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• Knee-Hi Sings Song
Of Safety on Special
Radio Broadcast
Dr. Brunson and Staff
Continue Program in
Schools Tomorrow
4
Knee-Hi, The Star’s safety dog,
made her second radio appearance
in Washington yesterday when she
Bang briefly on a special broadcast
at Eleventh and G streets N.W. in
the interests of national accident
prevention week and the Red Cross.
The program was staged in the
' window of a drug store at the
corner with Announcers Gordon Hit
tenmark and Lee Everett working
•over Stations WRC and WMAL, re
spectively.
Sings Safety Song.
Knee-Hi sang her safety song.
Which is a cross between a fire siren
and the noon whistle. Her trainer,
Dr. George E. Brunson, spoke
briefly on safety,
“Have her bark,” said Mr. Hit
, tenmark, “I want to announce a
time check.”
Knee-Hi hit a high note.
“It is now 25 minutes to nine,”
•aid Mr. Hittenmark.
The little dog's only previous ap
pearance on the air was on the day
preceding her first demonstration of
safety before the school children
of the Thomson School.
Also appearing on the program
yesterday was Edgar Morris, chair
man of the Red Cross roll call. Mr.
Morris thanked the press and the,
radio for their co-operation in the
drive for memberships.
Resume Program in Schools
* Beginning tomorrow, Knee-Hi. Dr.
Brunson and Announcers Jack Dal
ton and Bill Tobin will resume the
safety programs in the schools with
a performance at the Phillips
Wormley School at Twenty-eighth
and M streets N.W.
Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. she goes
before the children of the J. R.
Keene School at Blair and Riggs
Roads N.E.‘Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.
she appears before the children of,
fthe J. F. Cook and Slater-Langston
schools.
The Takoma School at Piney
Branch Road and Cedar street's
N.W. will be the scene of Thursday's
program, an outside demonstration I
at 1:30 p.m. and an inside program
at 2:15 p.m.
Final appearance of the week will
be before the St. Peter’s, Brent and
pent schools at 9:30 a m. Friday at
Third and E streets S.E.
Knee-Hi is sponsored by The Star!
With the co-operation of the Board \
of Education, the Police Department
and the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic.
--
Census Workers Drawn
From Merit Rolls Asked
Use of civil service registers for
building up the field force for the
forthcoming census was urged on
President Roosevelt yesterday by ■
the National Civil Service Reform
Eeague.
More than 120,000 employes re
quired for this work are appointed
through members of Congress, al
though the headquarters staff here
Is under civil service.
“It would, of course, be most un
fortunate if the great work of tak
ing the 1940 census were to be
handicapped through the appoint
ment of any considerable number
of employes deficient either in men
tal equipment or personal reliabil
ity,” the league said. "Yet, such
has been the almost invariable re
sult of relying on political sources
Recommendation for appointment to
public work of the sort in ques
tion. Peculiarly has this been so
in the taking of some of the pre
ceding Federal and State censuses.”
The league pointed out that a
precedent for using civil service
employes in this work was estab
lished by President Theodore Roose
velt in 1910.
'Horseback Saber Bouts
To Be Held Tomorrow
Saber bouts on horseback will be
Staged tomorrow afternoon at the
Lord Fairfax Country Club, near
Alexandria, Va. Senora Dona
Blanca de Alfaro will present med
als on behalf of Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle.
Participants will include Col. Ed
win Emerson, Col. Guy Church and
Dr. J. A. Sims. Miss Eloise Hewitt
will present an exhibition of riding
, and tandem driving. Ambassador
Colon Eloy Alfaro, president of the
Washington Fencing Club, will um
pire the matches. Pictures of
sports events at Mount Eagle, the
club site, will be shown by Clair
W. Hudlow. A tea will be given
In the clubhouse.
KNEE-HI ON THE AIR—Knee Hi, the safety terrier, “sang” over the radio yesterday for a Red
Cross appeal program with, left to right, Announcer Gordon Hittenmark, Dr. George E. Brunson,
the dog’s trainer; Edgar Morris, chairman of the Red Cross Roll Call drive, and Announcer Lee
Everett. -^Star Staff Photo.
Typographical Union
To Plan Celebration
Of 125th Anniversary
Oldest Labor Group
In United States Had
30 Members at Start
Columbia Typographical Union
101. which began life as the Colum
bia Typographical Society nearly a
century and a quarter ago, xvill
inaugurate plans at today's meeting
for the 125th anniversary celebra
tion January 7 next.
The union, the oldest labor or
ganization in the country in con
tinuous existence, had 30 members
at the outset and they banded to
gether as a society to avoid prosecu
tion under the conspiracy laws.
Today there are 3.000 men and
women on the rolls.
All the men who set tvpr on the
local newspapers, the force at the
Government Printing Office, which
is the largest printing establishment
in the world, and some 600 or 700
employes of commercial shops are
members.
It became the Columbia Typo
graphical Union in 1867 and affili
ated with the National Typograph
ical Union, which later Decame the
International Typographical Union.
The cornerstone of the building
where the organization now meets
was laid in 1892, with President
Benjamin Harrison and a notable
company present.
Each 25 years of its existence has
been marked with a celebration.
Clarence J. Desper of the Times
----
Herald Is president of Columbia,
John R. Evans, Government Print
ing Office, vice president, and James
I. Crockett of The Star, secretary
treasurer.
First-Aid Classes Open
Standard first-aid classes being
conducted by the District of Colum
bia Chapter, American Red Cross,
still are open for enrollment, the
chapter has announced. The three
classes meet Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 9:30 a. m. and 1:30
and 7:30 p. m., lasting two hours
each.
Businessmen Gather
Here for Conference
More than 50 independent busi
ness and professional men will
gather here tomorrow for a two-day
series of conferences with Govern
ment officials and members of Con
gress, according to an announce
ment by Charles G. Daughters, di
rector of the program. Organization
of a national association qf inde
pendent business and professional
men is an object of the gathering.
Senators Capper of Kansas and
Mead of New York and Representa
tives Patrick of Alabama, Harring
ton of Iowa, and Byms of Tennessee
are slated to be among the guests
at' a dinner tomorrow night in the
Willard Hotel that is to follow a
succession of interviews on Capitol
Hill and at the Department of Jus
tice and Federal Trade Commission.
Further conferences will be held
Tuesday followed by another dinner
at which officers will be elected for
the new organization and a com
mittee appointed to formulate rec
ommendations for submission to
President Roosevelt.
Publication Describes
Tuberculosis Work
Work of the District of Columbia
Tuberculosis Association up to July
of this year is described in its annual
publication, “A Healthier Tomor
row," which yesterday was being
sent out to members of the associa
tion and its friends.
Dr. James G. Townsend, president
of the association, in a signed fore
word in the publication draws at
tention to the mass demonstration
of free X-ray examination and blood
tests made in a large central area
of the city known as "Census Tract
48” in co-operation with the Health
Department, the Social Hygiene So
ciety, the Health Security Adminis
tration and the Washington Housing
Association during part of the period
covered by the report.
The report told of 1,867 residents
of the tract having been X-rayed
and 1,400 having been given blood
tests. The report told also of 127
children infected with tuberculosis
having been cared for at the Chil
dren’s Health Camp at Bald Eagle
Hill during the last summer.
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