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EXERGISES MAPPE FORMEMORIAL DAY Lone Survivor of “Last Man’s Club” to Attend Arlington Ceremonies. Capt. Charles M. Lockwood, lone survivor of “The Last Man's Club” of | Civil War fame, has accepted an invi- tation to attend the sixty-third annual Memorial day exercises at Arlington National Cemetery and will cccupy a; seat in the rostrum on that occasion. “Assembly” will be sounded by a bugler from the United States Marine Band at 12:45 o'clock, to be followed by an overture by the United States Marine Band. Dept. Comdr. Samuel G. Mawson of the Grand Army of the Republic will call the assemblage t> order and Introduce James G. ‘Yaden, past department commander of the United Spanish War Veterans and president of the Memorial Day Corpora- tion, who will preside over the exercises. Miss Jeannette E. McCaffrey will sing “The Star Spangled Banner,” fol- | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 16.—Widespread ichanges in the Amesican social struc- | ture were noted today in the review of President Hoover'’s Research Committee on social trends. | . Digging into every stratum of the| | soclal order, the committee fouhd these | jchanges in religion, investment, educa- tion, labor, health habits and home life. ¥ Dr. W. F. Ogburn of the University of Chicago, research director, said that after 17 months of scooping up facts, the committee was able to see bottom for the first time. Education Leads Change. Education, the committee found, above all else, had wrought the great- est change in the social structure. “Ed- ucation has caused changes all the while in our attitudes toward science. religion, authority, individualism end co-operation,” Ogburn said. “These in turn modify our basic social structure.” | Dr. Ogburn said the committee lowed by the presentation of the ‘coloTs | pecteq 1o present. its report to Pre by Percy Parker, Sons of Veterans, and salute t> the flag and pledge of al- legience. Rev. Howard E. Snyder, chaplain of the District of Columbia Department of the American Legion, will pronounce the invocation. Drain to Deliver Address. Lee T. Turner, department com- mander of the Disabled American Vet- erans, will read Gen. Logan's order establishing Memorial day, after which Mrs. Elsie Jorss Reilley, president of Federal Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign ‘Wars, will sing the official <ong of the V:terans ot Foreign Wars, “Sleep, Sol- dier Boy.” Past Dept. Comdr. Har- lan Wood of the American Legion will recite “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ad- dress.” Miss Ruby Smith Stahl will sing “The Recessional,” at the conclusion of which Gen. James A. Drain, na- tional commander of the Legion and past department commander of the District of Columbia, will deliver an address. Mrs. Gertrude Lyons will fol- Jow with a solo, “Soldier's Day Is at Its Close.” Representative Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota and chair- man of the World War Veterans' Legis- lation Committee of the Houee, will make an_address and Miss Dorothy Sherman Plerson will sing "'There 1s No Death.” After remarks by William L. Thomas, department commander of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, Rev. V. C. Anderson, department chaplain, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, will nounce the benediction and the audience will conclude the exercises by singing “America.” The United States Marine Ea2nd will play the accompaniments to the various singers on the program. Parade Starts at 10 O’Clock. ‘The annual parade will start from Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue at 10 o'clock, the route bemng along Pennsylvania avenue west to Fifteenth street, thence south cf the Treasury Building; north on the west side of the Treasury to Pennsylvania avenue; west on Pennsylvania avenue to Seven- teenth street and south on Seventeenth street, disbanding at Seventeenth and E streets. ‘The formation of line will be as fol- lcws: Mounted police escort; United'| States Marine Band; Grand Marshal McCaffrey; Grand Army of the Re. public; Dept. Comdr. Samuel G. Ma: son and staff, G. A. R.; post depart- ment ‘commanders, G. A. R.. Grand Army of the Republic posts; United Spanish War Veterans, department commander and staff; United Spanish War Veterans’ camps; Veterans of Forelgn Wars, department commander and stafl, led by the Veterans of For- eign Wars Overseas Band and Drum orps; Veterans of Foreign Wars posts; the American Legicn, department com- mander and staff; American Legion posts; Disabled American Veterans of the World War, department com- mander and staff; Disabled American Veterans of the World War chapters; National Indian War Veterans; the Indian War Veterans; the American Veterans of Hellenic Descent. The aides to Grand Marshal McCaf- frey will be Willlam H. McGrath, American Legion, and George W. Phil- lips, Disabled American Veterans. CURLEY CLUB BANQUET TO MARK ANNIVERSARY Archbishop to Be Principal Guest Tomorrow When Founding 9 Years Ago Is Observed. A banquet in celebration of the ninth anniversary of the organization of the Curley Club of Washington will be held tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the Wil- lard Hotel. Most Rev. Michael J. Cur- ley, archbishop of Baltimore, will be the principal guest. Among the speakers will be Arch- bishop Curley, John Donnelly, presi- dent; Miss Mary L. McGee, founder; Rev. Francis J. Hurney of the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Rev. Prancis X. Cavanagh, spiritual director of the organization. Miss Gretchen Baden, Miss Edna Moreland and Fred Nolan will sing, while recitations will be offered by Miss Grace Sprucebank and Miss Helen Her- beck. The Banquet Committee: Miss Margaret Freedman, chairman; Miss Monica Gordon, Miss Ethel Amrnon, Miss Catherine Freedman, Miss Cor- nelia Rottler, Roland Hyland, Willlam Boyd, Lewis Robinson, Luke O'Reilly, Francis McCann d_John Donne! 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Employer-employe lationships are changing and the tas tics and policies of organized wage earners are :roloundly modified. Wom- | en are found in increasing numbers in | more occupations.” | These “instigators of change,” the! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, SOCIAL STRUCTURE CHANGES , IN U. S., PROBERS DISCOVER Education Leads Causative Factors in Transition, Hoover Group for Research Finds. | committee found, were inventions and scientific discoveries; the utilization of lands, forests, waters and mineral re- sources, Religion Has Transition. Reaching further, the “forces of change have touched religion, bringing changes in belief, in organization and in activities of churches. “In the end,” Dr. Ogburn said, “are the changes in the ways in which we try to deal with problems caused by these changes.” Wesley C. Mitchel of Columbia Uni- | versity, ‘s chairman of the Research | Committee. | burn. Charles E. Merriam, University The members are: Dr. Og- of Chicago: Shelby M. Harrison of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Alice Hamilton of Harvard University and Howard W. Odum, director of social ;f*!;'n:es of the 1933 Chicago World's air. MAN IS JAILE[; William Ford Strikes Policeman, Given 50 Days. Charged with Roy V. Wolfe, fifth precinct, in the face with his fist, Willlam Ford, colored, was sentenced to jail for 50 days by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court yes- terday. Welfe said that when he attempted |to arrest Ford, among a number of men engaging in a disturbance at Four- teenth and C streets southeast, the man struck him on the jaw. The officer then used his blackjack and quickly subdued Ford Thousands striking Policeman OIL HEAT STUDENTS PRESENT | - ANNAL RECITAL ‘700 Third to Sixth Grade | Children Play Before a Large Audience. 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The orchestral phase of the program was under direction of Mrs. Laura Fair- child Ward, supervisor, and_the piano recital under direction of Mrs. Mary Garrett Lewis, supervisor. The varicus music teachers assisted in the program and were in charge of groups. One of the four nuns remaining in the Convent of St. Margaret Fonseca, near Naples, Italy, recently celebrated her 100th birthday and her eighty-third vear in the institution. CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN PROVIDES WORK FOR 310] | Sixty-Two of Positions Considered Permanent—Jobless Relief Will Be Continued. | | 'The 1931 clean-up campaign, which ends tomorrow, has given employment | to 310 persons, with 62 of the positions | considered permanent, the committee announced yesterday. | Of the 1,400 who enrolled in March for work during the campaign, 600, the | committee reported, found work through their own efforts before the beginning | of the clean-up drive April 20, The work of finding jobs for the un- cmployed after the campaign will be | carried on by the District of Columbia | Committee on Employment, which sponsored the clean-up work. Special | efforts to locate jobs for disabled war veterans will be made through the | tAmeru:ln Veterans' Progressive Assocla- ‘on. Folks:' Here's something to think and good news, about— “Straws —show which way the wind blows!" 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