Evening star., 1938-04-04

"ouio NC HiolldIcn OF lar more than any
other departmental chief in the Re-
public's history every surveyed. The
domain of relief, education and COM
munal relations of almost every sort con-
ceivable, which it was planned to put
under "Welfare.' comprehends a field of
power, authority and Influence that al
most staggers the imagination. There
are plenty of WiSeacreS who, knowing the
unequaled intimacy of Mr. Hopkins re-
latlons with Mr.. Roosevelt, are convinced
he's the man whom the President would
like to anoint as his successor for the
Democratic presidential nomination two
years hence. If he makes the grade,
the 48-year-old Iowan will be the first
professional social worker to attain high
political honors.
Americas most distinguished citizen
of Bohemian extraction, DR.. Ales Hrd-
licka. curator Of anthropology at the
United States National Museum, will ad-
dress the country by radio over the Co.
lumbia network next Saturday evening.
His subject will be "Czechoslovakia," in
which he was born in 1862 while Bo-
hemia was q part of the old Austrian
Empire. The eminent scientist, an
American since 1882, is world famed for
his researches into the origin of man.
He has visited far and dangerous cor
ners of the globe, to see with his own
eyes and examine with his own hands
the evidence of buried peoples and ages.
One significant pilgrimage was voyage
around the world, during which he in
spected the sites of all the important dis
nnEariac nf r,rohict
Magnon. Neanderthal, Mauer, Piltdown,
Broken Hill. Trinil-winding up with a
sojourn in India and to the land of con
temporary ancestors" Australia. He also
has made several journeys to Alaska and
to the Bering Sea islands, to study the
traces left by man as he migrated from
Asia to America. In addition to his
many expeditions in search of data about
the evolution of primitive men as re-
vealed in skeleton remain, DR.. Hrdlicka
has found time to write voluminously.
Trained in medicine in New York and
Paris he early shifted his interest to
anthropology. First connected with the
American Museum CT Natural History in
New York as an anthropologist in the
Empire States service, he was called to
the National Museum in 1903 to organ
A-S o oAfAoAO1A VI pllyolCdl OpOlOSy,
and has been its curator since 1910 The
approximate pronunciation of his name
is Ah-lays Herdlitch-kah.
Herbert Morrison, British Labor party
leader, whom many of his compatriots
look upon as the next Labor prime min
lister, will visit Washington this month
He is former chairman of the party and
leader of the London County Council,
which Labor dominates and which is the
aldermanic body controlling the admin
istration of the great metropolis on the
Thames.
Amid the encircling gloom in which
the State Department now functions
turmoil in every quarter of the globe
one of it's principal worries IS of wholly
domestic nature. It has constantly to
watch and ward off attempts by various
cabinet colleagues of Secretary Hull to
barge into the field of foreign affairs.
Recently one of them. whose bailiwick is
a million miles removed from that sub
ject, saw fit to hold forth at length over
the radio on the reciprocal trade pro-
gram.
Former Secretary of State Henry L.
Stimson, now more or less frequently in
residence at his handsome Washington
estate, occasionally holds off-the-record
pow-wows with members of Congress
and others, notably Senators, who want
to consult him on the international sit
uation. They discover he is in broad
agreement on vital fundamentals with
President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull
and is periodically in conference at the
State Department.
(Copyright, 1889