Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-23
PARIS RESENTS
ACCUSATION OF
IMMORTALITY
Newspapers Ridicule Plea of
Pastor for Funds to Save
Students.
SCORE AMERICAN BOYS

PARIS, Jan 23.-Most of the Paris
newspapers treated with rare good
humor the cabled news that the Rev.
Stanley Fisher, assistant pastor of the
American Church of Paris, had declared
In the United States that Paris WIS an
ultra immoral city, and that funds were
needed to preserve American students
here from impure lives. But a writer
in LIE Petit Bieu came back at the
American clergyman very hard.
I'VE should thank the Rev. Stanley
Fisher for his good opinion and for the
liberty with which he expresses it," says
lie Petit Bleu" ironically. Paris, the
immoral city That is the grand re-
frain from the other side of the Allan
tic. Let US see then If Berlin, London,
Naples or even New York are not as
we'll fixed for immortality!
1.-THE tender hancees of America
tremble for their dears who are in
France They are going to give their
dollars to erect a beautiful church in
Paris, and the Rev. Stanley Fisher will
be quite content We also, we assure
you The dollars which will be spent in
Paris will help lower the rate Of ex-
change.
SAYS AMERICANS
SPOIL GIRLS.
going to profit by such a reputation
1t is very nice to say that the lambs
of Paris have debauched the wolves of
America. and to pretend that the lambs
aave commenced it all. But perhaps it
was the wolves who were the black ones
and the white lambs were only to blame
! because they allowed themselves to fall
too easily.
go into the workshops of the dress
makers and everywhere where the little
Parisiennes used to earn their living with
their ten fingers and you will hear every
where the same lamentations.
"'We have no more workers since
the Americans came here they cry.
eyes, the Americans. the happy, gooo
boys who amused themselves so well in
Paris in offering silk stockings, fine
shoe, fine dinners to all who accepted
their company. And it was not only
those who gave their life blood in the
Champagne or in the Lorraine for the
great cause, who amused themselves
with reason during their leaves from
the front but above all the boys of the
rear, employed in inuumerahle services
valuable to the combatants.
"They are the ones who DID more to
cause Paris to throw of restraint during
two years than all the others who had
fascinated the little heads without brains
in a period of ten years. If we are
going to erect a monument to souls lost
in perditon, 1t Is not to the American
students in Paris that 1t should be conse-
Grated but to the young, foolish girls,
who, without occupying themselves with
the dark future, saw only the present
under the beautiful color of khaki.
Recall the happy bands which flleH
the sidewalks to the end of the month
of August: Smooth shaver faces under
the little calot american overseas cap)
and pretty Partisan faces. Paris was
truly a city ultra immoral, but it was
The Americans who furnished the figures
and then brought on the dance. What
was Rev. Stanley Fisher doing all that
while?"
when he was With US he should have
called the military police and 1t SHOULD
have been his good business to protect
his countrymen from vice. But at the
same time he should have rendered serv-
ices to the poor giddy girls who left
their workshops to run about on the arms
OF the Wilsonian warriors.
THOUGHT WAR
EFFACED LEGEND.
1--WE thought the war had effaced the
legend that upon debarking in France
one arrived in a bad place. Rev. Stanley
Fisher proves that the war has done
nothing. The fault Is in the frankness
of our morals which do not cover hypO-
critically some facts concerning ones pri-
vate life, whereas on the other side O.
the Atlantic one conceals them to make
them worse. We take publicly drinks
containing a small amount of alcohol on
the sidewalks Of our cafes, whereas the
Yankees, before America was dry. en-
joyed their violent cocktails in bars care
\ fully hidden from sight
Nov, our friends on the other side are
: seized with a great virtue. They drink
only water and are persuaded that the
little giddy girls Of France are the
daughters o. the devil.
But the 10000 American students who,
according to the reverend himself, attend
the schools of Paris, are certainly not
of this opinion"