Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-03-14
In WAR TORN EUROPE
Things That Have Impressed Noted
Managing Editor
TAKES In Much OF The field

How the Various Peoples Feel anc
What They are Doine-Great Britain
and France Will Get Much Tha,
They Want-Americans Watching
Proceedings With Interest.
In last Sundays issue of the %ew
York World there is page or noes
and impressions by Charles ID. Lin
coin, managing editor OF the New Sorh
World, who has been in France and the
American-occu portion of Germany
since the beginning of the peace con-
ference. Most OF these things deal
with things the reader wants to know
and are therefore interesting. Extracts
follow:
Paris is rapidly progressing toward
its pre-war life and conditions and in
the process the city is last losing in
terest in the peace conference. In the
early Gays the gatherings at the Quay
dOrsay were the outstanding features
of the daily life of the French capi-
tai. The French political and pro-
fessional interest is as keen as ever,
for this element knows what it wants
and is fighting hard every minute to
get it, but the great mass of people
are happy in absorption in their in
dividual affairs. There is a well-de-
fined conviction that France and Great
Britain will get results from the con-
ference that will be satisfactory to
them.
The estimate of s5.OOO.OOO as the to-
tai expense of the United States dele
CATION will. perhaps, not seem so very
excessive when consideration is given
to the facts that the nations organi-
zation for the great work is very near
ly as large as that of the British, and
the British delegation numbers 1000.
A substantial percentage of the Amer
lean personnel is composed of experts,
who are supposed to be learned in the
many phases of the manifold PROPOSE
tions with which the delegation con-
Germs itself. The Hotel Crillon, the
delegations home, is entirely under
the conduct of the American govern
ment. There are about 200 army and
navy officers constantly on duty at the
hotel. The American commissioners
90 about Paris much more freely than
do the delegates from the other coun-
tries. Outside the room in which the
conferences are held the delegations
have no common meeting ground, and
while many unofficial meetings take
place between a few Of the big men"
of the delegation, in the quiet Of their
own apartments, there is practically
20. @frateraizatien n&arneRg the various
delegations.
The desire of the French for the re-
incorporation in French Lorraine OF the
Valley of the Sarre is natural. The
Sarre valley was included by the
treaty of Paris in 1914 in French Lor-
raine, but after the hundred days 1t
was handed over to Prussia by the
second treaty of Paris in 1915. In 1873
the year before the war began, France
consumed 65,O0O0O0 tons of coal, OF
which 25,000,0O0 tons were imported.
Unless the French coal supply IS IN
creased France will remain to great
extent at the mercy Of German coal pro-
ducers. The Sarre coal fields have an
area of $4,000 acres.
Official France is most insistent up
on the granting Of at least enough OF
its claims to insure it against the Ger
many of the future. 1t sees a Ger
many a generation hence, after the
present chaos shall have disappeared
of more than 1O0,000,000. This is
easily possible by the gravitation into
a common union of the Germans OF
the present-German Austria, Ger
man Bohemia, the German Tyrol ano
western Hungary-and If the pirtn
rate percentages of the two races snail
continue for the next twenty years
about as they have run for the last
twenty years there will be growing
cause for French apprehension unless
the menace is put under thorough con-
troll.
The expense Of mere living in Paris
10 day is far in excess of that ot an!
other CITY in the world. 1t is the oio
law of supply and demand. Many no,
tolls have long been in the government
service. Many others have been taken
over bodily by the peace commissioners
of the various powers. The result l.
that with the number OF comers tc
Paris increasing daily the rentals o.
snartments are already in the CLOUDS
and no limit in sight. A little HarieH
eat of four or five rooms would com
mand from $4,000 to $4,000 in Paris
There is an abundance of food. Paris
in fact, has gone through the war II
this respect very much better lhai
Iondon There are very few scarcltle:
except sugar and butter. Fruits ar'
very expensive, apples and pears y
each, for illustration. But in all th'
first class restaurants nearly all y
their famous pre-war creations arr
still available. The volume OF foreisi
money, as represented by officers ah'
soldiers on leave, or passing throueii
has naturally had its effect and TN
price of a good dinner has soared
These are certainly heavenly DAYS lo
the hotel man and restaurateurs o
the French capital.
This is no time for seeing france.
Travelling is attended by every incon
venience imaginable. One who essays
a tourney across France may coui
himself fortunate. if. in spots ne
able to find a place to sleep on
floor. And when daylight comes III
is quite likely to find a high olllcer y
the Allies as his nearest floor compan