"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: At the Bohemian Club "High Jinks" in Bohemian Grove, Calif. Herbert Clark Hoover made his first speech since his retirement. Said he: "There is much talk about Codes, but nothing has been done about a Code for ex-Presidents. So I have solved that myself. I've reduced my hours to nothing and doubled my wages. That is perhaps something off the minds of the present Administration." He explained how he spends his time in retirement: "I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get my mail and look over the newspapers. Then I take another long look at the valley, thanking Providence I'm in California. Then I sit down and think things over and spend the rest of the day laughing and laughing and laughing." Up to him stepped a bibulous Bohemian stared in his face, remarked: "Did anyone ever tell you how much you look like that awful guy, Hoover?" To a Manhattan newshawk Actress Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, relict of Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (TIME, June 1), exclaimed: "Did you ever think about gland conditioning? And how soon it may be within our power to choose our character as we choose our clothes? Of course, its depressing to think that we women may choose them with as much obedience to fashion and uniformity as we do hats and dresses. Are egos being worn long this year? Is the high fashion a gentle melancholy, a sad haunting quality? Or perhaps for winter garb a super-optimism, a robust go-ahead character with nothing to learn but humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right. I've got steady work with the telephone company." Asked what his job was, he introduced himself as Walter Sherman Gifford, president of A. T. & T. After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation had put a $50 bill in the collection box. They decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake." Attendants learned he was John Jacob Raskob, onetime chairman of General Motors finance committee. In the Hollywood Bowl Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud I couldn't hear her." At a party given by Irving Netcher, rich Chicagoan, and Roszika Dolly Netcher at Juan-les-Pins, France, a guest told Lord & Lady Milford Haven, cousins of Britain's George V, that champagne is good for dance-tired feet. She ordered some to try it. After the party Host Netcher was billed $100 for "champagne for feet," angrily refused to pay.

In Mexico City the staff of the U.S. embassy decided to present a departing" attache with a cocktail shaker. Ambassador Josephus Daniels heard about it, made them give a cigaret case instead.

In 1864, during William Tecumseh Sherman's famed March to the Sea, Union soldiers stole two pigs from the Georgia estate of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Last week Sherman's grandnephew, Lieutenant John B. Sherman, sent two Poland-China pigs to Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis at the War Department in Washington. He enclosed a note:

"Subject: pigs.

"To Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis

"1. In answer to your claim for property stolen by General William T. Sherman during his stroll through Georgia, it gives me great pleasure to reimburse, in kind, you for the property taken. . . .

"3. I hope this favorable action will at least keep one damned rebel

from claiming that he would have been a millionaire ... if it had not been for my uncle's march through Georgia...."

Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis is no kin of President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis.

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