The Washington times., 1920-03-07
Immoral" PARIS
RESENTS TITLE
Parsons Request for Funds to
"Save" Students Ridlculed
BY Papers.

newspapers treated with rare good
humor the eabled news that the Rev,
Stanley Fisher. assistant pastor or
the American Church OF Paris. had
declared In the United States that
Paris was an ultra-immoral city. and
that funds were needed to preserve
Anne an students here from impure
lives. But a writer In lie Petit Bleu
came back at the American clergy
man very hard.
1--WE 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 refrain from the other side OF
the Atlantic. Let us see. then, IL Ber-
lin. London. Naples, or even New
York are not as well nxed for i'm
morality!
"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 exchange.
But, truly, do we merit and are
we going to profit by such a reputa-
ton. II Is very nice to say that the
lambs OF Paris have debauched the
wolves of America and to pretend
that the lambs have commenced 1t
all. But perhaps IL was the wolves
who were the black ones and the
white lambs were only to blame be-
cause they allowed themselves TO fall
too easily.
Ameriea ans Blamed.
go into the workshops OF the
dressmakers and everywhere where
the little Parisiennes used to cam
their living with their ten fingers and
you will hear everywhere the same
lamentations.
I'VE have no more workers since
the Americans came here they cry.
Yes, the Americans, the happy,
good boys who amused themselves so
well in Paris in Offering silk stock
ings, fine shoes, 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 dur
ing their leaves from the front. but
above all the boys OF the rear en-
ployed In innumerable services valu-
able to the combatants.
"They are the ones who did more
to cause Paris to throw off restraint
during two years than all the others
who had fascinated the little heads
without brains in a period of ten
years. II we are going to erect a
monument to souls lost in perdition,
II is not to the American students in
Paris that il should be consccrated.
but to the young, foolish girls, who,
without occupying themselves with
dark future, saw only the present
under the beautiful color OF khaki.
Happy Bands Fiji sidewalks.
filled the sidewalks to the end of the
month of August. Smooth-shaven
faces under the little calot (Ameri-
can overseas cap) and pretty Partisan
faces Paris was truly city ultra
immoral, but it was the Americans
who furnished the figures and then
brought on the dance. What was the
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
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But at this time he should have
rendered services to the poor giddy
girls who left their workshops to run
around on the arms of the Wilsonian
warriors.
1--WE thought the war had effaced
the legend that upon debarking in
France one arrived in bad place.
The Rev. Stanley Fisher proved that
the war has done nothing. The fault
is in the frankness of our morals
which do not cover hypocritically
some facts concerning ones private
life, whereas on the other side OF 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. where
as the Yankees. before America was
dry, enjoyed their violent cocktails In
bars carefully hidden from sight
Now, our friends on the other side
are seized with a great virtue. They
drink only water and are persuaded
at the little giddy girls of France
are the daughters of the devil.
But the ten thousand American
students who. according to the Rev
erend himself, attend the schools of
onipionn