The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-24
Parisians Resent
 American Meddlins


 think Paris modern edition of Sodom or Gomorrah.
 The Rev. Stanley Fisher of Evans ton, H., appeals for one million dol lars to build a church in Paris to save American students from the pit falls of that delightful city by the Seine, so beautiful, so gay-and so free from cant and hypocrisy.
 "A Paris newspaper makes a scath- ling, but nevertheless just, reply to the weli-meaning preacher from Illinois. Petit Bleu thinks those colorful yarns about Paris debauching young Amcri- cans may be explained on the ground that the young Americans "fell too easily" Dressmakers, we are told, lament, doubtless with many a "Mon Dieu!" that girl employees have had their heads turned by spendthrift Americans.
 If the Americans are going to erect monument to lost souls," says this newspaper, ''it should not be con- isecrated to the American students, but to these foolish young girls, The great fault is in the frankness of our own morals and the hypocrisy of the others. Since our American friends drink only water they are seized with a great wave of virtue. They believe that the giddy little French girls are surely daughters of the devil"
 There is more truth than poetry in this indictment of a certain type of Americans. It isn't the average New Yorker who keeps the white lights burning along Broadway and turns night into day any more than the av- craze Frenchman is responsible for the dissipations of Paris. In the case of New York it is the "provincials" who flock to the city from all parts of the United States for the purpose of spendig their money and having a good time. They are the people who demoralize walters, bellboys and other help by big tips and enable the atre managers to charge high prices for second and third-rate shows.s
 Likewise in Paris it is the tourists, many of them wealthy Americans, who have maintained the tradition that it is one of the most sinful cities in the world. The night life of Paris, just like the night life of New York, is the made to order" kind, and it will probably continue just as long as foolish visitors put up the money. Whisky men are threatening to sue the government. Hoity-toity! Why don't they acknowledge they are beaten and go while the going is good? Huge quanti- ties of liquor now in America might pos sibly have been exported to a place of safety by this time if the owners hadn't waited to see what would happen.
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 Let us hope some enterprising camera man win show us how D'Annunzio de- parted from Plume whether he adopted the stately stride of a Julius Caesar or the mincing gait of Nero, after having given one of his unparalleled musical per- formances
 Ambassador Martens, from soviet Russia, says he welcomes an investiga- tion. That is the usual attitude, we Ae- HcVc, oI persons Wno are aDOut 10 De 1n- vestigated, ana it seldom deceives the public
 Congressman Thomas D. Schall, who denounced General Pershing as being un- American should refresh his memory. He talks like man who hasn't bean reading the newspapers for the past two years.
 It now appears that Hugo, American citizen captured by Mexican bandits, was released on promise to pay a ransom Aren't the bandits taking long chances in doing a credit business?
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 The zero hour" for Christmas shop pers comes just before the stores close tonight, and there is a final rush to get those eleventh-hour gifts.
 x x * Emma and Alex plan to do important work in soviet Russia. but both of them feel that they have been removed from their true sphere of usefulness.
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 It is predicted that yellow fever VIII disappear from the earth in five years Glad tidings, indeed. By the way,~wfat