Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1929, Page 16

16 FOCH WON HONORS IN JESUIT GOLLEGE Steady Will Held Greatest Help to Success by French Leader. Commandant Bugnet, aide de camp t the late Marshal Foch from June, 1921, until the generalissimo's death, gives in | 00K “rocn ialks” intimaie anu re- Vealing conversations' with the man wuo | commanded the allled forces in the World War. _Marsoal Foch 'HF EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1929, aminations at the beginning of August, 1870, suddenly the war broke out; despite that the written tests were held at Metz on the 4th, 5th and 6th of August. ‘The Emperor had just arrived to take command of the French armies. The next day at Forbach they suffered de- feat. In the middle of the general panic he had to leave Saint-Clement, and on the\l1th of August depart from Metz after fighting his way to a train, where he found his traveling companion in an old peasant woman who was a fugitive from Strasbourg, carrying away her sole treasure, a pot of geranium! General Played Billiards! But what he carried away was two glimpses of war: “In front of the pre- fecture I saw Napoleon IIL" The square was full of carriages, and in a barouche the Emperor was starting off, ill, tired and depressed . . . the Grand Hotel was being used as headquarters. Bazaine’s general staff was installed there in complete chaos. The general ——— After the disaster, whepy he °§ to continue his studies al e schpol o Saint-Clement, the Germans w? in “In_the- courtyard“whefé we used to play one of the Pomeranians who kept guard over us took our ball in the pretense that we had thrown it into a forbidden area. Then I got together all my friends, we dashed to the assault ll[’lfl got our ball back from When he had to pass his examina- tions at Nancy in 1871 Monteuffel was military governor of the town. And it was thus that he attained the first goal of his youth in such circumstances as to mark all his life with their influ- ence, Youth Sketches Future. His youth gives us a kind of first sketch of his future maturity. The main features were the same—s&imply more deeply marked. They gained in profundity and in power. The first day when he was ‘able to thing had changed in the aspect of the universe.” “The instruction at the college was excellent. They did not teach us everything—that = was impossible—but when one left there one was able to understand anything. Then one had to throw one's self into the world to as- similate the theory one had been taught and to strive to put it into prac- tice.” On his leaving the Polytechnique the young sublieutenant was appointed to the regiment of artillery stationed at Tarbes. Here he wad back in his coun- try where a few years earlier he had begun to pursue with such ardor the first. achievement that he had pre- scribed for himself. Life Opening Before Him. The invasion, the surrender and the degrading peace, the ‘loss of Alsace- Lorraine, the occupation by the con- queror of a part of French territory— for a man of character those were not adequaté motives for depression, but, on and yet so proud of her children, whose coutage ‘at least has saved her honor? And what must there be to secure that aim? La ravanche! A clear, laudable, superb ambition, but how difficult, arduous and remote! By what steps is he to reach it? For a young officer, his duty was marked out—to master his profession. “I pursued with_ single purpose my military ambition. I strove to apply the conclusions of any essay which had been given us to work upon at Saint- Clement, at the very moment when the country was being invaded by those Germans whom I meant one day to pursue. ‘Youth must train its gifts.” “There is the whole secret. Our gifts must be bent toward the long essential goal, the act of willing. Obstacles ought not to exist for man if he pursues an object, and above all if he is not afraid of any responsibility whatsoever. Thus equipped one is equal to any emer- gencies that arise, and thus able to dominate them.” Army Perpetuates Mistakes. turning toward the future, hesitating | ferent as can be,” he uyl.'hdue to slight between the two, it displayed the same | alf hesitation in undertaking the reorgan- izationt of the military forces as in at- tempting the political reformation of the country. It lacked in energy and had not the strength to take inevitable decisions. ‘The whole army in an ardent desire for regeneration set itself to the task with feverish energy. Unfortunately the re- instatement of too many of the officers returning from captivity rmtuued in the army the mistakes of former days. 1In his next article Commandant Bug- net tells more of Marshal Foch’s ear] career. (Copyright, 1929, by !"m‘h American Newse ‘paper Alliance.) FIND 7 GLUCOSE SUGARS. 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What hence- forth could be his aim but to serve this country—brui: ruined, vanquished, put on his new uniform he went for a walk in Paris with his friend Graef, who had been his companion both at the military school and on first com- mission. “We used to walk about tapping the ground with our heels, and we used to hold ourselves 'y straigh | was playing billiards.” Now a refugee in Paris, he made a futile attempt at the oral examinations, but without waiting any longer he lis tened to the call of his country: “I enlisted for the duration of the war. I was in the twenty-fourth company of a battalion. I could do nothin But at the moment when he entered upon his career, the reactions of the defeat were making themselves still more bitterly felt. The National Assembly of 1871 had taken up a difficult and burdensome in- heritanc Shackled by the past but, be w tion until nis deatn in order to escape possible criticism that it was inspired. nis Js the ninch of a series of articles Cne an all alike in having their atoms ar- ranged in rings, are described to the American Philosophical Soclety by Dr. Claude S. Hudson of the United States Public Health Service. But some of their effects “are as dif- BY COMMANDANT BUGNET. Written exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. “I was in the 3d at the Lycee de Rodez when my ‘educational horoscope’ was drawn by my mathematical master called Almeras, a man of al gly precise and forcible logical “You should send him to the Polytechnique; that is the best thing for him. He has a geometrical mind.’ It was he who gave me my objective. Sixty years later, his features express- ing ail the gratitude he felt for that service, the marshall still liked to recall this fortunate impuise wnicn gave a di- rection to his youth and determined his vocation. However dificult the entrance exam- ination to the Ecole Polytechnique, success was possible, for each year saw several admissions from the same school. The goal was attainable; what an encouragement! And his plan? Its place was taken by a system of time-tables, which the professors helped the students to follow. | To profit by &heir advice it was cnly necessary to work. Perseverance Is Necessary. As to the method—"it was necessary to persevere in one’s efforts, which is not difficult if, in studying, one seeks to Teduce everything to simplicity, to clarify and to prune, without losing one’s head.” The choice of an aim had the effect of a catalysing agent which fixed all the good elements in suspension. “Gifts!” the marshal would say. “There is no such thing. Intelligence? 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