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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. "MEW YORK. Vice-Adm. Fred- erick Joseph Home takes a good look ahead through his binoculars binocu-lars and reports that the end of the a j ii c- war is not Adm. HorneStghts on hori. No Early Peace on zon. It may Pacific's Horizon run until 1949 in the Pacific, he says, and he knows plenty plen-ty about the Far East, and Tokyo in particular. He was in Japan all the time the United States was in the last war. He went out there as naval attache to the American embassy em-bassy in January, 1915, and stayed four years. His government handed him the Navy Cross for what he accomplished, ac-complished, and Japan, being one of the Allies in those days, passed him a decoration, too, the Third Order of the Sacred Treasure. This is the third war in which this native New Yorker, now 63, has had a hand. He had entered en-tered the Naval academy in 1895 at the ripe young age of 15, and while still a middie he served in the North Atlantic aboard the 1 TJSS Texas in the scrap with Spain. When the war was over, he went back to Annapolis, graduating grad-uating in 1899. Since returning ' from Tokyo, be attended the Naval Na-val War college. What's more he went to the Army War cof-lege, cof-lege, too. Back in the mid-Twenties some I of his flying officers got his sea dog dander up when they tried to tell him that the orders he gave couldn't t be carried out. He promptly had i himself assigned - for training with the air arm at Pensacola, and in 1926 he was qualified as a naval aviation observer. Later he commanded com-manded the aircraft carrier Saratoga. Sara-toga. Since March, 1942, he has been one of Admiral King's right bowers in planning sea operations. Planes are his specialty. TF Katharine F. Lenroot were set-tling set-tling upon a prayer for children, and who would be more likely to pray for them, she might easily . . . cull from Statistics Are Her athar. Grenades in Battle va - veda, For Child Welfare those loosely loose-ly phrased hymns from India's old, old scripture: scrip-ture: "Old Age! This 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 progress must seem slow she probably would agree that in her time some of those hundred other deaths have been scotched. Just back from South America she notes that there also at least a few have been; under-privileged children receive low-priced, low-priced, even 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 eyes." Ever since she went into the children's chil-dren's bureau of the department of labor. Miss Lenroot has had a strong Interest in South America. She is well known there, and speaks Spanish Span-ish fluently enough to make an easy way from the plateau cities of New Granada to low-lying and windy Punta Arenas, though she might be more comfortable if she stopped at Buenos Aires. Children everywhere have been Miss Lenroot's strongest interest inter-est ever since she came out of the University of Wisconsin. Even earlier she was badgering that state's legislature in their behalf. After graduation, a novice lawyer, she hired out as a deputy industrial commissioner, but after a couple of years found her life work with the federal bureau at Washington. She has been its chief for ten years, and is 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 as headlong as this fellow Patton, ... now all over iftc hxposed the Sicily. Statis-Expendability Statis-Expendability of tics once led Nation's Mothers her to de" clare in distress dis-tress that mothers were this country's coun-try's cheapest commodity, so many of them die in childbirth. If she were saying that now she might put it ironically that they are as expendable ex-pendable as P-T boat crews at Cor-regidor. Cor-regidor. Her arsenal of facts and figures is inexhaustible. It 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 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 Superior, Su-perior, or something, all too often put an edge on native voices, but hers is low and agreeable. The figure that encloses the voice is on the stocky side, topped by loosely dressed hair that used to be blonde, about half way between a Harlow platinum and Bette Davis' middling locks. |