The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
FRENCH PREMIER
ENJOYING REST
M. BarthOu in Swiss Alps
With Wife
EUROPEAN SITUATION
Anarchist Congress Creates No Com
ment-POlice Do Not Interfere.
Bernhardt Rusticating-T0
Get Wreath of Gold
BY PAUL vILLIERs

Paris, September Especial THAT
the situation not only in France. but
in Europe generally is in satisfactory
fact that Mr.. Barthou, the premier, is
enjoying well-earned vacation in the
Swiss Alps with his wife and son.
Like NJ. BRAND and a few others, NJ.
Louis Barthou made a brilliant repu-
tation for himself within recent years,
and he has risen TO great heights as
a politician and leader of men, Dur
ing the last few months he has done
herculean work, carrying the three years
army service bill through the Chamber
of Deputies and the Senate and the
country is grateful to him for his valua-
BILE services. H
One of the things that helped NJ. Bar
thou more than any other constantly to
face all arguments of the opposition
was his unfailing cheerfulness and
pleasant -humor. In the midst of a most
heated debate NJ. Barthou always had a
cheerful smile and pleasant word for
friend or foe. One of his intimate friends
has now a letter from Swltzland re-
vealed how NJ. Barthou always found
Is quite natural to suppose, says the
friend, that M. Barthou prepared him
self very seriously every day in the
course of the protracted debate to meet
the objections sof the adversares of the
bill This undoubtedly he did and he
left it to the opportunities of such oc-
casion to say the right work and the
apart from this, M. Barthou has another
way of preparing himself for the grave
/ pn - VyoS d.
ing Rabalais varlaine Horlas and some-
times Racine the night before.
''How often,'' says the friend did
find him reading Rebalais when thought
that he was preparing his arguments
for the next days debate. 1t was the
reading of this gay old humorfst that
supplied M. Barthou with a touch of
humor the following morning and when
one day. Jauris twitted him at meet
ing of the army committee by saying,
Monsieur le President, you seem to have
the great faculty of detecting every NICE
ty" NJ Barthou replied with smile
Yes, especially the niceties that sepa-
rate my opinion from yours" He was
only indulging in home of the classics
with which has been constantly culti-
waiting.
The French premier study and bio
graphy of Mirabeau which was publish
ed only at the beginning of this year
has already gone on through four edi-
tions and has been translated into Eng
lish and German. While taking his va
cation at Bargenstock. the premier is
preparing n new literary work to be
known as Essays and Impressions" and
we wonder II he will dare to give all
his Impressions during the recent skir-
mishes in the Parliament.
Anarchist Congress
The recent anarchist congress IN Paris
was remarkable for the fact that it
attracted little or no attention. Nobody
interferred with it. The police ignored
it. to tell the truth. during the dog days
an anarchist congress was not alto
eether out of place. The only violence
they INDUCED in was that of speech, and
this for the present breaks no bones.
Anarchists, like all human groups. are
divided and sub divided, and the revolu-
tionary confederation general du Ira
vail is fighting the communists. while
both would like to smash the heads of
the individualists. visit to an an
archist settlement is revelation. Here
at the gates of Paris on the banks of
the Marne opposite St. Maur there is a
regular anarchist colony, consisting of
some thirty families. 1t happens some
times that a bourgeois without knowing
whittier he is going. strays into the midst
or this colony and learns something new
TO him. A reporter of the Paris Midi has
mad this experience. A storm came on
whilst he was walking along the banks
of the river
Walk in. comrade" said the anarch-
ist. "or you will get wet "Perhaps
you are hungry and tired and would like
to rest. You can do as you please here"
You are here in the midst Of anarch-
|ists. said the tall comrade. ''and you
must take things as they are. We are
n9 sayages; when we tell you you are