BE OVERHAULED. Moroccan EmbrogliO Has Opened Eyes of France BAL FULLER CLOSED Great Popular Dancing Hall Is Closed-Latin Quarters Losing
 Its Bohemianism--Man s Kills Sweetheart
By PAUL vILLIERs

the results of the trouble over Morocco
 regardless of how it may be settled will
 be the reha bilitation of the French navy.
 Not so many years ago France was sec-
 ond only to Great Britain in naval power.
 Now she is in fifth place in effective strength and is barely leading Italy in that position. She has been passed by Germany, the United States and Japan. Austria too has developed the naval splr- it and today France finds herself impo- tent to maintain her claims for supremacy in the Mediterranean.
 The return to practical power of M. Del
 Carse, the most energetic, aggressive ana
 far seeing statesman in France today.
 has effected change in the disposition
 towards the navy.
 The parliamentary commission which
 was appointed some time ago to suggest a
 scheme for the increasing of the French
 navy has Just concluded its report, which will be submitted to the chamber of depu-
 ties at its reassembling. The reporter Of this commission, M. Nail, deputy for
 L'orient, declares that France must re-
 gain the naval position which she has |
 the protection of her commerce, but also
 for the maintenance of the peace of the
 world. In the actual state of affairs in
 Europe France is compelled to pay two
 insurance premiums against war-she
 must keep up well organized army and
 also a powerful fleet. The commis sion
 urges the construction of 16 new battle
 ships, 20 torpedo craft, and 50 submarines
 of various tonnages The cost of this
 new fleet will work out at between S3O0,- 000,000 and $40O000,0O0. No suggestion of To- cent times has created so much enthus- iasm and that the scheme will be adopted
 If not enlarged upon seems assured.
 Even the newsboys along the boule- yards are clamoring for 16 super dreadnaughts and second place for France in the naval strength of the world. This would give France a fleet Tn 1920 that will be more than match for the biggest practicable combination of sea fighters of Germany, Austria Hungary and Italy between Gibraltar and Alexandria.
 Hard hearted men of business have closed up the Bal Bullion last week. It was practically the last resort of the old Latin quarters, which held out against the attractions of Montmarte and the boulevards. But in these pro- greSsive days sentiment and tradition have to give way before the stern ad- vance of picture shows and syndicate music halls.
 The Bal Bullier. although it lost some of its Bohemian atmosphere in. the past decade. was always the finishing point of younger students when they were
 celebrating" Here everyone danced You did not come to witness exotic dis plays of lingerie--or lack of it--but to leap and jig yourself, in the company of some amusing little lady of the quar- ter, last survivors of the old time grisette.
 The grisettes who used to frequent Bullier have been celebrated by authors and poets galore. Munger made some of them historic in his Scenes of Bo- hemian Life"
 Right in the heart of the Latin quar- ter, on the "other side" of the river, the old dancing hall has had it's floor trodden by many famous men. Most of Frances statesmen, writers, philosophers and professional men have been poor students in the Quarter. In America there will be any number of worthy, even wealthy, citizens who will feel older when they hear Bullier has been shut up. But the old Latin Quarter no longer exists. A few artists still have studios, and naturally hundreds or StudentS at the university and at the different art centers and technical schools board in the Quarter but Mont rhartre is the center of that peculiar life of poverty and cheerfulness which is called "Bohemianism.'
 The famous old places have been over run by tourists, who frightened away the original denizens. The Latin Quarter. as even the Montmartre cabarets, are no longer spontaneous. They are as arr tistic as the smaller music. Bohemian ism was utilized as a draw" for in quisitive snobs, and the old days are over. Bullier is closed. No more can we file up to it's door in monome, or long procession, singing, dancing, doing all sorts of wild tricks that the sober, we'll behaved French tolerate among | the students.
 One particular assocition of students !! had a club song taught them by an in- | genious American artist. It was "John | Browns Body" They sang it in Eng | slish at supper time. In fact it served | them in lieu of grace and went some l thing like this: Joan Browen bod-dee lays amolee cen