The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
VIEWS CHANGE

glad to earn , francs day llluS- trating department store catalogues. Now he has been elected a member of the Academy of Fire Arts.
 The Forain of student days was extremely nti-militarist but ad- vancing years and especially the war changed the views of the satirlst. Although more than sixty years of age, he volunteered for war serNlce and was put to work at camouflag ing with the rank of captain. Hardly a martial figure, Forain always ap- peared in his uniform of horizon blue One day he asked a .friend what he was smiling at. f only Forain could see you what sketch he could make,'' was the reply.
 WILL EIGHTH FOR RIGHTS
 Paris dressmakers intend to "flSht for their rights" They complain that the American buyers who once took 30 or 40 costly models each, now buy three or four and have the others copied, thus saving enormous sums. The dressmakers, therefore propose to sell in common, charging a royalty for copies of their gowns:
 Five of the leading designers Will make a joint showing in New Nork next season and will urge other houses to combine with them so as to better protect their ideas. The dressmakers and milliners have formed an association for the de- fense of the plastic and applied arts through which they plan to carry on a campaign against the copying designers of whom IA are said to have been unearthed among the secondary houses of Paris.
 The association will also group the jewellers and other producers of art goods. It plans to protect ere ative art ideas by legal processes and publicity. asserting that if un- fair competition were eliminated prices could be reduced 30 per cent.
 The American system of co-opera tive buying has gone to such lengths. the dressmaSers say, that silk city" has been built up in New York, where French designers and Japanese workers are making silks cheaper than the French. American buyers, the French assert. bring this goods to Paris. despite the high duty, and have the copying houses reproduce the models which the buyers have bought in common. Thus each Amer ican has complete assortment of real made in Paris" goods.
 RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY ON
 A movement has been started to have the body of Ernest Renan. au- thor of "The Life of Jesus" trans ferred to the Pantheon, thus reviving the clerical and anti-cierical con troversy which is ever- ready to spring into activity in France. The Pantheon, although, once a church, was the Temple of Reason" during 1a l1ttf fnr, of the church. consecreated burying ground The centenary of the phi lologist and historian will be ob- served on February 2S at an elab- crate ceremony presided over by President Millerand and attended by representatives of 20 foreign uni versailles.
 DUELLING LOOSES FRIEND
 Dueling lost one of its best friends in the death recently of pr. Paul De- villiers, who took part as principal, second or physician, in more than so duels during his "A years. He was one of group which actively, rather than successfully, combated the efforts of M. Bonnevay when the latter was minister of Justice, to suppress the recrudescence of dueling by prosecution of the prin- cipals and seconds under the crim- inal laws on the ground that such passages at arms were attempts to kill or to do bodily harm. M. De- vlIiiers always maintained that dueling was safer than fist fighting. He declared that it was "an elegant manner for men of the world to set tie differences that do not concern ed that to suppress it would tend to suppress the cult of honor, which is what still remains of the beautiful in life''