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Show $ j MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASRTON By R. T. S. 4 (Copyright. 1922. by The Standard Examiner.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. Georges Clemenceau, Tiger of Trance, sails next Saturday on the most perilous journey he has ever taken. Not so j long ago, be was hunting the beasts for which be Is regarded as the human prototype, but that wu. nothing in his adventurous and colorful life. The Tiger, however, Bets sail for America with much trepidation and to j the everlasting worrlmcnt of his doctor. doc-tor. How Is the former premior of France to follow tho doctor's orders In dry America .' The doctor has ordered the Tit,-- r lo drink a glass of Bordeaux u Inc a it h each meal, and this has been his cue- I torn for many years.- The physician fears that the breaking "i a long established es-tablished habit at M. Clcmenc iu's advanced ago may actually prove dangerous. dan-gerous. It was suggested to Clemenceau in Paris, atcordlng to the cables that he might get supplies from the French embassy here, but It Is unlikely the Tiger Will ask this favor, c onsidering I "hlB own government's rather hostile attitude toward his trip. Furthermore M. Clemenceau would have to transport his wine supply from city to city, and transportation is strictly against the American laws Naturally the Tiger will meet many old friends here In America and particularly par-ticularly here in "Washington, and he will find among these tri'-nds a very great many with well stocked cellars. Naturally they win offer the Tiger tho pick of what they have, but Clemen-ceau Clemen-ceau never drinks excep: at meal time and then only tho tinest Bordeaux. It only he liked the "hip stuff" his friends could see to It that he did not want during his visit. The old Tigi x has been across the burning sands before, be-fore, however, and he may yet tind an oasis In this American desert of tho western hemisphere. 'j Washington, as well as the rest of the United Stales has been struggling tho past lew days to get itself straight on Fascism, the Fascist! and the new Fascistl government in Italy. It Is not likely, however, that ihe Fascist) will I ever have tho vogue in this country that the bolshevtsts had. Americans soon got tin idea that the bolshevik Was somebody against the govern mm at and against everything, so America adopted lh-- word and it is now an Indelible In-delible pun of the English language. It Is not so easy to classify or place the Fasclsti and Fascism does not roll off the tongue like- bolshevik. Mussolini, the Fascistl premior jf Italy, tays that Fascism Is a purely Italian question Just as bolshevism Is a purely Kusian matte;. It Ls polbly truo that bolshevism ls a purely Russian Rus-sian matter, but lots of American people peo-ple have been officially classed by their friends or enemies as bolsheviks and bolsheviks they will be until they die. Fascism seen3 a bit more intricate. Jt means, as far as can bo judged from this distance, Italy tor the Itallin.M Tho Fasdstl In this country call It "America first," There are plenty of tho Fascistl In tho United States, It seems, but they always have gone under the proud boast of "100 per cent Americans." Some of Premier Mussolini s political politi-cal opponents recently accused him of flirting with tho Germans and possibly with the Russians with tho Idea of forming an international Fascistl, or a sort of reactionary international movement. He denounces this us absurd, ab-surd, the Fascistl ure for Italy first, .last and all the time, and the vest of the world can go hang. The Democrats Demo-crats say It was the American Fascist! that won tho election In 1920, At last the humble newspaper scribe Is coming Into his own. The United Mine Workers of America hav. omnly and officially suggested to tho Fact Find Coal commission of which John Hayos Hammond is chairman, that In conducting any line of investigation inves-tigation into tho actual causes of strikes in the coal mining fields, the commission employ aa Investigators a number of thoroughly competent and experienced newspaper reporters. "Not the kind," says the miners' union, "who are always out of a job, but the kind who always have a Job, because of their ability as reporters .'end news gatherers " Because of their Intensive training as searchers after actual facts." the union recommendation continues, i "those men would come a; near to finding out the cold, bald truth as any set of of Investigators that could be j assigned to this (ask and no lnvestl- gator could be more unprejudiced than a newspaper reporter. They might not be as academic In the handling of the- i orles and statistics as some others, but' they would find out what Is wrong"! This Is plainly worded, but none tho less striking tribute to the working ; newspaperman, and It comes from one of the I ig unions of the country- Tho unions .as a rule, complain bitterly of their treatment in "capitalistic press." but Hk- miners' union, at least. Is sure it would get a square deal by the emph ineiit of reporters to find out why there are coal strikes. Reporters often hao proved their worth as criminal Investigators. They have solved crimes given up by the professional detectives. This, however, is the first time they have been nationally na-tionally recognized as an Impartial Industrial In-dustrial commission. oo |