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his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett C.
Dunn. in Duke street. Miss Dorothy
Roland has returned from q visit to
Mr.. and Mrs G. w. Patterson, at In
dian Head, Nd Niss Georgie Hunson
has returned from visit to her Sis
ter, Mrs. Herbert O1in Pattison. at Pe-
oria, Ill. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank r. H.
Todd of Detroit were tho guests last
week of the formers mother Mrs.
Frank 8. Harper. in Prince street.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Swan enter
taissad at q '.3uaior stag dinner Sat
urday evening at their home In Rose
mont for their Sons. Masters Everett ane
Stanley Swan. The guests were Mas
ters Henry Love OF Baltimore. Richard
Acton. Richard kemper. Charles NJ.
Shepperson, II: John Rcwer Hubbard.
Robert Payne. Tom Hulhsh. oycrton.
Harold and Philip Price. Edgar Dare
and Courtland warfield. Mrs Charles
Calvert Smoot and Miss Nellie Selden
uhier have returned from visit to New
York city. Mr.. James Willian Fox OF
Camp Lee was the guest last week OF
Mr. and Mrs. Charles NJ. shepperson at
the Wagar. Master Henry Love OF
Baltimore is the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ L. Horner at RossIaont. Master
Ove-ton Westfeldt Price has returned
TO school at Niagara Falls. n. Y.
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boxes for overseas are now their daily
occupations, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Young wives whose husbands are now
In camp have returned to their parents
homes and have a double interest in
working for the government Work
for works sake is becoming more of a
dominant idea, and the vast array of
American woman workers increases
daily.
In lieu of the care-free butterfly ex-
istence of q FIRST year out" Miss Mar
Raret Shober is surprising her many
friends by seriously taking up nurs-
ing, and Is now at the University Of
Pennsylvania Hospital taking the reg
ulation course. She is the daughter of
Mrs. John b. Shober and spent the
early autumn with her mother at Hay-
esford.
Miss Mary Clark has also selected a
nursing career. and Is now an under
graduate at the Polytechnic Hospital.
Miss Clark is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Clark of Bryn Mawr. and
her engagement to Lieut.. George Har-
rtson Frazier, 5r.. son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George Harrison Frazier, was recently
announced.
Society is well represented in the
wards of this hospital. Mrs. John
Flick recently signed for a course of
training. while Mrs. Henry K. billiard.
whose husband Is a prominent young
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THURSDAY afternoon to the ladies' Of the
Busy Bee Crochet Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Cassidy en-
ltertained New Year day at a family
dinner party. Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Miller and daughter
Margaret Ruth: Misses Mamie and Jen-
ME Cassidy. Mrs. Mary Miller. Miss
Margaret Miller. Miss Frances Creaner
and Mr.. William Cassidy.
Mr.. and Mrs Lewis Hodgewood of
Roanoke Va. were the recent guests
of the latter's parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
John NJ. George,
Mrs. Sidney S. MARITIME of York, Pa.
| Is visiting her niece. Mrs. A. Cummings.
Mrs. c. Y. Burnside has returned TO
her home after visiting her son. Capt.
Harlow Burnside. who is stationed at
Camp Custer Battle Creek, Mich. while
away Mrs. Burnside also visited her
mother Mrs, Hannah Davis. at Evans
ton. Ill
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur J. Williams were
hosts the evening OF December 81 at
their nineteenth annual New Year eve
celebration. The guests present in
cluded Mr. and Mrs. John Ledger. Mr..
and Mrs Charles +. Davis. Mr.. and Mrs.
f. A. Carpenter. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r.
Moister Mr. and Mrs. r. H. Mumford.
Mrs John Gross and Mr.. John J. VIII
iiams.
Word has been received here of the
! marriage on Christmas day at st Pc
| tersburg.. Fla, of Mrs. Nettie Seymour
pisel of Jamestown, y. Y. and DIR. Hi
ram J. Penrod. The ceremony was per-
I formed by the Rev. Chester Sprague.
DIR. Penrod is we'll known in Brookland.
| having resided here for many years.
The couple will -.~-e their future home
at st. Petersburg.
The Brookland Bridge Club met
Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
| Ripley, 30o9 18th street northwest.
Mrs. B. C. Washington and Mrs.
Charles L. Molster chaperoned u party
of young people Friday evening to
Lloyds Md to attend a Christmas par
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day. the winter
'oe5sw Hats Booked season will be
for Early Debut ana tna s.''. .nr,n. ONE.
s0eeson . very early one. therefore one
may expect an early showing Of spring
haks. 1t IL predicted that dark colors
wm Be the rule in the spring. az this
winter. An editorial In a New York
payer tntimatss that one can tail the
e1ew rich" from the small town, stop-
[Reoe In that city. by the light colors
- eenerat iuxuy1anoo Of dress, q
INo1ber 4afe has bseo adopted almost
|1y by tAe oouiety Women o1 New
|21gk Wne0e greatest d1vsrsjoas afo in
1R Woee q 0sDe kinA
d y.
~ GseMvu1 sUq0o . paSeys SAe
|Ue1sp 11o4e ana q was Q hues success.
Even for New YoriE,
sRl4fkyumAn a@ told, this msr.
--xA ry.mAking was un.
fsu11sh, sayu IN Enslish woman writ.
Em9 u &hs Pittsburgh 0asstts-
Ezlmsa - sngaes1 for tbs svsning the
.1soD - H. ea4e e . Devulsr rsstau-
knne - UgDnGUays AnA it bAsutieuIiy
u1n1 N1lA DooD - AoDMA q.
- G1z1ns
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were received by Mrs. Robert S. Bar
rett. assisted by Miss Mary Hunt Rob-
erts. Miss Collins Jones. Miss Marie
Gasson. Miss Sarah Kemper, Miss Char
lotte Ke.nper, Miss Lucy Kinsolvtng.
Miss Betty Brown of Washington, Miss
Hilda Schneider, Miss Elizabeth Boothe.
Messrs. Tupper and Waller Barrett,
Chester Pierce. Edwin Pierce, Bruce
Morton Johnson Mcclure, Albert
Bryan, Allan Roberts. Laurence Faw-
cett and Frank Johnston. The others
present were Misses Courtney Cochran
Margaret Eggborn, Inez and Margaret
Moore. Elizabeth Demaine, Virginia
McCuen, Josephine Gregg. Elizab beth
Bryant. Phoebe and Betty Harding,
Viola Barrett. Margaret Linn, Margaret
Cunningham, Virginia Keith, Evelyn
Pickett, Reba O'Seill, Virginia and
Rosa Lee Fuller, Susan Thomson, Rosa
and Cecilia Murphy. Margaret French.
Esther Lambert. Margaret Yates, Irva
Kemper, Genevieve Sheppe:son. Caro-
line Wattles, Lillian Marsh. Edmonia
Baker. Dorothy Burkett, Katherine
Leadbeater, Louise Carlin and Charlotte
Hammand. and Masters Hugh March,
Everett Poh1. Randolph Davis. Robert
Steele. Paul Barrett, Urban Lambert,
Charles Shepperson, Everett and Stan
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BrookIand Society.

Mrs. !. +. StambauGh has returned
after visit to relatives at South Beth
lehem, Pa.
Mrs. David White of Medina. \. Y.
accompanied by her little son. David,
1r.. is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Henry.
Miss Margaret Cutler entertained at
her home, In 18th street, New Year
eve in compliment to tho members of
the Swast'ka Club. The guests in
ciuded Misses Nellie Smith, Doris
O'Connell. Mildred Smith, Alice Har-
baugh. Virginia Pate and Mary Har-
baugh> and Messrs George SaItzman,
Howard Ralph. Douglass Burnside,
Louis Bond. Emory Hughes and Will
liam Cutler
Miss Margaret F. Robinson of Roxs-
borough. Philadelphia, Pa. spent the
holidays with her cousins, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles f. Molster.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Phillip Miliett of Cal
ifornia were holiday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Cummings.
Mrs +. A. Carpenter was hostess
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Chevy Chase

.,., 81,
MIS- fraiih = ware q Sc" PIT 't's
was the house guest during he holidays
~ nor brother ana nlster-tlt-taw. MIR
,..,,: !, ,,,..t,,
ana Mrs. " Imam :.
tir. and Mrs. O. B. g, fnfla"ay OF
Philadelphia. Pa, are guests Of Air. and
NJ rrio,
Mrs' i'a"s eiiA - -.
Mrs. - y. S"ope VIII e'e
Community Club of Chevy Chase at her
home Monday January a.
= r,a,, iii, e,tart,;n
Mrs Jesse 9. fo,hury WIZ ehser'ain
the Chevy chase chapter oi the ouhs
Women's Christian Association az he'
home Tuesday afternoon az ociocs-
AIR. and Mrs. Jesse 9 ,hdkins Will en-
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Plans have been completed for the
roller skating carnival, which will take
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Falls on Pavement. Breaks Ankle.

Miss Elizabeth b. Linthicum. who con-
ducts the St Gertrude's Home at 1905
X street northwest. fell on the fey
street several days ago and is badly
injured. One of her ankles is broken
and she will be confined to George
Washington University Hospital for
several weeks.
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physician and Is now abroad. is also
studying nursing there.
It 10 announced that Mrs. walter
Rathbone Bacon. widow of walter
vanderbilt's Granddaughter bone sa-
Donates Art Treasure. nrs..nt-
ed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"a fne portrait by Van Dyke. the famous
an unusual portrait by Zorn of Mrs.
Bacon herself. The gifts have been ac-
cepted by the museum, says the New
York American.
The announcement is made by the
American Art News, which says:
The Van Dyke comes from the noted
Murray Scott collection and is an un-
usually good example of the early
Dutch and English master. and the por-
trait by Zorn Is said to be the finest
womans portrait the Swedish modern
master ever produced.
1T was painted in 1897, in which
year Sargent also painted Mrs. Bacon
in a Spanish costume for her cousin,
Mrs. George Vanderbilt. This portrait
is at Riitrlore \. C.. in the residence
OF the late MIR Vanderbilt. Zorn also
painted another portrait of Mrs. Bacon.
as did also Carriere- -Relleuse--a life
size canvas now in Bordeaux Mrs
Bacon, donor of the two portraits to
the museum. is the youngest grand
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt
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Alexandria Society.

The members of the Junior German
Club gave their Christmas dance Fri
day afternoon in the auditorium of
Elks' Home The members and guests
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3ociQK

Supper tables were placed all around
the circular room and the space in the
center was left free for dancing.
Lady Chetwynd's party being given on
a Tuesday. "Hooverism" was patriot
fcally regarded and ne meat was serv-
ed. Only oysters. HOLSTERS. fish and
''meatlessr dishes figured on the menu.
Lady Chetwynd. looking charming.
made a perfect hostess. She wore a
lovely gown of silver tissue, and her
superb rope of pearls. which measures
more than three yards long. She sell
dom wears any Jewels other than this
wonderful milk-and-w string, each
uated until its perfection is recognized
as being unrivaled even in England.
where jeweled heirlooms are historic.
Mrs. Little, who is Lady Chetwynd's
mother, shared with her daughter the
duties of hostess. and looked most
dainty.
Although during the past few weeks
the young Philadelphia girls who
should have
Philadelphia Girls been debutantes
Take Up Nursing. claiming = lit
tie of the social gayety that is theirs
by right. il is the more serious trend
that the younger generation is follow
ing these days. Dances and teas are
replaced by Red Cross meetings. and
making surgical dressings or packing
The Washington times., 1918-01-08

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The Washington times., 1918-01-08

::vs- > FGT f7r7t ~ -a-1
-. .aE TEr IL S-rs-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
the Painting By Gustove Dore

our Flemish battlefelds, round Ypres to
Bailleul. There below me were outspread
all along the straight roads with avenues
of poplars which I have been travelling
these three and half years past, and the
fields of Flanders with red-walled cottages
and church spires and orchards white with
blossoms, and old windmills whose sails
have turned to the wind Of many centuries.
This countryside was designed for peace
and the sowing and reaping of grain. but
since the war began the horizon has been
on fire beyond it, and last night this she'll
fire was bursting close in fields untouched
before by any steel unkinder than the
plough, and along roads which until week
or two ago were safe highways."
The Dove to Fly
IN MAY DAY word came from switz-
erland that the second phase of
the German offensive was about to de-
velop in the form Of peace drive.
Somewhat anonymously, General Lu-
dendorff, the foremost German military
lcdU0T, IS SdlU TO nave Oee0 appointed
director Of the campaign It was re-
ported that Emperor Karl of Austria
would make overtures to Italy as soon as
military operations slow down in the
West, as they are expected to do in a
few weeks. The announcement came
from German sources that the Pope
would make new peace offer on May
19 that would be much more urgent than
his previous communications on the SUBJ
ject, and that he would offer his services
as mediator.
Writing to The Tribune from London,
Arthur S. Draper points out that Germany
wants peace more than anything else,
because war is rapidly sapping the life
blood of the nation, because economic
exhaustion is always lurking around the
corner, because her allies can get moth
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-. &2,A&

said further that the offensive had three
objectives, the capture of Amiens, the
destruction Of Paris, and the separation
Of the French and British armies, to-
gether with the capture of Calais. All
this was to have been accomplished be-
fore May /. The failure of the offensive
therefore appears to strengthen the
hand of the Kaiser and to make proba-
BILE the return to power of Won Biilow.
Sentiment in Washington is reflected
in dispatch to The Tribune from c..
w. Gilbert, who says:
"Great satisfaction is felt here over the
repulse of the most recent German efforts
in Flanders. Especially is this so because
military authorities believe the present
great battle-conceiving the whole German
effort of this spring as one great battle
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His earlier career was not unlike that Of the
celled in diligence. He did the routine Of
a junior officer to the French artillery
self as one of the republics great military
authorities.
1t was on March s, 1914, that General
Foch found his first real opportunity to put
into practice his lifetime studies Next to
Joffre it was Foch who contributed most to
the defeat Of the German onrush. Without
Foch's superb execution Joffree would not
have prevailed. The French line had been
forced back to the valley of the Marne and
Won Kluck threatened to envelop the left
wing and take Parts. Joffre issues his IA
nous order:
"The moment has come for the army to
advance at all costs and allow itself to be
slain where it stands, rather than give
way"
AS the French left wing moved forward
in obedience to the order, Won Kluck found
that his plans would not carry and imme-
diately made a redisposition Of his forces
with the intention Of driving wedge
through the centre. Foch holding the GEN.
tire, commanded the Ninth Army Of 10000
men. Won Kluck attacked him with the
Prussian Guard and the Saxon Army Of
100000. AS the wings recoiled under the
terrific Frend attacks, Foch's troops were
forced to bear the brunt Of the entire Ger
man movement. For Eve days the Germans
battered him With ever Increasing foress
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will be decided before the Channel ports.
winning the war before this country ar
rives on the West front in force lies in
the capture of these ports. Therefore, any
success of the Allies in that region is sue
cess of prime Importance. 1t is defeat
of the main effort Germany is now making,
the only one which holds out any hope,
however slight, of reaching a decision"
San1mies in Picardy
" ILBUR FORREST, Tribune cor
respondent at the front, graph
ically describes the approach of the
American troops to the scene of battle,
oblivious to "hellish fire, in darkness
that was pitch black except for the
sinister red stabs of bursting shells"
The dispatch says:
"It was necessary to await the darkness
to cross the treeless fields between the rear
and the firing line. The enemy works
with flawless maps and knows every road
and every crossroad, and his artillery fire
is ceaseless."
The weather prevented the enemy
from observing the movement of the
troops by day from aeroplanes and sau-
sage balloons, but the possession of
maps made it possible to direct their
artillery with great precision.
ut was through such fire as this that
our young veterans marched, erect and
silent, through the village and on into the
country beyond. Theirs should be the ad-
miration of the nation. They marched
into the war without whimper and with
out waver in the ranks. 1t is the pre-
rogative of soldier not in the marching
ranks to save himself when the opportunity
permits. Bursting shells are lodged by
fattening out, but 1t is strictly forbidden
for maching troops to proceed otherwise
than with the continuance of the march,"
At last when they reached their po-
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finally on September g. the crisis came, the
formed his supreme exploit. He sent this
telegram to Joffre:
"My right has been driven in, my left
has been driven in-therefore with all that
have left in my centre will attack"
Foch was beaten but his indomnitable will
mastered the Germans. From that day tho
slow German retreat began. Is It any WON
der that Joffre called him "The frst strats-
gist Of Europe?
Six weeks after the Marne, when the Ger
mans attempted to outhank the entire
French army, to seize tho Channel ports and
destroy England's lnes.o Of communications,
Allied forces, saved the British on the
banks Of the User and stopped the Germans
at Ypres.
Foch Is the sole Allied commander, now
in active service, who has never failed 20
carry through major operation that he
planned and directed. He 10 she sole active
commander who has the unboundsd respect
and admiration Of the British and French
forces.
Indeed. from every viewpoint, he appears
to be the sole commander Atted by tra,n,ns.
experience and successes to outwit H.n-
denburg.
It is not too much to hope that some fut-
ure commentator on Napoleon may amend
his maxim with this:
'It was not the Allied armies. who strug-
glsd hopelessly for four years, that finally
drove the Gsrmans. across the Rhine, hat
Ferdinand Eoch.S
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

many of them and took more than 500
prisoners. Later the number of prison
ers were increased to 1900, much ma
terial was taken and the pursuit Of the
Turks continued. Another expedition
northeast Of Jerusalem took numerous
prisoners, and Arabs fighting in the
Moab region have recently captured
$50.
The collapse of Russia made the drive
toward Mosul imperative to protect the
flank Of the British expedition on the
Euphrates, which had to be covered be-
fore it could proceed westward to get in
the rear of the Turko-German forces in
Palestine. It was quite unknown that
the British had sufficient forces in Meso-
potamia to strike simultaneously at
Aleppo and Mosul and threaten to cut
the Turkish communications with Con-
stantinople in both regions.
Irish CONSUMPTION
THE operation Of conscription in Ire
land, once postponed to May 1,
was again postponed last week, appar-
emily on account Of the desire of the
British government to introduce Home
Rule bill and await its effect. Premier
Lloyd George promised the Cabinet to
give careful consideration to a state
ment submitted to him by a deputation
Of Laborites on the subject of Irish con-
scription, but he held out no hope of any
change on his own part as to any change
of policy. He insisted in speech that
equal rights Of citizenship involved
equality of duty and responsibility. Ire
land, he said, could not take all the ad-
vantages accruing through its associa-
tions with Great Britain while refusing
to bear share in it's burdens and sac.
rifces.
The Catholic Union of Great Britain,
whose membership includes many titled
persons and other prominent Catholics,
has sent to Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal
Secretary of State, a series Of resolu-
tions regretting the action of the Catho-
lie hierarchy in Ireland in opposing
conscription, and thereby apparently
supporting organized resistance to law.
The resolutions expressed the opinion
that the Irish ought to share in the de-
fence of the empire and of the liberties
of mankind from the grave peril 10
which they are exposed through q con-
flict forced on the world ssby cruel and
INSCRIPTIONS enemy"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

United States PIunges
0NE of the most remarkable national
demonstrations in. the course of
the war was the headlong rush on the
part Of Congress and the Administration
to swell the army to any limits neces-
sary to meet the emergency in Europe.
Various measures were introduced in
Congress to draft from 100000 to
100000 additional men. AS soon as the
War Department had finished a survey
Of the transportation facilities with
the object of determining a basis
for the increase, it was announced that
Secretary Baker would ask Congress to
remove all restrictions on the number OF
troops to be raised and for authorize
tion to mobilize as many men as the gov
ernment can equip, train and send to the
front. The Germans newspapers, which
have long professed scorn for the ineffi
cheney and contemplate numbers of the
American army, have suddenly changed
their tone and warned their readers of
the menace of American participation,
urging the necessity for redoubled ef-
forts to obtain an immediate victory.
A Spanish View
THE celerity of modern communica-
= tions by means of telegraphic cables
has not entirely done away with interest
in reports of travellers from foreign
countries. A Spanish statesman return
ing from Germany brought news in the
good old verbal manner, and assured a
representative Of the Exchange Tele-
graph Company that the Kaiser did not
approve of the present offensive, but
that he was overborne by Ludendorff,
Hindenburg and the Crown Prince. He
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

Ausfria's Plight

OFFICIAL knowledge in Washington
of the reported peace drive is de-
MED, according to dispatch from C. w.
Gilbert, who sees in the current rumors
the probability that Austria is seeking a
separate peace with Italy, in view of the
dispute between Czernin and Clemenceau
over the responsibility for starting the
former peace conversations between Aus
tria and the Allies. Clemenceau's pub
lication of the Emperors letter makes
further advances to England and France
on the part of Austria improbable.
Concerning the menace to Austria in
the cordial relations between Italy and
Austrian Slavs, Mr.. Gilbert writes:
"The clamor of the Slavs of Austria Tor
independence is steadily increasing. The
young Emperor faces the necessity OF
either obtaining peace or of.resorting again
to the harsh, repressive measures against
his Slavic subjects which prevailed in the
first year Of the war during his predeces.
sor's reign, and which he discontinued.
"Eighty-four of eighty-eight elected
members of the Croatian Parliament are
said to favor independence of the Southern
Slavs from Austria. The discussion Of in-
dependence even in official bodies like this
is so free that some Of the more violent
words do not appear in the official records
The Slavic press openly agitates for free
dom. Il q /
"Contributing to this separatist move
ment among the Austrian Slavs has been
the agreement reached by signor Tore.
representing a large group in the Italian
Parliament, and representatives of the
Southern Slavs in London"
In M MesOp0famia
ID RITISH troops have made surpris-
ing advances during the week on
the road from Bagdad to Mosul. The
Turks sought to avoid attack, but were
overtaken by British cavalry, who killed
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

civilization has made since August, 1914, be-
ship. Future historians may be relied upon
to lift the veil and tell the whole truth to
another generation. Let us. recall the errors
of the past only as warnings for the future.
Having resolved to begin anew and follow
Napoleonic precepts it was indeed fitting
that Ferdinand Foch should be chosen to
lead the Allied armies. Those who have
studied Foch's "Conduct of War" and Ma
poleon's "Divines" and who have compared
the generalissimos tactics in the field with
those of the First Consul, must, indeed, be
impressed by the degree to which the stu
dent has imbibed the principles and methods
of his master.
In the writings and tactics of Foch we
are constantly impressed with the kind Of
direct, simple, powerful decisions and cxecu-
tions that made Napoleon master of the
Continent. We find little or no time wasted
on theoretical discussions of the finer
points Of strategy. Throughout his works
we find him constantly urging "activity, ac-
tivity, activity and common sense"
There is but one sharp difference be-
tween Napoleon and Foch. 1t is in years
Foch is now more than twice as old as Ma
poleon when he reached his zenith. He was
born in q little town near the Spanish bor-
der sixty-six and half years ago. He is
short, closely knit. extremely we'll pre-
served 1or: :hia .years and looks likes var~