Show CALifORNIA fRENCH RESENT REMARKS ABY BY JORDAN ON COUNTRY RAt At Mass Meeting Say Head of Stanford University Is Ignorant SA SAN FRANCISCO June 5 dor Mayor Taylor and about 2000 members of ot the local French colony who attended 1 t d a reception to tp t the a r and Madame a last night tt entered vigorous protests to the statements statements statements state state- ments made by bv President David Starr Jordan of ot Stanford university In a race re- re re reent recent ce cent ent nt speech at Br Bryn n Mawr college that France was a decadent decadent nation In the face ace of ot what that nation is doing doing don do do- ing and has done e In art letters t and finance n hS said d the g mayor a mat man Jf who makes such a statement nt conclusively proves that he does not know what he Is talking about tal M. M said The nation that can produce a Pas- Pas that leads the world In hi the sciences that first developed the sU submarine and that ranks s first In the navigation of the theair theair air cannot by any stress of ot circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances b be termed a decadent race A telegram read to the assemblage by J. J M M. Dupas Dupes pr president of the Federated French societies congratulating him upon his protest against Mr Jordans Jordan's re remarks remarks re- re marks was sent to Prof Proto Lucien Foulet of oC Bryn Mawr The entire audience arose when ask asked d to Indorse the message to Foulet The telegram was as follows The French colony of oC San Fran Francisco assembled tonight strong und under r the protecting folds of ot th the tho stars and stripes and the trl color on the occasion of the visit Isit to San Francisco of ot th the tho ambassador of ot France rance sends Its warmest congratulations to Prof Proto Lucien Foulet who protested protested pro pro- tested with so much dignity against the insults addressed to the tho French rench nation |