Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-07-28
AMERICAN
MUSEUM IN PARIS
As MEANS or OPENING FOREIGN
AIAIthFT TO LARGE CLASS on
AMERICAN PRODUCERS.
HELP TO MANUFACTURERS
Paris T. Great Center Assembling
Point fo.' Visitors 10 European
COuntriC,

PARIS, July a. The suggestion to
found an American commercial mu-
scum IN Paris no means OF opening
the tirolgH market 10 larger class
" American manufacturers has come
from the American chamber Of com
nlcrce here. George A. Oslheimcr, a
member ~ the board of directors has
shctchcd plan for such an Organiza-
tiOn,
II Is believed thai such museum
would be especially beneficial! 10 the
small manufacturers whose goods
could thus ho made know 20 the out
sidc world TO the best possible advan-
tugo and AZ the least possible expense.
4 lnusoum IN Paris, II is believed,
would be especially valuable. because
Paris IS the great central assembling
pJini for visitors TO Europe, and tho
products OF American manufacturers
y ould De- under the eyes of not only
the business men Of France. but all
Of France as we'll
Attached "a the French ministry OF
france are officials who are Little
KNOWN to the world at large, They are
the tnuac 20 testers Cf the government
lnd their huIness Is 10 pass judgment
ON every lind of tobacco that is used
throughout the country
This body OF men, which one news
paper calls Smoke board" consists
Of a chairman and five assistants and
and from morning until night they do
nothing but smoke cigars, cigarettes
and pipes, so as to reach an estimate
of the different types OF tobacco that
Is placed before them.
The officials do not hesitate to nd
MT that the pleasantest part OF the
DAYS work comes when II falls to
their lot tc test the high priced llav-
ana clgnrS sold by the state through
the th0rsands Of tobacco stores that
exist throughout France. The en-
IloyCcs who undertake this respon-
siblc uuty are former inspectors Of
tobacco manufactures who have
passed certain number OF years In
the state service and have demonstrat-
ed their capab!lity for this peculiar
Kind Of work.
The injurious influence Of the to-
baCco they endeavOr to combat by
drinking greIt quantities OF black cof-
fee. which acts. II Is said as an anti
dclo to the effects Of the nicotine.
Tho question OF morality, as II at
tachcs Itself to the public elementary
school. Is again arousing attention. to-
gcthcr with the perennial subject OF
increased crimlnality. Certain proNin-
clal mayors have forbidden the exhi-
bltlon of bandit" films In their com
munes. Moving pictures, they say,
which display the exploits of tho
"apaches are encouraging and propa-
gatirg crime.
In some quarters this view Is chal-
lenged with the declaration that one
must go behind the picture palace to
the elemcntuT school for the source OF
the evil. II Is there that morals are
inculcateG, and II is there that the
character OF the young receives its
nrst impress
Others. again. attribute the growth
of predatory crime to the growing
materialsm. to the ambition that per-
meates all classes, and TO that new
spirit OF extravaganza which appears
to be undermining the old prudence
md thrift Of the French"
In connection with the subject OF
elementary education writer in the
"ReVue des Deux Mondes" makes n
plea for the reorganization Of the
curlcula OF public schools in the coun-
try. and asks that the instruction CIV
cn to future farmers and agricultural
hborcrS shall accord more with their