| Show BELGIUM MAY lOSE BY TAXING Society Scandal Loom Police Arrest Petters By WILLIAM I BIRD Special Dispatch to Tue Standard Copyright 1926 1336 by The Consoli Con Consolidated soU- soU dated doted Press Association PARIS Aug A H-A 14 A flurry at sends us scurrying to the Atlas to learn re our forgotten geography Ras K It s regent of Abyssinia has applied to the League or of Nations to know how come th that t England and Italy have dl his country up Into zones of Influence without his consent II He remarks not without Irony that when Abyssinia Joined the league in 1921 1933 19 U It was under ul the Impression that nil all the members oC the tho ho l league ague we and equal nations CIL OF Ot He to adds with Ith still less lesa lack of Irony that up to the beginning o of othe the league era of ot freedom and equality ty Abyssinia's relations with civilized cl countries had been uni- uni uniformly uni uniformly disappointing The only time that cIvilized countries ever took any Interest In AbyssInia was when they saw a chance of profit to themselves Tho The Abyssinian regent thinks that a treaty dividing Italy or England up Into zones lones o of foreign Interest would probably bring forth some protests from rom Rome Home or Lon London don and he wants to know whether Abyssinia's right to pro pro- protest test ig is just as good as theirs their's and It If ot not how so ot or o Abys- Abys Abys Abyssinia sinia are arc cotton goods Has Baa seems to have a alot alot alot lot of logic on his side aide but Eng Eng Eng- England land Ilind has hu the cotton mills mill on hers her's TO TAX X MOTORISTS Brave Drave little Belgium has de do decided elded to make foreign tourists from gold cold e countries pay taxes on their heir board and lodgIngs as well as lIS a tax of 20 0 francs a II day on their motor cars carll The foreigners of ot course can af- af afford af afford ford the It-the It the whole thing wont won't amount to more than a couple ot of dollars a day for tor a 0 motor party party- party but the question Is ts whether Del Del- glum Bel-glum glum can afford It So far as American Americans are lire con con- concerned concerned con concerned at least least there Is II nothing they so much as discrimInation discrimination discrimination and whether toe tax Is Isten isten isten ten cents or ten dollars tho the Irritation Irritation tation tatton Is such that thousands of them will remember nothing of their trip through Belgium except that they were annoyed by tax collector This will not do the Belgian tourist Industry any good goodin goodIn In th the long run nor will It help to endear Belgium to the hearts of the tho Americans CLEVER JR RETORTS Repartee I Is a French girt gift gitt a witnessed by the fact that the English language has bas to use II a French term for tor It It Deputy Franklin Bouillon felt the ho keen edge of It In the tho cham chain chamber chamber ber the other day when he was making some mild criticisms of the ca cabinet This Is lithe the kind of cabinet I hove have been urging all along he said and now v that It Is formed I na hae ha only one ono regret to express express- express That you are arc not In It your your- yourself yourself self cried a colleague on cit the tho right side of the chamber chomber The rho rest of M H Bouillon Bouillons remarks were drowned In a wave ave of hll- hll hil hilarity arity But Dut the art is not confined to public Paris has haa having an epidemic of ot petting parties In the Ibis Bois da do and police have been Jeen detailed to put a stop atop to these thesa on goings Aa A Aa s sa a resul result of ot the policemen's Ie zeal zeala III n a number of scandals near lave have been created In which neat nent ladle ladles are rumored to hav participated A masher i In the Champs Chomps Ely Elf Elysee Ely see lieo t the e other evening his runabout at tho the curb where a pretty shop girl was for or the tM bus bUI Want to go for tor a drive In the th i Ibis Bols he ho asked Say she the replied ly 11 what do 40 you yot take taka ma mo for tor- tora fora for fora a a society ty woman 1 |
