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1 w u STREETS OF PARIS AT ARMISTICE SIGNING1 (Continued From Page One) that it is "cute" or "refined" to be rude to people. But to continue, we strolled along leisurely. The Champs Elysees is nhvays crowded. It is a very wide boutevard with trees and benches and chairs. At present along the curb they have placed a captured gun a bout every twenty ieet. xncxc PLENTY OF SUGAR IN UNITED STATES1 i New York, July 26.?The war de-| partment has sold to the United States sugar equalization board 37,000,000 pounds of refined sugar, it was announced here today by George A. Zabriskie, president of the board,' who declared there is "abundance" of raw sugar in the country, that retail prices should not exceed 11 cents a pound and that there is no need of hoarding. The head of the sugar equalization ! board said that profiteering aeaiers,! if reported, may suffer revocation ofj their licenses for they are still un-j der the control of the federal foodj administration, who will not cease to! function until the senate signs the peace treaty. He charged the apparent shortage to "speculative exporters" and belated orders from canners and candy makers. Housewives were "hoarding" sugar unnecessarily,) he said. New England having refin-J ed sugars stocks sufficient to last six months. Sugar is abundant in the United States and if it were not for profit-! eers and nervous housewives encouraged to hoard it there would be e-j nough for every legitimate demand and a 30 days reserve supply in addition, declared Mr. Zabirskie. "The chief factor in this apparent! . . ?v;_v snoxxage, which jo tcmi/uiaij, said, "has been the belated orders of big fruit canneries and confectonery factories which failed to anticipate their normal demands and held off ordering their sugar in the expectation that prices would be lower. They know the refiners could not sell i above the fixed price of 9 cents. "Another element that, as yet, has! not affected the situation, is the marine workers' strike, which we hope will be settled ibefore the entire fleet of sugar ships is tied up in Atlantic and Gulf ports. Meanwhile, we are reaching by radio at seia all the vessels possible and diverting them to ' Cuba to bring foack raw sugar. "There is at present," Mr. Zabriskie said, "no shortage of raw sugar. The difficulty now is the capacity of the refineries. Of the .2,630,000 tons the United States sugar board contracted to purchase from Gu/ba we had still to receive on July 1 no less than 1,100,000 tons. In addition to this we have access to 1,970,000 more tons, including the best sugar, which will begin to come in about October 1, and the big cane crops of Louisiana and the insular possessions of the United States. "The situation is entirely satisfac tory so far as the raw material is concerned and I know the refiners are doing their part for their plants that The refiner can not sell sugar have been operated nights and day, and some on Sundays for months past In those parts of the country where local shortages exist it is true, there is an inclination to profiteer, but it is easy to fix the blame for for more than 9 cents a pound. The wholesaler is obliged to ask a minimum profit of 35 cents; so that the retailer does not pay more than $9.35 a hundred. Every body, therefore, would be able to buy sugar at a maximum of 11 cents a pound and I know of chain stores selling it to-j day for less than 10 cents." VVV VVVVVVVVV WW i V BUY YOUR CREAM V V from V' ' V J I ' V MRS. D. A. ROGERS. *1 V V V Phone No. 1. V' V S t Engraved cards and wedding invitations at Pre as and Baozwr Co, usually an old woman about with a satchel and a pad of different colored tickets. It doesn't cost anything to sit on a gun carriage, but if you sit in one of the iron chairs you pay a clacker and if you select a chair that has arms on it you pay two clackers or four sous, about four cents. I didn't know about having to pay for these seats until one afternoon I passed along there and found a colonel who had been one of my instruc tors over at the Army School 01 tne Line at Langres and the collector came up to us for pay for the seats. At first I thought she was a souvenir seller and tried to shoo 'her away. I felt kind of bad about it when she^ explained that we were supposed to, pay for the seats. The colonel made a remark that while we were sitting' there thr.t I haven't forgotten. We' were talkng about how pretty the j women were and he said that he had( been thinking the matter over andj that it wasn't their beauty but their! bearing and that he'd be willing toj bet that if one of them came down! the avenue with only a sheet on she'd; look good in it. If you want to see ' Champs Elysees at its best, though,' promenade there on Sunday after-j noon. Usually every available seat is taken and the walks are full. Sev-| eral punch and judy shows are going much to the amusement of the kids and, funny too, there is. always a big crowd of grown-ups standing outside the ropes looking on. Another amusemeni, for the kids is a small mer-J ry-go-'round. And once 1 stopped, for ten minutes watching two women | feeding bread crumbs to the spar-' rows. The sparrows were sitting around in a circle and the women would hold out a crumb and one of the sparrows would fly up and take it and the fly off a way to eat it. It ts as | amusing to watch two old pigeons! standing by looking on with apparent disgust as they were too big to in-! dulge in such fine flying. j We came to the end of the boule-j vard and turned into the Place de la( Concord and found quite a crowd gathered in front of the Hotel Cril-! Ion. I asked a K. C. man what thei excitement was. He didn't know.j He had seen the crowd and stopped. | We asked a lieutenant further on andj he gave the same reply. Then we; asked a couple of Midinettes and: they said that Monsieur Clemencau was coming out of, the hotel. It _L_ ^..4. 4.v,? tooK me a long time w ux|u vjul mc meaning of the word "midinette". J You see in French the word for "noon" is "midi" and midinette is1 applied to the working girl because, they are seldom seen except at the | noon hour when they stroll after, lunch to kill the rest of the hour. They were laughing and talking and having the greatest time imaginable over nothing at all that I could see. We asked a Peace Commission captain who appeared to be on duty at the entrance and he said that he supposed that they were waiting to see the President and that he wished we would move along and not swell the crowd as lie already had as many as he could handle. You know you can always tell the members of the Peace Commission because they wear a iblue arm band with a pair of apothecary scales within a wreath embroidered in white. Every one looks at these insignia with interest and' wonders why he drags down forty I francs a day expenses and why his( expense should be any more than any| one else who happened to be assigned to Paris. The fellow had on a 91st Division insignia also. When we' came over here we had all onr packing boxes and field desks marked with I a bucking broncho and a cowboy waving his hat. That was really a good insignia but after we got over' here somebody changed it to an insignificant little fir tree, which really looks more like an arrow head than it does a tree. Well, this "wild west" captain with a characteristic American show of authority, insisted that we get behind a certain line. I won-; dered at the time if he were getting! a way cleared for a machine gun batallion or if he were afraid that some bolshevik in the crowd would throw! a hand grenade at the President. And then Secretary Lansing came out. It was the first time I had ever seen him. I expected to see a tall, slim man with a high hat, pearl grey trousers, spats, cane and gloves, but not at all. Well, he didn't have any of those and I didn't get a real close-1 up on him, "but I'd almost bet that he had been chewing tobacco. He! walked over and began conversing with a soldier. About this time.an auto rushed up to the curb and the President got out. Everybody cheered. The President looked over in our direction and raised his hat and smiled one of his characteristic broad smiles. He fooled the crowd for they were expecting him to come out of the hotel. I saw his car from behind, and the shortness of the number attracted my attention. Most of the cars over here have long numbers. Motorcycle cops would have to have a pad pencil mighty handy if ever one of these cars wanted to get away from them. The numbers are something like "US187695BX" all run together. The Presdent's car had U. S. on one side and below that was 1921. Add these figures together and you will find that it gives you "13", which I believe is the President's lucky number. Do you suppose that was intentional or just coincidence? We passed along the north side of the Place de la Concord and turned into rue Royal. Here you find the famous Maxim's cafe. I never go there any more because they raised the price of drinks. You pay three and a half francs for an ordinary martini coctail. And then it is the headquarters for a class of young women who style themselves th? elite of demi-mode. Usually they are very pretty and always dressed in the! very last thing in clothes. There are three or four nice cafes on the Place de la Madeleine. Even by this time every chair was taken, j When we got to the Cafe de la Paix we found the same thing there. The Cafe de la Paix is perhaps the best known cafe in Paris. There is room on the sidewalk to seat three hundred people anyway and it is said that if you sit there long enough you will see every person in the city. By this time the crowd was so thick that we lost the aviator lieutenant and the Boston Pioneer lieutenant and that decided us to keep closer together, so we went along each holding to the belt of the other. After trying four or five other cafes along the boulevards we gave it up and decided that if we wanted a drink we'd have to go inside and stand up at the bar and get it that way. This we did. The Georgia .Engineer lieutenant wiruse nickname is "Parson", not because ' i he resembles a parson, :but because his real name is not far removed from a parson, ordered beer. That suits me. They didn't have any French1 beer (sold out) but they could give1 us some "Stoot" by which they meant English stout. The captain decided on something with a bit of a kick in J it and called for "un cognac" (bran-^ dy). The girl behind the counter looked very severe for a minute and said that it was "defendu pour les1 militaires" (forbidden to soldiers) j but a happy thought wreathed her, face in smiles and with a wink she1 said that she could give him some^ tea. He got his brandy in a teacup. You see it is the same the world over.! n-A 1 "??? onlrlnm rofnn Ul UCIC bucjr IHJ swuwu. _ soldier anything. But let me tell you albout the grand boulevards. Over here they don't give a street a name and let it1 go at that. Not at all. Everybody! of any importance in the history of France must have a street named aft-er him. Of course there are not e-l I nough real nice streets to go around i so two blocks,of one street will be! i named after one fellow, the next two after another, and the next two( after still another and so on and soj on. Les Grandes boulevard is the ?11 ?a:?? +V>a hnnlpvnrd ' CUllCVUVC -ilCW-Ht XVi. KUV ? *. w , wfeich runs from the Place de laj Madeleine to the Place de la Republique and is really the main street of Paris. It is very wide and has trees on iboth sides. If you want to see the whole population ?f the city get on the subway and ride to the St. Dennis station on the ClignancourtPorte d'Orleans line and walk beck to the opera in the afternoon. Rain or shine it is always crowed and you will get cross-eyed sure if you try to look at every pretty girl you pass. Finding it impossible to walk on the sidewalk on. account of the dense crowd we got out in the middle of the street on a safe-zone which was already crowded. We stopped to watch a parade go by which was headed by a French captain With a lot of blind soldiers led along by girls. They were singing the "Marsellaise" and "Madelon" and "Over There" (or at least the tune of it). We saluted several times and smiled with the crowd. Without a moment's warning we found ourselves dragged into the parade and marching along with the rest. A bunch of girls had done it and there was no use in resisting. J The sidewalks were absolutely pack| ed. I looked forward and back as far as I could see and we three were 1 the only American officers in the parj ade and I could see other officers a| long the route of march smile at us as if they thought we were not dignified enough. This didn't last long! 1 however. We passed a staid, dignified-looking old artillery colonel. Five or six girls surrounded him and simply "rough-housed" him into the! | crowd. He resisted some but had toj come along. Occasionally the sing-' | ing would stop and everybody began singsonging the word "Avances" witlr j tfhe accent on the last sylable. It waSj a weird sounding thing but certainly ! kept the mob in step. By the time, ( we got to the opera our parade wasj , four or five blocks long and increasing every minute. Soldiers of every j | one of the allies were present. We j went to the Madeleine church, back 1 to the opera ana turning south there j proceeded down the Avenue de 1'| Opera towards the Seine. By this j time parades were going in every ! direction. An American lieutenant i j was leading one. He had a French j bugler for his music and a pretty i ' girl with a walking stick acting as a i i drummajor and followed by a motly I collection of doughboys, hack drivers, ! M. P.'s, sailors, girls and "poilus". I yiWWWWmigMCTlIlM I The Old C I "Rosdl (Now ow Located About Oi | City o ' Never Before was i m 112 Room Col I We are lucky in h; most desirable count Carolina. In this pli pleasure. Just far er convenient. The pla< tivation; 15 acres in] T a n J 1 ioc wpl 1 I_ M. XVU TT VAAf This is Your Q This is without a d< ful home in Abbevill ? an evelation which ot I town?surrounded b: grove. The house with large cement co ustrade, extending 3-' house. Four large rc dium sized room&?a also 4 rooms in baser rooms and wide hall ill -P/-vl/-Jinrr anrJ ma m ; IVlUIllg UWJLU UliU ixavi I Lumber in building is jt, are of walnut. if Call on, 'phone 01 II take you out and slur | DIXIE L I L. M. Tolbert - - *l?l I It we can sen tana stand to reason that \ List your Pre "We C Another Was a bunch of "blesses". Every day here one sees "blesses" who have had both legs shot off riding around in tree-wheeled chairs! which they guide and propel by hand; power. It always makes me feel bad! when I see these felloWs. Each one J of them had three or four people to help them?mostly girls, but I saw some of our own doughboys helping. I think our parade was headed toward the Latin Quarter just across the river and I think perhaps the head of it did get there. But when we passed the Louvre Hotel, which is | an American officers hotfel, there were fifty or seventy-five officers standing out in front taking in the sights | The Indianapolis Engineer Captain j and I got out of the column andj pointed at them .shouted "Go get| 'em". We didn't have time to say| it in French but it was instanty un-j derstood and it would have done youj good to see them mob that hotel and incorporate them in the crowd. Some of them beat a hasty retreat into the lobby, but they got them. Next thing I saw two Frenchmen had the Georgia lieutenant on their shoulders riding him around and shouting, "Vive l'Amerique". It's funny that they never say "Vive les Etats-Unis" but I guess that's too long. Anyway it's always America. 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Down there they calls us "Yanques" or '"Norte Americanos", with the emphasis on the North. We nearly got separated then and did loose our girls. That wasn't so terrible though and when we started back towards the Opera I found that r s _ .1 1 ^ n r. * ? ? 1 i naa a wnoie rrencn iamny on my left (mother, father and young son) and the Indianapolis Engineer lieutenant had accumulated himself a stunning young widow. The head of the parade gut to dancing and skipping along and this caused the column / to "bellows" as an accordian; and/ with having to run about every other twenty steps and then "jam" against the others in front it got tiresome. At an opportune moment we made a quick get-away. I left my family but the engineer captain still held on j to his widow. We held a hasty conn- f cil of war. The majority was in favor of beer?so we lost the widow, she being the minority. t "jf : When we finally got back to the Place de la Opera there was hardly "standing room only". 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