Arizona republican., 1912-09-02
PARIS POLICE
 COST LITTLE
Expenses of Protection in French Provinces Still Less-The House Where Napoleon Lived While in Exile at Elba.

PARIS, Sept. For one cent day the Parisian is protected against crime, theft and fire. The Parisian budgets amount to $44,OOO,O0O francs $8SOO,0OO) which works out at 15 francs ($3) per year per head. For those persons who find this expensive there IS the suburban region, where practically nothing is spent on police; paltry 3,000.000 francs ($600,000. It may be added that the suburban po- ilceman, although scarce, is not over worked, and it speaks wonders for the high standard of orderliness and hon. esty of the French that it should be possible for large agglomeration of communes containing 10000 or 30.000 inhabitants to exist without more than dozen policemen. The expense of policing the suburbs is mostly provid- ed for by a tax on alcohol Thus by poetic justice the drunkard who is taken up by the police is paying his captor out of his own pocket
 Police expenses in the provinces are considerably less than in Paris. Nice pays most in proportion to the number of inhabitants; about six francs ($1.2O) per head per year. This is accounted for by the number of for eign visitors who have to be specially watched after or over. Of the other cities MarseiIles pay 3 francs (60 cents), Bordeaux. francs (S0 cents) Toulouse, francs (58 cents); Saint Etienne francs 15 (43 cents); Rheims, francs GAO cents). and Lyon, cheapest of all, 1 franc 50 (30 cents).
 The Paris police costs so much more for a variety of reasons. For ons thing, the police authorities have to pay for the sanitary service, the in spection of markets and the upkeep of the anthropometric department, which though maintained by Paris, is utilized by the whole country Be- sides this, all of the master criminals of the provinces come to Paris to hide and the organized bands of malefac- tors have their headquarters at Paris, for there alone can they find receivers for stolen goods and brokers for stol- en securities.
 The mayor of a little commune in the department of the H.autes Pyre- nees, anxious about the digestion of domestic animals, recently issued the following order:
 Whereas the young people Of this commune are accustomed to meet after mass on Sundays for the purpose of dancing; whereas the noise they make frghtens the cocks, hens and other animals of the village; whereas there results from this depreciation detrimental to agricultural lnterets; we hereby forbid the practice of dancing within the precincts Of thlS commune during the hours at which the domestic animals take thelr meals.''
 The news of the approaching sale of the house which Napoleon lnhablted during his exile in the isle of Elba has nroduced quite a sensation in France. It is urged in many quarters that the | Branch government should take steps to acquire this historic building, Tor if. it is pointed out by one organ, there are different political parties Tn I France, abroad there is only the ma lions fair fame which would not l gain by allowing this villa to 1ali into | the hands of some commercial enter | prise. Imagine" concludes the writ
 
 CT "a German hotelkeeper in posses | sion of the villa of Porto-FerraJo and | the bust of Bismarck planted firmly 1 on the facade"
 The French government Is making | fine profit out of the gambling lh- | stinct of the French nation some IT, | teresting figures are published siloW l ing the steady increase in the proceeuS | of the casinos, which came under tlle | control of the state on June b. 19o'' | The next year they produced $5,Soo'- ono Tn 1909 the total was $7,4OO,ooo' 1 and in 1910. s8.SOO.00O, while last year
 m less sum than s9,6O0.O00 was sacrl-
 flood bn, the lovers of public games or | chance.
 Anart from the amounts when are
 handed over by each establishment TOT | the benefit of it's own commune tho 1 state Ievies tax of 15 per cent oli 'iie
 gross profits. which IS adlnlhlStei eu bv q sneciaI committee at the ministry | of the interior, and is spent on Worhs
 of hygiene. charity and pubic utlli'y' Tn 1ooe inc state received from thlS
 sourca s8sO 900, in 1909 $1,12O,ooo' Tn
 1o1n s1 92O oOo and in 1911 $l,44o,ooO.
 Tho fall army maneuvers in France
 which this year will be OH oieeNi scale than any held since the lahious
 display before the czar Ill l'o1' "h'
 take place in Touraine anu roitou
 They begin on September Il anu ida'
 eight days Ninety thouano men VIII
 take the field under the supreme coih mand of General Joffre.
 Generals Gallieni and Marion VIII re- spectively command the opposine forces which will be approXimatels l equal numerically.
 At least fifty ,aeroplanes and severa dirigibles will be engaged