New Britain herald., 1929-04-19
POINCARE ACTIVE
 DESPITE HIS AGE
French Premier Has Unparaud.
 cd Energy and Intellect

Paris, April 19 (UP)-Vigor
 come with old age if one can take
 Premier Raymond Poincare as '
 model. On the threshhold of his
 10th birthday. when the cares of
 past and present national and in-
 ternational political worries should
 be weighing him down. he recent
 ly surprised even his admirers by
 speaking for three days. thunder
 ing at his opponents in the Cham
 Der of Deputies with the fire and
 fervor of two-year-old.
 A speech such as this-it dealt with the Governments attitude to the Home Rule agitation in Alsace = would occupy probably 80 news paper columns, or between twenty and thirty thousand words. Yet when the printers of the Official Journal came to set up the Ms. they found every word had been written by the Prime Minister in his own handwriting
 Not only had Poincare penned every line; he had memorized the speech from first word to last: and from the time he arose in the tri- tune of the Chamber on the first day until the concluding sentences three days later he hardly glanced at the pages before him.
 Recognized even by his bitterest opponents of the Left as one of the great men of the age, Raymond Poincare is at the same time an enigma of energy and intellect to all. even those who know him best. Most other men would have taken special training for an oratorical effort such as this, but Poincare carried on as usual rising at six o'clock each morning. helping to run his home. then leaving for hard days work at the Ministry of Finance of which he is the head. There, ever since he saved France by stabilizing the franc more than two years ago. he has had enough daily personal duties to occupy half dozen working overtime.
 Since he first became a Minister of the French Government thirty WI" SS o' oSo titGI AC gave hp HIS legal work in Paris, Poincare has had troubled, though glorious career, with progressive political storms leaving no impression upon him. except to make him more re- served and retiring. An intense fighter in the political ring as he revealed agan and again during the recent debates on the return of the religious missions and the question of deaths of French troops in the Army of Occupation on the Rhine-he is also home man and likes nothing better than to asslt his wife in ordering the daily round in his picturesque house on the Rue Marbeau.
 Thus of an early mornng, this | remarkable man who has been about half dozen times Premier and once President of the Repub- l lie. who has saved his country more than once from the brink Of what | seemed disaster can be seen busily | making notes on small slips of pa- per. On one slip are orders for l The maid who does the shopping. | on another directions to the cook, third is list for his chauffeur. And. having written out a menu for dinner. for example. the strong man of France turns back to his boh Of running the country.
 Political opponents are for ever predicting that Poincare "has not gone long to run now" But they have been saying that for years. He suffers defeat. but he comes back again. because the white-bearded old veteran runs his country as he runs his home. on system. which is not always an attribute of a Latin character. At the present moment he is menaced once again on an in- ternal religious question. In such crises he is at his best: in such crises he is ready 10 go to the tri- bune and begin another three days speech. pounding the desk. glarng at his enemies, his little white beard bristling defiance all around his en- tranced audience.