The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
THE LEAGUE OF
 PARIS CONSUMERS New and Interesting Organi-
 zation in Paris 4 IS FOR PROTECTION
PROTECTION
Government Tobacco Monopolv Has Had to Resort to Adyertisine
 to Exploit It's Gods-Aero-
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 'Parls' January 7.-(Special. .)-Simulta- heously with the new year, a most in-
 leresting league was born here. & It IS called "The League of Paris Con- sumers,' and it means business. In three days it has attained several thou sand members. University nroges.o,.s
 poh.icians and property owners are amongst those joining then new league. the maln object of which is to protect the unfortunate consumer from the abuses of which he is the victim ~.
 ltis pointed out that up until now. the consumer has remained isolated ana
 'hereiore' poWerless. He has submitted wl,h angehc patience to the increase in the cost of living, to the strikes in th. public services and to the increases in saiarles. But he is now weary of heinz oppressed and exploited, and intends to make his voice heard The idea of the league was first suq- gested by M. Glide, a. professor in the fac ulty of law, who considered that the tinne was ripe to create vast assoeia tior which should defend individual interests
 The League of Consumers wil, seal, ta
 orihg pressure on public authorities and 'ahe immediate action when the prices of anacies ~ or food are unjilstifably in The Reggie, which is another mama r,r me state tobacco monopoly, has fo,lnd if necessary to advertise it's goods ,ryis step mas been taken on accoi,nt of inc publicity given to foreign cigars and cigarettes in the state tobacco shops. Ont s,oe the shops luminous sign informs ,ne passerpy that foreign tobaccos can be iiad Wlthin Inside these foreign goods are displayed everywhere, the cigars of french manufacture being relegated to some dark corner The result is that tbo rrench products are not getting a chance
 but all this will be changed The Reggie IS going to take up advertising. A cata- log IS in course of preparation In 1t will De described the different kinds of cigars and cigarettes turned out by the state Much is expected from this cataloe. Rut the Reggie will have to take care not to defeat it's object. There have long been complaints of delay in furnishing sun. plies. What is the good of smokers being attracted to a certain cigar or cigarette through an advertisement if they cannot S~e ~ NhCi tilcy. dSh TOT II!
 Convinced of the gerat usefulness of aeroplanes not only in war but also as means or communication in peace the French colonial minister is about to spend $SO,OCO for experiments with Bleriot mono planes in the French colonies, and before the end of the year mails may be deliv- cred regularly by aeroplanes in French and West Africa.
 The aerOplaneS ara fo 1eova 1,aro ;,, about week and the erection of postal hangars will be undertaken at once. Whe nthe chamber meets again the min ister will ask for grant of s1OO.0O0 to he spent durlnee1912 in establishing an aerial postal delivery service in Indo-Chna in case the west African experiment proves successful.
 by postponing the debate on the French naval estimates for the coming financial year until the chamber meets again. Ad- miral Boue de Lapayrere the indefatiga- Die secretary of the navy, has gained time 10 prepare some very important and in- teresting declarations. The secretary has naval programme, which will add i'm menseiy to the strength of the French navy. already prepared and Mir Briand intends to stake the whole political exist ence of the cabinet on it's adoption bv the chamber and senate.
 the priine munster IS absolutely per suaded of the imperative necessity of ot least eight new Dreadnoughts At present two are being constructed with the rt- most rapidity-the Jean Bart at Brest and the Courbet, at Iorient They are of $500 tons each, and they form the model or the ironclads to come. in fact when parliament voted the credits for them it was understood that. the two ships were an installment of the programme. do not think that in tbe ureSapt ,,o,Jio,.,.,,
 and with prime minister of the force of M. Briand, opposition to the scheme will have any chance of success.
 From Italy comes the news that Prof Felice Jacoviello of the University of Parma has invented an appliance which will completely revolutionize wireless tel egraphy and transmission of electrical force
 Though difficult to explain in simple language, it may be said that the appli- ance is constructed with the object of transforming ordinary electric currents into Hertzian waves, and experiment has proved the power of the appliance so to transform 90 per cent of any current It consists of an arc in which two tubes of metal, varying according to the force of the current to be transformed, are sub- stituted for the carbon points Currents varying in strength. from 15,OO0 to 100000 volts have been dealt with successfully The most interesting part of the arc is strong stream of air or sometimes gas, that Is forced through the two metal tubes of the arc in such manner that the molecules of the air, or gas move in the same direction as the irons and elec- irons or electrified particles of air The stream of air or gas serves to regulate the production of these particles and to render the arc capable of charging and discharging many thousand volts per sec ond into and from an electrostatic con denser, thus producing Hertzian waves in continuity. 7t
 The chief advantages of this new ap. pliance are that it utilzes much higher percentage of the transformed electric energy than before, and permits the use of electrostatic condensers only one-twen- tieth of the size of those ordinarily em- ployed. .h .,s-
 The first experiments with the new arc were made on November IT, at the arsenal of Spezia The wireless telegraph station at Venice, on the other coast of Italy, to which the Hertzian waves were direct ed by the Jacoviello instrument replied
 immediately that the signals had been received with an extraordinary force and clearness. The length of the waves gen erated by the arc is said to be at present 2000 miles. The strength of the appliance can be judged from the fact that steel plate arnor and other metals rapidly .aa1f tn. fl.<,r @N<~I.A A |.