Mme. Kalinin

Mme Ekaterina Kalinin, wife of Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin, peasant President of the Soviet Republic, is coming to the United States on a visit. It is understood that the United States Government has ac- corded her the necessary permission and has cabled the Consuls at Riga and Reval to vise her passports. Mme. Kalinin insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee of the Rus-sian Red Cross Society. Her purpose is to appeal for aid for the famine stricken orphans of Russia. "Firstly and chiefly," said she, "I want to thank the people of America. . . . We have millions of orphans who need clothes, medicines, education, books -- everything -- as well as foodstuffs, and Russia is so poor. Then I want to see your new- est schools and hospitals for children, and study, the best American systems." Mme. Kalinin is expected to sail shortly. She, like her husband, is a simple peasant. A woman of about 35 years of age, she is the mother of three children and the foster mother of two famine orphans.