The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-29

was an omelet-"
He hates noise when he is at work
and has given orders that the auto
mobiles which constantly arrive at
headquarters shall be as sparing az
possible in the use Of their horns.
while all the members Of his stat
take good care to talk in low tones
as the General does. Headquarters
are usually set UP in some retired vii
lage two or three miles back OF h
fighting lines, and the Generals
workshop" usually is q schoolroom O
town office not at the mouven3 in use.
HAs s6tfmates say that for years he
has foreseen this war. so clearly, in
dee that on meeting him his Assoc
ciates usually opened the talk with
the words. Well, Jofre, what about
your WARP" He must have beer well
aware that he would be called on to
take a prominent part in its conduct,
and no doubt rejoiced nightly in the
fact, yet he is wholly free from am
hition in regard to rank and power.
Like the late Lord Roberts. with
whose character his own has many
points in common, he is a soldier first
and last. and when the day coInes as
he and Mime. Jofre are confident it
will come, that sees him riding under
the Arc de Triomphe with the specially
revived rank Of Marshal Of France"
he will retire to his homely villa after
the ceremony is over. and devote his
remaining years to planning how best
to safeguard his country's future and
encourage its people to be good sol
diers as we'll as good citizens.
Our strength" he once said.
comes from this, that in France we
are the Of an ideal
Gen. Pau. One-Arm Hero OF 1879.
Almost as striking a figure as Jof-
g. - N~-o-- Dali - 49,
hero of the Franco-PruSsian war. It
is not generally known hat in June.
1911, when war louds began to
darken the political horizon, the
French Government offered Pau the
command OF all her military forces.
He was to be Commander in Chief
and Chief of Staff in times Of peace
and GeneralissimO in times of war.
But Pau insisted upon the right to
name without political interference
not only the Commanders of army
corps and the Chiefs Of Staff. but all
the higher officers down to Generals
in command Of bfigades. He wanted
the men who would do the actual
leading in wartime to be appointed
while there was peace. But this
would have meant a terrible shake
up in higher army circles and the
French Government refused Pau's re-
quest and allowed him to retire.
After the var started, when things
looked darkest for France, Pau again
enrolled in the army and was placed
in supreme command Of the Army OF
the East, where he reformed the shat
tered rench forces after the defeat
brought about by the blunders, il
nothing worse, Of the Fifteenth Army
Corps, and he led the new offensive
movement into Alsace which is still
progressing slowly toward Metz.
ffar fho cn~orI hotf1o ~ M,,cIIou
sen. Pau was called by Joffre to COM
mand the strategic retreat to the
Aisne n was present at the IA
nous war council in Bordeaux When
Lord Kitchener insisted on the court
martia1ing Of the French General who
had delayed going to the assistance OF
Genera French.
Paul Mary Caesar Gerald Pau, te
give him his full name, is a short
thick mar with c1os~e-cropped snow.
J white hair and heavy white mus
tache. He is sixty-seven years old anl
was a lieutenant in the Franco-Prus.
sian war. having graduated from ST
} Cyr in 1867. He lost his arm at thu
, battle Of F~roeschviI1er. but won tha
cross Of the Legion of Honor. Or
account Of his gallantry in that bat
tie he has been popularity known eve
since as the hero Of FroeschviTler.'
He was a Captain by the end o
the WAL, out IOr years afterWard pro
motion came slowly. 1t was not til
: 1897 that he attained the rank o
s General and was given command O
a brigade. her his great executive,
: ability won almost instant recognitio,
: and five years later he was in com
t mand OF an army corps, the Sixteenth
r In 1906 he was sent as Commando
: OF n Twentieth Army Corps Il
Nancy, the pivot OF which the defens
8 Of Frances eastern frontier hiorod
Pau has lone more tha,
T any other man except Joffre to furthe
: the adoption Of offensive tactics by tn
French army, and thanks to his in
q sistence in the hour Of her nee
e France has a three-year military serv
ice system. and SO efficient a reserv
n organization that she has heen ahI
to place in the field more men tina,
e Germany, and, if the truth be toll
more men than she Could unifor,n q