Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-03
ALGERIANSOF
VALUE TORRANCE
IBy Associated Press1

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PARIS, France-Sixty tall Rabyles,
mountaineers from Eastern Nigeria,
descendants from the hardy and re-
doubtable race of Berbers. have lent
useful hand to the solution of the
Paris street cleaning problem.
Garbage boxes that are now set out
of doors in some quarters as early as
10 o'clock in the evening, to the dam
age of a great many shins in dimly
lighted streets, are encountered In
other quarters as late at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon, all on account OF the
lack OF help. Paris thus has been en-
joying IL hours of continuous con-
temptation of city refuse that is stir
red, shaken ind overturned in the
meantime for rags, paper and bones.
The Kabyles have done so well to-
ward remedying this situation that
300 more of them will be utilized in
the work. .:.#
There are now 10000 of our people
working in. France for the national
defense says ST Salah 81 Ahmed,
Caid or governor of the Douar Maat-
kas of Tizi-Ouzou in Labylie. Meth
er the climate nor the conflict daunts
Them" he added. 81 Salah was sent
by the 5000 inhabitants of his Douar
to tell the French government it may
count upon them for anything it
wants.
The experiment of Algerian help in
the field and factory in France has
been a great success. These men, par
ticularly those from the mountain re-
gions, have wonderful endurance, are
very industrious and easily contented.
They are working alongside other
Mussulmen from Morocco and Tunis,
while a great many others are in the
ranks of the Algerian riflemen at the
front. They have proven great deal
more effective than the Senegalese in
this climate; they have shown quite
taste for farming, have learned quick
ly the use of machine tools in fac
tories, and their apprenticeship in
municipal work has perhaps been the
greatest success of all.
The Annamites from the French
colony of lTdo-China, also unskilled,
have been quick to learn and are prob
ably more fastidious in their work
than the Kabyles; as cleaners in the
harvest field last summer, they were
said to have never overlooked a
spear.
The Moors are better fighters than
they are farmers, yet they are TAX
ing to agriculture and French observ-
ers watching the experiment look
to the result of a most beneficial in.
fluence upon the future agricultural
development of Morocco.
The question was raised in the
chamber of deputies recently as to-
what complications would develop
from the presence OF so many colonial
laborers in France at the end of the
war. The general sentiment was that
no apprehension need be entertained
on this score, and that it was even
less menacing than the formidable ex.
tension of the use OF women in me-
chanical labor The Kabyles, Indo-
Chinese and Moors, it is held, will,
after they have laid up little money.
be glad. enough to go back home where
their savings will enable them to play
the tnaboh:' HI F.. ...t
Nearly every ship arriving from
Algeria now SPRINGS more of the Ka
byles, who are. more and more count
ed upon to solve, the question of labor
They are taller than the average
Algerian. with features resembling
somewhat those Of the peasants of
Central France They are not uni.
form in complexion. some being dark
and some light, with fair hair. Their
language is the Berber, although they
use the Arabian letters. The posi- /
bilities OF the experiment may ,be
judged from the fact that Kabylie is
the most populous part of North
Africa, having i5s inhabitants per