The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-22
EDISON ON WASTE
SAYS FRANCE COULD LIVE ON
WHAT PEOPLE OF THIS
COUNTRY THROW AWAY.
Studies Culinary Economies While
ON a Visit in Paris--Aero.
plane Has Spoiled War
Game.

France and her people. in an inter
view with the International New!
Service correspondent, He talked o
many things. from the way tn,
French cook bread TO the aeroplan'
as an engine of war, and his observ
ations, some Of which follow, are in
teresting.
What Americans waste in foot
would feed the French nation" h,
declared. I'VE have much to learr
of the science OF food preparation
and this economic phase Of the foot
question is what strikes me mos
forcibly here. The French have no
only studied out scientifically wha
is best to eat, but by serious schools
long ago established, have made re-
search and by evolution have arriv'
ed at perfection of preparation at. {
minimum cost.
A Science in France.
Cooking" he continued. lis nc
haphazard matter in France, as in
America. but ii is a science and an
art with traditions so we'll estab-
lished that they cannot be broken
1--WE want 10 be refined in our
Eating, and that is where the French
show common sense. We never
tasted bread such as you find uniyer-
sally here. Everything served 10
you, even in the smallest villages,
shows certain magic of the cult
nary art which has been attained
only by generations and generations
OF scientific chefs, who do not look
upon their vocations as drudgery,
but as privilege and an art. The
beef steak that is so tough you can
not stick fork into the gravy
doesn't exist here; or, if it does, they
know how to disguise 1t. There is
an. added JOY to living when you
have the privilege of sustaining
on French cooking"
Changing the topic, Mr.. Edison
said:
AS look at the historical monu-
ments | fail to find any bargains
them. The arch of triumph
doesn't impress me, for I always see
beside it another and greater arch,
thousands of feet high. made of the
phosphate of the bones of victims
sacrificed for Napoleons personal
glory. Conquest costs; it never
pays, for Alsace and Lorraine the
Germans have paid more than a
thousand dollars an acre and they
thought they had gained it free. And
their little march around the arch
of triumph was in the end the cost
Hest promenade ever made.
1.-THE German emperor's spas
modic twitchings are but the death
throes of the conquest business
There are too many newspapers and
schools in present-day civilization
to allow the Anticipated methods OF
men hiding their sell
fish aims behind loud cry for the
glory of their country to force ruin
on the people.
anyhow, the war game has been
spoiled for good by the perfection OF
the aeroplane. have been told that
the fact that France was able to en-
roll in one day 1900 airmen for the
aeroplane branch of the army has
in no mean way the posi-
ton taken by Emperor William on
the Moroccan situation. Think OF
the effect of a fleet of a thousand
aeroplanes! And they can get 5000
Of these aeroplanes for the cost OF
one dreadnought.
"All the great destructive posi-
bilities of the aeroplane are dwarfed
by the moral effect on the popula-
tiontion--the fear of indiscriminate
1--WE have passed the era Of con-
quest, but the lesson for the genera
ton to come would be more plainly
presented IL on each OF the great
monuments of Paris that
excite so much admiration the de-
tails of the cost to the French peo-
ulp Uern nlanad