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THE MAN OF THE HOUR
Who is Foch? What has he done that supreme com
mand of the allied armies should be entrusted to him? Is
the greatest soldier fighting against Germany.
America is asking these puestions. In the words ol
General .JofFere. who knows. General Ferdinand Foch
"Is the greatest strategist in Europe, and the humblest.'
England, just three years ago. asked questions sim
ilar to those America is asking now. King George had
visited the front and confered the Grand Gross of the
Order of the Rath—the highest military distinction in the
form of an order within the gift of the British crown—on
two Frenchmen. JofFre was one; Foch the other.
The leading London newspapers demanded of their
correspondents in France to answer th< inquiry, "Who is
Foch? Why the Grand Gross?’”Their answers are com
piled in the New York Times’ Current History, thus:
Foch is the hero of the Marne, the man who perceiva i
on September !>. 1P14, that there must be a gap between
the Prussian guard and the Saxon army, and who gather
ed enough artillery to crush the guard in the St. Gond
marshes and forced both the Prussian and the Saxons,
now seperated, to retreat.
Foch is the man of Ypres, the commander who was
in general control of the successful tight made by the
French and the British, aided by the Belgians, to prevent
the Germans from breaking through to Calais.
Foch. in short, is one of the military geniuses of the
war. .
He is a general who has something of the Napoleonic
in his composition: the dramatic in war is for him—se
crecy and suddenness, gigantic and daring movemnets;
fiery, yet coldly calculated attacks: vast stratgic con
ceptions carried out by swift, unfaltering tactic. Foch
has a tendency to the impetuous. Gut he is impetuous
scientifically. He has, however, taken all in all, much more
of the dash and nervousness and warmth of the Southern
Latin than has Joffre—cool, cautious, taciturn Joffre. Yet
both men are from the south of France. They were born
within a few miles of one another, within three months
of one another, Foch being born on October 2, 1851, and
Joffre on January 12,1852.
Most writers who have dealt with Foch agree that
his paramount charcteristic is his Napoleonic mode ol
military thoughts. When Foch was director of the Ecole
de Guerre (war college), where he had much to do with
shaping the military views of many of the men who are
commanding units of the French armies he was consider
ed to he possessed of almost an obsession on the subject of
Napoleon. He studied Napoleon’s campaigns, and restud
ied them. He went hack much further, however, in his
choise of a master, and gave intense application to the
campaigns of Caesar.
Foch makes it his business to know the officers and
the men. When he went to the front he visited each com
mander: the colonels he called by name: the corps com
manders, without exception, had attended his lectures at
the Ecole de Guerre. He gets into personal touch with
the men. as Napoleon used to do. He goes into the trench
es and the occupied villages and looks them over inform
ally, makes useful comment, drops a phrase that is worth
repeating and leaves behind him enthusiasm and respect.
A French writer has said that Foch knows the human
element in the French army better than any man living.
His two great books, "Principles of War” and “Con
duct of War,” have been translated into English, German
and Italian, and are highly regarded by military men.
The Milatary W ochenblatt, organ of the German general
staff, ranks him as one of the few strategists of first-class •
ability among the allies.
Foch is a slim man, with a great deal of nerve ener
gy in his actions, being so quick and graceful in move
ment that he carries himself more like a man of 40 than i
of 07. He served as a lieutenant in the Franco-Prussian
war, and at 2(5 was given a commission as artillery cpatain
He rose on merit alone to a brigadier generalship, and
was then chosen director of the war.college, one of the
most confidential positions of the war department.
His biographers agree that he has every quality;
which makes a great military leader. He has the tech-;
nical education; he has abundant experience; he is a strat
egical genius; he knows the game of war and he has the:
soul of a fighter.
DRASTIC PUNISHMENT
♦
CONGRESS, at last, has awakened to the necessity
of dealing with public enemies here at home as they de
j erve. Twenty year’s imprisonment and $10,000 fine is
i he penalty to be imposed by the bill which was approved
i v the senate judiciary committee for “whichever shall by
word or act support or favor the cause of the German em
pire or its allies in the present war, or by word or act op
pose the cause of the United States therein.” The bill also
provides the same punishment for persons obstructing
the war bond issues, and recruiting or enlistments in the
rrmy.
The bill should pass without delay. We have been en
tirely too lenient, and these public enemies have become]
too bold. To pay the light penalties that have been im
posed in the past has been regarded by too many Germans
Mid pro-Germans as mild martyrdom for the Hun cause.]
This nation, according to report, harbors 400,000 of them;
which is 400,000 too many.
Seward is not free from them. Few of them have
been reported to the federal authorities for the reason
that our citizens who have a keen sense of neighborliness
revolt at the thought of turning informers. The attitude;
<.f maintaining silence when pro-German utterances a “el
heard is absolutely wrong. Every loyal citizen owes it to
his country to report disloyal acts and words. German
propaganda must not longer be allowed to poison
America.
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The mysterious shelling of Paris is having no effect
upon the moral of the Parisians, says a cablegram. We,
helive it. it is only when there’s nothing new going on i
1 hat the Parisian morale beocmcs sick.
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Chas. A. Sulzser
Candidate For Re-election as
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
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From Alaska
“In deciding to enter the primaries as a candidate for Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, 1 feel impelled to make a brief statement to
the people of the territory. It is now nearly a year since I was seated
in the House as Alaska's representative to congress. During the itost
of this time the United States has been engaged in a world war, and
every resource of the nation, including money and man power is oe
ing devoted to the single purpose cf winning this great war . Every
member of congress in considering legislation for the nation, has
placed the country's war needs above all needs and requirements and
has suboidinated his desires to the military estaolishment of he
United States. .
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“Alaska has responded nobly to the nation s call. She has given
her share willingly and unstintingly. When the democratic party
went before the people of Alaska in November, nineteen sixteen, it
stood for a certain constructive program which embodied as its prin
cip.tl elements a wider measure of home rule for the territory, and a
sane and rational policy in the development of natural resources and
every posible aid to the pioneers of the countiy.
“I have introduced among others the following bills in congress
which 1 am pressing for passage as opportunity affords:
“Granting Alaska full territorial foim of government with home
rule the dominating principle.
“Regulating the fisheries of Alaska along lines that will be fair
to all and the protection of the imlmon supply from depletion.
“Making changes in the homestead law's by abolishing the eignty
rod reservation.
“Authorizing free surveys of homesteads in isolated sections.
“Changing the game laws so as to give the people a better oppor
tunity to use the game of the country without its being slaughtered.
“Extending the federal farm loan act to Alaska.
“Providing for the care of Alaska’s insane within the Territory.
“At all tunes I have endeavoreci to keep constantly in mind the
needs of the territory and the people of the territory. In spite of the
war some measure of progress has been achioved. I have assisted »’u
parsing a law which helped the prospector by suspendi tg assessment j
work on claims du**ng the year* nineteen seventeen and nineteen
eighteen. The extension of the wireless and cable system in Alaska has
been accomplished w'ith bright prospects for a further extension.
‘ Recognition has. been forced for Alaska in the matter of appoint
ments to the second series of training camps for officers. Contracts
which prevented the formers of the interior from supplying army j
posts with chcir vegetables are cancelled.
“Suggestions and requests that I again go before the people of
Alaska have come to nie from Atackans all over the territory. Keit
eiating my desire to serve the best interests of Alaska, I am submit
ting my name as a candidate for the democratic nomination for
Delegate to Congress.”
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