The log cabin Democrat., 1920-08-24
STEVENSON PAYS
 VISIT 10 BERLIN
IS ORDERED TO WARSAW
Rhodes Scholar Descrihcs Post War Berlin and Trip to Bor-
 der of Poland

University, ais now probably a Fl land, where the war is raging he tween the Russian Bolsheyiki and .h Poles, according to letter written oi July 9 to his parents. Rev and Mrs J. B. Stevenson of Russellyle. Mr Stevenson first describes a visit q Berlin and the sights of that city al left by the war. The palace Of the ex kaiser was one of the historical spot which he visited.
 Mir. Stevenson is one of a specia party of |. ". C. 4. men sent tC Poland for work. At the time the let ter war written, the Russian-P Polisf war had not developed to the extent it now has reached, and the local mar makes no mention of danger. Since then, the Poles have withstood con- tinued efforts upon the part of the Bolsheviki to capture their capital Warsaw, where Mr. Stevenson was when his letter was written It is as follows:
 Warsaw, Poland. July 25, 1920. Dearest Mama and Papa:-My las, letter was written at Amsterdam ani mailed from Berlin. l hope you goo ii, but Ii you don't hear from me don { worry, because the nlalI from this part Of the world is very uncertain. The '. II. (. 4. has not had any mail for some time but in the post office there are great sacks of ma, tah. haven ', been opened.
 l will tell you litJle about my trip. We left Amsterdam Wednesday morn ing, June 21. We had a very nice trip from Amsterdam to Berlin, arriving H. -erl.n aovu. midnight. We stayed in Berlin all day Thursday seeing the sights and running around with the ! t. M. C. 4. men there Ne visited the ex-kaiser's palace which is about the most sumptious thing of it's kind I have ever seen. l. still has some bullet hole in curtains and portraits, the re- suit of the revolution of last Novem- Der, but the worst of the damage has been repaired. One especially fine room, the walls of which are of pure white marble, has some blood stains On the floor. We are very fortunate to see the palace for it was to be closed for nine months on the day after to be fitted up as national picture gal lery.
 In the afternoon we got droske which Is sort of buggy and drove around over town. Drove down Untel Ger Linden which is the principal ave. nue of the city, saw the reichstag and the home of the president of the reich stag. Then we drove through tho Ilergarten. The Tiergarten originally was the game preserve of a n0bleman but now it is simply park like the Hyde Park or Central Park. In the evening we went to a German produc. tion of Julius Caesar It was staged Tn an immense theatre and the stag ing and scenic effects were quite good The remarkable part of it is that the theatre was absolutely packed and the play had been running for severa, months 1 doubt if Shakespeare would be so well received anywhere else in the world
 That's about all saw in Berlin. We left Thursday morning at seven o'clock. We got to the German border about 80 o'clock. We had our baggage eX- amined there for the 'steenth' time. We got back in the train and rode ever to the next station which was the Pol ish border. The Polish officials were very obliging. They stamped our passports and those of some French officers and checked our baggage with out even looking at t. We got into Posen that evening about S:30 o'clock. went up town and had dinner, came back to the station and caught an ex- press train for Warsaw, which lande ! us here yesterday morning a- ] o'clock, very dirty. sleepy and hGngry, but glad to be finished with the IT. D.
 The l. Nj. C. A here is cama scd of about the liveliest lot of people ] have seen for some time. They are all very capable, efficient and energet- ic. They are very much upeto- to the men who are in charge .n Lon don. Conditions are pretty bad here but not so bad as I expected they would be. Backer, another member Of our party Rhodes scholar from North Dakota, and l go to Kowel tomorrow to begin work. Howell is town some three hundred kilometres southeast of Warsaw. l am not sure what we are going to do there, but probably some kind of canteen work and sani- tary work
 Eugene"