Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-25
European News Letter

dents and practicers of the law of
England"
Professional guests have become
numerous in England and on the con-
tinent since the war. Many men and
wome of breeding AND education, en-
Ipoverished by the war, have entered
who require assistance in the for
warding their social ambitions.
Many of the newcomers in society
are socially rather "difficult' espec-
tally many of the men and trained
society women who can talk politics,
business and sports are in much de-
mand to mingle in companys where
such men are, and lead in keeping
up conversations
PARIS, Feb. 23.-At least one bill
lion francs in gold coin are still hid
den away in the proverbial woolen
stocking of the thrifty Frenchman, ac-
cording to authoritative calculations
made in connection with numerous re-
cent arrests for buying gold coins
Groups of men are travelling through
the country and paying as high as 20
or so paper francs for 20 francs gold
pieces. In persuacing the holders to
sell they frequently use the argu-
ment that the gold coins are sure to
be domonitized before the country gets
back to a normal gold basis. The
agents say that even at the price
of 80 paper francs the 20 franc gold
pieces can be melted and sold at a
profit.
Dogs may howl, asses may. bray,
horses may neigh and goats may bleat
but the cock, proud emblem of the
night in Paris under pain of death.
$50 the law stands.
This strange anomaly was brought
to light by distinguished artists,
who, recovering from a long illness,
was kept awake at night by the
barking of neighbor's dog. He APP
piled to an eminent lawyer, Leon
Barthou, brother of former premier
Louis Barthou, but on looking up
the authorities it was found that the
cries of all animals are tolerated with
the single exception of the growing of
the cock.
Among the bills introduced in this
session of the chamber of deputies is
to amend bill passed by the senate
26 years ago which has been slu1n-
bering in the chamber ever since.
T0nc 1oy,1xy
ter of a century that bill has appear
ed on the chamber calendar, but no
decision has resulted. A measure pass
ed by one of the chambers of parlia-
ment does not die at the end of the
session, as it does in congress, if it is
not acted upon by the other house.
The bill in question was framed
to regulate the procedure of cases
of offenses against the president of
the republic providing penalties which
would be .Lese Majestic" in a mon
archy. It would give the correctional
court Jurisdiction over such case
BERLIN, Feb. 2S.-When DR.. HAL
mar Schacht. president OF the Reichs-
bank, in a recent thrift appeal urged
women to be content with one new
hat every two years he put his foot
in it, in the opinion of at least one
women's journal.
Though the guardian of Germany's
finances probably did not mean ex-
ectly what he said, women are writing
to newspapers denouncing him for
picking on members of their sex,
whose greatest joy in life, the writers
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next door neigihbor blossoms forth
with new one.
Some have gone so far as to advise
DR.. Schacht that economy must start
at home. They call attention to the
fact that his trip to the United States
with his daughter cost more than
$4,000. They also want to know how
many hats year Frau Schacht buys
while her husband is drawing a sal
ary of $4,000 year and has addi-
tional income said to amount to $40,-
600 a year.
February %, national holiday in
America as Washingtons birthday, is
also well marked in the German cal
endar because of the number of cele-
brated men and women born on that
day.
Arturo schopenhauer the philoso-
pher, was born at Danzig, Feb. %,
1888, while the same date in 1855 saw
the birth at Pferzheim of Johann
Rechlin, famous humanist and Hebraic
scholar.
German socialists remember the
date as the birthday Of August Bebel,
their great parliamentary leader, who
was born in 1910. Other birthdays on
Feb. % are those of Ottilie Won Wild
ermuth, one of the most popular
writer's of stories for children, born in
1877, and of Heinrich Herr, noted
born at Hamburg in 1857.
Polands greatest composer, Fred
eric Chopin, was born Feb. %, 1910 at
Zelazowa-W
The high suicide rate among non
officers and men of the
Reichswehr is worrying the govern