Here, There

P:Prohibition referendums were held in eight states. Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin voted for modification of the liquor laws. In New York particularly the Wet majority was overwhelming--more than three to one. The Drys were successful in California, Colorado, Missouri. The result in Missouri is meaningless because the Wets had repudiated their referendum proposal before election day.

P: In Danville, Ill., Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 90, one-time famed Speaker of the House, was unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine--Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself, having polled a vote double that of her two opponents.

P:The "solid South" invaded the Republican stronghold in eastern Tennessee and captured Hardin County for the first time since the Civil War. All through the South the number of voters was small, averaging scarcely one-third of the usual electorate. Georgia and South Carolina, as is often the ease, had neither a state nor national Republican ticket.

P:There are 25,000 U. S. citizens in Paris. Consul General Orr went to the U. S. polling booths on the Boulevard des Italiens at the close of election day, opened the ballot box, found therein one vote, counted it, despatched it across the Atlantic.