Arizona republican., 1919-02-02

place among the respectable people Of this earth.
 If noble purpose. if tenacity, if de- termination. if ability, typified in the highest sense in one man, interest you lose no time studying the life and the accomplishments of Ferdinand Foch. Rich will he your reward. You will find in him a man who devoted his whole life to preparation for the death grappie. in which his beloved country and it's allies triumphed over the ef ficiency and the deviltry of the Prus sian military aristocracy.
 When historians ten centuries hence write the story of the first and last world war they will mention the name of Foch with that of Alexander. Caeser, Nenophon. Hannibal Napoleon and Washington, and heading this list of the worlds greatest battle heroes will be that of Ferdinand Foch
 No man is more modest more sim pie. His wonderful energy is tinged with sad tenderness. grand mei- ancholy. His manner is calm and un- hurried. but direct, plain and to the point, He grasps the fullness of big problems quickly, and by the force of his will and his keenness raises those around him to plain understanding of his plans and his aims.
 Ferdinand Foch possesses that rare gift Of inspiring all with whom he comes in contact with desire to do all and more than he asks of them and to perform every task with as great a degree of perfection as is humanly possible under even the most trying circumstances. From corporal to gen eral, every soldier under him is urged to think, and to act upon his own best judgment in the absence of direct or ders covering any emergency in which he may find himself.
 Bor, at Tarbes, France October 2. 1851, Ferdinand Foch is now just past 66 years of age His father was a provincial official and his mother wa. raised in home that venerated the memory of Napoleon l. He had. two brothers and one sister. Tarbes is an ancient city, and has a prominent place in the history of the Gauls. There was much to inspire the future leader of millions of armed men.
 His education began in the College of Tarbes, and he was a hard student serious beyond his year. At 12 he haC { read 'Thiers' History of the Consulate and the Empire" and was already ex- hibiting a marked tendency toward mathematics. In 1869 he went to Net and entered the Jesuit College of Sain- Clement, to which students flocket from all parts of Europe. In but one short year he was unanimously voted the grand prize for scholarly qualitie. by his fellow students.
 In 1870, Foch enlisted in the FrencI ! army. and after the equalization oi Paris to the Germans was discharged in January 1871. He returned to hi Jesuit teachers at Saint Clement doubtless sadd.ened by the humiliatin; defeat of his country, but certainl, nurturing the first seeds of futur, realization that the defeat of Franc was due to it's failure to fight on at time when a stronger resistance would have turned the course of events
 From Metz, Foch went to Nancy where he took the examination for tn | Polytechnic at Paris. At that time. tn i conquerors of France had their head quarters in Nancy. Forty two year later he returned to Nancy as the com mander of the Twentieth Army Corp to guard the eastern frontier of hi native land against the onsweepin hordes of the erstwhile conqueror
 At the Polytechnic, Foch had as
 school fellow Jacques Joseph Cesair Joffre whom he nearly half a centur later succeeded as comma nder of tn French army. and with whom h formed an intimate friendship that ha . lasted until the present day. He grad