Show Hard Hearted Paris Money Lender Softens Before Literary Folk PARIS United Press Press PitileSs Pitiless I Paul is what the business men men of ot Paris call caU him but the poets call him Paul the tho Prince On the tho records records records rec rec- his name is Jean Paul Lefebre and his profession is money lend lend- ing Lefebre is brusk and quick in his movements mo The client without adequate adequate ade ade- quate security enters and exits faster fast fast- er or than the postmasters who used to come como to Washington to shake hake hands with Theodore Roosevelt It If you havo have the security you OU sign It over to Lefebre and he takes take It if it you refuse to pa pay him and his price is exactly three times the mone money he gives you ou or per cent Interest But If It you ou are a poet a newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man a writer of ot any sort well weIl that's different The sharp angles of his Shylock manner round into a softness and he lIe talks bool books s and literary shop offers you a drink and takes you back Into his apartment There ho he brings down a large book with a chased bolt and opens It to the title page where you read rend read poems of ot Silver SlIver by Jean Paul Lefebre To poets his rates are aro two per percent percent percent cent three per cent at most four per cent There are poets who have come and eaten caten with Paul Prince Paul meals meals' and strong tron wine win and good talk of songsters from Mistral to Business men hate him There Is Isa Isa isa a case of ot a shopkeeper who gave as all security for a n loan of ot francs his shop and his household belong bolong- ings and signed a note agreeing to pay back francs The note fell due the man did not have the money and Paul sold him out The wife and the tho children camo came to Lefebre Lefebre Lefebre Le Le- Le- Le febre weeping but Paul turned them out Had the business bulnes man showed but ono poem of ot his own composition It would have o been more moro effective o than tears |