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ANOTOLE FRANCE
MAY YET BE BURIED
IN PARIS PANTHEON
GREAT AUTHOR TOLD FAMILY
DESIRED SIMPLE FUNERAL
WITHOUT CEREMONY.
PARIS, Dec. 16.—Shall the body
of Anatole France be placed in the
Pantheon. France’s Westminster
Abbey? This is the question that
is all important since the death of
the great French writer. Natur
ally he deserves the most honored
resting place of the land. But there
seems to be some doubt if this
simple philosopher would have desir
ed such honors. Many, many times
he repeated to his family that he
wished only the simplest funeral
with no official ceremonies. Never
theless the French nation accorded
him a splendid burial and his fun
eral was probably the most impres
sive the land has seen for many a
day. There were no priests or pas
tors, but speeches by important
political and literary men. The
quais along the river were black
with crowds of people and school
children followed the procession to
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the cemetery picking up flowers
that fell for precious souvenirs.
Anatole France, like most great
men, was extremely modest and
timid. He was a man who, at heart,
liked great polotical manifestations,
but felt exceedingly ill at ease be
fore a crowd. Not accustomed to
speaking in public, he formed the
habit of writing his discourses and
while he read them his voice and
hands trembled.
Timid, too, he was with women,
so the story goes. He seldom
spoke to women, except his very
old friends, and regarded them like
a spectacle, wondered at them and
became indifferent at almost the
same moment.
An epicurean—skeptical and in
dulgent, even in the face of nature,
In reality France did not love the
country and his charming “Bechel
lerie” where his last days were
spent. It was the war that chased
him from the Paris which he ador
ed, for he feared for his valuable
collections, parts of which were
plundered by the Germans in 1870.
He left for the Touraine as the Ger
mans were approaching Paris.
Chance took him to the old chateau
with its lovely surrounding gar
dens. He bought it for a song and
installed his precious belongings.
Joseph Callaux, ex-president of
the council, who has been tempor
arily banished from Paris, was
allowed to return to the capital for
the funeral of his great friend who
held him in greatest sympathy and
admiration. During the last few
years of his exile he visited La
Bechellerie and had many an in
teresting and lively discussion of pol
itics.
Clemenceau, the “Tiger,” was also
one of Anatole France’s best friends
and they were always both delight
ed to meet at some dinner.
“Literature,” Clemenceau one said
of his friend, “is his Ingres violin,
just as politics was once mine. Only,
I admit he is a much better violinist
than I ever was or will be.”
For the present Prime Minister
Herriot, France did not seem to hold
such esteem. Politically, he found
him too “pale, too lukewarm, too
reactionary.” Speaking of one of
the minister’s books he once said:
“Herriot will never have any style.
He cares too much for the infini
tives.”
FAIRBANKS PIONEER DEAD
Mrs. Hallett Bailey, wife of the well
known pioneer of Fairbanks, died
last week following an illness of about
a month. Deceased was born in New
I1 oundland about 56 years ago, her
maiden name being Annie Neary. She
came to Fairbanks and was married
to Mr. Bailey in 1900.
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FORD TRADE-MARK GOES ON 2,651,000
CAR AND TRUCK PARTS EACH DAY AS
PROTECTION AGAINST COUNTERFEIT
The name Ford goes on 2,651,000
as a protection to car owners against
Ford parts with the word Ford in the
spurious parts first appeared. This
when the markets were flooded with
name “Ford’' on genuine parts has
different standard parts into which
the trade-mark is worked during man
ufacture now total 351 from the 70
pound cylinder block to the quarter
of an ounce switch key.
A special department employing 18
skilled engravers is continually busy
making the stamp dies, while scores
of other workers are engaged thru
out the Ford factories in marking the
parts.
In a majority of instances it has
been found possible to incorporate the
operation with the manufacturing pro
cess. Spring leaves are marked as
the steel is rolled at the mills. Drop
forged and cold-headed steel parts are
ILLINOIS LEADING
CALIFORNIA IN
GOOD ROADS
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 16.—Illi
nois is out of the mud. Until recently
notorious for its impassable roads,
the state now has the most extensive
system of concrete highways in the
world, figures of highway authorities
show. And at the general election
in November Illinois citizens voted
overwhelmingly for a $100,000,000
bond issue with which to build more
roads.
During the past construction season
approximately 1,200 miles of 18-foot
concrete roadway were laid in Illi
nois, bringing the state’s mileage of
pavement up to 4,200 miles. Califor
nia, long famed for its paved roads,
falls short of this total, while New
York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,
other leading paved road states, trail
California in concrete mileage.
An army of more than 10,000 men,
equipped with several thousand teams
and trucks and more than 100 huge
mixing machines, labored all summer
and fall on the Illinois highways. An
average of 50 miles of road was com
pleted each week, and single crews,
working with one mixer, laid as much
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marked by stencils cut into the dies.
Some of the parts, like the crankshaft,
piston ring and rear axle ring gear—
because of the sequence of operations
and precision required are stamped in
separate operations.
"Tn the engraving department an av
erage of 700 stamps and stencils of |
the Ford trade mark in various sizes
are made daily.
This trade mark on genuine Ford
parts not only assures to the car own
er products that represent 21 years’
of study, research and work in de
veloping the strongest materials and
the most efficient design, but also
stands as a safeguard against the imi
tation and counterfeit.
Ford car and truck parts every day
counterfeit parts. Trade marking
now familiar script began in T4 when
trade-marking was extended in 1916
counterfeits and today, putting the
become quite an industry itself.
as one-half mile of the 18-foot con
crete ribbon in one day.
Practically all Illinois cities of con
sequence are now linked by hard
roads, and all main tourist routes are
concrete. It is possible to motor from
the Great Lakes to the Ohio river,
and from the Wabash on the east to
the Mississippi on the wrest without
touching tire to dirt or gravel.
The additional 5,000 miles of road
provided for under the one hundred
million bond issue just voted will
touch every county seat and give al
most every community a paved outlet.
The last money from a $60,000,000
bond issue was used to pay for this
year’s construction. The sixty mil
lions with Federal aid money and
current funds, built about 3,400 miles
of pavement.
The average cost of roadbuikling
includes grading, building of bridges,
has been about $30,000 a mile. This
figures includes grading, all bridges,
and pouring of the concrete slab. The
roads built in 1919 cost $45,000 a mile
cement prices falling recently.
Illinois is buying its roads on the
“pay as you ride plan.” “We are here
to ride on the roads, and we want
them,” is the sentiment of its citi
zens, and they are willing to go into
debt for them. The two bond issues
represent a $160,000,000 mortgage on
the state. This vast sum is to be
paid, interest and principal, out of
auto license fees, which are rolling
into the State treasury at the rate
of $10,000,000 a year.
BULGAR BACHELORS
CURSING STAMBOLISKY
SOFIA, Dec. 16.—Thirty thousand
Bulgarian bachelors are cursing the
shade of Stambolisky.
The government has revived a
Stambolisky governmental measure
taxing bachelors, declaring that the
law is legal and that it will go into
effect on January 1, 1925.
There are 100,000 fewer females
than males in Bulgaria, so the bach
elors are complaining that they have
no way of escaping the tax by turn
ing benedicts.
The government’s answer is that
there are surplus women in neigh
boring states, and there is no ob
jection to importation of wives.
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