The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
1 NEW SCHOOL
 OF EXCESS|v|SM Is Aimed at Old Time Art in
 Paris THE ELEPHANTS FRIEND Society Is Organized for the Preyen- ton of Unnecessary Slaughter of Elephants in Africa and
 Other Places
THE ELEPHANTS FRIEND

fdrls, Aprll 2-(Specfal. .)-Signor Mar inetti. believed to be a poet, invented some time ago the new creed of the Flu turists, which apepared to consist chiefly In being strenuous by driving motor cars furiously and smashing all the statues and burning all the pictures in the mu- seums of Italy whenever an opportunity should arise for this holy work of de- struction, the past being dead thing and the future alone interesting Now a group of French artists have started a new school of catholicism of some similar tendencies called ''ExcessvIsm." The manifesto of the new artistic doctrine be- gins thus:
 Ho, there, great excessive painters, our brethren; ho. there, sublime and reno vating paint brushes; come hither on the eve of the salons; come to us, and let us smash the ancestral palettes. make a bonfire of the false masterpieces, and | lay down the law of the art tomorrow That law is contained in one word-Ex- cessivism!
 Some donkey said that excess in any thing is a fault. On the contrary, we | proclaim that excess in everything is a | force, and the only force. The sun is | | the sea Is never too red, the horizons are never too black, just as heroes are never.I | too daring or the scent of flowers too strong. Let us saok-yea,, saek-the ab- surd museums, trample the infamous ruts of routine, and leap with lissom and | .ure foot towards the better becoming 1 | Sursum palettes, sursum paint brushes sursum value, long live scarlet and pur-.I pie and coruscating gems, and all the | Whirling and superimposed tones which-l | are the true reflection of the solar prism Let us not be cast down by the howls of the skinned polecat yelling in their death agony.
 The skinned bobcats are any artists who are not excessive enough The battle cry, Sack museumsi" is evidently bor- rowed from the Futurists At the com ing salons we shall look out for the pie lures painted, according to that intense doctrine, proclaiming that the sky can lever be too green or the sea too req or the horizon too black.
 Moved by the threatened exterminat1on Of the elephant, number of prominent Frenchmen have formed a society called
 The Elephants friends" which, rom it's offices at Montmartre, will endeavor to check the slaughter of the elephants of Africa and other parts.
 | Among those belonging to the society are several members of the institute, M Bourdarie, the we'll known explorer, and | General Famin of the French colonial forces.
 "The elephant species" says M Tour nier, the general secretary, ''is on the | road to disappearance. The Roosevelts, great and small, take pleasure in exter- minating them; they slaughter on the av- craze 40000 of these beasts every year; and in all the fastnesses of Africa there are not more than 325, 900 elephants l wi rl q .fp ha
 tion of the elephant, not for sentimental reasons, but for practical ones.
 fhe appeal court of Nancy yesteruay before condemning farm laborer named
 Bichet for theft congratulated him on
 his problty. Bichet, who had already
 been in prison. recently stole one franc from a shop, for which he was sentenced
 to three months Imprisonment He ap- pealed. and yesterday confessed his guilt
 to the judges.
 When the court was about to consider
 the sentence, the public prosecutor an-
 nounced that at the time of the theft the prisoner found on the. roadside purse
 containing $12O, which he, immediately
 returned to its owner, refusing to accept
 a reward
 The court was much astonished at this
 revelation. The judges had, however, to
 enforce the law, and they sentenced the prisoned to the minimum penalty of six
 lays imprisonment. Before giving seIl- tence the judge congratulated the accused man on his honesty in restoring the money he had found.
 The unrest in the theatrical world still continues. They have their trade unions , these theatrical employees, who include musicians, artists choristers members of the ballet, stage hands and electri- clans. and by way of making known their grievances they invited the public to : meeting the other night.
 The speakers declared that the general kpublic were ignorant of what went on 5 behind the curtain, and asserted that no trade union would accept the conditions under which artists worked. The agita- tors have drawn up programme of their } demands, which include minimum wage of sS0 month. without distinction of sex, and $150 a day for engagements for less
 than month. They also camor for the
 suppression of fines and payment for natlnees. Other matters to claim the sd attention of the ragitators later on will V be the question of rehearsals, theatrical agencies, the position of artists in case a theatrical manager fails, the abolition
 of the tax on receipts in aid of the poor, which tax, 1t Is suggested, adversely af 5 fects salaries and the payment for extra work.
 ] The 400 members of the public present l pdSScu u IcSOiutioH SyHlpdtHlZiHB WILL tne
 aims of the artists, which, 1t was de-
 clared, sought to obtain for theatrical
 workers the right to liberty and dignity of life
 At the present moment there Is being I tested at Cherbourg an invention for rais- ing sunken submarines. The experiments
 were made with the submarine Narval
 which was purposely sunk. By means of
 the invention. which Is kept an absolute
 secret divers went down and succeeded
 in closing the gap and fixing the tube
 through which compressed air is forced
 into the vessel driving out the water.
 When sufficiently frightened the Narval refloated herself In view of the success 3 of the experiment. the inspecting officers have decided to recommend the minister
 of marine to adopt the invention. Over question as to whether the relief l funds for the flood sufferers had been . properly administered. the mayor of a suburban town and his assistant had a e serious discussion, which ended in box = ing scene. The event came off in the