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

J. Pierpont Morgan, a godly man as well as a wealthy one, offered to bear the expense of issuing a new Standard Book of Common Prayer, to be presented to the 49th Episcopal convention, next October, in Washington, D. C. The revised prayer manual will omit the word obey from the marriage ceremony and it will contain a shortened form of the ten commandments. In other respects, except for perfection of minute typographical failures as far as is now known, it will conform to the revised Episcopal prayer manual which Mr. Morgan's father paid for in 1892, and which is now used, in elaborate or humble edition, by all Episcopalians.

George Bernard Shaw, author, vegetarian, made a horrid mistake in grammar while instructing people in the use of correct English on his first gramophone record for the Linguaphone Institute in London. He allowed his voice to say: "If what you hear is very disappointing and you feel instinctively 'that must be a horrid man,' you may be quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other speeds are impostors, sham Shaws, phantoms who never existed."

August Heckscher, 79 1/2, zinc, steel and real estate potentate, philanthropist, is apt to die any minute now, thought Frieda Hempel, 42 3/4, retired soprano. So she filed application with the Manhattan Supreme Court for an order to have Mr. Heckscher testify immediately concerning his alleged agreement to pay her $48,000 a year for the rest of her life. She claims that she gave up an income of $200,000 a year on the concert stage to help Mr. Heckscher in his philanthropic work.

Clarence Walker Barron, 72, plump publisher of The Wall Street Journal, was sued for slander for $100,000 by Princess Margaret Ghika of Rumania, now a resident of Manhattan. She claims that Mr. Barron called her "a spy ... a very dangerous woman" at a dinner party at his home in Cohasset, Mass., last August.

Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago, was the object of Negro hallelujahs throughout the U. S. when the Negro Y. M. C. A. established in his honor an annual holiday called Julius Rosenwald Day. For Negro welfare, Mr. Rosenwald has given some $20,000,000.

The late Sir Mortimer B. Davis,

Canadian tobaccoman, left an estate valued between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000. According to his will, the principal is not to be disturbed for 50 years, but the interest goes to his widow and son, Mortimer B. Davis Jr. (husband of Dancer Rosie Dolly). After 50 years, if

Son Mortimer is dead, 75 per cent of the principal is to be used for the founding of a Mortimer B. Davis Hospital open to all races and sects but under Jewish management; the remainder is for other Canadian philanthropies.

James Joseph Tunney, fisticuffer, delivered a lecture before Professor William Lyon Phelps' class in Literature at Yale University on William Shakespeare's birthday (April 23). The Winter's Tale, confessed Mr. Tunney, bewildered and inspired him ten times. After further investigation, he concluded: "The name of William Shakespeare, to me, has been synonymous with all that is lovely and beautiful in life." Going into mythology, Mr. Tunney said: "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings."

Sebastian Spering Kresge (5 & 10 cent stores), giver of gold to the Anti-Saloon League, testified in his counter divorce suit against Mrs. Kresge that she offered to bear him a child if he would pay her $10,000,000. "At that time [April, 1925]," complained Mr. Kresge, "she took a Bible* in her hand, shook it in my face and said: 'I swear to God if you don't do what I want there will be the biggest expose--the biggest scandal you ever heard of.' " Mr. Kresge did not give her the $10,000,000 and she later proved that he was an adulterer.

Charles E. Rosendahl, commander of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, suffered a sprained wrist and a badly bruised arm on returning from a meeting of the American. Philosophical Society in Philadephia. He was driving an automobile which overturned after a collision with another automobile.

The late Edwin Webster Sanborn,

lawyer, grandnephew of Daniel Webster, willed $964,000 of his more than $1,000,000 estate to Dartmouth College, along with photographs and the favorite armchair of Daniel Webster./-

Two Fisher Brothers, Louis P. and William A., executives of General Motors Corp., brought 100 guests from Detroit to City Island, N. Y., to watch twin yachts take the water. Each yacht is 106 feet long, finished in mahogany, capable of doing 22 miles per hour; was built for each Fisher brother at a cost of $250,000. Each Fisher brother plans to spend another $100,000 furnishing and decorating each yacht.

Harry Emerson Fosdick, bushy-haired, fearless Baptist clergyman, last week addressed the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, in Augusta, Ga., and harangued financial bigwigs thus: "Great disasters of history have not been caused by the weak. They have been caused by the misuse of power on the part of the strong. Page Pharaoh, page Nebuchadnezzar,* and Sennacherib,/- page Nero and Napoleon! Or consider our own country today."

The late Chauncey Mitchell Depew, orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, left an estate valued between $5,000,000 and $15,000,000. To Yale University he gave $1,000,000.

Samuel Parkes Cadman. 63-year-old Brooklyn clergyman and dispenser of comfort by correspondence, addressing a meeting of Baptist deacons last week in Atlanta, Ga., mused wistfully: "I wish that we might have one more Protestant Mayor of New York before I die."

Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., wrote an article in the May Harper's showing why businessmen, as well as lawyers and physicians, prefer scholars. He cited a survey made by his own firm, in which it was found that "men from the first tenth of their college classes [equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa rank] have four times the chance of those from the lowest third to stand in the highest tenth salary group." He concluded: "While I do not believe that success in life can be rated by income, I do believe that as between one man and another working in the same business organization, success and salary--while not the same thing--will, generally speaking, parallel each other."

Charles Michael Schwab, steelman, funnyman, was chief speaker at a luncheon of the Pennsylvania Society in Manhattan. He talked about the comparative beauty of man and woman, drew his conclusion from the animal kingdom: "The rooster, the male, is more beautiful than the female of fowls. The rooster has more plumage, a more stately carriage. The same is true of other animals and it should be true of men. It's time we men were admired for our manly beauty, but I'm not going to advocate it now and and here. There are too many ladies present." [Cheers, laughs, titters.]

Frances St. John Smith, 18, pretty Smith College freshman, disappeared from Northampton, Mass., on Jan. 13. Her father, St. John Smith, Manhattan broker, immediately offered a reward to whosoever would find her. Eastern newspapers featured the story with front-page screamers for ten days, then dropped it. Last week the following advertisement containing a photograph and description of missing Miss Smith appeared in the Springfield, Mass., Republican and other New England newspapers: $10,000 REWARD If found alive $1,000 REWARD If found dead

Send all information to JOSEPH V. DALY

State Detective Northampton, Mass. Phone 76

*Mr. Kresge is a devout Methodist.

/- It was Daniel Webster who said of Dartmouth College: "She may be small but there are those who love her." He said this while pleading the case of Dartmouth College against the State of New Hampshire before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1819. He won the case when Chief Justice John Marshall handed down that famed decision prohibiting State interference with private charters and establishing the first great victory of the Federal Constitution over State rights. *Nebuchadnezzar, Chaldean King of Babylon (about 604--561 B.C.).

/- Sennacherib, King of Assyria (505-681 B.C.).