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Social Security Board Com
piling Records of 22,000,
OQC Wage Earners.
The largest tabulating job in all
history now is under way in Balti
more, where the Social Security Board
Is compiling the employment records
of more than 22,000.000 American
Wage earners, Harry R. Daniel said
yesterday afternoon in the weekly
Commerce Department radio talk over
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
The tabulated records of American
workers are pouring from electric
tabulating machines capable of han
dling 600,000 cards a day, he said.
These machines also are capable of
translating automatically back into
words holes punched in the record
cards, summarizing all the informa
tion contained in the millions of
cards.
Details Easily Accessible.
Speaking on the subject of office
appliances, Daniel said that due to
inventions of recent years, the man
agement of any large department
store at the close of a business day,
when thousands on thousands of dif
ferent items have been sold, is able
to tell any of the details concern
ing the sale of any ,tem. such as
price, style, make, color, etc.
Although office appliances are re
lieving men and women of much
drudgery, they have not reduced em
ployment, Daniel said. Today, he
pointed out, there are approximately
50,000 office workers out of every 1,
000.000 of population. In 1860, be
fore office appliances became com
mon. he said, there were only 4.000
office workers of every million in
habitants.
When the typewriter first came into
Use in 1873, Daniel said, there was
a strong prejudice against women tak
ing up commercial work. In 1881 the
Y. W. C. A. in New York offered the
first class of instruction for “female
typewriters.” There were eight girls
in the first class. The first class of
graduates found jobs and soon women
by thousands were pouring into busi
ness and industry.
"The American girl wrote her owm
declaration of independence on the
keys of a typewriter,” the speaker
(aid.
COLLEGE STUDENTS
TO SEE SHAWN DANCE
Group from the Washington Boys’
Club Also to Attend Recital
Tomorrow.
A group of 200 members of college
students’ organizations will be present
tomorrow night at Constitution Hall
at a recital by Ted Shawn and his com
pany of male dancers. In addition, a
like number from the Washington
Boys’ Club has been invited as guests
of the management.
Preceding the dance program, the
Boys’ Club Band will play in the street
in front of the hall.
Undergraduate committees active in
behalf of the concert include the full
roster of Phi Sigma Epsilon Frater
nity's chapter at George Washington
University, with John W. Cook in
charge. The fraternity, of which
Shawn is a member, has arranged a
program of entertainment for the
dancer during his stay here.
Austin Cunningham, president of the
G. W. Student Council, is operating,
together with Kitty M. A. Baart, presi
dent of the International Club, and
Ethel Nelson, editor of the Cherry
Tree, student yearbook.
The Shawn group at the University
of Maryland is composed of Ralph Wil
liams, social director: Tom Birming
ham, president of student government;
“Rip” Culp, president of the Kappa
Alpha Fraternity Chapter, and Earl
Humelsine, editor of the Diamond
Back, while American University's Phi
Bigma Kappa president, Robert McRae,
and Frank W. Miller, head of George
town University’s Mask and Bauble
Club, are among the other local
Workers.
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Chiang Ends Vacation.
KULING. Kiangsi, Province, China,
March 13 (/Pi.—Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek, head of the Nanking (cen
tral! Chinese government, and his
wife left tonight by airplane for
Nanking after a three-day vacation at
a mountain villa here.
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BT the Associated Press.
MOBILE, Ala., March 13.—
‘ Happy Jack” Eckert, 739-pound
circus trouper, billed in life as
the "world's fattest man,” will
rest in death in a specially built
casket six times normal size.
Funeral directors arranging
for his burial here Tuesday said
today it was one of the largest,
"if not the largest,” ever built.
Eckert, 63. died Thursday at
Flomation, Ala., of injuries in
flicted in an automobile accident
His body is to be brought here
Sunday.
His casket is to be 2 feet 8
inches wide, 6 feet 3 inches long
and 2 feet 9 inches deep. It will
have a double bolted bottom.
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Roosevelts to Be Far Apart
On 32d Wedding Anniversary
President Will Be in Warm Springs, Wife
in Oklahoma on Lecture Tour This
St. Patrick’s Day.
By the Associate'! Press.
The 22nd anniversary of a St.
Patrick’s day wedding, in which a
President gave his niece away to a
future President, will find the princi
pals nearly 1,000 miles apart.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was
the law student-bridegroom, will be
at Warm Springs, Ga.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who was the bride
escorted by her colorful Uncle Teddy,
will speak at Shawnee, Okla., on
a lecture tour.
The anniversary will be the first
on which they have been separated
since entering the White House Al
though they seldom make much fuss
over the event, the custom has been
to have a special family dinner. The
President's mother and occasionally a
member of the wedding party have
attended.
Wedding in 1905.
The Roosevelt’s wedding on March
17, 1905, was a gala occasion. All
New York had turned out to welcome
President Theodore Roosevelt that
morning. Politics and the music of
Irish bands were in the air.
A 3-mile parade of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians and the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick surged down Fifth
Avenue that afternoon.
But the President managed to get
j through the crowds to the twin homes
of Mrs. Henry Parish, jr., the bride’s
double cousin, and Mrs. Parish’s
mother. Mrs. E. Livingston Ludlow.
Their two second-floor living rooms—
lined wdth pale gold brocade—had
been thrown together for the cere
mony.
Newspaper accounts at the time said
little of Franklin D. Roosevelt except
that he was the bride's sixth cousin.
But there was a great deal about the
orphaned bride. She had been a
favorite guest at the White House.
Description of Gown.
“She wore a white satin princess
robe,’’ one account related, “flounced
and draped with old point lace and a
white satin court train. Her point
lace veil was caught with orange blos
soms and a diamond crescent. She
wore a pearl collar, the gift of the
bridegroom's mother, and a diamond
bow knot, the gift of Mrs. Warren
Delano, jr. She carried lilies of the
valley."
Many members of the wedding party
since have figured prominently in
national affairs.
Among the six bridesmaids were
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who writes
a syndicated column often critical of
the New- Deal; Isabella Selmes Green
way, who served in Congress from
I Arizona, and Corinne Douglas Robin
son Alsop of Avon, Conn., a former
State legislator.
Lathrop Brown Best Man.
The best man was Lathrop Brown,
and the ushers, who held white satin
ribbon forming an aisle, were Edmund
Rogers, Charles B. Bradley, Owen
Winston, Thomas B. Beal, Nicholas
Biddle, Lyman Delano and Warren
Delano Robbins, the late Minister to
Canada.
Rev. Endicott Peabody of Groton,
Mass., who performed the ceremony,
came here at the age of 75 and again
at 79 to say a prayer for the President
when he was inaugurated in 1933 and
again this year.
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ALABAMA BAR AGAINST
ROOSEVELT COURT PLAN
Resolution Passed After State Poll
Shows 846 for and
313 Opposed.
By the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 13.—
The Alabama Bar Association adopted
a resolution today declaring President
Ftoosevelt’s Federal court reorganiza
tion program "should not become
law.”
The resolution, approved without
a record vote, came several hours
after announcement, over protests, of
a State-wide poll of lawyers showing
846 opposed and 313 favored the
Roosevelt program.
The resolution, which brought sharp
debate, declared the President's plan
"constitutes an unwise and potential
ly dangerous departure from the
fundamental theory of our govern
mental scheme, tends toward a possi
ble subservient judiciary, and should
not become law.”
ST. PATRICK FEAST
Parties, Songs, Religious
Services and Wearing of
Green Scheduled,
With parties, songs, religious service
and the wearing of the green, the feast
of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland,
will be celebrated here Wednesday.
The observance will begin at 10 a m.
with a solemn high mass at the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception, Catho
lic University, with Rev. Timothy N.
MacCarthy, chaplain of the Jhon
Barry Division, Ancient Order of Hi
bernians, as celebrant.
Before the mass, the shrine organ
will peal out a half-hour program of
Irish music.
At the dinner Wednesday night at
the Mayflower Hotel, arranged by the
Ancient Order of Hiberniaas and the
Ladies’ Auxiliary, Senator Ashurst of
Arizona will be the chief speaker.
Dancing After Banquet.
The banquet begins at 7 p m., and
dancing will follow it from 10 p.m.
to 1 a m. Patrick H. O'Dea, 1621 New
ton street northeast, chairman of the
Arrangements Committee, is to be
toastmaster.
O'Dea, Father MacCarthy, James
Conlon, president of the John Barry
Division of the order, and Miss
Theresa Collins, presiding officer of
the District Board, Ladles’ Auxiliary
of the order, also will talk.
Sandwiched between the speeches
are scheduled songs and Instrumental
musical numbers, as well as community
singing. Henry Hogan and Frank Go
van will render a violin and accordion
duet. Eddie Moran, Miss Josephine
Sankop, Paul Flynn and Betty Gal
brarth will give vocal solos. Henry
Hogan will play a violin solo.
Three other St. Patrick’s day par
ties will be given the same evening.
United Irish Club Dance.
The United Irish Club will give a
dance at the Raleigh Hotel from 8
p.m. to 1 a.m., with ai. Irish band as
the chief attraction. McWilliams’ Or
chestra also will play music more
familiar to American dancers.
The committee of the United Irish
Club dance consists of Dennis O’Con
nell, chairman; James Madden, Pat
rick Long, Joseph Carney, Madge
Waish, Hannah McCarthy and Hannah
Sheahan.
The Newman Club of George Wash
ington University will hold its annual
St. Patrick’s dance, the shamrock
prom, at the National Women’s Coun
try Club from 10 pm. to 1 a.m.
Dorothy Mattingly is chairman of the
committee in charge.
A big show', with almost all Irish
talent, will be presented at Gonzaga
Hall, 39 I street, for the benefit of
the Gonzaga scholarship fund. This
"grand St. Patrick's night” includes a
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They play Is Bernard Duffey's “The
Coiner.”
HADASSAH TO BANOUET
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Annual Affair to Be Held March
23— Play to Be Presented.
The Washington Chapter of Ha
dassah has completed final arrange
ments for the annual donor banquet
to be held Tuesday, March 23, at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Mrs. David Kushner, well known in
Washington theatrical circles, will
take the lead in a play entitled "A
Night at the Habimah,” which is
written and directed by Mrs. Samuel
M. Dodek.
Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago
will be the guest speaker. Proceeds
from the banquet go to the organiza
tion’s welfare work in Palestine.
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