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— l = Se SN ween nee ae ss TUESDAY, PRIL 23, 19 1918 APRIL 23, “Old Heads for Council” His First Trench Raid Like “Buffalo Bill” Story, _ Also Prove Their Worth Tn Running Greatest War Says Lieut. Smith, U.S.A. ilies’ War Leaders Whose Years Add Fighting Punch FROM CLEMENCEAU, 77, THE OLDEST, TO HAIG, 57, | THE YOUNGEST, THEY’ RE SHOWING THAT AN ‘“‘OLD | Conflict Enters Critical Stage—Joffre, Balfour, Foch, HEAD” IS AS GOOD FOR WAR AS FOR COUNCIL. | and Many Other Graybeards Have Borne BAHT AEE Seat tata Sse SD eens the Brunt of Leadership. His Book, “Over There and Back,” American Who Has Fought in Three Uniforms Tells How His First Trip Across No Man's Land Netted Him a Good 3 Laugh and His First Boche. we By Marguerite Mooers Marshall By James C. Young 66% EY, fellows, just take a look through this periscope at No 6c X months is all that 1 want—to finish my work,” says Clemet ceau, seventy-severr years old, and the strong man of Frarfte. But the doctors, with lavish hand, promise him a life of sev- eral times six months. It is enough. He smiles and goes back to his task. “Young heads for war, old heads for council,” runs the proverb. And certainly the wisdom of the graybeards has been borne out in this present struggle. But old men also are directing the world’s armies, and youth finds only a secondary place at the board of strategy. Among all the warring nations men of sixty and beyond are maintaining leader- ship on the field and in the council chamber by force of merit. Which serves to dissipate the ill-founded illusion that a man of years is useless merely because of his age. ‘ Clemenceau has given to France ils most substantial government since war began. This is not because of any improvement in the domes- tic or international situation, but despite grave perils at home and abroad. The strength of the present Government has come from within the breast of one old man with flaming eye whom his opponents call “The Tiger.” It was Clemenceau who had the resolution to challenge a pow- erful group of insidious propagan-| |, the world to-day, has ApS dists and to take steps which led| years to his credit, Man’s Land. Of all the overrated places in the world this has got 'em beat.’ “That was Tommy's opinion. i “What the did you expect to see?’ asked the grouch. ““‘Well, bodies hanging in the wire, to start with, and there ain't one. Then, some on the ground. But just look! There ain't a thing in sight!’ “No Man's Land wasn’t worth looking at,” noncha- lantly comments Lieut. Joseph Shuter Smith, U. S. A., in “Over There and Back,” his fine story of ser- vice in France in three uniforms—Canadian, British, American. Unlike many writers of war books, Lieut. Smith is now on active duty with Gen, Pershing, and we must hope he will reluru to write another book as human, humorous and un-self-conscious as “Over There and Back.” His attitude toward the war is wholly that of Kipling’s American, who “Imperturbable, elate, Greets th’ embarrassed gods, nor fears | To shake the iron hand of fate \ iF } fifty-n' ' And match with destiny for beers.” The ineident in Lieut, Smith's . 22 ook which manages to be at once) most thrilling and amusing Is bis description of the first raid into the German lines, after four months in the Belgian trenches without even seeing a German. One day at pa Tade the author and some few oth- ers learned that they were to stay out of line and practice for a raid, “In five minutes we were the heroes of the battalion,” Lieut. Smith, “We were to be the first of our lot to meet the enemy shrieking. But I decided that T might just as well yell, as the Boches would smell me burning and suspect something anyway. Then the Ight landed—but not on me—j} died out with @ eplutter and we crawled forward again. “A few yards nearer—it ting mighty exciting now. passing through their wire. It ts fascinating sport, Just on the other side, only a few yards away, {s the enemy, and be is due for an awful fright in a few seconds. “Our box barrage has opened, The timing was perfect. We were in hand to hand. The younger men in| luck, and Mr, Boche was out of it, the battalion looked on us with awe|for we were in that trench before aad admiration, the older members, 4¢ bad time to wink. 1 made for 2 * , the trench mortar. Dimly, vaguely, with envy, and we, modest heroes, 7 oy 1 was in the German Hines, Strutted the street and pretended (9 ang, pelieve me or not, a great feel #®e no one but vur own band Of ing of joy surged over me, Mad ex- is get We are writes Bolo Pasha before a firing squad. The notorious Caillaux awaits trial on a treason charge because Cle-| menceau had the courage to arrest | him when no one else was quite equal to the task of charging a for- mer Premier of France with treach- ery. And it is Clemenceau who has done more than any other leader to weld the Allies together, So much | for one man of almost four score | years who craves six months more | of life—to finish his work. | | Foch, now given supreme com- mand of all troops in France, and who is the new Gibraltar of Allied hopes, lacks just three years of the| seventy mark. He Is called the foremost strategist of the age, and) throughout the world struggle his | name has been often to the fore. ‘The | sreat opportunity comes to him after Our own Pershing is still a junior among the nation’s mi ry leaders, being fifty-elght years old. Tasker N. Bliss, Chief of Staff and a prominent figure at the Versailles War Council is sixty-five. Ordinarily he would have been relieved some months ago from active service, but was re- tained to fill one of the most respon- sible posts in the War Departme: Peyton C. March, Acting Chief ef Staff during the absence of Gen. Bliss, is another junior, with only fifty-four years against his name. Major Gen. Leonard Wood, well known to New Yorkers, is the same age as Pershing—fifty-elght, and probably will command a division in Fra. The majority of our gen- eral officers range from fifty ee sixty. In view of the long score that Time holds agains! so many of the ja lifetime of waiting. No one who \has looked at pictures of his straight, | | sturdy form and the man's smiling | face, with the eagle beak, may doubt that he {s ready. | Joffre—the immortal—was sixty- |two when he fought the Germans at men who are running the world te- day, it is interesting to recall 3 poleon’s reflections on thie eubject. | When the Emperor was thirty-five and at the pinnacle of bis career, he remarked that, “One bas but a cer- tain time for war. I shall be good picked braves. \cltement possessed me, and all “Men asked us questions; We! around the roar and crash of artil- “Yeeked superior, answered evasively,|jery added to it, when, heavens! and they walked away more !-| There was a German, right at the pressed than ever, It was a great corner of a traverse. He was hel te | metless and without @ rifle, but, But tne days and nights that fol-| worse yet, be was carrying one of |the Marne and saved Europe. Pe-| for it but six years more; then even “‘Yowed were filled brimful with re-| thelr stick bombs tain, second in command under/I shall stop.” He about forty “bearsals of the proposed raid. The; “It flashed into my mind, ‘you or | Foch, is sixty-one to-day. De Cas-| when his reverses began, and lost Picked men must learn their forma- he, Not you!’ and 1 jumped for telnau, another noted French leader, | the battle of Waterloo at forty-six. ‘tions, how to thread thelr way) him, has passed the sixty-seventh mile- stone. jan earlier time were young men. Wherever one looks on the roster of | Alexander began his career at eigh- France's leaders the names of gray-| teen and died when he was thirty- beards are to be found. It {s some-| three. Hann!bal started at thirteen what different with the British, al-| and lost his last battle to Selpio though there are notable exceptions. | when forty-seven. Caesar laid hold | Herbert Asquith, former Premier, is | of fame at forty and relinquished his sixty-six, and Balfour seventy, But) grasp at forty-five. Nelson fought hir Practically’ all famous leaders of through lanes of barbed wire, how) “Before he could pull the sirtng fo cut it, how to locate machine) on that bomb we went to the bottom ms and a trench mortar that bad! of the trench together, bedevilling the line. Each) “Before I could get up, the other gmember of the party had his own} fellows rushed over me, headed tor vole, in which he must become let-|the trench mortar, and then I ran| ter perfect, before the raid actually after them. Do not think I forgot | took place. 1 never have, and 1} So we went on till the last night,” A memory ts one of the | that German. never will Lloyd George, at fifty-five, seems a| last battle at forty-seven and Wel continues Lieut, Smith, “when we | cur: PPE ETE Se OMG 7 Cd ipiraie epee titers namie ae Saeco eee BST = mere boy when compared with the |lington at forty-six. This would tend tried it, carrying any weapons we} hen, though everything was e hoary Clemenceau, twenty-two years | to prove that the span of man's use- wanted. One fellow was a butcher. | confusion, {nstinetively I went hh t d ‘his senior, Sir Herbert C. O, Plumer,| fulness has Indeed been increased, Hie carried a cleaver, Another was|where I should have gone, Inetine unap ona tcs an | who recently won distinction in the|and that no sucb consideration ‘en old British Columbia logger, He) tively al) of us did what we wer ee oe aa had an axe. Another was a lather, He had a lathing hatchet. Some car-| wag destroyed ried bayonets in'their puttees, Others|green ght fla carried revolvers, and everybody car- | night | fighting about Messines Ridge, is a) trained to do bare sixty-one. Other British fleld commanders fall below that mark by several years. Gen. Sir Douglas years may be deemed fatal when un- dertaking even the greatest enter- prises, A good dea! has been said recently The trench mortar eMciontly, when hed up into a} the Messrs. Wherzza, Whazza, Whenzza and Whooza, the Famous Quartet of Chin Musicians, Will Soon Be Out of a Job, for Playing Grace Notes on a Telephone + “5 Mo, : 1 ogra: “ m Haig, Commander in Chief, Is just) about retiring American Army of- ried bombs. Capt, Kidd's crew would| “It was our signal to return, and | Instrument Is to Be Omitted From the Encore Numbers Hereafter Central fifty-seven. ficers who arc getting on in years. have looked ilke a lot of nursery pi-|we started back the way we had Will Listen Only When Money Valks, and the Squirrels Will Have to Stop But German leadership fully sus-| It would seem to be false reasoning rates compared to us.” come, We ran on until we saw our | The raid took place the next night. “Excited? Well, 1 should say so!” exclaims the author. ‘tains the prestige of age. Von Hin- denburg is seventy. Before the out- break of this war he had been re- | that these men should be shelved | after spending a lifetime to prepare for such a need as has now arisen. Paging Their Dinners Over New York’s Telephones. By Arthur (“Bugs”) Baer | Wi | times It’ officer standing above us. He reached | |down his hand, we grasped it, and | “I kept won-|be helped us out, saying as he did, » comes tn for a di Whoo on the wire boulevard, Some- hort distance a lke “Whoozalecte a rin Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (7! wrevid Whoozalected?” But during |i ea and was looked upon as al Assurecly a few years more or less dering how {t would feel to stick | ‘Got six of the Boches, Scoot HB aquirrels w tb age pes +) the baseball spasins old Whooza climbs on the wire and signs @ lease | 9) 1 aenaort, — sometimes|are a small matter when @ man is Boche. It wasn't exactly like killing | for home.’ And we scooted | | York's telephones, ‘There so many nut ca ye for the summer, Laer the | called the brains of the German war | hale of body and alert of mind, And smother man, but I wondered if 1| “Away we went down the trench | they have gumm DP patan eters Satddee tietaaanint bas Don't think that the felecompany fs a fathead who ob]eKie to ein, |machine, 8 almost as old, Von|the old men of Europe are demon- gould do it, and tried to Imaging tt.|—happy, nervously happy, so that] sorer a Bullsheviki fa Gardai inmrown whisl ‘aa rari folks a favor, But how fast do you think Ty Cobb sonlt es on tho | ick, who came nearest to Paris, | strating every day that they not only I couldn't, so 1 stopped thinking |we spoke in an unnatural tone. We all free Junch. The ne works docan't have to 5 aes Bo bases if he always had four plano movers ahead of him i Fala A was sixty-eight at the time, The'are wise in council but mighty tn about ft, One fellow expressed the|had been in hand-to-hand conflict} nut gelephone inquiriey becuse ra danis aly more income) derived pane runes an Oregon boot clogs the baxe lines is Just tie Way | Kaiser himself, most dangerous man war, Its the day of the graybeards. feelings of us all |with the enemy and had not been| from the aquirrels' supper chatter than a fish has ae that 100,000 1 8 clo: telephone lines, The hind wheels of a | ibebacabalays ec uaa, edie incase “‘I'm glad it's going to be dark, |afraid. Hy the time we entered| phonatics talk on the fin : is fivver are no faster than the front, With @ lot of lunaphonatics hog- | ral P. S. i ] k d A fellows, I hate those devils, but they |headquarters normal feeling took | On the finger ts clrous jabber, When the spicier has splited er Bing the wire, what chance is there of the company ringing up a sale on ‘Englan $s atron aint Invoke new look like human beings, even if they |possession of us and we swanked,” | of the old oll the shillabers Jead the rush for the box office tryir , cash customer? No more chance than Bill Bryan has of getting In- | 66QQT. GEORGE for Merrie Eng-| ¢ was made Arch ain't’ he sald.” “Over There and Back” is pub-! stampede the hicks } from their thin dimes, When the flatwh digestion from eating in the White House for four years. a | S JAnaIRag sop eeBtiriss ist BMNER EF AOA MAS The wire cutters returned ufter |lishod by E. P. Dutton & Co. | pass the dime scoope Mey Fy oes Shia balmy Gite Usually central | junk shop for disabled questions. Every | the rallying cry of hard|still unsatisfed, he is said to have am absence of four hours and the} a. | Atma s AN De Qoee: t hat f ‘ hana a time Whooza, Whattza and Whenzza get their larynxes loaded to the pressed Britons, and if it echoes once | cau - the pass n temp s to be loot | es 4 + ON @ PUPAL BE ars le th queerie sip chi r the telepho: d ou cken flelds of Pi- | ed the e revolted and drove way was clear, The men dropped | 7 ‘ eal upnteatini as iat sit dices Cd Gaia ss muzzle with queeries they alm thelr chins for the telephone and cut | more over the stricken f i 4 over the top and began to crawl Amy. Transport Repaired ID ene et eye hunaneehar tag . ; ot a doer ae loose with the old oll barrage. And by the time they are cured the old | caray and Flanders it will come from it wan restored to the forward. “I thought of the old} Record Time. spend a e vals vocant | coin box is Just as empty as the Czar’s throne, the throats of men wort the bes © by army of Com a 7 , | Jo Junaphonatie figures of x himsel 2 r traditions of a glorious past stories I had read as a boy of Bat | HAT ‘s pronounced the quite So slipping @ guy the finger ts equivalent to handing him the old No lunaphonatic figures on dr ing himself away from a real d natical history relates that| ‘Tho accession of Julian resulted in fale Bill,” eut. Smith tells us, est repair Job ever done in the | raze And a caper aind( fl fie Aa | authentic nickel, same as they have in large cities, Which 1s where | Jesiastical his , 4 ‘ Sl een Aha He was thrown fazed And a ies are perennial flowerir ¢ und ort Sappadocia 0 , “and almost laughed out loud when | shops the Panama Canal| y,ossom telept leas ne SA larouri ‘ a the phone works yodels ike a barber when a hard boiled egg steps in | Bree SORE. FAP to high|!nto prison, but a mob of infuriated 1 remembered one in which the old |¥#s completed Jan, 20 last, the vess ave abAut 100,000 tala : ni ste a bes turday night and gets a haircut without also getting a shave. Shey a ae ae JAlexandrians dragged him from his feout had shot and then scalped|* ™ nip of nearly 20,000 gross} testy nothing but ppg LAL a i hina ar ibaibdi edad gee 9 rsation without Jitneys won't make a phone company’ fat. |rard, for protesting against the per-/Ccll and Killed him, ‘The body was Beventeen Indians in one fight.| |. - uae 1a Arapapart se e) the Routine by ai os ‘the | lads who wrote the Constitution slipped in that part about free | Mi oe the Christians by his im 18 ed in triumph through the Juuckily, 1 caught myself just in |), ue ‘The most una 9 quer Wha ‘ | ephones were Invented. | perial master, he was tortured and {en iP sieg wee rary ast inte the ; . evious im aays query ie “Whaazza rig sc heeamiameae ee aaa a - Bed he ¢ of George at the e se © 8 o . b t t 11 23, 303. He time. How I sie ane Ursed | ferhanicy. Included in the ernment gave the cuckoos an extra hour start, some folh | jput to oan RR oe saint in the | N48 of the pagans made him a mar- flares, though. 1 imagined that ball |repair were a new stem 60 feet to catch up with ‘c Aaa whan they wank {6 Returned a Soft Answer became Eng! : Lcross|t¥? 1m the sight of the Arians. He of fire was going to light In the/14 inches deep end 4 inehes th they ambuscade ‘emseives in th and pag | “ | fourteenth century and the red Gic ae atari nirnent fought winhine Middle of my back a new hawse pipe of seven and one is one clock that requires no winding, | NOF, COPELAND of Harvard,|twenty minutes late. Prof. Copeland] of Gt, George now appears on Crusaders, and he became guneraiiy “I remembered the story of the |b f tons ‘These whazza-riy Sinemet ae tana a en te as the story goes, reproved his|walted until she had taken her seat, | British ensign. eines recognised as the patron Nttle Spartan boy who had taken| The latter tnvolved cutting away| I nbasaaalan § Ps: ie 95 the | dents for coming late to!/Thon he remarked bitingly | The unflattering: story « ie life! Soidiers, of arma and chival the fox to schoo! and let it gnaw {#!! of the n al around the pipe,| Pany®® ma i arb central's nap. Another 5 ren “How will you have your toa, Mise! given by the historian Gibbon is now | was said to have slaughtere Pils breast away, and I wondered jf {cluding forty tons of concrete that| resrauilt t# “Whersan fire?” cave on the left This in a class in English compo- | Brown?! believed to we the career of another) In had been Old Wherzza and | Me birt Danube where it divid I could Ite still and let that Mght used in temporary depair BEA ATO ALTO the troubia twinn for the old | giion."! he remarked with aavenam,| “Without tho lemon, plenae,” Misa|Georgs, of hum@e birth, who wasls it demin, The carcass r M1 and let that Nght | work. The force Included 450 skijied| phone works, If It « Wherzza it's Whazza, and {f ita » «| “not an afternoon te | Brown answered quite ge To. involved in an grmy contract scandal.lto this day in the cavern, pura through my back without mechanics and 1,000 helpers. | both, You said it 1 at the next mooling one girl was peka State Journal, .. | Becoming a "Convert to Arianiom, to the puperstitious natives,