Evening star., 1937-11-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Army eleven is a triple-threat back
named Woodrow Wilson He's the sec
ond namesake of the World War Presi-
cent to make the headlines this year.
The other Woodrow Wilson is a young
West Vlrginian who recently won the
Governors gold medal for the best
seVen-year record in the Panhandle
States All Camps. He halls from the
ParKersburg region in Writ County.
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Some notable names are attached to
the gorgeous blooms comprising the riot
OF color now sllimmering at the Depart
ment of Agriculture's annual chrysan-
themum show. Beautiful specimens are
named after former Secretaries of Agri-
culture Meredith, Hyde and Jardine;
Grace Coolidge, Beatrice Lille, Eva La
Gallienne, Edith Cavell, Peggy Ann
Hoover and DR.. Harvey Wiley. The
mum towering high above all the other
long -Stemmed cabbage-headed flowers is
appropriately christened Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Michigans most famous
and popular evening paper ought to file
a protest against the tag attached to a
flower OF exquisite golden hue. It's
called yellow Detroit News" A fiat
topped specimen of deep red bears the
name of Rex Tugwell
Robert E. Cottrell, executive secretary
of the Washington Board of Trade. who
has at length degenerated all the way
from a reporter into a Federal office
holder-baby member of the District of
Columbia Jury COMMISSIONS loaded
W1lpf, nj, fr;o
terested Tor disinteresteO in jury serv-
Ice: He goes around armed with type
written excerpt from the District law
code entitled Frauds" Section 213 sets
forth that If jury commissioner
hampers at their request in any way with
names of citizens drawn or to be drawn
for jury service, they or the commits
sioner are punishable by $500 fine and
years imprisonment. Bob finds that
flashing the citation on favor-seeking
acquaintances generally holds em for a
while.
When the Department of Agriculture
was created rs years ago. Congress
started it out with $60,0OO appropria-
tion and made distribution of the free
seeds to the folks back home it's most
important function. The Land Grant
Colleges are now celebrating the de-
partment's diamond jubilee. At its birth,
Secretary Wallaces bailiwick had % en-
ployes and was housed for years in
three-story brick building so by 100 feet.
Today 1t has more than $4,000 employees.
has an appropriation of nearly ST .OOO.-
100000 and occupies the biggest Govern
ment office building in the world. George
Benson, well-informed Washington cor
respondent of the Farm Journal, saws
the departments biggest problem now
adays is to discover how duties more
vast and complex than those of any
single other Federal agency can be eff
GENTLY conducted. Year by year the
department has outgrown its space and
appropriations, and now it has well nigh
outstripped the administrative ingenuity
of its officials.
Secretary Hull's specialist on Soviet
Russia comes honestly by his job. He's
33-year-old George F. Kennan, kinsman
of the celebrated American traveller,
author and lecturer Tho explored Siberia
during our Civil War and later won
fame with his two-volume work on the
Czarist exile system In Siberia. The
State Departments Kennan, native of
Milwaukee and Princeton '25, recently
completed IL years in the foreign service.
After duty in Geneva, Hamburg, Berlin,
Lithuania and Latvia, he accompanied
Ambassador Bullitt to Moscow In 1888