The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-18
HOW ID KEEP WOMEN OUT OF POLITICS Declared They Must Do
 Military Duty SYNDICATE OF POETS New Style of French Architecture Known as Explosion Style-Anti-
 Capitalist Press Appeal
 ing fer Money
SYNDICATE OF POETS
By GEORGE pUFREsNE


 Paris, August 17.--(Speclal) )-France
 has state council or "conseil d'etat."
 winch is one of it's wsest institutions.
 It is the supreme court of appeal in all
 administrative and purely governmental
 matters, and it's decisions are received
 with general respect It's latest verdict
 or wisdom is one connected with the
 fo oninist movement. Has woman the
 right to aspire to all the state offices?
 The question in a liberal democracy is ticklish one. If answered in the afr
 flnlative we may have lady ministers.
 lady premers and ultimately lady presi- cents.
 The conseil d'etat was appealed to, and
 it's decision would do honor to the wisest inen of antiquity. It has found that all the laws and degrees regarding high public functionaries always stipulate or imply that the candidate has complied
 with his military duty. Women not be-
 ing able to prove that they have com
 piled with that duty, are therefore barred
 from aspiring to posts for which this is an essential condition. The question was brought before the state council by Mdlle. J., a member of the Paris bar who aspired to elerkship in one of the public miniseeries. She was refused per
 mission to compete in the examination
 test case out of It. Ministers and their
 advisefs had in vain looked for some text by which women were excluded The council of state found it for them. decree issued only recently as 1908 repeats the condition that all aspirants must have complied with the law of con scriDtion. Mdlle J. had never complied, and was by law incapacitated from com plying the law of conscrption, therefore she cannot aspire. This is condition sine qua non. This settles the question of future lady minister president.
 There Is to be syndicate of poets, and
 perhaps also of all kinds of writers critics. novelists, historians, and play
 wrights. Why not? ask NM Rene
 Blum and Muller. two French authors.
 If there is G. c. L., that is, a General Confederation of Labor, why not also another G. c. T. General Confederation of Talent As soon as these gentlemen had conceived their plan they propounded 1t to number of their confreres, and the answer of all was, Let us have by all means the syndicate of poetry and | the rest
 l The scheme Is eminently practical. say | NM. Blum and Muller. There will be
 a talent exchange. just as there is la
 bor exchange. and 'syndical' chambers
 of poetry music, novels. history, etc. | Their idea is to invite M Rostand to l become a secretary general of the poet
 teal syndicate. and M Paul Bourget Is i to be secretary of the "Chambre Syndi- 1 cate de Ia Psychologist If publishers 1 become too oppressive there Is to be 1 general strike, and blacklegs will have | to look out for themselves and their | books All the unionlst critics will rounce upon them and tear their future work to pieces.
 | A clever French writer has discovered
 the latest style in sculpture and archi | lecture, which we are to know hereafter | as the explosion style. Just as peo- 1 pie speak of the Renaissance style or the l Gothic style, future generations will | dwell with wonder on the explosion style. | Architects and sculptors have within the
 last ten years broken loose from all old trammes. They were going to have something new, too like the painters who became Impressionists. Neo-lmpres- l sionists. Independents, Cubists and fin- | ally Futurlsts. The explosionists are rep
 resented in many of the recent monu-
 ments in Paris The front of houses and | facades of public buildings present
 maze of contortonate lines. which must , be the result of an explosive imagination, l If not of some actual terrestrial up- | heaval. The statues of poets, musicians,
 heroes and celebrated men generally
 erected within the last decade all bear 1 the signs of the explosion style. Poets are represented with their books
 scattered about on rocks or. precipices. and trey seem to be looking in wonder | at the havoc round about them. Musi- | clans are represented with broken instru- nents. public men raise their hands to their foreheads. evidently stunned by the | report of sudden cataclysm. If we ex- anime any recent statue in Paris we shall | find that the first idea suggested is one of some terrible catastrophe. Our heroes
 are bent in twain they stoop or they look round in Q state of agony. as if they saw nothing but ruin and desolation around them caused by the bQrnb of some anarchist. The sculptor has evidently caught the spirit of the time. and per | haps unconseiously he has become an ex- | rlosorist. The new style is now ade- quately described A name has been | found for it which Will be carefully re- | corded in the dictionaries of the future 1 The most anti-capitalst press cannot do without capital. NJ. Jaures' paper, LHu- manile. has been for some time inviting | suosoI Iiptions to an Issue of si0.000 worth | of bonds which will bring in a fixed in- terest of 1 per cent. Five-eights of the
 amount has already. been underwritten by
 strenuously anti-capitalistic socialists and | socialist corporations. Today we have the | syndcalist and almost anarchist organ
 La Bataille Syndicalist, making a rather
 plaintve appeal for Soo,0oo.
 | L'FTrmanitc wants S4OO00 in order to 1 increase Its size from four to six pages | The Bataile Syndicnlists s20no0 is just
 to enable it to live with four pages The l paper sadly confesses that there remains | a large section of the healthy-minded population whose interest it has not yet | succeeded in arousing." Hence a monthly l deficit of s20.000. It Is, indeed, a melan- choly fact for French socialist worlsmen refuse to read socialist paper.
 An old house forming part of block 1 of buildings at the corner of the boul- evard Sntrt Germain and the ancient Rues dea Cordeliers, of which little | has been said In recent years but which teamed with revolutionary rem | iniscences. has been pulled down. It was the house In which Marat and | Danton had flats in the most stirring days of the terror and it was there that Marat vs4s stabbed to death by Charlotte CorCsy as he was in his bath.
 The ground floor was used as a print ing office and 1t was there that Marat's | paper, the Ami du People. was printed. l The house was old. even in Marats
 day, 1t bore the number s7 of the Boui- evard saint Germain, and was the last | the time when the fortihcations of Philippe Auguste still existed. It, ad- joined the Notifications and its walls faced the old gate of the COrdeliers.