THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 26, 1911. 11 LOUIS LEPINE, PREFECT OF PARISIAN POLICE. SWAYS MOBS BY PERSONALITY Small in Stature, He Is Most Powerful Man in Capital of France Rebellion i Art Strident of Latin Quarter, Apa ches and Hooligans Fear and Respect Him Life Full of Danger: , I ' fc.u n 1 ' iaelV' ""' ' ''"-'' . . ' ' r ' '" " ) i ip ! i li III; im iii ii i 1 Ink to another tea, or are we and It wrecked lor evermore? That Interview with Mr. Edison, backed by his per- sonalltjr and by the memory of his 700 patents, seems destined, like the sun set gun. to travel around and around the earth. The storm may be over, but the sea still runs high. As we are now In the more quiet aftermath, may I not venture to ask for space for a-thought or two which I find granite under my feet at three score rears and ten at an aire when Mr. Edison and myself are apt to think soberly of the valley and shadow, and what nest? If any man at wbose gate the black camel Is preparing to kneel has a thought on this subject, especially If It Is drawn from experience a thought which he finds worth whll -he owes it rta ARIS. Fen. 25. Special.) Whether J it be a lunatic shooting- at M. itrl- and In the Parliament Chamber, or a rabble of strikers In the streets. Po liceman Lepine is sent for and the dis turbance Is quelled by the might of bis eye and the persuasion of his com mon sen and personal Intrepidity, backed by the forces of the police and soldiers. i T'arls Is governed by 20 Mayors. City Council of some SO members and a military Governor. There is also Prefect of the Seine. M. ds Selves, within whose jurisdiction comrs. of course, the City of Light. But the bur den of keeping the peace of Paris and as events have shown, of nipping revo lutions In the bud falls upon M. Louis Lepine. Chief of Police. All revolu tions In France begin with a street manifestation In the metropolis and M. Lepine has not his equal In the wide world In dealing with these popular outbursts. Who Is this all-powerful little man with the thin face of an old trooper? There La not a city In America which would entrust a man like M. Lepine with command of Its police. 11 would be disqualified on the ground of his small stature, lack of physical strength and somewhat Insignificant appearance. Ills fare la wrinkled and his beard Is white and hi head la bald, but he has a piercing eye and bis natty figure be lies his years. Yet he Is the most suc cessful peacekeeper which the most difficult nation to govern has ever had. I say. nation, because as Paris goes, so goes the rest of France. Lepine, Soldier and I-awjrr. Louis Lepine was born In t'e silk rtty of Lyons (( years ago. lie has been a soldier and a lawyer, lie en listed as a volunteer for the war of 117'). waa wounded, decorated with the military medal and became a Sergeant Major. After the declaration of peace he practiced law at Lynns for fnur years, lie baa been sub-Prefect. Pre fect. Councillor of State. Secretary- general of the Prefecture of Police and Uovernor of Algeria. After a four years' term of office as Prefect. M. Lepine resigned. Then the students of the Latin Quarter grew unruly. One of thero had been unrd by the faculty of the Ecole dee Beaux Arts for an offense In connection with a masked balL Immediately they arose i In their thousands and kept the whole city In an uproar for eight days. The , Prefect was forced to resign. Lepine waa appointed, lie put on his tall hat to show that he waa not afraid. lie went out among the young men. found the leaders, looked them In the eyes, reasoned with them. Joined their or- ; gsnlxattons and the next day the tin- j ruly youtha were quietly resuming their studies. M. Lepine arrested Boulaoglsts at the famous old Cafe Rlche. kept order when 10.000 of them went to the Lyons station to see off their chief, saved the city hall against an army of them and successfully defended the Klysee against a whole horde of the followers tf the man on horseback. Simple) Word Averts Klo. On the day of the funeral of Presi dent Fella Faure, M. Lepine. who was net then In office, saw the police la a very tight place. They were forming a barrier against several thousand peo ple and had made a mistake. Lepine lamped from bis cab. gave an order. reclined the error, the crowd dispersed and the police saluted. Strange to say, the taking of what waa called Fort Chabrol waa one of the moat difficult tasks of M. Leplne's long career. Jules Ouerln. a violent Nationalist. aatl-Dreyf usard and De roulede enthusiast, bad been sentenced te exile. He shut himself up la a house of the Rue Chabrol near the Northern station and defied the powers f the law. One hundred and fifty po lice were wounded in a day by the mob: Guerln held out for Si days. The situation looked ridiculous but Waldeck Kousseau. th Prime Minister, feared bloodshed. Finally Lepine got permis sion to finish the affair, sent a prudent word to Ouerln and the latter, seeing that the game was up, surrendered. At half past four In the morning Lepine called upon Waldeck Rousseau to give him the news. The Premier came la bar feet to receive the Prefect. One of the best examples of it. Le plne's ability to keep a mob la hand waa when 79.ooa psople paraded the streets of Paris by way of protest against the execution of Ferrer. The crowd waa noisy and showed an ugly temper. Lepine surrounded It with sol dier and police, who moved along with tMe yelling multitude. The people shouted themselves boars and aftet four hours' parade, when they saw there was no chance to wreck a church or kill a clergyman, they went home tired. Life Knll of Panger. Though the Prefect of Folic la a rlvll functionary, hla life Is expoeed to as much danger as that of a soldier on active service. During a strike a big stone waa thrown at M. Lepine from the top of the labor office. It missed him by half an Inch. Had It struck him. of course, he would have been a corpse. Now It serve aa a paper-weight on hla office table. Oa anotficr occasion a hostile crowd of revolutionaries tried to crush him to death. One of Ills own big policemen lifted him bodily out of danger. Her his lightness of weight saved his life. In a recent mine explosion he went Into the very bowels of the earth .to aave some victims. Kye-witnesses said he was going to certain death. He saved the sufferers and now wears a gold medal for heroism. The Apaches, or Hooligans of Paris, have fired upon M. Lepine so frequently without effect that they think he has a charmed life. Sometimes he has gone alone to ipmk to these men and to rea son with them. I look them eye to eye. said M. Lepine, "and never once has one of them attempted to strik me. The great thine Is to catch the Hooligan's rye. Then look Into it fear lessly. Catching the eye Is half the battle. It Is hard to make a Hooligan look vou straight In the eye. "A Parisian mob," continued M. Le pine. "Is better than the Individuals who compose it. provided you treat It In a good-natured way and are not afraid to trust a little to its natural gener oalty. If you deceive or excite a Pari sian crowd. It becomes devilish. .Mob Cheer Prefect. Parisian mobs now know M. Lepine so well that It Is not unusual for them to cheer him. This Is true not only of the studrnts of the Latin quarter but even hardened old criminals from Montmartr and Menllmontant have been known to cheer him. Paris has only 7000 policemen. It bad that number 70 yeara ago and It has no more today. This la small for a population of 3.000.000. London has a little more than twice the population of Paris but It haa 21,000 policemen. Lepine Is a believer In quality rather than quantity. Hence hla constant en deavor to Improve the condition of the men and to make the personnel of the police better. He has a direct personal acquaintance with each man of the ;ooo. He (.hats familiarly with his men and Is always ready to consider any suggestions they may make. Furthermore, he has won over the soldiers to the side of the police. Every pwsvsovmiiii H.HJ ..- " - ) ' Ci-Vic-a- o-e- .eiv?- year he distributes S2000 In prizes among the soldiers who have given, a helping h. nd to the police when occa slon required. "This subsidy." said the Prefect laugh ngly, "puts at my dis posal the garrison of Paris fur the trifling sum of 2000 a year." There la a popular legend that M. Lepine wears a cocked bat and a sword and a gold-rmbroldered coat on gala occasions. The legend Is false. It arose from the fact that he wore on a few occasions the costume common to all the prefects of France.- i'nese rare occasions were when foreign sover eigns were the guests of Paris. He does not seek to over-awe the multitude either with the Importance of hla per sonality or the magnificence of his clothes. Sometimes he puts on a stove pipe bat and disappear in the crowd. Often he dona the headgear and the caoutchouc garments of a fireman. For the fire department also Is under his supreme direction and its headquarters form a part or the Prefecture of Police. Inventor's Views Are Opposed Reply Made to Edison's Opinions on Immortality. NEW YORK. Feb. IS. (To the Edl. tor.) Th Interview with Thomas A. Edison on Immortality, published last October, Is still awakening much In terest, even In far-away countries. "No soul"; "death ends all"; "the brain a piece of meat mechanism that produces thoiirht as the liver secretes bile, hav ing an Individuality only as has New York City with its 6.000.000 of human brains, each brain a combination of millions of cells; when New Tork City disintegrates. Ha Individuality la-gone; when our brain dies, that ends us. Is there, or not, another side to the "Oreat pivldeT' At death does our boat to his fellows to tell it. Mr. Edison I right In this: none of our five senses, nor all combined, can reveal Immortality, much less demon strate it. The ear cannot see. the eye cannot hear. Magnify light a million times, yet the ear could not hear It. Every sense ie shut up absolutely In Its own realm, but he Is a bold scientist who would say that there are no realms other than those covered by these five senses. There may be ten thousand other groups of five or mnre sense each. Why not? Does Mr. Edison say I am guessing In this? I might reply with equal reason that he Is guessing when he denies It; and were these two guesses precisely equal, is It not more natural, if not more scientific, to choose the optimistic one? Tjiut they are not equal. There are channels of knowledge other than these five senses. Beethoven, stone deaf, heard magnificent music which he wrote down In great ora torios thut have stood the test of time. There Is a whole range of spiritual senses each of which takes in knowl edge up to the level of Its development. There In a beauty which the eye cannot see; a music which the earth cannot hear. Would Mr. Kdlson. deny this? The brutal son can have no conception of a mother's love, although his five senses are perfect. He haa eyes and ears, but see and hears not what many other men see and hear clearly. Con ceptions of right and wrong are abso lutely real, but real only to conscience. The pure in heart see God, and others cannot. When Bishop Brooks spoke of God to deaf and blind Helen Keller, she was not surprised. She said that he I'MI nilfW llici. III UK l UO BVinO UI1C By some channel other than th five senses this thought had got into her mind. That was a profound utterance of Jesus, that If a man would do right he would know. To do Is to exercise, and to exercise Is to grow. The exer cise of a faculty develops that faculty, and then up to Its level It will know truth. Mr. Edison Is sure th brain is not an organ of thought as the piano Is an organ of the music It conveys to our ears from th eoul of a Hofman; but Edison says the brain Is a machine that creates thought. End the brain ma chine, h tells us. snd you end the man; some bias, he admits. Is given vy heredity, for In some way In the cata combs of the brain cells our ancestors lie entombed. But what of the count less millions of thoughts that control the universe thoughts that are other than man's? Whence come these thoughts? Where is the "brain box" of the universe? Herbert Spencer, the chlefeat thinker of modern times, closes his system of philosophy with the thought that there Is in the uni verse a power other than man that makes for righteousness. If there can be no thought without a brain machine, where Is the brain ma chine of this power other than man's? Where Is the brain power that la In control of the universe? If. on th other hand, there can be thought with out brain, what becomes of Mr. Edison's argument that the destruction of the brain ends man? Is not his conclusion the baseless fabric of an unscientific theory? He hua wandered all too far from the "watchflres of the tribe." But the pity .of It Is. his words do not hit upon rot k. but upon palpitat ing heart and brain. There are 1,700.- 000,000 people on earth today, every one of whom Is under the sentence pf aeatn, and can be lifted above the Urn and briar and rocx of the valley and shadow only rtpon the wings of faith and hope. 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