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19X8. THE BROOKLYN DAILY AGILE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY M. Clemenceau originally intended to be a physician, but he I could not keep out of politic! and so became famous. PART SMALL NEUTRALS HAVE TO PLAY IN WAR IS SHOWN IN SWEDEN THIS LITTLE BALDHEADED FRENCHMAN BIG SENSATION OF HOUR IN PARIS TODAY For Forty-seven Years He Has Had a Hand in un-Kronch.

MM UUU wo bM the spectacle of a Socialist, a chair. I open diplomacy, condemning the I Icmen- Every Political Squabble in France and, TlfB Many Difficulties Beset jjBf r'v Bw tl I ttl IJ CS 1 wnrofiBto and different policies hi spite the Huge Amounts i should home mma k- 1H i Precarious position occupied by yask jfifl (jOld I llcV H.IVL AC the hammer between WlWfc PL emulated They Feel ZlZrjLZ MSlKEKsSSBt- ii. i ami conciliations 'ffiHSPBOH HBlaWS' STl the Pl'C SUre Ot UUtbiae he.n every turn. Often FflMBLiff It k-Z. fLV rn.r.rernents with one group have aninl'jHJIKP' I'OWCTS.

concluded with the tacit under- WM JIS? SjV iH landing of the other. Thus it has Although Sixteen Years Older Than Colonel Roosevelt, He Is Still in the Ring. mW WWm perfectly agreed both spies ffl It, lim.N UIOUkMAN Deiuoark send fe ACML MM Ti: nothing moiir, her butler to Germans and tne iWk- QCL A VA i a "r- tlor half to England. In the same VMS Norway has bad to give threc-Utha of her fish to Germany a the remaining Ave-elgbtha to The opposed governments agreed, but when the public on either Bide found out that something is going t.i the enemy, there was nei -ally a row and trouble for the Danes and the Norwegians in regard to the Kr' JhH I the i ''jji HUEwljl created northern roun-1 Si I I tries. To ir 'ijlHHflp' I HBkg.

i i ecu poor i mfc she. was no party. Germany's -pes saaaaaamL-. If 1 ful penetration" accounts for enum 111 loo III I pul. lie- la raiber amusing, and did lie Senator no harm.

Bat any kind Of revelations about eret negotiations dangerous to worn in tatw larval CIuhibWi I In addition to giving Kfnia the knockout blow, the publication of the i F.nipi ror's litter served 1. m.nceuu another good turn, it distracted mt tent ion from the Annand-1 let citera I negotiations. hnn nc elf atiili. BOt initiated. and put the what had bee Bitot said sub rosa liter of speculations on been persistently during hole war.

bad more influence in the direction of French foreign politics than he has now. Thus the Tiger is in the position at seeing his predecessors called U) account rather liian himself, and various rival pretenders to power, candidates for his own job, made less "available" than ever. Even some of the former fellow Ministers of Senator EUtoti notably Maurice Vn leite, arc touting to Heaven that ttoy knew nothing of the Austrian Offer to compromise, and tiny bad in. responsibility in turning down. What effect the ravelatlona will have on President Poincaire'a position remains to lie sc.

n. Until just before. In came Into power Georges Clemenceau used to attach him bitterly every morning In hie newspaper, L'Homme Em huine, and though the) now appear side by side in public it is a subject for speculation just how they feel inside. The publication of the Km p. ror's letter has brought out the fact that it was received by president Polnoalre arid was transmitted by bun to Senator Ribot on the express condition that be of the Cabinet nor to flu leaders nf Parliament, who are very jealous of prerogatives.

As these same parliamentarians eon. plain that i -r ssi the republic has too much power in the conduct of foreign affairs or assumes too heavy responsibilities in the matter Of secret negotiations, it is fairly evident that the trace of his hand in this last affair liMk il tins 'supreme lesson tn'a MMt 4WV ML I wealth. It has 1 subifels dun il Their obi strife-, and lias turn. -d mo of Ih'-lf old hope and faiths into I will not make him before his turning the lire of criticism "il his "Ims'm'ibe Arnerlea I. no ger neutral- Clemenceau, as Mim icr ol War.

baa thai at lasl ll la betntr governed. Once thank Heaven! It was a very big neu. seen the great German offenalcvo befori during the war Prance has had I tral before became a belligerent, halted, has secured Hie apiicninietii of tin autocrat. That a General tl)( ivc, very faraway from the ngcr a neutral It was a i ry big in 11. became a belligerent.

lived very far away from the l-rcnch general nan. 1 ne out to ti. now I has upset the Austrian Premier, and teased bs Senator Clemenceau one America has never known and can the maelstrom that la now submerge the whole world, i has never known and can i. i a Hf i iii.u nnov. v.

it i ii means to ne a what II mean, to be a yet of ft shall iniarise the appears here When Germany trouble inside of France, even if she could not split the French and British armies. While the combined German and Austrian forces attacked in Picardy, the Austrian Premier received the assignment lo throw a firebrand)' tnat was to set the French eamp aflame. This firebrand was the statement that if the French Government (that is to say (aemenceau) had not insisted on recovering Alsace-Lorraine, the French people could have had peace before the new slaughter began. This announcement was expected to arouse the French laboring classes by making il appear that they had made all their sacrifices only because the French Government had its heart set on certain territories, which is not so What France is fighting for is stamp out Prussian militarism and its special code of morals, which if allowed to continue would make any future peace precarious. It is obvious that if Germany really desired to give France an honorable pi ace its appeal to the French working classes would have been made before the offensive began, instead of during its greatest fury.

Threw Back the I 'rein-ami. This perfidy was perfectly apparent to Senator Clemenceau, to whom he was on the front, racking bis brains I how to stop the German drivo, but quick as a Hash he threw the Austrian firebrand out of the French camp and the camp of the enemy by calling Count Czcrnin a liar. This put the Austrian on the defensive, and as he started to justify himself by revealing the dlekerings between the Austrian Count Revertera and the French Commandant Armand at Freiburg in Switzerland, Clemenceau went him one better and revealed that the Austrian Emperor himself had udmit-tcd in his own handwriting that the French claims on Alsace-Lorraine were well founded. This could not fail to start Austria and Germany squabbling, and the French camp was How clever and timely wns this counter offensive, delivered in the heat of the moment (Senator mind works like electricity) appears even better when it is considered from the point of view of French internal politics. This phase of the situation may be less well known in the United States than is the exterior one.

It is perfectly true that the French Socialist party, though supporting the national defense as well as ever, is in opposition to Senator Clemenceau, mostly out of rancor over his use of troops in breaking a strike about twelve years ago. (There was a riot at Villcneuve-Saint-Georgcs, a Paris suburb, and some workmen were killed by the soldiers. Since then whenever the Socialists to taunt the Tiger they shout Consequently, the Socialist party refuses to support the Clemenceau government, after having aided every other war Cabinet since 1314. The Socialist leaders are always looking for something "to put over" on him, and though they would not lend themselves to the Austro-Oerman maneuver, which aimed at nothing less than a popular uprising, they would not be slow to take advantage of any political mis. Clemenceau's rude and unennven- tional reply to the Austrian Premier was severely criticised by the Socialist press, and when the letter of the Km- peror was published tne Socialist lead- ers, notably Marcel Sembat, an ex- I Minister, questioned the wisdom of putting the young monarch in a hole, i WASTING FOOD IN THE UNITED STATES WHILE OUR ENGLISH ALLIES GO HUNGRY ItV NAIIOTH III KIN.

Eagle Bureau, I 53 Hue famlion. DA HIP, April The sensation of the hour is not the Ions range A gun that bombards 1'aris, sometimes by night and sometimes by day, nor is il the panie tho German new spapi rs ascribe lo Paris, telling how the Grand Hotel has been hit. when no shell has fallen within half a mile of there; nor is it the end of Bolo, nor the new 10 per cent, tax on luxuries, including- bills in the lobster palaces and other under government control; nor is it the Gotbas that come at night, nor the spell of cold weather that has struck Paris in the middle of April, after a balmy March. It is a man of 76: it is Georges Clemenceau. Here is a little, baldheaded Frenchman, originally educated to be a physician, who is sixteen years older than Colonel llooscvclt, and who has led an exciting life ever since the Commune broke out, at the end of the last war, forty-seven years ago.

There lias not been a political squabble insole France, nor an internal complication outside, that he has not had his band in, either as a parliamentarian, minister or newspaper editor, and now, during this past month, as a minister of war, he has stayed, with one hand, the German offensive in i'icardy and Artois, the biggest battle in the world' history; has brought about the United Allied Command, which all his predecessors have tried to do during the past three years and failed, and with the oilier he has been conducting a running fight with the Austrian diplomats, who have long bad the reputation of being the most cunning in Europe. He has upset Czerr.in, who set out to overturn him; he has caused the Central Powers to question each other and verify their alliances, while he himself has improved the relations of France with her Allies. Ami He Keeps lp His Own Fences. in addition to all that he has been looking alter his own political fences, appearing before committees of Deputies and Senators every few days, Justifying his conduct of current affairs and making reports of what has been going on without giving out in-fointation useful to his political opponents. Furthermore, whenever the (lothas drop bombs the.

Premier is on the spot almost as soon as the President of the Republic, comforting the stricken civilians and bucking up their courage, and yesterday I read in the papers that he had had a long talk with John R. Mott, head of the V. M. C. A.

In addition to all that, an almost daily communique from the Ministry of War reads: "Monsieur le President du Conseil has returned from a visit to the front in Picardy and Artois." Or else it says he has been to see the British High Command or the French, or he has met Mr. Lloyd-George at Boulogne. If nothing else has occupied him he has visited the American troops and given decorations, or else he has been in Alsace, or has picnicked with the anti-aircraft batteries. Talk about the strcn- uous life! What is the secret? In a way Senator Clemenceau typifies the entire French nation. How many times after the Marne have we heard that France has been bled white! Poor France! W'e have come to her rescue.

There has been a lot of patronizing talk. How out of place it has been is now clear. Wherever the Germans attack with vigor and the Allies yield ground, whether in Italy or in Flanders, Macedonia or Lorraine, the French have to conic to the-rescue. Recently I have heard many times repeated a remark made in August, 1914, by Dennis Dowd of Sea Cliff, who had come over to fight (he fought and was killed): "I wanted to join a regular army," he said. "There are but two in Europe the French and the German." As to the true character of the French, this afternoon's edition of the Temps quotes from the Berliner Tageblatt an extract that is pat with what I want to say.

What a German Says of the French. "Speaking frankly," says this German writer, "I am convinced that even before the war we neither knew nor estimated at its proper value the French nation, though once a year we went by the way of. Cologne or Metz to Paris to enter into contact at the Louvre or Bal Tabarin with this interesting people. I have myself spent three years among the French. I have had dealings with writers, businessmen, working women and waiters.

I believed I had seen through the manners of the French and had penetrated itjto the true self of the race, which is intelligent, polite, timid, and by that very fact too discreet to show itself as it really is to the passing visitor. "But the war came and changed everything. Unknown forces surge. I from the depths; the pleasantesl faces became grim, and well bred people acted as though driven by a sacred fire. I then recognized too late that my sources of information had not been of the best; the writers had not told me the truth, the abbes did not know the world, and my waiter was from Vienna." "As though driven by a sacred fire." That is Georges Clemenceau.

Most men are played out at 76. To be suro there is President Eliot of Harvard, who is 84, but he has not led tho stirring life of Senator Clemenceau, who is of a different mettle. They call him "Tho Tiger," and for generations he has been known as a destroyer of Cabinets. Count Czrrnin is but one Minister in a long lino that he has bitten in a vital spol. "Count Ciernin Has tiled." In Czernin's case, he used but four words, spoken In the excitement of tho first days of the great Offensive.

"Count I'zrrnin has lied." That was JThcrc is more In this duel than has supple wanted by thci IVaiifui IVru-trution." Sweden as a nation has been held responsible for many actions to who possible for I first part of tilings which the without Special legislation. In ISlf ihe German head of a firm at the little Bwediah city Landskrona on the Sound chartered three Genu mi teatni rt to ship 4fi.ooo bags of flour and ti.000 bugs of jute to Btut lu holm, Everything was done with the most careful observation of all legal requirements. But hardly had lh three steamers left the Sound and Bwedittt) territorial waters than tip. made straight for the nearest German pun The guilty skipper was prose-' Uted, but nothing could be done beyond imposing a tine on him. Large quantities of American pork and cotton passed thro.gti Sweden to Germany during th arst two years of the war.

bul 1 dun i think America should insist too much on Swedish r. spon I. ry in this iratlie quetW merlcan export at Stockholm almost every case these were origi-11) offshoot- of branches previously ftbllshed at Hamburg. Corisc- qucntly they were managed by Get-j mans when the war broke out They i were incorporated under Bwediah laws and Lore Swedish While pus. Ing as Swedish firms and operating with American capital, ilicr wrrc Invariably "made in Germany." I know of one big New fork firm that discharged every employee from its Stockholm branch a- soon as the IU nation over there a brought hom to them by thi Ir own appearance on the British blacklist.

The discharged' German manager promptly started a firm of own. giving it a name the old the At peed of the tral ess trains are a thing of the pasi. a carriage txist no longer, ling berths have 'o be obtained In advance. Every train is trowded In the most discomfort, manner. It la quite common 1 lasscngers standing up through Aftc ird irk it inditions had bet ii dueed used to tie in 1SS1.

other branch of huma is affected in the same Ws. shortage of material. Man ia have already come to 1 in Sweden. Up to litt REFLECTIONS. rt, Henry Russell Wray.

ihlng made In tli that oath -who II il surrounded on every great contendiug Powers, tell what such a situation hall u-e Sweden afl an I liian other C( fix, but becaus ers during the war and because that I saw then and there is typical what I glimpsed during shorter u.ys in Norway and Denmark. I may dd rlghl here, that since August. 9 1 1. I have spenl abnul Olght niotlt lis ii England; and comparisons thus dated in my way make me believe hat. leaving loss of life aside, the ox--tence of the average man is rather fss trying in war-acarred Blight ban on the "peaceful" Scandinavian p.

-ina -uia Ready in Buy Exportation in those days. price l'orchod -hopping mania, 'f Stockholm and th( Copenhagen were who appeared to pose in life than to most fabulous stor bargains si rue made. I knr Stockholm would haye utterly lacki of df rs ml lo sunshades, lv fragment within Its bulging paid for in cash, and then. In it never got away at all. Tit holmians laughed, prodded ribs like old Vikings, and with each thry drank those Germane used to speak alio dummen Schweden' the Swedes!" Those days were ton good long.

The vanguard nf irres speculators had to give way i erly authorized agents. The thrift began to assert itsel Ihle fo the told Willi: I ha chosen tins mi of i.dl.ng it f- I to make 'he I "ulie, i sible allowance for any responsibility Incurred bv the siilTering nation Itself The simple truth the matter la that which also placed him more than ever order that they may have even the Ismail ilruttgisls envelope cor.iainin-in the power of the Germans. He also present restricted iratinns. a tablespoonful of sugar. This is hii questioned the propriety of giving out "Over there'' there is already a i day's supply, and there is none or for publication a private letter, which grievous lack of certain "essential" Sundays.

The members of a faniih he said was bad manners, something siiga.r desired agan against the jam-making season Pastry, randy and tea en arc forbidden and unobtainable, There is no waste of sugar In England! of baiter (ur more often margarine) one is given for breakfast a quantity equal in size and thickness to a 50 -cent piece. None is served for meals later In the day. Butter can not be asicd. because it is too scarce, In the case of meat the ration card provides four coupons for each we, A coupon represents the equivalent of Ihrec ounces of good meat, and rather of fonl. kidney, sausage, ounces of meat a week lual, In England one i indi ove I hsh I ing far the most abundant food is and potatoes.

Both are nourish-as well a-s appetising, when con- with a variety of other I liu with Bah for dinner twice or three times a week, and nearly every day for breakfast and for lunch, one has no appetite for fish. In England today one docs not overeat on fish: Both eggs and bacon are rare luxuries. They are very expensive and quite difficult to obtain at any and grain has to be imported from It: I'nited States. Then for. mber of hogs must be limited.

I cannot overeat on bacon or on in England: Thus overeating and wastefu in respect to food is rendered to impossible in England. The no waste there is a distinct lack tood. A very large proportion ot -upply of flour, sugar, meat, eic, come from the I'nited States, it is evident that the more of soldiers wc send over there, the i tne newly returned from i ope the waste and extra, option of food in this the appearance of a cm of the real own soung men at (he 1 such for "Over there" the quantity which any may conaun even purchase) is ollieiallv regubit. lure wasicl'ulnesa and extra often checked only bj disposition or by the 1 "as wr' realize as a re- meat, sugar and sail ho even bread Is really necessary to physical will-being than most of us think. 1 have been back in the L'nlted States about i month, and I can not vet overcome the sense of shock when- rcr 1 enter a restaurant and not! ustefiiMy only served, the careless failure to consume the portions.

and the thoughtlessly extravagant manner In which successive dishes are ordered, for which there is little real appetite ill less need. And I am stirred to protest, not against the financial x-travagance involved, but against what is in plain English a culpable even criminal waste of the food itself. In England the bread consists of about titl per cent, wheat flour. The rest is potatoes, beans, barley, etc. The quantity which each customer may receive in a restaurant is fixed to the ounce, varying for the different dav.

After a wc experience with English war tempted to overeat lor sugar, butler (or tnargari eal raiion cards are issued tiie food controller to each person. To 'obtain sugar the holel resident a rcgistir fuch morning and is given a are heart goes her missions of Everyh seems to know her "over there." cording U) her chauffeur. and General Pershing are Warm friends Hut so an- the I iess monstrosities who have nottt ii-rt but their unconquerable Pre spirit. Edith Wharton might well say. iDWIN CART RANCK.

i n- KeStaUralUS London Sei Ve Siaill rUlllUIl 111 Dlinrps Rrcnd IsOnl' 60 Per Cent. Wheat Flour and Pastry Forbidden. Is ry i oi i SINCE my recent return from Great Britain I have been greatly impressed by the attitude of the American people toward the food question. The Impression seems to be general that people here arc being asked to deny themselves in order that the English may indulge themselves in an abnormal plenty. In the interests of a people who are ouir allies, and who are actually in need of food, this impression needs correction in several particulars.

First, wo in the United States arc not denying ourselves. Apparently we have not yet learned what self-denial in the consumption of food is. And, n. Nt. I In- English are no! only tint in a 1 position to consume fend at the disci e- ph-asui of the mdi idual, but ibev a i actually facing a dire' scarcity, England And, lastly, the situation as to com-1 ourselves far pel hey thing yet asked of us in foods; here there is an abundance, Voted lavishly spending money and en- ergy in tnetr Pel Charles Cook'i speaks of the I ilfs eyes sparkle as he Oman that he has occasions through the shell boles of the battlefields as dose to the front as military authority would permit.

Once tney went into a shell crater up to the body of the cur in slimy mud and Mrs. Wharton waited uncompiainihgty until they were extricated. And once the front uxlc broke and they were stalled fur jfljL 29gBBaV mKHMm WH ifg clfl I i lP JMBM v'JbHLW Jn Mmm taaBgHK ffli HBgB lH MHHLH 1 WfliW 111 I EDITH WHARTON. I cause to blcs the name this dr- i HOW MRS. EDITH WHARTON, IN HELPING HELPLESS, DARES DEATH "OVER THERE" 8 hrlls bursting all around exists on the other Bide.

It is nol a "'I," TheClo i question how much money an in- lounv chauffeur told dividual spends on food, lligb-prn cd 1 in-ernatlonal 1,1 h0 biK car. 'whon thev e'p" tC'ZhI-J tne food even a slice of broad aU gains, ratr. hand-to-hand fighting. 5Irs rtr. intibon dlayTiav in iJ''T! V'n Hontc vcr, real sense affect the whole future I i re 1 see of the war and of the nulions iinohcd Vising ght need on the other side.

It is Chauffeur of the Brave American Novelist Tells of Her Auto Drives to the Front Under Heavy Shell Fire in Her Search for Wounded Frenchmen. Il Ihe personal chauffeur Ion. who has driven novelist so close to trenches In her big toi shells have exploded wll of them, is aboard, and tribute to Mrs. Wharton indifference to danger ni and self-sacriticing lafc Mrs. Wharton, ns all the world now knows, was officially decorated bv the French Government in the spring ot the first year of the war for her disinterested and splendid work in fiance.

She is now the ofHcitil and efficient head of numerous hospitals and homes in France that are doing much to lessen the Dorrora of modern warfare. Poor little Belgian children left fatherless and motherless in the wake of the Invading Hun have good tl hi id la. iraeled lo Ihe car and crowded around those who ate guilt of In- waslv. Al 1 1 Meecl. to the ores help, it was too i ine of them wrote on the car.

and Shinning Into danger into the moit food. sm.alid places where terror and The real patriot ill 1 despair hair bren Drat, this daunt- lion-i- dl al-" he nt awav M.iximi.iu ni less American woman With sparing with all tonus oi avail. little whet) purse and a higgr.