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Letting go the unworthy things that meet SEES | Social : ’ A 1 iti || BEES | Clyb Women S C LVI 1es Business are touched by ours.—Anna Robertson Brown. Only Woman Member of Congress Denounces Proposed Law on Matemity and Infancy Congresswoman Robertson of Oklahoma De- clares Sheppard-Towner Bill Will Provide No Kentucky Women Real Help for Those Who Need it, but Will} Defeat Men And Create Only a Federal Bureau for Propaganda Get Nomination D ECLARING that the infants of the country are being used Woman Nominated for Jailer After Husband Had Been Removed by Governor ‘or political ends by women seeking office, Alice M. Robertson, cohgressiensi representative from Okla- homa, has come out against the Sheppard-Towner bill which gressman Robertson declares she wi!, do everything in her power to make The entrance of women into politics in Kentucky may tend to serve as ation clear to the women : compromising ground for old political try and to oppose the|| London Maids Plan feuds which have been notorious in bill 4 the past, according to developments in his bill,’ said Miss New Club Building the recent primary election of the Robertson, “no one knows where it Ss state. will stop. It is a much safer, better Lendon has a new club, mem- Mrs. Charlotte Woodbury ran on an plan to leave it to the separate states’ || bership which is confined . to ll independent ticket and defeated the webk! alow thi 2 If powers were || women employed in domestic ca- || Teguarly endorsed candidate by a cortralized tn one af the feders! dr pacities. The membership of the large majority. She failed to get the purtments, the principal effect would |] club one mortth after its inaurgur- || Homocmtic endorsement as nominee be the securing ¢f employmeu' by || ation exceeded three thousand, and |] ror county tax commissioner and yet a large number of women desiring to|] contributions to the treasury have || proved to be the only Independent can- get Into political iife. The possinilities |] made it possible for the organiza- || qiaate to win in Jefferson county for vast expenditures, which we ean-|] tion to purchase a plot of ground races. net ‘be assured will accomplish any |] for a clubhouse on the same street Mra. Belle Napler was nominated for Getinite gopa for the mothers and|| as some of London's most exclu: || sajer in Breathitt county, defeating children of the country are stagger-|| sive clubs. Plans for a large build- |/9 men who were candidates for the i ing: have been approved, and the || same office. "Erne pitt aces not provide fer tang-|| building will be completed and paid Sire. Jobe Maines sdaty women ones ible help in the form of medical or|| for within the year @idate for sheriff {0 the state, was nursing attendance, or food supplies The purpose of the club is to af- || Gereated at the primary in Rockcastle for the children of the poor," she|| ford the many thousand cooks, |} County. 9 if pointed out. “Its salient feature *is|| maids, servants and other domes- M n ated the establishment of an autocratic. || tic workers of London a suitable || ¢. june or Woomera toon for jailer of Woodford county after her husband had been removed from the same position by Governor Mor: row because he had failed to prevent the lynching of a negro, held in jail. undefined, practically uncontrolled |] place to meet their friends and yet federally authorized, center of|| spend their days off. Propezanda.” According to Miss Robertson, the atatistii h i by av ti f th *, bill to prove the need for “baby sav. |Can't Work Off Odd This is the latest photograph of the children of Carl, exiled emperor of left to right they are Felix, Karl Ludwig, Maria Antonia Adelhead Crown Pri : Five Hundred Membe Music Contest |*"*6f'State Bread Clubs . Membership in the newly organ- e iged bread clubs, in the state of South inners Dakota, has increased 80 rapidly dur- ing the past year that 500 young giris of the state are now members of the tee er img” are “in the Ananias class,” and | will not bear investigation. The real Lots on Country Now Now Possible ‘To frets are not available in most cases, — she declared, due to negligence in ihe! Style education, which has reached Tour England And regimering of births and mortality of | the remote sections of the country, land On R mothers. Most states have shown an| through the newspapers and maga. Scot an n un inexp”.abie failure to keep the neces-| zines has exerted a distinct influence ‘sary cfficinl records, she said, upon the textile tradg in he last two}: “Some of the women of this coun-| or three years. ¢ Service Established Whereby * ‘try tre attempting to throw hcipless|, According to a prominent silk manu- Polite Chauffeur Will Do bebics into the sea of political ambi-|facturer, it is no longer possible to Ladies’ Shopping tion in the same way that tn iin work off odd lots in the southwest and women sacrificed their children in re-| other remote sections, as it was even| yor the benefit ur overseas ‘visitors ligic2n fanaticism,” she declared. “and two years ago. “Undesirable mer-| with gaearced I Brats s that would not go in the east we could|” "I. ig the Chauffeurs Service Bu- Hustle Own Jobs plways dispose of them through the|reau, of 138, High Holborn, W. C., To Learn About their customers demand the latest] an over England, Scotland and Wales styles in fabrics, Just as do the women| in 10 days. Not only does the chauf- of Social Questions 2 know as much about shopping as any Attend Big Labor Meet} women in London,” said L. Johnson, “en during the vacation period. A num-| switzerland, will have among its mem.|©oMSider that two days is sufficient »ber of girl students from Colorado] bers a Japanese woman, according to|'® 8¢@ all there is to be seen in Lon- fusing even the aid of the Young| sho will go as advisor to the official| TMs 18 about the only place where §fomen‘s Christian Association. To] delegation from Japan, a position to|*!' real ‘hustler’ spends more than @ries, packing houses, candy factories ply British chauffeurs to people in and private homes. They aiso availed all parts of the globe. Among appli- tive leagues, organized labor groups| ‘rom sticking. to Canada, nd recreation halls. The experiment Concert Tour}*=*% The purpose of the clubs is to arouse the interest of girls in home affairs 5 3 - . nd the maki: it tter bi a ° National Federation of Music| trang.” ““UG"e °F Detter bread gen Clubs Advance Interest in} The clubs give demonstrations at A which prizes are awarded to those mak- Music Through Plan of Con-] ing the bost bread. Many of the spe- cert Work for National Prize} cis! prizes are offered by baking powder companies and flour millers throughout the United States. CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—The Nationa’. Federation of Music clubs is planning es age a concert tour for the four winners of |Family Gardens Will its national contests held earlier this year, Its aim is to give a musical ing to the federation,” said Mrs. Helen | that year, according to present plans Marrison Mills of Peoria, Ill, chalr-} outlined by the celebration committee | fragrant fir trees in a natural park man of the federation’s department |nlready organized to make plans for|on Lonsdale street, the youngsters of publicity, here today. the Pasadena golden jubilee celcbra-|Whittie and saw away making toy “Giving these young musicians ation to he beld during the year 1924, | furniture and unique gewgaws out during the coming season, the clubs | official colors for the celebration and wit! make a string of engagements|jiupine and poppies probably wil) be| Soldiers, chairs, dolls, guns and air-|dition of naming public school build-|der to do their job women have got reaching from“the north to the south| the most neo ‘fecat sounistnetiont ships—all are products of the expert|!ngs after George Washington, Theo-| to be trained for it. We trained them hands of thes young enthusiasts. Even|dore Roosevelt and other men of| for war work, at high pressure, under “This is undoubtedly the most im- the refuse heaps furnish material. A | American history has gone temporar- | terrible handicap, and they made good, and from coast to coast. used in the decorative scheme. Home NO “WOMAN PROBLEM” IN ENGLAND AS A RESULT OF WAR, AUTHORITY DECLARES Woman Executive Officer In the Ministry of Labor Explodes Fanciful Yarns About Menace’ of Too Many Women in Great Britain as Result of War Have to Be Forty Before Taking In Washing in Spain Madrid Laundress Says One Can Not Learn to Wash Until at Least 40 HE husbandless surplus of The laundry women of Madrid are | English women resulting probably the finest of their Piotessios from the war, the mora! in. the world, says a writer in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Nowhere else pits of these Peg and does the linen come home so delight-|OtMer questions 0: ‘imilar fully clean and it is all accomplished | Strain, out of which Sunday with cold water. Within sight of the | editors of the saffon section of the windows of King Alfonso's palace any days of the week including Sundays. may be seen acre after acre of snow- white linen spread out to dry along | Charlotte Barker, considered one of % the banks of the Manzanares. In the|the world's foremost authorities on “ turbulent waters of this creek, for}questions pertaining to women, es. it is nothing more in spite of its so-| pecially those relating to the employ. Austria and ex-Empress Xita. From |norous name, virtually all the washing | ment of women. Miss Barker refuses ince Ootto, Rudolph and Robert. This|for the million or so inhabitants of | to be excited or even impressed by all is the first’ picture received in America of the newest babe. Recent stories from Europe say that Charles again | Madrid is done. that has been written about England's will attempt to resume his old throne. Other rumors are that he will leave Switzerland for Spain. A closer corporation than that of | so-called woman problem, for like the the Madrid washer women can scarce-| rustic at the curcus, she calmly de- . . ly be conceived. Some of those work-|clares that there ain't no such animal. ing here have been in the prefession| These facts were brought out in a 1es ake for+40 years, not always as past-mis-| recent interview by Margaret Walter. tresmes, for they have to serve an ap-| The interviewer found Miss Barker a e prenticeship lasting many years be-| large woman, with broad shoulders, oys in n fore they are permitted to undertake | iron gray hair and laughing eyes. Her work on their own account. A woeful reception mects any new- 2 comer coming in with a bundle of} tively trust her and men treat her as lg or Ss fe) linen to wash. All kinds gf insults are | an equal. hurled at her by the regulars; her| During the war Miss Barker, who linen disappears as if by magic and| began life as an elementary teacher 1s found again only after long search. | and wes principal of the largest wom- Boston School Provides Entertain-|47” ™2" not an ordinary dirty linen} en's institute in London was put in $ 3 porter is in even worse case. He is| charge of the 30,000 women employed ing and Helpful Pastime for|spiashed with suds and is lucky if he} at Woolwich arsenal, as well as being 5 _Jescapes with his clothing intact. chief inspector of all women munitions Youngsters Who Rapidly Be- The experienced laundry woman as-| workers throughout the country. She come Expert Toy Makers serts no woman learns how to wash|is now executive officer in the min- propertly until she is 40 years old, Till| istry of labor for the training and then she must work as understudy to| employment of women who suffered BOSTON, Aug. 26— Hun is of |Others, earning only a small pittance} in the war through the loss of their ‘laaily. When she sets up for herself} men supporters. Two-thirds of ths Present Color Scheme | 7 pra nos ie Mary smn. | she at once takes apprentices and rap| female population of these. lsland hearing as well as recognition to district. have gone into competition young American artists. PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 26.—Every|with Santa Claus in an open air work- “The accomplishment of such a tour|houscholder in. Pasadena will be|shop here and. Christmas time will is made possible by the co-operation |asked in thé spring of 1924 to plant|find thelr handiwork scattered in of the hundreds of music clubs belong-| his garden in blue and gold flowers|many gift packages. idly amassen a modest fortune. It} have passed through Miss Barker's seems, however, they never retire to| hands as school children, girls and in- enjoy their richés, for the call of the | dustrial workers. tub is too strong for them ever to de- In Not a Menace. sert the Manzanares until the final] “The excessive number of women call come: shown by the census is not a menace in England,” she said. “It is the other way round. ‘There is a vast amount. of work to be done, and the women of England have got to do it. aS There is just one menace—and that ‘Toy ducks, horses and pigs or tanks| VENICE, Cal., Aug. 26.—The tra-| is that people will not sce that in or- With work benches set up under —_——. Names of Schools to Honor Famous Women portant piece of work being done at sardine can becomes a cooky cutter, | fly, at least, out of vogue in Venice to down ‘to the last little flapper. Now this season by the federation. It ranks Merchants Can Ti a-salmon can shapes into a cruller| permit an honoring of famous women.{ We have got to train those 2,000,000 as one of the most progressive activ. 7 ry cutter and beer bottle tops make ex-| Accordingly, the three néwest schools | Put them to work hard and help them ities in behalf cf the young American- This When Stocks cellent caps for tin soldiers. A jig-|in this city are to be christened soon | to forget everything else in their job. taught musician.” saw in the hands of a capable young-| the Betsy Ross, Florence Nightingale} “But what about their mora! posi- This is the second tour of the kind Are Slow to Move ster produces a monkey on a trapese|and Martha Washington. wee |. There ts much sponsored by the federation, the first vention. As a result of that tour the|} af. Wyatt of this city tried to sell young artists appeared before a large || a load of peaches to merchants, the || mother's old arm chair gets many a|the names of George Washington's| women exceed the men by 2,000,000. number of the clubs and at the end of the season had each several hun-|| were no bids, so Wyatt placed them dred dollars clear. on the sidewalk in front of his’ Artists to take this years’ tour are || pince with a sign: ‘Help Yourself.” Enrique Ros, pianist, New York, Her- Before the first bushel basket |/™anual training teachers to show the | ginia Dare to Susan B. Anthony. core. I know this is true and I am man Rosen, violinist, Cleveland, De-|] was empty telephone orders came || Student how to manipulate the tools. —— yorah Madworney, contralto, Bayonne, |] jn from householders and he sold ||A house that is used for a bad weather| The Sitka widow when she puts chance to appear on thelr programs] ‘The two colors were chosen as the|@2y material that comes to hand. fe J., and George G. Smith, baritone, |} the entire lot. shop has been equipped with furni-|on mourning faints the upper part] “But the unmarried mothers, the 1 Evanston, I), I, for one, will fight this as long as I/ chandise cannot be sold anywhere in b Sy an organization has been established —s ee eee eat cortags cele |to facilitate sight-seeing in a hurry, % of years ago if we had certain styles! says the London Daily Chronicle. retailers and jobbers in backwoods|run by a number of exeervice men. sections. Now we find that our dealer|rney can provide energetic Amer. Labo P. bl customers in these localities say that icans with chauffeurs to rush them r roDiems ‘College Girls Adopt Direct in the larger cities.” feur drive the car, but he can act as eee Method of Pursuing Studies * beirrmgeresnkt ey spp nap mpeg Woman From Japan Will 1 bave| men ‘on my books who Many girls nowadays are taking the dir.ctor of the bureau. “Think how =fnitintive in various activities. This} ‘The next International Labor con-|Yaluable that knowledge is to Amer- + is especially true among college wom-| ference, which will be held in Geneva, | !Can ladies, whose men-folk usually and Kansas colleges set out this sum-| unofficial reports from Tokyo. Her |". i mer to see what they could learn and} name is Mrs. Moto Matsumoto and|, “We find that a favorite trip of the de. They hunted thelr own jobs, re-| she is the wife of a Japanese farmer.| Americans is to Devon and Cornwall. tigate the life and problems of] which she has recently been int.) Sout (48: hours.” < the working girl they south enploy-| ed. She will be the $4 Ate mi in|, Another interesting feature of the , ment in five and ten-cent stores, laun-| the world to be honored iz. this way. |PUFe&u's activities is that they sup- themselves of the opportunity to see Time Saver cations being dealt with is one from social agencies at work, among which} Thorough greasing with lard pre-|an Egyptian prince, who wants a were police: courts, women's protec-| Vents the cork of ‘he mucilage bottle |chauffeur for a trip to Scotland and was fair in all respects. The girls paying their own expenses from what they earned at industrial labor. : a The Roman bridal wreath was of (verbena, plucked by the bride her- welt. HE release of Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison on July 25, from : Novenski prison, Moscow, Rus- Worth $85 sia, marked the culmination of efforts by the Baltimore Sun, continued with- out interruption almost a year. Those efforts involved the use of every re- source at the command of the paper. From the time of her imprison- who went as the special staff corre- spondent. They went first to London, where whosc staff Mrs. Harrison was 8) American labor organizations had money, food and clothing, had tried to communicate with her, had tried to secure her release. It was only | permission. Senator France and Wat- when United States Senator Joseph |P°""Wont to Riga. For a time it seem- Irwin France of Maryland, went di-| 24 that they would have no better suc- rectly to Moscow and appealed to the | ross in reaching the seat of the Soviet supreme Soviet authorities that the|overnment than others had had. release of the newspaper woman, | pney persisted in their efforts and fin- whose thirst for information had led| any the Russians yielded to grudging her to invade mysterious Russia, wa8| Consent for Senator France to pro- effected. ceed to Moscow, refusing, however to Senator France went to Russia|permit Mr. Watson to accompany through an arrangement with the Sun|him. The senator entered Russia under which he was to study at first | alone on June 30. The Soviet author- hand conditions in that country and | ities said they would permit this on write the results of his observation |one condition— a condition which for publication, the articles to be syn-|suemed to dash the hopes of rescu- dicated. It was understood that once]ing Mrs. Harrison to the ground. in Moscow, he would exert every in-' phat was that he would confine his fluence to secure Mrs. Harrison's re-]investigations to trade conditions and lease. The Senator bad, from the|would not under any circumstances, earliest days of the Sovig republic,| refer to the Americans held prisoners been its most conspicuous friend in|there. From that time until the cable America. He was the only United | flashed to The Sun on Saturday, July States Senator, who advocated the|27, the news that the senator and opening of trade relations with that] Mrs. Harrison had joined Mr. Watson government. In the senate and out|at Riga, no word telling of Mrs. Harri- he had fought for that end. When |son was received from him. The lat- Ludwig C.K. Martena unofficial |ter’s friends and thousands who had Soviet ambassador to this country,|never met her awaited the result of came here, Senator France befriended | his trip with the tensest anxiety, for him. When he was deported Senator | stories telling of hardships inflicted France delivered a speech in Madison|on her had been reaching America Square Garden protesting against the|and Baltimore constantly since her deportation. After its long unavail- | imprisonment. ing efforts, the Sun felt that Sena- ‘ toe awrande presented tia Mat ones IIE |) ee es was believed that he, going to Russia| Mrs. Harrison had gone to Russia and appealing to the futhorities there | {ull of enthusiasm for the “story’ for the release of a woman with whom |%he was covering, leaving Baltimore | Twenty imported hats ‘were auc-|io was acquainted and who came|in the fall of 1919 and crossing into {Hoped off for'$1,700 at the retail mil-| om his own state should be able to| Russia with an exchange of Polish }Miners’ fall show in New York. Here lish r&sults where others had|Prisoners at Barysow in February, Wis one of them. is iti worth $857 It} #ccomp! it he | 1920. She had long before that proved fis a draped torhan of silvergray met-|failed. And it was felt that, if he. ius as a correspondent and her lized satin with gplack aigrette up-|could not bring Mrs. tarrison home | esourcefulness. She is a vidow, her vhile there is a/the thing was impossible. Keuggestioh'of. the ‘oder potentate’s France Gets Into Russia husband, Thornas B. Harrison, a bank- iturban, the broadth of the hat and the : er and one of the most popular men “manner of draping makes’ it more| He left New York the later part Soles Baltimore society, having died six sion to go into the country and had returned home without getting that oengratiinsc. n'than Persian, ‘ May, accompanied by Mark Watson, years ago. She has one son, Thomas ~ they saw M. Krassin, the Russian |nearly two years and until that cable ment to go into Russia. Krassin was {her husband’s death Mrs. Harrison, unable to promise anything and they |Seeking an occupation, became the explosions togethe: went on to Berlin to continue their |Society editress of the Sun. For @ year|The only credentials she had carried|Senator France cabled and received | leave Moscow on the following Mon- Fac mgae ment in October, 1920, the Sun, of| “ecrte there. Representatives of |She made writing of the movements|were in the form of a letter accredit-}a reply saying that Mrs. Harrison | day and hoped to take her with him.| _,, lorais are Sound. lof those who were her friends her|ing her as a correspendent of The | would not be released because she was | Monday came and went and Mrs. Har-| "Well, the percetnage of immorality member, had sent to her supplies of | \aited in Riga for months for permis-|business. ‘The daughter of the late|Sun. Finally she got into Russia by|a.spy, but that she was in good |rison, still in the prison hospital, con- | —8t I mean is, the number of girls |Bernard Baker, who was one of the|mingling with the prisoners at the|health.. The state department was|cluded that his efforts had failed. On| WhO had illegitimate babies in that AMERICAN WOMAN WRITER, IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA, GAINS FREEDOM } |ccicc*s.sozi ane. ci FROM THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHE assistant managing editor of The Sun,|B. Harrison, Jr., just growing into] the way of getting into Russia seemed {Hopkins university, married her hus-ythe cables received from her since her manhood who, by the way, left on the |insurmountable. She studied the Rus. | band's mother. They threw themselves | release, she tells that the joy of see- Adriatic, August 3 to meet his mother in London. He has not seen her for sian language and wrote letter from | she brought it into play here again. | 1 that rolls around like a preformer in| In selecting names for the schools | talk of enforced bigamy and so on.” one folowing its 1919 biennial con- EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 26.—J. ||@ circus. the judges considered twenty-two oth-| “Look here. The English nation is fruit coming from his farm. There ||new seat. til 4 p, m. undgr the supervision of | lanthropist, interested persons sug-| tell you that the women of Eng! ‘Warsaw—and watched for an oppor-| Harrison's friends. Martens was ap-|so great that she was almost over- tunity to enter the land of mystery.|pealed to. He cabled to Chicherin,|come by it. She had practically given but. We fed th 1 trade representative in England, with |Was received on July 28, had not had|Her resourcefulness in getting into| commissioner of foreign affairs in] up hope of returning to America. Sen- ¥ em and clothed them whom they tried to make an arrange-!any word from her for one year. After|Germany had surprised United States | Moscow. The answer received was army officers who met her there. And|that Mrs. Harrison could not be re- Chair caning is a fascinating job and | ers, that had been suggested. Besides|® moral nation. You say that the » | wife, the maker of the first American] Well, that means that the women are Work is carried on from 9 a. m. un-| flag, and the name of the noted phi-|the determining factor, and let 8 lan Miss L. Gertrude Howes with two] gested names which ranged from Vir-| re sound, moral and clean to the very ready to stake everything on that knowledge.’ ture made: by. the: children. of her face a deep black. {ree love matches and all those stories that we hear so much about, where do they fit in?” during the war I had 30,000 girls work- ing in three shifts of eight hours every day of the year. We knew those girls’ body and soul, past and Dresent—we had to. They stripped when they came inside the gates and they stripped again when they went into the effort as did many of Mrs.| ing someone from her own state was vi and they daren't eat a chocolate cream ator France was not at once able to 4 assure her that he would take her eee hadn't analyzed. We went eased but that she was in good health.| home. He told her that he would gh accidents and air raids and |great steamship men of the country,}exchange at Barysow, making the|abked to aid and did all the depart-| Wednesday she was summoned to. ap- | Peried of five years was just one-fifth a member of the first United States | journey to the border in spite of great} ment could short of addressing a|pear before the Tcheka (tie Soviet | 1 Per cent. Mark that. There you |shipping board, she was highly edu-| physical hardships. note direct to the Soviet government, | inquisition), The nurse refused to let | ‘@: Plain and clear. Two in in thou- \eated and had travele@ much abroad.| As soon as she reached Moscow she | both under the Wilson and the Hard-|her go that night. The following day | °@"4- And that, too during a time |She speaks four or fivé languages, 1s|was arrested . But this time she was|ins administrations, They could not|she was given a very brief examina- held only two or three days, being re-|take the latter step because {t wotild|tion and in the evening, Thursday, identity was|have involved recognizing the Soviet | July 28, she was placed in an automo- | >*bles, of providing England with sons familiar with their literature, and is ja cultured and charming woman. Be- leased as soon as her jcause of her talent for writing, she|proven. For a time she was in high | sovernment. Influential —_ persons | bile and driven to the railroad station | *t RO matter what cost, the glory of |was soon transferred to general as-| favor with the Suviet authorities. She|abroad aided. The case was laid be-| where Senator France met her. motherhood * * © at a time when signment work. wrote a number of articles which were | fore the Russian prisoners’ committee Announcement of Release. She interviewed Marshal Joffre| published in the Baltimore Sun and|of the league of nations at Geneva.| The Senator, in spite of the condl- when he came to this country shortly |the New York Evening Post. She also| Washington Vanderlip’s aid was en-jtion which had been made when he jafter the United States entered the |Gccasionally sent dispatches to the listed. All) these efforts were without |had entered Russia, had insisted on war. On her own initiative she en-| Associated Press. The last of these |Tesult so far as establishing commun-| discussing Mrs. Harrison's case, had | ®F¢ Sound. I have never heard a gir! ication with her or securing her re-|seen Lenine himself and had literally | C™plain that she wanted a husband. lease were concerned. |The Sun re-| worn down the opposition by the per- ie oe pi Place, every mortal Fi peated! sent supplies of food, clothing | sistence with which he argued for her} ‘thinks she's going to get marric eee ee guartison was arrested! ia money through the Red Cross, the | release. It was impossible to imagine | When the: time’ comes. But some of All-Russian Jewish relief committee, | he told the Kussian officials, anything | ¥4 don't. We get other work to do tered the plant of the Bethlehem | was received last September. Shipbuilding corporation here as al] Then the dispatches suddently worker, put on overalls and actually ran an air bammet, afterwards writ-lin October. She was charged with ing a series of articles about her ex-1 feeding the American and the Brit- perience. ish prisoners and having been in com- ‘Throughout the war, she was an-|munication with interests hostile to troop ship. At the- last moment she| She was given the alternative of trial ‘was prevented from realizing this|on these charges, which meant exe- plan. But immediately after the|cution if she were convicted or serv-|been in Russia and got out told stories |?Fisoners. So the railroad journey question and there isn't any cause She chose |about Mrs. Harrison's condition which |, Ut of Russla began, the former pris-| for alarm. ‘There ig just one an: armistice, she went to Germany, being|ing the Soviet as a spy. the. first English speaking woman to| the latter course, and for a short time cross the German border after the|was allowed her liberty in Moscow. armistice. She spent the larger part| Presently she was arrested a second of 1919 there and witnessed many of | time on the charge that she was not the scenes of the counter revolution | fulfilling her part of the bargain. She of that year, writing brilliantly of|remained in prison continually after them. From Germany she went to|this until released following Senator |but required to report twice daily to the new Poland, mastering the Po-|France’s presence in Moscow. She lish language while she was there. | was called a spy of the American gov- Studies Russian Language. Sauee. and it Asher! said that she sent military information out of Russia Pcapeatre fia tae seed Spee Suny | While it was at war with Poland. Al- a few weeks when interest in the} Most immediately news of her tm- great experiment in. Russia fired her|P*#0nment reached this country. imagination. She wanted to go there, Newspapers Seek Her Release, saying that the greatest news story ‘The Sun at once began its efforts of the times was being made there.| to communicate with her, to send her She left in high hopes, accompanied | food and money and clothing to secure by her son. Leaving him in school in| her release. Governor Richie of Mary- November, 1919, she went to Warsaw, |land is Mrs. Horrison’s brother-in-law. Poland. For a time the difficulties in Prof. Joseph S. Aznes of the Johns Representatives of The Sun saw boxes | good relations between Russia and | %Uls into it, and there you are. Girls xious to get abroad and once had|Russia, the last an offense punish. |>#¢ked with supplies for her loaded | America than the release of this wom- made arrangements to go over on alable by death if she were convicted. |#0@rd ships bound for Russia. when crazy fools were filling the air, with rot about the duty of ha temptation to irregular life was at its maximum. "m not a particle worried about the women's morals. Their morals and Hoover committee, the Quakers. which would do more to make for|#"d we put our whole hearts and sometimes tell me they wen? babies; and I find them baby we to do <nd they make good at it. “There isn't any mystery about the an on whose behalf a United States Senator Decides to Go. senator from her’own state appealed, In the meantime persons who had|®"4 the release of other American cr fo the woman question, and that ‘s work—hard, full time work—that the varied widely. One said that she had | ner hardly able to believe her gopa been confined in a dungeo : : Bes OME an Ney aa And so finally the cable from Mr.| Woman herself has chosen and for thing to divert her mind. Another | WStson that the senator qnd Mrs.| which she is by character and inclina- said that she was living in a villa ta |H#4®Fison had arrived in Riga and then | tion fitted. Then she will be as s00d Moscow, given the liberty of the city|#, Cable direct to The Sun from Mrs, | citizen as her grandmother wis & Harrison herself, with all it meant] Wife and rhother.” to her friends in this country. Her ———__—_ own story is that she was always Won omen Members Increase Be treated with respect and that,’ white in prison, she was given as good foud = as the authorities had to give. Even| VIENNA, Aug. 26.—The labor un- when before the “cheka, she was not|!0MS of Austria have multiplied their threatened but tcid that the offmmse | Membership since the war, The total with which she wis charged moant| of all the unions in the republic now death and then offeied tea in tm |@mounts to 940,000 members, next breath in a couzicons ninnner. | S8@inst 263,137 In 1914. ‘The number Mrs. Harrison is expected to reach| Of wonton membors 4s 223,300 #5 America about September 1. Her} ®&ainst only 26,700 before the war. health ts frail after her tong confine- —_—>——— ment, but she remains the - spirited] There are about 740 different kinds courageous woman she always was. of birds in Australia. the police. Finally Senator France, who had contemplated a visit to Russia for a year, was appealed to and decided fin- aliy to make the trip under the ar- rangement with the Sun previously outlined. It was believed he, if any, Kath ty effect the release of Mrs. m and this belief proved true. On ‘the afternoon of July 23, the long continued efforts of The Sun were rewarded when Senator France and Mrs. Harrison met in the No- venski prison hospital at Moscow. In