Arizona republican., 1912-09-23
Teachers Federation Is Spreading Doctrines of Disloyalty Especially ill Encouraging Opposition to MilitariSm
FIRST STEP TAKEN
 TO SUPPRESS UNION
Discovery of Bones of a Sculptor Who Lived 30,- 900 Years Ago; It Lay Amid Many of His Gre atjons

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 PARIS, Sept. 22-Public opinion in France has been, for some time past, alarmed by the rapid growth of anti patriotic spirit in the ranks of the public school teachers, and the ac- tion of the government in ordering the suppression of the Teachers union after the very improper re- solutions passed at the recent con gress of the National Federation of Teachers Unions, has met with gen eral approval
 It has long been clear that the Teachers unions, which in many de- partments have taken the place of the old Friendly Societies and are frankly political in their intention, have come under the control of the extreme sec ton of the profession At the recent congress forty-nine unions were rep resented. an increase of 21 since last year.
 Attempts are made by the more moderate section of the teachers to suggest that the resolutions passed do not express the opinion of the great majority of the profession, but the fact remains that they were pass ed unanimously and If the belief ex- pressed in 1905 by NJ Rouvier, then prime minister, was correct-namely, that 40 per cent of the teachers were at that time contaminated with syn dicalism, it seems likely that with the general growth of the movement. the evil today is widely spread as amply to justify the general alarm which fills the columns of the press. The resolution of the congress. which has especially brought down upon it the condemnation of the gov ernment, was one expressing the ad- herence of the federation to an anti militarist organization known as the Sou du Soldat"-the Soldiers Cent This organization was origin ally started by the Masons' union of Paris, and seeks, with the proceeds of a collection of one cent month among it's members, to spread anti militarism in the army. Its object in fact, is to promote in the army the propaganda of the General Labor Federation
 Last year M Messimy then minis ter of war, endeavored by prosecuting all soldiers known to belong to the organization to put a stop to the evil It is, therefore, considered par ticularly alarming, from the patriotic point of view, to find the Federation | of Teachers, with whom rests the duty of instructing the youth of | France in patriotic ideals. publicly declaring it's adhesion to this move ment The Teachers unions have no legal existence, but have been merely tolerated, like other existing unions of officials, pending legislation. The great Cameo of France, the
 frame and pedestal of which, lost for a century,. has just been recovered | owing to the exertions of M. Babe ! lon, keeper of the medal room at the National library has been placed on | exhibition again.
 1 This work of art is a marvellously
 carved agate representing the giorifl- | cation of Germanicus. It belonged originally to the imperial treasury of | the Caesars at Rome, then to that of the Byzantine emperors. Baldwin l IT., emperor of Constantinople sold lit to Saint Louis. king of France.
 who placed it in the Sainte Chapelle l The grand Cameo, christianized, was | then known as the triumph or Joseph at the court of Pharaoh. lAfter having belonged to the popes | at Avignon. the great Cameo came
 back to the Sainte Chapelle under the reign of Charles V..
 During the revolution the Cameo, which the National assembly had placed in the medal room, was stolen. It was about to be sold at Amsterdam for the sum of S60,O0O. when the police of Napoleon got track of it. The frame, however, no longer
 existed: the thieves had melted It
 down. Napoleon had the present one
 made in place of it by the JeWeler
 Delafontaine, pupil of David. This
 frame of gilded bronze, in the form
 of a portico, supported by two lions.
 has just been found. permitting the masterpiece to be exposed TOT the
 admiration of the public.
 Doctor Capitan, professor at the
 College de France, has had the good fortune to discover the remains of
 the first sculptor in the world, buried
 at the foot of his masterpiece, eX-
 ecuted some 3O,O0O years ago
 Last year the archaeological world
 was deeply stirred by the unearthing lunder the pick of Doctor Lalanne of Bordeaux of prehistoric Venus,
 carved in the native rock of a grotto near Lauselle The rocky pocket in
 which this momentous discovery was l (COntinued on Page 4).