Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-28
''Tiger" to "COme Back In
Chicago Today With
Vengeance.
Up EARLY TO WORK
Is Determined to Make Speech Strong
or Than Ever-Recall Chicago as
Tiny Hamlet - Forced to go To
Mayer for City's Hello"
NV UnIted Press.D


Chicago. Nov. 28.-GeOrgeS Glenn
enceau today had i new and still
more bitter pill for America TO swal-
low.
Those "close to the jungle" fore
cast the Tigers rumble will rise TO
= roar in his third formal American
address at the Auditorium at o'clock
this afternoon. Up as dawn's icy
blasts swept i'm from Lake Michigan
and most of the city slept, Clemen-
ceau was at work, polishing off the
notion he will invite America to take
for it's own good, and the peace oil
the world" In his black skull cap
and dressing gown he was not unlike
a chemise working with stubby toun-
tain pen instead Of pestle and NOR
tar.
Two reasons are assigned to the
Tigers determination to make To-
daY's speech stronger than any ne
vet has delivered:
1T may be, his friends say, that
he feels his message, that message
from mis- heart which he came per
sonally at the age of 81 to deliver, IS
not getting across
2-Or it may be the reaction OF a
fighter to the suggestion oi ms
friends, voiced on all sides, that ne
cease up" and sugar coat his pills.
Whatever the reason Clemenceau
is a statesman, as he was q physician
of the old school.
"Treat 'em rough he once SAID
laughingly, and now he IS gong 70
put it into practice.
There has been, of course, a lighter
side to the Tigers reception IN the
ample. homely hospital bosom of the
"Windy City" The city that was but
a tiny one when last Clemenceau saw
il. more than half a century ago,
paid homageS to its distinguished
guest today
Chicago, in the Tigers own words
has grown beyond all recognition
since those days in the SOS, when
Young Clemenceau stood on its thresh
hold. but then, SO has the Tiger.
Leading citizens, in tribute recall
cd the empires he has shaken and
the new maps of Europe has drawn
with his own firm hand since tine
school teacher days of the last CEN
tury.
And through the adultation that the
c;tv heaped at the doorstep OF the
Potter Palmer residence on the Gold
Coast" where Clemenceau rested and
prepared his speech, the 5lger
through gratified, barred his teeth.
Something new, something perhaps
startling. will be in the message de-
liyered at the auditorium, close
friends and coanSelors Of the vet
eran statesman say.
The Tiger had remained adamant
on the point that his message must
ring clear; ne has his claws un-
sbeathed for battle; soft pats such as
a great, friendly, jovial Tiger might
deliver have no part In his scheme OF
things, despite sincere counseilng Oh
friends.
When a Tiger of the Indian jungleS
feels death coming on, 1t goes out
and meets death fighting, whatever
the odds Something of this is in the
gallant old Frenchman's attitude ne
admits
Clemenceau's speech today will be
in a measure tuned to the ear of the
mid6lewest. whose voice, chicago,
roared him welcome upon his arrival
here late yesterday.
General Pershing met Clemenceau
at the station, and the dlminutive
Frenchman hurled himself lnto
Black Jacks" husky arms exclalm'
ing: How glad l am to see you
again" lust as though they nae
not met since the armistice, aithougt
the same scene was enacted at tht
Manhattan Opera House wless than
week ago.
Mayor Thompson. not always over
sympathetic towards France made
the Tiger come to him for the city.
official welcome. Clemenceap rode
around by way Of City Hall and rose
eleven flights up in an elevator, te
say "hello" to the Mayor in the lat
tors office.
PLAN HALL FOR FORT HILL
Lvnchburg. Va. Nov. 2S.-Tht
Fort Hill Club, civic and social or,
oanization of women here, has started
drive for $4,000 for building al
the location o fthe Lynchburg fort. s
Civil War show place here TIL,
structure is to be used as cOmmunj
ty center and library for Fort Hill.