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PPPiPiPPPPPP9m7m!f!Pi.piLiJU!-l W-U I'fH- WAR NOTES. By Carl Sandburg c A party of 118 Russian "citizens" left a railroad station Tn Chicago - last night for the Pacific coast, where they take boat for an Asiatic port. Their destination is the battle lines of the Russian field armies. They are emigrants and refugees, 28 from Chicago and 90 from New York, glad and ready now to go back to the republic which they went away from as an autocracy. "'Money and transportation is sup plied 'these reservists by the Russian government," said a Chicagoan who knows some of them. "Their pass-J ports are interesting. Formerly a Russian passport was a long, heavy complex document Retold a man's name, birthplace, religion, amount of property, and classified him as sol dier, workman, nobleman, . peasant. Now the passport is short and doesn't say much besides that fact that the bearer Is a Russian citizen." While the war lasts there is going to be more or less discussion of Mar shall Field III.., who is now a pri vate in the First Illinois cavalry. And after the war there will be more dis cussion along with pictures of him as a trooper serving the nation. Reporters and editors irresistibly feel the play of big news and big hu man interest around this boy. -While democracy shrinks away from giving , the spotlight to a unit in this situa tion, the fact remains that Marshall Field III. is the most spectacular pri vate in the armies or the United ' States and his conduct from day to day draws curious scrutiny from all men and women of thought Many of ub would like to see' the curtain drawn and no more mention made of Marshall Field. III. during and after the war. We would, like to respect his wishes that his name be not printed And we all hand jt to J him for the modesty and discretion with which he spoke Thursday just before he faced the flashlights of the camera squad. He said he didn't se6 what all the fuss was about and in a quiet, smiling way that everybody liked he said his only kick so far in the service Is against the quarter master whb gave him pants that are too tight a fit in the seat Across the street from our house a boy Is going away today. And the father and the mother and five little sisters are-all saying good bye to him. Summer nights they won't see him throwing a ball in the front yard any more. He's In the navy now. He's out where the fist of Uncle Sam is mixing hi the world war. Used to play guard on the crack basketball team of Hyde Park high school a lithe, strong-necked, clear headed American hoy graduated this February and now, in the great est game ever played on top the earth. r Good-bye, boy our hearts and prayers are with you." o o ' one reason insane asylums Have a. Waiting list Washington, April 21. Spending the money at the rate of $1 a min ute, it would take one person 13,318 years to spend Uncle Sam's $7,000, 000,000 war fund. Figuring on the basis of that much money ever being In one man's pos session, mathematical sharks figured today that if this seventh degree bil lionaire spent a dollar every minute he would go broke in the 15,235. , o o SATURDAY Dramatic entertainment, Stanford park, Union av. and 14th pL, 8 p.m. One play in English; one in Yiddish. Brit-Midway Athletic ass'n holds second reception and ball, Rosalie halL 57th and Haner av. -'