Show The Sunday Morning Mol® Association Is Doing to Help Win the War de RV JAMES II COLLI5I on the heels of the first Ltl Kigiit Red Cross asking erty loan came the for Jli)0i)0000 And close behind the second loan which ran Into Food Pledge week comes the Y if C A for S35000000 Which seems a'king to show that In war times there Is something going on all the time Just a few months ago the T (X A asked for $3000000 and got It So this new campaign raises two questions which tiie average citizen may reason ably ask before writing out the check for tils contribution First — Why 135000000? And second — What did they do with that S'lOOiiOOO? Iet us see if—we ran answer the last first the answer to question will he theperhaps answer to the other An excited saesman up street ihe other day In New tearing York rau into a friend ‘1 have Just landed a big order he said "Sold $70000 worth of letterheads to the Y M C A” if- - is h' onnected with a big concern ifoth of them thought that u pretty big order for it will keep the pre-rbusy for weeks But It Is of the total letterhead order !art eiiy f the Y M ( A for in the camps today something like one million sheets of letter paper are used by the soldiers ud sailors every day ne thing Is fundamental about the He likes to resoldier everywhere ceive letters and he wants to write o:ie If has mighty few facilities for because he cannot carry paper m d "iivolopes with him and postage rtani-iwould be spoiled in his pockets In a day and there is no place around an army cantonment for him to write e en if he had stationery except the A tent or building Y M i Soldiers have written letters on the backs of labels soaked from beef cans and on the margins of newspapers or any tber old scrap of paper that they could lay Their hands on So one of the best l A spends examples of how the Y Mletter-writing is in found this money service for the soldier which is only ere or its many activities A million sheets of paper dally calls for half a million envelopes and a million postage stamps Suppose you gut us close a price as a quarter of a cent P- -r sheet of letter paper and per envelope That would amount to between Slftifj and flrtrto a day or JIrc'OPOO a It takes year not counting Sundays time to print all this stationery ship it to tin different camps Considerable be carried ahead supplies have to O' 000 tied up in Probably there is SItime Then there stiitionery all the the postage stamps From 3iM to $ "irt worth of postage stamps are sold icily in each Y M I A mitiding at a cantonment and am some of these ntoiiments have from six to ten sep--abuilding the daily sales run from S"'h) m $5000 At the very rra- ’ttahle estimate of $290 worth of sold dally In five hundred Y tamps ! c A buildings there is $100000 involved Which is money tied up permanently for Uncle Sam gives no credit on postage stamps and several days supplies must be carried ahead Supplies?M C A has a whole diviThe Y sion devoted to the purchase and distribution of supplies and equipment to it 5i'i buildings in this country and mu immense floor space in Madison been Square Garden New York has used for storing and serving out the stuff Each building or tent trust have an outfit consisting of nearly one hundred separate item such a its stock f paper stamps pencils pens postcards pocket Testaments and other thing sold or given to the soldiers ami also n piano a moving picture machine phonographs and other fix it Our Boys9 tures This division has given a single order for 1MM0(M0 sheets of letter paper It bought 400 moving picture outfits at a cost of about $250 each hundreds of electric light outfits for uso with etereoptlcons and hundreds of stoves to heat its buildings and bales of blankets to keep the Y 0 M C A workers warm It spent for assembly tents 49x80 feet 150 of them purchased in all parts of the country It provides field gray khaki summer uniforms for 1500 of its workers and forest green winter uniforms and overcoats The storehouse in’ Madison Square Garden has been only one place of that kind— there are others in Boston Atlanta Chicago Sftn Antonio and San Francisco Lo you know what soldiers did for the civil war? things of this sort in the camp sutler They had to rely upon or go without A very large part of -- $50-00- GOSSIP ABOUT WRITERS AND NEW BOOKS lltho-uruph- es w-iri- n't s - I te Signal Honor Given Widow of Burdette self-prai- self-intere- st TIIE HEART OF HER II MillNE!! “The Heart of Her" Highness” bj Clara E IatJgliliii author of “Everybody's laucsome” is a story of Flanders In the stirring days of the late fifteenth century — Flanders war-tor- n today and in that far century menaced by the rivalries of Europe “Her Highness” Is the daughter of Charles the Hold whose defeat and death at Nancy have left her the perilous rule of the threatened realm — and the heart of “Her Highness” — well that’s the story— (Putnam's New se York) KKVU' “Kenny” by Iona Dalrymple is a tale woven around a most interesting specimen of plot fashioning The argument of this charming story read like this: "How Kenny and Brian his ron l:d dwell in a studio in the Holbein club surrounded by pawn tickets and fellyv artists and sunsets and Welsh erwths which last are musical InslruJhe -- ound "nts that give forth Just Kenny solved h® Problem or handleless teacup by j expending moneys in the purchase of divers bouillon cups which as nil the ! world knows have two handles per cud j How Kenny pawned Brian's best gun and how Brian rebelled unreason- j ably anil took to the Road and slept in Gaffer Moon’ Tavern of Stars How Kennv followed after and what gave him pause “And of a certain damsel In gold so-call- ed J I Egan Estate Richmond Utah KIXIIIP THE IIUAMT-- IN The Countess of Warwick writes as in the November "Bokman”: "For ihe rulers who go there will be neither pity nor regret In twenl’-fou- r Nicholas Romanoff lot hour every friend he had in Europe and out of it King are feared for wliat they can do flattered fur what they tnay give but there are few to love them ina pite of tlie fact that many have Their trade truly appealing personality not a reputable one thy aims enI’ forced upon them are selfish and sordid Aero the broad Atlantic your United State laugh at them and the whole American continent I free from the taint of kingship True sovereignty is in the people and nowhere else Tlie great tragedy I that it has taken a war of unexampled horror and magnitude to teach the simple truth Rut If the teaching has been effective tl:e world will soon have one anachronism the less to contend against” ANI) WHITE HOOK' Cupple A Leon company New York have recently published “America’s Black and White Hook containing “One Hundred Pictured Reasons Why We Are nt War It is composed of one hundred war cartoons by W A in Rogers of the New York Ilerald full page pictures facing a page of historical explanation Whole epochs of moral history are condensed in every picture and the war philosophy of the Frussian government in all Its efficient brutality is made clear at a glance The satire on the excuses “Made In Germany’ is especially conat once the animus vincing and reveals of the assault made on the rights of AMERICA! BLACK other nations Colonel Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier-Journsays “The volume ought to be adopted by the government as a recruiting officer and to sent to the front as a sergeant-majo- r on line battle the the up boys whoop “Mr Rogers has forgotten nothing It Is all In ’Black and White Indeed so stirring In nothing has appeared war The book the since begun print once a reveille and a revelation is at a history and a slogan and ought to be In the hands of every patriotic al American Archibald D Turnbull who was In at the time has written a story Paris CLARA BRADLEY BURDETTE MBS for the November Scribner called 8 pee 111 “When Our Flag Came to Paris” How Nov Cal 10—Mrs It was French-AmerlcLos Angeles longed for and greeted by a soldier who Clara Bradley Burdette widow of the young 1st Rev Robert J Burdette of Pasa- saw it from his hospital cot! Readers dena CaL has the distinction of being will remember the author’s first story the first woman in the United 8tates “Francois Journey” to be appointed trustee of a girls colof “Alexis” Stuart Maclean author lege The honor was recently conferred been Just has appointed of Mills (Appleton’s) upon her by the directorate at the UniversityMac-of college an Institution In whose inter- director of music Tenn Mr ests Mrs Burdette has been active for the South at Sewanee critic was cslled music as lean’s work seme while the of to attention university the the of a Syracuse Though graduate and his appointment through “Alexis” University of New York Mrs llurdette bar been chiefly Interested in western as director of music Is the result irstltutions of learning and she ta also still a chosen Coneord Mass I a trustee of the Southwest Museum of for people One Lo Angeles been literarywhose dwelling place Recently she has latest French of these Is Allen appointed director of the educntlonnl hook Golden “Tha Eagle” for boys rzmpafgn of the Hoover pledge drive has Just been published by The Cenin California where ehe has organized reports that several food conservation clubs Mrs tury company MrIn French the Concord “minis a sergeant Burdette was the founder of the flret he of woman’s club In California and for the ute men” now an enrolled companyand state the Massachusetts earnguard an been ehe hae past thirty years est worker In the educational as well also a member of the Concord committee of public safety as the club life of western women Mr Burdette has been living in GROWTH IN SILENCE California since 1S3C and in that time ‘Growth in Silence: The Undertone ehe has given most of her energise to lot Lift” bjr Susanna Cocroft author the uplift of fur nenld-BepuDIIcM- B an - -- of Iet‘s Be Healthy in Mind and Body “What to Eat and When” "The Woman Worth While” and other books is a cheering friend by the reading lamp who will inculcate lessons In a fascinating style utterly free from “preachment” that will aid in the bustle and hustle of next day Two extracts from the volume tell Its worth: ‘let us cultivate a serene mental poise and remember that by- - being sweet wholesome and true we add to the sweetness and beauty of tlie universe “To lose all selfishness all to let go all dogmas all preconceived beliefs not consistent with our present status of grortli to open the soul is the only life of power’— (Putnam’s New York i riOBSGRIMi THE WEST There is always a degree of Interest In the pioneering of any locality especially the locality in which one lives and as time goes on more importance and Interest Is attached to It When a commonwealth great intermountain In a few short grows up and develops yesrs the memory of those hsrdv pioneers who were the first to make possible such progress Is looked upon with' greater interest as the years go by and the records of all who took an Important part are sought after The Diary of Maj Howard Kgan written by his oven hand in 1817 and at later dates while engaged In piohas been made neering the great west devoted to this the basis of s book subject Major Egan was one of the most successful and notable characters among the pioneers and mountaineers of tlds western country The incidents related in his diary together with the writing of his son Howard R Egan are the most Intensely interesting of any writers of the early davs The hook “Pioneering the West” is not written from a religious nor scientific standpoint nor is it written in poise of a hero ostentation or but i simple in style and diction No effort either has been made to change it from the original writings Perusal of the book illustrates how close to exact fact it adheres and that no embellishments of story or fiction is Introduced although there Is smple opportunity to picture the circumstances In that manner and still it often runs into startling episodes of tlie mountains and plain and thrilling which at times ended in experience tragedyas The book is divided into four follows: parts “Pioneering: Nanvnn to Salt Take” “Salt Lake’’ “Pioneering Salt Itke tot California— Egan Trail": anl “Thrill- ing Experiences of Prefrontier Life’— shot-fullo- ws camps and 500 are now secretaries serving 400000 soldiers sailors and marines ' On the Texas border In the southern department 72 buildings and 5 tents serve 330000 soldiers along 1200 miles of border which are covered by 400 secretaries at the main buildings or making to outposts in automobiles keeptripsthe troops supplied with stationery ing books magaslnes phonographs and autoathletic equipment Thirty-fiv- e mobiles are used for this work In the busy eastern department where great numbers of soldiers “tind sailors are moving from camp to camp 'passing through cities the association not only looks after the men In the cantonments but provides information service and gathering places ror them in the cities and adjusts its work to the special needs of that field Does the soldier want to read? The association has libraries and reading rooms Does he want to study? It and educational provides lectures courses Does he need a banker? Large sums of money are handled by the T M C A secretaries for enlisted men and in a big camp at least $100000 monthly 1's required to cash checks May 1 in twenty-fiv- e The typical Y M C A building or about 530 o’clock in the morning or aa aoon as the enlisted man is up For it aeems as though he Is hardly out of his blankets before he wants that can only be obtained something there And all day long until “taps are sounded at night and even after that ff he can find opportunity he Is coming to the association buildto write letters get books and ing trinkets attend classes hear lectures see entertainments take part in services and singing and ask for Information and advice There are today fully 1500000 soldiers sailors and marines to whom the Y M C A is catering and this represents only its activities in the United States As our fighting men go abroad it goes with them or rather goes ahead' of them for it is already established In France with a plant representing an investment of $1$00000 Some of this money went for buildings and some of It for transportation facilities for the association has to naul all Its own supplies In France mostly by automobile overcoming great difficulties in getting things about and making repairs There are 300 American Y M C A workers tent in an army camp mast be open for business Tlie artlele mf which a traaala-appe- ar hclow waa eontrlhirted ta le Mafia af Faria hy M lmiu Barthoa Jaat appelated mlalatrr af foreign affalra la the K reach cabinet fa aaeeeed M It I hat sprung to its feet to THE worldthehasright Who can doubt Its triumph? Lntll now the French army whose heroism ha risen superior to all word of praise has borne the brunt of the sacred struggle Now the hour has struck for the allies of France to play their part' Tenacious patient and powerfully organized England is accomplishing with magnificent spirit a splendid task And now in her turn America cornea to the fore President Wilson ha stated her object and tlie role which she is to play From these she will not be turned aside 1 know how valuable are official promises and I applaud the moving and strong speeches that go with them and swell their echoes Hut In' order to penetrate the aoul of a nation and in order if I may be permitted the expression to take a nation’s measure I attach no less value to private manifestations whose spontaneity and sincerity give evidence of the innermost feelings Of such I have before one my eyes that is conclusive proof It la a letter that was not meant for publication written six weeks ago hy a prominent agriculturist of the state of Nebraska to r French friend Its tone is both familiar and energetic showing a seasoned and resolute will which does not for itself alone Previous to the speak th of April its writer favored American Intervention in the war: “I was convinced” he said “that you were fighting our own battles” But he waa aware that the support of public opinion clarified and influenced by events should precede the declaration of war It would have been mad imprudence running the risk of recoiling upon itself to hurl into the bloody melee a nation of more than 100000091 inhabitants to whom M the - PLAYS FUR A NKUHll THEATRE Mr llidgely Torrence has caught the real spirit of negro life and imprisoned it in these plays “Granny Maunie” “The Rider of Drenms” ami “Simon the Cyrcnian” Presented recently in NewYork City by a company of negro piay- during the past ten years PSALM HOOK PROVES SPY CODE Petrograd Nov 10 —Among the Ger- man prisoners of war at Tula were found copies of a “psalm hook” which awakened suspicion owing to Its un- - I usual stylo of printing Examination proved it to be a '“Spies Guide” iu code LOUIS RARTHOU sacrifice would not appear to be the necessary form of a supreme duty But now public opinion has been formed and everybody realizes that the interests of America are identical with those of the allies “Now we are unanimously ready to hack the war to the uttermost -limit of our strength” continues the- letter writer “Now we are in it with all our energy and we are going to use every dollar of the resources 'of our great land and the efforts of every man and woman capable of doing anything to help along the war “Fear nothing now' we are coming In Europe today scattered over twenty slderation BY G with our ships and our food and our soldiers our engineers and our transportation experts and our nurses and surgeons “Ve are coming not by hundreds of thousands strong as we sang tn 1SC0 when Lincoln called for soldiers but millions strong You can count on us America is coming “Moreover throughout our country In every community we are organize ing to he'lp take charge of the orphans and sufferers in all your beloved counup so bravely and try land which rose the Prussian hordes firmly between as well as ours and your homes ”1 never saw anything like it Our whole country is aflame Everywhere you find effort and determination' Patriotism speaks from every rostrum and every professional chair “Too long we left your country and those of the other allies to bear the Now we are whole shock alone shoulder to shoulder with you and as I said every dollar of our resources all our Inventive genius every man and woman are at the service of your go and fight begreat causewe We will will bleed and die with side you you “The cause Is the cause of humanity" Thus we see how President Wilson’s heard understood and slogan has beenone followed from end of the United States to the other The Americans have entered' the struggle with a full consciousness of its significance Resolved upon any sacrifice they will not desert the hoiy cause which they have espoused with a courage from which the best of results may be expected They know what they are doThis they are doing it transing and whysure will mature and strength form the war without changing anyin Its 'essential aims which are thing bound up with the destinies of humanity JThe nobility of the allies consists in desiring nothing incompatible with right Right alone has placed arms In their hands When one Is fighting both for life and honor one stops only when won Victory is comvictory has beendeserved it Now' let us We have ing have the patient will to await it ’ KAY SPENCER (Written Especially for the International News Service) ALEXANDRA KOKOVTSOVA gray day in Austrian Poland All n day through p weary wet the gray armies of Russian peasants have been wading through seas oSmud and entering a dripping wood An Austrian observation balloon Is suddenly released to 100 feet on the opposite border of the woodland A novice in the carriage would have observed a startling view of the situation Like children following a pied armies of Russia piper the mole-lik- e advance into the far side Nowhere can they be seen to emerge on the conare entering from trary other armies the Austrian side of the forest Yes those men are going into an inferno that Dante could never Imagine They are meeting in there “somewhere fighting dying and being ground into the moss and mud to make a firmer footing for the living to continue the holocust Heavy peasant fingers clutching inches deep into the jowls and flesh of enemy peasant necks and angry steel darting and parrying on its way to the life centers of humans The guns of both sides have been shelling the woods and intermittently the forest is gradually becoming shorn of leaves and branches and takes on the aspect of midwinter or the debris of a particularly severe forest fire Late in the afternoon a Ural Cossack regiment Is dismounted and ordered 'into the melee Col Alexandra Kokovtsova was enlisted In that regiment She remembered going into that hell and 'of several blundering foemen with killing her revolver in the angled maze of steel and splintered boughs But of experienced after anything her senses the top of hell was blown off before her there is no vestige remaining in her memory After months in military sanitariums she was eventually strong enough to talk of herself Sfce had enlisted under an assumed name in this Ural Her husband beCossack regiment fore tier had belonged to this regiment which had fought through the Russian-Japanewar After having been wounded twice iii the East Prussian such extraordicampaigns she showed was recommendcourage that she nary ed to be promoted to become a colonel her sex had been found out although and as a colonel she has served ever to her since Her soldiers and none of them ran sit astrideen-a horse with more ease than she or dure longer hours in the saddle She was bom in the Ural mountains and open spent most of her life in the Alexandra Kokovtsova is only one of A rain-blow- se are-devote- Money Is not jused to at- of workers tract workers and the kind who are desired would not work for last money alone No dllletante would nor work any in this long theoretical Christian —a man who enters it must have demonstrated charwith supplies salacter in busines or some other pracAnd this brings up the item of aries which with buildings and sup- tical walk of life and mustof also be service filled with the living spirit plies come pretty close to Yaccounting M C A and love ' for the $5000000 that the has already used and the $35000000 la addition to the hundreds ofthesecreasthat It is asking for Many of these taries now at work overseas secretaries are business men and’ social sociation must provide for a progressworkers who have left good positions ive Increase in its staff as our fightBy with comfortable salaries to enter as- ing force is drilled into shape sociation work for the period of the January the force abroad must he war at very moderate compensation — in doubled and by next July there must some cases they give their services free be at least four workers where there or merely ask that their expenses be Is now one a total of more than 1500 met It has been made the rule that secretaries In this country next year the association shall seek the right instead of a force of 2000 something man for a given kind of work and like 4000 or 5000 will be needed At also that' salary shall be the last con- - least 300 new secretaries must be trained by January next to meet the need for men of nations and In this country the staff of secretaries In active work now numbers more than 2000 men in the field besides the large executive and clerical force necessary to keep them furnished WOMEN IN THE WAR self-sacrific- e” ' Campaign Must Raise Fund to Meet Vital Needs to Make Yankee Troops World’s Best Whole Sum in One Month Is Goal NEW FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER PRAISES THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA brocade ers were seen to he both dra“And further hoar Kenny discovered maticthey in situation true in character and the greatest theme in life and art And In theme The success which how being an Irishman an artist and appealing enjoyed they production is sure to an O'Neill he developed the theme to he duplicated in In their printed form: in the fullest though the hurt of it was fact it may be that their literary value deep And— lmw the theme was their interpretation of the philosNew and Reilly & Britton ophy of a remarkable people are even York ) more clearly revealed here than th-- y were behind the footlights — (MacmilTHE WAGE OF IIOMIR lan New York) Miss Katharine Holland Brown is one of the best known American short THE FART IV story writer and her stories are of a j “The Other Tales” by Party once more kind to le than read and Anton Chekhov and ‘is a volume In the long remembered It rank of short story Tills volume beginning with the front one who is the klncf of book which writing beautiful “Wages of Honor” which ais book lover actually wishes to remade a multitude of friends on Its ap- read Two reviewers have complisome in Scribner's pearance years ago the author on his sheaf of Magazine include the three stories of mented in the following manner: Mexico that have attracted wide atten- stories “Chekhov’s tales possess a wide vasome tion as well as of the best of her scene of subject and situation stories of the west — (Scribner's New riety Is a realist in the full sense of the lie York) word but at the same time has the poetic sensitiveness to beauty He lacks ELIZABETH BESS the cynical touch of de Maupassant "Elizabeth Bess a Little Girl of the with whom he has been compared and ’Sixties” by E C Scott Is a timely upon his fellow men with a charremembrance of the great war of the looks itable Humor and tenderness United States when it was divided passion eye and melancholy are most arItself Illustrations The by tistically blended in these stories” — against Alice Beard are artistic and In perfect San Francisco Bulletin sympathy with the author’s Ideas as “Chekhov is regarded as a master of unfolded in the plot story in Russia and as transHere is told the very human story the short Mrs Constance Garnett seems by of a little girl who lived In the daj's lated to to American sufhis prove ar frages”— The claim Immediately following the civil Detroit There “Is something decidedly real and —(Macmillan New York)"Free Press appealing about her Experiences— the way she gets lost or roes visiting or CLOSED LIPS’ celebrates the “Fourth” There Is “Closed Intimate about Lips” by George Vane tells something delightfully the presentation of the characters — of Lady Eva who Is unfortunate in father mother brother playmate and possessing a brutal husband He keeps the neighbors Through it all there her from the deathbed of the man she runs the quality of suspense in the loves and will not consent to let his search for the brother who was re- wife separate from him unless he retains the custody of their two chilported missing after Gettysburg and dren whose romantic reunion with his peoLady Eva is devoted to the boy a ple furnishes an incident of tremen- and In order to retain him writes dous appeal “Elizabeth Bess” Is a letter to her husband falsely assertof her son The story not only to be commended to chil- ing the Illegitimacy dren but to all who love the quaint husband dies on receipt of tlie letter and unconscious humor of childhood Its before signing a will disinheriting the Eva Imagines she has caused Idyllic— Ideals and unthinking faith in son Lady — them and the spirit of romance that his death (John Lane New York) nevOr grows old — (Macmillan New candid rouirrsHip York) The Candid Courtship” by Madge Mears Is a very bright capable bit of MISTRESg ANNE “Mistress Anne” by Temple Bailey work containing humor pathos and author of ’Glory of Youth” “Contrary the modern feminist outlook from one Mary” and “Adventures in Girlhood” Is point of view The scene lies mostly In a Highgate a story of a girl in Maryland an aristocrat by birth who teaches school be- boarding house where most of the hulieves that work is worthy service and mor is furnished Inmates include a tries to aee straight into life young doctor and his sister (a science in love Two men a writer and a physician student) and a young architect — corn Into the little' rommunity of with Joan the doctor’s sister (John Crossroads One Is weak the other Lane Co New York) Michael the other strong One Is a8tcave RUSSIANS FIND SPY BUREAU man And both makes love like need Anne Petrograd Nov: 10 — The ScandinaAround this situation Is woven a vian Tourist Bureau has been closed strong sweet wholesome love story of by the military authorities on informaand of dreams tion received that it had been carrying clashing forces come Co Philade- on espionage activities in Petrograd true — (Penn Pub golden lphia) 'November JJf 1917 Salt Lake City Utah n ¥ the old army sutler's stock-in-traold solconsisted of whisky and any war will dier who llvod through that the demoralized sutler the that testifyas well as robbed them In this men the war wa have changed 11 that and Y M C A has everything that the soldier needs in the way of supplies games and amusements and provides for these needs In the most wholesome way Then there are buildings— an Item initial Investment calling for a huge been spent for have Fully $2500000tents by the association buildings and at army cantonments the past summer and upon their equipment23 The assoi different ciation Is working at and sailors are places where soldiers camped in the six great departments scattered over the country It has 57$ units in these places a unit separate tent 160 being either a building or a 116 more been have opened buildings are under construction and 118 have been authorized on top of that with 116 tenta open 17 more authorized and 51 buildings operated in combination with the government In the big southeastern department of the army 100 buildings have been erected since ff riter Pens Pointed Epitome of the Great Work A oted Herald-Republica- innumerable Russian women who have become brilliant examples of the feminine fighting qualities when once aroused to action The former Grand Duke Nicholas admitted women to the ranks in various the beginning so It is regiments from announced now and there was no neof concealing their sex if they cessity were willing to be assigned to duties In the transport and commissary But accepting those restrictions they nevertheless rushed forward and filled up the gaps when they noticed the men falling They were afterwards allowed to retain their positions won so bravely Numbers of them have been promotoffied and have become cers and others have been decorated with the military Cross for of Stgallantry George The youngest perhaps Vilna schoolgirl Kira is an Bashkirowa who enlisted under the name of Nicholas Popin She had her feet frozen but continued fighting until she was wounded and taken to the field hospital where it was discovered that she was a woman As Russia was tlie first country where women were given control over their inherited property and as Petrograd has had for some years the largest medical college for women in Europe it Is not strange that women have taken such an active part In the all the revolucampaigns Inwomen military movements students the tionary have been more dangerous perhaps to the government than the men It is believed that the majority of the women amazons are revolutionists and that their military experience was sought for the opportunity it gave them to spread their doctrine full-fledg- red-blood- ed 3 quality There Is a physical bureau with 300 physical directors scattered through the many camps and cantonments providing organized play and exercise decamp into signed to draw every man in — some form of recreation baseball playground ball basket ball volley ball boxing quoits wrestling and other Names Big athletic meets are promoted with baseball leagues in each camp and a series of games between different camps and boxing and wrestling matches When the German troops drove Into Belgium and started for Paris after forty years of the most and detailed preparation painstaking the world held its breath during those bright fall months of 1914 for It did not seem as though any human power could stop them The French army had to meet this thoroughly equipped enemy with Inadequate making a living men to stand wall of its artillery big againstGreat guns and high explosives Britain’s little army — the famous "Old Contempt! hies” — sacrificed itself to hold one infinitesimal space in the enormous battle line Yet the Germans were stopped ard turned back And what did it all the odds was the element Inagainst which genarmies erals call morale — an element of spirit and character greater than big guns and high explosives something compacted partly of patriotism- and partly of Morale may be present in an training army but unless it is brought out by polishing and faceting as the quality of the diamond is brought out hv cutting and polishing it will not be in evidence when the test of battle com'v The'Y M C A is bringing out in our force At a hundred points in fighting the program of preparation it supplements military training developing character spirit ideals and it is for this work that the present fund of 625000000 is being raised Compared with the billions spent bv to draft train equip and Ihe fighting force transport overseas upon which so much depend next spring the amount asked for scennp moderate It Is a sum designed to finance the work for nine months from October 1 to the end of next June based on the best estimates of what was done with the first $500000) It will cover the work in this country and abroad For men in the army and navy camps throughout the United States there has been apportioned $ll1200oQ for our army and navy overseas for Y M C- - A work in the Russian army $3305000 in the French army $2649000 in tlie Italian army $1000000 and among prisoners of war in European camps $1000000 This with $3932000 provided for inevitable expansion makes a grand total of $35000000 That is less than one day’s war outlay of the United States government for Uncle Sam Is now spending over $50000000 a day and It will provide for the work among 1500000 American fighting men 14000000 troops of our allies and 6000000 prisoners of war That is "where the money will go It calls for contributions that would average about 35 cents each from every man woman and child In the United States or about 1 cent weekly during the period to be covered Is it worth while? - tin-mora- $11-9940- le 00 First American Officer Hit by Huns in France ed WAR REDUCES11 CRIME IN GREAT BRITAIN London (by mail) — A remarkable decrease in crime is shown by the prison commissioners’ report for England and Wales for the year ' ended March 31 1917 the prison population showing a decrease of 68 per cent on the last prewar year The number of prisoners received under sentence in 1916 was 48362 as compared to 151603 in 1913-1- 4 'The greatest decreases are under the and sleeping out ’heading of 86begging cent lower drunkenwhich are per ness SO per cent All persons testify to the keenness and alacrity with which the prisoners hare undertaken the manufacture of war stores More than 55C0000 articles have been made and delivered to various government departments for war purposes - FIRST LIEUT DE VERB IT HARDEN First Lieut De Vere H Harden ©i the signal corps the first American officer wounded in France is at the present moment about as well satisfied as any man in the war 17e is a native of Burlington Vt lie is now lying comfortably in bed in the Johns Hopkins base hospital with his right knee swathed in oandages after a slight operation to remove fragments of a? German shell which tore through a muscle and slightly cut a bone He v'ill be up and about again in a lew weeks probably without cen a limp to shew his distinction?" Harden is a six footer with an pansive smile His face is typicaiT American square jawed and clear eyed ' |