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rid me entirely OF the backache ana
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failed to give me immediate relief
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get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09

finance and international politics,
he declared that he couldn't under
stand why people in America took
no interest in international politics.
He thought it the most fascinating
subject in the world, and in Europe
the one most keenly allied to
finance. l told him that the Ameri-
can people never took and never
would take any interest in European
politics; that their country and its
development were big enough to
occupy all their attention. When l
came to write "A World Remaking,'
| saw how wrong | had been. The
whole United States is now vibrat-
ing on European international poll
ties and does not know how to keep
in or how to get out"
Mr.. Barron was chairman of the
Massachusetts Inland WATERWAYS
Commission and studied carefully
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09

Cohasset, Mass, was introduced to
a visitor as one who spoke all the
languages of Europe. Dillon quick
ly replied:
ooh, no, Barron, you must not say
that. do speak most of the Con-
tinental languages, but there are
twenty three languages and dialects
IN Southeastern Europe and l speak
only eighteen of them"
Mr.. Barron does not believe in
such a thing as idleness or so-called
rest. He says journalist must
know everything, from art to politics,
and that unless one knows some
thing of music and color he cannot
translate mathematics into state
ments of popular interest.
when George Paish and T." con-
tlnued Mr.. Barron, "sat up until
after midnight in Paris restaurant
about ten years ago discussing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09
Three Men With Three Angles on the War

peace conference and that very
little of value could be got out Of
| Siberia.
You are going the wrong way"
said Barron to Dillon as they sat
around the formers dining room
table Saturday night in Cohasset
Harbor at the old home of Lawrence
Barrett, now the summer home of
the Barrons.
"But contract is contract"
said Dillon.
In fifteen minutes Barron, by the
long-distance telephone, had caught
his friend Curtis down at the lat
ter's home in Pennsylvania, ex-
planned the situation and told him
of Dillon's value to the world at
Paris. Monday morning Barron was
in Washington and Dillon in New
York, and Dillon this time spoke
over the wire to Washington and
said: "Thank you; it is all ar
ranged. Burnham has cabled that
he is more than delighted at the
change, and we go to Paris"
The friendship between Dillon and
Barron began at the time of the
famous Portsmouth peace confer
ence. People who are intimate with
the affairs Of Russia and japan
smiled incredulously when Barron
jeopardized his reputation for accu-
racy as a writer in finance by ven
turing into new field and telling
people what the result of the nego-
tiations at Portsmouth would be.
When nearly every journalist was
trying to measure the size of the in
demnity Russia would pay or there
would be no peace Barron pub
lished: There will be peace. There
will be no indemnity. Russia and
Japan will divide the island of SAX
halin--and so on, telling what did
happen in surprisingly close detail.
1t was through Dillon that Barron
had met Count Witte, the Russian
plenipotentiary, and he believed
what Witte declared to him: "Not
one kopek for indemnity" Also
Barron knew the banking interests
behind Japan and had not failed to
note the quiet arrival upon the
scene of Jacob Schiff, the head of
the firm that sold the Japanese
bonds in the States.
Knew ''Only 18" Languages
Barron understood the language
OF finance. His friend, Dillon, I'M
derstood the languages of diplomacy
and of most all Europe 1t was at
this historic time that Dillon, as a
guest at the Barron household at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09

the problem of canal and water
transportation. He believes that
the public should take more interes.
IN the development of transpor-
tation both by water and rail, and
declares that the problem of both Is
largely problem of terminals.
Suppose" said MIR. Barron, "you
had in every big city public markets
such as they have in Europe, where
the farmer, the producer, the fisher
man and the butcher daily bring
goods and place them before tie
public, for the wholesaler, TIT
retailer, or the consumer, if he Is
willing, to come early, buy for cash
and take away his purchases. Whist
regulator we would have on the
high cost of living in this country.
But here our cities are getting 80
big and terminals and waterfronts
so valuable that the small producer
is being barred out. New York was
once full of slaughter houses ana
markets, and even after the ClNi
War cattle were driven from New
York State down upon Manhattan
Island to be sold and consumed.
Now / look forward to q great DC,
velopment from gasoline transpcr'
tation both on land and sea, where
the individual farmer or producer
can by motor boat along the c0aS
or on the rivers or by motor on lhe
highways reach the consuming cen
ters and sell his goods directly Wi'H'
out paying middlemen or comInis
sions or high tariffs or high taxes
There should be not only public mar
kets in every city and village ou
there should be ways of easily gsF
ting to them. There should be puOlN
landing places on the watertroAS
and public markets at the water
fronts.
"Take the case of New England,
continued the author of "A Wol'u
Remaking." at is a crest terinii'''
yard for the whole country, ana a.
such has got to be absorbed uhOs,
the new railroad bill in regioaf'
railroad system stretching la
enough west so that the New Ehs
land terminal charge may De ~
sorbed over wide territory.
know it involves complex problems
of municipal and state taxation ~,
the consuming public in the enS
pays the tax. In many places lni'
tax ought to be eliminated at the "
ginning instead of multiplying @
pense in its collection and redist1'DS
tion."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09

diers Of the first order. But there
was no Moltke the Elder. The latter
would never have been so imprudent
as to make war without first trying
to neutralize Russia. Or, if he had
had to swallow the pill, all the
same, l promise you that he would
have conducted the war very differ
entity. Yes, the Kaiser employed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09

a saying Of Frederick the Great. He
was passing an ancient castle in ST.
lesia and saw on the wall an es-
cutcheon which pictured a battle Of
stays, with this Slevice: The more
obstinate will VIM That said
Frederick, is the whole secret of
success You counted on
our obstinacy. But you asked us
also to give our troops a better
armament.
Foch, the embodiment of moral
faith and obstinacy, didn't write the
famous dispatch attributed to him
at one of the crises in the First
Battle of the Marine: 'I am hard
pressed on my right My center is
giving way. 1t is impossible for me
to move. The situation is excellent.
I shall attack" But, as Poincare
remarked: eff you never wrote
those optimistic words, you thought
them, and, what is better, you trans
lated them into acts"
''War Won by Faith"
How did Foch win the war? What
were his own moving ideas? He
said after the armistice: "The war
was won by faith" Most people
who read that saying took it for a
metaphor-a bit Of literary symbol
ism. But Foch meant it literally.
M. Andre de Maricourt has recently
published an article containing the
substance of several interviews with
the marshal. In these a vivid pic
ture is presented of Foch's mental
attitude toward the war and of his
reactions to his own strategical
theories. 1t is Foch the soldier in
terpreting Foch the strategist, self
revelation Of absorbing interest.
Prom the age of seventeen Tsaid
the marshall I thought of revenge.
That was after I had seen the Ger
mans in Metz. Now, you know very
we'll that when a man of ordinary
capacity concentrates all his facul-
/
ties and all his force on single
object, he must attain it, but for
this these conditions are essential:
10 be strong, he must be 'objective'
and never 'subjective.' mean that
in order to act he mustn't lose him
self in impressions. The facts alone
count and we must stick to the facts,
A Battle of Governments
Glow did l win the war? By
smoking my pipe. I mean by that,
by not getting excited, by reducing
everything to the simplest terms,
by reserving all my strength for the
task I had in hand. Was that task
difficult? Possibly it was. Our war,
you see, was very curious one. 1t
was a battle of governments. To
speak only Of ourselves: We had
opposed to our French democracy,
and especially to our deep sense of
nationality, the Kaiser, man intel
ligent, perhaps, but not very intelIi-
gent, a poseur, busybody, in fact,
an incompetent judge of his own
acts. Germany, it is true, possessed
a superb army and professional SOL
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against us very formidable ma
chine and excellent technical chiefs.
Nevertheless, the express train was
contided to a stage-coach driver.
We had to win.
people have often asked me if I
expected a long war. | don't know
anything about that. 1t wasn't nv
affair to know. The future never
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09
Great French Commander a Fm
Believer In the Intervention
of Providence

derstand that to philosopbize =,
the matter would be vain and q
the task is facilitated if tbe ,s .'s
i3-concentrated absolutely on tho =; ~
mediate movement. War dome
an ingenuity, thought, always als s
and always putting a moral -
into action. And some dav~s
spite Of the holes in the clo.t
because of the holes in the clo.,
victory arrives.
No Patience With ''clt y,
"Now, don't talk to me sb,..
glory, beauty, enthusiasm and -
rest. All that is only verbal sr.
berance. Let US guard ourselves :.
France against such expression,
They represent energy lost. II,
war is over. That is what re.l.
counts. The epithets and the pbr.s..
don't matter. Nothing exists but +,
facts. Acts alone are useful.
"You ask me for one useful a..
one which satisfied me? The ints,
view at Rethondes [where' the C.,
mans asked for an armisticel. Tb..
was an act. That act marked y.
decomposition of the German En-
pire. l saw Erzberger shake h,
pen with rage before signing a.
arnlistice conditions.
"Then I was happy to hsp
'willed' and to have employed 4.
means to translate will into action
For the business was over.
Foch Deeply Religious
Zone word more. Without claim.
ing the intervention of a miracle
say that when, at a moment in bis
tory, clear view is given to ma,
and he finds later that that cea,
view has determined movements r
enormous consequences in the CO..,
duct Of formidable war-then
hold that that clear view. which
think I had at the Marine. on II.
User and on the 26th of March
1918, comes from providenta
force in the hands of which one !,
an instrument, and that the victor
Gus decision descends from on higb
from a will which is superior an,
divine"
Foch is believer, both as a MAJ
and as a strategist. The clear
minded expounder of the art AM
principles Of war is also somethin:
of a mystic, who finds faith AMI
moral courage the supreme soldierly
virtues, and sees in victory not tht
mere mastery of brute force or o.
equally brutal military knowledge
but, much more truly, the triumph
of spiritual qualities and moral law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09
Won the War by Smoking My Pipe" Says Marshal Foo

belongs to men, and it is loss of
time and thought, and SO of en-
ergy, to diagnose 1t to the detriment
Of the needs Of the moment. / al
ways wanted to do my work, as well
as everything else, according to the
formula: Sufficient to the day is
the evil thereof The evil Of each
day is sufficient. And I also
sought to do the big things with all
the conscientiousness with which
one does the little things. When
you philosophize to excess on the
consequences Of step which you
think you ought to take, you lose
your footing-and your strength.
We must not let ourselves become
impressionists.
Opposing Ideas
"Two emotions, however, were
permitted, because they were useful
and created energy. 1t was neces-
sary for us to face the idea of de-
feat and the idea of victory.
Don't you see what defeat would
have meant to us? Our sacrifices
were bloody and cruel And the
crueler they were the more clearly
they evoked superior duty. They
ought not to prove futile If we
didn't win, I said to myself, every
thing would go to smash. That
couldn't be.
"Or take the idea of victory. We
had to have victory at any cost.
Therefore / willed it. willed it
yes. That was easily said. But in
order to obtain it, it was necessary
to know that war between men
never changes in it's essence, and
changes only in it's means. 1t was
necessary to remember that before
the battle of Arcola, Napoleon, the
master, said: II must get out of
Verona 1t was necessary to re-
member that he was defeated sew
eral times.
At the Marine, you know, l didn't
forget that lesson. l was beaten,
and I said to myself: 4 will be beat
en- for four days, for five days, if
need be. But I will still exist
"Will based on confidence ought
to triumph. Buff you wish to go
to the bottom of my houghts-these
are only words. This will is nothing
unless it knows how to use the forces
at it's command. 1t is in this (you
know I am not referring to myself,
and that I get away from myself,
so to speak, that the qualities or
defects of chief from the intellec-
tual point Of view become apparent.
A New Objective Necessary
''To be beaten for four days, five
days, or even longer, is hard, very
hard, for the men. To be obeyed
| by them it is necessary to find new
'cantata,' new air to play for
them The air which yon have
| played has lost its usefulness. They
no longer bite at it. They say to
themselves: That is the air to which
N0 hava boon hooto,. wa ,-o,,,+
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09
M UST year ago one might have
B noticed in the dining room of
Y the Ritz Hotel in Paris three

rs noticed in the dining room of
az the Ritz Hotel in Paris three
veteran newspaper men
trained reporters that the world
now usually calls by other titles.
They were Frank Vanderlip, DR.. E.
j. Dillon and Clarence w. Barron.
Mr.. Barron was giving the luncheon
to introduce his friends, DR.. and
Mrs. Dillon, to his other friends, Mr..
and Mrs. Vanderlip, then on their
way to Switzerland and Rome.
Probably neither of these three
had then much thought of making
books on the peace conference, but
it SO happens that each has since
presented his findings to the Ameri-
can people. Vanderlip, by his book
and his addresses, and as financier
as we'll as a journalist, has endeav-
ored to arouse the people of this
country to help put the European
nations back on their feet. DR.. Dill
lon, a confidential friend Of nearly
every diplomat in Europe, has just
published his book, "The Inside
Story of the Peace Conference"
narrating in sometimes caustic lam
guage what happened and why more
did not happen. And now Harper
& Brothers have just brought out
Mr.. Barron's book, survey of in
ternational economic conditions to-
day, under the title ga World Re-
making; or, Peace Finance"
A Mark of Gratitude
DR.. Dillon dedicates his book to
his friend Barron, possibly as a
recognition of the fact that but for
Mr.. Barron's friendly interventions
DR.. Dillon might a year ago have
been buried somewhere in the wilds
of Siberia, instead of discussing
political action with all the states
men of Europe gathered at the
peace conference.
Dillon was under contract to Lord
Burnham, of ''T'he Daily Tele-
graph" and Curtis, of "The Phila-
delphia Ledger" to go to Vladivos-
tok and pass as far as he could
through Siberia into the territory of
the Bolsheviki in Russia and get the
truth by cable or letter to the out
side world. No man was better
qualified for this, as Dillon was edu-
Gated in Russia, was the confidant of
Count Witte and knew every man
high up in Russian craftsmanship.
Barron, who is the publisher Of
The Wall Street Journal" and
The Boston News Bureau" knew
that Dillon was wanted at the
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march to it any longer And they
must march. Otherwise all is lost.
So it is necessary to put ones wits
to work, to cast off new ideas, with
out being distracted for moment
by this effort from the action which
one has in mind. We must continue
the'same line Of action. Above all,
we must stick to the same objective.
But we must give it d new form
the appearance of a new operation.
At this price only will the men obey.
Then they will not say: we have
had beating; we don't want an
other
$50 one seeks another objective
an adequate intellectual means con-
cealing the same end. The moral
intention is invariable, but the proc
ess has no longer the same appear
ance. The theme Of the maneuver
is the same, but it doesn't seem TO
be the same. 1t is in the nature of
the French soldier to love variety.
He accepts an idea which appears
new to him. He obeys with his
habitual courage and his strong
sense Of patriotism. 'See,' he says,
we haven't tried this yet
Will Alone Not Enough
"But the enemy is strong and will
not yield unless our tenacity sur
passes his. So we must always find
different methods to sustain military
action. Do you understand me?
The thought I will isn't sufficient.
We must make it endure under sue
cessive forms. And then, in spite of
all, there comes a moment when
the situation is--to the eye-inex-
tricable, when the means break
down, when the poor cloak is riddled
everywhere. At any cost we must
make the remnants last-the rem
nants of infantry, artillery and
cavalry-piece them together, as one
patches the holes in the cloak The
governing idea is stronger than ever.
| have already said to you, the heav-
ier the losses the more they impose
necessary duty. With insufficient
forces, under the gashes in the man
tie, one manipulates the remnants
and brings them all toward the line,
the secret of which one has pre-
served under an apparent fuctua-
ton of methods.
''No, war has never changed since
there were men. But don't YOU
know that it requires a great deal
of art? 1t is always the same sort
Of contest. Two free wills, each con-
fronting the other. This time it was
two free wills which stood the test
fer four years. Parade, attack,
parry and thrust again! So you un-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09
By William L. Mcpherson

Great War"
E ARSHAL FOCH was the
INH greatest Of the World War
Il strategists. Had Germany
won Ludendorff might have
claimed that title. But the victory
campaign of 1918 made Foch's po-
sition secure. Certainly, on the AL
lied side there is no one to dispute
honors with him. Gallieni was a
splendid, far-seeing soldier. He had
much sounder ideas Of French mill
tary policy in 1914 than Joffre had.
He foresaw the German attack
through Belgium. But he never
got a chance to command.
Foch was a strategist of high re-
pute, even before the war. When
he was a colonel, conducting a
course in the French Ecole Supe-
rieure de Guerre, he embodied the
subject matter Of his lectures in
two volumes-"Mane for Bat
tie" and "The Principles of War;
which at once became classics. He
lived to put his own doctrines to
the severest possible test. And
which is seldom the case-his the
cries survived in practice. The
body of his teaching was proof
against the surprises and extraor-
binary development of war fought
under novel conditions and on a
scale heretofore undreamed Of
Foch's credit as a theorist was I'M
shaken by anything that happened
on the field of battle.
The Moral Factor
One reason for this was that he
introduced a new conception into
strategy. At least, he emphasized
more forcibly than any other elu-
cidator of the art of war the
moral factor in the military equa-
ton. In his admirable address on
February S last, welcoming Marshal
Foch into the French Academy, ex-
President Poincare said that there
were certain critics, back in 1900
who unjustly reproached Foch for
being a "metaphysician." "That is
a great crime" NJ. Poincare sarcas-
tically added, everywhere outside
the Institute"
Yet in Foch's mind there was an
undoubted metaphysical, almost
mystical, strain. His very defni-
tions Of the terms of warfare show
this. War, he says, belongs to the
department of moral force" A
battle is "the conflict Of two wills
Victory is "a moral superiority on
the part of the conqueror and a
moral depression on the part Of the
conquered" Foch never accepted
the purely mechanical view Of STRAIT
egg or held that, other things being
equal or nearly so, victory could be
foreclosed by impeccable war plans
worked out long in advance, accord
ing to the German method.
Not an Exact Science
This point is made clear in a re-
cent article by Charles LIE Goffic on
'Foch as a Military Writer" He
says: However rigorous certain
methods may appear to US, it must
always be remembered that war is
not an exercise in pure geometry
or in pure analysis. 1t is made by
men against men. Foch himself
will put us on our guard against
the tendency, more German than
French, of making out of war an
exact science or a branch of me-
chanics. If he doesn't go as far
as to say with Prince Maurice of
Saxony that it is a wholly empirical
thing, which has rules only so far
as detail are concerned, but not for
its supreme conduct, he agrees with
Jomini that it is AN impassioned
DRAMA whose development may be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-09
1t Was the Twill to VIM" Backed
by Strategy, That Beat
the Germans

ance of the enemy. In these we
easily recognize the old Napoleonic
doctrines, but revised, corrected and
adapted to the conditions of modern
war by a disciple who is himself
master.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-10-22

The Local Knights of Pythias are
planning on a party on the evening
of the general election at which
election returns will be received
over a special wire stretched into
their lodge rooms. The general pub
lie is invited to attend. Cards will
be the method of entertainment un-
til the messages begin to come too
fast to make that form of enter
tainment practical. The ladies
are as welcome as the men. The
only charge will be sufficient to
cover the cost of the service and
stretching the wire. Admission cards
may be obtained from Dean Swift's
Drug Store, the Atwen Dallman
Drug Co., or from any of the
Pythians.