rushing the through the Chamber of Deputies in time to get it voted by the Senate and passed into law wre the end of the year had at unexpected dr items in the estimates was a tax of Fra. 10a yea wireless receiving sets, but, pos consequence of imperfect draft ing, the Communists were able to show that the terms of the proposal were in contradiction to' a Previouly imued deere, othe xote had to be with The Government was counting onthe revenue from the new tax establish a_powerful brondeasting station at Strasburg, which would have become an effective centre for the transmission of French news and ideag throughout the recovered Provinces and would have served to counteract German propaganda. The new revenue also would have served to pay artists and lecturers and to improve broadcasting programmes.
Unless some mew arrangement can be made, the official broadeasting stations will be obliged suspend operations after the end of this year, through lack of funds. Private stations will be brought back to a strict observance of the rules laid down when they were authorized, until the moment, now close at hand, when they will' have to shut down by virtue of the decree of a year ago, which allowed them to carry on ' pending a complete organization under State supervision. All this now has been knocked on the head and, unless some way out of the difficulty is found, French broadcasting will be reduced to silence and the radio industry will be seriously affected, while listeners-in allover the madness nearly are allied."
Generally speaking, the madman' art tums toward the primitive, as is shown by most of the attempts at sculpture, which are in' keeping with negro' carvings, at present quite in fashion as ornaments, Many of the paintings are dis. tinguished by great imagination and wonderful colour effects, and it is quite likely that some will be utilized as desi and farnituee textiles of the" modern school, which proceeds, no doubt, on the principle that, if you live Tong enough, with startling designs all over your home, they cease to have njasiously afimulating effects, the recognizedly crazy Dr, Marie's collection proceed on the. prineipea of the super-realist painters who follow the inspiration of their thoughts without controlling them by ranson and put down "states of mind" on paper or canvas by any means that strike them as appropriate, It would be unkind to say that ultras modern painters are mad, but they certainly resemble madmen in their methods.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.