Las Vegas optic., 1914-04-08
INDECENT STYLES
Will HAVE TO
Vanish
THE FRENCH PEOPLE SAY THEY
ARE THROUGH WITH FREAK
DRESSING

Paris, April S.Paris Is being
stirred by four new movements Rats,
immoral clothes, freak art and unde-
veloped physique are all to be com
batted by organized forces
While the League Of Patriotic
French women has taken up the gage
against Indecent clothes, reaction
mas also come to the great vogue Of
cubism. postimpressionism, futurism
and other advanced aesthetic art
schools. A group Of artists who hold
ultar-academicai 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 ten
dencies towards the new heterodox
schools.
Some prominent artists are behind
the movement, which is iIkely to con-
stitute strong revolt against revolu-
tionary art. The majority Of critics,
while by no means accepting all the
claims of the subists and futudists,
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 extravagances, they have
succeeded in being accepted as serious
pioneers. The attitude Of the general
public is interrogatory, if not respect
full. there is little tendency to CON
denim off-half, and that it is 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 Coubetin,
president of the International Olympic
committee: Hebrard and Maurice
Donnay Of the French academy
At the head Of the committee, which
win direct the movement, is the Mar
quis de Polignac.
A propaganda in favor of physical
education will be carried out in sev
eral ways. Lectures and practical
demonstrations will be given. The
cinematograph will be utilized t
show the various stages of develop
ment OF athletics by leaders in this
branch OF sports. The league viii
give its aid to such organizations as
wish to become allied with 1t, and will
do everything possible TO put the
country in a leading position in ath-
Ietics.
Paris has also begun a war of ex-
termination of rats. 1t is estimated
that no less than three million rodents
infest the city. The central market
and the stock yards are oveTun by
the pest.
France might easily declare her i'm
dependence in the cotton growing in
dustry and cease the yearly tribute"
of $80OOO,0OO for imported cotton,
chiefly from the United states. accord
ing to Laurent Bonnevay, who led a
recent debate on the Moroccan budget
in the chamber of deputies.
He declared that if France develop
ed the cotton lands Of northwest At
rica it could produce all the cotton
needed for French requirements. and
export to other manufacturing coun-
tries. 'se'wI
NJ Bonnevay gave the results Of an
inquiry made by M. Lamba, an agri-
cultural expert who studied the cotton
growing possibilities of Tunis. Algeria
and Morocco. M. LAMBDA found that
cotton Of an inferior quality was al
ready grown in sonie sections Of these
countries, and he was convinced that