THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. TRI HISTORY WAS MADE November 1, 1918 LEE LE < \ WASN'T INCLUDED HEADACHE — GASES -NAUSES The bus stopped and a crowd of hol- iday makers scrambled to enter IL “Will the gentlemen please move up a little to allow more room? asked the conductor as politely as possible. “No, | won't,” growled the snappy individual. AC ! D The conductor shrugged his shoul- ders. ANY people, two hours after “All right, you needn't,” he sald. “I eating, sufler indigestion as only asked the gentlemen.” they call it. It is usually i A acd, Correct it with an alkali. The best way, the quick harmless and efficient INSURANCE TOO BIG way, is Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. It has remained for 50 years the standard with physicians. One Mie ful in water neutralizes many ti mes its volume in stomach acids, and at once. The symploms disappear in five minutes. You will never use erude methods when you know this better method. And you will never suffer from excess acid whea you prove out lus easy relief, Je sure {o get the genuine Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physicians for 50 years in correcting excess acids. 20¢ and 50c a bottle— any drug store ‘The ideal dentifrice for clea an teeth 2 asd heal ny g i Dent: al “ia tooth-y aste. Foch Jones—* and caused his death?’ Willlams— carried.” What broke Smith down so § “The heavy life insurance he Radio's Effect on Language nterest in Addendum | It was Mr. Wilson who reported the } case of the merchant who horse-racing hardware 1 his store | leaning over | “Have you ingdired | By ELMO SCOTT WATSON je HIS is the story of a dining car, the most famous dining ear pers haps in all history. You will find it enshrined in a memorial building at the little town of Rethondes in Compiegne Forest in France, It does not have a name. It is only Dining Car No, 2419D of the Wagons-Lits company. jut here history was made, for In this car on November 11, 1918, the terms of the Armistice, which ended the greatest war in all history, were signed, Dining Car No. 2419D joined the French army in 1914 to be converted into a rail way saloon of a senlor French officer. It served throughout the war and in 1918 it was used by General Ferdinand Foch when he became Mar- shal Foch, commander In chief of the Allied armies. So It was into this car eqrly In the morning of November 8, 1018, that the repre- sentatives of the German government came to listen to the terms of an Armistice, for which they had asked, which Foch would be willing to grant them. Picture now the scene which took place on that morning. In the center of the car Is a table. On one side stand French and British officers, the victors. On the other side stand Cerman officers and civilians, the vanquished. General Weygand, Foch’s chief of staff, was at his right and at his left were two English ad- mirals, Hope and Wemyss. As they took their seats Mathias Erzberger, the head of the Ger- eral Von Winterfeldt, the second German pleni- potentiary, was facing Foch. A German marine, Captain Vanselow, was seated beside Von Win- terfeldt and the German diplomat, Count Oben- dorf, sat beside Erzberger. Lieutenant Leperche seated himself at the end of the table and two of Foch's staff officers, Major Riedinger and ptain de Mierry were seated at two small bles at one side. Here is the story of what took place as told by Foch himself: “When they entered my drawing room In the ear, 1 saw them standing, pale and stiff. One of them, whom 1 guessed to be Mathias Erz. berger, asked In a rather weak voice, permis. sion to make the presentations, “1 simply sald, ‘Gentlemen, have you any docu- ments? We shall examine their validity.” Then they showed me documents signed by Prince Max of Baden, which IT deemed to be satisfac tory. Then turning toward Erzberger, I said to him, ‘What do you want? He replied in a still troubled volece, ‘We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers In view of an armistice’ 1 cut in rather sharply (and this was the only time [ was sharp), ‘I have no pro- posal whatsoever to make’ The four Germans consulted one another with their eyes. ‘Well! sald one of them, Count Obendorff, ‘Tell us, Monsieur le Marechal, how you wish us to ex- press ourselves. Our delegation Is prepared to ask you the conditions of an armistice” 1 + insisted, ‘Do vou ask formally for an armistice? “Yes, we do, ‘Then, please sit down and T will rend the conditions of the Allies to you." “1 began to rewd the conditions of the ar mistice slowly, After each paragraph I stopped to permit the Interpreter to translate. Then X fooked at my Interlocutors and followed the ime prossion ef thelr faces during the translation, Mathias Erzberger Gradually 1 saw those faces change. Winter. feldt especially was very pale I even think that he wept. When I had finished reading I simply declared, ‘Gentlemen, 1 leave this text with you, you have seventy-two hours to reply to it. Meanwhile, you may present observations of details to me “Then Erzberger became pathetic. ‘For God's gake, Monsieur le Marechal,’ he sald, ‘do not wait for those seventy-two hours. Stop the hos tilities this very day. Our armies are a prey to anarchy. Bolshevism threatens them, and that Bolshevism may gain ground over the whole of Germany and threaten France herself) | replied: ‘1 do not know In what state your armies are: I only know In what situation mine are. Not only can 1 not stop the offensive, but I am giving orders to continue It, with re doubled energy.’ “Winterfeldt intervened In his turn: ‘Mon- sieur le Marechal, it will be necessary for our staffs to consult each other and to discuss together the whole of the details of execution, How will they be able to do so If the hos tilities be continued? 1 beg of you, for technical reasons, to stop the hostilities” Again I re torted: ‘The technical discussions can just as well take place In seventy-two hours Until then the offensive will continue.’ This time it was finished, The four plenipotentiaries rose and withdrew.” During the next two days, November 9 and 10, Foch slept but little. He was certain that the Germans would accept his terms but in the meantime wireless messages received by the Eiffel Tower told of the outbreak of a revolu tion In Berlin so he did not know what govern. ment these men represented nor how much power they now had. On the evening of November 10 the German plenipotentiaries came back to re- quest that, on account of the troubled state of affairs in Germany, the army be permitted to retain a greater number of machine guns for the purpose of maintaining order. Foch granted them this and a little after fivg o'clock on the morning of November 11 they signed the Ar- mistice, Of the subsequent history of this famous din. ing ear a recent visitor to Compeigne writes in the New York Times as follows: “What happened to Dining Car 2410D after that eventful night does not seem clear. It appears eventually to have been demobilized but not to have returned to civilian life. A small plate beneath the arms on one side of It announces that it was ‘given by the Wagons-Lits company, May 1, 1921 and {t was presumably about that time that it turned up In the Court of Honor at Invalides Ip Paris where, with all its war medals upon It, 1t took its place with the other fnanimate heroes of such a war as the first Napoleon never dreamed of. Its medals are a little dificult to see from the outside, for they are high up at both ends of the main saloon inside, In that strip which in the common hérd of dining cars is occupled by advertisements of Scotch whiskies, Riviera hotels and Atlantic steamship lines, They take the form of two small red plagues adorned with eream-colored ‘ a a amid the Yser the Battie ‘aris, however, | the old car took ortals in the Invalid at the site In the nalled to trees marking he positior of two trains. Le Matin of Paris was the first to move for a permanent monument, choosing a spot beside the Complegne-Francport road 200 yards away, presumably on the assumption that nobody would ever leave the road and enter the forest to reach the actual site, Its monu- ment is a striking piece of work, a with its point resting on a fallen German eagle. but although it bears the Armistice date there ig a stronger flavor of Alsace-Lorraine in its inscription thdn of the Armistice “The next step was taken by Fournigr Sar joveze, deputy from the department of the Oise and mavor of Complegne. This was directed to the raising of a monument at the actual site which although It is five miles from the town, fs just within the municipal boundary. The monument which resulted was dedicated on Armistice day, 1022, in the presence of Presi. dent Millerand and an impressive assembly of marshals, admirals, ambassadors, troops and townsfolk. It consists of a broad boulevard 200 yards long which has been carried into the forest from the main roed, and at the end of which ta a clearing 100 yards In diameter with a circular road surrounding the gardened circle of the actual site. The rallway tracks from Nethondes station have been torn up elsewhere in this end of the forest but in the clearing they remain, Between the rails of each track slabs of granite mark the positions which the two trains occupied. “Of late years the old dining car had been showing the effect of the weather to which its outdoor position at the Invalides has exposed it. Its return to the site in the forest had been contemplated for some time, but the problem of the cost was not solved until A, H, Fleming of Pasadena, after consulting M. Sarloveze at Complegne, offered 150,000 francs (say £0,000) for the construction of a suitable building at the site. Accordingly in April, 1928, the old car was moved on temporary rails to the outer court of the Invalides, where it was taken off its trucks and placed on two-wheeled floats to be towed to the Wagon-Lits repair shops for a coat of paint and a general sprucing up before starting on its last voyage. As soon as the builders were ready for it at the site, it was hauled back to Rethondes station and a line of tracks into the forest was especially laid for It It was pushed carefully into its new home at the edge of the clearing and is now permanently built in. And there, with an ex-poilu who limps when he walks in charge of it, you will find it today, roped off, smelling of fresh paint, and at the first glance looking like—well, looking about like a dining car, “It is disconcerting to discover that the table on which the Armistice was signed was so un- pretentious a table and that the chairs in which the signatories sat, Von Winterfeldt opposite Foch, Erzberger opposite Wemyss, were ordi nary Wagons-Lits dining ear chairs. It is diffi cult tor fit the play to its banal theater, to con- nect this culminating episode of the greatest of all wars, one of the supreme moments in his tory, with the old dining car in which It trans. pired. Such, however, Is the Immortality of Dining Car No, 24100." (® by Western Newspaper Union.) golden sword ar Yiienr ar ¥ HiSOn, “No, only trotters,” ware man. —Chicago News, Crusty *How did you find your “In af 0 eo p! eo order.” “How is Ul ' “Crusty.’ y ancouver Province, No Encouragement thousands of “y ps ‘but you |i Worse and thy so depressed, horrible cost for material ¥ for your house? % oy vy ood - my daughters, Reduced Circumstances dade is not so rich as 40 3 you think that? “He | doesn" ar such nice clothes and has to ort when we go motor ing.” Toe Reason Author—Going already? But there gre two more acls Critle—That is why.~Das Inter essante Blatt { Vienna). Buddies First Henpeck—Don’t tell my wife I let you borrow a dollar. Second Sap—1 won't if you don't tell my wife | had a dollar. GREAT CULTURE First Doll—"He's a big brute. You told me he was a man of great cul ture” Second Doll—"So he ls—phys- ieal culture, you know.” Mother Knows Willle—S8ay, mom, where Is the storm center in our part of the coun try? Mother—Why, right here in the home—here comes your father now. my son.~~New Bedford Standard. Getting Ready Daddy—Mildred, has Gordon pro posed yet? Miidred—Not yet, daddy dear, but he has a folder on Niagara falls, Border Citles Star, Hard to Tell Auntie—Say, Willie, sometimes 1 don’t believe you know on which side your bread Is buttered. Willie—Yeali; sometimes 1 don't when you butter It, auntie.~New Bed- ford Standard. Fortune Hunter Slim--They say people with opposite characteristics wake the happiest mar riage. Boob-Yes, that's why I'm looking for a girl with money, When Bells Ache, Use CARBOIL Why take a chance with homes 6 por altices or expen ve operatic } Carbo ii quickly stops “the P heals the boil often overnight Carboil from druggist Instant rel Good for stings, small burns, bi tes, sores, etc. Generous box 50c. Spurlock- Neal Co., Nashville, Tenn. A New Wrinkle “80 you didn't sell that ma car?” inquired the boss peevisl “How conld 1? salesman. “He wanted a car with a door that slammed shut without making a lot of noise!” argued the star Because there are ugly things In this world, is no reason why we , want to hear about them in every chapter, Novelists, take notice. Your principles are something you have to keep bolstering and bulwark. ing all the time, CHILD need REGULATING? CASTORIA WILL PO ITI When your child needs regulatthg, remember this: the organs of bables and children are delicate. Little bowels must be gently urged--never forced. That's why Castoria is used by so many doctors and mothers. It is specially made for children's all- ments; contains no harsh, harmful drugs, no narcotics, You can safely give it to young infants for colic pains, Yet it is an equally effective regulator for older children. The next time your child has a little cold or fever, or a digestive upset, give the help of Castoria, the chil own remedy. Genuine Castoria al ways has the name: ZT CASTORIA Proving 1 Bible Troe, Exponent, lho, Dah raty ploy ed. Address. 383 eK MALES, EASY 100° mas cards, ia Asents. terme for samnle and agents’ pany, Long Branch, New ES *
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers