Show TRAVELS TRA VElS MilES ILES TO REACH AMERICA I Girl Endures Many Hardships Hardships Hard Hard- II ships to Resume Studies I at University I i CHICAGO Dec 10 By Universal Like ice Like a fanciful tale of ot fiction Is IsI I the story of ot Miss Helen Blumenthal who traveled miles and endured In Innumerable innumerable innumerable in- in numerable hardships in order to continue her studies at the University of Chi Chi- cago I Pogroms the murder of ol her parents the the red terror teNor Russian counter rev revolutions revolutions reV reV- Japanese and German atrocities atrocities atro atro- cities clUes Americas America's expeditionary force lorce in Siberia the city of the czars czar's execution execution tion tion- tion everything tion-everything everything that happened in Russia I since 1915 1916 she came in contact with and came through unscathed Miss Blumenthal is a 21 year old Let Let- tish girl She speaks English with only a slight accent and writes tes the language in a a. manner that amazed the English professors professors pro pro- To all appearance she is the same as any of the other students on the campus She does not talk tall of ol her experiences and her main worries at present are as asto asto asto to whether or not she will get her degree degree degree de de- de- de gree in February and how she can manage manage manage man man- age to live on rubles a month month month-a a small fortune in Latvia Latvia but but equivalent to only fifty American dollars A reporter managed to get her to tell some of ot the things she has gone through In the winter of ot 1916 17 she was a student student stu dent at the University of In March of 1917 came the news of ol the czars czar's downfall and the rise of Kerensky which promised much good for Mr the stu stu- stu- stu dents But the Kerensky revolution which I promised so much turned out as badly for Helen Blumenthal as it did for Ruse Russia Rus Rus- sia By the fall of 1917 in company with r alg le several e hundred n d Siberian students she started a a. mile mlle journey which was to land her eighteen months later in SIberia Si Siberia SI- SI beria berla under the protection of the AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican and allied expeditionary forces By cattle cars by boat by sledge horse and and afo afoot the journey was made Repeated searches by bolshevik troops several months in filthy Jails es escape escape escape es- es i cape from the death meted out to so manny nanny of the refugees by Cossacks These were a few of the things endured But to hear Miss Blumenthal tell of ot it one would think she had traveled on the Trans-Siberian Trans railroad for she repeats the route Moscow Perm Penn Harbin and Vladivostok in the same manner as a wealthy welthY transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental traveler in this country would tell his route route route-as as though no dangers had been encountered or hardships undergone As she is silent on her Hardships so also is Miss Blumenthal silent on the Russia and Latvia of today She has no opinions to offer on the soviet rule or anything thing else in Russia All those things are in the past she Said I I have taken out first papers and intend to become and stay an American Several of her themes on Russia which startled her English professors because of ot the clear and concise English used are now in the hands of ol Eastern magazines maga maga- |