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THE SUNDAY OXIEGOXTAX. PORTLAXD, APRIL 7, 191S. 3 SffeiNTHSOF REVOLUTION SEEN Russia Rent Asunder by Rival Parties; Life in Petrograd During Darkest Days Told. PLAIN TALE IS THRILLING Loul-e ISrjanl Glr Experience Jnm t.re of Kornllofr Connter Rr-tnlt to I'oarth Month of Proletarian Dictatorship. 1 " J I Laia Bryaat. FT iyUt.E BRTANT. irriht. 1l. br Public Wm ('n- Mn. I'opuniM I'ual, IBIS. X PuO'lC l..tig.r Company.) This la a aort of diary of all I aaw ard heard during a wonderful aiz month spent amonc the Russian peo ple. In It I do not attempt to defend r eondemn any one, or anjrt.Mns;. I sim ply tell It as I saw It and aa you would hie seen It If you had been with me. I had unusual op portunity, and 1 was Interested enough to take ad vantage of that op portunity. Arriving en the crest of tb Kornlloff counter revolution. 1 fol lowed the Kerens? covernroent through mil Its rtruRKlea to reach tba constitu ent assembly by the. uncertain route of the democratic roncress. the pre rarliament and the. soviet of the liusiuQ Republic. I knew Kerensky and Babushka when the provisional aovernment waa In power, and 1 can tell about life at tha Winter Palace. At the same time I follow. I closely the meetings of the Bolshevlkl at timolny and came to know their leader, in cluding Lenlne, Trotsky. Zalkin. Anto noff, Krylenko. Madame Kollental and the leaders of the other parties. Ilk .Marie Splrdonova. of the Lett Social Revolutionists, and Countesa I'anlna. f the Cadets. Thrtlllaar Sevaea Wltaeaaed. . I have been In street lights and was one of the 20 that were caught In a closed archway In November and Bred on by an armored car. Sven were killed. I waa In the Winter Palace wlth-f the Junkers when they were defending It the afternoon it felL I went out and came back with the first Bolshevik iroopa after they surrendered at mid night. I went with a pass from the Bolshevlkl Into the Kerenxky army. I waa In m-ow and saw the red burial after the six days' lighting. I went through the whole Bolshevik uprising and lived at the government hotel the Astoria under the proletarian dictator ship for three month 1 knew the women In the Death Bat talion and the other women'a regiments. 1 visited the prisoners In Peter and Paul Fortress a.id saw the revolution ary tribunal at work. I went to cloaed meetings at the Korelgn UkTlce when the delrgatea from the war prisoners' ramps came to plot revolutlona In their own countries. And I saw the German delegations come Into Petrograd. I saw the dissolution of the constituent as sembly. And many more things. Kaaala HemaTT fHrsutgllas;. All this time I lived as a Russian not as a foreigner and waa not con sidered an outsider. I will endeavor to strength unshackled! - We were to watch that progresa or that retrogres sion with widely varying emotions, we miscellaneous folk, who were crowded together for a few hours. Easfcle-aaa af Caardaas Destroyed. The day after we left Stockholm everybody on the train waa up bustling about, before the first light, getting ready for the change. The rain beat mournfully against the car windows as we ate our frugal breakfast of sour, black bread and weak coffee. We had been, most of us, long over a month on the way and we were travel-weary. We wondered vaguely what waa happening In Russia. The only news that had leaked Into Sweden was about the Off- nun advance on Riga. The little ferry boat gilding over dark, muddy watera between Haparanda and Tornea, carry ing the same tralnload of pasaengers and plied high with baggage, landed us on the edge of Finland on a cheerless, j rainy September morning. Here it was that I caught my first glimpse of the revolutionary army; great gianta of men. mostly workers and peasants. In old. dirt-colored uniforms, from which every emblem of Czardom had been carefully removed. Brasa buttons with the Imperial Insignia, gold and silver epaulettes, decorations all were re placed by a simple arm band or a bit or red cloth. I noticed that all of them smoked, that they did not salute and that gentries, Tooklng exceedingly droll, were sitting on chairs. Military veneer seemed to have altogether vanished. What had taken lta place I did not then know. ennnn Mnnr mcii luu.UUU I inunc ii CALLED TO COLORS Mobilization Orders Sent by Crowder to Governors of Various States. MONTHLY QUOTA EXCEEDED Xo Likelihood Appears of Increase In Grand Total; Military Training Bill Expected to Be Intro duced In Congress Soon. Soldier la' Serlsnu Mood. Things began to happen aa soon aa we landed. One woman got excited and began to apeak German. Then when It waa discovered 'hat ahe had no vise from Stockholm she wss hustled back over the line, weeping and wailing. She calfed out as she went that she had no money, that no one told her she needed a vise and that ahe had three starving children in Russia. A tall, white-haired, white-bearded patriarch, returning after an enforced absence of JO years, rushed from one soldier to another. "How are you, dear sons? What town are rou from? How long have you been here? Ah. I am glad to be back."' Thus he ran on. t waiting or rxpecting an answer. The soldiers smiled indulgently, al though for some reason we couldn't make out they were in a dead-serious mood. At last one made a gesture oi impatience. "Listen, little srandfather." he said, out not unkindly, -are you not -aware that there are other things to think about In Russia Just now 'be- siaea family reunions?" The old man caught some deep sig nificance behind his words, and he ooaeo. piiiruuy bewildered. He had been a dealer in radical books in Lon don ror many years and he had beet buried In these books. He was coming uuuio iu m millennium to ale at peace in iree, contented and Joyful Russia. ow a premonition of fear flittered over his old face. He clutched nerv ously at the soldier's arm. "What Is i you nave to tell me?" he cried. "1 Russia not free? What begins nov but happiness and peace?" Kaesalea Without. Trailers Wlthiau "Now begin work:" shouted ..rai swiuicrs. . begins mora flihiu. ana more dying!" "You old ones will never understand that the Job is by ulcus iinisnea. we have enemies without and traitors within." The old exile aDDeared anririnlv shrunken and very tired. "My son " he whispered, "tell me what ik. .nki. ror answer they pointed to a sign board upon which a large, new notice waa pasted and we Joined an excited group ana read: ' ' On the :6th of August . s our time General Kornl- uispaicnea to me Duma Member V, .-. utot witn a demand over supreme Kive-rtear pictures of what vast hungry, struggling Russia waa like during uom das. ill A year ago. when the first news of the Russian revolution flared out across the front pages of all the newspapers In the world. 1 made up my mind to go to Russia. 1 remember that when I was reading; the first account a Russian friend of mine In New York grabbed the paper out of my hand and ran off madly through the streets. Three days later I met him: he was still embracing every one. weeping and telling them the good news. He had spent three years in Si beria. Early In August I started on the lit tle Danish ateamship the United States. Prom my elevation on the first-class deck the first night out I could hear people In the steerage singing revolu tlonary songs. In the daya that fol lowed I spent most of my time down there. They were the only persona on the ship who were not bored to death. There were about :t0. mostly Jews from beyond the pale. Hunted, robbed. mistreated In every possible manner before they were exiled, they had re lalned the most touching love for the land of their birth. We 7eached Christian! in the even Ins. As our little boat elbowed Its way aiong ine aocK. strains oi the "Inter national floated over the water and the workers on the ahore surprised ua by Joining in. Pltlfat larldenta Orrsr. It waa a long way back to Russia for these people. We were held up in Hali fax on their account for more than a week. Every day British officers came on board and examined and re-examined. Pitiful incidenta occurred. There waa an old woman who clung franti cally to some letters from a dead eon. Fhe secreted them in ail aorta of strange places and brought down auspicion upon herself. The whole lot of them more than 100 In number were in a vtate of nervous excitement. Russia was so near and yet so far. They were held up again all along the way Christlanta. Stockholm and Haparanda. I saw one of these men In 1'rtrograd Ave months later. He had Just got through. My own curiosity grew every hour. As our train rushed on through the vast, untouched forests of Northern Sweden I could scarcely contain myself. Soon 1 should see how this greatest and oungrst of democracies was learning to walk to stretch Itself to feel its to give him military and civilian power, saying that he will form a new governnment to rule Uie countrv. 1 verified the authority of this Duma member by direct telephonic commu nication with General Kornlloff. I saw in tbia demand addressed to the pro visional government the desire of a certain class of the Russian people to take advantage of the desperate situ ation of our nation to re-estabiiHh that system of order which would be In con tradiction to tne acquisition of our rev olution, and therefore the protilsonal government considered It necessary for the salvation of the country, of liberty and democratic government, to take all measures to secure order ia the coun try nd by any means suppress all at tempts to usurp the supreme power in the state and to usurp the rights won by our citixena In the revolution. inese measures I put Into operation and will Inform the nation more fully of them. At the same time I ordered General Kornlloff to hand over the command to General Klembovsky. com- manurr-in-cniet or the northern front, defending the way to Petrograd. And nerewim i appoint General KlenTbov commanaer-ln-chlcr of all the Russian armies. The city of Pet rnerarl and the Petrograd district la declared unaer martial law by action of this tel esram. x appeal to all citizens that mey snouia conserve the peace and oroer so necessary for the salvation of the country, and to all the officers of me army ana rieet I appeal to accom plish their duties In defending the na tion irom tne external enemv. "PREMIER K E R G.N'SKT." Ceaater Revelation Beglas. so i naa arrived on the crest of counter revolution. Kornlloff was marching on Petrograd. Petrograd as in the state of siege. Trenches were at that very moment being due outside the city. The telegram from Kerensky was two days old. What had happened since then? Wild rumor followed wild rumor. In fact, such ex aggeration abounded that the whole outlook of the country was comnleteiv changed In -each overheated renort. we walked up and down the station under heavy guard, like prisoners. Everything waa In confusion? ni ... ports and luggage were examined over and over. I waa marched Into a small, cold, badly lighted room, guarded by six soldiers, with long. buainonir.. looking bayonets. In the room waa a siocay nussian girl. She motioned gruffly for me to remove my clothes. WASHINGTON. April . Approxi mately 150,00V men will be sent to training camps during the five-day period beginning April 26 under orders sent to state governors today by Pro vest Marshal General Crowder for mobilization of the April call of the second draft. This is three times the number it was originally planned to call and Is nearly twice the monthly quota as based on the calling of 800.UU0 men over a period of nine months. It la indicated that there will be no Increase in the grand total for the year. Calling out of the Increased number waa made necessary by the decision of President Wilson to respond without delay to the need of Franco and Great Britain for reinforcements In the great battle In Plcardy. Vacancies in National Army divisions resulting from the withdrawal of men to complete National Guard and regu lar Army units and lo the formation of special technic-U units asked by General Pershln?. will be made good by the April draft. Those divisions farthest advanced in training are to receive fiist attention In orjjr that the maxi mum number of complete units may be sent abroad soon, Failure of Congress to pass the amendment to the selective service act which would permit the fixing of state quotas on. the number of men in class 1 necessitated temporary adherence to the old system. Quotas to Be Ignored. Local boards have been officially ad vised, however, that they are to ignore "quotas" for the time being and to simply continue calling up men until they have obtained the number they have been Instructed to forward. When a basla for establishing state quotas baa been found due credit against fu ture increments will be given for those already called. Among the men to be called will be approximately 116,700 whites and 33,- 700 negroes. Pennsylvania leads, with 10.965 called: Ohio is second, with 0. 302. and New York third, with 10,171 Idaho will call 604. Nebraska 1460, Ne vada 178 and Utah 618. The assessment for other states fol' lows: Alabama 2301. Arizona 470. Arkansas 2TX1. California 4T.H-1. Colorado 1 Con necticut li-7:. Delaware 141, District of o- lumbla 4l'i Florida Xl.lo. Georgia ttto, 1111 nola tM01. Indiana Kansas ln21, Ken tucky Louisiana 4.MS. Maine VII). Mary land .10, Massachusetts fMO. Mtcfalzin tt.'lM. Minnesota :013. Mississippi :oo4. Mis souri 407S. Montana l.tui New Hampshire ."TO. New Jersey SiaT. New Mexico 40o. .Nfw York 10.171. .Nortn Carolina oo.-w. rm Dakota l'o7, Ohio Oklahoma Oregon O-.l. Pennsylvania 10.1KH. Rhode Is land South Carolina 1IHJU. Houth Dakota tl. Tennessee 4.1. Texas 7M7. Vermont 1. VliKlnia JfMl,-.. Washington 13911, West Virginia loilv, Wisconsin a7Jtl, Wyoming Sii. OLYMPIA. Wash.. April 6. Provost Marshal-General Crowder today sent Washington state draft officials In structions to order 1596 registered men to move to Camp Lewis In the five days' beginning April 26. This is 12 i per cent of the gross quota of Washington under the first draft. BOISE. Idaho. April Idaho was today called upon to send 604 of the second draft to Camp Lewis, Wash ington, whenever the railroads can handle them. It was said today at the office of the Adjutant-General. HELENA. Monti April 6. Montana has been called upon, to furnish 130 men. or one-eighth of -the first gross quota allotted the state, to begin en training for Camp Lewis April 26, and continuing five days. Farmers l Be Exempted Drafted men will be inducted from class 1 in sequence of order numbers, bdt men actively, completely and as siduously engaged In planting and cul tivating of crops are to be passed for the proacnt. SACRAMENTO. Tal.. April . A sec ond special call for draft registrants from California waa received today by Adjutant-Ucneral Borree from Provost Marshal-Gencnal Crowder. General Borree was instructed to prepare for the movement to Camp Lewis, beginning April 26. of 436? draft registrants. This is 12H per cent of the crofn quota of California in the first draft. WASHINGTON. April 6. A military training bill to become effective after the war Is under preparation for early Introduction by Senators Chamberlain, of Oregon, chairman of the military committee: New of Indiana, and Wads worth of New York. Its sponsors said today an effort would be made to get the bill passed at the present session. A universal service measure providing for train ing during the war waa defeated in the Senate recently. Under the plan proposed youths would receive military training In their 19th and 20th years. Six months' train ing would be in camps and the re mainder In their home communities. GOOD THIS SPRING A (asa.laatlsa That Ia Braefltlag A superlative blood-purifying medi cine like Hood's Sarsaparilla. taken be fore meals, combined with a superlative Iron tonic like Prpttron. taken after rmsl! makes the Ideal course of Spring xudicln'. Ni other medicines accomplish so much at this season aa these two great restoratives working together. They reach the Impure, impoverished, poisoned, devitalized blood, and the worn, run-down, overworked, exhaust d system. They relieve rheumatism. scrofUa and other humors. They awak rn the appetite, aid digestion, give re newed strength and produce sound, natural sleep. If your liver is torpid or sluggish, your tonge is coated, yon have stom ach and bowel troubles, you should take Hood a IIUs. which are gentle and work In harmony with Hood's Sarsapa ilila, and PcpUron, Adv. pieces!" With such gloomy predictions I left the frontier town and sped on ward through flat, monotonous Fin land. (Continued tomorrow.) BISHOP FLAYS BERNSTORFF Ambassador Should Have Been Hanged. Says Chnnlinian. NEWARK. N. J, April C Count von Bernstorft and his aides should have been hanged at the time of the sink ing of the Lusitania. Bishop Richard J. Cook, of Helena. Mont, declared to day, addressing the Newark Methodist Episcopal Conference. America should have entered the war "when the water was fine." as it would have heartened Belgium. 1 Eng land and France, he added. "But we are now In to stay and the only peace the American Nation will endorse will be a peace coming from unconditional surrender. The bouse of Hohenzollern has been from Its beginning a house of thieves and scoundrels that never respected the laws of Uod or man." be In the first reserve and those from 6 to 31 in the second. This I did. wondering. Once th I Men from 21 to 26 vears of age would on sne oraerea me to put them on again witnout any examination. 1 was curious, -its just a rule" ah. smiling at my incomprehension. There were British officers here nj they advised me not to proceed. "The uormans nave taaen liipa and are al ready across the Dvlna. When they get to Petrograd they will cut von ir. CLACKAMAS TO FURNISH 39 Local DraTt Board Receives Notifi cation From War Department. OREGON CITY. Or., April 6. (Spe- c'al.) Clackamas County will furnish thirty-nine men In the next call, which is to be made on or about the 26th day of April. Instructions to this effect were received by telegraph from the I IIUU1I I - IIUUll it 'Tis Freedom's Call-Lend Your All" -Florence B. Hoyt, Portland. I Your Patriotism Is It Skin Deep or Does It Go Through to the Bone? Now comes the crucial test of your patriotism. Ships must be built to carry pro visions to our Army and our Allies and shipbuilding is expensive! The submarines are constantly gnawing at our lines of communication. The Huns are gaining momentum in their campaign of devastation. Will you sit idly by and' give free leeway to the monster? There is the fellloiw who stands back and shouts, "Why don't we build more ships?" Has he bought a Lib erty Bpnd? No! His patriotism is skind&p. There is another who bought one $50 bond and who might well have bought three. He bought because his neighbor did, and for fear he might be shamed. His patriotism is skin deep. But ah, there's another a man . who bought his limit of the first and second bond issues, who has mort- . gaged his very "home to participate in the Liberty Loan of 1918; whose wife has parted with intrinsic jewels and. whose child has given up the movies that they , might increase their loan to Uncle Sam. That's patriotism through to the bone. And then, again, there's the man of foreign birth with loved ones "over there" in the ranks of the offender, and wTho, for the sake of his adopted country, as well as for the sake of his own people, buys and rebuys the , bonds of the Third Liberty Loan. That's patriotism through to the bone. When you go to the movies and the orchestra ' plays the "Star-Spangled Banner" you're on your feet instantly out of respect for the flag. Salute "Old Glory" whenever and wherever she flutters, but don't let your patriotism stop at that. Uncle Sam does not ask you to give a red cent. All he asks s that you lend him your money. Third Liberty Bonds Bear 4Va, Per Cent Interest Beginning May 9, 1918. Interest Payable in September and March. This Is Patriotic Sunday. Go to I Church. Auditorium Services at 1 I 3P.M. I Contributed to the Winning of the War, burned in effigy tonight in Edgerton after more than a thousand citizens bad paraded the streets bearing ban ners inscribed. "Be all American, and bank our soldiers. Bereer . adherents were threatened with tar and feathers, but were saved from violence by the Intercession of the leaders. CHICAGO SUBSCRIBES MUCH i I irt Day of Liberty Loan Drive Shows $16,000,000 Taken. CHICAGO. April" More than $16,- 000.000 waa subscribed by Chicago to day at the opening of the third liberty loan campaign. A giant military paraae and scores of patriotic celebrations marked the opening of the drive. At one meeting which was addressed War Department today. The names of j by Harry Lauder, the Scotch comedian. more ..than si,uuu,uuu in euoscriptions were announced. At another meeting Billy Sunday, the evangelist, headed the subscription list with J25.000. . the 39 class 1 men who will comprise the draft will be made public within a few days. Under instructions only able-bodied men. qualified for general military service, will be taken. This is regarded as indicative of the fact that the United States U planning to rush men to the western front for active service. The advices asked If Clackamas could have Its share of the men ready at that time and the board Immediately wired beck that they wouid be ready at the hour appointed. BERGER BURNED IN EFFIGY Citizens of Edgerton, AVis., Show Hostility to Socialist Politician. JAXESVILLE. Wil. April Victor Porger, Socialist aspirant for the nomi nation for United States Senate, was Bicycle Rider Sustains Cuts. As Casper Heim, aged 14, of 559 Al bina avenue, was riding his bicycle at a fast clip down the street yesterday afternoon, he ran into the rear of a truck owned by the Powers Furniture Company and driven by William Mc- Clerkin. He waa thrown violently to the street and received bad cuts on his head and hands. He was removed to his home. One Sure Road to Victory UZumM?m AMERICAN IHBUSTRIEST "Fall In" for the Patriotic Sport Western Fluff Rug Co. M-56 Union Ave. X, Cor. East Davisf rhoiFT-Ent 8518, Home B 1475. A Child S or S Tears Old requires something stronger than the sweet liquid laxatives now on -the market which are prepared especially tor Infants. LAX-roS WITH PEPSIN fills this lone felt want. It acts on the liver and regulates the bowels without griping or disturbing the .lomacb. A Llauld Digestive Laxative, pWasaat to take. 00c the bottle. Adr. T HE fellow in the trench gets thirty-three dollars a month and glory. You buy a Liberty Bond and get interest. Can' you look an American sol dier in the face if you do not own a Liberty Bond? Any bank will help you. LAUE-DAYIS DRUG CO. x Third and Yamhill Streets, Portland, Or. 9 j J fuiiijxiAij tig 1 1 1 mi: 1 1 1 TP5 Get a gun! Learn to shoot moving objects. Go in for the democratic, patriotic American pastime Trapshooting Join a gtm club. Meet real sportsmen men and women who will welcome yon to die tanks of true port rport for sport a sakev- Learnbow to handl? fire arms. Start today. The war has shown the ratae, the necessity of gun knowl edge. Knowing how to shoot is always valuable. Best ter ear luUuestUur boom TXe Bpft AOmrtmg for cmo, or and Company Wilmington. Delaware a r