The New York herald., 1921-10-31
FOCH ON Way west
ACCLAIMED FONDLY
in HAMLET And CITY
Sees Intimate Homeland
Which Sent It's Sons to
Serve Him.
KISSES 2 LITTLE GIRLS
Tells Pershing He Wants
to Mix With Folks Along
Route.
TAKES HIS TRIP EASILY
Mystified by Gigantic Sign of
'57' as He Passes by Horse
shoe Curve.
TAKES HIS TRIP EASILY
~ staff Correspondent o, THE New York

~ Staff Correspondent of THE New York
HERALD.
P1TrsBuR0H, Oct 30.--If you would
have an accurate picture of Ferdinand
Foch as he was carried westward to-
day on his way frcm Washington to
Kansas City you must Danish from
your mind the portr ait his war biogra-
piers have given to you.
So imagine this military genius sit
ting in big, comfortable chair smok-
ing an ancient pipe filed with tobacco
that would scald ar American throat.
His trig tunic is loosened and his
many decorations ere laid aside. In
stead of the severe laced boots that At
his calves like the skin itself. he has
on loose ones of soft chamoislike
leather and he wiFgles his toes just
like Ed Roberts, your grocer, or Joe
Lutz. the butcher, after the store has
been shut up for the night and there
Is nothing to do but read the news
paper and yawn.
Near by, to be sure, hang his sterner
garments into which he slips when
the train stops and the folks on the
station platforms demand to see the
man who could have his right arm
smashed and his left arm broken and
still win.
His Mind Relaxes.
But there he sits chatting with Gen.
Pershing, this stern soldier, waving
his hand at the blue hills and wide
fields of western Pennsylvania. Not
a word about the war; no reminis-
cences: and nothing about the tactics.
They say nothing about the limitation
Of armaments nor the economic bal
ances of Europe. Upper Silesia has
no place in this conversation. W
No, these two masters OF warfare-one
might refer to them as master and pupil.
for this Gascon surely won the masters
warrant--Gre talking about the relative
productivity of the farmlands in France
md Pennsylvania. Imagine Ferdinand
Toch. who. his enemies say. ycarns TO
carry the war further calculating how
lruch meadowiand and pasturage his
modest savings would buy and how he
would like to have done with military
,rappngs and honors and take to a white
farmhouse for the rest of his life. That
Is exactly what this iron militarist is do
Ing as he passes through this beautiful
country.
Where Fighters Were Bred.
IL 4. ~ IA
smoking towns, to-day arrayed In flags
and Sunday clothes. that one OF the
mightiest OF the American army's units
was raised. the Twenty-eighth or Key
stone Division.
u can understand IT," he says to Gen.
Pershing. Such a land would breed
good fighters. What sort of man would
he be who would not fight for such a
homeland"
The Marshal's special train left WASH
ington over the Pennsylvania Railroad at
s:30 this morning. There was no crowd
vt Baltimore because that city welcomed
him on Friday night. AZ Baltimore the
train struck toward the West.
Foch went to ST. Matthews Cathedral
IN Washington before the majority OF his
party had lcrt their beds. Mass vas cele-
brated by Father Benet, who was n
chaplain In the French army and who
lost an arm at verdun.
through score OF Pennsylvania
towns and villages the heavy speclaI
sped. At every railroad station wore
The local legionnairos, and in most cases
thc chief OF police, cnergeticaIIy herding
MS people back from uncer the ayine
train. '"e
NOW and then we would bisect a
aaniee 'nat ooasted band--Eew Free
uom for instance. At New Freedon, th,,
hand consisted OF four horns ana a n. ss
drum. Maybe they were playing "I,a
Marseliiaise or perhaps the star
spanglcd Banner" Who could tsii,
After all what did IL matter? There
were the children In their Sunday frocl,s
and tri-color sashes throwing fowers
at a huge steel car in which rode tho
loan who led their brothers and fathers
10 victory. And behind them their
motners and those brothers and fathers
who came back. And above them the
tri-color and Old Glory and huge SER
vice hags shining with gold and silver
stars. '''
You feel proud that you are Amer
ican. cried the French soldier TO
'crshins. You may well feel proud"
Kisses Two Little Girls.
At York, Pa. the train stopped for n
Inoment and tho town cheered. At
harrisburg. Mayor Haberton and tho
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF Pennsylvania
led the throng that greeted Foch. They
fetched with them two very small girls.
Loisette and Marguerite Rickenburg,
who had been carefully coached In a
heat speech to the Marshal They car
lied bouquets of roses.
Both children. who are natives OF
France, bestowed their flowers on their
aero and started to say their piece. Bh
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