The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-07

servative in his investments. To be, sure, now and then a French promo ter lures enough victims for some wild scheme. But the proportion of the guIIibility of the middle class in France to that in America (wit- ness Wall Street) is about in the ra- tio of one to a hundred. Also the Bourgeois, with the Royalist, makes up intellectual France.
 The Bourgeois never rushes. Amer jean business methods, 'Equick ac- tion,' are utterly foreign to his na- ture. With him, home life is the dominant thing. He loves comfort but he is nor frivolously luxuriant. He makes a god of his stomach and worships the god well.
 He knows how to drink wine with out swigging it. He never lets busi- ness interfere with his home life. As g. rule he takes off two hours for lunch and goes home to eat it. He is the kind of a man who on a very sunny day carries an umbrella.
 In the home of the Bourgeois the father is boss. Mother and children both "yes'' him. He loves children, which seems to run counter to birth rate statistics of France; but the psy- chology of 1t is that he really loves children well enough not to want them unless he can decently provide for them.
 His children are brought up rig idly; politeness and respect for elders is drummed into them. Compared with them, American youngsters have a picnic, for French girls and boys go to school from eight in the morn. ing until five in the afternoon.
 A big point of difference between the Bourgeois and his prototype in America is in his vastly superior ed- ucation. He is aware of omething else in the world besides the buisness which happens to be swelling his hank account and he has a keen ap- preciation of all the things that go to make up culture. He believes total ly in education being a peoples sal vation; and practices his preach ment.
 Very similar to him is his not so successful brother, the Petit Bour- geois, this group being composed of shop-keepers, dabb1ers in little busi- ! nesses and trades people. They are bitterly opposed to the Royalists. A thrifty, hard working class com posed of people who make home life a dominant feature, they help make the sinew of the nation.
 Like them is the Peasantry thrifty ! and saving The French farmers are contented with their lot They arg satisfied with little and make the little go a long way. They were the strength of the French Army, its | most determined fighters, for they loved their land, their little farms l which their ancestors never owned. y1cy1o IT, ,oIo Po. i5 not unseat royalty in France during the Revolution. It was the people ir the cities who did that, the Paris | mobs and the land was turned over to the farmers Just as in the recent Russian Revolution the Bolshevik | made the peasants of Russia indif. | ferent to what was going on so long
 as they got their land, so did tho
 Mirabeaux and the Robespferres
 swing the peasants to their side ir
 the days of the Commune-by giving them little parcels of land.
 l But the French peasants swuns
 back and today, due to the church
 many of them are active sympathiz
 CTS with the Royalists. Particular. | is this true of the peasants in Brit l tany, in the chateau country, centereC l by Tours, and in the south of France 1 The French industrial workers, L: I C1asse Ouvriere, are the least educat l ed people in France and at the sam l time they harbor in their rank
 some of the keenest thinkers. They ar
 socia1istic, anti-cleric, and savagel, l anti-Royalists. They are alway
 grumbling that they are oppresset
 and have no money, while they spen' l their money freely.
 To understand the French, on
 must understand La Gloire.
 Not wholly disinterested intrepre tations of it have been offered iron
 time to time, which seek to show tha
 La Gloire" the synonym for a mill
 taristic spirit supposed to animat
 the French people; that way dow in the average Frenchman there is
 desire for conquest; indeed, he ha been accused of being as militaristi
 as the German. Now, no people ar
 by nature militarfstic people.
 The average man in any countr
 does not care to be shot full of hole
 and left out for the crows so tha
 som ebody else may grab more lant People are beguiled from time t
 time, all depending upon the clever
 ness of their leaders, into the mill
 taristic mood.
 And the people wake up; and the
 there is trouble: and then there ar royal goats and army goats offere 1 up for sacrifice. Behold citizen Wi . helm Hohenzollern and citizen Fri l Ludendorff.
 From the time of Napoleon 1t wa the purpose of those who had se1fis
 reason to make other nations sus picious of the French, to paint ther as a militarist at heart, to point t
 the doctrine of La GIoire" and hol , up their hands in horror
 But, 'T1a Gloire'' translates int glory. It implies ''for the glory ( France" but that does not mea glory on the battlefield. After Ma 1 po1eon, the French people wer pretty well fed up on battlefe1ds. means, ''so that France may b glorious, ist us do well everythin } we undertake"
 ) A French sculptor, writer, nanr 3 facturer, farmer, banker-if he is , true F'renchman - at some time ( l i other in his leisure moments think r of La Gloire." It is really a beaco Y | beckoning him on, an expression t an ideal-"I will succeed for France l lN-bred of an intense love for tf
 land of France. For the French al 6 a nation of farmers, in their hearts