The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08
ED|CT OF CHURCH
MAKES TANGO LIVE
Frenchman Detests Being
Told What to Do and What
Not to Do.
CRIME, is INCREASING
Mime. Polaire Thinks Ameri.
can Women "Dowdies,"
but Admires Men.
By GEORGES DUFREsNE.

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Special Cable 10 The Tribune
| PARIS, Feb. Just as we had def
| nitelY given up the tango for good,
condemning it as silly and ungraeeful,
the much discussed dance has received
| new lease of life, for all the bishops
and archbishops have come out and
| banned it with bell, book and candle
as being "lascivious and contrary to
good morals and subversive force in
the life of France If there is any
thing Frenchmen hate it is being told
| by their authorities what they may and
what they may not do. AS soon as the
church forbids the tango, we feel We
must dance it; but, of course, we shall
only do 1t long enough to assert our
independence, for we really do not care
for the dance.
While the population of France is
decreasing, criminality is undoubtedly
increasing, and our most prominent men
are seriously discussing what is to be
done to improve things. They are very
far from agreeing on the means that
ought to be used.
Crime Increases.
Alfred Copus, for instance, is strong
ly convinced that severe punishment
viii never eradicate the criminal in
stinct as he calls the tendency toward
crime, though he is inclined TO believe
that it may exert a deterring effect.
His advice is to get at the root of the
evil and give the young very moral
education, which will tend to lead their
energy in another channel. Jules
Claretie, with whom 1 had talk just
before his death, advocated severe
punishment combined with moral train
ing, while Rene Dominic, another mem
Der Of the academy, denies that the
progress of science may have some
thing to do with the increase Of crime,
an assertion which is often heard. He
points out that in the days Of old,
stage coaches were held up just as auto
mobiles are now, and that after all it
is quite immaterial whether you are
killed by revolver bullet or stab
wound. He declares that the leniency
of juries and judges toward criminals
nowadays is the principal cause Of the
increase Of crime.
The famous psychologist. Auguste
Forel of Zurich, makes q strong dis
tinction between the criminally inclined
and the actual criminals, and asserts
that circumstances may drive people
who are not criminnlly inclined into
crime He thinks it very easy mat
ter 10 combat crime In the way he has
f,.n. kvA II -n-
more than twenty years. He thinks
there are three things which ought to
be done.
First Of all, alcohol must be banished
from France; second, he claims it is
not only right, but duty, to use. all
the weapons of science against crime
and TO pass laws which provide for
insane in asylums; and thirdly, be de-
mands the full enforcement Of the
principles of racial hygiene.
"Ugliest Woman Peeved.
I don I know what Nine. Polaire told
American reporters about her opinion OF
America and Americans while she was
actually earning a small fortune IN
American music halls, but what / do
know is that she has been expressing
some very harsh opinions since she
came back to France. She is an exceed
ingly clever woman, yet not quite clever
enough TO conceal That at the bottom
her hatred of Americans lies in the fact
that she has never forgiven them FOR
"the ugiest woman in the world
"The whole mentality of Areri-
cans,O she said the other day, "can
be Judged from the questions their re-
porters put to me. For instance, ON
my way out on the ship, received
these two Marco1igrams: What IHl do DO
James9' and is it true that you have
a ring in your nose and you have
little pig all covered with jewelsi'
answered right off: Il don't know
William James and my little pig has
fallen overheard
She has only praise of President Will
son. but she sees Absolutely noIhlng 10
admire in American women.
~ passed through several drawing
She says "I saw ladies who
were so shy that they eouldn I utter
word before me. but who suddenly put
a ribbon around my waist TO measure
IL You know, of course by reputa-
ton, Polnire s l5-inch waist.
s'Some of these ladies' goes on Po-
aire, with strong accent on the la
lies. gifted up my skirt with the tips
Of their parasols to see my legs.
american fashions" she says cru
,h' the painful difference! The Amer
can woman, however she dresses, is
simply fagotoe-simply . clothes
bundle.
However Polaire finds one thing 10
admire in America besides the big box
men. "They work harder" she says,
ethan any other men in the world. It
s in their blood"