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New-York tribune., 1922-07-09

A most amusing and volunla1
book could be written around Y
mems forecasts. beginning with ~
of Mercier who, in the year 1919
scribed many future marvels. His ps'
nostications caused skeptics even
the Eighteenth century to smile IN
rision, yet, in the twentieth csns'
they are only simple aid commonps
realities.
There could be cited Cyrsnc de D
gerac, the Marquis d'Argenson, ~
Verne. and a score more, without
getting Emile souvestre, who fore'
more than one of our conguests IN
book, "The World in the Year
Thousand
Here is what can be read in one
the last novels of Champaeurl,
Jardin du Roi" C"The Kings Garde
about forty years ago: "A day
come when science will proJecs
light into the interior of the hu'
body and clearly see there just ~
see the pebbles on the bottom 9
brook"
Thus, little less than twenty -
before it's discovery the author
"Fayance Fiddle" forsesaw the n
Truly, it must be conceded thas
tions writers are often seers.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Tchifcherin the Charp,er

The Swiss papers report that during
all Of the Genoa negotiations Tchit-
cherin enjoyed in q high degree the
favor Of the ladies. Wherever he went
In his patent leather shoes the ladies
threw glances and flowers at him.
Thus the Italian papers also report and
the returning participants of the con-
ference confirm it. Almost every even
ing there was social gathering. The
Russian never failed to come to these
circles, and no sooner had he entered
than he was surrounded by the ladies,
and he had to write autographs for
them. The extraordinary part played
by the Russians in Genoa moved the
hearts of the women. "He has such
beautiful eyes," said one Of them,
"he cannot be cruel"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Leniency to True May Upset
British Criminal Lunacy Law
Closer Definition Of Murder Urged i'm Protest a,
Mercy Shown Cold-Blooded MUIR
derer of Woman

insanity may override jury's view OF
what is legal sanity, and purely
! technical opinion set aside verdict
which is Influenced among other things
by regard for the public veal.
"We think" comments the leading
government newspaper here in view of
the force of public opinion aroused,
"that the whole relation Of insanity and
crime, in view Of the conflict between
modern science and law, might we'll be
referred to q royal commission, on
which both legal and medical science
should be represented. AS things are,
the medical and the legal view of in
sanity are at odds; they view the prob
lem from different angles, and in con-
sequence justice, though not blind,
squints somewhat"
Charging the grand jury at the Devon
Assizes, Mr.. Justice Avory, in pointed
reference to the True case, said that
he Every much doubted if the recrudes-
cence of crime experienced after the
war would continue to abate if the
infliction of penalties Of the law is to
be left to the discretion Of experts in
Harley Street" In legal circles here
the Home Secretary's Interpretation of
the criminal lunacy act is seen as
threatening the whole system Of trial
by jury. Major c. +. Entwhistle, a
barrister-M. P, who seconded the mo-
tion for the adjournment of the House,
goes 80 far as to say that tho act was
only intended as a last resort where
the insanity question had not been
raised previously either because the
issue was not put to the jury or it
arose after the date of Che trial.
1t Is pointed out that in 1884, when
the criminal lunacy act was framed,
doctors were rather realistic people.
If condemned person was a very OBJ
vious lunatic they certified him. as
such. But if he were the sort of per-
son who, if the door of the Jail were
left open could find his way outside
and mix unsuspected by ordinary peo-
pie they decided the he was quite fit
to hang. There is-or was-of course,
big difference between criminal in
sanity and medical insanity.
Sir Mackenzie Chalmers, who was
permanent Under Secretary OF the
Home Office till 1908, blames for the
present situation the legislature
which authorizes doctors, with their
/ ingenious views of insanity" to make
incursion into the realm of law
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
The Procession of Bottles

A singular custom is that observed in
Boulbon- -en-Provence, a village in the
department of the Bouches-du- Rhone
near the town Of Aramon, so famous
for its red wines.
Every year, on St. Marcellin's Day,
that is on the first of June, there is a
procession of bottles. About 7 o'clock
IN the evening, while the bells are
ringing at full pitch. the men--the men
alone-assemble and in a procession
march to distant chapel, every one
carrying bottle of his best wine.
The cure hlesses these bottles. after
which the participants drink gulp of
this wine while the priest chants
psalms.
Az the end of the ceremony the
cortege returns to the village this time
following the banner Of st. Marcellin.
And then every one goes home with the
precious flask which is only opened in
case of fever, stomach trouble or other
indispositions.
St. Marcellin. in Boulhon-en-P Prov
ence, is as favorable to water as he is
to wine. In periods of drought his
bust is carried across the vineyards.
whereupon the carriers sing, and inn
mediately it rains.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
4 Tax on Titles In Spain

The Spanish government, which is
hard pressed for money, has proposed
plan which has caused great outcry
among the Spanish nobility. 1t is q
plan for taxes on titles of nobility.
The cost of inheriting the title of
duke and grande would be $4,000
pesetas. Besides, eac.l title must pay
annually tax of 1000 pesetas The
authorization to bear foreign title of
marquis, or count, would cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 pesetas.
The. adversaries of the project say
that many people will be incapable of
paying such dues and taxes and they
will rather drop their titles. Therefore
the looked for resources on the part
Of the state will vanish.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
PARIS, July 1.

H@MIL CoUE, Frances famous
Ed healer, who believes in auto
suggestion as the cure for
most bodily ills, objects to be-
ing touted az miracle man and sec
ond Saviour.
Coue lives in Nancy, eastern France.
When his theories became known
patients focked to him. His fame
spread to England, and during the last
year he has made two visits to London.
Britishers with all the ills in the world
focked to him on both occasions. Since
his departure British papers have been
printing letters of such fulsome praise
of the autosuggestion doctor" from
patients that he thinks they are going
too far.
Cous teaches horse sense and use Of
the will to drive away most of the
common ailments, which he says are
mainly imaginary. Neurasthenics and
hypochondriacs are his chief patients.
He refuses money for his services, but
the too extravagant praise which he
receives instead has drawn from the
old mind doctor Of Nancy an expose Of
his methods as follows:
when a company has been assem-
bled begin by saying to them:
"Most of you have come expecting
to find healer, a maker of miracles.
Well, if you believe that, disbelieve it.
I am no healer, no miracle-maker, for
the simple reason that there are no
miracles or healsrs. Ny role Is quite
otherwise. 1t consists Of teaching peo-
pie to employ well and consciously an
instrument which. we carry from birth
and use unconsciously day and night.
and therefore moro often Ill than well.
THAT instrument is autosuggestion,
which makes one i'll when one is not
or worse when one is i'll. II it can
produce SO much i'll unconsciously it
can when used consciously not only
repair the ill it has caused but de-
termine the cure Of affections and
LESSONS against which ordinary proc
esses have failed.
my method is based on these two
principles:
81. Every mental idea can become a
possible reality. The idea of insomnia
creates insorn nia, the idea of sleep de-
termines 81. 81. 1t is enough to think
one is deaf, 5lind or paralytic to be-
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
As the French cartooists hin). From LIE Mon,

must not be overlooked. In the
$4,000, 100000 that we have got to spend
next year about SO per cent will be
spent for the most honorable motive
there is in the world-namely, to pay
the interests of the war debt which
we have contracted toward our French
and foreign creditors. The war has
cost US 25O,Oo0,o0O,o 900, in round figures,
which we were obliged to borrow at
home and abroad. This is sacred
debt, on which we have to pay the
yearly interest. In 1923 this inter
est Will amount to exactly 11,691 ,OOO,-
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Interest on French War Debts Consumes
Half Of annual Budget, Says Poincare
''Few Nations Are Able
to Equal Economics
Prncticed,'' Pre-
ynier Asserts

army, 1000 100000 for the colonial
troops and for the military require
ments of Morocco, 500,000,000 for the
upkcep of the troops of the Sarre basin,
the upkeep Of the army in Asia Minor
and the upkeep Of the occupation corps
of Constantinople. There is 100000
900 for the Ministry Of Marine, and
this amount merely includes the up
keep of our feet and the construction
of few light units. Finally there
are 1,5o0,o0o,000 for the public works
which are indispensable to the pros
perity Of France, 1,500,0o0,000 for pub
lie instruction and for the schools and
1000, 100000 for the total mass Of all
the civil services for which the state is
hold responsible.
''There is, billion per billion, the
budget Of France. Facing these 3d.
0o0oOo,O0o of expenditures, the ordi-
nary taxes and the ordinary and ex-
traordnary resources will produce
about 10000, 100000. We shall have to
ask 5000 100000 Of the loan. We do
not ask for one cent from an imitation
of the currency. On the contrary, we
shall arrange SO that our paper circu
lation, which on April i, 1922, was 49,
28,000,000 francs--a decrease of more
than 2,000,000,o00 upon the paper cir
culation on January 1, 1s21-shall still
be further reduced"
And Premier Poincark concluded
"Since the armistice France has
made an unheard-of effort, without
precedent in history, to dress her
wounds and to restore her ruins; she
has not hesitated to quadrupIe her
taxes in order to be able to face the
charges which the war has left her
Notwithstanding the economic -enisis
which is prevailing since two years. she
would have succeeded, through the As
cal effort Of 1920, to insure the equi-
librium of her budget. Why were our
expectations deceived? Why are we
faced to-day with deficit Of more
than 3,o00,Oo0,o0o? 1t is only because
Germany has failed to execute the
Treaty of Versailles. 1t is because the
pledges whose execution we had the
right to expect have not been kept.
have only one thing to say: henceforth
they must be kept"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
adam and Ere

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl A. Suffer-
would-be Adam and Eve OF the As
woods. have promptly been ini'a'
elsewhere. Major and Mrs. MacEs'
of London, have announced their g
luton to live the life of msnkinds Z
parents.
In France q courageous inhapi''
of Neuilly wanted to prove that e
were other, even more radical. me
of combating the dog days.
dressed only in his soft hat and
of gloves, he rushed toward the y
lot gate. Alas! the unappresissive
lice agents interrupted the courss
this scantily clad reformer. SO nc
transported to the hospital. whers
became mighty indignant at the
picion that he was insane.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Political

something drinkable.' A whisky snug
gler is called a 'bootlegger,' and to
correspond with his customers he en-
ploys as sybillic language as the
Precieuses of the seventeenth century
or the agents Of the counter espionage.
"To conceal the alcohol and wine
there are specially constructed cellars,
with locks more complicated than
those safes in which the family jewels
are kept, for the old wines are stolen
as were formerly pearl necklaces.
"There exist TASKS that contain one
or several cocktails; crystal TASKS for
travelling, pretty sculptured silver
TASKS for the hand satchel, TASKS of
gold and precious stones for the soiree.
There are ingenious canes the handles
of which contain the precious liquor
and others entirely hollow have COB
lets disguised as handles.
Some high livers have large cellars
filled with old wines, and, despite the
law, continue to buy more. You want
to know the prices? A simple bottle
of Gordon gin is sold for 15O francs;
bottle of sherry, 100 francs. 1t is
said it is difficult to modify habit
even by religious law. This is true.
But it is a fact that even those who
formerly contented themselves with
water now are dreaming of clandestine
stills. Human nature has always been
attracted by the forbidden fruit"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Expenses or. Decrease and
in 1928 Expenditures
viii Be Held to
% Billions
By Stephane Lauzannc
Editor an Chief of "Lc Matin'


PARIS, July I,
4 . MANY inaccuracies have been
va uttered regarding the financial
h situation of France that | deemed
it of interest to ask the head of
the government Of France himself to
state the situation to me in person.
Mr.. Raymond Poincare is not onlv
diplomat or an orator; he is also n
fnancier. He entered public life as
referee of the genaral budget when he
was barely thirty years of age. He
was Minister of Finance long before
being Prime Minister. In all the dis
cussions bearing upon figures he elbows
the same luminous perspicuity as in
the discussions concerning the law.
And the following statement, which he
gave me for the readers of The Trib-
une, is a model of plainness:
"The national budget" said he. "is
the veridical picture of Frances fnan-
cial situation, as it should be in a
democracy. Our friends and our critics
sometimes our best friends are also
our sharpest critics-have only to
look on the budget to see where we
stand.
"If they look attentively and impair
TALLY at the budget for 1923, which
has just been laid down on the table
of the Chamber, they cannot fail to be
impressed by two facts.
"The first fact is that, notwithstand-
ing the terrible situation we have to
face, our expenses are yearly decreas-
ing. In 1913, the last year Of the war
the national expenditures of France
amounted to more than 4S,000,0 100000
francs. In 1919, the first year of the
peace, they amounted to 10000, ,000, 900
francs. During this year, 1922, they will
not exceed 25,0OO,Ooo,0o0. Next year
1923, they will stand at 100000, 900,
which means a compression in the ex-
pendtures of about 100000, 900 francs
from one year to another. Those
who abroad urge the necessity of ma
tional economies and the cutting down
in state expenditures will find few
countries where such an economy and
cutting down has taken place.
"But there is second fact which
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
\ \ 7 BECOMES I +
Modern Flying Dutchman' Seeks
Commercial Supremacy In Air

where connections carry the passenger
to all parts of Europe. The stolid
Flying Dutchmen" attempt no stunts
or endurance contests and thus far
they have built up an air trade which
is unique for its record of safe f1v.
ing Accidents are SO far recorded as
unknown"
The Royal Dutch Air Service Com
rany here has now issued great
posters which make q play on "The
Flying Dutchman," once fiction, now be-
come fact 1t depicts the modern
Flying Dutchman" in flying suit and
helmet standing aft at the tiller of the
Flying Dutchman" of fiction pointing
above the storm clouds to a modern
Dutch ship in the blue sky. The poster
might have been executed by modern
Rembrandt, or Van Dyke, so clear
cut is its story and SO appropriate it's
title.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
The Baron and the Kaiser

Baron Schultz, who died recently in
q little village Of Prussia, was entirely
forgotten by the public, although he
once enjoyed great notoriety in Ger
many. '"
His start in life was exceedingly
modest, as an apprentice of tinsmitn
in Munich. With his savings he set up
a small porcelain store. Five years
later he established himself in Berlin
soon after he opened in the Stuttgart
Strasse a store of Saxon and Sevres
porcelain and Venetian glass, which
soon became one of the most frequent
ed places of the capital. His fortune
was then made.
1t was even more so one day when
William II came himself to Schultz 8
to make some purchases; became his
assiduous customer and consulted him
about certain artistic arrangements of
the imperial palace Soon Schultz
bought a magnificent house in the
most beautiful quarter of Berlin. He
wanted to be made a baron, and the
imperial favor fulfilled his wish
One day when, in his new quality of
baron, he attended feast In the royal
palace he placed himself in sight at
the emperor's passing, thinking the
latter, because of his old acquaintance,
would address him a few gracious
words. To his great astonishnnent, the
emperor contented himself with dis
tant nod.
Anxious to know to what such a dis
grace was due, Baron Schultz request
ed one who was intimate with William,
and with whom he was on excellent
terms, TO inquire what was the cause.
This friend asked the kaiser, who re-
piled:
Tell that gentleman that if former
ly he was the frst shopkeeper Of Ber-
lin. he is to-day the last baron Of the
COURT"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Color Schemes for Mosquitoes

With the opening of another mos
quito season it becomes timely and
profitable TO learn all practicable
methods of combating the winged
pests, and to this end it is of interest
TO observe their peculiarities Of taste,
their preferences and aversions. Thus
1T has been observed that they have
little appetite for the blood of negroes.
1t would also appear that the different
colors have a great deal to do in re-
pelling or attracting attacks
For instance, it was found that a
person dressed in dark gray clothes
was attacked by mosquitoes at once,
while another clad in white fanneIs
was not molested. Experiments were
made by placing boxes lined with diff
ferent colored cloths in a place fire.
quented by mosquitoes. By far the
greater number entered the box lined
with dark blue. Fewer of the insects
sought the boxes lined with other col
ors, the number diminishing in this
order. Dark red, brown, scarlet, black,
slate gray, olive green. light blue,
ochre, white, orange No mosquitoes
were found in the boxes lined with vel
low. Similar experiments have been
made for years in Brazil, and the re-
suits were always the same.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09

900 francs-~more than double the
budget of France before the war. No
compression whatsoever is possible on
1t. And for generations and genera
tions France will have to pay those
1891 100000 francs, which will prob
ably soon be increased by other bill
lions due to America and England, be-
cause Franco always redeems her
pledges
Therefore, OH our 23,o0o,0oO,ooO ex-
penditures for next year there are H.
500,000,000 for the payment of our debt
There are 1900, o,O0o 900 for the regular
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09

this necta, out from hiding place
and serves it as religiously as if it
were some choice old private stock.
Some persons even are so careless
as to drink, no matter what mixture.
provided it be fermented.
"The prohibition law has created q
very rich and very complicated vocab-
ulary. They speak Of. 'hootch that is,
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09

The other day an English paper print
ed the story of the escape of convict,
which yield in nothing to the models
of romance.
The scene took place in the Park
hurst prison, situated on the Isle of
Wight. The hero Of the adventure au-
parently had prepared for his escape
for several years. He dug into the wall
with knitting needle, and every time
he succeeded in making a breach. he
stopped it up with chewed bread
crumbs.
On a dark night he succeeded in
effecting his escape, after jumping
from wall over ten meters high. So
far nothing has been heard of the
fugitive.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
The Escape of a Conric.

From the earliest times the escape of
q prisoner or convict has charmed pop
ular imagination. In the novels, the
hero" be it Edmond Dantes or Jean
Vatican, appeals to our sympathies.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
THE HAGUE. Ju1v 1
4 uST as the Dutch used to be
one of the leading nations of

n UST as the Dutch used to be
one of the leading nations of
a the world in marine commerce,
there may be left little doubt
that the modern Holland will make it's
mark in the new air navigation.
The same attributes that carried The
Dutch flag over the Seven Seas with
such persistence few centuries ego
and carried Dutchmen into Colonial
possessions which Holland still owns
and operates without fuss in many
parts of the world are here to-day in
Hollands navigation of the skies. Sane
stolidity is the same trait in the bud
cling Dutch air commerce that guided
the old mariners to all parts of the
world.
Air lines now lead from the prin-
cipal cities of Holland daily to Lon
don, Paris, Berlin and other points
within sane and safe flying distance,
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09

alcohol, which might be obtained on q
PHYSICIANS prescription; add one liter
OF water and let it stand in stone
jar for three months.
"You can then taste a liquor which
Americans find delicious, but which a
Frenchmen would certainly find ex
ecrable. At the end of the meal the
mistress of the house rises and gets
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Echoes From abroad
Social !

china was carried on from ITO to
1868, there is house constructed of
that material.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
The Brides Fair


At Ecaussines, yasviliage' in Hainaut,
Belgium, there is hello a bridal fair
The young girls who don't want to
become spinsters assemble in the viii
lage square and receive prospective
husbands.
The spectacle is certainly charming
and joyous. One can imagine the de-
licious indecision of these lucky cell
bates who are invited to select among a
thousand brunette, blond or auburn
flowers those that seem to them the
most charming.
Paris, on Mount Ida, had only to de-
eide among three goddesses. And for
SO little hs has entered into legend.
At Ecaussines the celbates find them
selves otherwise embarrassed.
There is an encumbrance of goddesses s !
ut is in name," says Maurice Prax,
in "Le Petit Parisien," "a brides fair
but it would be more appropriate to
call it husbands fair. For while the
girls make the polite pretence Of In
viting the men there to choose their
brides, the fact is that the men are
invited to be looked over and chosen
by the girls.
The poor bachelors who have pene-
trated the large wedding garden, VINO
find themselves suddenly in the pres
ence OF redoubtable battalion of
yaGni11tn 7fr1o
remain young girls-must not for a
long time keep UP their confidence
and sang-froid; they must not for q
long time imagine that they are gem
tlcmen of the sort of the shenherd
Paris. 1t is the young ladies
who, in truth, must make their mis-
chlevous or rational choice from the
infatuated troop of hapless bachelors,
1t is the young ladies who
must pluck the bearded, mustached
or shaved bridegrooms. And the
gathering must not be much more diff.
cult than that of certain fruits thst
ripen in September.
THE young girls Of Ecaussines are
gracefully clever and cunning. Come
on, noble gentlemen; come on to
choose among US frail women the
brides that will seem to Won th.
sweetest and fairest.'
$50 they say. But when the bache.
lors go upon the field Of the fair thev
suddenly throw out the casting net"
French ptees Of "Hootch"
q Vivacious account of the workings
Of prohibition in tho United State. !,
given by Therese Benney in Figaro u
NO sooner, she says, had she returned
from America than friends began smil-
ingly to inquire:
"Well! and prohibition? How Won
must have suffered from it,! Is it going
to last? What do they drink now in
the United States?" Her reply was.
They drink everything and drink
much. They absorb the most discou-
certing, most unexpected beverages
Wood alcohol, ether. perfumes, essen
ces, methylic alcohol, what not! !.
The more fastidious compose the lio-
uors at home. These are the home.
brews,' and they jealously guard the
formula.
Here is one at random: One kilo
(2.2 lbs) of apricots, half pound of
euSar, one litsr (about one quartz Of