Miscellaneous Mentions

It was announced from Cincinnati that Nicholas Longworth, Speaker-elect of the House, had bought the Robert B. Roosevelt* house at No. 2009 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, would move in this fall.

Too many chairs, too many clocks; too much sitting, too much clock watching--so diagnosed Secretary Work in the Department of Interior. He ordered a clearance of surplus furniture. In one day, 250 chairs, numerous stools, desks, wardrobes, clocks--two vanloads of stuff valued at $6,264--was carted away from the General Land Office to the General Supply Office, saved.

Legal occupation and remuneration takes men from public life. It had been announced that Charles E. Hughes was retained as attorney for the receivers of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. Last week it appeared likewise that John W. Davis, onetime Ambassador to the court of St. James's, onetime Democratic candidate for President, is acting as attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (TIME, July 6, MUSIC), defendant in a breach of promise suit for $1,000,000 started by Evan Burrows Fontaine, famed cabaret dancer.

From August, 1923, to June 1, 1925, the state of South Dakota retailed gasoline. On June 1 it gave up the practice, the State Gasoline Commission having reached an agreement with dealers that they would maintain a fair price. Last week Governor Carl Gunderson ordered 24 gasoline stations opened by the state, chiefly in county-seat towns. He argued that gasoline is now selling at about 25c. a gallon that could profitably be sold for 21 or 22c., that citizens can save $3,000,000 a year if state gasoline stations are reopened.

Andrew W. Mellon, onetime (1905-11, 1917-23) U. S. Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Charles M. Schwab and their associates on the Warren G. Harding Memorial Committee announced last week that they had fulfilled the function placed upon them of choosing a design for the $600,000 memorial to be erected at Marion, Ohio. The winning architects were Henry

Hornbostel and Eric Fisher Wood of Pittsburgh. Their design calls for a circular mausoleum, 49 ft. high and 80 ft. in diameter. It will be supported by Doric columns and within will be an open court. In the court, two black marble slabs shaded by a single willow tree will cover the sarcophagi of the President and Mrs. Harding. A stair will lead down to a marble-lined crypt. The memorial will stand in a ten-acre park for which A. D. Taylor of Cleveland will be landscape gardener. They hope to open the memorial by Nov. 2, 1927, which would have been the 60th birthday of Mr. Harding.

How much is a vote worth? "Not much," decided about half (some 25,000,000) of the U. S. citizens eligible to vote, who failed to vote (TIME, Nov. 24) in the election for President last fall. But on Aug. 4 Virginia is to hold her Democratic Primary for Governor-- a hot-fought election between two state senators, Mapp and Byrd, hinging largely on questions of personal integrity. Last week three Virginian women were in Florence, Italy. One of them took train, hastened to Paris, got a ballot from the U. S. consul, voted by mail, and hastened back with two other ballots so that her mother and cousin might vote by mail from Florence.

Chicago en fete, led by its Mayor, Dever, one of the Illinois Senators, Deneen, and three railway Presidents, Rea of the Pennsylvania; Holden, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Markham of the Illinois Central, celebrated the opening of its new $60,000,000, 1,200,000 square feet, eight-story (potentially 21 story) Union Station--"one of the very largest in the world and certainly the world's most modern and most complete large station in all respects."

Mr. and Mrs. Dawes, having filled their engagement at Denver, went to Cheyenne (scene of the recent Teapot Dome oil suit) and took part in many astounding events: Mr. Dawes acted as director pro tern, in the filming of a Western picture, The Pony Express (James Cruze and Betty Compson). He reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra in his rooms, and later played the piano for them for an hour. He reviewed the troops at Fort D. A. Russell, lunched with Senator and Mrs. Warren.

*Robert B. Roosevelt is a cousin of Mr. Longworth's wife's late father.