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Show TIGER'S MONEY ' i AIDS STUDENTS Receipts of American Tour Will Provide Several Fellowships WASHINGTON; Dec. By The1 Associated Press.) Former Premier Oienn n -auV .'M'li.in :-H add,-d $'U,000 to the American field service fund fellowship, Stephen Benson, who managed lh- lour, announced today. : 'I'll - ;iiniuiit is llir surplus oi money received from lectures and newspaper! articles by "the Tiger' atter defray- i ing tbe expenses of his trip The war time premier. It was ox-, plained, was unwilling to accept fi-l nancial assistance for his mission, sol he accepted lecture and writing contrails con-trails to pay his wav, asking that any. surplus be devoted; in memory of hi student years In the United Srates, to1 the fellowships which are Intended, among other things, to stimulate; friendship b fcween Prance and Ameri-j ca through the education In each country of young men trom the other., ONLY PARTIALLY RAISED. The American field service was or-j gunlzed and directed by Representative Representa-tive A. I'latV Andrew of Massachusetts to enable young Americans to do am- j bulance work in France before the I'nlted States entered the war. It was i In recognition of this that M. Clem- ! enceau was selected as the beneficiary I of his tour the American field service ser-vice fund fellowships organized after i the American field service had been i disbanded to perpetuate the names of 127 members by creating a like number of scholarships to (.end young men of each country to universities in the oilier, only 30 have been established, es-tablished, however, because the greater great-er part of the fund's total, set at $3. 500,"0o, remains to be raised through contributions. According to Mr Bonsai. M. jClem-enceau jClem-enceau voiced a desire ma'. ;ne young men of France- and of America "learn j the lessons of life together." He was especially eager that French youths Should "digest the precepts of democracy! democ-racy! through playing football and other games in American institutions." 1 1 1 : TH PRESENTMENT. Various agencies whose offers of financial assistance for the American tour were refused because of the ample am-ple provisions of his contracts, "the Tiger" suggested, could, if willing, help toward his great aim by contributing con-tributing those funds to the fellowships. fellow-ships. In addition, railroad rates reduced, a private car was loaned to the party and other economies effect-ad. I The "Tiger's" arrival in France re-I re-I called a presentment he voiced that I he would die in this country. Mr. Bonsai, observing his happiness upon the completion of his second address at Chicago, his last formal engagement engage-ment before sailing for home, que-s-I tioned him as to his emotion and M. Clemenceau, telling Ot his presentment present-ment in Franco that death would overtake him in tho United States, explained: ex-plained: ' I was afraid, if that were so, that I should not be able to finish my task ii, i. Bui It is ended now, and I 'don't care two pins." M ER OFFENDED. Comments by many of his auditors ou Ills command of the English language, lan-guage, Mr. Bonsai related. caused ' the Tiger" ' remark that If he had remained In this country six weeks longer during his exile in the sixties, he might have become an American citizen, since at that tlmo It was not net assary to file first papers but mer ly to apply for citizenship after a certain period of residence. M Cl( l ' Qyceau'S American tour was I replete with incidents which touched his sens'- of humor. According to Mr. Bonsai, he was not offended by congressional, con-gressional, political or newspaper at- ' tacks but enjoyed them and wolcomed them as giving him an opportunity to make replies. UPROAR AT TOMB. The only Incident he regretted, his mansgi t said, was what he characterised character-ised as the desecration of the. tomb of Lincoln during his pilgrimage of reverence rev-erence there when photographers created cre-ated considerable disturbance with shouts and flashlight explosions. The fumes choked him and he was forced to hasten te the open air. Tho visitors chief amusement, his manager asserted, came from the custom cus-tom of Americans in addre.ssing him as "Em" Clemenceau. The former premier's conclusion upon leaving the United States was said to be that americans had not misjudged tho I (Trench so much as they had misjudged mis-judged the situation In Europe. RECALLS EXILE HERE. "The Tiger" was somewhat astonished, aston-ished, Mr. Bonsai declared, by American Ameri-can declarations that he was militarist militar-ist since he recalled that It was his "anti-militarist activity" during the third empire in France and his participation par-ticipation in a demonstrston of sympathy sym-pathy for Lincoln after his assassination, assassina-tion, when the French government bid had "l-eanlngo toward the south ern cause," that made him a political j exile In America. "One's enemies often do one more I good than one's friends." M. Clemenceau Clemen-ceau once remarked apropos his oxide ox-ide to America. He explained his exile ex-ile gave him opportunity to study this , eountrj 's democracy. 1 00 |