The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-14
BELIEVED FRANCE NEEDS MORE SPORT The Chamber of Deputies Is
 Planning Legislation SHELTER FOR POOR
People Excited Over Priests Depar- ture-Example of Frances Thrift. Rochette Case Is About
 to Be Revived
By GEORGE puFREsNE

oF DtE thAN'4NNl
 Paris, April 13.-(speciaI)-More sport is needed in France This is what a number of deputies think who have form ed themselves into a committee at the chamber for the purpose of legislating for an encouraging sport. They assume that in France nothing can be done un- less there is a law to that effect As soon as the law is passed French citizens will at once feel themselves obliged to cultivate sport
 The parliamentary committee intends first of all to patronize athletics. Foot racing, football and all kinds of open air sports are to be legally encouraged. So one of their spokesmen says, but he does not go into details as to how it is to be done
 There is one good point about the par liamentary group, and it is that none is entitled to be a member unless he can box, run, jump or prove that he is athletic and fond of open air sport.
 M. Cochon, the secretary of the Tenants league has taken the place of Pataud in public notoriety. Another king has arisen. It was the business of Pataud to plunge the city into darkness in order to ob- tain higher wages for the electricians. It is the metier of Cochon to find shelter for families who are turned out of their homes.
 He appeared at the Hotel de Vile the other day, accompanied by two families one of seven children, the other of five. The household goods of the families were loaded on handcarts. These were taken Into the yard of the Hotel de Vile. A crowd gathered and M. Cochon began to deliver an address. He was taken to the police station, but was afterwards set at liberty. The furniture had been taken from the handcarts, which were, however, reloaded and removed to the mayoral offices of the Fourth ward. where rooms were placed at the disposal of the unfor- tunate families.
 Meanwhile NJ Cochon has addressed a letter to M. Delaney, the prefect of the Seine, pointing out that at the present moment there were over 2J0 families, con- sisting on an average of five children each, who on Monday will be without rooms. He says that by the end of the term the number will be increased 10 300. The Tenants league, he points out is resolved to find an immediate solution to what he regards as an inadmissable situation in organized society, and sug- gests that the prefect of the Seine should place the barracks of the Chateau Eau on the s!ace de la Republique at the dls- posal of these unfortunate people. The secretary of the Tenants league adds that the members will move the furniture of these families to the barracks without cost
 There has been a great deal of talk of late of providing model tenements TOT poor families. The municipal council has been discussing a big scheme to cost something like coo. The need Tor cheap dwellings is very great in Paris. Their idea is to give families of three children four rooms for $50 a year, ana three rooms to families of more than three children for $60. Those who have drawn up the scheme suggest that the ad- ministration should be invited to complete it's technical plans and give a list of me lands belonging to the city or the Assist ance Pubique on which suitable tene- ments could be erected.
 The good people of Livilliers, near Pom toise are in a state of desolation. They have lost their priest, who has suddenly disappeared from his presbytery. He had been five years in the parish, and had con tracted debts. He left, abandoning his poultry, his rabbits and his flock
 The priest has just written to the mayor suggesting that he left because spiteful tongues wagged concerning him. The mayor was requested to sell the priests furniture in order to pay the rent of the presbytery. The mayor perpleXed by the situation, sought the advice of the authorities, who have consulted the bishop.
 No one knows where the priest is, and as the bishop does not wish to replace him the rural policeman is at present looking after the poultry. A boy from the village school rings the Angelus, and the schoolmaster keeps the keys of the church. The priests departure is re- gretted.
 One more example of Its thrift and ,xaa1tb hoe bean given hv the French