Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-17
PENN COED is STUDYING HARD;
HOPES TO BE A "DIPLOMETTE'I
Miss Mary Glowacki Is Training Be Statewoman as
the Result Of Experience in the Great
War Zone of Europe

NTHILE the fighting was at its height
w in Russia in the first year of the
war. Miss Mary Glowacki. a University
of Pennsylvania coed, developed a pro
found interest in diplomatic work as
result Of her experience as neutral.
She. with her mother and little
brother. was endeavoring to get out
OF the war zone and return to America,
at that time Now she Is preparing tor
diplomatic work despite the fact that
she has not learned of a single woman
who is now in diplomatic work.
Miss Glowacki is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Glowacki, Of Nantcoke.
Pa. and is now in her third year at
Pennsylvania. She is deeply interested
in her chosen life work.
The reasons for her choice of vocation
are long but thrilling. The experiences
in bloody Europe during the first year
of the war are exceedingly interesting,
and in all probability will result in fur
nishing the first woman diplomat
wars Frownins Front
It was June. 1914. when Miss Glow.
acki. her mother and nine-year-oId
brother. Millard. sailed for Europe
bound for Russia to visit relatives
After the visit in Russian Poland they
planned to tour Europe before retu' u
ing to the United States. lengthy Visit
in Austrian health resorts was planned
for the benefit of a grandmother. The
Russian visit of the Americans neean'
when suddenly that great empire was
thrown into turmoil. Mobilization hau
begun.
Government officers conflscated peas
ant carts, took ther Naluaoles anu
documents and left. Banks were cioseu'
and the Americans realized tneE were
left without means or ways OF eett'"s
Russian exchange. An hour 'ateI Ne
man HussGrs, with SHINING iatces "."
living colors, stormed into the little VII
Iape of Limo. The few scattered Rus
sian Cossacks disappeared. Four times
the little village was bombarded ana th'
Americans, at the risk of their lives
planned Easty escape.
A peasants crude milk cart was hired
and the trip to Warsaw begun. For Two
nights and three days the pennsylvania
travellers were on their dangerous
bumpy way. Finally kalisz. city near
the German border. where the nrst
atrocities in Russia were committed was
reached There the American consul
was successful in cashing several traN-
eIers checks through Moscow.
Terrifying Experiences
At the end of the fifth week the Ger
mans were at MOSCO" anu tlc iNNS''''''
mobilization was well under way Day
and night Russian soldiers pIodded on
their weary way. The trip Of the Glow
acki family proved terrible adventure
At every hand along the road they we're
held up as spies. First Russian de-
tachment would be encountered; tur-
ther along a German outpost met them
Explanation after eXpla with
pleas of protection for citizens of ner
tral cOLntry. the United States, were
made, Out only the shrewdness and rleN-
erness Of Miss Glowacki secured their
safe passage.
The stay in I.ipno is vividly described
by Miss GlowaCkl. For days they. with
scores of Russians crowded in cellars.
often without water, while the lombard
ment Went on. The Germans took Lipno,
but the Russians bOmbarded the city
twi,e. and after a fifteen-hour siege
finally reCaptured it, The superiority
of the German artillery was plainly
heard in the strength Of the lombard
ments, "ayS Miss GlowaCki.
Several hours were spent in great
| cathedral at PlutZ during German
] attack Sheer luck alone prevented the
Americans from being killed. After a
: battle at Lipno. the Americans pleaded
! with the army officers to allow them to
I visit the battlefield To gain this per-
mission from the Russian officers they
consented TO go as Red Cross nurses. 4
more gruesOme experience never could
be realized by human eyes, says Miss
GlowaCki The soldiers we're literally
torn to pieces and the tirst-aid work
was difficult and heartrending to them.
The pockets of some of the dead Ger
mans were searched and their letters and