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THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 195d Nino Today in SOCIETY Screen Size Determines Tele-Rank By FATJL F. KNEF.LAND Back in the early "20s, a girt considered herself lucky if she could land a man in the early 30's. In those clays thp average man came equipped with two-pants suit, a three-tube radio, and a four-cylinder car. The above-the-average man, naturally, had more suits, more radio tuben, and more cylinders.

Times have changed, though. Now you tire what you are in proportion to the size of your television screen. For example, a 10-inch screen puts you in a class (comparatively speaking) with a crystal-set fan. The 12 '2-inch size carries about as much prestige as you once did with a battery radio. How about a Ki-inch screen? That should make you feel as you did when you bought your first loud-speaker in 1923.

MRS. SIDNEY BEGGS and son, Sidney Jr. of Lincoln Mil on Gract Line's Santa Paula for Caribbean and South American crui to the Netherlands West Indiee, Venezuela and Colombia. fy tea Wi fekl- I wt I 'l-V. viiT- Television set owners shouldn be self-conscious about screen sizes; there aren't any small ones, really.

Not according to the ads; hadn't you noticed? A 10-inch screen always a "big 10-inch screen." The 12-inch screen falls into the "giant, 12V4-inch screen category. Fnder normal conditions, a 16- inch screen isn't just a 16-inch screen. It's a "monster 16-inch rAttraclive Program Prepared for Wives of Visiting Doctors By MARJOK1E Doctors and their wives are ar rivir.g from all over the country (Al Win-ntiotol LOOK OUT BELOW This house at Astoria, is sliding: downhill at the rate of 10 feet a day, along: with the whole hillside. House is now 200 feet from original location and has 150 feet to go to reach bottom. The slide started 2l2 months ago and has officials puzzled.

Three other homes have already been wrecked by great mass of moving earth. (Globe Staff Photo by John Sheanar. THE WINNER Betty Taylor, 21, Everett photographer's model, who wins title of "Miss Boston Jubilee." She'll tour the East and Canada bearing invitations for visitors to attend Boston's celebration this Summer. screen" and you must admit that the monsters seen thereon are the smallest monsters in the world. Another big difference in earphone days, living rooms were tomb-like.

Kenneth! Keep still! I've got Chances are you were lying in your teeth if they were your teeth. With television, quite the other way, some living rooms are so noisy and crowded with TV fans you'd think you were in a barroom. Incidentally, it's a wonder some manufacturer doesn't put out a set with a brass rail. And while the men are watching a good fight on Channel 4, probably their wives in the next room are putting on a good fight about Channel No. 5.

About commercials: with radio, you only listened to plugs about cigarettes, gum, and cereals. With TV, you not only hear about 'em, but you see 'em being smoked, chewed, and crunched. Just wait until one of those cigar-smoking announcers pops into your living room and starts dropping ashes from his hot stogie nil over the carpet! Then won't somebody wish you'd take your radio straight! YV. SHERMAN Wednesday the ladies are offered a 9:30 a. m.

trip to Lexington and Concord, a four o'clock tea at the Museum of Fine Arts and the president's reception and dance for conference members in the Statler ballroom at 8:30. On Thursday the visitors will tour Boston in the morning and the universities in the afternoon. All these carefully worked out plans have been made by the wives of Boston members of the College of Physicians including Mrs. Theodore L. Badger, who is chairman of the registration committee; Mrs.

Walter S. Burrage, who has arranged the fashion show; Mrs. C. Sidney Burwell, luncheon; Mrs. James M.

Faulkner, tours; Mrs. Albert A. Horner, transportation; Mrs. Chester S. Keefer, program book; Mrs.

George R. Minot, reception and tea; Mrs. Howard F. Root, financial details; Mrs. Howard li.

Sprague, flowers, and Mrs. Winthrop Wether-bee, information services. Mrs. this week-end for a four-day conference here of the American College of Physicians which opens on Monday. While the important medical sessions are going on at Hotel Statler, the wives are being offered an attractive program prepared by Mrs.

George W. Thorn and members cf the Women's Committee, of which Mrs. Reginald Fitz is honorary chairman. In prospect for the ladies are activities ranging from a cocktail party and reception followed by a special concert by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the opening day to the banquet of the College of Physicians on Thursday evening. Also arranged are trips to the Isabella Gardner Museum at Fenway Court at 11 on Tuesday morning and to the Old North Church at 8 p.

m. and a fashion luncheon by Bonwit Teller in the Louis XIV Room of the Somerset at 12:30 on the same day. On i MISS, 'I. AW SL a X. Roger I.

Lee is serving in an advis ory capacity. An Accident, Operation and Anniversary Bv ELEANOR ROOSEVELT NfEW YORK There was so much excitement in two days! When I left Lake Success Tuesday afternoon after a fairly use 30-Day Weather Prediction Below Normal Temperatures and Plenty of Precipitation "The 30-day weather outlook for the period from mid-April to mid-May indicates temperatures one to three degrees below normal over southern New England. Temperatures are expected to be milder than during the past 10 days. Near normal temperatures are expected in northern New England and precipitation is indicated as generally abundant throughout the New England region." That's the official word from the United States Weather Bureau in its latest 30-day forecast. Its last long range prediction startled everyone by hitting even New England's long-shot weather just about on the nose.

ful day in which we made some progress at the human rights commission meeting, we motored up the parkway to-ward Hyde jl" Park. We had l'L almost reached I bi I keepsie PREFERS CHESS TO DOLLS Mariane Allwright, 6i, youngest miss in British Girls' chess tournament, does a heap of thinking. Pictures were made at various stages of the game. Her brother taught her how to play. OLD COURT HOUSE I 7 I on our way 1 ImmJ nome when suddenly in front of us we saw the lights of a car coming toward us and swerve in our direction.

The car directly in front of us, going in our direction, tried to swing over but eould not get over far enough and the oncoming car hit the bark of it and proceeded to hit the left-hand side of our car in front. It all happened so quickly that I hardly realized what was going on until it was all over. Then there we were with our car un OLD FEDERAL TMEATRE Wkhfl i For the period from the middle of March to mid-April the long range forecast for New England was colder than normal with precipitation normal cr above normal. Until yesterday, Boston, as an individual city in the area, was r.ot quite living up to the prediction, but was close. Temperature hede, believe it or not, was .8 of a degree warmer than it should be.

The average normal daily temperature is 40.1. Here it was 40.9. But the forecast that precipitation would be below normal was borne out by a deficiency of between .63 and .75 inches in rain and 2.6 inches in snow. r-a "i mi iimhiii I 11 What People Think of Hoover Report and Reorganization of Government IX A Labor Leader's View (In July, 1947, Congress tossed partisan politics out of the window long enough to vote unanimously to create a Commission on Reorganization of the Executive branch of the Federal Government. Composed of six Democrats and six Republicans, this com- mission, with ex-President Herbert Hoover as chairman, probed i into every nook and cranny of our government for more than a i year end submitted a blueprint for better government at less cost.

This is the eighth of a series on what the public thinks of it.) By ARTHUR A. RILEY 4 'UUJS I i I is- I 1 ii 1 able to move under Its own power. Luckly, we were in front of a garage where we could leave the car and call a taxi. I gathered up my belongings and went on home, leaving my poor chauffeur to see the car towed in and answer all the young sheriff's questions. About an hour later, just as I finished supper and the telephone was beginning to ring with questions as to what had happened, Mr.

Linska, the sheriff and a reporter from the Poughkeepsie "New Yorker" appeared in my cottage. I answered their few questions and spent the rest of the evening assuring the surprised newspapers and friends that no one was hurt and that I felt absolutely well! On arriving in New York I found that much excitement had been going on there during the day! My secretary's niece, Eleanor Lund, who had come with her mother for a visit, had had an attack of appendicitis and had to be operated on. So quickly are things done in this day and age, they tell me she will be up and out by next Sunday. Now I am waiting for the third thing to happen as things generally go in threes When excitements start it seems we have to have three! (Copyright. 1SS0) The recommendations made in the Hoover report represents a proposal, long overd'if- cr stream ordinated under one head.

Labor was disappointed in the fact that President Truman's Reorganization Plan Fo. 1 which would have elevated the Federal and Security Ace cy to departmental rank and estF.DUsh it as the Department of Welfare which was recommended of govs' more lining the vario err.rr.er.tal cier.t and eco without impa.r functions," ex ar services or opinion ex-y by Kenneth J. by the Hoover Commission was de pressed yesteiu BOSTON MAINE COMMUTERS HAVE A CLOSE VIEW of construction of a new overpass over the north entrance of the railroad tunnel at Bridge Salem. When completed under the direction of the State Department of Public Works the overpass is expected to cost $2,500,000. A special drainage system is being installed because the tunnel floor is below sea level.

At left is view looking towards tunnel in direction of Boston. Right, general view looking toward Beverly where Danvers branch leaves main feated last year. The merits of this step are becoming more obvious every day. I sincerely hope that line. Roundhouse is in background.

eventually it will go through." "Tax burdens are becoming in creasingly ponderous and the Home Sweet "Zoo structure of government must be overhauled along the lines of the recommendations made in the By CLARE BARNES JR. noover commission report if we Keiley, secretary-treasurer and legislative agent for the Massachusetts Federation of Labor, affiliated with the A. F. of L. "While labor has been one of the most articulate of groups seeking increased governmental services, nevertheless, the average union member feels that these agencies can do just as good a job if the recommendations made in the Hoover report are adopted," Keiley said.

"We feel very strongly that some cf the government agencies dealing labor that now have independent status should be centralized in the Labor Department," he continued. "As a case in point there is the Federal Mediation and Conciliation nope to maintain a healthv na w- wilt tional economy," Keiley concluded. a summary of the Hoover Commission's report on the Labor Department states that "the Denart ment of Labor still has as many top officials as other government VETERANS' FORUM Retirement Pay When is the Army going to get around to paying us our retirement aepartments with a hundred times us expenaitures and number of employees. But in the oast 10 vears PL XH rl5 a aiszrustiui congress has steadily fcinppea away its powers and tunc tions. The United States Emolov Service dealing with labor, but which now operates as an independent agency." "The stripping of the Department of Labor of many of its previous functions," Keiley continued, "does net contribute to the improvement cf labor relations in this country.

All lafasr functions should be co- ment Service went to the Federal Security Agency in 1939, the Immigration and Naturalization Service to the Justic Department in 1940, the Children's Bureau (ex cept labor functions) to the Fpd eral Security Agency in 1946, and tne aepartment conciliation activ ities to an independent Federal and Mediation and Conciliation zMf 0, yi8. under the new pay schedule? Puzzled. Answer The adjustments have all been made for retired regular Army men. Those on disability retirement will require a reexamination, and those have not been undertaken yet. Can you give me any information on how I can join the Maritime Union? I have seaman's papers, but can't get into the union to get a ship.

A. G. B. Answer The problem: With a large percentage of United States goods being shipped in foreign bottoms, there is a dwindling number of jobs for United States seamen and more than enough men already in the union to fill them! PROGRESS ON THE SECOND ROUND Received my N. S.

L. I. dividend check today No. 592. Questions to this column should be addressed: Veterans Forum, Boston Globe, Boston 7, Mass.

'HOW DOES HE DO IT? Dunninger, master men-taliat, explains to Ted Ashby how he performs marvelous feats of legerdemain and some of the trials and tribulations of his craft. The baffled Ash-by, in his column, Sittin In, records it all in MONDAY'S GLOBE on the page opposite the editorials. service in 1947. "As a result," the commission observes with notable restraint, the department has lost much of its significance. The commission believes that governmental efficiency would be fostered if that significance were restored by transferring to the department a number of labor services now lodged elsewhere.

Kenneth J. Keiley, formerly of Braintr-ee, now makes his home at 95 Prescott Cambridge. He is married to the former Sue Sautter, formerly of New York City. A graduate of Boston College with the class of 1936, Keiley has been identified with labor activities since HWm'llliilil mi, (Copyright by Clare Barnes All Rights Reserved) (Globe Staff Photo by Charles McCormlcic) GOOD CATCH ON FIRST DAY of trout hshmg sea-son was made this morning by William Folsom of Quincy. He caught eight in Jamaica Pond and was one of the early birds at that spot.

Maybe You'd Better Phone the Plumber After All, Dear." 1936..