The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-11-10

domestic life they were mistaken An
their friends who want 10 cohie
Washington and who have difncuity !"
getting hotel accommodations na'u
rolIr turn IN the new householder 10
ask that they be allotted oeu "
board. po,-
7, IL 40 miles TO the city OF Oar
t,more and vet hundreds OF Washihe
con u.orkars commute" to Baltimore
and hack. sleeping in the Monument"
citv and working in the Caplta' Guy
pr tho fastest trains ii is an hour 10
Baltimore, and therefore the coiii'nu
ters must spend two hours ia!
r,i,-ood travelling in order TO meet 'he
requirements of their positions IN 'he
capital.
Doesn't Expect to Relapse.
washington does not believe 1t IL
oyer going TO relapse into the olu sta'e
| 90 o,,iat which characterized II IN the
oIder DAVIS of peace. 1t believes tha'
,ha government activities will be con-
.,n,,sd after the war to conslderaDie
ox,ont and that with largely IN
creased army and navy ana perhaps
with universal military training IN
stalled. there will be occupation mere
CO.. almost as many persons as are now
:. .ho desk or ut the workshop Dencn
,y,+bin the walls Of the town.
therefore Washington is going aheao
18th ire building operations and other
act,vi,,es necessary to take care OF the
,nr,,,,nde. OF course 1t may be that
later on there will be slump anu .in'
! tho civ will feel the effects, but there
seems TO be optimism here among men
: ,,,ho are given to a conservatlVism
,,h,ch "a only another name In their
, case for caution.
n De PoIionae Comes to America.
K The fiers have come to town.
d French. Italian and British, TO re-en-
le fore the Americans who in this tiiie
Of war make the air through nn"n'
IN hours Of the day their nome.
3 As a member of the contingent VI
II tho aviators of the Republic OF FRANCE
ly There has come here one man In whom
to the neople of his own country take
at deem personal interest and In whou
or the American people also prooaD'
w. NAV take an interest when they lear
the facts concerning his enoF.s
life. This man Is Corporal de fons
te- nae. not long ago promoted from IN
it grade of private, but who in civil III
nd Is the MARQUIS de POlignac, the nea'
nd of a French family whose history I'D
eat occupied place In the annais
nd France for many centuries.
son The home of the Marquis de ROM
ish nae Is at Reims, a city which the IRE
,ch mans have bombarded thousan
I'm. limos The home of the marquis IL
the business. properties, and, what hur
me him more than all, perhaps the ihS'
top tutions which he had created 10
of models for the rest of France, are
/ in ruins. The German guns nave "orh'
,eo- destruction.
rn." No Polignac always was Interest,"
it'll in athletics. He was one OF the re
/ is resentatiyes of the French at the gre
has international contests among uie a.
cas- Iates of all nations. He realized III
are Tho French bows and girls were I
sol getting the athletic instruction WIN
loaf he believed was necessary lor III
rom strength and their happiness. 80
was that he proposed to the rrei
ught government some years ago that pm
5 as zeal training should be introduced II
% it. the schools. The plan at hrst was
rest looked upon kindly.
trine The marquis decided that ne wo
n an start things himself. At Reims
half. created a park and into ii he put
roses Kinds of athletic apparatus. de
nally ployed thousands of workmen III
and business and he threw open the p
,read ~ them in order that they might n
parts a nloce of recreation which would I
them away from the temptations
the cabarets. The plan worked TO
NIGHT lection. The morale of the work.
town and their families was improved gr
city. ly. ~,
+, and Then De Polignac started with
law children. He studied American 10
DDS and soon had classes In atnit
apital composed OF virtually al ,,e T. T.,
stoid of the Reims district. The Fr'
,uto- government became interested,
,,,re,v INST as the war broke out 1t had pl
! the Used the Marquis de Polignac that
hours Ietic instruction would be starte'
IN ar all the primary schools Of France
limit. that the American playground sy'
nit on would be introduced.
IS in Plans Disrupted oy tne war
osedly Then on came the war. Inc
ouis de Polignac left his villa, MS
ington ness, his educatlohai WIZ on" ~
nopu. nI,vrrounds and entered the FIR
than army as a private. He served SD
more side with his own workmen in al
i does fcbts which took place between
French and the Germans when tn
/, into ter invaded France. He fought
nds Of the Belgian border back to the n
.ods 81 .nd then when the French al
~ and struck back he followed, fighting
70 he his .orkmen regiment. and mail!
train the Satisfaction Vi
danort. town with a victorious army.
or Who then Reims has been in possessi
NJ bav. the French. but the Germans
, a re- their heavy guns. have been alm'
ace for its doors.
npe,led The French military auth'
and to made Marquis ue rohs"'S "
1T. and it is said he was much prou