The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-02
SMALLEST REPUBLIC
READY FOR CONFLICT
San Marino Organizes Army
Of 200 and Buys Four
Modern Cannon.
DIFFICULTY APPARENT
Guns So Large That Their
Range Extends Beyond
Country's Boundaries.
DIFFICULTY APPARENT
By GEORGES DUFREsNE
cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
PARIS, Nov. 1.-Militarism is
spreading and the goddess of universal
peace is yelling her face. The famous
Creuzot works. whose guns brought
victory to the arms of the Balkan al
lies and which so greatly exasperated
the Krupps and the kaiser, have ae-
quired a new customer in the diminu
tive republic OF San Marino. The lau-
rels of Montenegro have aroused the
jealousy OF the smallest republic in
the world, and, anxious to win military
glory, should the opportunity present
itself, the citizens OF San Marino have
formed an army OF nearly 200 men and
bought four CreuZot guns which are 10
replace the old Krupp gun, model 1893,
which, mounted on the highest noun
tain top in the country, has hitherto
constituted their only defense.
Barred From Practice.
The warlike San Marinans. however.
are now in a delmma- Having bought
the Creuzot guns, they naturally want
to practice target shooting with them,
but the range of these guns is about
ten miles, and little San Mariuo is
only four miles from frontier 60 from
tier, and so any shell they attempted
to fire would necessarily land in for.
eign territory. Partisan papers have
mockingly advised them to fire
straight up into the air, keeping care
full lookout for aeroplanes and Zeppelius
before a shot is fired, but the press of
San Marino has not found the sugges-
tlon worthy Of IN answer. A sou-
tion will probably be found by leasing
strip of Italian land half kilometer
wide and ten kilometers long and place
the guns 10 be fired on foreign ground
with their nuzzles turned toward San
Marino, but also here there are inter
national difficulties to be solved, as
the Italian government insists on IFS
pound Of flesh in the shape Of customs
duty every time the guns shall be
brought into Italian territory for tar
get practice: The guns, indeed are
very much like white elephant to the
people Of San Marine.
Cat and Canary.
AS Rome had her geese on the hill Of
the capitol, so French cities are getting
their civic birds, thanks to the eccen
trio whims Of their citizens, who are
willing their pets to their home cities.
The jackdaw Of Rheims is legendary
and now the city Of Brest has its civic
bird In the small and palpitating person
Of a yellow and tuneful canary, and is
about TO get a municipal cat. This is
died and left legacy of $50, 900 to the
city Of her birth with the string TO it
that the city fathers must charge them.
selves with the suitable entertainment OF
her favorite canary and cat. The city
has accepted the legncy, cheerful In the
knowledge that canaries are not I'm
mortal, especially with q cat for com
pany, and the nine lives OF eats a-e
usually short and merry ones.
Explains Low Birthrate.
Curious statistics regarding French
families have Just been drawn up by
French population includes 11,s17,4s4
couples with OF without chill
dren- Among these are 1,s05,744 who
are cfdldlees, 1857 ST. have one child,
g. .661, ,97S have two children, 1,e4S ,425
have three children, eS7, ,3s2 have four
66,76s have five children.
1927, ,24l have SIX, S2,998 have seven,
81 ,729 have eight, 44,72S have mine,
90, ,e3e have ten, sso5 have eleven, 96os
have twelve, 1347 have thirteen, 554
have fourteen, s4s have fifteen, 70
have eighteen or more Tho As e1-
families who have eighteen
children or more, doubtless live In Brit.
tany. These statistics prove once more
that, az many anthropologists have
pointed ont, tho low hirthrate in France
is produced, not by the childless couples
80 much as by the couples who limit
their offspring to one or two children.
Ads Offend Taste.
Public opinion is up in arms against
.he members Of the chamber for dose.
,rating the walls Of the legislative
building with advertising posters, which
indeed can hardly be called ornamental,
out some of which are quite amusing.
Here are 8 couple Of samples which
saw tho other dny:
GA member Of the Radical party
wants 10 sell the entire output Of his
in 1918 at the exceedingly
ow priee Of sl4.00 barrel "
"a newly-elected member of the
hember wants to buy secondhand
bedroom suite, one double bed, two
hairs. washstand and wardrobe.