The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-04
DAILY NEWS LETTER
General News and Gossip
 From Staff Members at
By ALICE IAANGELIE1R. international News Service Staff Cor
 respondent


 Paris, Oct. 4-Gray bread noade i+s maptb appearance in Paris bakeries this !M!H92nth. reminding one of war days
 Chefon bread' it is officialIv caIis5 aiter Monsieur Cheron. inc EiI,istoI, ti4 ~ Asrlcuture, who has intro daced s1re NeT Tb bread as an economic meas
 a Ihe wheat crop in France is none too good this year, and in1norta 'lon would make prices soar.
 tban ITS Iieaa IS only a trif1e less vvfite tLiah what one has been accustomed 10 and is likely to remain SD nntii tne bakers have finished thetr stocLs 6a 6r whlte nour which all thrifty ones nave provided. AS time goes on +bs dusk1er product will probahIIJ annaa,s t put Tor two good reasons the French man Will not complain-first. the nrica prsU o teiia1h hra the same, and then this sray bread has the same taste and IS made of more wholesome fio11r -A
 American theatregoers will see for tlIe Hrst time next Winter a r,Iav written by Americans in a ErepnoSS suovent1oned theatre. FYrmin Ge- IllIer, director of the Odeon Thea ergi e!1si mas announced his acceptance of hhe Light of the World" a drama oy George Middleton and Guv Roi- ton. MT. Middleton is now in Paris t,o t,ohsuItlng with Gemier on details of the production VI
 several new American operatfo singers are also scheduled for inc Spring season in Paris.
 Will Carthage die a second +i-,a7 Gato often repeated, "Carthage must be destroyed!' Today the ouestio,, la whether we are going to destroy it. or rather are we going to lose the treas ures that lie buried beneath tbis e,raat rival of Rome the former metropolis of Africa.
 Gems of all descriptions-funeral ornaments of great value fine crystal handsome vases, Grecian lana,ps and splendid mosaics--are buried under the soil where sheep and goats are av have 'o heen wander, 4eEan Beautiful columns modern buildings. and some of the ruins have been transferNed into modern houses with green shutters! The war stopped the work of excava- tion that had been commenced. Since then everything has been abandon ed.
 st,os Owners of this property have been asked to make known their discov- cries made while excavating and to turn over everything to the Service or or. Antiquities. But does one believe owners are So honest and so naive? They buy this land with the express purpose of finding and keeping all possible treasures.
 The French Government must take steps quickly to prevent this whole sale vandalism of the City of Dido and Salambo, high on the hills over looking the blue sea where the Phoe- >n1cian ships used to sail.
 France-patron of the paIate-is considering how she may protect and honor her knights of the salad dress ing and her field marshaIs of the , saucepan who have made Paris the gourmands Mecca. Maurice Prax writing in the Petit Parisien, demands the passage of a copyright or patent law which will guarantee to the au- thor or the inventor of new culinary delights his property rights.
 'Of yN n he al fn copyright everything which comes out of the kitchen" explains this council Tor of the cooks-"no, most certainly not. Many dishes must be consider ed as having become public property much as, in the field of literature Homer and Racine are not admissible to copyright There are, of course, no authorship rights in boiled beef, boiled eggs or mutton stew"
 Other projects for rendering unto the chef the honor which is his due include a new Academic F'rancaise but instead of the academic includ- ing literary lights 1t will be peopled with whtte-cap pped, white-aproned cooks who have made a lasting con gestion of posterity by a new mixture of butter, flour and spices. France must have a Sauce-M e-MixerILaureate who will take his place beside the Poet-Laureate, declares M. Prax. of wireless telephones in railroading have been made by experts employ ed by the Paris Orleans Railroad. It is hoped that by means of a special apparatus the engineer of ex- press train will be able to communi- cate with dispatchers without Teduc- ing the speed of the train.