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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON.
FRIDAY; NOVEUBER 18. H2L
DOtIT FORGET
FRANCE, PLEA OF
,-. HNVjn
Mary Kokerts Blachart
(WrtUM Kiprm for Cntwml Barrios)
(Cemrrtsht. 111, ky Camml Berries las.)
.. Wsshlngton, Nov. It I met Marshal
'Vech saata WiditNt night after six
7 car.
la that Cut dramatic winter of the
ir. whva ' Paris and London motor
tosses, rouhly coaUd with srajr paint.
r stilt carrying soldiers to the front.
when, the rreach army u still wear
tag Its old field uniform of blue and
VlllLant rod, when Oerman observation
lane sailed without opposition ,fron
the air low oyer the allied lines, wen
the first wave of the Oerman advance
Dad Just been checked at Tpres and the
.Xante I met General Poch.
1 It Is difficult to reconstruct those
early days of rapid movement, swift
hang. The Oermans were hammering
at the allied lines day and night, feeW
,tg for a weakened spot through which
to break. As they attacked, men were
nwhed from other point" to strengthen
. aw. iipa imrA section, and contra'
i..w. ar laiinotaed to prevent the
muiint In one place. The allies
MMft Milt nil inhered. outeautDDOd. but
. ..t t TTis front was a place,
net of Its later siege warfare, but of
nnnMnt Towni were being lost
...t ..nfnrsd over nlcht.- service of
mnr.hr wrs chaotlo and hunger often
Ui rule, and the French officers were
carrying about sample of thick gTay
hiu doth, which was to b ths new
aalform.
WOUND O HIS XVEES
t.ii - town near Tares one day
maIav rrmA an AiMtioan woman with
at leCUr to General Foch. Ths town
was Old and paved with cobblestones and
fMaiini uie SDn eauare was a small
double bouse. General Focb's headquar
ter. . Bentiies stood, at ths door. Un
earned sUlrs led up to the office and
ths noise of typewriters Indlssotubly
connected now with military operations,
i mm thrnush the onen door.
. Oeneral Koch was not there, he had
srttns All L for a few moments.
' The American woman, her letter In
'ker band, wandered around the town
and ended at the church, a very humble
eh arch. She pushed open the door and
went In to find the building empty,
ears for a uniformed figure on Its knees
.Beer the altar.
Ths uniformed figure was Oeneral
Foch.
Ths American woman slipped away
and later, and In due form, presented
tor letter.
The general's office was a small bare
DDr room, overlooking the square. A
desk near the front windows, a great
snap on the wall, a mantel with a clock.
threo or four chairs that was ill. Kx
sept for the general himself. He was
ot a young man oven then, but the
. tragedies of those later years had not
yet written ths lines on his face that
.. are there now. The smiling and genial
. wiarsrta of France, who stood Wednes
day night In a corner ot the French em
bossy building holding a genial court of
kls own line while the line pressed and
urged to clasp Ms hand. Is older, very
tired, and tragically marked by the years
fltnew that winter of 114.
; l!e was very kind to the American
woman. For three days she remained at
the small hotel as his guest, spending
the days In ths Tpres salient and dining
with ' ths general and his staff ln the
vnlnrs.
rOBESAW LOHO TfAK
At; a time when Kitchener was dls-
evedlted for prophesying at least three
years of war, Foch put It rather longer
Me was supporting the British against
Kitchener In the fight for high explo
sive, and he spoke almost with awe of
the French 75s. He declared that the
Oermans were already defeated, since
they had planned for a brief war. but
that It would take time to convince them
they1 were beaten and drlva them out ;
that ths Oermans wars not fighting
ca Inst an army, but against nations, to
destroy their past, their present, oven
heir future.
Those dinners wers the ugh points
in the American woman's day. She
could not dress for them, but she could
be punctual and ce rein on to as. - And since
anvtnins? about the world s greatest sol
dier Interests us. it wUl not be ewt of
place to reconstruct one of taose eve
nings.
The general was living in e. sasu
bouse down the street from bis quar
ters. Some 10 minutes before the dinner
hour his staff gathered In the little
dining room, where a long table was
set for 12 and a small table by the
window was laid for one. For the
American woman made an unlucky thir
tsenth and the sone officer was de
tached to eat la lonely state.
The staff remained at ease until Gen-
si Foch aDDeared. At the sound of
bis approach It stiffened and so remained
While he entered, went around the table
and took his seat Then a buts of con
versation, eood and a little laughter.
Not much laughter..
ATE AMEEICA5 "FUDGE"
There was at that time one very lm-i
portent movement toward the end of the
dinner, a ceremonial movement heralded
by a slight hush. This was when the
soldier-servant entered, carrying a large
American paper box on a tray. The top
oi the box had been taken off. and re
vealed to the eyes was blocks of Amer
ican "fudge." Each person present sol
emnly took one piece and the servant
retired.
An Americas girl, unknown to the
general, had sent It to him. Mirac
ulously It had survived the malls and
had been received Intact.
No doubt be has eaten most of our
native delioacies since he reached our
shores, but I sometimes wonder if any
one has thought to give him "fudge."
Dinner over, and accompanied by such
members of his staff as were on duty
for the evening, he walked back over the
rough cobbles, for he chose the street
rather than the narrow pavement, to
his quarters. Almost always it was
raining. The streets were dark and the
wind raw with the damp cold of France
in winter. His progress back to his
quarters was silent for already hie
mind had traveled ahead of him to the
work that was to be done. Ills big blue
cap bellowed la the wind, the staff fol
lowed In silence and Foch, heed down,
went to the business of winning the war.
CASE TO BE OFFERED
Vary soon now France will present her
case to the conference. She will tell in
Imposing figures of her losses and in
splendid oratory of her fears and ot her
needs,. It may be hard for us to think
back, beyond the victorious France of
today to the prostrate France of that
first winter of the war. It is hard to
remember early defeat In the light of
later victory. It may be too easy to re
member China and forget France.
But we must not forget France. The
entire movement toward peace Is predi
cated on the resolve that there shall be
no repetition of the case of France.
And it is well to bear this in mind.
Nations before now have sat In confer
ence with their tongues In their cheeks.
Or have signed honestly, to turn crim
inal overnight There are such things
as secret Armaments.
And reduction In armament, valuable
as It Is, so long as It reduces all arma
ments in the same proportion leaves the
ratio of power as before. It is not vis
ible armament so much is the ability
to arm quickly that win count now. The
dye plants of Europe can also make
poison gas.
The only efficient peace movement of
the world will be refusal of the people
to right vara.
Marshal Fox- Is Not Kleaele
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Lardner Likes Indian Rites
Lssiuwsf f
By Blag "W. Larsaer
(CoprrisM. 121. by The Bn Syndicate)
Washington, D. C Nov. IS. While the
regular delegates to the conference Is
still' engaged in secret practice the rest
ymmmmi or ut young vis
itors In Washing
ton is spending the
most of their time
getting honored.
Like for Inst the
commander in
chief of the French
army, who my ele
vator boy has
nicknamed Mar
shall Fox, picked
up a couple more
degrees Wednesday
and it now looks
like he had pretty
near enough to start a fever. Mr. Fox
got one of his new ones from George
town and the other from Howard Uni
vermity where the colored boys goes to
school. Georgetown also presented him
with a slight token of their esteem in
the form of a sword.
FOX NOT A KLEAGLE
Just what I needed." was the Mar-
shairs delighted comment. The Howard
students might of give him a rasor for
all I know. Marshall Fox. Is now prac
tically everything which the United
States can make him except a Kleagle.
No foreigner .has ever been given such
a welcome as Ferdinand and he says
they must be more than 110,000,000 peo
ple In this country as he has shook
hands with twice that amount He also
says he wishes some American hero
would visit France so as the French
people could return some of the com
pliments that has been showered on
him. But it would be well for our
heroes to remember that over there they
will klsq you instead ot shaking hands,
but maybe the experience would be ok
for Mr Hughes, as he is well protected
on both cheeks.
The Crow Indian tribe honored Gen
eral Dlas of sunny Italy by making him
a member of the tribe and the chief of
the tribe also give him his own name
which ta supposed to be the highest honor
that can be bestowed on anybody.
Though personally I named one of my
kids after his old man but he insists on
being called Bill. The Crow chiefs name.
which is now ' Jointly held by General
Diax. is plenty coups so when this con
ference has made war impossible .the
General can open up a chicken ranch.
The above ceremony was pulled off
light here In the. Hotel and started with
a hymn sang by two Crows named Red
neck and Whiter aced Bear. How would
it be if we was like the Indians and
gave ourselves names that you could
tell what we looked like from hearing
them. For instI might have lunch with
some friend of mine and he could go
home and tell his wife that he just had
lunch with Plenty Moles or my Mrs
-might ask me who I played poker with
last night and I would "say I played
with Prominent Gums and Lengthy
Adams Apple.
SEEDED SHAKK BOXES
After Red Keck and White Faced Bear
finished their' duet Gen Diss was pre
sented with a necklace of shark bones
and like Marshall Fox he remarked that
It was just what he needed.
Personally I went out to the Robert
Dawklns home on 15th Street and they
give me simple honors, a couple times
but no sword or fish bone necklace.
I am not being took Into the secrets
of the different committee meetings
which Is going on around town, but the
boys is still said to be arguing over
the far eastern situation which near as
I can make out. The crux of the situa
tion Is that America wants the open door
to China while Japan wants the door
shut and not even let nobody but them
selves pekin at the Chinks. That Is
what I been doing all week is thinking
up that gag. but now I have thought it
up it don't read so good.
Well, they aint no more news except
that a young man from George Wash
ington University called and wanted to
ask me a few questions and I told him
to go ahead, and his first question was
What did I think of College students of
the present day as compared with col
lege students of the last generation. I
suppose everybody is crasy to know
what answer I give him but if the con
ference delegates is going to be so dog
gone secret why two can play at that
game. However, I am going to call on
the Chinese minister Mr. Sze tomorrow
and try to find out how to pronounce
his name and I will let you know what
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JAPANESE EAGER
FOR BIGGER NAVY
Tl
KPROPOSED
By Robert J. Bender
United News Staff Corraspaodsat.
(Copyright. 1951. by tatted Km)
Washington. Nov. 18. S ecretary
Hughes' plan for limiting naval arma
ments is now being subjected to its
first definite bombardment from. Japa
nese and British quarters.
Admiral Kato has served notice that
Japan "deems It only fair" that her gen
eral naval tonnage allotment be of
"slightly- greater" proportion to that of
England and the United States than the
0 per cent set forth In the Hughes
program.
wiiti worrit, vtvtii
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Japan also suggests that in the matter fr're , -
of etrtctly defensive" craft not sub
marine, but light cruisers and destroy
ersshe be given aa allotment approxi
mating that of the greater powers.
England, through her spokesmen, has
advocated the complete abolition of sub
marines and submarine construction, on
the ground that this type cf craft is too
easily used tor barbaric practices, rather
than, tor strict offensive or defensive
warfare.
England also takes the position that
the fleets of France and Italy must be
brought into the American program be
fore there can be any final settlement.
And, further, England believes there
must be some binding interpretation
made designating definitely the term of
the naval agreement finally entered into.
Admiral Kato Thursday revealed def
initely for the first time the amend
ments to the Hughes program advocated
by Japan.
WHAT JAPA2T PROPOSES
"Because of her geographical position,"
Kato declared, "Japan deems it only
fair at this time that the other inter
ested countries should agree that she
maintain a proportion in general ton
itage slightly greater than 0 per cent
and in a type of strictly defensive char
acter she might even desire to approxi
mate that of the greater navies. This
type of defensive vessel does not include
submarines."
While Kato declined to designate lust
what type ot "strictly defensive
eels" he referred to. Inquiry elsewhere
brought the belief that he referred to
tight cruisers, such aa are used by the
Hatted States and (treat Britain on
trade routes, and poesibty destroyers.
It is in this type ot vessels that the
United States baa aa enormous superi
ority over Japan at the present time.
It was believed - by some authorities
that Japan, in taking this attitude
toward the Hashes program, may
putting forward her two reservations In
the hope of having one of them accepted.
American authorities contend that with
Japan's superiority over Um United
States in battle cruisers, proposed by
Hughes, this government could hot re
duce its superiority in light cruisers.
And on top of the revealed stand of
Japan came official word from British
Spokesmen that the British would make
a very urgent effort to bring about the
complete abolition of the submarine, be
cause of the barbarous practices in
volved In Its use.
A1HPLA5E8 BROUGHT 15
"Might not this same objection be
applied to the use of airplanes?" the
Hi itlsh spokesman was asked.
"Not to such an extent" he repiled
The airplane can be effectively used
In bombing capitals, war offices, etc
to throw fear into an enemy. Occa
is an unin
tended victim.
But if the British ttand seems to be
strengthening in the matter of subma
rlne curtailment, far below, if not en
Urefcy wiping out. the proportions set by
Hughes aha does) not stCl adher to
a proposal, at first pat out trees British
quarters, that shipyards should be re
tained by England aad the XJalted
States sufficient to build at least on
ship a . year. This proposal has bees
mcdified. It wowld Been, to assume mere
ly work and training for those experts
that develop the essential parts ex cap
ital ships.
In other words, the British Idea would
seem to conform strictly with Hughes"
desires In effecting a otnplets It-year
naval holiday, with no laying down of
vessels, but MOWCh work on parts ta
one or more shipyards t keen la trala
lng men later to be oalied upoa par UM
building of replacement vessels.
Body of Watchman
Is Found in Lake
The body ot J. A, Austin, are
satchman on Saavias island duck lakes.
was found Thursday afternoon lying in
about six inches of wstsr. by Ray R.
Klng. owner of the lakes, and Roes
Duncan, a companion. Coroner's depa
ties believe his death was due to natur
al causes. An autopsy will be held to
day. Austin lived at sieVe First street.
and had been employed a the Island
since Tuesday.
Man Found Pinned
Under WreckedAuto
C. L. Ward. 121V, Morrises street.
found pUused under aa orerturned a use-
mobile Tarwtlllgsr boulevard lata
Thursday afternoon by John Cre-
n. m Cnited States bonk bua-
tng. Croaan took the lnjared roan
to the Good Samaritan hospital , Wards'
right arm was broken and he was
bruised about the head. He was In a
delirious) condltloa Thursday night sad
aaable to tell hew the accident occurred.
VOTE YES!
Far 11 1 Btsestttoa see wah
ForUaad grew. Osr elerttieal bsvl
aes It ere wtie, dee re esr lew
prtoes- bet we 4 est wl est
frew tfce etty.
EYinrude Electric Store
Where Prices Are lower
Eleetrleal Eepairieg. F.tertrlral hs.
Tltes. Phose Msrshsll i:u
Morrison street. .Near Hrl
Look ter the Me. -Elrrtrlr"
jssrOBea ftararssy Htghu I Bin
C!eea
QCderxDayr
BpailioiB.eie
Left Wife to Eoam
But World Was Cold;
Jail Is Now Home
For a long while Mrs. Perry Jasper
had been a dutiful wife, but her patience
at length reached its final limits. So she
gave her husband 120 when he promised
raitnruiiy to leave town, never to return,
and was well satisfied with her bargain
But soon Jasper and his money pro
verbially parted, and with hunger star
ing him In the face he forgot his bar
gain and again returned to his wife for
protection.
But Mrs. Jasper appealed t the po
lice. Thursday afternoon Judge Ross
man ssked Jasper why he returned.
"I got hungry so I came back to my
wife." he replied.
Judge Rossman gave him 30 days tor
vagrancy.
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How much more help the young
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mTtriabiy bring the smile he
treasures.
Take her the brilliant oranp&
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dMj-ikspU pita it m tompUtt (LtkgiU I
Tan Tar will delirht the ones rooa
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Fifty per cent Lower than a Year Ago
Men's and Young Men's Suits, Overcoats
and Raincoats. Our entire stock Kuppenheimer Good
Clothes and Lion Service Clothes reduced in our
Great Stock Lowering Sale
Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats at $21
Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats at $29
Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats at $3442
Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats at 38
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Entire Stock Furnishing Goods, Shoes and Hats for Men
, and Boys Reduced Buy for Self and Christmas Gifts
- Portland's Best Clothes Shop '
S. & H: Stamps Morrison at Fourth
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he refers to the market where has been accustomed
to sell his products. Business will remain dull for
such a man if he does not find means to extend
his territory.
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find a market beyond their usual territory. Some
enterprising stock men from Massachusetts ex
hibited at the recent Livestock Show in Portland
and thus enlarged their trade area.
There is, always a market if you can find it.
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