Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-03-07
STREET CONGESTION
PROBLEM FOR PARIS
Officials of French Metropolis
Unable to Devise Means to
Relieve Condition.

Paris.-Special: The vehicnlar con.
sestion of the streets of Paris is greater
tina in any other city of the world,
and in spite of the efforts of the mu-
nicipal authorities. no way has yet
been found to effect any permanent
improvement in street conditions. The
problem is an ever present one. ana
it grows worse every year, for Paris,
useless Notifications, cannot expand,
but must grow upward.
No such congestion of traffic exists
in e York, London. Chicago. Berlin
OF Philadelphia. The municipality has
sent agents to all these cities to study
traffic conditions. and to u the
number of vehicles passing a given
point on an important street in each
city, between the hours of Z a. m. and
Z p. m. This comparison shows that
1898 vehicles passed down the Rue
de Revolt in Paris. 16.20S We're counted
on h Strand, in London: A.221 on
the Potsdamer Platz.. Berlin: S,665 at
Fifth avenue and Fifty eighth street.
New York; 6,176 IN Broad street, Phil
adelphia. and 5.736 on Sheridan road,
Chicago.
Add to the large number for Paris
the fact that this city has some hilly
and many t%ortuous streets, it would
appear hat the regulation of traffic
in Paris presents difficulties unknown
elsewhere. Eventually the congestion
will become SO great that new streets
will have to be cut to relieve it: this
seems to be the only solution.
The French government, pom the
recommendation of the minister of
commerce. has decorated with the
| Legion of Honor one of the leading
| women dressmakers of Paris. 1t APP
! bears that Az per cent of the popula-
ton of France is employed in gar
ment making, and this industry is
tional wealth. The woman in question
comes under the class of captains of
industry" and it is in recognition of
her creative work in organizing her
business that the government has thus
honored her.
The creative dressmaker in France
is now protected legally If her ideas are
stolen. She must. however. prove that
her general idea, and not alone details
of design. have been appropriated by
a rival. To insure such protection q
copy of all dress models. together with
adequate descriptions. must be deposit
ed in the French patent office. When
! this has been done she ma bring suit
for infringement of her patented"
dress.
In an interesting and lucid lecture
before the Society of Friends of the
University of Paris. of which NJ. Ray
non Poincare is president. DIR. JAG
Ques Bertillon has analysed at length
the problem of the depopulation Of
France. it's causes and remedies.
In 1915, said the doctor. the French
amounted to Is per cent of the civilized
people of the world. They now rep
resent only 10 per cent, and agains,
100000 people who speak French
there are today 1901 O0. 900 who speak
German, inc 1900 900 who speak
English. This condition is becoming
more accentuated, since in 1911 the
number of deaths exceeded the number
of births in France, while in Other
countries the excess of births Owe
deaths kept at an average of about Il
per 1000. Some people see a rem
edy in efforts to decrease mortality
but the doctor declared this method t.
be of little or no value.
What was wanted, he said. was al
extra 450,0 900 births every year; the
present deficit involved economical
consequences Of the most dangerou.
character. Nautilus was quite wront
when he attempted to show that al
life's banquet there was room only fol
a limited number of guests. The guests
explained DIR. Bertillon, were also cooks
contributing their share of the ban.
quet. That is why people with a higl
birth rate show a much more rapi(
economic advance than does France.
Ay AANNOk
for the voluntary n dangerous limi.
tation of families in France. Th.
growth OF individualism among Others
plays a considerable part. The civil
code. which prohibits the free tesla.
mentary disposition Of property, ais.
favors small families. This is clearl,
demonstrated by a little village in tn.
outskirts of Dunkirk. According to tn,
terms of a foundation dating from, tn,
Seventeenth century. every family liv'
ing within the village boundaries is en-.
titled to "a ares (about three-ffths O
an acre. of land: the result is tina
births exceed deaths by A per cent.
Instances of the birth rate bein,
heightened by judicious legislation ar,
numerous, notably in Bavaria and Rou.
mania, where by the suppression O
some of the vexatious formalities at.
tending marriage thousands Of birth,
were gained every year.
The doctor would like to see the pub,
lie taught to honor and favor larg,
families instead of subjecting them t,
mockery, as is so often the case now.
adays. He recalled that NJ. Poubelle
when project of the Seine, would no
employ any ~officeholder unless he hat
at east three children. He also though
that every mother who had four chill
dren living should be entitled to.
grant of 500. This would, no doubt
involve a large sum of money, but i
must not be considered as money ex
pended. but rather as a displacement O
capital, the beneficial result Of which
would soon make itself felt.
Awakening.
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