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uments and funds for all the girls
Then the leaving began. Every ten
or fifteen minutes girl was sent
away, now in one direction, now in the
opposite. 1t was a pitiful finale to a
heroic chapter in the history Of Rus.
sian womanhood. The battalion had
struggled gallantly to stem the tide
Of destruction and ignorance. But the
tide was too mighty. It had swamped
all that was good and noble in Russia.
Russia herself seemed wrecked for.
ever in that maelstrom Of unbridled
passions. One did not want to live.
There remained only the honor and
satisfaction of going down with all
that had been upright in the country.
Everything seemed upside down.
There was no friendship, only hatred.
The unselfishness of the days when
Czarism was overthrown now, after
the fall of Kerensky, had given way to
wave of greed and revenge. Every
soldier, every peasant and workman
saw red. They all hunted phantom
bourgeois. bloodsuckers, exploiters.
When freedom was first born there
was universal brotherhood and Joy.
Now intolerance and petty covetous-
ness reigned supreme.
AS I kissed my girls good-by, ex.
changing blessings. my heart quivered
with emotion. What had / not hoped
from this battalionA But as searched
my soul I could find little to regret.
had done my duty by my country.
Perhaps 1t was too rash for me to
imagine that this handful of women
could save the army from disruption.
And yet I was not alone In that ex.
pectation. There was time when
even Rodzianko believed likewise. ana
Brnsilov and Kerensky thought that
sef.sacrificing women would shame
the men. But the men knew no
shame.
My girls had departed alone re:
mained of the battalion. with several
of the instructors. In the evening
made nv way to the road where an
automobile was waiting to smuggle me
away. The commandant had arranged
for me to go to Petrograd under the
personal convoy of two members OF
the army committee. They We're to
toin me at the train. The peril lay IN
the journey to the station. Hldden
on the bottom of the car. ] was driven
to the railway. where the two commit
teemen took me under their protection.
I had decided to go home. to the VII
lage of Tutalsk, near Tomsk. "here
my people had moved during the war
C1'O BE CONTINUED
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the crowd they all came out with rifles
| in hand.
| l made q couple of efforts to argue,
but 1t was apparent that the men came
with the purpose fixed in their minds
by propagandists. They would not re-
cede and finally cut me short by giving
me three minutes to decide. One OF
| the ringleaders stood there, with Il
watch in hand, counting the time.
| Those were indescribably agonizing
moments.
L would rather advance against an
/ entire German army than surrender
arms to these Bolshevik SCoundrels." ="
| thought. But it is not my life only
that is at stake. Everything is lost
anyhow. They say that peace has been
declared already. Have 1 right to
play with the lives of my girls? But
Holy Mother, how can l. a soldier
true to my oath and loyal TO my Coun.
try, order the surrender Of my bat.
talion's arms without a fight?'
The three minutes We're up. I had
arrived at no decision Still I mounted
the speakers bench There was a gen
eral quiet. The crowd of course eX-
pected my Capitulation. My girls
waited in great tension for their
NatChalnik's orders. My heart
throbbed violently as my mind still
grOped for a solution.
Shoot" I suddenly shouted at the
top of my voice to the girls.
The men We're so surprised that for
n moment they remained petrified.
They were unarmed.
A volley from 200 rifles went up into
the air.
The crowd dispersed in all direc.
tions. My order almost drove the men
insane with rage. They ran for their
barracks after weapons, threatening
to return and wipe us all out.
The real crisis now arose. There
was no question that the mob would
return. several times stronger. and
tear US to pieces. A decision had to
be arrived at and carried out instantly
1t would take not more than ten min
utes for the men to come back. If we
did not escape it was certain death.
In five minutes the battalion shall
be ready to march," I thundered.
sent one of my instructors to the bar
racks, to mix with the crowd and
later report to me in the woods on
the mob's activity. simultaneously
I directed the supply detachment to
follow the road in tho direction of
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A MODERN FAUN
HITS THE ROCKS
Sophie Kerr Pictures Fast-Liuing
Younger Set in "T'he
.See-SU,D"

Harleth Crossey. hero of THE See
saw" IL Sophie Kerrs new novel can
be said to have a hero, is a modern faun.
ne certainly Is not Of heroic mold or
disposition, although he Is the hero of
Marcia Crosseys romance and of her
lite somebody says of him, He is as
self-willed as a shooting star and about
as uncomfortable about the house." His
boyish irresponslbility and insouciance
are charming exteriorly, but essentially
they are grounded In selfishness, self-will
and 'seif-indulgence.
Marcia is quite a different type-gay,
put with proper reserve: mild. but not
without decision sound and firm in her
principles, very maternal in instinct
and deeply in love with her carefree
spouse.
1t Is this maternal instinct that makes
her excuse Harleth's reconsideration and
later his escapades till they wax too
considerable. She makes all the con-
cessions, compromises and adjustments
that keep their lives off the shoals from
time to time. And then their craft
strikes the rocks. Again it Is maternal
instinct that intervenes-this time to
protect her young son.
Harleth's infatuation for one OF her
intimate friends forces ivorce upon
Marcia. It is not till he loses Marcia
and marries the other woman that he
discovers the exceeding value Of the love
he has thrown away. Life with the
mobile, conscienceless Leila proves but
a feast of husks Through tickle Leila's
initiative. following an accident and the
discovery of her own love for profess
sional woman-chaser, comes an oppor-
tunity for the repentant and sobered
Harleth to seek forgiveness and recon-
cilation. AS for Marcia, she still loves
always has loved, him. II have always
been your wife, whatever happened"
she says.
Out of this material Miss Kerr has
developed a story revealing a good deal
Of the frivolity, lack of ideals and low
moral conceptions of the majority of the
fast-living, pleasure-seeking, money-mad
younger set" They are a sad, bad lot
as Miss Kerr pictures them. But not
uninteresHng
THE SEE-SAW. BY Sophie Kerr Garden
City N. Y: Doubleday Page Co. $3.50.
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were on the same road and sent q
couple of horsemen to overtake US.
! The horsemen, of course, returned
with empty hands.
"She is witchl" many soldiers
shook their heads with superstitious
awe.
"A witch veritably." confirmed 9TH
ers, with uneasiness.
The four men with our flag lost
their way in the woods and seeing
that they did not come up, / sent out
about twenty girls and instructors to
look for them. They were finally dis
covered. Next we had to get in touch
with the supply wagons, and man
aged to bring them to our camp.
Once this was accomplished we were
fairly well established behind the pro-
lection of the thickets. There was
only one question confronting us:
How to get away in safety. ,.-
Molodechno was not to be consid
cred. The next station was also a
dangerous place, as our pursuers had
warned the garrison there of our ap-
prOach and requested that we be dealt
with swiftly. The prospects were far
from cheerful. I decided to get into
secret communication, through the in
struCtOrs, with the Comnandant of
MOlOdechnO.
We camped in the forest for
couple of days, till the Commandant
found an opportunity to slip out and
come to see us. We held a conference,
seeking "a way out of the dilemma.
1t was agreed upon that the career
Of the battalion was ended and moth
ing remained but to disband it. The
problem was, how. The commandant
suggested that he procure women's
garments for the girls and let them
return home.
The plan did not strike me as prac-
tical. IT was hardly possible TO OBJ
tain nearly 200 costumes for US in
day or two. 1t might, therefore, con-
sumo a couple of weeks to dsband
the battalion, which would not be ad'
visable. I proposed q different
scheme, namely, to discharge the girls
singly and direct them to a score of
scattered stations and villages This
plan was adopted. as it did not seem
difficult for individual members of the
battalion to board trains or obtain ve-
hicles in the neighboring villages and
get away.
It took a day or so for the COM
mandant to provide the necessary doc
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GET $1,000 FOR GRIP VICTIMS
Aid Aides Collect Sum
at Penn for Orphans

After a two days campaign waged
nv eight Emergency Aid Aides at the
University of Pennsylvania, collecting
funds for the relief of the fatherless
children and widows of influenza VIC
tins the net returns last night exhibited
a total of nearly $1,000.
The returns for yesterday, amounting
to about $500. represented the contrbu-
tons received by four booths In the
Medical, Veterinary, Law and Archi-
tactural buildings. Although the aim
of the children's bureau of the Emer
eency Aid, which had the collection in
hand, was $4,000. officials are consid
erably gratified by the returns. Each
contributor during the two days received
a tag.
Mrs. John Wanamaker, Sd, chairman
of the children's bureau, superintended
the drive. Emergency Aid Aides who
assisted were Miss Doris Dexter, Miss
Elizabeth Gribbel, Miss Louise Brown,
Mrs. Slingo, Miss Emily Fullmore, Miss
Natalie Davis, Miss Victoria Davis and
Miss Edith Null.
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krasnoye Selo. Then called for q
volunteer from among the instructors
to take care OF our battle flag under
oath that he would defend it to his
death. Accompanied by three other in.
struCtors, he was sent ahead with the
flaE.
All this was done in less than five
minutes. 1T was no ordinary feat for
a military unit to form in full march
ing formation in that space Of time.
But my girls did It. | sent one squad
after another into the woods, leaving
with the last squad mvself.
] had as our destination Il certain
clearing in the woods, seven versts
deep. This distance We covered at u
neCk-breaking pace. ! knew. that the
infuriated men would take the road in
pursuing us and 7 ordered the bat
talon through the thick of the woods.
There We're few of US who did not trip
on the way several times. Our uni
forms were torn by thorns and BRAN
bles, and many of US had lacerated
legs and arms. There was little time
for dressing the wounds.
A couple Of hours later, after reach
ing the clearing, we heard a distant
whistle. the signal of the instructor j
had left behind. He was hilarious over
his experience, and in spite of our
precarious position we enjoyed his
story immensely.
The mob, it appeared, returned, as
we had anticipated, to our billets,
armed to the teeth. IT was in fero-
Cipus mood and rushed into the dug
outs. The men were thunderstruck
upon discovering that the dugouts
were deserted! They ran about like
madmeno securing the neighborhood,
but theIS was no sign of US. They
could not realize that in such a brief
space of time the battalion had been
marched away with all the equipment.
THE Witch" they shouted. she
must have spirited them away"
But this did not seem a plausible
explanation to the cooler heads They
telephoned to headquarters. but re-
ceived an answer of complete aston
ishment Nobody there knew OF my
sudden withdrawal. The mob started
along the road to krasnoye Selo and
soon overlook my supply wagons,
which were in charge of old soldiers.
These said that they had received or
ders to leave for krasnOye, and they
left ignorant of the movements Of the
battalion. The mob decided that we
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BUTTS NOT COIN, HIS WEALTH
Soldier Writes Mother of Hard,
Hard Lesson" Over There

"Pve been in some places where a
million dollars wasn't worth as much
as a cigarette butt"
SO wrote Private Albert T. Lynch, OF
the 319th Field Hospital, 3o5th Sanitary
Train, TO his mother.
Lynch went on to describe day when
he and a friend brought in a wounded
soldier from the First Regiment of Cold
Stream Guards one of the most famous
British commands. With no light ex-
cept that of the star Shells" they car
ried the wounded man many miles to
the regimental aid post.
1.-The whole experience has been a
hard hard lesson, but good one"
wrots Lynch.
HIS home in this city is with his
parents at 1918 South Fifty-frst street
one brother, Walter. is still abroad with
the Nineteenth Railway Engineers. and
another, Harry j.. is in Belgium with
the Canadian forces.
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DRIVE FOR GRAIN ELEVATORS
Commercial Exchange Strives to
Awaken Interest in Port

An effort is being made by the Com
mercial Exchange through a special COM
mittee to awaken interest in the need
for additional grain elevators in Phila-
delpha.
a spe cial effort Is to be made to in
crease the capacity of the Port Rich
mond elevators Of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway from 100000 bushels
to double that amount.
The special committee. of which ex-
President Louis g. Graft. of the COM
mercial Exchange, is chairman, and
which is composed in addition to Mr.
Graft of George +. Omerly, William W.
Richardson, George w. Warner. c. H.
Bell. Frank w. Miller and NJ. +. Bar
ringer, has already taken UP the matter
with the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way.
Ii is particularly desired to increase
the capacity of the elevators at Port
Richmond.
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Following the refusal of the Board
of Education to grant an increase of
salary to the sixty-one teachers Of the
fve-grade public schools and the high
school at Colingswood. n. j., the Teach
ers' Club drafted resolutions petitioning
the Board of Education to call public
mass-meeting on April 4 for the pur-
pose of presenting their cause to the
public and having a special election
on the question.
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5000 TO SEEK CHURCH PLEDGES
Whiriwind Finia" TO p. f. Every
Member .ampaign

Nearly $4,000 homes of members of
the Protestant Episcopal Church
throughout the diocese of Pennsylvania
will be r5isited tomorrow in the every
member canvass which marks the close
of the every-member campaign.
Five Thousand men and women will
conduct the canvass between the hours
Of 2 and o'clock tomorrow. They will
carry pledge cards and obtain written
pledges from every Episcopalian to en-
gage in various definite forms cf Chris
tian service. including pledge to con-
tribute a stipulated amount each week
toward the work of the Church.
In parishes where every communicate
cannot be reached tomorrow the every
member canvass will continue next week.
Bishop Rh'nelander expects that great
impetus will be given to church work as
a result of the canvass.
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Honors for Locke

In recognition of his work on THE Book
OF Belgium's Gratitude william ]. Locke
has been made "Chevalier de TOrde de Ia
Courrone'' by the King OF the Belgians, and
Mrs. Locke has received the Medaille de la
Refine Elisa beth. as n token OF gratitude
for turning her house into a conValescent
home for Belgian soldiers.
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AND HERE 1T CONTINUES

T REQUESTED their help in cleaning
= out the dugouts for my girls, and
they gave 1t cheerfully. dispatched an
Instructor for the battalion and by
night my soldiers were comfortably
quartered. Under the protection Of SEN
tinels picked from the men attached
to my unit we passed a restful night.
But our presence offered too good an
opportunity for the agitators to let
go by. So in the morning after break
fast, as I started on my way to head.
quarters, a small group of insolent
soldiers, not more than ten in number.
cut my path, heaping insults upon me.
In a few minutes the ten ruffians
were increased to twenty, thirty, fifty
a hundred. I tried to parry their
SCOTS and threats. but made no head.
way. In ten minutes l was almost
surrounded by several hundred of
these uniformed rogues.
What do you want with mec" 1
cried out, losing patience.
1--WE want to diSband your battalion.
We want you to surrender all the rifles
to u.s."
dishonor for a soldier than to sur
render his arms without fight. How
ever, my girls knew that I hated to
lose my life at the hands of a mob.
When they heard of the demand of
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Members of Battalion of
Death, Ordered to Dis.
band, Fly to the Woods
and Their Leader Sdues
Them From Death by
Quick Action
Women's Fighting
Unit in the Russian
Army Ceases to Exist as
the Result of the Spread
of Bolsheuism Among
the Troops
THIS STARTS THE STORY

In the summer Of 1917 Maria
Botchkareva formed the Battalion
Of Death, a woman's fighting unit in
the Russian army, and thus a peas
ant girl stepped into the interna-
tional hall of fame. This is her
story. In earlier installments she
ties of her childhood. of the brutal
ties of her married life and the real.
ization of her wish to become a SOL
der. She told of battles fought and
won and of the decentralization Of the
army following the overthrow OF the
Gar. 1t was desire to shame tho
men into action that caused the
formation of the battalion. 1t only
partially succeeded. The men wanted
peace and they resented all discipline.
The fact that there was no sol
dier's committee in the battalion
aroused their ire. When they started
to mob the girls Botchkareva ad-
dressed them. assuring them that
strict discipline was needed for girls.
whatever the case might be with
men. They agreed with her and she
puts them to work.
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REPUBLIC OF NATIONS

A Study of the Organization Of
Federal League of Nations based on
the Constitution of the United States.
BY R. c. MINOR. 346 Pages. Net,
$3.50.
"A book that must be read by every
serious student of the most important issue
now. before the world."-Nep York Evening
Post
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William Farnum in
The Man Hunter
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Just Ready
SOCIETY OF NATIONS

Its Past, Present and Possible
Future. By 7. J. LAWRENCE,
LII. D. Formerly Professor of In
ternational Law. Univ. of Chicago.
205 Pages. Net, $1.50.
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Corlnne Grimths In
The Girl Question
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Wallace Reid in
Alias Mike Moran
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Norma TalmadRa In
rne fteart of Wetona
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Gl'ifhth's The Girl Who
STAYED at Home
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Gladys Brockell in
The Forbidden Room
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Anita Stewart In
From Headquarters
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BILLIE Eurlce in Good
Grac' olIs. AnnRbelle
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Grifhth'B The Girl Who
Stayed at Home
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IT took a day or so for the com.
mandant to provide the necessary doc.
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Marguerite Marsh in
Conquered Hearts
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Vivian Martin in Never
Saw Such a Girl
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Ethel Clayton IN
Ma ggie Pepper
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Louis BennisOn in
Sandy Burke of L Bar u
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Anna Nilsson in
The Way of the Strong
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Charles Ray in
The Sherin's Son
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Montague Love in
The Hand Invisible
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Griffth's The Girl Who
StRYed At Hnmn
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Tom Moore In
Go West. Young Man
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Griffth's The Girl Who
Stayed at Home
Arizona state miner., 1919-09-12

by nearly 100000 tons Great Ban fleet that time numbered total of
60O ships 237564
and OoS4O the United
The completion
ll69
5 and 90OO authentic
available at the
years. will find the chief
Britain
States 6Oo ships totang 21
253 ships, 1929
Arizona state miner., 1919-09-12

Of wintering is Of interest. When full
grown the larvae work their way into
the ground to depth ranging from
quarter. In the spring the worms ap-
pear, work their havoc and, after a
brief while, re-enter the earth. They
remain in the cocoon state for several
weeks, at the conclusion of which they
emerge as moths, which, in their turn,
lay eggs and start again the evOlu
tional life of the army worm. In the
period of its active career the army
worm can do a deal Of damage, and to
eradicate the pest it is essential to kill
the parent moths as we'll as to destroy
the worms themselves.
Luckily, the army worm has some
natural enemies, and among these the
sparrow is probably the most effective
because Of it's numbers. The bluejay
comes next, and then follow the tachina
fly and certain variety of beetle.
These foes will not suffice to keep the
army worm within bounds when their
name is legion, and it is needful then
to resort to man-made expedients.
Trenching the fields, a generous use
of kerosene and ample spreading of
arsenical powders will aid in a crisis,
but clean cultural methods will do
much more toward eradicating the
alternating or slumbering pests This
is to say, keep the edges Of the fields
and the hedges of the gardens free
from long grass and weeds, where the
larvae lurk; fall plowing will kill
those that have already entered the
ground for wintering. OF course these
efforts will not avail if the parent
moths come from the South in the
springtime. We cannot expect to de-
tect the eggs and to destroy them be-
fore the worms are hatched out.
Just when the spindles of the world
are preparing to resume their prewar
activities, just when so many of the
nations are anxious to obtain more cot
ton fabrics, comes the unwelcome news
that the cotton boil weevil Is up and
doing with increased energy. Again
we have the past mild winter to thank
in large part for this disturbing state
of affairs, very considerable per-
centage of the alternating weevils
having survived when with colder
weather they would have been in great
measure exterminated.
The experts tell us that the boil
weevil in a single year may occasion
a cotton loss of more than 100000
bales, and at prewar prices this would
represent a money sacrifice Of quite
25,0O0000. Today, at the present
price of cotton, the toll levied by these
insects would be equivalent to fully
$7O,OOOOOO. No wonder the United
States department of agriculture has
pronounced the boil weevil to be the
worst cotton pest in this country and,
probably, the most destructive cotton
insect In the world. This rayaging
creature apparently will not feed upon
any other plant-it just insists upon
eating the precious cotton boil.
Like many others Of the conspicu
ously injurious insects present In this
country, the cotton boil weevil Is not
a native Of the United States. Its
place Of origin, so the entomolOgists