White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-23
FRANCES VERY
SOUL REVELS IN
FALL Of ENEMY
Paris in Wild Celebration oil
Peace in Victory.
MILLIONS ARE MAD WITH Joy

miLLluNS HhE WhD Eiiu Jul
City Of Lights Emerees From rour
Years of Darkness, the City OF Gay
ETY. Receivers Its Smile-This, l'ke
No Other Victory. Has Seen Peoples
Victory and Il Vas a Peoples Ceie-
bration - Wild Succession OF Pro-
eessions, Songs and Dances.
The capital of France celebrating
peace in victory. The soul or France
revealing in the overthrow of Frances
~iercest enemy. The city of lights
emerging from four years Of darkness,
the city of gayety recovering its smile.
Millions of men. wonen and children
stepping. dancing out Of he shadow
OF the death that has struck down
their loved ones-the death that mas
Threatened themselves.
That IS what we watched for two
DAYS and three nights. We always
thought Of Paris As gay We have
learned to know her as brave. Now
We have seen her mad with joy. II is
much 70 have een
For i was Paris that celebrated.
f Not the Paris OF the cafes and the
b~oulevardS. not the Paris OF the shops
and the theaterS and the hotels and
Nontmarte and the Latin Quarter
but aIl Paris. Paris Of the busy fac
] tories. Paris Of the big hanks. Paris
OF the little shops. Paris Of the far
of SnhurhS-the Paris that has lived
and sparkled through 1000 years of
strife and blood and history. These
days a Paris triumphant and glori-
ously happy as she has never been
before.
For this. like no other victory. has
been 3 peoples victory. and il was a
peoples celebration.
Whole Nation Happy.
There were no leaders. there were
no onlookers. Everybody walked the
streets and dancsas and sang 70 give
expression TO the feeling that was IN
them. | suppose almost anyone has
at Oae time or another felt like run
ming out into the street and dancing
for SOW. Well. that's what 100000
Of people have been doing here.
Paris had much 10 express. and Paris
is an artist in expression
Some Of Us wondered why Paris did
not celebrate the taking Of Noyon.
the clearing Of Reins. the storming Of
+ the Chemin des Danes. the cutting
of Of ST. Mihiel-any Of the great
nailestones Of the allie! victory OF
this late summer and fall. Seane Of
uS thought Paris bellei its reputation
and had turned ~phlezmstic- Some OF
cS said - 70 French friends We
have beea apologizlng since We saw
the real CELEBRATION
II the celebration could b. summed
up in two words they would be these:
Everybody smiled
OF the hundreds % thousands ~
faces that drifred ae-oss our vision
here during those DAYS and nights I
don't think there WAS one thar did
rot Srnile. That smile spread over
the city a the sun clears the stormy
air. That smile Vas the sure \
are Of the Eenuinsness II Paris Joy.
Beside il 4 New Years eve. an
election night. the night Of a football
game ~ q boat race At home are as
nnsel 70 pure gold Tits was a whole
nation giorifed and happy
No Sica 81 Trouble.
Paris has marched before. She
uzrchet ouf 70 meet -. Genevie-e.
Her Siurfy citizens took their pixies
and marcsei on1 n repel the Sorraan
huEandS Yes and Just such crowds
as these formed IN the streets and
marched 70 Versailles 10 pluck the
note Of sbsolutiSm from Frances
own eye-so overthrow Louis XVI
: h~undrei|3d years ago. Then they
were fierce. In this celebration they
were happy. for Paris seems to feel
that aufecracy-the spirit that Paris
has never hrooked-has lost its last
disciple That. ! think. Is what makes
Paris 80 marvelousiy happy.
II is Easy &c say that n crowd r
. city Is happy. Bur usually IN \
happy crowd. a happy city. there win
be trouble. There wasn't = bit Of IL in
Paris. despite all the crowds. despite
all the celebrating. Even the gen
darrneS danced
OF all the Wild -sueceSsiOns Of PRO
ceSsioas and ID and dances and
cheers there are three pictures that
burn themselves into the memory.
The first was the way the news
spread AT eleven O'Clock. the hour
when hoStilities ceased the censor per
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