New Britain herald., 1927-10-07
PRESENT DAY NOT
 ID KNOW OPINIONS
CleInenceau Private Note to Be
 Kept Secret
clenenceau Series No. III By JOHN O'BRIEN

BN JCt1-N V Dit44--'
 Ey the United P.sss
 Et Vincent -Sur-Jard, France -- Whether he Is in his Paris home in the rue Franklin or in his summer abode on this ~indswept Eendeon shore. Georges Clemenceau, who has just passed his seth birthday spends most of his time writing and think ing H. invariably refuses 10 talk pol,tcs, although they occupied +a' biggest part of his active life what 5oes ho think ahcut2 What does he Nriteo
 He is engaged now. and has been for several years cu | volume or series of volumes which are under stood to review his outlook on lie and is problems But they are not to be published unul after his death and the Tiger has not revealed anything of their content. There fore it is only ny reference 10 ms published books that on" can ob'Ai" any adeauate idea of the princlpIeS on which he has guided his career and the lessons he has drawn Iroii his study Of humanity.
 T. is not , difficult task necau*' whatever Clemenceau wrote i5 marked by simplicity of thought anu presentaIon, however complex me problens involved IT philosophy he Is 3. disciple of the Stolcs, II , has taken for himself .he phrase or spinoza: Nothing may be called nerfect or imperfect, everything rappens in conformity with al eternal natural order
 l. was after his political eclipse m 1894 that Clemencaau had an oppor- tunity 10 develop his extraordinary talent as writer Tn his news paper La Justice he touched on every phase of human activity and wear later published in a volume entitled "I.a Melee Sociale.' tIhe Social Confict) practically all ms aaily articles arranged in loglcaI order. The leitmotif of all IS the struggle for existence lie pants realistic pictures of human sui1er- ing. long hours in factories, poverty vice brutality and pity side by side prostitution. exploitation, lnJuSllct of hundred kinds
 He does not apportton praise or hlame. He merely tells what he mas seen and asks only that men Of uh- derstanding work with all thelr mower to make the world better.
 What" he asks. will come after this universe7 How, If ever, will the nrimal nebula be reformed? In how many billion years? With what new pover of life? All hypotheses. l of fer you nothing not feeling that l am responsible for anything In the universal scheme of things.
 Sometimes Clemenceau seems to he socialist, as in fact he pro claimed himself at the opening or his parliamentary career mus m another article of La Melee So- ciale" he declares that "the end to- ward which nature seems to be striving is socialism, which VIII IN by law respect for all. the rule or 7ustice by association" But in the next moment lF II pNAt'iiiI-' '-''' everything depends on the tndiVld- rlal. that the individual must be brought to such q point that law will be unnecessary, which may cer- tainlv be taken as an expression or philosophtc anarchy After all, scepticism is his dominant trait m his daily life as in his writings. lie has lived all his life in clos" contact with the Breton peasant. He knows their ways and has had many proofs that he is revcrcd by them Net, when he goes 10 market in the near hv town Of Les Stables d'olonne. as he does two or three times a week, he conducts his own bargaining. he counts the change he weighs in his greygloved hands the leg Of mutton or the chicken he intends for din- ner and h. replies 10 the Eoo1-Na- tured protests Of the market wom- iT)h iit- hipr1 h1,t