Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-18
CIEMENCEAU Is
HERE TO CEMENT
US. FRIENDSHIP
International Figure Came 10
America On First Visit SO
Years Ago
MARRIED IN THIS COUNTRY
VIII Now Represent The Cause
Of France To American
People
MARRIED IN THIS COUNTRY


NEW YORK, Nov. 43.-(By the
Associated Press. )-Representatlyes
Of this country and his own went
dawn the bay this morning to greet
Georges Clemenceau, tiger OF France,
who has come on the self-imposed
mission Of winning America for
France. The grizzled ex-premier
lid into the American waters on the
Paris lust after midnight and was
,,cd ND at quarantine along with 9TH
cr messengers to await the coming Of
the customs boat this morning.
The French Tiger" who came TO
this country for the first time more
than fifty years years to ''see what
republic really looks like" is back
in town again.
He dropped in on New York from
Paris today ready to start out on a
lecture tour of America, but he will
remain here little while first, for
he has number of old metropolitan
acouaintances to renew-some of
them with persons, but more, per-
haps, with streets and places, and
familiar old Landmarks which he
learned to know and to revere while
yet a boy.
The maker and breaker of min
isteries, as Clemenceau has come to
be known because of the tremendous
power he once held in the political
affairs of his country, is here on his
own hook and unofficially to present
the case of France to the American
people, and this he will do in the
language of the masses, for not only
does he speak English, but he speaks
real American English-flawlessly
and without effort. He is a master
of our idiom and has kept up with
American slang for more than five
decades.
Came Here in 1866
1t was back in 1866 that young
Dr.. Clemenceau, just turned 25, first
stepped ashore in New York. His
meagre wardrobe spoke eloquently of
his poverty, but the case of shiney
new surgical instruments, his only
other possession, held his future -
or so he thought at the time.
Back of him he believed, lay his
political career, which was not much
to boast of. He has served snort
term in prison for activities in be-
half of the Republic, and had been
invited to leave France for failing
to resist further temptations along
the same line upon gaining his free
dom. After all, he concluded, the
medical profession, which had sup
ported six generations of Clemen-
ceaus' before him, was superior to
politics.
Promised a small monthly remit
tance from his father, the future
war premier of France established
himself in what is now the Green
+ "lch Village section of New York
ana began to practice medicine. His
held was the large French popula-
ton then living around Washington
square, and while he succeeded in
olf1crently we'll in obtaining patiets,
MS collections fell hopelessly below
his needs.
This prompted him to communi-
catc with the Paris Temps, for which
"e &ubseouentIy wrote a series of
o'I"Iant letters describing conditions
!" America. This correspondence
0olStered up his income to a certain
extent, but the remittances from
"one had stopped in the meantime,
"eHce ne still was i'll the meshes of
poverty:
n LoIced to strike out on different
I'SN' he obtained a position in IL
D''Iy' where he remained for two
gears, he happiest ones of his life,
s said not long ago. Libraries were
| uSed much in those days, and the
|'ohg Frenchman had ample time
w 'ec'ude himself among the books,
b lung the best philosophers and
r. r-'TrIanS while he perfected his
l. mere my mind acquired what it
H. 4Heu' and my intellect completed
w, i9,fmation,' he wrote years after
Wa
II the evenings the young student