Miscellaneous Mentions

John W. Davis, failing to be elected to a given office, has yet been elected to several other offices without Republican opposition. On Jan. 13 he was elected director of the National Bank of Commerce; on Feb. 17 director and general counsel of the U. S. Rubber Co.; last week trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. to succeed the late General James H. Wilson, last surviving corps commander in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Congressman Clarence MacGregor

of Buffalo, member of the Banking and Currency Committee of the House, is living at Cornell University, taking a course in Economics. Said he last week: "This idea that a man can't learn anything after he is 40 is bunk." His professor reported that he was an "industrious student."

Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President of the U. S., sent a present to the Vice President of the U. S. It was a wind shield or, rather, spark shield for a pipe. Mr. Sanders wrote: "Use of this will also prove that the pipe is really not upside down."

The second anniversary of the death of Warren G. Harding, President of the U. S., was memorialized at the Trinity Baptist Church of Marion, Ohio. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, son of the late Brigadier General, who was the President's physician, delivered the memorial address, saying: "His loyalty, his kindliness, his patience, his patriotism have all borne fruit. A nation mourns him. History records him. We revere him."