Louis Wiley, Business Manager of The New York Times: "Said I at a dinner in honor of Edward M. Morgan, Postmaster of New York: 'Whether or not colleges have seen fit to bestow upon him degrees, Mr. Morgan is pre-eminently a man of letters!'"

Jane Addams: "Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, said of me, apropos of my illness in Japan: 'If pure goodness, unselfishness and devotion count in Heaven, as we believe they do, Jane Addams will have a seat in front of Washington, Jefferson and many others, and very likely next to Lincoln'."

Miss Alice Longfellow (daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow): " My two sisters (Mrs. Thorpe and Mrs. Dana) and I have been invited by the Ojibway Indians at Saute Sainte Marie to attend their presentation of Hiawatha on August 7 and 8."

The Earl of Northesk: "Visiting in Buffalo with my fiancee, Jessica Brown, former dancer, I was taken down with appendicitis and operated on. Newspapers report that 'naturally nothing will be done' (as to our wedding) until I recover."

Geraldine Farrar: "When the judge signed my decree of divorce from Lou Tellegen, he permitted me to resume my maiden name or to remarry, but forbade Mr. Tellegen to marry again during my lifetime except by express permission of the court."

Professor Albert Einstein: "In a letter to a pacifist paper, the Berlin Friedenswarte, I explained my resignation from the League of Nations Committee for intellectual Cooeperation: 'I did it, however, with inner reluctance, because the hope had not quite died in me that into this shell of a League of Nations a better content might yet grow in time. I am comforted by the thought that in my place one of the cleanest, finest men was elected, Professor Lorentz of Haarlem, whereat nobody could be happier than I. May the League in the future prove my harsh words to have been false!'"

Dr. Emile Coue: " A new formula has taken popular fancy in Paris. It runs: 'Oh, hell, I am well' ('Tiens, je suis bien.') I sent a telegram from Nancy denying authorship."

William K. Vanderbilt: "In effect, I contradicted my grandfather, William H. Vanderbilt, who once said 'the public be damned,' when I testified in a railroad case before the New York State Industrial Commissioner. Said the Commissioner: 'We are concerned about the running of this railroad so that the public will be satisfied.' 'That is the chief thing!' I replied."

General Sir Alexander Godley, Commander-in-chief of the British Army on the Rhine: "Traveling from Cologne to London via Belgium, I was routed out of my compartment at night and left standing in my pajamas for an hour, while customs officials went through my baggage. We think the Belgians were looking for a report on the Ruhr which I was supposed to be carrying."

Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation: "My championing of the necessity of a twelve-hour day in the steel industry brought another enemy upon me --Solomon Goldberg, of Manhattan. He said I was trying to destroy the religion of men by compelling them to work twelve hours a day so that they cannot worship their God. He exclaimed: ' Surely Gary is ungodly, but have not the pious always vanquished the sinners?'"

Alvin W. Owsley: "In a speech at Washington I attacked all kinds of Redness and made the declaration that, just as Lincoln said the nation could not survive half slave and half free, so 'neither can we at this later date survive half American and half un-American.' "