Show Q WED fRENCH ARE ARElIN lIN IN PANIC I Bachelors Unite to to Combat Enforced Enforced En- En forced Marriage j it- it PARIS May 11 The H.-The The campaign Is spreading so rapidly throughout France that a number numb rot of mU millionaire bachelors have written an anonymous 1 letters to the papers SUg suggesting sug aug- gesting i the immediate need of ot an tin or organization or- or gin at on o of of celibates to combat It Aar argo o number of unmarried Arne Amer- IC r tl in France ce sear fear that a th y be subject to the proP proposed sed neI ne of 10 per cent on their n net t j in-j inico co con comes r- r PU PUGILIST i PATRIOTIC V Various organizations f formed ned to combat com com- bat p t low French birthrate te started for tor the bachelors by calling up n Georges Carpentier and other known well known figures to Join the ranks of nf f Thus f far far r Carpentier Carpentieri i 1 if ift t the only one publicly named who has I fid the wishes of the more adherents by getting married pr proposal for th the tax on bache- bache arousing widespread comment In thes h papers Preparations axe are gt nade for a bitter hitter fight when the measure gure comes up in the chamber of ot deputies r ARE EMPHATIC Fc Feminist leaders iI In the city of Peri- Peri ue have launched a new attack on the bachelors by forming the first branch bratch of pt an Society ls Is to have other units throughout through- through out th country The women women wom worn en en ri n not t only demand a tax of en but demand that they be re refus refused re- re fus fused q the voting privilege and also be ref refused public office of the amusing contributions to and con battle over the the pro pro pos posed tax comes from an old old-f maid who anonymously signs herself Odette Dulac OLD MAID TO 10 DEFENSE i fully with the ur unmarried mar mar- ried men in this tills crisis writes Mile Mlle Dul Dulac Our legislators are proceeding proceed- proceed ing ton n- n the theory that the unmarried ried state is a a. luxury and that therefore there there- fore tor l bachelors sho should pay a sort of lux- lux u liry la tax Now Now this f is all aU wrong There are many maitY thousands of men and many thousands of women who have nev never r ri married not because they did n not L want to but because of f some tragedy In their lives 01 or b Lecause cause they th themselves were not I wait il I Is the govern government nent going to penalize Uze these heartsick persons living Jn p p. because there are some glang ar ng examples of men plen an and women V want int to be free Ho to live UVe ga gayer cr t |