Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-09-01
ONE CENT DAILY
PROTECTS PARIS
AGAINST CRIME
Suburban Police Expense
Paid by Tax on AlchohOl;
Dozen Officers Guard
Communities 10000 PeO-
pie; Capital Cost Highest
MUSIC WORRIES STORk
MAYOR HALTS DANCE
Declares Sunday Sport Inter
feres with Indigestion of
Domestic Animals, Issues
Order

Order
PARIS. August 31:-For one cent a
day the Partisan is protected against
crime. theft and fire. The Partisan
budget amounts TO "A million francs
| tSS.SOO. 0O0l, which works out at IL
franc (S3) per year per head. For
| those persons who find this expensive
| there is the suburban region, where
practically nothing is spent on police:
paltry three million francs 5000
OOOt. II may be added that the sub
urban policeman, although scarce, is
/ not overworked, and il speaks won
| ders for the high standard of orderli-
ness and honesty of the French that
| it should be possible for large az
glOmerations of communes containing
10000 or 10000 inhabitants to exist
( without more than a dozen police
men. The expense of policing the
suburbs is mostly provided for by a
/ tax on alcohol. Thus by poetic JUS
| tice 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 num-
/ Der of inhabitants: about six francs
| tsl-20I 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 Marseilles pays 3 franc go
I cents, Bordeaux 4 franc $50 centst;
/ Toulouse, francs (5SJ; Saint Etien-
ne, ? francs - CAB cents): Rheims, ?
/ francs GO cents, and Lyon, cheapest
of all, franc 90 $50 cents.
! The Paris police costs so much
more for a variety of reasons. For one
I thing, the police authorities have TO
/ pay for the sanitary service. the in
spection of markets and the upkeep
! OF the aathrOpOmetric department,
which though maintained by Paris, is
utilized by the whole country. Be
sides this, all the master criminals
/ of the provinces come to Paris 10
| hide and the organized bands of male
| factors have their headquarters at
! Paris, for there alone can they find
receivers for stolen goods and brok-
/ ers for stolen securities.
The Mayor of little commune in
the department OF the Hautes Pyren-
CCs, anxious about the digestion OF
domestic animals. recently issued the
following order:
Whereas the young people Of this
commune are accustomed to meet aft
er mass on Sundays for the purpose
OF dancing: whereas the noise they
make frightens the cocks. hens and
other animals of the village; whereas
there results from this a depreciation
detrimental to agricultural interest:
we hereby forbid the practice of dane
ing within the precincts of this com
mune during tie hours at which the
domestic animals take their meals.
The news of the approaching sale of
the house which Napoleon inhabited
during his exile in the isle of EIba
has produced quite a sensation in
France. 1t is urged in many quarters
that the French government should
take steps to acquire this historic
building, for if, it is pointed out by
one organ, there are different political
parties in France, abroad there is on
~ the nations fair fame. which would
not gain by allowing this villa 10 fall
into the hands of some commercial
enter PRISE 4UdSlHe, concludes Inc
writer, a German hotelkeeper in
possession of the villa OF Porto-Fe-r-
aio and the bust of Bismarck planted
firmly on the facade"
The French government is making
a-fine profit out of the gambling in
stnct OF the French nation. Some
interesting figures are published show
ng the steady increase in the pro-
ceeds of the casinos, which came I'M
der the control of the state on June
Is, 1907. The next year they produc-
ed s5.S00,000. In 1909 the total was
s7,40O,00G, and in 1910, $500, 900.
while last year no less sum than So
100000 was sacrificed by the lovers
of public games of chance.
Apart from the amounts which are
handed over by each establishment
for the benefit of its own commune.
the state levies a tax OF Is per cent
on the gross profits, which is admin
istered by special committee at the
Ministry OF the Interior. and is spent
on works OF hygiene, charity and
public utility In 1908 the state re-
eeived from this source $3.50. 600. and
in 1909 s1.120.00O. in 1910 1890. 900
and in 1911 $1.440, 200.