The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-07
PATRIOTISM WAVE
 SWEEPS FRANCE Revival of Military Spirit
 Sets IIl LEPINE IS HON0RED Elected Fellow of Academy of Moral and Political Seience-A Well Dressed American Woman
 Swindles Paris Florist

Paris, April 6-The extraordinary out burst of patriotism that is sweeping over France has reached such proportions that it is now the chief subject of discussion among Palisians and foreign residents. Since the crisis with Germany on the subject of Morocco last summer re- vixaI of the military spirit and wave of patriotism have SCI in throughout the country. An opportunity for the express sion of this sentiment was presented when prominent Paris newspapers started a fund for the gift of aefoplanes for mlh- tary purposes to the government.
 France has reached the definite con clusion that the aeroplane will be her great weapon in time of war, and the patriotic movement, therefore, has cen- tered on the practical scheme of fur nishlng the nation with sunicient aero planes to mahe trance formidable leaa- CT in aerial navigation.
 Thc moNement has passed like an electric spark ell ove, France, and in almost every city, town and hamlet public subscriptions have been opened for the presentation CT aeropianes to the army. Men, women and ehildren, north and south, east and west, are con tIluutiHb itlbiI ltlANt lC Niib I h4 tAtNA etAiN- of the cause, and il Is believed that when the national fund is completes the citizens aeropls-.e nottlla wir astound the world Yis:. it's numerical strength.
 Americans in Paris. joining in the spirit of the movement, have started in on their own account and have opened subscription to whlca a large num- Der of them have already contrib ttfa ft.e ant l tIIBt4p let ter, state that trenchmen heipea the American revolutionary army, and IL would now be very htung anu graceful Tor Americans to aid s.i the building up of a great French aerial feet. Ths letter continues. The measure of ths service may be small in comparison with that of the original; but tle sen timent is big and noble, and sucn acton we think would harmonize very well with the fact that Ame1.can genus ufs, made aviation practicable. The Amer iean residents of France nope to collect about S5000, which will be handed over to the government for the purchase ot an aeroplane.
 There Is stlll another way in which French patriotism is being reawakened. When French soldiers return to their barracks at nightfall in Paris they are accompanied by military bands, and often they carry lighted torches. This has come to be known as the ''torchlight tat too and 1t is no uncommon sigaJ. now to see hundreds of civilians, their mar tia and patriotic spirit aroused by the swinging march of the soldiers, fan into line from the sidewalk and follow the infantrymen 10 their quarters while crowds looking on cheer repeatedly and enthusiastically for the French army.
 
 To the innumerable other distinctions with which ne has been honored, Louis I-epine, the vet-popular Parisan pre- feet of police, now adds that of mem- bership of the Institute of France, he having been elected a fellow of the Acad- emy of Moral and Political Sciences. This with the French Academy and the Acad- emies of Inscriptions and Belles fett,es, ofs Fine Arts and of Sciences, together form the institute which has it's home in the fine building on the south bank of the Seine erected bN Cardinal Maza- rin for the College of Four Nations.
 The academy to which NJ. Lepine has been elected also numbers in it's ranks Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences is divided into five philosophy, morals. leg islation. political economy and general history Outside these five sections there is another, an unattached section compris- ing 10 members, and among these NJ Le- pine will take his seat.
 An elegantly dressed American woman entered a florists on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris about : o'clock the other evening" and choosing a magnificent bouquet of camellias of the value of S10. offered an American $50 bill. She explained that she had just arrived from New York and had no French money. the banks be- ing closed at that hour. The florist took the bill and handed her 200 francs ts49) change, but on presenting the note at money changers next morning he was in- formed that it was Confederate bill and worthless. His next call was on the