Evening star., 1933-08-21
DECLINE Of DOLLAR
IS FELT IN PARIS
Americans Have Been Forced
to Retrench or Come
Home.

PARIS, August 21 (NANA).-H
the dollar stays down long enough
American residents here will at last
come to know something Of France.
Most Americans in Paris receive the
bulk of their income from the United
States, a fixed number Of dollars a
month. Each Of those dollars now
buys some II francs instead of IS. The
chances of an American getting work
in France to supplement income are
practically non existent. France has
an unemployment problem Of her own
and native labor is strictly protected.
So the one adjustment the Americans
who stay on can make is to change
their way Of living Only the very rich
and the very poor go on as they did,
the very rich because they still have a
surplus. the very poor because they
have already learned how.
There is nothing very dramatic about
it. No one starves. No one has COM
mitted suicide. But the changes,
though often concealed, are profound.
! Desert Famous Cafes.
The famous cafes and restaurants
where all Americans went have become
French territory again. and the Ameri
cans are going to workmen's bistros-
cafes of the humbleSt type. patronized
by butchers boys in stained aprons
taxi drivers and any one else who has
time to lean against the uncovered
horseshoe shaped bar and 80 centimes
to pay for a coffee with three drops Of
| kirsch in it.
Most of the bistro keepers regard
their new patrons with vague conde
| scenSiOn, hoping time will teach them
the unWritten laws by which such es-
tablishments are governed But a few,
remembering that the dome itself be-
gan its existence as little more than a
bistro. dream of days to come when
les Americans will be themselves, and
rich once more.
The night life formula has changed
from night club with three orchestres
and champagne at 400 francs to bal
musette." where beer is francs a glass
and you pay the ACCORDION player IS
centlmeS at the end OF every dance
Art Shops Deserted.
The art dealers shops OF the Fau-
bourg st. Honore and the Rue la Goetie
are deserted. But the Louvre Museum
is full. and those who go there are
learning that you can take a picture
away IN your mind quite as satisfac-
in box-and much more cheaply
A student. young American woman,
has been doing post graduate work in
Paris Tor three years on an income of
$50 month. Her $40 now gives her
$40 francs instead Of 500. But she in
tends to make it do She has to- She
couldn't pay her way home.
Two young married persons are keep
Ing their apartment. but they have let
/ their maid go and have given up
smoking
And so it goes. Those who have
enough money to go home on usually
nave enough to give them a choice of
buying their tickets or staying on and
Tetrenchlng. Those who stay face a
lie as new as those who go home,
Learning to Know France.
The majority Of Americans here are
learning to know the France the French
masses know. A smaller group are
learning to know America. These are
the expatrlates. whose only remaining
! connection with home has been a
monthly or quarterly cheek.
Inc country from which they have
Tor so long turned their eyes has sud-
! denly become a terrific reality in their
llveS. In the storm of protest with
which the French press has greeted
PRESIDENT Roosevelt's currency measures
they have Joined ole-heartedly,
! But they have learned the name OF
the mysterious being who holds their
uestlflles IN his hands. And this. in
we" OF the unpromising material he
mao 10 work on. may be considered on.
OF Mr.. Roosevelt's minor triumphs
| 'Co2yright. 1879, by North American Nev,
| paper Alliance, 1nc)