Arizona republican., 1912-10-07
RED TAPE ENTANGLES
 AMERICAN VISITORS
Sarah Bernhardt to Be Dec orated With the Medal of the "Terrible Year." the Only One to Which She Is Eligible
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArCH1


 of the French fleet through the send- ing of the North Sea squadron to the Mediterranean has left the defence of the channel coast and the Bay of Bis cay to the destroyers and submarines.
 Cherbourg has been selected as the base for fleet of twenty four of these swift craft and a large number of sub- marines. These destroyers, which will be known as the flotilla squadron of the channel, will be charged to defend the coast between Cherbourg and Havre and protect such ports of com- merce as Calais and Boulogne, Gran- vile, Saint Malo, but especially Havre and the mouth of the Seine.
 With the exception of two submar- ines to go to Toulon, all French sub- marines win remain at Cherbourg to join with the destroyers in a defensive or offensive action in case of war.
 An American visitor to Paris rec- ently discovered that the red tape which binds officialdom there is even stronger than that to be found in oth- CT countries. He tried to cash cabled order for S15 at a post office near the Opera and knowing that some proof of identity would be required produced successiVely:
 An international autom obilists per- init with photograph.
 A permit issued by the French tour- ing club with photograph.
 A certificate of ownership of his motor cycle.
 A license from the French customs.
 A number of letters addressed to him
 A letter of identity duly legalized by the L. s. consul general at Paris.
 These papers he was told, were in- sufficient He must bring two wit- nesses. He found them. Two officials of a large firm, one of them furnished with a regular procuration, and the other with twenty letters addressed to him accompanied him to the post of flee, but in vain. Finally one of the two witnesses, whose identity in turn was suspected, had a stroke of genius. He went cut and came back with an electors card and immediately all dif- faculties vanished.
 This incident is commented on with much gusto by the Press and many have been the attempts to find the ex- planation of the magic power of an electors card. High officials, ques- tioned, ''have nothing to say.'
 Friends of "the Divine Sarah" are determined that she shall have dec- oration of some kind. Rolled by what they term the incomprehensibie scrup- les of the council of the legion of hon. or, they now demand that the new medal being issued in commemoration of the terrible year" 1S7071, shall be pinned on the breast of Madame Bernhardt by the minister for war.
 The great actress performed prodi- gies of vaIor during the siege of the capital, tending the wounded at the Odeon and frequently coming within the zone of hurtling shells and bull lets.
 J. H. Fabre, the noted entomologist whose strengthened circumstances have lately been the subject of much sym pathetic concern, has been put up for the Nobel prize for literature by Baron D'Estournelles de Constant. Fabre was among those considered last year for the same prize which however finally went to Maeterlinck. The candidacy of the famous Frenchman is being widely supported It had been proposed to elect Fabre to one of the vacant seats in the academic Franchise, but 1t ap- pears only residents of Paris are el1g- ible to the institution.
 The barbers and hairdressers Of France are incensed against the pro- prietors of drug stores for encroachlnS upon their trade. At their annual con- gress in Paris they passed stern res olution against the druggists, who pro- tested that the barbers themselves had crossed far into pharmaceutical ter ritory.
 French barbers have for long time made a practice of selling toilet goods in addition to performing toilet oper- ations. At first they confined them selves to stocks of such articles as are directly connected with matters recog- nized as barber's business, such as shaving soap, shaving brushes. strops- shaving paper hair ointment, and so on. But little by little they have ex- tended their line until it TOW covers not only the head and face, but the hands, feet and body as well.