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that remotely related to labor, except labor statistics which had been collected over in Commerce, and now were transferred to the new Department of Labor.

Miss Julia Lathrop, who was the first chief of the Children's Bureau and who was to set up this new bureau, was asked by President Wilson who appointed her where she would like the Children's Bureau established. He assumed that it would be in the Department of the Interior, as most people did who had thought about the Children's Bureau when the bill establishing it was going through, Most of them thought it would be in the Department of the Interior, just as in England these things all go into the Home Office, which is similar to our Department of the Interior That's where people thought it would go, but Miss Lathrop, When asked, surprised the President by saying, “I would like it to go in the Department of Labor.”

He said, “Why that's peculiar, Miss Lathrop. This won't have much to do with labor.”

“Oh yes,” she said, “these children all become laborers and one of the great problems of children today is not only that they die like flies in infancy, but that when they grow up to be old enough to work they go to work too early, work too hard, work in improper trades, and their education is shortened. So it will tie in with the