Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04

PARIS, April 4.-Paris is being
stirred by four new movements Rats,
immoral clothes, freak art and unde-
veloped physique are all to be COM
bated by organized forces.
While the League of Patriotic
French. Women has taken up the
gage against freakish and in
decent clothes, a reaction has
also come to the great vogue
of cubism, st-impressionism, flu
futurism and other advanced aes-
thetic art schools. A group of artists
who hold ultra -academical principles
has been formed. They declare they
have felt neglected, and they have
decided at last to make themselves
heard. A new. salon is to be formed,
for even the present official salons
show tendencies towards the new
heterodoX schools.
Some prominent artists are behind
the movement, which is likely to
constitute q strong revolt against
revolutionary art. The majority OF
critics, while by no means accepting
all the claims of the Cubists and Flu
turists, freely admit that they have
let air and light into the dry places
of art, and that exhibitions from
which they are excluded seem dull
and tame. In spite of their eXtraya-
gances, they have succeeded in being
accepted as serious pioneers The at
titude of the general public is inter-
rogatory, il not respectful; there is
little tendency to condemn f-hand,
and that it is a clear gain to the
innoVatorS.
Some of the most prominent men
in France have come to the support
of an athletic renaissance. A national
league, to aid in the development of
physical education has just been
founded with the patronage of such
men as Baron Pierre de Coubertin,
president of the international Olym-
pic committee; Hebrard de Vile
neuye, councillor of state and presi-
dent of the Academy of Sports, and
Maurice Donnay, of the French Acad-
envy.
At the head of the committee, which
will direct the movement, is the Mar
quis de Polignac. A propaganda in
favor of physical education will be
carried out in several ways. Lee
lures and practical demonstrations
will be given. The cinematograph
will be utilized to show the various
stages of development of athletics by
leaders In this branch of sports. The
league will give its aid to such organ
izations as wish to become allied
with it, and will do everything pos
sible to put the country in a leading
position in athletics.
Paris has also begun war of ex-
termination OF rats. It is estimated
that no less than three million ro-
dents infest the city. The central
market and the stockyards are over
run by the pests.
France might easily declare her in
dependence In the cotton growing in
dustry and cease the yearly tribute
of sS0,000,00 for imported cotton,
chiefly from the United states, ac-
cording to Laurent Bonnevay, who
led a recent debate on the Moroccan
budget in the Chamber of Deputies.
He declared that if France deyel-
oped the cotton lands of Northwest
Africa it could produce all the cotton
needed for French requirements and
export to other manufacturing coun-
tries.
M. Bonnevay gave the results of an
inquiry made by M. Lamba, an agri-
cultural expert, who studied the cot
ton growing possibilities of Tunis, AL
geria and Morocco Nj. Lamba found
that cotton of an inferior quality was
already grown in some sections of
these countries, and he was convinced
that cotton culture could be made as