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medical inspector of the schools, and the latter for the District of 

 Columbia Health Department. Through the cooperation of the 

 Federal Board for Vocational Education one session of the National 

 Conference on Vocational Kehabilitation of Civilian Disabled, con- 

 vening in Washington from February 4 to 6, was held in the audi- 

 torium on the morning of February 6. 



The Department of Agriculture was responsible for the follow- 

 ing meetings : On November 10, 1923, a lecture on forestry by Her- 

 bert Wheeler of the Forest Service before a gathering of the em- 

 ployees of that bureau; December 14, a conference on. the conserva- 

 tion of the rapidly disappearing prong-horned antelope, arranged 

 by the Bureau of the Biological Survey ; January 4, 1924, an all-day 

 conference on the Japanese beetle and the Almeria grape, under the 

 auspices of the Federal Horticultural Board ; April 24, an illustrated 

 address on the preservation of wood, by Dr. C. P. Winslow, before 

 the employees of the Forest Service ; April 28 to 30, a plant quaran- 

 tine conference by State and Federal representatives, under the 

 auspices of the Federal Horticultural Board; and May 16, an ex- 

 hibition of a motion picture showing the various governmental de- 

 partments in Washington, D. C. 



The council room was used for an address by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, the Hon. Henry C. Wallace, before the American Com- 

 mittee on the International Institute of Agriculture on the morning 

 of March 31. 



Federal Post 824, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 

 composed largely of employees of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, held a memorial service in the auditorium on the 

 afternoon of May 29 for members of the Department of Agriculture 

 who gave their lives in the military and naval services during the 

 World War. The program included presentation of colors; salute 

 to the colors ; song, " America ; " invocation ; roll call of honored 

 dead; remarks by Hon. Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture; memorial address by Dr. John Wesley Hill, Chancellor of 

 Lincoln University; song, "Star-Spangled Banner." The music 

 was led by the Navy Band. 



The National Association of Postmasters, composed of the post- 

 masters of nearly all the larger cities and towns of the United 

 States, held its twenty-third annual convention in Washington, 

 occupying the auditorium for business meetings during October 10 

 to 12. The program of the first session included addresses of wel- 

 come by Hon. H. S. New, Postmaster General, and by Maj. James 

 Franklin Bell, United States Army, Commissioner of the District 

 of Columbia. At other sessions addresses were made by Hon. John 

 H. Bartlett, First Assistant Postmaster General; Hon. Paul Hen- 

 derson, Second Assistant Postmaster General; Hon. Warren Irving 



