Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

operates is the Advisory Commission for
Protection and Welfare of Children and
Young People. Attending its regular
meeting at Geneva this week is Miss
Katharine F. Lenroot. chief of the Chill
dren's Bureau of the Department of
Labor and American member of the
commission Miss Lenroot, an outstand-
ing figure in the field of social work. is
the eldest daughter of Judge land former
United States SENATOR Irvine L. Lenroot
of the United States Court of Customs
and Patent Appeals.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administra-
tor of veterans affairs. produces some
graphic statistics illustrating the i'm
menSity of the task now confronting his
organization in connection with pay
ment of the bonus to World War service
men. If the issuance of bonds had been
started at the time of the beginning of
the present calendar, and so bonds a
day had been issued continuously there
after, including holidays and Sundays,
there would still be about 100000 more
bonds to issue, Gen. Hines says. If laid
end to end in the usual manner, the
bonds would reach from Washington to
New York, thence to London and thence
almost to Moscow The amount of money
represented in the settlement of adjusted
compensation certificates would approx
mate the pay of 500 men receiving $40
a week continuously for the last 1885
years.
John R. Weyrich of the Internal
Revenue Bureau legal staff recently pre-
pared for the Church Tower, published
by the Covenant Presbyterian
Church in Washington, a treatise entitled
THE Religion of Our Presidents" OF the
81 men who have occupied the White
House, Mr.. Weyrich notes that nine
were Episcopalian; six, Presbyterian;
four, Unitarian; three Methodist; two,
Reformed Dutch; one Friends; one,
Baptist; one, Congregationalist; one,
Disciples of Christ; one. who regularly
attended the Methodist Church, but who
never joined it Hayes), and two who
claimed no membership in any denom-
ination-Thomas Jefferson and Abraham
Lincoln.
No convention primary anywhere
will be watched with livelier interest
than the Maryland Democratic vote in
May, which will witness the first trial
of strength between President Roosevelt
and the only candidate formally pitted
against him-the Jeffersonian Constitu-
tionalist, Col Henry Breckenridge of New
York. 1t is, of course, inconceivable that
F. D. r. can lose the duel, but the Breck-
inridge candidacy will supply a test OF
anti-Roosevelt sentiment in State in
which Democratic opposition to the New
Deal, once led by the late Albert G.
Richie, is still extant. The Nation IN
presidential years has had the habit OF
going as Maryland goes. If Col. Breckin-
ridge rolls up an impressive vote, poll
ticians IN both parties will be inclined
to interpret it as a pretty significant
straw showing how the New Deal oppost-
ton wind is blowing in the country as
a whole.
President RooSevelt's emphasis on
conservation, when laying the corner
stone of the new S12,O0O,0OO Interior
Department Building, suggests that
White House influence is back Of the
bill pending in Congress to rename Sec
rotary Ickes' bailiwick the Department
of Conservation. If the rechristening
takes place, it'll be the departments
second change of name since its founda-
ton in 184e, when it was set up as the
Home Department. Interior was re-
baptized with its present name following
the assignment to it of vast variety of
new duties and functions, which have
been expanded even more widely during
the New Deal.