fys Pl LiffK'e>?,To?. ^W; W.' J ) 1E- u , _JlP IT IS FOR MY COUNTRY TO II WI& SAY WHERE I CAN SERVE BEST, SAYS GEN. BELL While testifying before the Senate ' Military Affairs Committee, MaJ. Gen. J. Franklin Bell said physical vigor was most desirable in commanding generals. Continuing, he said: SaWf# ? "To make my meaning clear I will use myself as an example. When I went to the Philippines in the 8panWK* i8h-American War I do not suppose BSrSii there was a better physical specimen than I was at the time. I was then forty-two years old. I could work ah ! J r. . unlimited number of houra a day and IdaS^1-' * worked constantly In that tropical clime month in and month ont wlthSfflSP out a day off duty. 1 have carried ? the ever aiace. I am still, in 3a^7v . my own mind, in pretty fair physical HMlSSfej condition, bat If the Medical Board i It " makes a reoort unfavorable and if liV my superiors determine that It la to the Interest of the nation that 1 rWnv should aerre In the United States instead of in France, I will submit with lOa&li&r Rood grace and will say nothing. I L|h||V-'.. feel that it is the only soldierly thing for a Beldier to do. But I shall renU}:,. grot it and shall continue to think [ that I could render "more valuable r I-PC" senrice In France than I could render ItofflKc; In the United States, because there are lew officers who have had greater flMMMpajy. experience in actual warfare and in ^ {- j K l.: commanding large bodies of men. j III-;.- However, It Is for the United States ? 10 decWe where I can render the ^ {gi?s&- . beat service. If it be not inappro- / j^' prlate, I should like to say that Gen- ? eral Wood is the senior general in * >V the American Army. I am next, Gen^eral Barry is third and General Per- y -, v shlng fourth. I have freely ac- ?J IJt' - Knowieagea to uenerai rersmug uuu ? plffiK'-r - ?. everyone else that I believe the selection' Of General Pershing instead f of myself was a wise one and based ^ jWTv Dealing as it does with the life and ' f activity of your camp, Trench" and h r|.J:w4 V l Camp is the most interesting thing. 7 next to a letter, that you could send it i j l fotto- Mail all your copies to them: TMiNfCH J FEizeits" ~ M f ' N y P i //'iji^ SJ/ I MAY 12 "MOTHER'S DAY 1 Sunday, Majr 18, will be Mother's Day. Anna Jfarrto, founder of | this beautiful custom of netting addf one bright spring day on which to concentrate our thoughts on "The Best Mother Who Ever Lived," to Idas her if we are near or to write a letter to her If away from home and wear a white carnation emblematic of her pure love and devotion. Is urging all of America's soldiers to remember their mothers on that day: Since it is for the protection of the aotben of America that her sows have gone to war, it seems pasticnlariy appropriate that Mother's Day be fully observed in every tender way possible at this time. The mothers hare made great sacrifices in giving their sons to the nation to wage its battles. Their hearts and spirits are near their sons in trench, camp and can lag of their sow. And so It seems bat right that the fonader of Mother's Day should remind the soldiers that May IS Is the day to write mother a loving, tender let-, tar and to remember her in every way possible. WHEN WILL THE WAR END? lb solute knowledge I have none, fut my aunt's washwoman's sister's son, feard a policeman on his beat ay to a laborer on the street, 'hat he had a'letter just last week Vritten in the finest Greek, 'rom a Chinese coolie'in Timbvctoo, Vho said that the negroes in Cuba knew if a colored man is a Texas-town ? Vho got it straight from a circus clown, 'hat a man in the Klondyke heard the news 'rom a. gong of South American Jews, lA/Mif uTihnJa m Rrtrnrn Vho knew a man who claims to know I/ a swell society female fake Vhose mother-in-law zuill undertake 'o prove that her seventh husband's sister's niece, fad stated i? a printed piece, 'hat she had a son who had a friend fho knows when the war is going to end. ?Amohymous. ) y T'Jwf I SWM) Au. \ LtW? Vs. SW? \ tol?-U5 4 I ^ v.> W' *' -^<^+ LAfliS T> F^VirrK) ,n w - -- : t French Fried Kitchen Police affords a rare opportunity to try out the New Army French. Some of the French used on Kitchen Police cannot be printed, of course, but some can. Fresh from his French In Five Flings, the K. P. assumes the Royal Blue overalls. Or, If he's failed to: "Hey, Gulllaume (French for Bill) ou eat le coolots?" "Whadduyeuh mean?-Coolots?" "Pan's?coolots ? Francaise. Ne oonpronie pa voo." / "sure?jun travenee sanas coolots." "Travellse?" "Sure?travellee?meaning work." "Ben! Voo will find que travelled means on this assignment de cop de cutaine." "Cop de cuisine!" "Yenh?cop de cuisine's Kitchen Police in la lang des Etat de Units." The chef who uses French only in grave emergencies shouts: "Hay, yonse boids! Wha'd'yus think thia-is?a girls' school? Jerk them kettles off an' get 'em ready. The gangMl be in here like a pack o' wolves In a few mlnntee." The two soldiers, swallow the insults, but not their French, and in low tones converse as they go about thefr greasy duties: i "Le chef is un couchon. Bill, aint he?" "Sure?and a mal de tete to boot. manzhay le soldata?" "Oh, about deml after 'leven. Let's donnons 'em on peu de soupcon. It's tray bean soupcon." "Bean soupcon. Donnez 'em tout < they want then." I "Not bean soupcon, you garsong. i TRAY bean soupcon?very good i soup, not soup fait de beans." < "Oh?mala why ne pass donnons 1 'em bun portions?grand portions?" i "You poor ignorant matter dliotey! i Ne compronie too que noo save as 1 much as noo can pour ourselves. You ' dont get wise to Kitchen" Police." "G'wan, I'm wise mais Je ne faim s pas: * 8. O. 8. 1 Saviag scraps over here will save i the 8CRAP over there. 1 General Foch Mil Now that the Allied military forces VflrVlMf have been placed under a unified command, American soldiers are curlous to know what manner of man is & General Ferdinand Foch, th6 com- yjy mander of all the commanders. jT A In him there is no mystery. He is ?l/j Wj the embodiment of genius if genius be, as it has been defined, the capac- \8ntw * ity for taking infinite pains. For- i ftv.^Sr dinand Foch has believed in himself; H&yfl I he has had a firm faith in his fitness | . , for a high calling. Hut that belief l Jm' fn' and that faith have never taken the i ml Jl form of that self-consciousness which B WlJjjj is described as conceit. Some have B .Bbl^l chafed under his authority, for he nas uemanueu me ultimate in (lis- bhii cipline. They have called hiin a I V/Hn i martinet and otherwise reviled him. But he has paid little heed to his a traducers and has toiled unceasingly to produce the finest efficiency. Now, fa/ JlJ* In the days of stern sacrifice, his genlus has been recognized, and even those who turned from him because of what they once called his harsh- ipmimakness are now turning to him as the ablest strategist in the Allied forces. During the battle of the Marne Gen. Poch sent this memorable tele gram to Marshal Joffre: "My right has been rolled up. My left has been driven "back. My cen- vfn/fNfnk ter has been smashed. I have or- ^gBBBjjga dered an advance from all dlrec tions. . / ((,? I Ferdinand Foch nil born on October 2. f \ ^ HW the birthplace of Marshal Joffre. wlio Is a few months younger He studied it St. Cyr. lieutenant In the Franco* Prussian War. " In the Algerian campaign seven years lajer, Foeh was made a captain for dlstln- n/t KUished service In the Held. Ills genius had beifun to bo recognised and he was ordered ( A , Five years later be returned to Ills rcglattained a brigadier's rank. iU|H He served as Dlrertor of the Ecnle de Guerre and devoted Ins attention to the de- , velopment of the artillery branch of tlio JHVVV French service. While he was In the War Office of the famous I'reusot Works were do- .fJ veloped and the .75 became the atandard BJ' gun of the French army. I* 4 AL Tbe outbreak of the present war found r J him in command of the ariny of reserve, the L ' f J existence of which was not even known to | J the German leaders. Thia army, under hta Jftjl direct bin. awaited the strategic moment and IBwiHB " then drora hi between the Prussian Guard i, and the Saxon army on September 9. 1114. ex ecu ling the greatest coup of the BattMFtC the Morn* la the timing of hie movement he showed Ma genhm The Oermans wen within sight of Paris. A move too rafty would hare betrayed the existence of hts ^B array and enabled Ibe (krmam 10 meet Ms V onslaught. A move Juat a. Utile later wooM HT hare been too late. Be- S|jBa| With his Tenth Army he was awaiting the | ) inevitable weakness In the enemy line. The through the heroic Belgian and British forced the flerraans hack across the Yser his right to he regarded as a master struteglat. He vindicated his own faith In him- I self and the faith that Marshal JofTre had r so frequently expressed him. II how lo wait and when* to strike. When he 9 every element of battle. He strikes unixpectedly. He strtkee hard, telling blows, lie who executes daring moves, and with the |htrtf F| same cautlou that prevents surprise llirrlfl Is It uny wonder thai (lenersl I'crshlng. It lllffl Dlas have raillatl to aplcr.dldly umiir Krrdtnand F? b aa Ccntnalivlmu? F 1 If/I Y. W. C. A. HOSTESS HOUSE * '/ FOR USE OF SOLDIERS' KIN *" + "I wish my wife could come to New A ' York, and say good-bye to me before * W I sail. But, of couse, she can't. She - ^ ' has never been to the city in her life; ff/slP-and then there is the baby." The /fesJfcV soldier spoke wistfully to a sailor friend In Hoboken, N. J. "Bat she can come just aS well as not," said the sailor enthusiastically (j "The Y. W. C. A. Hostess House is just the place for them both. I was w \ married there and my wife stayed there before the wedding." And so wife and baby came, and FT; the soldier-boy husband sailed for l|Hi France with a happier heart because he had seen them, and his wife went back to the little home town, com- A What is the Hostess House? It is the beautiful home of Mr. and BBSmKI Mrs. Henry P. Davison., at 12 West > 51st Street, New York City, who have loaned it daring the war to the War Work Committee of the New York yt5j/7#? City Y. W. C. A. It is beautifully and bed rooms. Best of all, there VAW/fiv, are two charming purseries at the ynrfflll |! Lop of the hoase, where babies can i\|#//f i. be cared for. A piano and a victrola ' InMUM r idd to the general cheerlness. The \tWiJmBf musical ns every Sunday are followed I by an informal supper for soldiers. rea is served every afternoon. The house is capable of answering 9" in infinite number of needs. Wives, * listers and sweethearts of men in j 'amps or from the boats may stay ??? lere in comfort. The parlor may be """ xsed for military and naval weddings ivitb no charge whatever.