Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1921, Page 65

THE SUNDAY STAR ROTOGRAVURE SECTION-—MARCH 1921. A girl worker of the National Geographic Society operat- Worker at an especially designed sliding desk which may ing a machine which prints in raised type letters the names be moved to facilitate reference to cards, arranged alphabeti- and addresses of members on metal plates which are used in i cally, of all the members. There are more than 2,000,000 cards the addressing machine. in these files. A wrapper addressing machine which prints, at a rate of 12,000 per hour, the names and addresses of the National Geographic Society members upon wrappers for the society's magazine. # - - . - . - . Caataraviiivaa In this room are filed the metal plates containing the 700.000 members of the society The metal plates constitute the index file of members and are used for addressing wrappers of the National Geographic " Girls engaged in addressing letters, pamphlets and other mzterial, such as the geographi¢ news bulle- magazine, the society’s other printed matter and letters to members. They are arranged in thirty-nine tins sent to 550 daily newspapers. This is one of a number of educational services performed by the society geographical sections. for the diffusion of geographic knowledge. 3 o ol ER T T N .‘i, 4';;'. 4 [ Two exclusive views, one taken before 'and the other after the devastation by cyclone of great forest on Olympic Peninsula, state of Washington. The tornado blew down timber estimated at five to eight billion board feet 1n a strip seventy-five miles long and thirty miles wide—the greatest disaster ever recorded in the annals of forestry. The estimated value of the timber was $10,000,000. The former forest is now claimed to be the worst fire-trap of history. Photos by McKissick. Port Angeles, Waghington.