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Evening star., 1935-10-06
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

Once the largest school building In
the Nations Capital. and admittedly
the best designed school house in
America at the time, the Franklin
School no longer echoes to the tread
of childish feet. Erstwhile class
rooms where the city's ablest teachers
once presided over children from the
homes Of Washington's most distin-
guished parents have given away to
administrative Offices.
Located at Thirteenth and K
streets, the Franklin School is today
the hub of the great public school
system of the District. From its
official policies and directions reach
out to every school building and every
pupil, teacher and parent connected
with the administration Of the free
school education of the children Of
Washington.
Named in honor of Benjamin
Franklin, it was the second and the
largest Of the school buildings to be
erected under "the new building
plan" Of the COS, made possible by
the direct assessment Of citizens for
school purposes.
Won Vienna Prize.
Designed by Adolph Cluss, its ar
chitectural plan won first prize as q
model school building at the Vienna
Exposition.
When the site was bought at auc-
ton for $20.407.01 it did not face,
as 1t does now, upon one Of the
busiest lanes of automobile trafiic in
the Nations Capital, but was "at the
intersection of two broad roads" The
horse was still the most readily ac-
cessible means of transportation, and
the steamboat and the train were
looked upon as marvels Of the age.
Even now from its location on the
sloping hillside" it looks upon a
charming breathing spot called
Franklin Park, In which are century,
old trees, among them a magnificent
magnolia which glorifies 1t in the
Spring and is lone of the loveliest in
America" according to Country Life
in America"
Construction was begun upon the
building in 1864. 1t cost sl87 ,229.77,
and 1t was dedicated Saturday. Oc-
tober 81. 1859, the same year the
Office Of superintendent Of schools was
created, with Zalmon p. Richards as
the first appointee in the new position
at salary Of s2,500.
So planned that 1t was essentially
two buildings in one-one for girls
and the other for boys-since CO.
education was not until many years
later an established educational prin-
ciple in our public school system,
it originally accommodated 900 pupils
from the elementary through the
secondary classes.
Housed Normal School.
The Normal School (since evolved
into Wilson Teachers College,. when
1t was organized for the training of
teachers in the principles and prac-
tices of teachings, was located on the
fourth floor Of the Franklin Building,
where 1t continued to have its head
quarters until 1918. It's pupils often
referred to their lofty school accomo-
dationS as 'our sky parlors Of learn
ing" From them went forth a group
Of trained teachers who were destined
to bring laurels to the city's school
system. Their memories are en-
shrined in the hearts Of many out
standing citizens in the community
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giene and preventive medicine, as CO.
ordinating officer and the following as
PROFESSIONAL lecturers: DR.. Warren F.
Draper. DR.. Walter L. Treadway. DR..
Royd r. Sayers. DR.. William Charles
White, DR.. Louis L. Williams. DR.. r.
A. Vondelehr, DR.. Estella F. Warner.
Leslie c. Frank. Ralph E. Tarbett and
DR.. Selwin D. Collins.
The university's program Of in
service seminars, whereby a select
group of Washington teachers will be
given an opportunity TO study various
aspects of the character education ex-
pertinent which is being carried out in
the local schools, will open Friday in
Corcoran hall at pm. DR.. Cloyd
H. Marvin, president; DR.. Frank W.
Ballou, superintendent of schools, and
Miss Bertie Backus, assistant super
intendent in charge of character edu-
cation, will speak.
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perienced during his Washington
stay" As result, the high commits
sioner spent q morning visiting the
schools in the Franklin Building,
hearing the children sing the lowell
est songs in their school repertoire,
Director Of Music Joseph Humphrey
Daniel, their teacher, becoming about
the proudest and happiest man in
Washington that day.
Like q Big Family.
When both the city and the school
system were smaller, the ONCE of the
director CT every project entered upon
by the public schools was usually for
a time located in the Franklin Build
ing. The result was that very cordial
big family relationships were possible.
Superintendents, to the delight and
pleasure OF students and teachers,
were often able to vary the tedium Of
administrative duties by strolling into
the class rooms to see for themselves
how educational theories were working
out in practice. The writer as q Nor
NAL School pupil teaching in . first
grade practice school" on what was
then the first floor remembers we'll
the spontaniety Of little Italian who,
as Superintendent Of Schools Alexan-
der T. Stuart left the class room, In
terrupted the continuity of the lesson
by exclaiming, Say, teacher, there
amt no flies on that boss. can les
tell you" She also recollects her Won
derment as to whether she should first
correct the grammar or the interrupt
ton and Of her wise decision to smil-
ingly acquiesce in the enthusiasm and
continue with the nature study lesson
on live rabbit.
Pupils no longer attend the Frank
lin School and the widening of Thir-
teenth street took away its terrace Of
green lawn with banked shrubbery
and ascending steps to its entrance,
SO that now you enter the building
directly from the street.
Here are now housed the headquar-
ters Of the Board Of Education and the
ofdces of DR.. Frank w. Ballou and
his administrative assistants for both
white and colored schools.
Our public school system with every
other in the United States has en-
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Franklin, Model School Long
Ago, Is Administrative Center
Walls of Building Which Echoed Reel.
tations of Presidents Children No,v
Hear Educational Policies SHAPED.

whose lives they had an important in
fluence In shaping.
Many Of the most important men
In America have resided In the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the Franklin
School. With its opening the perni-
cious idea Of charity schools for poor
children which had been inseparably
connected with the early years of our
free public school system forever dis
appeared. Applicants from the
wealthiest and most aristocratic
classes, distance Of residence being
considered no barrier" came In such
numbers that the capacity Of the
building was inadequate to care for
their needs.
Children Of Presidents.
Among the children of Presidents
OF the United States who attended
there were the johnson children and
President Arthur's daughter Nellie.
At 1908 K street Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow visited Commodore s.
Wadsworth. President Garfield resided
at the northwest corner of K and
Thirteenth from the time he entered
Congress until he was elected Presi-
dent. John Sherman, brother of Will
liam Tecumseh Sherman, occupied
1921 K street while he was Senator
from Ohio and later when he was
Secretary Of the Treasury. 1928 X
street was the home Of Edwin M.
Stanton. Secretary Of War under
Presidents Lincoln and johnson. Pres
ident Lincoln often halted at the
house while he was driving with Mrs.
Lincoln to leave q message for his
Cabinet member or stopped in from
solitary walks about the city to hold q
conference.
Sir Stafford Northcote. the British
commissioner delegated to the United
States on the American and British
Joint Commission TO arbitrate the
Alabama Issue and Claims, lived in the
vicinity Of the Franklin School dur
ing the Winter of 1871. When he
was about to leave the city the next
June, he wrote note to Superintend-
ent OF Schools Wilson saying that ''the
singing Of the children in the Frank
lin School had so delighted him as
he had gone on back and forth on
his daily walks past the building that
he would like to visit the school be-
fore his departure. hear the children
sing and personally thank them for
the greatest pleasure that he had ex-
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were admitted to practice" before the
bar Of the club. They were formally
admitted under the same procedure
followed by the District of Columbia
courts.
The new members are Steve A.
Sacca, r. S. Calkin, John L. Smith,
Dan J. Harrison, David Schindell, Jo-
seph c. Papa, Louie Cokin. James E.
Merely, Alexandra Romance, Fran
els p. Garvan, Ignatius Keane, Ed
ward L. Koepenick, James c. Para
kilas, Gregario Quijano, John F. Nc
Cabe, Robert P. Walsh, Peter Chum-
bris. Ralph Needle, Daniel j. Murray,
B. Z. Crawford, J. E. Cochrane, Carl
E. Whitney, Dom E. Garvey, Frank
M. Schap, Louis j. Sirkin, John
O'Connell, John Front, Frank Del
Vecchio, Frank Barton. Julius Sigal
and Edward Delaney.
The r. o. T. c. at the college has
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tic year. Mrs.
Mata p. Hilgeson
of the senior class
has been selected
as editor in chief.
Mrs. Hilgeson Is
an honor student,
having won a
prize for the
highest averages
in the work Of
both the first and
second years. As
SiStant editors are
Herold J. Weller
and I've Witt L.
Harry.
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INDUSTRIALIST DIES
G. w. Mayer, Standard Oil Di.
rector. Started With Cattle.

OAKVILLE, Ontario, October S LAp).
George w. Mayer, 81, for many years
prominent in Canadian business and
later a director in Standard Oil Of
New Jersey, died here yesterday.
Born in Iowa, Mr.. Mayer first en-
tered the cattle business, driving large
herds from Texas into the Dakotas and
Montana in the Sos.
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DR.. TAYLOR APPOINTED
Heads Division Of Farm Popu.
lation and Rural Life.

Appointment Of DR.. Carl c. Taylor
as head Of the Division Of Farm
Population and Rura' Life in the Bu-
reau Of Agricultural Economics was
announced yesterday by Secretary
Wallace.
A native Of lows. Or. Taylor has
lived in North Carolina the last IS
years.
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ceived all her
training in law
ut that institu-
tion. In Friday
nights reception
she was the CEN
ter Of a group of
her former teach
ers, which in
rluded Associate
Justice Jennings
Bailey Of the
District of Co.
lumbia Supreme
Court, Associate
Justice Peyton
Gordon of the
hicfrinf Of Co
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Friday night at the Mayflower Hotel.
where the Women's Bar Association
gave a reception to Judge Ellen K.
Raedy, recently appointed to the Dis
trict Municipal Court bench.
Judge Raedy. graduate OF the
National University Law School, re-
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japanese at Georgetown.

town a " ar d a
scholarship for
one of its stu
dents. While at
Georgetown Ka-
rita will major in
English literature
and political sci
ence in the grad
uate department.
Chi e I Justice
William. j. Schall
OF the Pierce But
Ter Law Club pre-
sided over a spe-
cial session last
week when 81
new me hers
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Schools and Colleges
George Washington Law Review Editorial Staff to
Entertain Members of Legal
Profession.
Profession.

enrolled 217 in the Infantry unit this
year, making the largest enrolment
since 1880.
REv. DIR. ROBERT J. WHITE Of
~ the faculty of the School of Law
of Catholic University was honored
by the Republic of France for his work
in the interests of international peace
when he was made a Chevalier of the
Legion of Honor Of France.
William j. Kenny of Mahoney City,
Pa, newly elected president of the
GIee Club, assumed his office at the
first meeting Of the season during the
past week.
The Tower, undergraduate newspa-
per, will begin its fourteenth year with
the issue appearing Thursday. David
F. James Of 27s Fifteenth street south
east is the editor in chief.
Registration Ends Tomorrow.
r EGISTRATIONS for either the
undergraduate or graduate course
in Strayer College Of Accountancy will
not be accepted after tomorrow eve
ming, according to Elgie G. Purvis,
dean.
The usual registration period for
the undergraduate course, which was
scheduled to close on September 80,
was prolonged for an additional week
to permit students to enter two new
beginning sections in accountancy that
were started after the two original
sections of beginning students had
been filled to capacity. Registration
for the graduate course will not be
extended, however, since there will be
but one section and since the va
cancies remaining are few in number.
Burke Walsh has Joined the faculty
as an instructor in business law.
With the close Of the registration
period, the fraternities Of the college
will begin their rushing program.
Paper Reorganized.
THE organization Of the staff Of
the College Grit. monthly paper
published by the undergraduate stu
dents of washington College of Law,
complete for the present scholas-
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Study Public Health.

TEORGE WASHINGTON UN1VER-
SITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE has
inaugurated four-year integrated
curriculum in public health teaching,
which has been made q part of the
regular course and which also is open
to special and graduate students in
the public health field.
Courses in community health, sani-
tation, hygiene. preventive medicine
and the public health aspects of medi-
cine and surgery are included.
Experts from the staff of the United
States Public Health Service and the
National tuberculosis Association COM
pose the faculty, with DR.. Roscoe Roy
Spencer, associate professor of hy-
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ton has been appointed advertising
manager. while the class reporters
are as follows: Alice Gordon HirSch,
'36; William j. Armstrong. '36: Flor
ence NJ. Brill, SO: Carl G. Bauersfeld,
'37; Gareth M. Neville, 81; Henry s.
Coe. 81; Hazel Jane Harry. '38, and
William M. Camp, '3S. Representa-
tives of the sororities and fraternities
are Kathryn Lawlor, Phi Delta Delta:
Mabel B. Kellogg, Kappa Beta Pi:
Richard w. Harr, Sigma Nu Phi, and
Ronald A. Macmillan, Sigma Delta
Kappa.
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Faculty Enlarged.
FORMATION of additional classes to

accommodate the greatly increased
registrations for the combined &C.
counting and law course at Benjamin
Franklin University has necessitated
the appointment of two new instruc-
tors. William D. Medley. member of
the bar of the District and Virginia
and Representative of Arlington
County in the Virginia House of Dele
gates, will lecture on elementary prin-
ciples of the law and the law OF
contracts.
Randolph c. Richardson. member
Of the District of Columbia bar, will
lecture on the law Of descendants
estates and law of bailments.
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. Q

SHORT STORY WRITING
Complete Ericsson evening course ineIud.
ing actual writing of two stories. Work
criticized and revised. Registration Tues
day, Oct. 8. 8 pm. at Lee House, 18th &
l SITS. All invited without Obligation.
Call Adams $3.50 for information. 70
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lumbia Supreme Court, DR.. Hayden
johnson, chancellor of National Uni
versity and dean of its Law School;
H. Winship Wheatley, president Of the
District Bar Association; Judge Ma
than Cayton of the Municipal Court,
and Dr. Charles Pergler. director of
graduate studies at Nationals Law
School and dean of the university's
School OF Economics and Govern
tnent.
The reception in honor Of Judge
Raedy, which was given by the Wo-
mems Bar Association under its presi-
dent, Miss Beatrice Clephane. was
regarded as further evidence of the
increasing prominence of woman STU
dents at National. Originally a law
school for men only, National, through
its 81 years of operation, is enrolling
an increasing number of girls each
year. Each examination for admiS-
sion to the bar witnesses a mounting
number Of women who are graduates
of National and each year is recorded
a rising number of National trained
women receiving recognition by ap-
pointment to or attainment of high
positions in the legal profession.
Judge Raedy's appointment is the
most recent Of these.
Appoint Activities Head.
WALTER H. YOUNG. athletic
wv coach and director of athletics at
American University, has been ap-
pointed by Chancellor Joseph M. M.
Gray to the new position of director
of student activities.
The District Chapter of the Alumni
Association at meeting last week at
Hurst Hall laid plans for home
coming celebration November 9. B.
Brook Bright was elected chairman
of the Committee on Arrangements.
with these subchairmen: Kenneth
Hoover, luncheon: Richard Jarvis,
publicity; Edward Hopper, dance:
Lew Frank, foot ball game arrange
ments. and Yule Fisher, president, in
charge of the club supper.
Plans include an alumni luncheon.
attendance in a body at the foot ball
game, dance in the gymnasium and
club supper off the campus after the
dance. Reports already indicate a
party Of Is from the New York chap
ter and large delegation from
Altoona, Pa. The District of Colum-
bia chapter is planning a benefit card
party on the campus November /.
Scholarships Offered.
TRYOUTS for scholarships at the
Studio of Theater Arts will be
held October IL and 13. according to
an announcement by Constance Con-
nor Brown, director Two scholar
ships will be awarded this year.
The tryouts will take place at the
headquarters Of the school, in the
rear of 1871 K street. They will be
open to any person who has not
previously been enrolled at the school.
japanese at Georgetown.
THE latest student to join the for
eign colony" at Georgetown Uni
versity is young japanese. M. Ka-
rita, who has entered the School of
Foreign Service under a scholarship.
He is the first Japanese student grant,
ed a scholarship from Japan.
Karita comes from Jochi Daigaku,
the Catholic university in Toxic, which
has been in charge of the Jesuits since
Its inception.
When DR.. Coleman Nevils, S. j.,
former president Of Georgetown, vis-
tied the school on his recent trip to
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'ATTONAL UNIVERSITY women
united with eminent jurists
who are members Of that in
stit1ltion's Law School faculty
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Paper Reorganized.

THE organization Of the staff Of
the College Grit. monthly paper
published by the undergraduate stu
dents of washington College of Law,
complete for the present scholas-
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enrolled pit in the Infantry unit this
year, making the largest enrolment
since 1880.
The Washington times., 1935-09-27
Freeze to Death

Two of the prisoners froze to
death and were brought in on
a sled. The guard who brought
them reported that they had tried
to avoid work and had hidden
themselves. A search was made
for them and finally they were
found asleep. They were half
dead when they were picked up
and placed in the sled. In it.,
without any covering, they were
then transported for eight kill
meters through open try,
with strong wind blowing.
"Of course they could not
stand it, so they just folded
up," he calmly reported.
How simple it was. To "fold up"
or to die did not seem to be very
complicated in this camp. / was
st uck by the expression itself, to
fold up!"
The two frozen men were
brought into camp at the time
when was in the doctors recep-
tion room. I was allowed to leave
the bathhouse, thanks to the doc
tors permit, and now he was
checking up on my temperature.
The Washington times., 1935-09-27
Making Room

"Lower tier of the shelves to
the right, get out and double
up on the left side. Give room
to the newcomers. Understand?
Hurry up" Not seeing sufficient
haste in executing his order, he
shouted again: "Quick, like a
flash, am telling you! In 10
minutes every place must be
cleared"
In another moment everything
was on the move. AS fast as the
places were cleared they were oc'
cupied by the new owners. Dur
ing the next fifteen minutes the
interior of the barracks looked like
an ant-hive. But two hundred
men with their baskets, boxes and
bundles to which tea-kettleS and
other junk were tied cannot easily
be placed in a space suitable for
one hundred. Suspicion of the
criminals caused most of the bun
dies to be piled up on the sleeping
the crowded condition re-
sulting reSembled that of the bath
house which we had just left.
Somebody tried to climb up into
the upper tier but was rudely
thrown down by the criminals.
During the day we found out
that the entire third squadron
The Washington times., 1935-09-27

'Uftug, the very place which the
doctor advised us to avoid.
Cutting of timber was consid'
cred more important than any
thing else and the greater proper
tion of the prisoners were con-
stantly flowing in steady stream
into the neighboring districts of
Archangel and Uftug. The Kotlas
camp was nothing more than a
transfer point for the asserting
and preliminary training of the
prisoners prior to their dispatch
to their permanent destination.
The transfer point was so
poorly managed and so crowded
that chaos reign led supreme.
Cruelty toward the prisoners had
become the rule. It had been in
troduced in the transfer station
by Monakhov and by other execu-
tives who had been sent to
Kotlas from the infamous Solo,
Vetsky camp.
The headquarters of our camp
was located at Ust-Sysolsk, the
capital of the Komi territory.
The position of chief was held
by Boksha, the Lett, but the
actual head was his secretary,
the drunkard Vaskov, who had
become notorious at Solovetsky.
During the time the commits
sion of one" was determining our
vocational qualifications, the Orel
criminal gang was cutting tim.
ber. The men were driven out
to work in spite of the bitter
cold and, as a result, a great
number of them came back with
froSt-bitten hands and feet, not
to mention the damage done to
their faces which we're almost
without exception frost-bitten.
The Washington times., 1935-09-27

would shortly be sent out to the
timber.works at Uftug. So much
the better. I welcomed any
change.
AS we we're not being ordered
out to work I made use of the
doctors written permit, left the
barracks and made the rounds of
the entire camp. First to the doc
tors, where I was told that my
temperature was almost normal.
Then to the store, but with no sue
cess. In the barracks of the Of
flee workers I was treated to a
glass of tea by my former friends
who had found soft" jobs there.
Leaving the office, came across
two former Lefortovsky inmates
who were standing in cringing at.
titudeS and explaining something
to Bukhaltzev. The latter was the
manager of the Kotlas town office
Of the penal camp.
This encounter had a decisive
influence on my further fate.
The Washington times., 1935-09-27
10 Transferred

The Orel criminals were trans
ferred to the tent. They came to
fetch their belongings and looked
wretched and frozen. Were the
majority of them, and perhaps OF
us as we'll, destined to end up as
did those other two?
Once more it was roomier in the
bathhouse. The night passed
quietly, without incident. We had
already become accustomed to the
cold and dampness and to the
dirty ground under our feet. It
seemed that the possibility of lying
down decently and sleeping like
a human being no longer occurred
to anybody. Lyskin, who had prom
ised us better quarters, never
showed up.
In the morning some 40 pris-
oners received their orders to pro
ceed to the place of railroad con-
struction. My friend the architect
was among them. Taking up their
belongings, they left for the rail-
way station. They had to march
there in military formation, es-
sorted by armed guards, over five
kilometers of a poor and little-used
road. The old priest was appointed
an orderly in the hospital. He was
overjoyed at the prospect of seeing
his poor sick Seryozha there and
was constantly praying and cross
ing himself.
Our corner had become quite
empty, but it was not as warm as
before. In the evening I felt
acutely hungry and went out to
get some dinner.
This time there was far more
room at the fires and I could get
near the barrels without much
difficulty. I glanced at the wash
basin. Uncleaned fish had been
boiled together with a small
quantity of barley. A sort of thin
cruel was the result. The spoon
would bring up fish-bones, scales
and entrails but none of the meat.
It had either all disappeared in
the process of boiling or it had
been previously consumed in the
kitchen. With a great effort I
swallowed several spoonfuls. The
concoction had a repulsive taste.