The New York herald., 1921-10-30
sHow TRANQUILITY Washington
Spent His Last Days.
Comments Marshal.
GUEST AT WHITE HOUSE
Leaves Cards at Homes Of
Chief Justice Taft and
Ex-President Wilson.

Speciof Despatch 10 THE NEw YosK HDaALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. y. G.. Oct. 20. !
The true Marshal Foch, a. man Of
peace. left Mount Vernon this evening
at sundown. Along the crimsoning
shores OF the Potomac he asked the
driver of his automobile to go slow.
You easily could picture him divested
Of his uniform and numerous decora-
tions and taking his ease in a trun-
ding old carriage drawn by two fat
horses; a simple country gentleman
content to go down declining days In
obscurity.
He waved his hand at the squat,
spraddled house that was George
Washington's and said:
1T is all so simple. so unaffected.
Here a simple gentleman who raised a
country's ideals so high that the whole
world might see them lived until his
country called him to lead it. And
when he had finished he came back to
this pretty place to die simply and be
buried in a tomb that proclaims the
man.
Il came to Mount Vernon 70 see a
plantation that might have been any
one Of thousand farms / have seen
and spent days in farms in Gascony
that are so similar that I wondered
where the differences lay. Then
through the simple house on to the
porch. where see the river rolling
down for miles and rolling away for
miles. And then l think that this Is
not one Of a thousand farms. but one
In thousand.
How utterly peaceful he must have
been and how TRANQUILITY he spent his
last days"
And they said Ferdinand Foch was
hard man of mathematics. teacher OF
cold formula. to whom armies were but
soulless units and individuals but in
tegral parts OF machines. They said he
could not grow eloquent and that he
measured humanity with snes and
cosines. secants and tangents: that he
believed might made right and there was
no virtue but strength.
He was none OF that this evening. He
was nothing but an elderly man who had
been caught by the spell of Mount ver-
non and who saw the beauty of the old
fireplaces that Washington built and the
low hanging lamps whereby Washington
saw to read Of nights. Surrounded by
his staff and members of the American
Legion ne strolled over the undulating
lawns and down beneath the elms and
poplars that stand guard around the
tomb.
He entered the Ngranlte shelter and
upon the bier of the man of Mount ver-
non laid n wreath. lie made no grafton
He did not attempt to speak. lie merely
stood at attention while Gen. William d.
Connor, his honorary aid. told him all
there was to tell. And then he left the
tomb. nodding thanks to an ancient
negro who Is proud In his place of GUS
todian Of the grave OF Washington, old
Capt G. r. Simms, who valiantly fought
for the Stars and Stripes when they were
menaced
"It is all typical OF a simple. cour-
ageous people. this" he said. THE
American soldier was @ simple soldier.
man OF singleness OF purpose and
absence of guile. He was his country
democratic, unostentatious and wholly
frank and alert What saw In him, ]
see in the nation"
Out of sight OF Mount Vernon the
Marshals car took on speed. There was
much for him to do and see. He Is to
see America in a hurry. So, as he
came. he was whisked back the seven
teen miles to the capital at hfty and
sixty miles an hour. There were ten
cars in his train. filled with soldiers
and leeionnaires. Back to the hotel
he was hustled. and there he naked that
Coutluucd nm Pare Ton