Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

PARIS, April y
| THE star .spanged Banner in French is
L going some And TO hear 1t sung TO
| the tune of its soul-stirring English,
| rather difficult job very creditably accom-
| plished. tells in small part how Paris heard
the news.
IT was II o'clock in the morning when
history came over the wire. BY 11:2o II
was on the streets in special editions. I'm
like American cities. the capital OF France
does not display its flag In great abun-
dance. Aside from the staff of governmental
or ministerial buildings and one thousand
feet in the air from the Eifel Tower the
Trcoior is a relative rarity. Even after
User, the Marne. when Nerdun's they shall
not pass became n certainty Of knowledge,
the flag OF France could not he seen in
special tribute.
But within fifteen minutes after President
Wilson's immortal message to Congress
became known as II by magic hundreds
of thousands of American stars and
Stripes appeared from windows and door
ways and fagpoles all over this vast city
They were flags of all sorts and conditions
some spick and span and new with the
forty-eght proverbsl stars, some Of more
ancient vintage with less, and I'm three
cases that noticed In the thirteen original
stars of the thirteen original colonies.
Upon me boulevards. the newspapers, in
front Oh every hotel and hospital, the way
ing coiors OF the Allied nations could be
seen pei.S erected. with the Stars and
Stripes aid the Trcolor in the center as
irta "a hap yl lp
were unknown to each other spoke excitedly
and smllingy upon the street, and all the
khaki-cad boys of the American ambulance
were fairly mobbed upon the boulevard side
walks and wrung by the hands. Americans
recognized each other. largely through their
clean-cut, smooth-shaven faces, and frater-
nized bands of brothers The accents
Of Philadelphia. Chicago, New York and
San Antonio exchanged the word OF JOY and
the glad hand of congratulation at the news
Of Ally No. 4 entering rights fight against
autocratic evil and attempted world terror
ism.
Star Spangled Banner" in French
BY o'clock in the evening the crowds
upon the streets all over Paris were enor-
nous, and about the American embassy
group of enthusiasts was singing The Star
Spangled Banner" in French which is quite
some job one bearded Frenchman with
an empty sleeve and the Croix de Guerre
upon his civilian coat held a French trans
lation of our national anthem in his only
hand l asked him for it and send its
French rendering:
Dites le voyez vous dams raube blsnchissante
lie drapeau don't les pills sont psrsemes d etoiles
Qu'hie nous saluions aux derners feux du soir
+, quo trayers la nut is rouea tca, des bombes
Nous montrat. orgueilleux, hottant toujours au
Dres, le voyez yous fottant toujours plus haut
Sur notre terre lbre ct nos foyers sans peur.
sur la greve Que cache deml lie brouillard
Msis au'ssI ce que Ia bise asit sur Ia tour
be son souffe inconstant pulls laisse retomber
%lil rste.e syes ini dams &c e9uTsn, du tsuve
Sur notre terre libre ct nos foyers peur.
GU entire un foyer cher ct la guerre abhorre
Des NOMINEES dresseront leurs poitrnes sans
sea. Ss;ons ia Ss % s.ass so' y; 8: 4sss4
Et Que noirs devise aug tours de perl sorOr.
II Que toujours Plus Gaut fotte notre drapeau
Sur notre terre libre ct nos foyers sans peur.
Vendors sold little American flag lapel
buttons like hot cakes, and everybody asked
where they could have come from so quick
ly. / venture to say no single American
man or woman in the capital of France is
undecorated with one today And one
American ambulance sped by me with a
load of evacuees from the Gard du Nord,
displaying seven American flags flying fore
and aft and on the starboard and larboard
quarters
An Impressive Salute
| witnessed the next day that which I
think was the most impressive scene that
ever passed before my eyes I sat in the
Palais Bourbon when NJ. Ribot, Prime
Minister of France. made his eloquent
speech upon what he termed the event of
all history" and said that the joy of the
French people and nation at seeing the
Stars and Stripes side by side with the
Tricolor in mutual resistance against bar