The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
WHITE AND BLACK SETS CADIC OFF. IN NEW CHAMBER
Deputy Dons French Ma
 tiOnal Costume And |. Is Picturesque

Sepn Ca01c, deputy IrOm luielcIC' who appeared at the first session of the chamber garbed in the national costume of white jacket scanned with black.
 Andre Marty, the communist deputy, who was released from prison where he was serving a sentence for fomenting a mutiny among the French sailors in the Black Sea, was also conspicuous among the new members. He wore cloth cap and an exaggerated reproduc- tion-almost a parody-of a typical working mans costume, although he was an engineer officer in the navy. Mafty's success, however. was brief as compared with that of Deputy Cadic, who occupied the seat formerly used by the clarion-voiced royalist leader, Leon Daudet.
 There was an overflow of deputies z who had been elected on tickets, la- belled, with the magic word left" This overflow made it necessary for some of the members of liberal tenden- cies to sit on the right of the chamber. There was an amusing competition among these deputies to escape con tact with the conservative side of the chamber. The final result was that some of the radicals were perched on the last row, high up, directly behind the moderates in the center and the conservatives on the right so that the remnants of the. former majority ap- peared entirely surrounded by the con % querors of the moment.
 First Passage of Arms
 The first real passage at arms of the new parliamentary session was between the communists and socialists, presaging violent altercation between the estranged brothers of the extreme left. The ushers of the chamber are much disturbed by this prospect. Formerly trouble was to be expected between the extreme right and the extreme left which meant there was plenty of space between the belligerents to enable the ushers to raise a barrier. This barrier usually was sufficient to present cas- utalities among the pugilistically in- clined adversaries. The new arch-enemies of the cham Der, the socialists and communists, sit side by side, making intervention to prevent physical clashes a distinctly difficult task.
 Sit Next Enemy
 For the first time since the war a member of the French government has sat by an official representative from an enemy country at a joint :nquet where they were guests at friendly celebration. Henry DeJouvenel, min ister of public instruction, presided at the luncheon which was given by the Characterization Association in honor of the performances of Mozart's works in a Paris theatre by a company and | orchestra of the Vienna Theatre.
 Baron Eichhoff, Austrian minister to | France, was present as was also the French minister to Austria. Baron | fahh in snoaah understood he considered Austria's in- clusion among Frances enemies the re- suit of an absurd and deplorable error. Minister Jouvenal declared tour coun- tries must have boundaries, but these schould be crossed by wide roads per hitting the progressive resumption of all kinds of exchanges and friendly re- lations."
 50,O0O Francs Sought
 The new French chamber of deputies, | when it has settled its preliminary diff faculties will find itself faced with a law suit wherein 50,000 francs dam ages are claimed from it in an action | brought by George Bareau, the sclup- tor, who demands material and moral compensation for alleged injury done him. The chamber of 1919 opened com petition for a monument to the depu- ties who were killed during the war. Bureau won the competition and re- ceived the order with the approval of Raoul Peret, then president of the chamber. As the chamber took no fur ther steps toward the construction of the monument Bareau appealed to Pert who is alleged to have told him that the chamber had abandoned the scheme.
 nnu EkAA ha Ak 1y,l sist at that time, but when two years later he found another sculptor, who had not participated in the competition, had designed the monument which was given the exact position where his (Bareau's) was to have been placed, he put the matter in the hands of his lawyer.
 Deputies Caress
 The good old fashioned French GUS tom of public kissing between grown-up men received an official sanction at the beginning of the new chamber of depu ties. After a secret caucus of deputies forming the left bloc, the doors of the chamber were dramatically thrown open and thereupon the awaiting journ- alists were treated to the sight of M. Herriot embracing M. Painleve' and vice versa, then both repeating the em- braces on their socialists compatriot, Leon Blum, Ito signalize our political unity and personal friendship" as all three thereafter spontaneously de- clared.
 Calls America "HeIl'
 That Pierce Loti, late academician and writer, was not particularly pleased with America is told by Fran cois DeTessan in an article which he has written in the new monthly publi- cation "Demain." DeTessan who ac- companied Loti to New York in 1912 quotes the great Frenchma.. as refer ring to America as: Its a he'll. If this is what's called progress, give me anything before this agitated turmoil =. How can l live at ease in this country of triumphant materialism where there is no leisure for contempla- tion or an instant's meditation?" In his article DeTessan says that Lott, after his return to France, never spoke of his visit to the United States or of America, dismissing the subject when he embarked for home with II be- ieve I have been through purgatory."
 It was what DeTessan called "the terrible reporters" who reduced the susceptible author to this condition.
 The only pleasure Loti found in New York, DeTessan says, was to take refuge in Central Park where he fed the squirrels and passed hours in watching the animals.
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