Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-06-25
EXCHANGED HAS CHANGED FROM
 GAY TO SOBER
Former Wartime Capital Now Engaged in Business of Fight
 ing Bolsheviki.

Correspondence of Associated Press
 Archangel, May 19-Six montf ago Archangel was a gay, wartime i capital, with hundreds of Russian sol diers in it's streets and very few o1 them at the front. Today it is be-
 coming sober, businesslike and en gagged in only one pursuit-fightine
 bolsheviki.
 The change came about in the winter. Last autumn the Russian mili tary forces were small and the civi
 Hans and promenade-the-streets of. ficers class made merry while the
 Americans and British and French
 fought their battles at the front. But all the time, the people were being
 mobilized and trained. There was doubt in nearly every mind about the
 ability of the newly trained Russians
 to fight. Late in the winter, wher the bolshviki offensive was at its height, Russian mobilized troops were thrown into the line. They made good
 and, from that moment, with only 6 few little setbacks now and then, the
 Russians have been keeping up the pace.
 For six months they relied upor the moment they began to find them. the moment theg began to find them. selves, the Russians developed a nor. ale that has brought about countless changes not only at the front but be.
 hind the lines, in once easy-going
 Archangel.
 Pushing them on has been a little pocket-edition general, dynamic per. sonality in plump five-foot frame
 Vladimir Marushevsky, commander in-chief of the Russian troops of the North. Once in command of Russian army troops in France, he came to Archangel to push the reorganization of the Russian army. His orders to the Russian soldiers and officers were as startling to the analytic verbose Slavic population as they were la- comic.
 "It has come to my attention," read one of them, "that there has been much useless chattering about cer- tain subjects among the officers, Henceforth, there will be no more babbling."
 Every one in Archangel knew what that meant-that political subjects were to be taboo in the North Russian army
 The pre-revolution Russian army was clean, compulsorily so, but after two years of disorded the soldiers were not so particular about soap and water.
 General Marushevsky, who garbed in plain, simple uniform without the gaudy coloring or fancy swords af- fected by some of his subordinates, went among the soldiers and talked to them frequently. So he ordered a compulsory weekly bath for every man in the army.
 "It is impossible, there are not enough bath houses in Archangel," :" complained some of his company and battalion commanders. q am not in- terested in how you bathe them," sanid another order from the idy- mamie little general, "That is up to you. I will hear no excuse; every soldier must have his weekly bath"
 And now. nearly every day one may see in sArchangel, company or so of singing soldiers, marching to a bath house with their bundles of clean linen under their arms. The atmos, phere of Archangel has certainly im- proved.
 Practically every able-bodied Rus sian in Archangel and the province, between IS and 45 has been mobili- zed, and those beneath and above the limits-the school boys and the mid rle-aged men, have joined voluntarily the civil guard and militia. In the parks, on the streets and in back yeards one may see little groups of high school boys or bearded men, military evolutions and the technique of an army rifle, under instruction of an army officer or non- cOms.
 The city feels keenly this new spirit of patriotism. The other day, when some eight or nine of the middle aged business men of this civic guard failed to report for duty, the news papers put them to disgracse by pub- fishing their names in display type.
 Social affairs are few and far be- tween. The women, joined in Patri- otic society, and are going to the front as canteen workers, or engaged at home in Red Cross activities.
 Yesterday, when a boat-load of the new Russian soldiers went up the Dvina to the front, their families gathered at the dock to cheer them. In the ranks of the privates were men who, had been bankers, wealthy lum- Der men and dock hands-for the mobilized army makes no distinction of class or wealth.
 No one denies that Allied assistance is still necessary, as the population of the North is too small to produce a large force, but, to aH evidences, the Russians here have found themselves and can play constantly growing part in their. own civil war, NEW GAS WELLS BIG PRODUCER