The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-01

lish Move Into France-Swiss Trek
10 Baden While Hebrews and Others
From Poland Are Looking to Amer
ics-PeopIe OF Small Fixed Incomes
Are Switching From One Country 20
Another in Europe.
'One result Of the war is that big
ger exodus is now taking place among
the nations than at any time since the
days of Moses" This statement, made,
on his way homeward through Paris
by an American, who has until recent
~ been engaged on 7. Nj. G. A. work
IN CZecho Slovakia, exaggerated as it
may sound, expresses only one side OF
ii very large truth.
For in the days of the Jewish ex-
odus, or of the great tribal movements
ut the first settlement Of Europe, when
whole nations moved, they included
many individuals, but little wealth.
Nowadays it is the people with the
wealth who are migrating-a very
much more serious thing for those who
remain behind, says the New York
Herald.
Within the last twelve months sew
eraI thousand French families-esti-
mates run from two to seven-have
left their homes to settle in Italy.
They are all more or less well to do,
in most cases possessing fixed in
conles-which in future, while draw
ing them from France they will spend
in Italy. The reason is no lack of
patriotism or love for Italy-it is
simply and purely because the French
franc is worth two Italian lire and
they can live twice as comfortably on
the same income.
The majority of them are from the
southern departments and they have
not moved very farm some cases
only matter of twenty miles or So
but the frontier is behind them, and
although prices are to some small ex-
tent higher than On the French side
of the boundary they are not enough
nearly to counterbalance the differ
ence in exchange.
Many English Arriving.
This is only one example out of
man. similar hegiras, which can only
be described as worldwide. While the
French are leaving France the English
are moving into it. In the old days
of the mid-Nineteenth century hun
dreds of English families lived in
Calais, BOulogne, or Montreuil. In
maIiy cases they were there to escape
their creditors at home as in the case
for instance of the famous Beau
Brummel, or the even more famous
Lady Hamilton, Nelson's friend. For
the rest there were innumerabie half
pay officers and elderly people with
fixed, small incomes such as you may
read of in the pages of Thackeray or
Albert Smith.
This movement has nowadays re-
vived to a vastly greater degree 1t
is no exaggeration TO say that half
middle-class England is turning its
eyes toward France, where its money
will be worth double what it is at
home, and where by a little manipula-
tion it is possible to escape the crush
ing weight of home taxation.
As one typical instance may be
mentioned an English ex-officer, mem
Der of minor country family. Before
the war he had perhaps E2.O00 year
income, or $4,000. Considering taxa
ton and the cost of living, his in
come in England would now be re-
duced to about $3.50 year, or 81 400.
He no longer lives in England, but in
Paris. What is more, he has sold his
land and his securities In England
getting high price for the former
when the land boom was at its height
His proceeds are invested in Belgium
He escapes English taxes; he has no
income in France; he is, If bad citi-
zen, almost as wealthy as he was
before the war, and his money is
worth twice its home value.
Seeking Easier Life.
So far as England and France are
concerned it is not only the well-to-do
who are crossing the channel. Mill
lions of young men and tens of thou
sands of young women learned during