Nobel Cable

As what looked like a hearty afterthought, Vice President Dawes and eight members of Congress scribbled their names last week upon a cablegram to the Nobel Committee, Norwegian Storting, Oslo. The cablers declared that they, "duly qualified for making recommendations," did recommend U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg for the Nobel Peace Prize. His and M. Briand's Multilateral Peace Treaty was advanced in his favor.

The time-limit for recommendation was Feb. i, hence the cablegram. Evidently, no one had known just how to go about recommending a Nobel candidate--or perhaps no one had taken literally the suggestion, which issued from a vague source some weeks ago, that Mr. Kellogg ought to be recommended. But memories and elbows were jogged just in time. The fact was discovered that members of the Interparliamentary Union, members of Congress and previous Nobel prize men are "duly qualified" for recommending. And off to Oslo went the prayer of, besides Mr. Dawes, the following: Speaker Longworth, Senators Shipstead and Schall and Representative Newton of Minnesota (the Kellogg State); Senators Burton (oldtime peace man) and Fess of Ohio, Senator Walsh of Montana.