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signments in New York. Washington,
New Orleans, San Francisco. Seattle,
and perhaps hundred other places.
If the army posts system is dropped
and the army groups are stationed In
eight places in formation as brigades
with all their tactical proportion of in
fantry. cavalry. artillery and other
arms correct, there will be none OF
this mess. The whole army could be
set into motion within twenty-four
hours. Before thirty-eight hours had
elapsed. the groups would be converg-
ing on the point of concentration, and,
having arrived there. they would need
no disruption or organization. The
brigades would fall into their places
and the division would be ready
~
And the orders that would be required
to do all this would be just one tele-
graphic message duplicated to the COM
ma nding generals of the eastern, central
and western departments. and reading
Send your division to Galveston
Such a divisional organization, as said
before, can be created even under the
present peace strength"
This peace strength" of the regular
army. which is referred to so often, is
system long accepted under which the
StdHdlHS army III peace mas only a stated
percentage of the number of men that
actually are needed to make it effective
for war.
The idea of peace strength that is
inferior to war strength is not a merely
American measure. 1t is the same sys-
tenn that is fundamental during time Of
peace with even the most military Of
European nations. In all of them the
standing army is small compared with
the size of the armies that are to be
raised when needed.
But the weakness of the American
system Is that while we have the same
peace strength principle as in Europe
we utterly lack the first approach to a
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the French consul, they declared forcibly,
with details and explanatory poses.
that Venus. when they found her. was
standing upright on her pedestal, com
plete. perfect, her left arm extended
and its hand holding an apple.
The popular story Of the country
1T is the same tale of strife and battle.
The discovery, the dispute, the fight on
the beach impressed the islanders; and
the impression remains"
So, now, the story. In whole, it is
only recently revealed.
The minute she came out of hiding,
smash
Yorgos and the boys put their find
in safety. She was in two superposed
blocks. Joined invisibly at the waist.
Also. the left arm could be unlocked
from the shoulder, to which 1t was
cunningly fixed by an iron tenon.
They hid Jher upper half in a cabin.
They blocked the niche, to hide her
lower half.
BY hazard. the French storeship
La Chevrette was anchored in Melos
curious of art antiquities. who was.
later. to become celebrated-M. Dumont
d'Urville. Shopping through the ruins
Of antique Melos. he got news OF
terror, he said: "a peasant has found
peerless statue. Let's go see it,"
Yorgos was, hot to sell. He showed
them the lower half. then took them
beam from a little window gilded a
face and bust of supernatural beauty
that seemed rising from the lower re-
Eenf from 35s ae says So Venus y
rising from the cabin floor. In her left
hand she held that apple.
D'Urville bought her on the spot The
bargain was formal. Sailing hurriedly
for NJ as RS
iere. and in a few days the ambassa
doris secretary, Marcellus. was sent to
make payment and take possession.
ae RPe nratss Of the Island had
taken it on themselves to make a gift
of the Venus to a certain Greek prince
inhabiting Constantinople. So Yorgos
had sold her to them, also.
Following hot arrived the French
war schooner L'Estafette, sent by the
ambassador to take the statue. When
she anchored in Melos harbor. her COM
mandant, Robert. saw a brig flying the
Turkish flag anchored nearby. And to
the CONSERVATION of Marcellus and
himself. there appeared at the foot of
the hill a crowd of Greek and Turkish
sailors laboriously transporting the
upper half of the peerless one toward
that same Turkish brig.
She was undraped and shining. The
Turks had neither boxed nor wrapped
her. Later it was learned that her
lower half was already on the brig, and
now they lukged her lovely torso on a
stretcher. balance being kept by ropes
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Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, July q, 1915.
Asst August, the Venus of Milo
H quit Paris.
The Germans were thunder
~ ing down on the capital
Great moving vans were driven to the
courts of the Louvre; and 720 marbles
and paintings-of all schools, lands ana
neriods. the inestimable chefs oeuVres
of the museum-were taken to sure
destinations"
The Venus of Milo, who alone weighs
$500 pounds, had an automobile van
TO herself. Wrapped and smothered IN
cement, she went on her adventures
But adventures are not good for the
Venus of Milo.
A doom hangs over her; to get
blow each move she makes. and to
finally smash amid the conflicts OF
men.
For 1900 years she eluded this doom
by lying in hiding Yet, as soon
as she came out of hiding, her arms
were broken, in a conflict of men. And
lou shall see.
Now she has gone in hiding again,
amid conflicts of men.
z
Do not smile. 1t is just SO. In her
day, 1000 years ago. she was the
loveliest OF pagan idols. the victorious,
the pitiless
In a white temple. on a hill. amid
the scenery of a Grecian island, she
reigned, heather goddess of love, but
equally of vain desire. pain, strife,
jealousy and conflicts
One day, this doom went out against
her. Christianity, victorious. put down
the cruel images Zealots smashed the
marbles. We. to whom they are only
marbles. may regret IT. but in those
days, st. Augustin. whose culture was
as great as yours or mine. approved 1t.
In her island, this great Venus had
protectors BY night, they carried her
away, to secret vault in a hillside.
They sealed her UP, with who knows
in the dark. two tricky little gods or
demons stood to guard her. So they
left her, to await better days.
Stay in the dark. Venus Do not
come out.
The island was Melos.
Eighteen hundred years passed.
In March. 1920. Yorgos Bottoms,
peasant OF the Island of Melos. with
ais son and nephew. worked his field
on the flank of hill.
:, The field was in two terraces, like
steps. On the edge of the upper ter
race Yorgos found certain blocks of
antique trimmed stone, and desired to
use them. Frying up one. he found a
assure under his feet. into which dirt
rolled. They were over vault Every
peasant hopes to find hidden trea-
sure.
Feverishly. they broke in. Pushing
over a section of the sustaining wall
into the lower field. they jumped down.
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tied to her bust and neck. which still
bear traces of their saving on the sou
marble
We're just in time" said Robert TO
Marcellus.
They armed a squad of marines. took
a longhoat and landed just as a Iurk-
ish longboat crew came running ~
protect their brethren. The TURKS
dropped Venus to defend themselves
1t was slash, parry, wrestle ana roll
A cutlass takes off Turkish ear
Enough carnage for, craven image;
They pull for their brig. The French
have captured the peerless one;
They were excited and hurried
Quick. put rollers under her! Atten-
ton, she's falling over! Maiheur, she
FORT Here's the boat. 1t was hot
work. Best say nothing about it,
Nothing was said about it. No men,
ton of fight with Turks in time Of
peace. no mention of rough-houslng
Venus in a scrimmage. Just mo
dug from the ground. They squared
the Turks, who coded them the lower
half. But when the Estaffette sailed
Venus bore sad wounds.
What wounds? Mystery! Did they
gather up fragments of two arms from
the beach, or one arm only-the beau
tiful left arm which d'Urville and Mat.
terer saw lifting high the apple?
She ought to have known better than
to bring that apple!
But you say Yorgos sold her perfect
and now both arms are gone. as any
one can see. Therefore both were
broken on the beach. you say. 1t is
more complicated.
Her doom is to get one blow each
time she moves.
Behold (you say) Venus victrix safe
in the Louvre at Paris.
Safe? Wait
.The bust and front have scarcely
suffered from the ravages OF time" re-
ported Comte de Clarac, the curator.
'"They retain the velvety skin OF a
master of the great Greek period, who,
after polishing. once more skinned the
here and there are slight LESSONS. due:
probably, to careless pick work in
digging her up
Yet he knew that she was not dug
up.
He praised fragments of ARM" which
he assumes to have been happily
found" with the statue. He notes in
them "the same quality Of marble and
of work, the same velvety effects of
chisel skimming The shoulders have
been most damaged. Traces of cords
indicate that she may have been
dragged; the shoulders and hips are
"scraped" A few lines later he men,
tions the left shoulder is broken" at
the joining point.
AS time passed, however, strange
talk fitted.
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ing alleged vandalism" But he did not
breathe a word about the fight on the
beach.
Lieut. Matterer seems to have had
similar suspicion-that breakage was
done to Venus deliberately on the ship
or after her arrival at Paris. Neither he
nor d'Urville had formed part of the
conquering party, but they knew all
about it.
Matterer began to get uneasy. Naval
officer, he had a horror Of ''butting in
yet it CALLED him to hear the authori-
ties gravely discussing the probable
position of the arms So finally, he
wrote three notices in 1912. One was
deposited with the Archives de Fart
Francaise," one secretly confided to the
curator of Toulon Museum, and the third
put in the hands of Jean Aicard, of the
French Academy. He made sketches of
the perfect Venus, as he and d'Urvlle
had seen her in the niche. and described
her in words-"one arm sustaining the
falling drapery and one holding forth
an apple" And he concluded. signifi-
cantly: For the rest. they Cthe arms)
have been mutilated. the one and the
other"
In 1858, he published an article in the
Archives" telling the world. for the
first time. that Venus had been ac-
quired by force. But not even here
hurts in the fight on the beach.
NO" wrote Aicard recently. MAT
terer thinks, TRANQUILITY, that they COM
mitted the act of tfurther) mutilating
her in Paris. designedly. He shares this
strange opinion with the archeologist
Lenormant. each without the knowledge
of the other. And Matterer is not q
writer, but naval Office
D'Urville also. In lecture before the
Toulon Academy with closed doors. in
his old age) he told how, wishing to
give his personal friends of Toulon first
news of the find, he had written them a
letter from Melos, describing the per-
feet Venus as he had seen it. This let
ter never arrived. Then:
For the rest, both arms are mutt
lated, and at the present (actuellemenD
detached from the body
AS for the inscription it ran thus:
"Andros, Menides ON from Antioch
on the Meander. maze this work"
Hare says that the pedestal under
went a change in the workshops Of the
Louvre" and that 1.-The inscription is no
longer there" but lit would be an in
suit to the authorities to suggest that
they destroyed it to remove evidence
that their treasure belongs to a date
later than the grand Greek period
And there you are.
Since the day she came out Of hiding
her doom has been invariable.
At each move. blow.
And If you want proof by negation
observe her immunity in 1870. In 1870
she made no move. She remained in the
cellars of the Louvre.
Venus, stay in the shadow. Do not
move among men!
But who can stop doom?
Once more, she is out and moving.
STERLING HEILIGs
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Fifty years later. Yorgos' son and
nephew, still living. protested that she
had been found entire. President Theirs
of the French republic. being interest
ed in the Venus of Milo, had sent Jules
Ferry as amba ssador to Greece around
1872. to pick up local traditions of her
discovery. at Melos. He found Antonio
and Yorgos. jr., who, as youths Of
eighteen, had participated in it.
"They are the son and nephew" re-
ported Ferry, grown to be beautiful
white bearded old men, robust. rudy,
bright-eyed. Examined separately before
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the beginning. to better accredit pro-
duction which is its own best proof.
they designedly caused to disappear
accessories which might derange the
idea that they had discovered a chef
d'oeuvre of the grand period of Greek
art. Thus, besides the arms, they sup
pressed the debris of an inscription"
Who is "they?'
out Indignantly in the Revue Contem-
poraine, to defend himself, the am
bassador and the naval officers of the
Estaffette against an attack involv.
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bungling. yet it will be simply the
unavoidable result of the present sys-
tenn.
The orders for assemblage will have
to pass. from general staff to depart
ment commanders; from them to other
commanders, and so on till they reach
the post commanders. All orders for
assembling supplies must go through
the same course. When the movement
starts at last, each little detachment
will have to come by a route different
from every other. The distances to be
covered by the various units will vary
from hundreds of miles to thousands.
Their supplies will have to be sent
from depots situated here, there and
everywhere.
When they reach the place of concen-
tration, the only officers who know
anything about them will be their own
garrison or post officers. The officers
who are to command the mass will
have to be drawn from departments.
from bureaus, from government as
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looked in, and were struck with
strange awe. There stood goddess.
white and radiant, beautiful with the
beauty of the mmortals' of the old
songs! Who had hid her? mystery.
During 1880 years that marvellous
form, born for the light. had been
captive in the dark. she, the victorious!
Yorgos guessed her value. He knew
that antique Greek statues had, In
foreign eyes. great price. And this
statue was eRtiret
Yes. entire. Here is the queer part
of it
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Venus had received blow while on
the ship.
Aye, and another at Paris.
What for? To prove her OF the great
Greek period!
Now you begin to perceive how the
strange doom follows the chiefest ana
loveliest of Pagan idols.
1t was in 1854 that an illustrous Gas
steal archeologist. Charles Lenormant.
summed up the strange talk In an ar
ticle in the Correspondent contain
ing these singular words:
u have always believed that from
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and their auxiliary troops such as sig
nal corps. quartermaster's and sanitary
troops, etc, by themselves are only the
limbs of an army. II they are not as
sembled. they compare with true
fighting force as a mass Of separate
arms, legs and eyes would compare
with fighting man.
Again, just as a fighting man would
be useless IL he had three arms and
only one leg. or all his arms and legs,
but no eyes or no stomach so the vari-
our army formations are lacking in
emcfency unless they are assembled in
exactly the right proportion.
This comparison is not intended to be
humorous. An army going into battle
has before it the same conditions on a
gigantic and terrible scale that con-
front the pugilist who enters the ring
His fists are useless if his feet are not
quick enough to carry him swiftly in to
assault or to carry him as swiftly away
II his opponents blows fall too heavily.
His feet and fists combined are useless
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Need Divisional Organization Widely Scattered Troops
United Nine Posts
the Relocation Aow Each Group Would Be Assembled Wide
Value the Concentrated Correct Military Proportion All Ahe
Power Ability Weld That Power Qyhe Weakness
the American System
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post system have succeeded in burying
every proposed legislation looking to-
ward this sane, practical and really
vital reform.
The army cannot be organized as an
army under the army post system. 1t
is as impossible as it would be to con-
duct a business establishment with
each employe in different street.
All army formations, from the COM
pany to the division have been devised
with one object, which is to combine
numbers of men in such assemblage
that their united action shall be as
nearly as possible equal in quickness
and certainty to the act or one COM
pletely efficient man.
Thus the company, the smallest ad-
mnistrative unit, should move and strike
like one single man with the strength OF
a hundred. The battalion should strike
like four such supermen and thus should
deliver a blow equal to that of a man 400
times as powerful as any ordinary hu-
man man.
Concentration of power and the ability
to WELD that concentrated power
quickly underlie all the tactical forma
tons of every army. They are the
fundamental reason that has caused
practically all nations to organize their
armies into organizations within or
acknowledgements battalions, reg
ments, brigades, divisions and, finally,
the field army, which is the sum of
them ALL
Details such as the numbers of men
in each formation vary according to the
military judgment of various nations.
1t is quite possible that American ideas
may be altered more or less after the
lessons of the European war become
available. Such changes, however. will
be matters for technical experts to con-
slider and not for the people.
Whatever they may be, the principle
of army organization will remain the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-13

to advise, instruct, uplift. She bios
somed among the flowers in Horticul-
ture; h was Ceres among the fruits.
she othciated in a hundred capacities
in Manufactures, Varied Industries
and Liberal Arts. She helped her nus
band in the exhibit booth when she
was not running the booth alone! She
brought her young boys to Machinery
Ian and understood the technical ex-
plantations. In dignity and broad
cloth h welcomed all comers to the
California Host Building. Her coun-
tenance of wholesale hospitality
beamed in the Y. w. c. A. She shut
fed on her little sandaled feet In the
Japanese teahouse. Her generosity
face was to be seen of all who fire.
%quented the Chinese Pavilion. She
rang the bells of a thousand cash
registers. The keys of the office piano
hummed under her nimble fingers.
She presided at the telephone switch
board. She examined visiting babies
and gave medical advice to mothers.
She waited in the cafes. She sang in
front of the Tower of Jewels on OPEN
ing day. One hundred thousand of
her rubbed elbows with one hundred
thousand of him in the crowd that
reached from the tower to the gates.
She sold buttermilk n peanut and
souvenir watches and postcards and
| chewing gum from gaily ornamented
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kiosks. She gyrated in the hulahula.
She bound up wounds in the Emer-
gency Hospital. She answered a mill
lion questions. She asked ten million.
Wrapped in a Nrape, she lectured in
the Grand Canyon. She trumpeted
from the balcony of Alt Nuremburg.
She was a giant policewoman in Toy
land. She danced in the Jimtown
dance halls of the 40 Camp. She
trained leopards and ions n put
horses through their PAGES in Selig's
Wild Animal Show. Her yelled face,
b~old-eyed, looked out from the 'Mys-
terious Orient" She sat, white-uni-
formed, silent n an~tiseptic, behind
glass partitions in the Infant Incuba-
tor" exhibit. She was a geisha girl
in Japan Beautiful" She was a cow
girl in the 101 Ranch. She was a
window dresser for the Japanese row.
eminent. She told fortunes. She
dived. She made candies. She rolled
cigarets She mounted great fish for
souvenirs. She was a silversmith. She
was a modeler. She was a bacteriolo-
gist. She was the manager of a mine.
Every day. in the shifting kaleido-
scope of the Exposition. Lovely Woman
appears in some new and startling
phase. She rounds the race-track
with an auto-devil. She flies over the
Exposition with Christofferson. She
is eve the bright spot, the attractive
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TRIBUTE TO LUsIrAN1A vIcTISi
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Union Self-Sealing Tubes
Made Good on Trip

With twenty-five cars equipped with
the Union S~elf-Sealing Tubes n not
a one delayed with p%uncture trouble,
Is the honor claimed by the Union Sales
Company. Special reference is made to
the Hupmobile car. which carried the
manager and sales force of the Union
Sales Company.
The tires on this car were punctured
twenty-five times before the car start
made with a large ice pick driven into
the tire by a heavy mallet. Following
the puncture the car made the entire
run of nearly 500 miles without further
pumping. Throughout the run they
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worst kind, had no effect on these tires
whatever. Many spikes and nails were
picked up along the course. w. e.
Orth. of the City Star Laundry, driving
a Cadillac. picked up a large nail near
C~oatesville, but failed to note 1T until
his attention was attracted at the
nail from the tire. started his engine,
and resumed the trip without any de-
lay.
&C." picked up an unusually large
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vertised during the run. A body,
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LOVELY WOMAN At
PANAMA EXPOSITION
Sprang Up Everywhere Just Like
to Jonquils, Pansies and
Peoples

Suddenly, where only foliage had
been in the Exposition gardens, jon
qulis n pansies and peoples and
quils and pansies and peoples and
bloom against the opening day. Just
so, Lovely Woman sprang up every
where. bringing with her light,
warmth. color, gaiety. She came with
her sacred dear domestic virtues to be
hostess in the State buildings of the
South and Cast. She brought her
achievements as voter and business
woman to her reign in the western
State buildings. She filled the Palace
Of Food Products with the tempting
odors of her cooking. She took pos
session of the Palace of Education,