Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1928, Page 6

CAPPER PRI ANEXTRASESSON Kansas Senator Says Farm Relief Can Be Put Through t Next December. Expressing belief that the administra- tion farm marketing measure and an emergency agricultural tariff act could both be put through at the approach- ing session of Congress, Senator Cappet of Kansas, one of the Republican farm belt leaders, declared in & statement yesterday that he is opposed to an extra session even if these two relief measures are not passed by March 4 next. Even if the marketing measure draft- | ed by Chairman McNary of the Senate | agricultural committee and the emer- gency tariff act are not put through. | Senator Capper said, small benefit would be derived from an extra session. Sees Small Aid to 1927 Crops. He added that action taken subse- quent to March 4 could afford “liftle relief for the 1929 crops and would re- sult in embarrassment to the new ad- ministration in preventing proper study of legislative needs of the country as a | whole before Congress assembles again.” Although the stand taken by Senator Capper is held to strengthen the posi- tion of the farm relief group in Con- | gress, it leaves the farm belt leaders still wider apart in their views as Senator Borah of Idaho and Brookhart of Towa are demanding an extra session. “The attempt,” Senator Capper said. | “to postpone the passage of farm relief legislation to a special session of Con- gress after March 4 should be and I think will be defeated. The farmers | need remedial legislation now. Protests Long Wait for Relief Action. “While Herbert Hoover has indicated tis intention to call a special session to | deal with the farm problem, there is no need to wait until the new admin- istration tekes office. Farm legislation then enacted could not become fully effective until after the 1929 crops were out of the farmers' hands. “It is quite likely that the opposition of President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover | to the equalization fee means the elimi- nation of the fee, for the time being at least, making an agreement easier with those so bitterly opposed to it. I wish the equalization fee might be given a trial, but if, we cannot get it, T will vote for some other program. The im- portant_thing is to get action and get it quickly.” TROUSSEAU OF FOOT BALL COACH’S FIANCEE BURNS Fire Sweeps Her Apartment While She Attends Movie Show in Evanston. By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, Ill., November 26.—Even tho the trousseau of his bride-elect has m' destroyed by fire, Tom Stid- ham, freshman foot ball = coach .at Northwestern University, is to be mar- Tied tonight. i Stidham, who was named on several all-American foot ball team when he played- tackle with the Haskell Indians, attended a theater with Miss Georgia Hallman, his bride-to-be. 3 B During their absence fire swept Miss Hallman’s apartment,” destroying ~ her wedding wardrobe. Coach Dick ‘Hanley "of "Northwestern hat . red ‘blankets® be substi- tuted for the destroyed troussean. “Red: Blankets” is the' name by which Stidham was known at* Haskell: * - - * YEGGMEN DEFY POLICE.V Invade Building Housing Head- quarters to Dynamite Two Safes. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., November 26 (#).—Working within 125 feet of police lquarters, safe robbers early yester- day cracked two strong boxes in the office of the city controller es- caped with approximately $4,500 in cash and $800 in checks. ‘The controller's office is.located on the fourth floor of the city hall building and the police stationon the second THE EVENING JOFFRE, MEMOIRS WRITTEN, FINDS SOLACE IN CHECKERS France’s War Hero Spends Tranquil Days Working at Country Home. Marshal Will Withhold Writ- ings to Prevent Pos- sible Controversy. BY ELMER ROBERTS, Chief of Assocated Press, Paris Bureau. LOUVECIENNES, France, November 26 (#).—Joffre, he whose moves were with army corps and groups of armies, sits in a little garden kiosk these fine Autumn afternoons playing checkers with his wife. Sometimes Dr. Tuffier, his nearest neighbor, drops in to en- gage the marshal in a spirited game of backgammon. Singular contrast to those terrible days in the early part of the war when he loomed in the | imagination of France like a demi-god, a huge personality, immovably calm, radiating power. I saw him first in my second visit to the front, where I went in December, 1914, with a letter from former Presi- dent Millerand, then minister of war. Joffre’s_headquarters were at Romilly, on the Seine, in the high school build- ing. The silence of the town was ex- traordinary. We were cautioned by the sentinels a mile out not to honk, that the general didn't allow blowing the horn within sound of headquar- ters, Military autos were swiftly arriv- ing and leaving the school inclosure al- most continuously and noiselessly ex- cept for the hum of the motors. Voices in the bureaus even were subdued. Is Restrained in Speech. Gen. Joffre, massive, expressionless, resposeful, gazed with large kind eyes and was wholly uncommunicative. He is still restrained in speech, but rather from the habit of a lifetime than from unwillingness to talk. inished my memoirs,” .~ “I have just signed the last of 800 pages.: The marshal, actording to official form, has initialed each sheet of type- written manuscript. some time to publish his work in two volumes. “But not now,” he said. “I do not wish to injure any one or to stir up controversies. I have written the record of events with which I was concerned. There it is for publication some day. I give the documents. Others may form their opinions from them.” The marshal was no doubt alluding to the parts played in the battle of the Marne by Gallieni and others. “I wonder,” remarked Mme. Joffre, “how many people would have claimed to have lost the battle of the Marne had it been lost.” “French Won Marne.” “The French army won the battle of the Marne,” said the marshal. “It is enough that the Prench army saved He expects at | pe MARSHALL JOFFRE. France. The individual part need not be considered.” “You have some chapters on the American Army?” “Oh, yes. But there is nothing con- troversial in them.” ‘The marshal spoke in cordial terms of Gen. Pershing. He was interested in knowing that Gen. Pershing also is delaying indefinitely the publication of his book on the war. The marshal fully realizes, perhaps better than any other French commander or statesman, the difficulties Gen. Pershing had and the firmness with which he avoided ing drawn into the various groups str 3 | for power and influence, such as the continuous British effort to control. Joffre understood all that, for one rca- son because, being virtually retired from active command, he was in a position to observe calmly. His memories, how- ever, will, it seems, pass lightly over the strenuous controversies respecting the organization ard employment of the American Army.. 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The victory was celebrated without so much as 8 mention of Joffre.” “The modest man who forgets him- self,” observed Bunau-Varilla dryly, soon forgotten by others.” Joffre is, of course, not forgotten by the mass of his countrymen, but he would rather decline than accept invi- tations Some political currents are against him. Old jealousies survive, yet they do not appear to trouble the mar- ishal. Foch, whom he advanced, is a |loyal friend and a frequent visitor at Louveciennes, and so are the Marquis de Chambrun and Gen. Castelnau. The marshal’s health has not been alto- ther good. "“I take precautions,” he said. “I find at 77 that I must be careful” His breakfast consists of a slice of bread and a glass of milk. His lunch and dinner are light, vegetables and fruit | largely, with scarcely any meat. His |flZurP is growing slender. He is not at 'sll the thick-bodied marshal who vis- !ited America in 1917. He has had to i{order new uniforms, a complete series, recently. However, except at his head- quarters, he prefers a loose lounge suit. Old Age Is Tranquil. Marshal Joffre’s old age is tranquil because of the inner and the outer calm in which he lives. He is still theoreti~ cally mn active service, as marshals are never retired. He has large and beau- tiful rooms in the War College in Paris for offices, with a small staff—a major, a licutenant, a secretary. The marshal 1ecelves official visitors there by ap- pointment and deals with official corre= spondence, of which he has consid- erable. Military questions of the higher sort are referred to him by the war council for his judgment and comment. His papers on these subjects are described as models of compact lucidity. He and Mme. Joffre have a flat in the rue de la Pompe, but they spend most of the year at the place they have been creat- ing here and in which they have put much thought and love. They had a | farm not far away, and they occasion- ally walked in the forest that stood in the high ground of their present home. “I believe you could see Paris from heve,” Joffre remarked to his wife one day. When they went back to their cottage he looked with an engineer's eye at a topographical map of the region. “Yes, we _could have a wonderful near | signed the pavilion, a beautiful white 10 acres. They sold the farm and have been finding occupation and enjoyment in tuilding and developing a park, or- chards and gardens, Mme. Joffre de- structure with a columned portico shin- ing among the trees. One might call it a high-ceilinged bungalow, for all the rooms are on the same level, except some for domestics artfully concealed in a galleried corner. Quite half the house is a large living room, the wide circular windows at one end looking out on the gardens with a far view city-| ;¢ ward. Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower | ;¢ are visible from the foot of the gardens. 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