Show w IF IF F Katharine F. F Lenroot were set- set settling settling fling upon a prayer for children and who would be more likely to pray for them she might easily cull cuB from Statistics Are Her the athar athar- I Grenades in Battle va veda Welfare those loose loose- loosely For Child ly phrased hymns from Indias India's old old scrip- scrip scripture scripture ture ure Old Age This bis child shall grow to meet thee only None of the hundred other deaths shall harm him Children have been Miss Lenroot's concern for 30 years and on and though hough progress must seem slow she probably would agree that in her time ime some of those hundred other deaths have been scotched Just back from South America she notes that there also at least leasta a few have hare been under underprivileged children receive low- low priced even en free food medical care spreads It is 13 years since she was last in South America and she found a change so great I could hardly believe my my eyes Ever since she went into the chil- chil childrens children's childrens children's drens dren's bureau of the department of labor abor Miss Lenroot has had a strong Interest in South America She is well known there and speaks Span- Span SpanIsh Spanish Ish sh fluently enough to make an easy way from the plateau cities of Nev New Granada to lying low-lying and windy Punta Arenas though she might be bemore bemore bemore more comfortable if she stopped at Buenos Aires Children everywhere e have been Miss 1 Lenroot's strongest inter inter- interest interest interest est ever since she came out of the University of Wisconsin Even earlier she was badgering that states state's legislature In their behalf After graduation a novice lawyer she he hired out as a deputy industrial commissioner but after a couple of years ears found her life work with the federal bureau at Washington She has las been its chief for ten years and ands andIs andis Is s an authority on its multitude of problems She Is a systematic chief and calm but if the objective is big enough she can make a final drive I as headlong as this fellow Patton now all over en r She Sh Exposed the e Sicily Statis- Statis Expendability of tics once led Nations Nation's Mothers her to de de' declare deClare clare cia re in dis elis dis- dis tress that mothers were this coun coun- country's country's try's cheapest commodity so many I coun-I of them die In childbirth If she were saying that now she might put it ironically that they are as ex expendable expendable ex expendable I as T P-T boat crews at Cor- Cor regidor Her arsenal of facts and figures Is Inexhaustible It would wouW stretch from here to there and back again This Is not to say that she Is dull Her sense of humor is keen and md catholic and her public utterances can amuse as well as devastate and her voice can charm She comes from northern Wisconsin where those cold winds off bleak Lake Su Su- Superior Superior Su- Su Superior or something all too often put an edge on native voices but buthers buthers buthers hers is low and agreeable The figure that encloses the voice I Is on the stocky side topped by loosely dressed hair that used to be blonde about half way between a Harlow platinum and Bette Bettt Davis' Davis middling locks L v y |