The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
BE=Y IF TUNIS IS KISSED
 BY LIFE IN PARIS
Let Others Do The Work, Is Motto Of Oriental
 Official

PARIS. August 5.-(By Associated Press .)-Sldi Mohammed Ben El- Ha- bib, bey of Tunis, who looked over the frivolties of Paris during a weeks visit here, Is now returning to Tunis without regret. The bey Is a plump person who has solved the problem of life by letting the other fellow do the worrying.
 He was expected, according to strict custom, to make dry speeches in response to long, dull and flat tering remarks of officials at nup- merous functions he attended; but he amused the population and some what annoyed officials by having one of his cabinet ministers deliver con- ventional addresses of thanks while he pleasantly dreamed or watched the proceedings with half closed eyes. Make Them Work.
 .Why have ministers if you don't make them work" the bey eX- plained. Then he commented thus on the hubub of Paris: When do these people get time to think" he asked.
 The bey, who, like the true orien- tai. forms an opinion slowly and then is loath to change it, is going back to his dominion with unrevised ideas on the futility of phases of modern civilization. He refused to he rushed by the French government, which spent SO,ouO francs iii enter taining him and hardly got it's moneys worth and frequently when elaborate programs of visits had been arranged for him, the bey an nounced that he much preferred to sit and think, sending in his place one of his sons who enjoyed the nov city of the occasion
 Cooling off Periods
 The presiding officers of the French chamber of deputies have put out a feeler in favor of rule auto matically suspending the proceedings of the chamber for 70 minutes every two hours to enable the legislators To cool off physically and mentally and to allow the chamber itself to be ventilated so that the legislators will not go to sleep. The newspapers generally approve the idea They sarcastically observe that the cham Der certainly needs fresh air and that the country ought to benefit by even such slight intervals of cessation from oratory.
 Americans Run LcagHe.
 The opnion. widely spread and generally accepted, is that the United Statese does not form part of the United States does belong to the league, as can be proved" Thus reads a letter written to the August number of a French publication.
 The writer's proof of America n membership in the league is that 10 male and female citizens of the United States occupy posts in the league secretsriat at Geneva. some of the posts being important ones.
 The letter says an American di- rects the leagues internal affairs and another is joint director of the publicity section; an American wom- an with two American assistants is at the head of the library; anotber American woman is secretary of the mandates commission; two other Americans are employed in the hy- giene section; one American Is en- gagged on the Danzig- -Sarre section, while still another Is engaged with judicial matters. From thesee facts the writer argues that America Is a member of the league in no small de- gree. He asl-s in what proportion their salaries are provided for by their country. The magazine says it has received many letters to the sam e effect and points out that most of the Americans in the League were appointed at a timewhen the entry of the United States into the League was taken for granted and that their contracts have not expired. The United States, the magazine adds. seems to be getting nearer the League. pointing to the proposal that it join the permanent court of inter national justice and its sending of an iv, H m AT1a ff,t, f,g, l.. the work of the opium commission. will follow as closely as possible those held for the martyred McKin- ley. friend and mentor of the dead executive. Also officials will respect the wish of Mrs. Harding that the party now speeding eastward with the body alone shall accompany 1t to Marion after the services here are ended
 President Coolidge. Chief Justice Taft. other high officers and the dip lOmatic reDre eSentatiVeS of fOrei 2n