Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-29
Other Lands Play at Being Booed as Americans in Paris

United States French factory girls
can buy silk stockings. and do.
Two classes suffer cruelty from the
fall in French money. both of the
educated set. Middle class people
that is those who have fixed in
comes-find that their incomes buy
only one-flfth as much as before. The
same reason applies to civil and cor
poration employees. school teachers.
army and navy officers. These. too.
have no time to waste on the boule-
wards. but are as likely as not 20
be found. the officers. in their spare
time. at engineering work or In auto
garages. accountants at extra night
work. university students driving tan.
icabs. and so on.
The papers printed in English in
Paris avoided giving publicity tn
these facts and the French papers
mentioned them only to express r"-
greet. Suddenly exaggerated stories
came back from America by cable.
Personal knowledge goes no fur
Their than very brief disturbance on
the terrace" of the Cafe de In Paix.
which is about the center of the
tourist Paris. The terrace is the side
walk in front of the cafe. along which
chairs and little tables are lined three
deep, enough To hold few hundred
They consume beer sweetened WA
ters, lemonade. coffee. tea. chocolate.
ices of every color On that particu
larly warm night. somehow who can
tell how. in a crowd like that?--Ou"
individual. Il bare-headed blond.
specialized. Scared red ON his cheek
talked or talked back To a band of
young Frenchmen passing in front;
These were not seated. not drinking.
not spending money. Two or three
other men at the tables joined in anil
made the back talk worse. The bare
headed blonde got away before the
police came UP to know what was
going on in SO proper place. Tire"
arrests were made not of Ameri-
cans. for resisting police orders and
that was all.
THE walters explained-"Youn~
Patriots" That is a name for
young students and employees AMI
middle-class boys who do not like
the way politics is going aud carr
sticks
One tourist car drove through tl1n
crowded Rue Mouffetard. all alive
with little people" and a tourist.
VINO was SAID 10 De an American.
threw out pennies to them. Even
in Morocco such an insinuation tina
they We're beggers would be resented.
Most of the crowd--little tradesmen.
artisan ms. odd -jobbers-gave back Ian
guage so forcible that the tourist un-
derstood.
The trouble with things of this
kind Is that. when they begin. they
are apt to grow. The travel agency
in front of whose boulevard Office
the cabled shindies topK plsce j.
French. 1t at once asked the gov
eminent to stop them.
During these same days. in front
of the solemn Church of Saint-Su
| pice. it took several policemen TO 70
move three young American anti-pr"-
hibitionisfs TO the cooler
A French reporter took the driv"
in one of the touring cars and found
he was with Chinese. Hollanders. Pc
ruvians. who squealed with deligh,
when the booing began--and one
American who moralized on the
old-tine French American friendship
The tourists asked what the matter
| was. The barker answered cheerily:
! "Oh. just Communists demonstrat
| ing And the tourists understood
| why the police took sides against the
| booers,