Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK spenders of yesteryear gone with their billions paris hotels empty england learns also aio europe learns that political experiments peri ments cost money england land decided to prevent mussolini taking ethiopia camping along the imperial british highway a n nd d controlling lake X 4 tana source of nile water the attempt failed england backed out of that hitup tion hastily alter after her war department part ment had assured our so called war depa arthur briehn tie rement in washington that mussolini could not possibly conquer ethiopia in less than three years probably not at all 1 when the dust had settled and england with her chicken feed assortment I sort ment of 51 league nations had apologized to mussolini and tossed I 1 haile selassie into the waste bas I 1 ket england found her foreign commerce much damaged she had missed mussolini and shot herself in the pocketbook I 1 for a little while she will copy job 1 I will lay mine hand upon my mouth once I 1 have spoken yea twice but I 1 will proceed n no 0 urther further f 1 paris which is france decided to sing and dance a new carmagnole with russian dressing clenched fists raised in air a la russe red flag waving the doleful strains of the communist hymn and its communist injunction arise ye prisoners of starvation excellently sung from the arc de to the place de la bastille you can har hardly lily 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 manifestations everywhere now in the chamber ot of deputies monsieur gaston gerard practical french statesman asks what has become of our foreign tourists and their spending money M gerard tells the deputies deguti es something must be done in 1927 foreigners from au all over the world visited france spending much money visitors now number only as a rule with little money to spend oysters containing no pearl many that come to help sing bring no money foreign visitors says al gerard used to give highly paid employment to halt half a million french men and women spent francs for french railroad and steamship tickets scattered throughout france from 12 to 15 thou thousand sard millions of francs fifteen billions even in francs are real money here M gerard tells the chamber french prices are too high there is something in that with the four cent fra franc nc costing six to seven cents in t the united states a comic opera situation considering the relative wealth of the two nations al gerard thinks there should be some cabinet official to look after foreigners with better propaganda and fewer vexatious taxes on foreigners there is nothing in that foreigners do not voluntarily travel and spend money where they feel they are not wanted the cosmopolitan mo politan educated frenchman is as polite and hospitable as ever but ask him what sort of reception the crowd gives to the foreigner british especially it offends the british ear to hear A bas les anglis down with the british Britis hl an innocent american in an innocent average american automobile sallied forth on july 14 to help france celebrate the destruction of the bastille and perhaps give a few feeble cheers for lafayette or woodrow wilson or somebody great crowd in the champs especially around the innocent american car with new point paint shiny chromium and several cylinders A polite policeman says monsieur should know better than to appear in a car of grand luxury on such a day such luxury cars you may see by the thousands and millions on american roads nothing happens to the car of grand luxury it crosses the avenue of the champs elysses Ely Elys ces about feet in less than twenty minutes the french newly self iden tidied as prisoners of starvation are interested in the auto american which is careful not to bump anybody the bourgeois the rich fin an extinct species although it does not yet know it ore are nervous in a vague way they feel that they are held responsible for all those prisoners of starvation with their strong voices deep chests powerful fists and pink complexions completions complex ions 0 kibit aln postures ros tures syndicate syn licate laud inc ge lvie ii |