Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-19

The lordship of the land
I saw the last joy parade of the grad
uating class of the Agronomcs. their
farewell monome to express pleasure in
quitting Paris to hurry back to the soil.
These monomes of students set the
Latin quarter wild 1t is in the blood of
Latin quarter shopkeepers and residents
to mingle unreasoning fright with mex
plicable enthusiasm when they get first
glimpse of the monOme. 1t is like a
horse who sweats and trembles at a
lions roar: for fifty generations back
his ancestors had never suffered any
thing from lions-the atavlstic warning
is deeper.
So with Latin quarter shopkeepers. For
their ancestors Monomes meant the Ba-
sothe the Day of Fools. the swift and
sudden uprisings of the Sorbonne against
even royal authority.
The monomes Of today are milder.
though the famous students riots of 1895
began with mOnome Of the beauX arts.
That Of the law students recently. aimed
against an unpopular professor, got
whole class set back three months by the
minister of public instruction suspending
the courses. Previously, the medical
students. fighting on principle against the
establishment Of privileged class in the
proposed aggregation eligibility to
2rofessorships by special degree), got the
mass OF Paris general practitioners with
them and upset a plan of faculty and
government.
was not like these. The police, laughing
were proud to clear space for them The
entire population called out admiring
farewells from windows, doorways, cafe
terraces and sidewalks. Passing work
men. draymen. cab drivers, ladies out
shopping, servant girls with baskets, all
smiled friendly on the farmboys going
back to the farm!
The lordship of the land.
Since the mobiles have lost it even in
name. the farmboys are resolved to have
it in fact. The motto is:
The countryside for country folks"
but they mean themselves specially.
Their other motto is:
Keep the city people out!'
City folks are welcome on vacation in
thousand delicious watering places-on
condition that local capital owns a ma
jority of the casino and baths stocks.
But city spectators, planning to buy up
a springs site, will find themselves los
ing money and hampered thousand
ways.
City folks are welcome to tear I'D the
splendid highroads with their swift and
neavy touring autos-on condition that
they leave stream Of gold behind them
to build up the local inns to their old
glory of the stage-coach centuries the
government will repair the roads And
city folks are welcome to buy artificial
telegraph poles from farmboys' facto-
ries, but don't try to come and make
them on the spot.
IueutiOu tcleSTdpH poles because
have seen the whole thing on FIVE differ
ent automobiling vacations. An Agro-
nomic engineer boy. shopping around his
fathers farm. discovered a cement bed
Also he was interested in an electric
power plant thirty miles off in the
Dauphiny foothills Poles being dear,
they had no wish to cut a forest to lead
that power and light to their region.
: So the Agronomic boy invented cement
telegraph pole reinforced by iron strips.
/ speak untechnically, but this was it's
essence. That first power line was laid
with them. Now those artificial poles are