Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1919 — SAME OLD STUFF. [ARTICLE]

SAME OLD STUFF.

Paris, Dec. 27.—The German is slowly finding his way back to Paris. How he evades the passport regulations and enters Paris is something of a mystery, but he is here and quietly but qnobtrusively preparing to resume business at the old stand. You find him in certain hotels and restaurants frequented by Germans before the war. It is not a novel experience today to hear German spoken in a dining room and it evokes nothing more than a raising of eyebrows. German magazines are making their appearance in the newspaper kiosks. In fact, some of the stands along the boluevards now display as miny publications from Berlin as frOpr New York, despite the fact that 0 thousands of Americans are spending the winter in Paris or passing through the French capital en route to other'countries. They have been playing German music in the Paris concert halls for several weeks with only mild protests. The question of studying German has aroused considerable discussion, but the ayes seem to have it. The need of writing and speaking the language of a country whose frontier borders on your own and with whom you must, whether you like it or not, carry on business, .is overwhelming sentimental arguments. Every school in Paris teaching foreign languages is swamped with students learning German. And among them are hundreds of men who only a little more than a year ago faced the Germans across No Man's Land.