Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
GERMAN GARCONS GET PARIS
French Walters Inaugurate Cam.
paign to Recapture Jobs.
PARLIAMENT WILL GIVE AID.
Bill 60 ne Passed CompeIlins Hotel
Keepers 60 Employ Frenchmen
I'm Preference co Invaders
from KRiser's, Domains.

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! Paris, Dec. 16.--A Vigorous campaign
Is being waged by the French hote
employees trade union against the in
vasion Of hotels and restaurants in
France by German walters.
A bill will be introduced In Parliament
by NJ. MilIerand. Minister Of Public
Works in the BRAND cabinet, which. n
adopted will oblige hotel proprietors 10
employ Frenchmen 20 the number OF
eighty per cent A tax. which will be
practically prohibltlye, will be imposed on
employer and empioye for every for
eigner hired exceeding twenty per cent.
The union declares that there are be-
tween 600 and 100 French walters seek
ing places In Paris today. Many Of
them speak three languages and a num-
Der havo a knowledge Of bookkeeping,
shorthand and typewrting. The point
is that many, II not a majority. OF the
Paris hotels are conducted by Germans
who will take only Germans on their
staffs, II Is alleged
On the other hand, French walters In
Germany have a different sort OF exper-
ience. The French Union alleges that
In Germany the Frenchman IL pursued
cannot find work, Is Immediately expelled
from the country
Tho union is discussing with tho Brit
ish Walters society a plan for the cs-
tabllshment Of a Franco British school
Tor hotel employees IN Paris and Lon
don Languages would form q special
feature Of the tuition and situations
would be found for ali pupils when they
had completed the course of instruction
How We Got Our Great Lakes,
NJ Cayeux, the paleontologist, has pre-
sented a paper TO the Academy OF
Sciences relative 20 researches in the re-
gion Of the Great Lakes Of the United
states and Canada. He concludes that
tho organic activity was very great at
the huronian age in tho region of the
Great Lakes. Far from being composed
OF primitive matter, the fauna exhumed
from the rocks showed an organism wen
advanced along the life OF the inverfe.
brates. The interest OF the discovery
lies In the fact that the huronian are
ID the most ancient found In studying
what IL known as the sedlmentary lands
OF the planet Earth.
war ON Field Beetle,
M. Xavier Raspai has suggested 70
the Academy OF Sciences a means OF
checking the ravages OF the beetle in
agriculture which were 80 great In
France In the last quarter of the nine
teenth century that the damage has been
estimated at several million dollars. In
all parts a vigorous war OF externlna-
tion was organized against this deatr,ic-
tive insect. and many means were adopted
for getting rid OF IT,
The plan offered by NJ RaapaII keeps
In mind the fact that three years are
necessary for the complete evolution OF
the beetle from the egg to the time when
X energies from the earth and becomes
q perfect insect. Estimating the moment
when the transition comes. M. Raspaii
proposes an organised search and de.
struotion by piowing for the white worm,
which Is the form OF the insect just be-
for flight.
The scientist believes. however, that the
beetle is gradually decreasing In France,
though not In buffioient numbers to-
justify cessation Of the battle against II.
Windows IN UmbreIIas.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made
In Paris 20 Introduce an umbrella with
mica windows made into the silk cover
Ing. one or two persons ventured on the
boulevards with the innovation. but the
jeers and laughter OF the promenaders
soon forced them to retire.
Tho idea originated with Russian
Prince POutatine. While waik-
ing one day with his tutor the latter was
attacked and severely bitten by a mad
dog The tutor died from the bite, and
the prince was no deeply impressed by
the tragedy that ever after he entertained
a morbid fear OF dogs. In order that ne
should be safe under all conditions OF
weather he ordered an umbrella made
with windows. The prince thus obtained
a certain measure OF celebrity In the
capitals OF Europe. but his idea, II seems.
win not be adopted by the general public.
Innovation in Art Center.
A long desired innovation has been In.
troduced into the regulations OF the salon
des Artistes Francais. Hitherto the award
of a second class medal entitled its holder
TO have two pictures hung without going
before the jury. As some score or more
second class medals are awarded every
year the number OF artists whose COM
positions crowd the walls 10 the exclusion
OF new talent has become so great that
the whole character OF the exhibition has
suffered. The committee has now de.
eided that only the works Of fret class
medals shall be In the future exempted
from submiRalOn n the furv