The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-16
Women In Northern France Pro-
testing Against High Cost
Of Living
SOME DEMANDS ARE GRANTED
Have Succeeded in Getting Lower
Prices For Dairy Products.
Meat Still High.

In France, which has been creeping up
ward steadily during ten years, has
nisen with u jump this summer. one
extraordinary dry and hot weather,
withering and drying up the vegetables
consumed I'm large quantities by all
classes in France. String beans Of the
most ordinary description for example
sell for . to IL cents pound and let
tuce at $3.50 the hundred wholesale.
Discomfort of housewives has taken
violent form in the north, where at
tacks upon farmers, butchers, store
keepers and other vendors by bands of
viragoes are the daily excitements in
towns and cities The Revolutionary
Labor Party has thought this a good
occasion to take part, but the women
manifestants oppose this, and keep the
agitation i'm their own hands. loose
organization spreads over the north, al
though example more than anything
else keeps the market places in uproar
I'm half a hundred cities and smaller
centers. Sometimes there is meat
boycott for a couple of days at time
as a warning to the butchers. or three
or four hundred women will rush n
market, tipping over all the stands and
half destroying the eatables.
Demands of the housewives are for
milk at cents a quart, butter at 80
cents a pound, bread at IS or 10 cents
for the 5-pound loaf and plain meats
at 20 cents q pound. So far as bread
and dairy products are concerned, the
women have been generally successful.
but the butchers utterly refuse to give
way. They affirm that selling at 90
cents a pound would cause an actual
loss. Farmers have not been able To
combine. as the butchers have done,
and they are yielding. although in
creased prices from their point of view
seem justified because fodder is dear
and scarce. Most of the cows are
stable-fed. and the milk supply liz pos
sibly third less than usual The long
drought has burnt up the second crops
OF fodder.
The Parlsians hear OF these success
ful raids on prices i'm the northern
provinces with the hope that something
will happen to check the rising cost OF
everything i'm the capitol, where living
is 80 per cent. dearer than 1t was at
the opening of the century.
johnson Trains Near Paris.
Jack Johnson is training for his fight
with Bombardier Wells near Paris.
Every day he boxes ten or twelve
rounds with minor celebrities of the
ring at the Magic City. the American
Amusement park Women form a
considerable part of the audiences.
Johnson begins with a speech to the
house and then boxes with his trainer.
Bob Armstrong. and others, intersper
sing swings. hooks and uppercuts with
jokes and slangy pleasantries.
Edison Enjoying Vacation.
Edison has been automobiling In
short stages through France and
Switzerland. He intends to continue
his holiday through Germany to Ham
burg, sailing from there for home.
Everywhere Edison receives impressive
attention, being spoken of sometimes as
"the great American" He has a vivid
and delighted interest i'm all that he
sees, and likes to talk about his i'm
pressions.
"Who is the shabby little man with
the crowd around him?" inquired a
Partisan woman i'm the lobby at the
Beau Rivage at Geneva. Upon being
told that he was Edison. she looked
again and replied:
His clothes look as though they
had cost about 80 francs. but he has
a brain great enough to make him EN-
peror of France"
Edison feels the charm of the old
pleasant and rich countries through
which he passes. but he admires most
the delicate and intelligent skill of the |
Swiss workmen He attributes their
fine precision to the generations of |
my chief man, Wurth. |
whom have pensloned." said Edison. |
"is n Swiss, and have employed more
than one thousand of them"
The only correspondence Edison |
bothers with on his holiday is to auto
graph the photographs of himself that
people present to him.
Suns Ray Burn Chalet.
The chalet and beautiful botanical |
gardens of Sainte Savine. near Troyes, |
have been burned by the concentra
tion OF the suns rays through an acci- |
dental arrangement of windows form
ing a burning glass.
Many Articles Pawned.
The Mont de- Piete of Paris. the gov
ernment pawn shop. has issued its re-
port for last year. showing that nearly
$S.0OO,000 were loaned on 910,11S
articles, more than s7,O0o,O00 being up
on jewclry or objects of-art. The ex-
periences of the government pawn
brokers in Paris, and the report says
I'm the provinces also. show that people
pawn more during periods Of prosperity
than during depressed times, because in
prosperity small business people need
capital and do not have sufficient