Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 27 | Briand, New French Premier, Was Card-Playing Failure When 35

Briand New French Premier Was Playing Card Card Failure When 35 Out Outdoes oes th the Cat Cat in Returning t to Rower Power for Tenth Tenth Time Tie Career Picturesque q e PARIS Aug 10 N NEA M. M. A A M. M Aristide Briand the new ne' premier premi r of of Fran France c is the most picturesque figure among world Ie statesmen men today Any man who is a failure at 35 and then rises s t to become premie premier of his country ten times must have more than a pr prayer and nc luck 4 Tl This ls yar 67 year 67 aX wizard of ot statesmanship states manship whose Wh sc ancestors were Bretons Bretons Bre Bre- tons li has lias s become a a habit with the people of ot the thc Third d Republic Ho He formed fored bis lil first cabinet In 1909 and has be been n ol doing rg it It- at intervals ever ever since OUTDOES THE HE CAT Nine times his hi government s ha has fallen and ho Ito has Imas gone gono down in collapse collapse col col- I lapse but Jm ho he has lias proved d himself t to have hav more political hIv lv lives s than the thc proverbial cat cat- cat ro Born Bom In In Nantes in 16 1862 Briand became early In In life life a jc a socialist a n ch champion I plon of the cause cause of ot the workIng work work- Ing InS classes At 35 35 this this maker maker of oC cabinets vass was vas seemingly s a i a failure In 1st his chosen ch profession profession law Half newspaper newspaperman man half halt lawyer ho preferred the easy life In cafes of ot Montmartre asso associating o oI sv I t It h his Bohemian to serious affairs of oC state When In a i Journalistic poker game and the tho cards going against him he lie would pull put off oft on one shoo shoe and place It atop the table to bring brIng him hm lu luck k Suddenly he came to life arid and In Inless Inless less 10 l years attained Ott t l ed the goal goat of ot the every statesman the statesman the head of at th the government He Ho served his Isis first term in U the thO chamber of or deputies dep in 1902 1002 and seven years later hater was was' asked d to te form his his' first cabinet Nine Nino times ho he has repeated It It I is a record for Cor all aU time the world IMAD MADE S SOLDIERS SOLDIERS' OF STRIKERS I With one ono bold stroke in 1910 1930 he he settled a national railway strike b by issuing a a mobilization order calling caJUnS tho the strikers t to arms arms Then he ho br- br oz- oz tiered them as soldiers soldiers to to man the railroads Whether tho the occasion is an alY crisis of oZ which Fance France has So many or whether it is i iSa ia a matter matter mat mat- ter ot of international significance ce th the French Fench French seem to turn to Brand Briand Bri Br- and nd asia matter of course o lse The Tho very adversaries who caused his downfall down down- fall faU c come r back later beseeching I him lm to forgive and take the helm again In Jn a crisis He consents with Indulgence gence that th t makes parliament ap- ap a a naughty child personal tastes arc are ar exceedingly ex- ex simp simply When he lie is riot not rioth rot rotIn In h the cham chamber ber of r deputes deputies or r his small smal apartment h he is f on lila hla farm tarm farmin In in Normandy where he raises pedigreed hedi- hedi greed sheep arid and indulges in his far far- orio onto pastime of fishing It I Is said sid ho 10 hatches pl plots plots' against his enemies one ene nc- nc mice mies while watching 8 the fish nibble at nt the bait Briand loves s lo the conten contemporary the ho 6 latest novel and today's news- news I 0 n I paper papers having having- reached hed 67 years h no lie finds th the relaxation of t 1 fishing fishing his bachelor flat fat his glass glasO glas of or wine and his slippers a 0 much finer fier elixir of life than the theatre the cafe cafeS or even tho the chamber of oZ deputies deputes LOVES OVES LIFE ON FARM FARM H He Is iz the tho happiest on on l his ll little lUo farni ar wearing S wooden shoes with torn bre breeches a a in his mout mouth and his hair falling falling down down over his eyes In Paris Pari ho bo is a rustle rustic in Sunday Sunda clothes wh which eh he despises He Hc wanders about so o JJ- JJ dressed Hl-dressed that he c. c is sometimes tm mistaken Isten b by bythe bytho I the tho gendarmes gendarme's for a a tram Once t o he ho was arrested as as' a a a vagabond Briand's Bran s 's eloquence loquence is ono one qC the factors in his isis amazing success ss He denounces and woos oos mocks mocks' and persuades His ol voice e Is mellow musical and nd general generally even His favorite favorIt n attitude Is to Ito bend over tho the railing of or the tribune and lower his his' hiS voice almost to a whisper A A tense silence al always always al- al ways follows Like President Doum Briand ruo has mas a. a sieve never married Of ot Raymond Rn mond PoIncare and Briand Clemenceau once said Poincare knows kows everything and understands n nothing thin Briand knows nos nothing s- s san arid and understands ev everything