Paris, April 18.
The electoral campaign being now in full swing, the "official notice-boards outside the town halls and other public buildings are blossom. ing out into posters of brilliant hues, Just as one man's necessity is another man's opportunity, so does the meritorious printer benefit by the present outpourings of political souls.
Printing used to be. candi-in 1919 has led to a good deal of splitting expenses, and the cost contesting a seat remains quite reasonable. Before the war a candidate usually had to disburse about Frs. 12,600 or £500, in Paris, and rather more in provincial constitu-tendes where more travelling had to. be done, In 1919 the economy resulting from the new system partly' counteracted the general increase the cost of living, and Frs. 18,000 was an average election bill. This! year it will be about the same, thanks chiefly to a more complete of expenses among all the. candidates on the same list,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.