Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1922, Page 13

" _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . % C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922. GRIFFITH TO BE FIRST PREMIER. JRISH PEOPLE NOW PREDICT Author of. Sinn Fein Movement Called “Man of Ice"—Makes Every Word Count—Hard to Interview. BY FORREST DAVIS. pateh to The Star. N, Ireland, February 28.— Arthur Griffith, author of the Sinn Feln movement, chief negotiator of the Anglo-Irish treaty and president of the dail eireann, is a man of ice. As no survey of the new order in Ireland would be complete without an expression from and a glimpse of its most potent figure, 1 called on President Griffith at the higtoric Mansion House. The expression was difficult to ob- taln and brief. The glimpse some- what less so. He is a publicist who shuns publicity. It was only on my second call, after shivering for an hour beneath a huge portrait of Queen Victoria, in the reception hall of the Mansion House that he came fn and 1 was given audience. His coming was attended with no cere- mony. The startling entrance gong sounded, a page opened the door, a smallish man in topcoat and derb: came briskly through and proceede ‘without a glance into his office, d rectly off the hall. “That's Griffith,” the boy Whis- pered. After considerable delay a clerk came out, located me and. after warning that I must make my call short, led me in. Every Word Counts. The president was standing rigid- 1y by a window. approached. “I can give no inter said without preface. made it my rule” He stood tense, Lis cool, blue eyes regarding me through nose glasses set on with a steel spring. which clasped them se- verely over his nostrils. I attempted to persuade him to make an excep- tion of his ordinance of silence, pleading the interest of Americans in his views and personality, urging that he-maké a statement of general urposes. P fis expression did not alter. There was no geniality in his manner. “No, I cannot talk,” he sald. “T am not concerned about America. The weight of our problems here Is so oppressive I have no time for in- terviews. Few can tell what we are facing. We have to apply all our energies to translating the will to freedom into orderly self-govern- ment.” He spoke slowly, measuredly, with a gravity that escapes description. I began to see there was no appeal from his edict. A clerk approached to re- mind bim and the dail cabinet was ue to meet at that moment. 2 d"CBn you tell me this?” I urged. “In what do you expect the new Irish na- tion to be pre-eminent, in what vir- tues wil] your people set an example to the world?” Pictures Ireland’s Future. He stood a moment, thinking. “Yes,” he answered. “Ireland will externalize an ideal to the world. That is the ideal of _the development of a whole people. We will show that a small race, submerged for centuries, may reassert itself and, building on its ancient foundations, take a for- ward place in a new civilization. And our Gaelic culture will be revived and_ intensificd to the bol’leflt_o! the world, including America.’ Although his words were eloquent, his manner was not. He stood as be- fore, impassive, looking at me fixedly, though not - staring. When he had finished, he extended his hand, a sur- rising move, and turned away quick- . "My impression was as of a glacler, The “Tip top” in Top Coats He nodded as Il in spite of his insignificant size. A cold, detached, unconquerable force, pressing irresistibly forward. Griffith is the antithesis of the popular con- ception of an Irish patriot. He lacks magnetism: he is no man on horse- back, no passionate evangel of free- dom, but a stern-willed ascetic, & Cromwell. The people do Mo im as they do the vivid “Mickey" Collins, head -of the provisional gov- ernment and his chief subaltern. But they respect him and Rave confidence in him, all classes alike, from the fervid republicans to the staid Anglo- Irish unionists. It is significant of something that both England and Ireland are ruled by men of Welsh blood. Griffith is a Welshman by descent. Irishmen tell me he cares nothing for popularity, evades public speaking and dislikes contact with the people he serves and in whose cause he has been serving sacrificially since 1899, when he first gave tongue to .the self-contained thesis of sinn fein. ‘Woman Denfed Interview. Recently Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington, whose husband fell in the Easter re- bell prime mover in the Irish woman's party, sought an audience with the president to urge reforms in the woman suffrage laws. It was denied, Griffith sending word he was 100 busy to sge her. On the day the interview had been asked for the president received the Persian consul, who called in national robes. to pre- sent the felicitatlons of his govern- ment to the Free State. This aroused Mrs. Skeflington. “On the day we wished to see him, and he too busy to see us. he has time for a pleasant social chat with the Persian consul, in his flowing bes,” she told a’ Dublin reporter. ut we will keep after Mr. Griffith until he finds the time to recognize us, just as we did John Redmond.” In one particular. however, I should imagine Mrs. Skeflington's statement | 1 cannot conceive between the presi- to be incorrec: of the intervie $|dent_and the consul as a_pleasant The Glory of the Spring Apparel Half of it is the beauty of the ¢pl- ors. Our dye ex- pert applies the new Spring shades to faded fabrics and returns the gar- ments to you as you would have them. Call Main 4724 CLEANERS & DYERS PIAIN OFFICE 740 13~ ST N.W. In Washington there’s more weather when w}\: need a Top Coat than when you don’t ich brings us to providing not only abund- antly—but distinctively. = S We've imported a regular “Londoner” from N. & C. 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While others storm the benches in the dail With their oratory, he sits quletly, thinking, ready to offer the right solu- tion. He s unsparing in his labors, working all hours and always effl- clently. He permits himself no re- laxations from his duty. 1In short, he is @ remarkable man.” In Struggle Twenty-Three Years. It was from Brown I learned that Griffith professes the Catholic re- ligion. I had heard in America and from Dublincrs that he is & Meth- odist. As a man’s creed is a ponder- able factor in IFish affairs, I asked Brown. He assured me the reports were untroe. Brown also told me of GriMth's twenty-three-year struggle for home rule. He began in 1899, preaching tze nationalist gospel of Sinn Feln in his bapers. I say papers because they Wwere suppressed so often and the titles were altered so often that the names of the periodicals he edited. largely by stealtn, could not be tabu- lated here. He was part and parcel of the Gaelic League movement, one of the four prongs to the instrument which lifted the Irish pcople to self- rule, and his influence was all per- vasive. People call him “the strong man of Ireland” He is a realist, committed to the capitalistic, middle-class view in economics, and regarded as a “safe man” by the business community. Irishmen who have small faith in the abilitles of their fellows to rule wise- ly pin their hopes on Grifiith. They expect him to be the first prime min- ister of the duly organized Free State. —_— You ginfienza Sell Here, Eain strength to ward it off by taking Father John' icine.—Adver- taking F ohn's Medicine.—Adver: Seventy per cent of the woman workers in Kansas MOrkers earn less than $15 at ‘12 semi-elastic. T e——=lole—lal—=]alc——=]o]———fal—2Jal——lolc—=———a|——|o|——[o[c—]o]c——|c—= 0l ———=o]—=]0 [ =—=] ] . Dresses jaunty hams. Sizes are anair. Gvi pernan, st nge vis-| CHURCH VOTES MERGER. 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