"Ponpon" has not finished

Poor Dacharry, called Ponpon, a candy merchant; does not seem, despite his success against our local authorities regarding his barley sugars, to have finished his dealings with Lady Justice.
Everything is linked in this world and this trial that has become so popular will probably lead to a second one, which will be followed by the humble with the same interest, against another power no less inclined to abuse its strength, the "Petite Gironde".
This newspaper, we remember, had kept silent during the period most conducive to the defense of the interests of small businesses then threatened, in the person of Dacharry and his assistant salesman Cledière, by the prosecutions of the Public Ministry: during our press campaign to steer public opinion in a direction favorable to the cause of commercial freedom and to draw the attention of the judge to this affair so fraught with consequences, not a line appeared on this subject in the Petite Gironde or in France. Only the Liberté du Sud-Ouest, of which we were already the correspondent at that time, devoted several articles to him. Neither the spirit of brotherhood, unfortunately always so precarious between journalists, nor the feeling of burning news and a good cause decided the two major organs to take the slightest concern for a small fine like the others.
But, on the day of the first hearing, a crowd such as had never been seen before, filled the room of the Justice of the Peace to the point of breaking and overflowed into the surroundings. After the brilliant plea of ​​Mr. Austchitzki, the judgment had been postponed for a fortnight. It was an opportunity, during the deliberations, to act effectively on the mind of the judge by completing the work of the sympathetic lawyer with articles. We applied ourselves to it.
Our colleagues, on the other hand, saw that such an event could no longer be left in the shadows, but they could not help but report on it in a manner favorable to the cause supported by the Public Authority, that is to say, to the legality of the municipal regulation contrary to freedom of trade.
Mr. Dacharry and Mr. Cledière, supported by the important group of French Crafts of which they are a part, decided to use the faculty offered to them by the law of September 29, 1919 to demand the publication of a response with the aim of making the two bells heard, as required by justice, to the readers of the two Bordeaux newspapers. None of these included the rectification, but France, realizing that its attitude had been out of keeping with its usual policy and its commercial interests, made amends in its issue of November 14, 1924. La Petite Gironde, for its part, published articles on November 2, 9, and 18 in which it persisted in its way of doing things, responding to the rectification without publishing it.

After having sent him several amicable replies by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt in vain, Messrs. Cledière and Dacharry reluctantly decided, on the advice and with the help of several friends and colleagues imbued with the spirit of justice, to have their response notified to him under the terms of the law, on December 5, by bailiff's writ. Required to insert it within three days, the powerful organ persisted in turning a deaf ear. The office of the French Crafts having sent him a request to inform him of the interest it attached to this insertion, the Petite Gironde, on December 13, responding with an article to this request, but still without publishing it, accompanied its response with a malicious insinuation with regard to third parties not involved. She thus attracted a reply from which we extract the following passage:

You add, in your Reply to a letter, "that it is easy to guess what suggestions we have obeyed". We do not understand and do not accept this joke. It is likely, in itself, to spoil the bouquet of flowers that you offered us. (The article contained some somewhat belated compliments regarding small businesses). We are forced to answer you that we have not obeyed any suggestion other than that of our conscience. We were able to inquire and get help from various people in the details of our action on behalf of two of our members. But we do not see at all why these people would have been obliged to refuse us their assistance on the pretext that the Petite Gironde was involved.
Does your newspaper enjoy a special immunity that allows it to comment and criticize corrections without inserting them and a censorship that prevents competent people from making their knowledge available to us when we disagree with you? ...
That's where things stand.

If La Petite Gironde, after a final amicable attempt, persists in its refusal to insert a correct and legitimate response, the Bordeaux Criminal Court will be seized of this new form of "the Ponpon affair" which truly threatens to become protean.

Albert de RICAUDY.

Arcachon is monotonous

The lack of distractions in our city is well recognized both for residents and winter visitors. That is why MM. André, hairdresser, passage Thiers, and Camille, assisted by our very friendly owner of the tea room, under the patronage of Mr. Le Bourgeois, are organizing concerts for the first days of January, concerts formed by artists of choice (Gd Théâtre de Bordeaux, various theaters of Paris, etc.). Free admission.
All Arcachon will be there. Mr. André, main organizer of these concerts, will provide all useful information on this subject while doing your hair, waving well, and during your purchases of perfumery, great beauty products.
Bravo Mr. André! Your happy decision is applauded by all the hoteliers, owners of family pensions etc., and by all Arcachon.

Thank you for their winter residents