The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-06
PRESIDENT FAILIEREs. 71 TO-DAY SOON TO
 RETURN TO PRIVATE LITE,

Papa, Clement Armand F,allieres, President of the French Republic, is
 on his seventy-first birthday. This is
 the last natal anniversary that the
 father Of France will spend in the
 E1ysee the home of the chief execu- Fiallieresis term of seven years began
 on Jan. IT, 1906, and will expire early
 next year; when another will succeed
 him. The place is more ornamental
 thants productive of power. and the President of France is little more than q 1gure-head, whose principal mission
 is to do the proper thing when royalty visits the republic. Although of peas
 ant origin, and the son of a govern mental department clerk, Papa Fa1- Heres has acquitted himself hon ora bly in his association with royalty. All
 ways gracious and diplomatic. he has not been servile. This attitude has
 won the admiration and respect of most European rulers: King George of England has a great admiration for
 Papa Fa1IiereS, and it is announc-
 ed that the British ruler will pay a leaves the ElySee.
 President F'allieres comes of a thrif- ty people, and he himself is thrifty to
 the point that he has been accused of
 stinginess, but his notions of economy are not comparable with those enter tained by Mamma Fallieres. Every Presidential palace to go to the mar kets, where she personally superln- tends the buying of food and other sup plies This has naturally excited the ridicuie of fashionable ladies of the gay set but Mamma F'anieres goes her virtuous way obHvious to their jeerS and sneers.
 Monsieur. and Madama Fallieres have taken a modest apartment in the Rue Francois Premier, which they will cc- cupy when they leave the Elysee Pa1-' ace on Feb r next. The Fallieres ssflat'' is fone flight up, in modern electric-Ifghted elevator apartment building.f9nd consists of a large dln- five bedf8on1s, several baths, a, hSeh- en and StYo. servants rooms For this accumulation M. Fallieres will pay
 While it is alleged that a President Of the United States can hardly up- held his dignity on the salary paid him, ''Pa pa'' 4Fallieres has. done very well. thank you, on his Presidential income of 600s000 francs, or $120,OOO, with similar sum for expenses. It a year from his budget, spending only the remaining :$49, ,00O and his own per sonal income for running expenses. The thrift of Mamma Fallieres prob 1 3 bly accounts for this apparently inn 1 possible feat. for the PreS4 dents opr1- | vate fortune is small, and,s while the | Eysee 4menage has not been extraVa- yant it has upheld the dignity of a great people. Since the establishment 1 of the Third Republic, no President | las saved much as Papa Fall1eres although Presidents Loubet, Greyy and l rhiers managed to put aside colsid- | erablea sums from their salary envel- l ,pes Faure, Carnot and nd-yMaeMahon, f ,n the other hand, left office very much in debt
 M. FaIlieres was born at Mezin on l Nov 6, 1S41, and began his public ca -eer as a. lawyer at Agen and as may l ,r of thatscity. He was elected to the | House of Deputies Tn 1876, and served there fourteen years: He was Premier of France in 1883, twice held the min l Istries of instruction and'EJustice, and was President of the Senate in 1899 1 A. corlseryat ative-radical in politics, he l has advocated many Soeia1istic doc Lrin@s. without A11yi11g himself with thee Socialist party He has always been a, foe of the church, and is open l Iv anti-Christian as we'll as anti-Cath-i 1 olic in his religious views. I