The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-19
STATE HAS ARMYOF
SCHOOL MASTERS
French Education Problem
Uppermost i'll Minds OF
Legislators.
BITTERNESS is SHOW N
Marked Approval Is Being Given
Development Of Mixed
Schools.
BITTERNESS is SHOW N
ny GEORGE DUFREsNE.

tSPecinl Cable 10 The Times. Dispatch1
Paris. March ls.--The French cdu-
ca ton problem. Judging from the time
given to it In the Chamber, apparent
~ occupies the legislators minds more
than anything else. The State has now
an army of school masters and school
mistrcsses of $4,000 strong, and their
mission has been not only to teach the
young idea how to shoot. but 10 serve
rs political agents in every commune
But the teaching body, feeling gradual
IS It's influence and its power, is begin
ming to rebel against the political role
II is made to play
There is very strong objection to
scnool appointments being made by
the projects. whose tyranny Is quite as
great now as IL was under the empire
An outhurst Of irotcstation took place
IN the Chamber OF Deputies tho other
DAY on the subject, and the Minister OF
Public instruction thought 1t prudent
TO give way. the motion that appoint
lncnts should be made by the univer-
hity authorities instead Of by the nrc-
1ccts was carried BY an overwhelming
majority.
Meanwhile the school war is reopened
with extra bitterness. Marked appyo-
baton is given TO the development OF
inixcd schools. Notwithstanding the
ministerial circular or I'VE years ago
blamed the practice OF boys and girls
being together during school hours
finaliy, b. 800 against 1863. It was re-
solved that the state school teachers
should continue TO use the text books
condemned BY the bishops. All this
promises well for the approaching dis
cussion of the new school bills
GustaTe Tery and Urban Cohier issue
once week small sheet with red
covers called lEuvre. It is smartly
written and prides Itself on 'scnsa ,ional
revelations"
II aescks public men with the III
most violence, NJ Faliieres and NJ. Brit
and being its faVoritc victims But II
wanted something new. and the pro
duction of"Apres Moi" at the Comedia
#trancaisc was a Eodscnd. For NJ Hen
~ Bernstein. the author mad some
years ago written a letter TO NJ Ur-
balm Gohcr to say that he had desert
ed his regiment and was proud OF It,
why did ne write TO C;ohier? Because
Goh,cr had acquired great notoricty for
his attacks on thc army, and young
bernstein. foolish and headstronE. fol.
lowed cSil couHscis and thought II a
fine thing toftcll tschicr ali about Il.
y Years OF study and seclusion made
Bernstein one ot tho finest dramatic
authors OF his das. His new piece
Anres Moi" was staged a the Coincide
F francaise with all the magniiiccnce its
merit deserved This was TOO much
49,
ter Was published and sold at tie doors
Of the theatre The public we're told
that II was q shameful thing for
desertei TO be given such honor at tho
House OF Molicre
IN reality. Bernstein was attacked be.
cause nc was a Jew. The unrulr Incl
dents. the scandalous scenes that took
place every night during the perfor-
nance were against the Jew rather
than against the ..descrtcr.''
The growth OF anti Observation-Disclosures
~ in France is becoming very notice
able. The Action Franchise and the
Autoritc have fallen into line With the
I.ibre Parole. and there is the addition al
meance of the Labor Syndicates cam.
paign against Jewish capitalists
Should aviators marry? The cues
fion is at present being discussed BY
the fying men AT Issy-lcs- Moulineaux
Mourmelon le- Grand, Etampes, and Pau
IT was raised apropos of the marriage
of young A. Dubonnet the we'll known
airman. and he wedding OF NJ de Res
scns, another valiant "homme- oiseau.'
have not heard that the courageous
son of the man who made the Suez
Canal gave any promise to his bride
regarding his plans for the future But
M. Dubonnet before he led his iancee