Evening star., 1924-08-19
elaborate and extensive az the great
banks. Several employ as many al
loo hands.


banks. Several employ as many as
1900 hands.
The apache-French for gunman or
thug-has largely vanished from the
streets of Paris. The explanation is
that France mobilized as shock
| troops on the western front between
1914 and 1919 all the apaches they
could lay hands on. Their breed has
| correspondingly never so safe in the
highways and byways of Paris as
| nowadays. A couple of American
women strolled through Montmartre
the other night unescorted. Ten
years ago that would have been a
venturesome thing to do.
NJ. Jaures, the French Socialist,
whom 1t has just been decided to en-
novel method of fighting militarism
just before he was assassinated on
the eve OF the World War He
wanted to do away with military
bands. Jaures thought martial music
has as much to do with tho passion
for soldering and fighting as any
one thing in the world. He probably
would have abolished the band of the
Garde Republicaine. Frances most
~
had ever become premier.
X X
The American doughboy left many
Yankee ideas behind in France, but
two things that didn't survive him
are modern elevators and telephone
service. Both are the last words in
inadequacy in Paris, and, to even a
greater degree, in the provinces. In
the most pretentious office buildings
Il nd a - rfy1,n h.,
upward-if it's working, which it is
frequently not-in d tiny work-it-
yourself electric "ascenSeur," seldom
holding more than three or four peo-
pie, for it usually occupies only the
space available within A winding
staircase. An "ascenseur" in France
means exactly what the word implies.
You are supposed only to ride up in
it You walk downstairs, no matter
how many. Pershing's army installed
the finest telephone service France
ever knew, but. it disappeared along
with the A f. F.. 1t was manned by
American girls Telephoning in Paris
is catch-as-catch-can proposition
and breeds profanity.
Now and then you encounter bitter
French hostility to America on the
ground Of our attempt al the Wash
ington conference to effect limitation
OF submarines, as we'll as battleships.
The French are determined to create
great submarine fleet in order, in
case OF emergency, to guarantee the
safe convoy OF black troops to Eu-
rope from their colonies in France.
1t is not openly avowed, but the
eventual purpose Of France is to bal
ance her own deficiency in military
units. as against more heavily pop
ulated Germany, by using soldiers
from Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Sen
egal. If Germany Cor Great Britain.
for that matter) were ever able to in
terfere with the transport of black
troops across the Mediterranean,
France would be faced by a serious
to any scheme of tying her hands in
the building of submarine craft.
X X
France has an ugly Alsace- Lorraine
problem of her own, due to Premier
Herriots determination to stamp out
the teaching Of religion in the public
schools of the recovered provinces
He desires to apply the general edu-
cation laws of the republic to Alsace-
Lorraine. These forbid religious
training in schools attended by chill
dren OF the various creeds. The Ro-
man Catholics of Alsace, in which
province they overwhelmingly pre-
dominate. are exceedingly bitter over
the Herriott program. They talk of
the 'concordant" which Napoleon l
concluded with the Pope of his era,
whereby the Catholics of Alsace were
guaranteed the privileges of which
Premier Herriot would now deprive
them.
X \ X X
The French emulate the Cockney
and drop the N" from words or
names that begin with that letter
Thus they call the present premier
"Erriot," and the name is pronounced
as II spelled "airy-oh." The witty
American wife Of French politician,
who opposes Herriot in politics, calls the
somewhat distracted premier "Up-in-
the-Erriot."
Copyright, 1924)