The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03

CARPENTIER's WORLD TRAVELS Copyright, 1929. by Frank G. Car
 penter.)
 Paris. 1922.
 London sulks in the dumps, feed ing its idle on government doles; Berlin, drunk at its mad Belshazzar feast, dances on a volcano with Meme. Meme, Tekel. Upharsin writ on it's walls; Vienna, half naked and starving, fiddles like Nero while the Austrian capital burns; but gay, joy loving, pleasure-mad Paris is busy at work The horde of American tourists rushing hither and thither under conductors who show only the battlefields, the great picture gal leries, and. l regret to say, also the sparsely clad females at Montmartre and the Folies Bergeres may not see it. but l find work everywhere.
 The streets are thronged with traf- fic. Tram cars and great motor buses whose fronts look like a loco motives snowplow are loaded with laborers and clerks going back and forth to the shops; taxicabs rushing like fury wind their way in and out through big motor trucks loaded with boxes and bales; great farm carts, in from the country, drawn by two or three huge Percheron horses. fight for their places among donkey wagons and motorcycle delivery boys; even men are harnessed up and drag ging goods through the street. The vehicles are beyond description, and they all move on the run. It makes no difference in what quarter of the city, whether on the boulevards or the side streets, there is no safety for the foot passenger, and the tour ist is on the continual dodge to pre- vent being tramped on by Paris at work.
 Beehive of Industry
 Indeed, this city is now one great beehive of industry, with tens of thousands of individual workshops and great factories outside making steel and iron machinery, railway and building materials, airplanes and automobiles. Only this week l visited one establi shment which covers more than 12O acres and 16,000 hands as busy as nailers. It has 70 acres of buildings and Is loaded with orders. 1t makes automobiles, trucks and buses. tractors, cycle cars and almost everything that goes upon wheels with gasoline as 8 fuel. I refer to the great tSeudDll factory, ~H3Ch makes an expensive high class car. It had tens of thousands of men em- ployed on munitions and motor trans portation during the war Now, fig uratively speaking. it has turned from the sword to the plowshare. and with standardized methods manufac- lures for peace. The factory still employs 2.o00 women, although 1t had 5000 when the Armistice came. It has 14,0oo men and expects to in crease Its force right along.
 There Is another motor car factory, known as the Citroen, devoted to cars like our "flivvers," or the well known tin lizzies." only of a lower horse power and a much finer body. It IS running to its capacity and can not supply the demand Nearly all of the establishments that worked on mu- nitions have been changed over 10 supply industrial needs, They are making typewriters. farming ma .chinery furniture and paper. or building materials for the reconstruc- tion work in the north.
 Some Industries of Paris
 Even in Paris itself there are nu-e merous manufacturing centers. each ward having its own branch of in dustry. One district for instance, has leather shops and carriage shops; and another is devoted to making new bodies and designing equipment for automobiles. At Grenelle there are chemical works. and at Saint Denis, Clichy, Saint Ouen and Pantin are sugar refineries. breweries and boot and shoe factories The princi- pal speciality here Is luxury products such as jewelry, dresses. furs and fine notions The city manufactures also clocks and bronzes, fine porce- lalns wall papers and tapestries. It fs famous for it's embroideries, dress trimmings and artificial flowers; and it has dye works and glass works and chemical factories.
 Indeed, Paris makes everything un- der the sun. from pins to locomotives, from buttons to flying machines. and