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

No sooner had the Daughters of the American Revolution bustled into Washington's Constitution Hall for their annual convention and received a stern admonition from President Roosevelt not to "idly enjoy the vicarious fortitudes of ancestors long laid to rest" than they got down to the business of electioneering for officers. Favorite candidate to succeed short, full-bosomed Mrs. Russell William Magna as President-General was her Smith College classmate, tall, handsome Mrs. William A. Becker of New Jersey. In a rash moment Mrs. Becker once endorsed The Red Network, a list of such "radicals" as Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Frances Perkins, Donald Richberg. That endorsement, although later retracted, was enough to make many a Daughter turn to the comparatively liberal candidacy of Mrs. Flora Myers Gillentine of Tennessee, an energetic, grey-haired school-teacher whose political doings were for years chronicled in collect telegrams which she sent to Tennessee editors.

First off, the candidates for President-General tested their strength by rival teas. Mrs. Becker, with Mrs. Magna to help her, served ice cream, cake and punch at the Mayflower Hotel, drew 3,000 Daughters and friends. At the Willard, Mrs. Gillentine, serving only lemonade, drew a scant 2,000 but outdid her rival with a string of celebrities including Speaker of the House Joseph Wellington Byrns and his wife.

On the third day Gillentine supporters brought delegates to their feet in a rising vote for a big Army & Navy. On the fourth day the Daughters trooped excitedly to the polls, cast their ballots for President-General. The winner: Mrs. Becker, 1,436-to-619. Delighted Mrs. Magna embraced her classmate, kissed her for cameramen (see cut).

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