The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
SERBIAN HEROISM.
SAVANT'S Theme
Prof. Michael |. Pupin to
Tell of the Country's
Hardships.
PROCEEDS FOR RELIEF ,
Lecture to Be Held February II at
Columbia Theater Well-known
Persons on List of Patrons.

When the history Of the worlds great
est war is written, when its bloody ana
calamitous ramifications shall have been
narrated and traced to each dramatic
height, the chrOniclers of the nations,
pausing before the most impressive facts,
must give something of due need to
courage most heroic, fortitude most
amazing and suffering most pathetic.
These supreme qualities none of theN
warning countries has proved more splen-
didly than the fighters for the inde-
pendence and the defenders of the liberty
of the little Balkan state Of Serbia.
Near exhaustion after two wars for in
dependence, she was assailed by a mighty
empire and her little state overrun, vet
she has maintained her ground and wor
a reputation that stamps her superbly
worthy OF freedom and national pros
perity. The worlds sympathy has rightly
and copiously poured out for Belgium
and her awfully stricken people. But
Belgium was immensely richer in every
way than Serbia. There has already
been talk of compensation for Belgium.
Serbia, one of the poorest of the bel
ligerent states, has suffered in degree
even more than Belgium; yet seems
somehow to have been overlooked.
Prof. PupIn to Speak.
In the name OF everything that inspires
human virtue rising to combat human
calamity the story of Serbia is worth the
telling and the hearing. II is thrilling
and wonderful. The world has not sur
passed it for heroisn and sacrifice for
patriotic principle. The story will be
told here in Washington, and il shouldN
be heard by those whose hearts beat for
the true and the brave and the afflicted.
1t Will be told by 4 distinguished
gentleman of Serbian blood, Prof
Michael IdovOrsBy Pupin, of Columbia
! University. a scholar, a scientist, an
inventor and graphically entertaining
speaker, who will deliver an address
on his native country at the Columbia
Theater on Wednesday, February II.
at 4:40 o'clock. The Serbian Struggle
for Freedom" is the subject of the
address.
Prof. Pupin, world-famed through
his invention of improved methods
for the transmission of electrical
waves. used in long-distance tele-
phony. has become almost equally
well known as an eloquent spokes-
man on behalf of the people of the
kingdom of Serbia and the Serbs of
kindred blood and. speech who occupy
adjacent parts of the Austro-Hun-
garian empire. He came to this coun-'
try in his boyhoodS from a Serbian
neighboThood under AUSTRIAN jurisdic-
ton.
The proceeds of the lecture will be
devoted to the relief Of the suffering
women and children of the little state
fighting for its life Just as our fore
fathers did in the Revolution.
The local patrons and patronesses
of the Serbian relief committee are:
Admiral George W. Baird, L. S. ";
DR.. l. H. Baekeland, Rev. Andrew r.
Bird, Barry Buckley, T. T. Gaff, Pres
ton Gibson, James Hay, jr., DR.. n.
Monroe Hopkins, Hennen Jennings,
Capt. A. F. Lucas, George y. McLana-
han, Prof. Charles E. Munroe, Col.
Henry May, Tucker K. Sands, Harry
wardman. John +. wilkins. and Mes
DANES Eliphalet Andrews, Orion Bar
Dor, John NJ. Biddle, Charles J. Bell,
+. Ward Denys, Miss Clare De Graf
fenreid, La V'tesse Henri De Sibour,
Mesdames L. O. Howard, n. Monroe
Hopkins, William Kent, \. F. Lucas,
Charles E. Munroe, John MCGOWAN,
Francis B. Moran, G. H. Myers.
The executive committee consists of
DR.. y. Monroe Hopkins, chairman;
Barry BulkIey, vice chairman; Frank
p Morgan, secretary; Capt A. F.
Lucas, treasurer; Admiral George W.
Baird, U. S. N, Gist Blair.