Show Early Collapse of English Labor Government Predicted I e SEINE FLOOD SHOWS mm LACK Of FORESIGHT Tardieu Says French People Are Brave and Fatalistic m R A TARDIEU I r order high to lo the U tN mt cant to The lie he I Cop right 1921 With the tir liner fil on ou the ther rampage again larl Paris arts has little littler tine 01 thought to gh s nos c 0 at t 11 iL tilt r no- no mom mo moment m tent ment nt to politics politic But even Cn the flood has its it lesson lebson for or nance ws S Tar Tar- Tir In hl lilt ills dispatch today loday in that thata th lit a t disclose ose the he lack of o fore l bt o 0 tho government go which hi l Its it 1 Warning in the flood of ot 1910 10 Seta Set let et J ok s ok no p recall Y me m ms a s against another RIS r T Jan Ian The 5 C 6 The The car ar badly foe foi l with o a flood I bids fOil fan to roual the tl de- de de of o 1910 and turns atten- atten inn tian from rom world orld attain attain- to tho those e I Iu u of ie cue and It 11 la Is a absurd urd to 10 tr try to 10 Lit wi wI up upI I hers h e eis s In the midst ot of Irea great t cities cille nd the ancients Ime knew better bettor than to attempt it 1 The Iho he moderns al are air e less wise or less les prudent Jus as the Japanese constructed construct d modern st style sty Ie I buildings on of tol- tol vol oJ- oJ I clinic ground Paris ha his has cOl d tIle the Hh er Seine Seln between bet high halls of oC masonn it o with critic dire effects It Jt hap hap- happened hap In 1910 and nd it seems cema about bou to happen again acain o already the damage dam ro li S tt- tt men men-dous dous In 1910 the maximum flood Was as S reached d on January ann lO-ann 0 na c we e are arc still far from that th t date Above bove and below Pals Pil-ls the thc ricer ri has Jus 0 o erf lowed Idely Thou Thousands ands o of houses houes can cnn be entered only lu boats boat t Thousands of o families ha hale hae ha e lead nd to be ba evacuated and their thir con con- conditions conditions con conditions Is serious In slew ot of o the housing ln shortage It Is much to be bo feared fearN tI tl it at do de rOI es ot of o central Franc Franc-e Fr nc ne- ne necessitated ne b bs the sar ar Is Js at nt the Iho hot bot torn tom ot of the th trouble The Th and allied armies armie cut enormous ot of o timber for tor or tlc tics and trench I with h the result resul that hat the country e h dro balance nc ilas has been upset This sae na 08 a good reason for the taking t kin of extra precautions precaution but such rem rem- remedies remedies rem rem-edIeR edies take tak a long Ion time and ire are cost cost- costly costly co ly l-ly ly We W are nr poor and all our borrow borrow- borrowIng borrowing borrowing ing power poirer Is I required for tion and pensions pension Therefore the reat canals which could save Parts from flood hav have h vu not been be d PEOPLE ARE ARC People are ro facing this owl e brave brave- bravely ly w iy Jy but cannot help being aston aston- astonIshed a ton d that a th the e same jam df ll sa a ar- ar arrives ar arrive rives rive after 14 years year warning v The Thc pUblic authorities s are ar doing the thebe best t they can now that the ata catas- catas catastrophe Latas has ha come como but the cant can't do Io much NATION OF FATALISTS And perhaps the war ha has brought the people to accept such uch things fatalistically Everybody thinks well oil U Wv ove been through wor othan than this and go eo o thero 1 li not too much grumbling Now and then somebody murmurs murmur what we need la II a Bit that Is I pure absurdity For on tho th one hand Mussolini ultimate success Is I still tillIn In doubt and on the th other hand the methods Applicable on one on side Ide of the Alps Alp are r not ap- ap applicable ap on the th other The rhe Th truth Is we would like lUc 0 to see our ur govern govern- government government ment ment with greater That would not corer er co er all evil but It would inspire greater r confidence abroad Take Tak the th example mple eX ot of this flood and eXAmine It Impartially A pro pro- program program pro pro-iram gram ot of o public works work to present flood recurrence was wa adopted a after tho flood of 1910 Nothing or almost nothing was waa wa done don to e It This was wa explained and by tho th war Such an undertaking was lias during the WAr and Mace Ince then money has haj b been en lacking Jacking But Hu between 1910 1010 and 1914 t during four years yar of o peace nothing was wae wa done Moreover since Ince the th war the city of Paris Pan has agreed creed on public works of ot far tar lees leu utility The Th con con- con Simply that the authorities Ue ties have hav failed to do the best they could Kith the th in hand And ond this conclusion to many other matters matter The sense of fatalism of the writer spoke pok moment t ago makes the people accept ouch with too much e lff nation The press pre with which which with two or three exceptions follow ai the meandering of successive go co ern ments ern monte has lo lost t public In a ama e of contradictions contradiction All sense of go responsibility hu has disappeared Tho The people popl grumble and complain but never nver demand chastisement of the tho th guilt guilty DANG Our great foreign to reign problems problem base ba suffered u ered from the th earns iamo malady In inthe Inthe the tho last l t four our years yar as a well wll a our economic problems m The elections election ue are r only four tour months month mon oft off und and the writer Is 18 1 not sure suro uro but that amId al ai althin this Ibis confusion the th voters voter will insist ln l a on the accounting that li is their due Frances France's great treat danger In Is that eha has become too patient and too e Nations atlon like Ilk hate ha diseases dl e that come corn and go What bat gobat France needs need today Is I reat- reat ret ret-ment lUent ment on methods method of ot authority y an and 1 n I lion Thus Ihu the th topic ot of o the Uie Paris Parl floods may lead to some very vory gen gen- fn al genral ral conclusions lons And that Is h 1 be- be be-auae be ause In the tho life of ot nation nations all are linked and anyone lyone serves to shed hed light on all oth others rs |