The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-20

cdlleQ war Oe-
pa T TIM nt in
Washington that Mussolini could not
possibly conquer Ethiopia in less
than three years, probably not at
all.
When the dust had settled and
England, with her chicken-feed as
sortment of 81 league nations, had
apologized to Mussolini and tossed
Halle Selassie into the waSte-bas-
ket, England found her foreign
commerce much damaged. She had
missed Mussolini, and shot herself
in the pocketbook.
For a little while she will copy
Job: 81 will lay mine hand upon
my mouth. Once I have spoken
/. . yea twice, but I will proceed
no further"
Paris, which is France, decided
to sing and dance new car
magnole with Russian dressing;
clenched fists raised in air la
Russo; red flag waving; the dole
full strains of the Communist hymn,
International, and its Communist
injunction, "Arise, We prisoners of
starvation" excellently sung from
the Arc de Triomphe to the Place
de la Bastille.
You can hardly imagine what fire,
fury and enthusiasm thousands of
young and old French gentlemen
put into that hymn, although many
of them showed few outward signs
of starvation.
There were, and are, manifesto
tons everywhere. Now in the
chamber of deputies, Monsieur
CASTOR Gerard, practical French
statesman, asks, What has be-
come of our foreign tourists and
their spending money!"
M. Gerard tells the deputies
something must be done. In 1927,
2,125,0 900 foreigners from all over
the world visited France, spending
much money. Visitors now number
only 100000; as rule with little
money to spend-oysters containing
no PEARL many that come to help
sing pInternationale bring no mon.
ey. .,
Foreign visitors, says M. Ger.
ard, used to give highly paid EN-.
ployment to half a million French
men and women; spent 500, 900, 00(
francs for French railroad anc
steamship tickets; scat er d
throughout France from IL to Il
thousand millions of francs.
Fifteen billions, even in francs
are real money" here. M. Ger
ard tells the chamber French prices
are too high. There is something
in that, with the four-cent franc
costing six to seven cents in the
United States-a comic-opera situa
ton, considering the relative wealth
of the two nations.
M. Gerard thinks there should bt
some cabinet official to look after
foreigners, with better propagand;
and fewer vexatious taxes on for
eigners; there is nothing in that.
Foreigners do not voluntarily
travel and spend money where the!
feel they are not wanted. The cos
mopolitan, educated Frenchman i!
as polite and hospitable as ever
but ask him what sort of reception
the crowd gives to the foreigner
British especially. 1t offends thu
British ear to hear A bas les Ang
is!-"Down with the British"
An innocent American, in an in
nocent average American automo
bile, sailed forth on July IA to hell
France celebrate the destruction o
the Bastille, and perhaps give
few feeble cheers for Lafayette, o
Woodrow Wilson, or somebody.
Great crowd in the Champ
Elysecs, especially around the in
nocent American car, with ney
paint, shiny chromium and severa
cylinders. A polite policeman say
monsieur should know better thai
to appear in car of grand luxury
on such a day. Such luxury car
you may see by the thousands an
millions on American roads.
Nothing happens to the car G
grand luxury; it crosses the Ave
nue. of the Champs Elysees, abou
300 feet, in less than twenty mir
utes. The French, newly self-ider
tilted as prisoners of starvation,
are interested in the auto Amer
can, which is careful not to bum
anybody.
The bourgeois, the "rich," an e,
tinct species, although it does nc
yet know it, are nervous. In
vague way they feel that they ar
held responsible for all those ''pri.
oners of starvation" with thei
strong voices, deep chests, power
full fists and pink compilations.
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