"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

At a benefit bazaar for the town band of his native Kirriemuir, Author Sir James Matthew Barrie made the opening speech. Said he : "I shall tell you of a compliment that was paid to me about a week ago by a person whom I will describe as the most gracious lady in the land. The occasion was of her birthday, her third birthday, not very far from here, and she was sitting gazing with entranced delight at one of her birthday presents. It was a little toy table. ... I said to her: 'Is that really yours?' And she said at once: 'It is yours and mine.' (Applause.) I may be allowed to borrow Princess Margaret's* phrase and say of Kirriemuir, 'If there is any grace in me that is worth sharing, it is all yours and mine--except perhaps my canary.' Albert Einstein moved from Coq-sur-Mer, Belgium to England. Said he: 'In Belgium I was always guarded and it interfered with my work. I'm not the least worried about the report that a price [$4,700] has been placed on my head by the Nazis. I don't think the German Government would do such a thing." Before leaving Belgium he got a letter from a Belgian pacifist, asking him to write in behalf of two Belgians who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for refusing military service. Replied Pacifist Einstein in a letter published in La Patrie Humaine: "... A little while ago one could have hoped to fight militarism in Europe successfully by individually refusing to serve in the army. But today . . . there is in the center a state [Germany] which publicly is preparing for war by every means. . . . That is why I tell you frankly, 'If I were a Belgian I would . . . accept [military service] with a clear conscience with the sentiment of a contribution toward securing European civilization!' At a dinner in Manhattan in honor of Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, U. S. leader of the Jewish boycott of Germany, Alfred Emanuel Smith declared: ''The thing about it that amazes me is its [Naziism's] complete stupidity. . . . There was a great body of opinion in this country in favor of Germany upon the theory that probably some of the terms of the Versailles Treaty were too harsh. . . . And what did France say to us? France said, 'You don't know Germany.' Maybe we don't know her. Maybe France is right." Canada's Liberal Summer Conference in Port Hope, Ont. heard William Averell Harriman, young Manhattan banker, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad, chairman of the NRA steel code committee, describe industrial planning under the NRA. He referred humorously to General Johnson's sulphurous language. Up spoke famed Professor Theodore Emanuel Gugenheim Gregory, University of London economist, no friend of industrial planning: "Are we to take it that General Johnson's army language makes up for his ignorance of economic theory?" Retorted Mr. Harriman : "It is my opinion that possibly economists write the laws of economics after the event." Outraged, Professor Gregory stormed that he would leave the conference if "after my 25 years of study I am to be told that the conference expects to proceed without reliance on the processes of serious thought."

*Margaret Rose, second daughter of the Duke of York, born Aug. 21, 1930.

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