"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith

(New York) has a red-eyed elephant and a crouching panther on his desk. Last week a female bear cub joined them, prowled around among paper knives and cigar ashes. The elephant and panther are bronze. The bearlet is flesh and blood, was sent to the Zoo, named "Miss Sullivan."

Governor Roland Hartley (of the

state of Washington) said "Sit down" when George T. McCoy, secretary of the State Highway Commission, began to read minutes of a previous commission meeting. Mr. McCoy continued reading. "Humes, throw him out," said Governor Hartley to Highway Engineer Humes. Mr. McCoy continued reading. Mr. Humes threw him out.

Mrs. Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies."

Dr. William Eleazar Barton

(Congregational pastor emeritus, whose son, Bruce Barton, wrote The Man Nobody Knows and The Book Nobody Knows) wrote in the Red Book for June: "The most interesting fact in the social life of the globe is the permanent division of the human race into two sexes, approximately equal in number, and each necessary to the complement of the other. Sex, either in itself or in some of its many manifestations--the family, the home, education, life-insurance and all the rest--can never be very far from the centre of the stage in anybody's thinking."

William Allen White ( editor of the Emporia [Kan.] Gazette, prolific commentator on life and literature) told the New York Herald Tribune the turning point in his career. It came, he said, when he was a "smart aleck . . . infant prodigy," aged 24, on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star. He was clowning, being loud, disorderly with three drinks under his belt, when a brown-eyed girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale. . . . And I saw a country town, a country weekly, a country politician, with all the large leisure and golden opportunity for decency, comfort, usefulness and prosperity looming up before me as a career." Charles Michael Schwab (steel) visited West Point, entered the mess hall, saw the cadets were hungry, patted his pocket and said: "I have a speech here I planned to deliver but I guess I'll let you read it in the morning newsapers." The nub of the speech was that it is harder to make a rifle than to shoot one.

Sir Thomas Beecham (orchestra conductor, son of the late Beecham, pill manufacturer) walking in London, was oppressed by the heat, stripped off his fur-lined overcoat, hailed a taxi, put coat on seat, bade the driver follow slowly as he walked home.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti (fish peddler condemned with Nicola Sacco, shoemaker, to die in July for murdering payroll carriers in 1920) was interviewed in the Dedham, Mass., jail by a newsgatherer. Said Mr. Vanzetti: "If it had not been for these thing, I might have live out my life talking at street corners to scorning men.* I might have die, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life can we hope to do such work for tolerance, for joostice, for man's onderstanding of man, as now we do by an accident. Our words, our lives, our pains-- nothing! The taking of our lives-- lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler--all! That last moment belong to us--that agony is our triumph!"

Webster Thayer (Massachusetts judge who charged the Sacco-Vanzetti jury to return a death verdict) was flayed in the Nation, as in many another organ. The article, subtitled "The Case for Impeachment" concluded: "The six affidavits in the hands of Governor Fuller strip Judge Thayer naked of decency and justice. They ought to force his immediate resignation or lead to his speedy impeachment. A comparison between Judge Thayer and Pontius Pilate is all in the latter's favor."

Dr. Samuel Adkins Eliot (34-year-old son of the late Dr. Charles William Eliot, Harvard patriarch) resigned as president of the American Unitarian Association after 27 years, saying: "I was trained to be a parish minister and that has always seemed to be the work most worth doing in the world." He will become pastor of the Arlington St. Church, Boston.

Premier Stanley Baldwin of Britain and his Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, were reported to have walked together from Downing Street to the House of Commons past the Foreign Office archway, which Sir Austen had caused to be scrubbed until the stonework looked but a decimal fraction of its true age. Said Sir Austen, pointing proudly: "We have had a wash." An admirer of weather-worn stonework, Mr. Baldwin looked glum, said nothing. David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill were reported to have discussed the apparent inability of leading men to withstand the physical strain of British politics, instancing the apparently imminent collapse of Premier Stanley Baldwin and the recent illness (in Philadelphia) of Ramsay Macdonald. Mr. Lloyd George was said to have said: "You and I, Winston, are more fortunate." Mr. Churchill to have replied: "Yes, but we like it."

Adolph Zukor (cinema) visited in his home town, Ricse, Hungary, at the cottage he built and maintains there for his Magyar uncle. The populace (2,500) followed his tour of inspection to his parents' graves, to the synagogue, power station and other public buildings built by him.

Dr. Frank Crane (platitudes) has a son James, actor. Last week Manhattan police sped at 5 a. m. to quell a reported disturbance in a hotel, found James Crane sitting innocently in a chair, while upon the bed lay an unloaded revolver. He said he had just unpacked the weapon from his trunk, was held in $500 bail for violating the Sullivan law (anti-concealed weapons).

Rodman Wanamaker (sportsman-philanthropist) offered $1,000 in cash prizes for musical compositions by Negroes, to be submitted to the Robert Curtis Ogden Association (Philadelphia) by June 1. Types of music called for: a hymn of freedom, or a love song, or a lullaby, or a prestidigitation (jig, scherzo, lively tune), or a synchronous effect with melodies.

* He preaches Radicalism.