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Show uu RUSSIAN HERE TO STUDY MORMONISM. Walking around the world, Baron Kervlck, a young Russian whose home is in Riga, is devoting two days in Ogden to a study of conditions In Utah. He is much interested In the Mormons, as religious beliefs Is one line of study which he Is pursuing on his long journey in search of information. infor-mation. He expects to carry back to Russia new ideas and to correct the old stories and geographies which are in use In the schools of his home city. "I left Riga a year before the war started," he said, "and have traveled extensively. I want the allies to win in the great struggle, but I am not deeply concerning myself In that direction, di-rection, because I have given my energies ener-gies in another direction. I am laboring labor-ing In tho field of education, agriculture agri-culture and religious thought." Explaining his earlier Impressions of the western part of the United States, gained from his school books, he expected to find uninhabited desert des-ert wastes, or wild stretches where tho Indian wns supreme. Instead he was pleased to see a land of progress, with modern cities and beautiful homes. "Why In Lovelock, Nevada, marked on my map as a wilderness," ho said, "I found a high school of 40 students on which over $350 per scholar Is expended ex-pended each year, and at Tecoma, Nevada, there was a school teacher and school house but no pupils, proving prov-ing the Intense Interest you Americans have In education. "I had wrong ideas as to America. Let me correct a few of your misunderstandings misun-derstandings of Russia. My country today Is thoroughly progressive. Many of the old abuses have passed and there is an awakening which promises to carry Russia to the highest point of advancement in education, industry and material welfare. Your histories and geography of Russia need revising. revis-ing. They are like my school books on America, fifty years behind the times." Turning to the war, Baron Kervlck was "usked. Uf Russia could "come back." He replied that the Russians already were demonstrating their ability abil-ity to hold the Germans In check. Ho was in Japan five months and saw great factories operating day and night to equip the Russian soldiers. Shiploads of ammunition, rifles and large guns were going out of Nagasaki Naga-saki and other ports to Vladivostok and Port Arthur, to be transported over the Siberian road to the battle front "The Russians today," he said, "are Immeasurably better prepared than at any time since the declaration of hostilities. hos-tilities. They retreated last fall, but that was a strategic retreat, Intended to Telieve the pressure on tho western front. This spring my people will be the aggressors and their initial drive will be in Bukowina and then, once more, through Gallcia, The aim Ib to got down. In to Austria and strike at Germany along the llnoB of least resistance. re-sistance. "Russia now has 6,000,000 men In arms and can add 2,000,000 recruits each year, out of the natural increase in population." How accurate Is Baron Kervick's measure of Russian military power is yet to be disclosed, but this spring, when the Germans recoil from the west front and for a second time begin to batter at the Russian, lines, we Bhall havo sin. opportunity of comparing promiso and performance. |