Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-22
IN SEPARATE GRASSLAND FOR MEXICANS
Provision for Foreign Stu Government to Reclaim Acres
dents in Paris University. of Waste Territory.
AN INDEPENDENT FACUL TY ONE OF MADERO REFORMS
Complaint Bills Effect Change
Glasses Is Retarded Yet Presented However.
BOON CLIMBERS CANCELS FISHING CONCESSION
to Have Rights They Were De-
Il Lured America prved
Provision for Foreign Stu
dents in Paris University.
AN INDEPENDENT FACULTY
Complaint That Progress Of French
Glasses Is Retarded.
BOON FOR MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
Scientist Prescfibss for Illness Incl
dent to Great Heights-Swiss
Lured to America.

cerespondence Of the Associated Press
PARIS. June IA. 1912.
The question Of foreign students at
the University OF Paris has been
brought to a head by complaints from
the French Students Association that
the teaching OF the university is being
hampered by the presence OF so many
students with an imperfect knowledge
of the language There are now over
5000 foreign students entered at the
university. most Of them at the Faculty
of Letters. which cannot. 1t Is alleged.
without grave injustice to the French
students, give courses which foreign
students are capable of following.
To remedy this stage of affairs the
Alliance Franchise. In cooperation with
the university authorities. has decided
to create a faculty where the French
language will be taught from its earli-
est origins 20 its latest developments.
and the foreign student fitted to follow
any course In the university without
Inconvenience to his fellow-students
and with a profit to himself.
The university has offered to sell to
the alliance at a reasonable price
plot of land conveniently situated on
the left bank of the Seine. close to the
university. In order to raise the neces-
sary funds TO buy the land and build
and equip the necessary premises a
stock company has been formed un
der the name Of the Society of Friends
of the Alliance Franchise. with capt.
tai of $4,000.
Prescribes for Mountain Illness.
The mountain sickness experienced by
mountain climbers and the species of
same ailment affecting aviators at great
heights can be prevented by hypodermic
injections Of oxygen, according to DIR.
Roux. the director Of the Pasteur 1nstl-
tute. Or. Roux read q paper before the
Academy of Sciences. demonstrating the
results Of a series Of experiments made
with rabbits at the summit Of Mont Blanc
in Switzerland. Some Of the rabbits were
treated with oxygen and the others were
not treated. Subsequent examinations
showedt that the blood of the treated rabbits
was OF the natural red-purple which would
be found when at their normal altitude
The blood of the remaining rabbits was
blackish and unhealthy. The scientist
says the injections may be made very
easily and that very little oxygen Is re-
CURED.
Swiss Emigrants Numerous.
The allurement Of better wages and
all-the-year-round employment Is caus-
Swiss mountain guides to the Rocky
mountains. according to dispatches from
the Swiss mountain resorts. In Switzer-
land the majority of the guides have a
precarious existence. as during the winter
months they have practically nothing to
Dc and earn no money.
Agents OF the Canadian Pacific rail-
road have offered many Of them employ
ment twelve months in the year. on con-
dition that they abandon the Alps for the
Rockies and go to settle there with their
families. Several families OF Swiss guides
have recently left Grindewald and Inter-
laken for the Rocky mountain states.
Accidents to Airmen.
Maj Renard Of the French army, who
has been making a study Of aeroplane
accidents and their causes. has reached
some interesting conclusions. OF the
fatal accidents in 1911 he finds that 25
per cent we're due TO the lack Of natural
aptitude on the part Of the pilots. Thir-
teen per cent were due to insufficient In
struction. 8 per cent TO the excessive
daring of the airmen and per cent to
their imprudence and carelessness. Thir-
teen per cent are laid to the faulty con-
structicn of the machines. 20 per cent to
insufficient solidity and 10 to Il per cent
to adverse atmospheric conditions.
Appeal for Guadalupe.
Henry Beranger. the French senator
representing Guadalupe. the French
island colony In the Lesser Antilles group
IN the Atlantic. has issued public appeal
In behalf of that island. which he has
just visited. Senator Beranger foresees
a great Industrial and agricultural future
for Guadalupe. but he declares that the
island Is now too heavily burdened with
taxes. He points out that in the last ten
years the population has increased from
10000 to 10000. and Guadalupe has
maintained her output of sugar. the
coffee production has tripled and the pro-
duction of fruit favorings has steadily
mounted.
What Guadalupe needs, says Senator
Beranger. Is a chance TO work by her
self and for herself She needs to be
freed from excessive taxes levied by the
mother country and the great variety OF
fiscal charges which stihe the efforts OF
planters and fishermen and which to-
gether constitute burden which dis
courages the admirable enthusiasm of the
islanders to develop into a successful and
brilliant colony.