Bisbee daily review., 1922-10-08
CochiseC Countys Clearing House

knows my ways. my tastes and desires Many close friends have urged me to let them accompany me, but Iehave declined. I am going to take the ad- vice of American friends as to where I shall speak. 1 will talk in New York and Chicago. That much I have de- cided. Boston, may be, because Bos- ton is still an American moral metro polls. Cities have in mind are Wash ington, Cleveland and St. Louis, but nothing definite, except that I do not intend to go farther west than Chica- go. l want no banquets, no big formal dinners. My tour is to be a very plain businesslike affair. l shall try to lead as simple life as I do here. go to bed at eight every night and wake up at a quarter to three every morning I won't be able to go to bed quite that soon in America if 1 wish to ad- dress night meetings. I don't want to talk in halls that are too immense, because while my voice is still good.
 I don't want to screech. I shall talk
 in English, of course, That is why am coming. want to carry message | personally to Americans, to establish
 and intimate contact with my audien- ces.
 l While in America expect to call
 upon President Harding, my old friend | Pershing, and, of course, Wilson" "Tiger" Won't Apologize
 l asked him what he did, waking up l K~ sr he l "Oh, read some, and write good | deal more. An autobiography? No in- I deed! eRtired statesmen who write | their memoirs usually defend them
 selves and apologize for their policies
 intend to do neither. Pouff for my
 diligent critics!"
 And with that he whistled down the
 wind the Parisian editors who are
 now once more bitterly saying he has
 no business to go to America. Sudden
 ly the old man turned guide: Il Want to see my palace? Come on. f It's an addition to my little house, all ,I of fir and heather and built in 12 days. : The palace is 15 feet square. It's
 matched outside on walls and roof, 7 as you see, with fir and heather. l eI wanted a nice big room in which to ? entertain my friends who occasionally ? come down here. Otherwise I would I have no use for it.
 See that weathervane? It's an old u French cock. It came off a fifteenth s century church and was given me by s villagers nearby.
 l That fish flag you see flying from .- that flagpole was given me, at my re-
 quest, by the wife of the aJpanese am
 bassador. The fish Is a Japanese carp |, which has the extraordinary ability to Q climb up the waterfalls. Hence the Japanese use the carp as a symbol oi il virility.
 Q How much of this little estate be
 longs to me? Not an inch. and that's 8 the beauty of it. I pay the French , government 150 francs a year for that . bit of seashore. pay the owner oi
 the house another 150 francs. And %
 a woman who owns narrow striT , of garden that I use, I pay the en
 ormous sum of one franc annually
 Now if I live to be 200 or 300, they l VIII nave udue d NclS Uou poA 6oiA with me-
 ,s As I said goodbye to him, Clemen n ceau unused aloud:
 Tt will be very strange experience I, coming back to America. l left it II IF 1S69-53 years ago. And just the oth s CT day celebrated my S1st birthday ,f and hardly anybody knew it.
 fA ixrn ip SnVnnfh EtTRHf New York I suppose it is all sky II scrapers now. But I daresay there l: ,t one thing I will recognize-the Hud if son river"
 N I said to him-"There is another
 American feature you undoubtedly vii
 recognize. You will be met in New
 York by about 200 newspaper men
 Heaven help them" said the olt = man smiling. 'rI won't"
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