Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 11

AVARDS FORVALOR T0 BE BROADCAST WMAL and WISV to Carry Decoration Ceremonies for, Police and Firemen. ‘Hoping to encourage fire and police departments throughout the country to zeward their heroes, Fire Chief George 8. Watson yesterday arranged broad- casts of the Labor day ceremonies at which a dozen Washington firemen and will-be decorated for valor. ‘The exercise, to precede the annual firemen vs, policemen base ball game at Grifith Stadium, will be broadcast by Radio Stations WMAL and WJSV. Other stations later may be added to the hook-up. “I think it would be a fine thing" Watson declared, “for other fire and departments throughout the country to follow the example set in | n. We are convinced proper standing feats of bravery has an ex- cellent effect on the morale of the force and encourages gther men to emulate heroes.” Gen. John A. Johnston, former Dis- trict Commissioner, will present medals to the following policemen and fire- men under the ;uhnmmn“b of an ?clge :f : Capt. Jol . Groves of oy ey . now a battalion chief Fraser of the Police De- E. Davis of No. . | wrecking the building was started im- Engine Company, an of No. 10 Pvt. jward L. Shel- W. Bauer, both of ton " the second police precinct. CONFERENCE CALLED ON 1932 CELEBRATION Parley Will Seek to Fit Various Bicentennial Programs Into Harmonious Whole. Acting at the request of the Bicen- nial Commissions of Maryland, Bos- ton, Philadelphia and St. Louis, Arnold Kruckman, executive secretary of the District bicentennial body. is calling a conference at which 1 is intended that the various will be fitted. to- a onious whole. gether in Next Mg 4, when Philadelphia hplds] of the Nation, for éxam- , the celebration in Washington and jes will be muted to a lower day. Similarly, the other way to Washington . on of its program. Jand program is being ar- as not to c:hnglct with that com- ce -of the bicentennial includes the restoration to memory of many significant in the W story that took place on the historic soil of Mary- The programs of the District and Marylend commissions are being ar- ranged so it will be convenient for residents to exchange visits on historic mission Maryland Division and Multiplieation. ‘ The entire life of the ses is'bound | by its appetite into & vast net- | work of relationships. The vast hordes of the deep must be fed and there are | meadows of plant life which | supply a great deal of the food. The, ts of these drifting masses, dia. for the most part, are closely re: to the true e and they occur world over wherever fresh or salt to be found, but are most it in cold latitudes. ‘bul I are favorable.,” f conditions lletin, “hese tiny plants with a rapidity so extraordi- frequently to color the water around. Inasmuch as each | single-celled plants divides | w hours into two cells and| ‘turn_subdivide, forming four, | n, within a period of but two | weeks the numbers will have y. Indeed, it has been that normally will develop into within & month. Substitute for Meat. Cottage cheese §s worth considerably 2gpIan T i 1,000,000,000 tlbouv, $10,000,000, but actually the ex- | { & single indi- | - Martyring a Cathedral BEAUTIFUL MONUMENTS IS BEING ANOTHER OF RUSSIA'S The Church of the Redeemer—Moscow. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. work was really begun in earnest. It HE finest cathedral in Russia is|Was completed in 1883, and the being martyred. The magnifi- | cathedral was consecrated on May 30 cent Church of the Redeemer, |Of that year, three days after the one of the principal landmarks coronation of the Czar Alexander III. of ancient holy city of MoscoW, | Conspicu situated in a large is being destroyed. Final services were | square on the Jeft or north bank of the Moskva River, not & it distance from the Kremlin ‘walls, church was 50 placed that its white and gold mafjesty | | seemed en . A Greek cross in | cathedral park, and now no one may |shape, it rose to a height of 335 feet | observe at close hand the tragic busi- |and covered an area of 8020 square fess going on within. The destruction | yards. The outer walls wéte sheathed |of the church is being accomplished |in marble, and each of the five domes | with the minimum of publicity. But | was giided. The chief dome was 100 | since the five graceful domes of the (feet n diameter, and it i8 said that 70| edifice were visible from almost every | pounds of gold were used in its decora- | section of the city, familiar features tion—a tradition supported by the fact | | of the skyline, thefr disappearance’ can |that, the workmen now engaged in tak- hardly be unnoticed. - It would be nearly | ing it down were instructed to peel off |as diffcult secretly to remove 8t t the structure with Peter’s from Rome or St. Paul's from | London. In America little is known regarding the reasons for this drastic example of modern iconoclasm. The decision | of the Moscow government to clear the site appears to have been reached abruptly. Normal sources of Russian by news are as vet inadequately informed | Ramazanov and Baron Klodt. on the subject. Only unofficial ad- |figures in these decorations represented, Vices are available. It is said that on the west side, the Savior and Sts. | the 1and 1s required for the erection | Alexander Nevskl, Nicholas of Novgorod, held on August 1, and the work of | mediately. A board fence, 20 feet high, was quickly set up eround the entire ‘There were 12 fine bronze portals to the bullding, three in each facade, and these were reached by broad flights of granite steps. The roof was bordered with a handsome bronze-gilt balustrade. Around the temple there were 48 marble alto-reliefs executed Loganovski, | | of an suditorium to be known as the |Nicholas the Wonder-worker and Eliza- | | Palace of the Soviets, but this explana- | beth; on the south, facing the river, | | tion does not seem convincing in view |the saints of the days of the Russian of the fact that other, less valuable |batties of 1812, Barak, Deborah, Moses, Jocations were to be had for the taking. | Miriam, Abraham and Melchizedek; on | The death verdict passed upon the |the east, facing the Kremlin, the saints | cathedral is another of the apparently | regarded as e;llmp:’o:x and intercessors | i E , and on north, champions | inexplicable mysteries of Soviet policy. | of Russia, B | Built as a3 Memorial. saints on whose days the Russians were | | Naturally, the news that workmen | victorious in 1813-1814. At the corners | | were engaged in tearing to pleces the | Were representations of David giving | | great central dome of the church has | Solomon the plan of the Temple. the | |come as & shock to Americans who ! | Anotnting of w from experience the beauty of the | after conquest 3 ":r.nr?xcturae. Even those who usually are | Nativity and Resurrection of Christ, St. | | philosophically sympathetic 1o the Rus- | Sergius consecrating Demetrius of the | | stam ent have confessed their |Don for his struggle with the ‘Tartars, | | grief at the intelligence. Moscow 1is and St. Dionysius blessing Pozharski and | | Rotoriously crowded with interesting | Minin. =This entire frieze was so finely | buildings, but none of the others could | and richly carved that it served to pre- | boast the harmony, the grace, the al- (pare the visitors in & remsrkably way most musical charm of the cathedral |for the grandeur of the interior. Obvi now being annihilated. medm‘fl“fly & building so gloriously orna-| s0 Jovely that its effect has been | mented without must needs be ade- | to that of the Taj Mahzl at Agra in | quately magnificent within. | India—untorgetably poetical, delicate | wgogsive Plers Su | tectural | and noble, h.com-| The pilgrim, entering the temple, was monument {n Rupsis Lias any oo He found himself emory. The | Dot disappointed. :}::mm“:lz‘ ?lrl Z‘m""n be a (in a vast auditorium of proportions and | 1y | color so harmonious as to be comparabie | to justify this bitter phase of its cost. b Eaih Kede "Wood s | "Cathedra! of the Redeemer was | Iainboy ul e ‘Wood mfi!" m?ofimwl&e the deliverance of | 8id: “It would be diffieult to conceive | Russia from the French in 1812-1814., what exquisite effects had been It was a thank offering of the Russian | people for the victories of the War of obtained by contrasting white, red and iberation. ‘The vast expense of the | Pronze gray marbles with gold and gilded | br > The walls actually were of | edifics was borne by all classes of the ropulation. It was in no true sense | an enterprise of the Czars alone. The nation, not mer:ly the government, con-. structed it. The work is said to have required a total of 14,000,000 rubles or pelli pense was much greater, for many | wealthy persons made offerings of pricious stones, plate, vestments and religious pictures of immense value, of which no formal account was taken. | " The story of the origin of the plan | is a curious one. When the French , in which that on the spot on which the monastery stood there would erise one day the fairest church more than most meats for supplying | protein. As a protein food cotugei Cheese s worth pound for pound one- third more than average meat and costs ly one-half as much. To be sure, in some localities, meats may be quoted 8t low prices, but it is probable that cottage ‘cheese will also be cheaper in such markets. Cottage cheese at 18 cents is & cheaper source of energy than is meat, although pound for pound it furnishes only 61 per cent as much energy as is supplied by average meats. ‘The addition of a littie cream or but- 'Ar] to cottage cheese increases its fuel value, —_— A 6-year-old boy smashed open 2 @as mefer with a hatchet in a London suburb, stole 11 shillings and bought |80 tradition recites, this monk related | | his dream to the Metropolitan Plato, who was the more impressed by it since | he himself, as he explained, had had | precisely the same vision that very same night. The Czar Alxander I, coming to Moscow, was approaced on the sub- ject, and so much did the suggestion appeal to him that he ordered a sub- scription to be opened for the collec- tion of the necessary funds. The| monastery, an old, half-ruined buflding, | was removed with the consent of the monks, and in 1815 the Czar laid the first stone of the new church. A great ceremony took place, a multitude of people attending | beautiful mosaic pictures. The “interior was lit by 60 windows high days 3,700 the mb}ec"t.‘ln including = the ration,” the “Resurrection and the “Descent of SIS FELAE , o X the holy unv:'h' "Annunmw;: By Neft Evange! were portraye Held Beautiful Paintings. In the niche behind the high altar was the throne of the Metropolitan, and oY s of the u . by Vereshichagin. Nearby int of "J'e::smh;’eflelthse?- ane, ople,” the Bearing of the Cross,” the “Cruci- fixion» the “Desoent from the Cross” R ent,” all by Vere Other beautiful ‘works in the church Included representations of scenes from the early rel history of the Rus- an people—t| ‘Baptism of St. adi- mir at Korsun,” by Karneyev; the “Bap- tism of the Grand-Princess Olga,” by Syedov; the “Foundation of the Lavra in Kiev,” by Bodarevski; the “Baptism of the Inhabitants of Klev,” by Bo- darevski; the “Reception of the Vladi mir Virgin.” by Bashilov; the “Founda. tion of the Uspenski Cathedral” by Pryanishnikov; the “Virgin Appearing to St. Sergius” by Makovski. and the ‘Bullding of the Triotzkaya Lavra,” by Pryanishnikov. All these pictures were of prime ethnographical historical | tles of that fle and who felllnm ¥ pictu: torical events in the life of the Rt chur ‘To 'some visitors the general of the interior seemed less Russia; Italian. Others Still others compromised Lombardo-Byzantine. Really ca ; 3 EE iu it city whiel | which is geographical em. Auditorium Held 19,000. brated throughout Europe. The emi- nent traveler E. M. Newmsan, speaking of the oathedral, said: “I attended * * * one of the most impressive reli- glous services I ever witnessed. Now and then the holy doors of the | lant scene beyond we caught s glimpse of the presiding ecclesiastical dignitary, a golden crown upon his head, and sur- rounded by priests, who were chanting the prayers in deep bass voices, vibrant and characteristic of the Russian | choirs.” Another suthority, Nevia O. Winter, said: “I attended a service n this cathedral when it was so crowded that it was almost impossible to move about, Poorly dressed people stood side by side with others dressed in the { height of fashion, each intently listen- ng to the chanting of the -several | priests and the responses by the male | choir. The appeal of the ritual is wholly to the serises and the emotions. ‘The bishop stood before the altar clad in robes stMff with gold. From behind {the altar other long-haired priests brought books which were read. * * ¢ Clouds of incense filled the THE MARYLAND LAND TITLE COM PANY Announces It has succeeded to the Title Business of TITLE AND INVESTMENT * COMPANY OF MARYLAND - (Formerly 923 15th St. NW.) » And will continue the Maryland Title business in all its branches, and is prepared to issue Cer- + tificates of Title promptly and furnish judgments, taxes, etc., on Maryland property information relating at a reasonable chafge. Offices in'the building of : THE DISTRICT TITLE THE WASHINGTON TITL. THE LAWYERS TITLE . INSURANCE COMP!/ E INSURANCE COMP! INSURANCE COMPANY, 1413 Eye Street Northwest LLANSBURGH’S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 No Connection With Any Other Washington §¢or¢ The Famous MITZI Line! 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