Evening star., 1924-08-08

France has not basked in such
prosperity in years as that which she
fs now enjoying. The ministry of la
Dor reported early in July that there
were only sixteen registered unem-
ployed persons in Paris and fewer
than 1000 in the whole of France. To
keep her throbbing industries going
and to supply the general needs of
trade and commerce, France is i'm
porting labor. mainly from Italy,
Spain and Belgium. Wages are in
keeping. The only fly in the eco
nomic ointment is the dearness of
| living. But the Frenchman doesn't
mind, as long as he has the money.
and of that there is a plenty in circu-
| lation. Paris presents the light
hearted. debonair aspect of old. Few
beautiful face. Now and then you
see a one-armed man. grim reminder
of the glorious and unhappy days of
war, but, considering the terrific or
deal she underwent, France is expe-
riencfng an amazing renaissance.
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One of the veterans of the Ameri-
can foreign service in Europe has
just been retired under the new dip
lomatic and consular laws-Alexan-
der NJ. Thackara, since 1914 consul
general in Paris. Mr.. Thackara, whose
wife was a daughter of Gen. William
Tecumseh Sherman, has completed an
uninterrupted period of thirty years
in the consular service. He was at
Berlin before the war, and, previous
| ara, now a veteran of 76 years, is a
graduate of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, but, after few years at
sea, became a Philadelphia business
man.
Senator Robert Hughes LIE Roux,
who sits in the French upper cham
Der for the departments of the Seine
and Disc, is the author of new law
designed to perpetuate the family
| names of soldiers of France who were
| the last males of their line. In case
| father lost his only son in the
World War-there are thousands
| upon thousands of such cases-and
has a daughter or daughters, these
under the lie Roux law are permitted
to attach their fathers name to the
| name they take when they marry.
Roux was killed in battle, and q mar
ried daughter is now known as Nine.
LIE Roux-Bonmafson. The senator is
married to an American woman, for
York, who is we'll known in the Eu-
ropean literary world under the pen
name of B. Van Worst.
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One gets contradictory reports Of
Olympic teams at Colombes. For a week
| and more the British press has over
| flowed with accounts of the ''persistently
hostile treatment accorded the Yankee
| athletes. The French version is that
| the Americans were merely the victims
Of rudeness on the part of minority
| of hoodlums, who hooted, Kissed and
regularly-there was an American first,
second, third or fourth in any Of the
stadium events. The French concede
| that France has it's full percentage OF
| rowdies, especially in a sporting crowd
and declare that insults to America
| were offered exclusively from such quar-.
| ters. Most unbiased American authori-
| ties confirm this view. They say il
| would have been asking good deal OF
| human nature to expect the French
whenever the Stars and Stripes were
| run up in token Of a U. s. A. win. The
| French band was under orders to play
| the national anthem of each country
| that scored a first. One day 'The Star
| Spangled Banner was played six times
| Six times the crowd had to stand up and
| do US honor. That sort Of thing can get
| to be a tiresome performance. and now
and then the French crowds succumbed
| to fatigue.
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What did rankle In the French breast
kUna tha-oatentatious 1s1zSa the~ Amaei-