The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06
AMERICAN GOES
 LAUNCH ATTACK
 ON FARLEY VOUS'
Squadron To Remain At Brest Until Olympic
 Regatta

PARlS, July O.-Noy AssVSAa.eN Press. .)-Now that France has nm fourth in grandiose fashion, she IS bending every energy to make her own fourteenth of July no less memorable. The celebration starts next Saturday with the monday closing of stores, and the evening will see community dancing in every villag esquare as we'll as every open place in Paris zO wards. On Sunday the same program will be completed, the dancing con- tinuing into the early morning hours of Monday.
 Bastile Day itself opens with mon' ster military review at daybreak on the Longchamps race track, with Presi. dent Doumergue, Premier Herriot and all the available generals--including Pershing, it is hoped-in attendance. Every arm of the service will be rep resented, from the downy-cheeked ca dets of St. Cyr-France's West Point to grizzled old veterans of the colonial campaigns. General Gouraud, military governor of Paris and one-armed lion of Champagne" will have the honor of commanding the imposing array.
 If the weather turns off badly the review will be cancelled and all the troops given an extra quart of wine with their rations.
 Language Attacked
 A mass attack on the French lan- guage has been launched by the middies and gobs who in successive liberty parties have been pouring in for the last few days from the American war ships riding anchor at Brest, Havre and Cherbourg. It is still going mer- rily on over the weekend and the end is not yet in sight as the squadron will be present at the Olympic regat- ta at Havre later in the month.
 The boys have been generally well behaved and of spic and span appear ance, taking to the boulevard asphalt like the deck of a dreadnaught. The absence of any adequate provision to guide and. care for such a nautical invasion, however, has made some of the old timers here regret the war time attentions of the Y. M. o. A., Red Cress, Knights of Columbus and Jewish welfare board for men on leave in Paris.
 The fate of those lads debarking from Brest at the Montparnasse sta tion in the southwestern part of the city, where Breton AAAlects are gem orally spoken, is particularly pitiful. GFeu II uUIludJ WnELC many AhACAA can artists, literateurs and would-be poets foregather, the language difficulty still remains, as the high brow" American set there cannot understand the gobs and the gobs cannot or do not want to understand their lofty fore header compatriots.
 The consequence that nightly a pro- cession of aimlessly wandering sailor men passes up and down the rather ioyless streets of Montparnasse asking every passerby who looks like an Ameri- can, Say fellar, where's the main stem of this burg, from here?'
 Sure Fire Charm
 A broom stuck up in front of the barracks occupied by the Haitian rifle team at Chalons, where they gave such q good account of themselves in the Olympic shooting-a broom surrounded by seven carefully cut pieces of soap is held mainly responsible by. the dusky boys for their success in tieing France for second place, thus cinch- ing their place in the shoot-off. This ure fire charm warded off evil, they amilingly argue.
 The Haitian's smart discipline and excellent craftsmanship have been the admiration of the French officers com handing colonial troops. These off CTS are amazed to learn that none of he men on the team ever shot on ange until two years ago, and are oud in their praises of the esprit de orps of the Haitian gendarmerie, as xemplified by the action of every of icer and man in alloting one-fifth of is pay for five months in order to inance to the teams trip.
 
 The competition of two former presi- tents of France for the post of 'Batonnier of the Order of Advocates" ! position analogous to that of the president of the American Bar asso- iation establishes new record in Trance.
 Both NJ. Millerand M. Poincare were !eaded for this, the greatest honor to which a French lawyer can aspire in is profession, when politics removed hem from the running, and now that 10th are free they have again set their aps for it, thereby greatly annoying the other candidates who thought they had cen freed from such dangerous com petition.
 Both the former presidents had to make stiff fights to get back into the ouncil of the order so as to qualify or the presidency and both squeezed in by narrow margins. This was be- cause new generation of lawyers had come into practice since M. Millerand and Poincare temporarily abandoned the profession and the new commission ITS are much more radical in tendency than the pre-war barristers.
 Furthermore a good many of the Jlder lawyers turned green with envy at the return of two men who between them shared the biggest cases before rbe French courts when still practic- ing.
 ceremony of especial interest to American Episcopalians took place this week at St. Marks church, Versailles, ,gbera nine memorial windows repre- senting the Sermon on the Mount and tbe Reatitudes, were dedicated. Right Rev, Herbert Bury. angelican bishop for north and central Europe pre- sided. .-----.
 The central window, that represent ing the Sermon on the Mount, was erected by Warrington Dawson of Charleston. S. C., in memory of his mother. who lived in Paris and Yer sailles from 1900 until her death in 1909.
 Three of the Beatitude windows are gifts from the Misses Pringle in mem Ory of their brother, Duncan Stephen Pringle. The others were given by Mrs Beniamin Mairs Wilson in honor of her husband and her father, Maj. H. A. Huntington, and by the nieces and nephews of the late Lady Pine
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