The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
.BANCOUR SEEKS.
 TERROR'S RETURN
 ENEMIES CHARGE.
Socialist Delegate To League Is Termed New
 Robespierre
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PARIS. August S0.-Paul Boncour new eocialist member of the French del eeation to the assembly of the League ot Nations. who goes to Geneva in Sep ternber especially to advocate the pro posed control of Germany's armaments hy the league, is often called "the new Robespierre" on account of the elegance of his attire and slight physical re- semhiance to the terrorist of the revolu- ton. .<
 Socialist Boncour, his friends aver, is no more a terrorist than other soclal- ist leaders who, as he did himself, as- pired to places in the present bourgeois government. He is now accused, how ever, along with his colleagues, by the moderates and. conservativess of seek ing to bring back into style some of the methods of terror. The missions ot Vim cent Auriol and Pierre Renaudei to London are compared with those of the trusty delegates sent to Rohespierre, Danton and Marat to the armies during the terror to see that the revolutionary generals gave. way to no sentimental weaknesses in the fractricide strife In the Vendee. /
 Premier Herriot's decision in Lon don to discuss with the Germans naili- tary evacuation of the Ruhr is attrib- uted largely to the influence ot M. Auriol. The fact that M. Renaudel, an other militant socialist, accompanied the premier when he went back to Lon don is also being commented upon by the political gossips.
 Laborers First To Kick
 One of the first serious interior trou- bles of the new government is concerned with the absence of fresh bread and hot rolls from the morning breakfasts of the population. This is in consequence of the action of Justin Godart, minister of labor, insisting that night work in bakeries be stopped. Master bakers oyercame the difficulty for time by staying up all night themselves and turning out hot breakfast biscuits. The bakers union, however, protested against what is called unfair competi- ton of employers" and declared 1t was simply a means of evading the law.
 M. Godart then announced he would promulgate an order forbidding deliv- cries of fresh bread or rolls before 10 o'clock in the morning. The laborers and modiste shop employees were the first ones to rise up against the minister's decision. Their claim is that they are the very ones who consume hot rolls in the early morning. They point out that NJ. Godart is catering to the lazy, bourgeoise class which cal lin abed until 10 a. m. and then get bread and rolls fresher than ever. Involved in the con- troversy is the question of whether a master baker has a right to work when he pleases in his own shop.
 Begin Over Again
 The ''forty immortals" of the French academy founded by Cardinal Richelieu, whose chief utility was supposed to be the keeping of the French language pure, recently ended revision of the first volume of the academy's dictionary comprising letters A to H inclusive, only to find that during the 46 years consecrated to the task, the language had been so modified they were obliged to begin all over again. f.<-f
 The revision of the revision" has just begun and publication of the first volume is promised within a year or so Optimistic prophets calculate that at the present rate of progress the acade-
 
 98 years. The pessimists remark that before that time has passed another re- viEion will be necessary and they are beginning to wonder whether the acade- my dictionary will ever see any other light than that furnished by the sub dued illumination of the musty old in- stitute.
 Horse Is Deadly
 The heavy mortality from the rapidly increasing number of inexperienced mo- tor car drivers has caused such alarm and furnished the text for so much comment that automobile owners are beginning to defend themselves, compar- ing the headlines of the horses with the comparative ineffectiveness of the motor car as a casualty maker.
 They cite statistics compiled by the automobile club of Western France, for in which 113 accidents with 8 fatai- ties, were caused in that department by automobiles while "Old Dobyn" was re- sponsible for 172 accidents in which IS persons were killed. Horse fanciers, in retaliation, have started compiling sta tiBtics. of Paris, Department of Seine, and the mother beaten track from Paris to Deauville, declaring they will make the Sarthe statistics look like counter felt money when they present their motor death list.
 Blame Press Agents
 Repeated losses of jewels by leading French actresses, with the subsequent prompt and>eomparatively easy recovery of the gems and audible hints of press agents, work have made it almost i'm possible now for any stage luminary to lose anything and get any one to be- lieve it.
 Mile Jane Marnac, whose loss of an emerald necklace caused a great sensa- tion year or so ago, recently had the misfortune to lose a valuable automo- bile. The press refused to take the re- ported loss seriously, notwithstanding it was authenticated beyond any possi- bls doubt.
 Persons who took the car brought it back and said they had only taken it for joke, having parked it just around the corner from the artists apartment where nobody thought of looking for
 One music hall artist, who dived into the Seine because of alleged disappoint- ment in love, had the greatest difficulty in getting her story accepted by the calloused theatrical news editors, so skeptical had the public become. The editors finally fell, however, and took the attempted drowning seriously only to be deluged shortly thereafter with advance notices stating that the diving venus had escaped and was going to star in brand new gala production in September.
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