Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

observation-disclosures Glenn
| enceau, premier of France, nears
| the half-mile post Of his 18th year.
| born September rs, 1S41. In the
| wide range of his studies and activi-
! ties no man of his time, excepting
| Colonel Roosevelt approached his
| record. Clemenceau has been a
| physician and medical writer of dis
tinction, a war correspondent,
| soldier, teacher In a young ladies'
! seminary at Stamford, Conn, q
/ duelist, a critic, a playwright, and,
above all, journalist. His greatest
and most permanent achievement
/ has been the leadership of France
| during the last year of the war. The
! passing years have touched him
lightly. Physically and mentally he
shows the working endurance, the
| staying power, the aggressiveness
and quick grasp of affairs which dis
| tinguish leaders in their prime. 1t
was his conspicuous vigor in the
crisis Of the war which prompted
! Lloyd George to salute him as THE
grand young man of France"
Or. Livingston Farrand, the new
| chairman of the central committee
Of the American Red Cross, is a well
known educator who has devoted
much of his time and talents to pub
lie welfare movements. He has
served as treasurer of the American
Public Health association and as ex-
ecutive secretary of the national So
ciety for the study and prevention of
! tuberculosis. A native of Newark, N.
j., DR.. Ferrand studied in England
and Germany after graduating from
Princeton in 1888, and received his
medical diploma from Columbia uni
versity three years later. Since 1914
he has been president of the Uni
versity of Colorado.
The daylight saving law may or
may not switch the hands of the
nations clocks again this year. 1t
depends on the opposition putting
through repeal amendment or
rider during the dying hours of con-
gress. Whatever happens the hands
of neurological fame will ever point
to Senator William M. Calder Of New
York as the foster daddy of the law.
The senator is a native son, born in
New York City, just so years ago.
His education was had in the public
schools and in Cooper Institute, and
his early workaday life, that of
builder and contractor. From this
vocation Calder slipped into politics,
represented the Sixth New York dis
trict in congress for five terms and |
then won promotion to the United |
States senate. One of his first acts |
on entering the upper house was the
introduction of his pet measure for |
daylight saving"
The death of George F. Edmunds
Of Vermont, at the age of 81, re-
moves a distinguished member of a |
group of national notables well be- |
yond the fourscore milestone of |
life. The dean of the group Is Levi |
p. Morton of New York, vice presi-
dent of the United States, 1SS9-93, |
who will soon celebrate his Gath
birthday. Judge Charles Andrews,
formerly on the New York supreme
bench. is just over 81. He was adj
mitted to the bar 70 years ago. Next
to Andrews in age, ranks Roger A.
Pryor, 80, a southern brigadier, who
won distinction in the legal profess
sion in New York. Among the nota-
bles in the sos are President Emer-
titus Eliot of Harvard, "a; Cardinal
Gibbons, who will be 81 in July;
Uncle Joe Cannon, 50, past, and John
Burroughs, the noted naturalist, go
ing on SO.