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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, July 12, 1962
by Jim Fnrlp
HOWDY
from
PARIS, FRANCE
Women
To Be
Flock
WAC’s
by J. Donald Deliz
Paris by Candle-light
I went to Paris’ famous Notre
Dame cathedral the other day
when some of its Medieval splend
or was returned to it. This was
on one of the famous three days
that we have had in Paris this
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summer.
These were three days when
Parisians faced a twelve hour
period without gas or electricity
from six in the morning to six
at night. This was due to utilities
strike.
The French unions often call
for these short stoppages in order
to call attention to their de
mands. People are more apt to
think about these things when
they have little personal incon
veniences like this. The elec
trically operated underground
transit system, called the Metro,
did not operate on these days
forcing people to use surface bus
es and cars. The traffic on these
days was something more akin
to Dante’s Inferno than modern-
day Paris.
Notre Dame is located right
where Paris had its beginnings,
on the He de la Cite, an island in
the middle of the Seine.
Ceasar wrote about this island
which was all there was to Paris
when he conquered Gaul. The city
was then called Lutece and the
tribe of Gauls who lived there
were the Parisii. How Lutece be
came Paris nobody knows, hut
it does sound better, even though
a rose by any other name smells
as sweet.
In the eleven hundreds they
built the noble Gothic Cathedral
of Notre Dame on the He de la
Cite, and since then through it
has filed almost anyone who has
been famous in letters, politics
and art since that time. That is
the feeling I get when I am
there.
It has stained-glass windows
which change the mood in the
interior, but I had always miss
ed this on other visits due to the
electric lighting put there for the
tourists. However, the strike
of the utility workers benefitted
me in this respect, for with the
strike there were few sightseers
and the stained-glass windows
gave me the feeling of quiet piety
which it was originally intended
to give.
The people of Paris go on as
if nothing were different during
these stoppages. They have al
most an English attitude of keep-
' ing a stiff upper lip and that sort
of thing. The places of business
carry on as well as possible. They
use candles in the stores, and re
staurants serve cold drinks.
I went to a little cafe in Saint-
Germain, and since it started to
rain I had to sit inside in the
candle-lit interior. Apparently,
I was not the only one taken to
reminiscing because of the soft
lights. I had to sare a table
with an old gentleman and his
beautiful blonde daughter. He
suddenly began to tell me some
facts that would make any his
tory class, studying the First
World War, “twist” with excite
ment.
It seems that in 1914, when he
was a mere slip of a boy, he
remembered sitting in this very
cafe the day that Paris heard the
boom of German guns, the “Big
Berthas” used in World War I.
He recalled how the people felt
fear in their hearts and how he
observed that all the available
taxis were mobilized and the very
people of Paris rushed to the
Marne. This is a nearby town.
They were ready to fight hand-
to-hand combat to protect their
city—“la belle Paris” filled with
its many treasures. He said this
as he looked out at the heavy
traffic that was passing the cafe,
and said “If I close my eyes, my
mind can go back to that very
day, because of the noise.”
His daughter gave me a flash
ing smile, as if to say, “Papa is
funny, always telling stories.”
And since I agreed with her, I
SEOUL (A 5 ) — The South Ko- M-l rifles, saw combat side by
rean Women’s Army Corps has no side with the men. But their pri-
recruiting problem. It’s busy turn- mary task was in the field of
ing down volunteers — and compe- psychological warfare,
tition to join the corps is getting Many of them were sent to
tougher. frontline divisions to read propa-
Lt. Col. Park Eul-hi, comman- g-anda messages over the loud
dant of the WAC training center speaker across the firing line to
in Seoul, says that the center is North Korean Communist soldiers,
drawing three times as many ap
plicants as it can take in.
At least a dozen WACs were
_ , „ , either killed or missing in action,
The number of applicants has and 19 received medals for their
noticeably increased since the mi - contrib utions to the war effort,
itary revolution in May, 1961.
“This is a proof that the military After the armistice, the corps
now commands more respect from started giving technical training,
the people,” says the colonel. Now recruits receive 20 weeks
It was not always so. Some training in clerical work or corn-
years back the center occasionally munications before they are sent
had only eight or nine applicants ou ^ as private first class to vari-
for one training cycle. ous units. Their training courses
The women’s corps has come a include the use of weapons and
long, hard way to reach its pres- such feminine subjects as sewing
ent position. and home economics.
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