Arizona republican., 1912-07-29
The Paris American Cham Der of Commerce Pro
 poses the Establishment of a Museum for Benefit of Small Manufacturers.
CROSS ROADS OF
 EUROPE ITS LOCATION
Movement in French Capi-
 tai Against Moving Pic lures of Bandits. Pro-
 posal to Introduce Study of Agriculture in Schools.

PARIS. July 2S.--The suggestion to found an American commrcial muse um i'll Paris as a means of opening the foreign market to a larger class of American manufacturers has come from the American chamber of com merce here George R. Ostheimer, a member Of the board of directors, has sketched a plan for such an organiza- tion.
 It is believed that such a museum would be especially beneficial to the small manufacturers, whose goods could thus be made known to the out side wOrlG to the best possible advan- tage anG at the least possible expense.
 A museum in Paris, it is believed, would be especially valuable, because of the fact that Paris is the great cen traI assembling point for visitors tc Europe, and the products of American manufacturers would be under the eyes of not only the business men oi France but all of Europe as well.
 Attached to the French ministry 0f finance are officials who are little known ao the world at large. They are the tobacco testers of the government and their business is to pass judg- ment on every kind 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 from morning until night they do noth. ing but smoke cigars, cigarettes and qt Q nf the different types of tobacco placed before them.
 The officials do not hesitate to ad init that the most pleasant part of the days work comes when it falls to their lot to test the high priced Havana ci- gars sold by the state through the thousands of tobacco stores that eX- ist throughout France. The employees who undertake this responsible duty are former inspectors of t/ oacco man. ufactories, who have passed a certain number of years in the state service and have. demonstrated their capa bill itv for this peculiar kind of work,
 The injurious influence of the to- baccO they endeaVOr to combat by drinking great quantities of black cof- fee. which acts. it is said. as an anti dote to the effects of the nicotine.
 The question of morality, as it at taches itself to the public elementary school is again arOusing attention, to- gether with the perennial subject Of increased criminality. Certain brown ciaI mayors have forbidden the exhibi- ton of "bandit" films in their com munes. Moving pictures, they say, which display the exploits of "apaches are encouraging and propagating crime
 Tn some quarters this view is chal- lenged with the declaration that one must go behind the picture palace to the elementary school for the source of the evil u is there that morals are inculcated. and it is there that the character of the young receives it's first impress.
 Others. again. attribute the growth of predatory crime to the ambition that perr7eates all classes, and to that new spirit of extravaganza which ap- pears to be undermining the old pru- dence and thrift of the French.
 In connection with the subject Of elementary education a writer in the "Revue des DeuX MOndes' makes a plea for the reorganization of the cur ricuL7 of public schools of the coun- trv. and asks that the instruction be given to future farmers shall accord more wth their special requirements. TncuIcate in them. he says, love of the land: let them realize the sanity and ntiIity of a country life, of life given to the raising of cattle and the cultivation of crops. Combat as much as possible the tendency to leave the land for the cities-a tendency which exists in France as elsewhere. Coup led with the dWindling population it provides a serious problem for the flu ture welI-being of agricultural districts in France.
 State instruction is at present given in the rublfc schools is liable, it is claimed. to make clerks and postmen and civil functionaries instead of ar dent tillsrs of the soil Why should not the schoolmaster instil into his pu- pills the idea that to plough a straight furrow IS more useful to te community than is the ability to add up a row of figures or to manipulate red-tape in Q mt off