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Evening star., 1941-11-09
Writer Has No Trouble
Visiting Moscow Church

I went to church when 1 was in
Moscow. I had no trouble. 1t was,
now I come to think of it, almost
the only institution I was to visit in
Russia without having to make
arrangements in advance. 1 simply
asked my interpreter-secretary for
the address Of the nearest church.
She gave it to me, and 1 got into my
car and drove around to it.
She did not know what denomina-
ton it was. 1t turned out to be
Catholic. The driver took me about
half mile from the hotel. We turned
on an avenue into a side street. l
saw half a dozen cars parked by
gateway leading into a courtyard.
There were 10 or IS more cars parked
IN the courtyard.
The church was ancient, built of
heavy masonary with a somewhat
classical facade. A few broad steps
led to open doors Inside, the dim
light was strained through colored
glass. 1 stood in the doorway until
my eyes got used to it. 1t was a
comfortable. roomy church. I would
say it looked lived in. I am not
Catholic, but I recognized the sta
tions of the cross around the wall
The altar was large and decorated
with freshly cut flowers. There was
stand of candles on one side, with
several of the candles lit. A woman
was kneeling before it.
Young Persons Present.
There was no service going on.
There were number Of people in
the church, however-20 or 30-and
while I stood there several more
came in. I was prepared to find
them of an older generation, and
I noted two or three devout old
women praying silently in pews near
me, but I was surprised to find a
number Of young men and women
there and several children.
When I came outside into the
sunshine saw that there were beg
gars on the steps. They were all
very old with black shawls on their
heads. and they held out their
hands.
The automobiles in the courtyard
suggested that the parishioners were
we'll of. But the people whom I saw
coming and going were undistin-
guishable from the people one saw
every day on the sidewalks Of
Moscow
No Religious Revival.
There were no signs that could
see of a revival of religious feeling
in Moscow. The church visited had
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Nine. MeIius Plans
Campaign for Opera
Company in Capital
Government Should
Provide Building,
Soprano Says

A national opera company should
be organized in Washington now,
and the Federal Government should
provide it an appropriate theater
building, Nine. Luella Melius, oper-
attic soprano, contended in an in
terview here.
Mime. Melius refused to accept the
view of many that such cultural
projects have little chance OF
achievement during the current
emergency. She argued that such
diversions as opera are important
to maintenance of healthy civilian
morale to a greater degree now than
at any other time.
"Streamlined" opera by American
artists is her plan. Thousands who
love the arias shy away from per-
formances because of their length
and long conversational passages,
she pointed out, but would enjoy
abridgements requiring not more
than two hours to present. She said
such programs could become self
supporting after early financing
by the Government.
Reaction Sought.
Nine. Melius indicated she had
been given encouragement for her
proposal, but explained she wanted
to get the reaction of as many IN
dividuals and groups as possible be-
fore beginning an intensive cam
naipn for support in Government
circles. :,
The people must back national
opera in the long rum" she said.
When a theater was built. man
agement of the national opera would
begin assembling a company OF
American artists.
Nine. Melius held that the first
obligation of those who support
music in this country is to encour-
age native talent-not merely to
offer compliments but to provide
time and place at which they can
sing, play or direct in public for
pay.
She follows this thought in book
ing attractions for the washington
Concert Association, she said.
Chance for Local Talent.
Local performers probably would
figure prominently in the operate
casts, because the Capital has a
host of young people possessing
trained voices who now are earning
their living in other fields, denied
opportunity to sing for an audience,
she declared.
The national theater could be used
for opera three nights week during
q season as long as that OF the Met
ropolitan Opera Co. in New York,
and could accommodate the finest
drama attractions two nights a
week, Nine. MeIus suggested. She
was firm in her belief it could sup
port itself under this system.
The building would "radiate
beauty to the entire Nation, she
said.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
War Victims in Moscow Hospital Cheerful
Despite Painful Wounds, H. S. Writer Finds

head. Most Of the boys who were
getting better, and some of those
who we're not, said they wanted to
get back to the front-thought 1t
would not be too long before they
could go.
The hospital seemed very well
equipped although there were no
screens on the windows and there
were many flies in the rooms. But
you could tell it was a fine hospital
from how carefully and cleanly the
wounds were dressed. from the pre-
else delicacy with which the nurses
handled the patients and from the
whole atmosphere which was COM
petent, reassuring and kindly.
I saw DR.. Graschenko only once
again, the day before left, when
met him at Voks and I asked him
how the boy who suffered so much
was-the one who was being given
the codeine electrically through the
skin. He said, Hes definitely bet
ter. The codeine takes effect in 30
minutes now. Sometimes we can
keep him asleep for several hours"
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Inspector Mansfield Busy
Answering His Fan Mail

Inspector Richard H. Mansfield,
chief of detectives of the Police De-
partment, will have his hands full
today.
Inspector Mansfield, who for some
years has made it a practice to give
safety chalk-talks for youngsters in
Washington schools, is busy answer
ing more than a hundred letters he
received last week from grateful pu-
pills at the Petworth Elementary
School.
The detective chief, whose car
toons appear in The Sunday Star
explained that the flood Of messages
had resulted from an illustrated
safety talk he gave last Monday be-
fore pupils at the Petworth School
Il wouldn't take $1,000 for these
letters" Inspector Mansfield de-
clared, land I'm going to answer
everyone Of them myself"
Evening star., 1941-11-09

community. The classes will be con-
Quoted by a leader from Red Cross
headquarters.
Truesdell.
The Executive Board will meet
Wednesday from to pm.
The annual membership drive Is
in progress, under the direction Of
Mrs. E. H. Goodwin, with grade
mothers as assistants.
Mrs. Sidney Ehrlick, student aid
chairman, announced bundle days
for student aid would be observed
from November 10 through the 18th.
Officers serving this year are: Mrs.
George Miller, president: Mrs. c. r.
Dennis. first vice president; Miss
Nell Hiscox, second vice president;
Mrs. George Vaughan, recording sec
retary; Mrs. Russell Miller, corre-
spending secretary: Mrs. Carney
Hoffmaster, treasurer.
Woodbridge.
The association will hold open
house Thursday at / pm. Mrs.
Henry Lipscomb will give talk on
membership. Health certificates
will be given the children who en-
tered school this year free of ply
sical defects.
Keene- Rudolph.
A benefit movie will be given by
the association Wednesday at the
Colony Theater.
Barnard.
Parents will participate In Ameri-
can education week activities. Open
house will be held tomorrow when
parents may visit classrooms and
see the children at work.
Parents may attend the Student
Council Assembly on Wednesday al
9:15 am. to see children learning
the ways of democratic living. A
patriotic sing will follow.
A cooperative activity will be held
Thursday when the school luncheon
will take place. The children will
have lunch in their rooms at moor
and the parents will be served in tht
auditorium at 1890. Mrs. Aubrey
Dooley is in charge.
On Friday, program devoted tt
the Building Of Physical Fitness,
will be presented including two as
semblies of games and stunts, fol-
lowed by a play, TOO Thin Johnny,
presented by Miss Cragg's thirt
grade. The upper-grade assembly
will be held at 9:l5 an; the 1owel
GRADES at 10 o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
(Tweltth OF a Series.)
By RALPH INGERSOLL.

War sometimes seems an imper-
sonal thing until you meet the
wounded. The first Russian wound
ed I saw were in a hospital on the
edge of Moscow 1t was a hospital
for head wounds. DR.. GraSchenko
who was in charge is scientist with
an international reputation. Be-
fore the war he used to come to
Baltimore to lecture on his specially.
experimental medicine.
There were as many doctors as
patients in this hospital because ii
used to be devoted to research. We
drove out there one morning, Jenny
Leshchinskaia, my interpreter, and
I, after some telephoning. The hos
pital was an unassuming building
and there was a long hat rack in
the hall for the doctors things. A
porter showed us into DR.. Graschen-
kos office. It's walls were hung with
autographed pictures of British and
American doctors with whom he
had worked.
He came bustling in few minutes
later, still in an operating gown. He
was a quiet, cheerful man with very
kindly eyes. We sat for while and
talked about his work, in English.
There were about 100 cases in his
hospital-he took only difficult cases
and discharged them to less spe-
cialized hospitals as rapidly as pos
sible. Most of his patients were flown
to him from the front. He said he
hadn't known much about wounds
before.
Fewer Bullet Victims.
He said he had read in the last
war so per cent of the casualties had
been bullet wounded, but that now
they were coming in 80 per cent
caused by high explosive and only 20
per cent by bullets.
I asked what kind of high ex-
plosive. He said all kinds but that
most were from high explosive
thrown by trench mortars-he
guessed that at least half the
wounds caused by high explosive
were casualties due to trench-mor-
tar action.
He said the men told him that
the Germans often massed these
light portable weapons-battered a
single strongpoint with score of
them for an hour or more and then
were gone by the time Russian re-
Inducements arrived
He was as matter -of-fact about
wounds as a good doctor should be
and kept interrupting himself TO ask
about friends in America. Presently
we left his Office and the porter al
the door brought white gowns for
Jenny and me and We walked UP
the stairs to make our rounds. The
wounded men were in small rooms
three of four to a room.
I have seen plenty of hospitals but
1t was a great shock to me TO walk
into this one for wounded men. In
an ordinary hospital the patients
are sick. They are more apt to be
old than young. They make you sad
but sick people and old people dc
not look out of place in hospital
beds
In a hospital for the wounded the
patients are not sick They are
simply damaged. They are not old
but young. Their bodies are not dis
eased but healthy -looking-lean and
brown and muscled. Before they
came into the hospital they had
been selected as perfect physical
specimens and now their bodies look
still perfect except for a place that's
been damaged. The damage that's
Evening star., 1941-11-09

been done to them stands out In
sharp relief.
Bandages Not Romantic.
It was a hot day and most OF DR..
Graschenko's patients were stripped
to the waist. The bandages on their
heads did not make them look
romantic. The bandages just looked
wholly inappropriate. I felt angry
standing looking at them. I thought,
people had no business cracking
young mems heads open. I thought
other trite things such as that one
minute each of these men had been
absolutely whole, full of his life and
plans for living.
A second later he had begun to
live his new life, of hopes that he
might partially regain his speech,
get back his eyesight, be able to
move his legs again.
For now I saw what DR.. Graschen-
ko had explained to me, that in
head wound the bandage is on the
head but the real damage may be
anywhere. The body that looked SO
whole had no feeling in one side, or
the eyes could not see or the tongue
make speech. To doctor it was
map of the brain with the communi-,
cation lines cut. These men on the
cots seemed the handiWork Of the
Anti-Christ.
DR.. Graschenko smiled at his pa
tients and we began to talk-with
the patients who could falkland
with the nurses, Jenny and the doc
tor interpreting. We went from room
to room The wounded men were un-
believably cheerful. You've heard
this again and again about wounded
men. It's quite true. They are cheer
full. It's important to them to be
cheerful and they make little jokes.
There was very fine morale in
DR.. Graschenko's h pital. The
nurses, the doctors and the patients
all seemed to like each other and to
get satisfaction out of being together.
1t was very fine.
There was one nurse who held
several degrees and had just invent
ed a device for applying codeine to
the skin in such a way that it
stopped the terrible pain that tor
tured some of the men in their nerve
centerS. 1t was an electrical device
and she was attaching it to the back
of a dark, handsome boy. Hes in
very great pain" she said, but in
an hour or two this will begin to
take effect. He should be able to
sleep for few minutes this after
noon"
She did not say "a few hours" she
said for few minutes" He made
no sound whatever but there were
tears running down his cheeks. He
neither smiled nor frowned-just
the tears running down his cheeks
and little twitching around his
mouth.
Victims Tell About Warfare.
There was another boy near him
who was almost well. We sat down
by his bed with our backs to the man
who was crying and the boy told US
how he had been wounded We asked
all the boys who could talk how
they had been wounded. The stories
were not very dramatic. They were
standing some place. or loading a
gun, or looking around for some
thing, and the next thing they re-
membered they were in a plane or
on a stretcher-always somewhere
else. They do not remember being
wounded.
President Roosevelt said of mech
anized warfare that if you waited
for it it was all over before you
knew what hit you. It's like that
with high-explosive wound IN the
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Gunston to Mark 50th Year

Plans for the celebration of the
50th anniversary of the founding OF
Gunston Hall School will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the alumnae
association at the school at $3.50 p m.
Wednesday. Mrs. John c. Donnally,
president of the association, will pre-
side. while Mrs. Benjamin H. Lingo
chairman of the Semicentennial
Committee, will present tentative
plans.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
MacFarland Junior High.


The association will meet tomor-
row at pm. with Mrs. P. c. Elicit,
president of the District Of Column
bia Congress of Parents and
Teachers, as honor guest. National
education week will be observed.
The school orchestra will furnish
special music and Mrs. Elsie Speer
will report on the membership
drive.
On November 18, members will
attend a cooking school at the
Tivoli Theater.
The Ways and Means Committee
Is planning a benefit movie at the
Colony Theater for November 10.
Chairmen appointed by the presl-
dent, Mrs. r. v. Strout, are as fol-
lows: Mrs. Elsie Speers, member
ship; Mrs. George Cook, ways and
means; Mrs. R. Sickle, program;
Mrs. H. Watson, hospitality; Mrs.
M. De Vault, publicity; Miss Rose
Lewis, Mrs. B. Backus, student AID;
Mrs. Ted Lewis, music.
Congress he1SntS.
The association will meet tomor-
row at 2::3O pm. A demonstration
of the health program to be followed
this year will be given, followed by a
short talk on nutrition. A speaker
from the Community Chest will take
part in the program.
A school luncheon will be held
November 18. Mrs. Effie Rickett,
ways and means chairman, will be in
charge.
The association is giving another
scholarship of a week at the Boy
Patrol camp to the outstanding boy
In the patrol this year.
Kingsman- Pierce.
An association will meet tomorrow
at pm. in the Kingsman School
Mrs. Florence Rogers, supervising
principal of the sixth division, will
be guest speaker.
Gage.
The association will meet tomor-
row at lis pm. A stocking shower
will be held for benefit of student
aid. Bundle week will be observed
from November II to 18, inclusive.
Emery-Eckington.
Open house will be held Thursday
lron 7::30 to 9 pm.
Brookland- -Noyes.
A meeting of the Executive Boare
Will be held tomorrow in the Noye'
School at lis pm.
Wheatley.
An executive meeting will be helt
Wednesday at lis pm.
Bowen-Greenleaf.
The association will meet tomor
now at 1:30 pm. at the Bower
School. with Mrs. M. O'Neill. pro
Rram chairman, in charge. The as
ISOLATION will sponsor a nutrition
class for mothers who wish to tax
the course.
Powell Junior High School.
The Powell Junior High Schoo
will present "18-Carat Boob" at
pm. Thursday and Friday. Patron
may park their cars on the schoo
grounds by showing their tickets a
the gate at Hyatt place NV.
Eliot Junior High.
Grade mothers will meet Wed
nesday, when the membership driv
viii be discussed.
EdmOnds- Maury.
The association will meet tOmor
row at pm. at Maury School 7
celebrate education week. Mrs. Z
Bowman, third grade teacher from
Evening star., 1941-11-09

japanese engineers claim they
have built 200 miles of new dikes
with Chinese labor to divert per-
manently the Yellow River into its
new course.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
District Schools Seen Sighted
In Local Defense E Expansion
Construction Need Disreeorded,
Asserts PIT. A. Congress Head
BY MRS. p. G. ELLETT
Pesident D. G. Congress of Parents and Teache


Reports public continue
Undoubtedly the swelling population OF the city is the
overcrowdn but the fact that sranng the
inhabitants really legit
mate fol- a
months that Washington would be
Evening star., 1941-11-09


OF Government workers. And it was
equally well known that many of
these workers would be heads OF
families, who would, of course, move
to Washington.
School Building Neglected.
The one important angle of this
program which seems to have been
most seriously neglected is that OF
providing adequate school buildings.
Huge low-cost housing developments
have been permitted in several sec
tions of the city but-strangely
enough-no public school buildings
have been built to accommodate the
children in those sections during the
school year. And, of course, with a
compulsory school attendance law,
this lack of foresight is especially
unfortunate.
The ideal class consists OF maxi
mum of no more than 80 children,
25 being a more workable number.
But I venture to state that there
are very few classes except, per-
haps, in the vocational schools,
where the number is below 80. In
fact. classes of IS and so are not
unusual.
AS parents and teachers. we are
interested in the best possible sys-
tenn of education for our children;
we know that these school years
are highly important; we cooperate
wherever possible with school au-
thorities, and we try in every way
to make these years from 6 to 18
profitable.
In spite of all we can do there
still are many things left I'M
done, and these school years cannot
be recaptured. Once past, like
every other period of time, they are
gone forever.
Sees Defense Program Hurt.
Looking at the situation in Wash
mgton effectively, it would seem
that the defense program is being
begged down in a most important
section when the educational faclll-
ties and opportunities are neglected.
Guns and ammunition are impOr-
tant to national defense, but so. also,
1t is the proper unbringing of the
youth of the land-the presentation
of every educational opportunity
that our Nation can provide.
Let us hope that Congress, in
whose hands lies the power to pro-
vide school buildings and school
equipment, will speedily remedy the
lack and that before another year
has gone by Washington will be
able to accommodate its great army
of children and young people in
public schools sufficiently we'll
equipped so that none need be
crowded beyond the stage OF COM
fort, both for pupil and for teacher.
The Board Of Managers OF the
District of Columbia Congress OF
Parents and Teachers will meet
Wednesday at 10 am. in the N. E. A.
Building.
Registrations are still being re-
eeived for the class in psychology for
parents held at the Kingsman
School each Monday at 1:3O pm.
The class is conducted by DR.. Jesse
= ~. ,Nr,
La gaceta., 1941-08-12
ia dana e~legantisima.


La marquesa, muy en- su pa
pei, no Sc levant6 del sill6n en-
que estaba sentada, limitandose
a hacer una leve inclination con
la cabeza.
. Ell artista, a fuer de hombre
de mundo, y como 81 quisiera
probar q eSta senora que 81 no
era un vulgar domador de leo
mes, sine tai vez un principe ru-
so de los que arruinara la revo-
luci6n, Sc Incline hasta ell suelo,
y murmur6 luego de mirar fu-
gazmente Ia tarjeta que lleva-
ba en- Ia mano:
II listed ser la marquesa de
Ramo Florido, senoga?
Il En- efectol-repuso Ague-
da, estremeciendose al OR aque-
LA voz que la dominaba.
-ioh, muy honjadol Yo ser
a sus 6rdenesl
Sc sent6 enfrente de In Cenei,
La gaceta., 1941-08-12

que lie miraba con sus oios dc
llama.
Soy una periodista-min-
ito la mujer de Pope con TODD 81
aplOmo, recobrado al fin tras
un instante de vacilaci6n-y
vengo a pedir a listed unas de-
claraciones...
FL russo miro con mas interes
a la dana.
Por sus ojos, de un negro de
azabache Y cue parecian despe-
dir una luz siniestra Y turbado-
ra, pas6 como un relampago de
duda.
Pareci6 considerar por unos
INSTANCES a la DANA que tenia
ante 81.
Use habria equivocado?...
ERA, realmente, una mujer
honrada @sta, y habia venido a.
qui, en- realidad, a cumplir un
de su profeSi6n?.
Sin embargo, sin embargo.
La gaceta., 1941-08-12

HOmbre de trastienda, ell ru-
So ~acoStumbrado a toda clase
ae aVenturas con las mujeres, Y
mario de saber, en- su calidad de
40" Juan consumado, que Ell
descoco y Ell cinismo de alVunas
de elias halla un aliciente y I'm
oe0o en- ell misteriO, Sc pusO en-
guardia
10 mejOr, era tantear Ell te-
rreno...
TODD este 10 habia pensadO
Dimitri en- un segundO.
Asi es que contest6, acentuan
DO todavia Su sonrisa, aunuue
dandole ahOra un matiz un tan
to picard y desvergonzado:
-iMuy honjado, sefioga. muy
honJado! JUnas dedaraciones
mias de mOig iPerfectamente,
perfectamente!. L..
-Unas declaraciOnes y un re
trato-e interrumpi6 Ia Ceuci
81 aUdacia q 10 man.
La gaceta., 1941-08-12

ditto.
i Perfectamente, perfecta-
mente!... Juno retrato!.. iMuy
'honJado, muy honjado. Pero en-
TODD case, listed tener que VOL
yer a VERNE,
Us Como?
81. 70 no tener aqui Ell re-
trato MIC a MOL nj no poder
hacer a listed las declaraciones
ahora.
-IPor que?
-Porque ser la bora del en-
sayo con los MICS leones v pan
teros. listed haberme visto ira
ba0ar, no es esta?
81, anoche. Es listed un ar
tista immense de gran talento.
un valor que subyuga...
.-ioh, muchas gracias, mu-
chas graeias, Mdddmel repuso.
.hora el russo, hacienda una nue.
Va inclination, y ratificando 81
primer penssHientO aoerca de
La gaceta., 1941-08-12
Ell CAMPEON
PELEARA CON Ell CAM
PEON JENKINS

New York, agosto 12.-Infor
mo aver a los periodistas ell EN-
presario Mike Jacobs que Sc
propone ofrecer una pelea en- la
Madison Square Garden, ell dia
8 de octubre, entire Red Coch-
rane, el irland4s campe6n del
peso weller, y Lew Jenkins, ell
campe6n de las 1876 libras.
Ninguno de ellos arriesgara
su corona.
La pelea Sc habfa anunciado
para ell IL de septiembre, pero
Cochrane Sc lastim6 una manO
en- ell combate con Fritzie Zivic,
cuando conquist6 ell titulo.
La gaceta., 1941-08-12
ORORTES
CON LOS GUANTES
LEGION Y YUCATAN = NO
VA ATACARA. - REAPARE
CERA HENRY ARMSTRONG

Practicaran hoy en- ell celebe-
rrimo gimnasio de la Gale Fran
kiln, los pdgiles Kid Yucatan y
Jose Legion.
Los directories de los dos en-
tonO "feroche" han prometido
que alguien quedara tendido so
bre la Iona.
Yucatan dice que no sera el
Logon asegura que sera ell otro.
Lo mejor es tomar las cosas
con santa calma Y ell viernes I've
remos 10 que ocurre."
AhOra Dien, la sangre no lie
CARA al rio.