Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
FRANCE NOT STIRRED
Meeting of Car and Kaiser
Causes No Excitement.
RUSSIA'S FRIENDSHIP SURE
Aerial Fleet Now Officially Part Of
French Army.
LAND OWNERS LOSE IN COURT
Defeated in Actions Against Aviator
Farman-Changes at Palais
Royal-New Radium Palace.
LAND OWNERS LOSE IN COURT
BY GEORGE DUFRESNE.

| Special Cablegram to The Star
| PARIS, July 27.-The recent meeting be-
tween the kaiser and the car in the
Finnish Skerries aroused only faint In
terest and scarcely any newspaper COM
the past when a meeting of this kind
would have set the whole press wild with
feverish anxiety. The reason is not only
that France is today far more sure of
her own military strength than she was
five years ago. but also that she knows
that she may rely absolutely on the
fidelity of her Russian friend and ally.
The fact Is that while the kaiser went to
the meeting with free hands, the car s
| hands at that time were practically tied.
| AS long as the question Of what to do to
avert an oriental crisis alone was dis
| cussed the car knew that he was sure
| of the approval Of France, that is WILL
ing to cooperate in any plan devised for
that purpose, but In other great diplomat
| ic questions Car Nicholas was prevented
from giving promises OF any kind with
out first consulting France: that is until
he has met NJ. Poincare at St. Petersburg.
As matters stand at present NJ. Gabriel
Hanotaux is perfectly justified in saying
that the last word rests with France. and
here kept France from losing any sleep
, at the thought that her chief ally was
to meet even a man of such wonderful
magnetic and persuasive powers as the
kaiser.
The aerial fleet, which the French call
1.-THE army of the air" is the pet of the
whole nation. Officially 1t had no indi-
vidual existence until Sunday before last.
when the president at the great review
at Longchamps declared it an independ
ent unit of the defenses of France and
handed over to its COMMANDMENTS chief
Its beautiful official flag; but even before
this the military a!rmen had received
promise of another flag donated by the
woman aeronauts of the stella society.
The action by four landowners against
NJ. Maurice Farman has been followed
with great interest by those interested I'm
aviation. The landowners each claimed
81 600 damages and sought to restrain
VI. Farman and his pupils from flying
over their property in the neighborhood
of Buc. In addition they asked for an
injunction fOrbidding aeropianes to fly
over private property unless at height
of COO feet, and demanded that aviators
should fit si,encers TO their motors
One Of the landowners subsequently
withdrew from the case. as NJ. Farman
had leased his land. The court found
that the land of VI. Bertrand stu
ated at considerable distance from the
aerodrome. and that it had not been
proved that an aeroi lane had descended
on his property. His claim was disal-
lowed. Nj. Louis Bringeant, another of
the landlords, was non-suited because he
brought forward no proof of his conten-
ton that owing to the noise of the areo-
planes game had been driven from his
land.
The fourth landlord. NJ. Mauge, was
| more successful He obtained s1OO dam
ages in respect to descents by aviators
on land under cultivation. AS to the
injunction demanded that the height of
aeroplanes flying over private property
should be regulated. 1t was refused, the
court declaring that in the absence of
any law governing aerial navigation the
matter was outside its jurisdiction.
The latest scheme in city development
would clear away the narrow streets on
the borders of the Palas Royal, and
thus give the architecture dignity and
freedom from encroachment, and at the
same time build large edifice on the
palace garden. The new construction
would house the bourse now cramped
for space in its present home in the
square cut by the Rue du Quatre Sep
tembre. and served by several narrow
streets from the main boulevards.
The chief advantage OF the project
would be to restore TO the Palais its
features OF pre-revolution times, and to
bring current OF business to it deserted
corridors.
If the authorities consent to this
scheme, which has received the approba-
ton of the agents de change" who
would do business In the new bourse the
work of demolition and construction will
be begun az once. and occupy at least
four years. 1t carries with 1t a con-
siderable amount of roadmaking and q
general open ng up OF this part Of Paris.
which. formerly so prosperous, has now
fallen into neglect. The Rue Richelieu
would also be enlarged. giving freer ac-
cess from the boulevards to the Theater
Francois.
On the theory that the young people of
modern France are deficient in moral
qualities. sociologists here are eagerly
discussing what is to be done to improve
coming generations in this respect. 1t
is acknowledged that much moral per-
versity is due to the influences OF cine
matograph theaters, which. like the
American dime novel and the English
/ penny dreadful" have tendency to
| glorify evildoers and heap ridicuIe on the
officers of the law. In many towns and
cities. therefore. the mayors have for
hidden the exhibition OF bandit films,
which, they claim. encourage and pro, a
gate crime. Many pedagogues, however,
i contend that the root of the evil lies
much deeper. and that to bring up a
| morally healthy generation you must re-
4 form the public elementary schools, as
| 1t is WI. hin these that the character OF
the young receives its first and perhaps
its final impress.
! Then. again. q number Of serious soc,ol-
ogists assert that 1t is unjust to blame
| the teachers for the decline of republic
| can virtues. which is really due to the
! growing materialism, the ambition that
| permeates all classes. and to that new
| spirit of extravaganza which Is under
| m ming the old prudence and thrift of
| the nation.
| The Radium Palace which is being built
in the new Rue Pierre Curie will be one
| of the greatest architectural as well as
scientific curiosities in the Paris Of to-
morrow. II will be built of special ma
terials which the action of radium can
not attack. The palace is destined to con-
tain a considerable quantity of radium,
and it's walls will be lined with thick
panels of an impermeable metal.
The exterior architecture is of a style
| which will harmonic with the palace or
oceanography and the other university
buildings of the Rue Pierre Curie. For
the final execution of the building from
July 30 credit Of $4,000 has been as
sured.