The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-16
Rigors of the War
Have Cleaned Out
Paris Latin Sector

al 10 Ldllll o1SIOh
PARIS-Bohcmc. the land of
Mimi Trlby ana %Sycngali. of poor
painters and sculptors, 81 thread
bare students and poets is no more.
devastated by war, 20 takes its plhc"
with Rhioms and Chateau Thiorry
among tho ruins ~ "a land that was
Huhcmo has become "A tradition.
The Joyous student OF the Latin
Quarter. with a bottle OF vino In
ono hand and his sweetheart held
by the other has become "A myth.
The students are still there, I'm small
CIR numbers. 10 be sure, but they
are no longer Joyous. they no longer
sing. they seldom laugh. They are
serious, tense, strained, counting the
f%ctiounl French coin which has dis
appeared since tho war, the CCntime.
LOcuyre urges that the govern
mcnt Hubsidizc the universities 10
give tho students enough money on
which to 1.-Two. Tho number OF stu
dents a. diminishing daily. The Ru-
mnulaus, CzcChs. Serbs, Polish ana
South Americans. who formerly
came to Paris for their cducations,
are rapidly disappearing. Many are
going TO the German universities,
whore tho cost OF living IL said TO he
from one-half to onc-tonth the price
OF Paris.
American art students who wish
20 complete their studies In Paris
would do we'll To Investigate the cost
OF living today rather than ask tho
advice OF tho graduates OF Paris of
other years. The figures published In
D VN. TnLaHN..a 90 NA. IHAN..ANlNH 81
Paris Indicate thar the life Of "A
student at this school costs at least
ono thousand dollars a year. The
days when the students lived on
thirty to fifty dollars a month are
gone, u seems forever.
Traigposcd into dollars at the cur
rent rate OF exchange, the bare mo-
ccssitie1 for tho student are about
as follows. according Ia tho Review:
Room. ten months, at Si3, S13O,
laundry, 10 months, at 81, S2O:
breakfast coup OF coffec,) $3.50 n
month, SIS; lunch and dinner at
university subsidized restaurant,
drinking water, but no wine. 60
ccnta daily, $3.50; street car fare
$50 a month, SIS; three suits each
two years, $50; o%vcrcoat. $40; pair
shoes ana repairing. SIS; shirts and
NNNA' NfNAt NaNf AhAt 81 hiAN'lNlAN
fees, S25; books, S25 uwspapcr
postage, stationery. $40; dues uni
yorsity association S2.jO, total $j4t.
90.
work l. one Remedy.
To this estimate OF the cheapest
grade ut tho bare necessities must
be added railroad fare and other cS-
pcnses. The students mustn't smoke.
may never take a glass Of wine or
beer " go to a theater or movie.
not hc sick or pay doctors fecs-ln
% word, he must live a hermlt's life
IN Paris, which is. TO say the least,
Improbable II not Impossible.
To combat the IL. &, l.. students
have been forced to abandon the
carofroc camaradcrie OF bohemian
Ire and Initiate their American
cousins In an effort 10 work their
way through tho university.
student self holp has been assisted
by the cight-hour-law, which IN
many other respects has done so
much TO damage French rcconstruc-
non ana delay return to normal. In
uIueh Jays q student would not have
'''h able to have secured work, be-
cause the employer would have In
sisted upon a ten To tWcIvc-hour
gay, To-day the employer who even
permits his employees 10 work longer
man eight hours IL iu danger of be-
ing punished Iy the courts.
Musicians, walters, s~tcuugrlphcrs,
0rIl'IS are spending their spare time
completing their university courses.
university Not sympathetic.
Iho Paris university, however. has
not yet developed the sympathy Tor
me disappearing students which ia
'"unu IN America, ana tho faculty b
t'll 10 truwn upon the people wh0
uonf devote their entire time 10 tbe
school As q result many student,
nrr ahlo To take only part-time work.
rms is especially dishoartenlnr A.
lhose Who already have been sri
back five years by the war I'm rottino
INTO work In their life profession
Ihc schools are filled with pmbryf
OF age '"'
L'ucuvro demands that tho GOV.
eminent give some attention 10 tn,
number or candidates In the medlcl
ana law schools. Unless some assist,
nnce IL given the future may see 2
dangerous lack OF representatives oI
these two professions in , 'ench life
FOR the law course takes five and IN,
medical college seven years. And
there r comparatively few French
families today who can face the out,
lay OF from four 70 seven Thousand
dollars To give their sons a profos.
slonal education.