Saturday, Mar. 31, 1923
(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)
Calvin Coolidge: " I was present at the annual gathering of The Dutch Treat Club at the Waldorf-Astoria. They gave a show about Sex and Mr. Sumner that came within an inch of making me laugh."
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise: "In a
sermon on ' Reconciliation,' which I delivered in the Madison Avenue Methodist Church, I criticised the Oberammergau Passion Play as a cruel injustice to the people of which I am a member and of which I am privileged to be a teacher."
Miss Abigail V. Harding, sister of the President: "I toured Greenwich Village incognito and viewed the night life accompanied by Secret Service and Department of Justice men."
Dean Baillie of Windsor, chaplain to King George: "After visiting America, I found I was unable to sum up my impressions. America is too complex for that. New York and Virginia are as different as Paris and Vienna, Chicago and Boston as London and Edinburgh."
Queen Marie of Roumania: "I
have always wanted to visit America, and now it seems as though I shall realize my hope. I do not want my visit to be a hurried one. I in-tend to see the States from coast to coast."
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " During a Board of Estimate meeting a taxpayer objected to a dump being so close to his house. I asked him how close it was, and he said: 'About 1,700 feet.' 'Well,' I answered, ' That's about a mile.' "
Mme. Colette, French authoress: " I am soon to be a candidate for membership in the French Academy. If elected, I shall be the first woman ever made an ' immortal.'"
Alvin Owsley, national commander of the American Legion: "When I heard that the Crown Prince of Germany is thinking of making a lecture tour in the United States, I made a speech in Jacksonville asking Americans to tell their own story of the war before welcoming any enemy aliens."
Andrew Bonar Law: "In reply to a question asked me in the House of Commons, I replied that estimates in the War Office are based on the assumption that no great war is to be expected within a decade from 1919."
Marie Corelli: " I wrote to The New York World implying that in my opinion Lord Carnarvon's illness is the result of an ancient curse laid upon those who desecrate the tomb of an Egyptian king."
Prof. Albert Einstein: " I resigned as a member of the League of Na- tions Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. In a letter to the Secretariat I said that I thought the League lacked both the strength and the good-will to accomplish its task, and, as a pacifist, it was necessary for me to resign."
Samuel M. Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works: " In a speech to the British Empire Chamber of Commerce (in Manhattan), I stated that unless English business men attained the American ideal of price, quality and service, I would continue to favor a tariff wall so high that the sun would not shine in New York until 10 o'clock in the morning."
Governor Smith of New York:
" Lonely, my own children being away, I invited about 40 children who live near the Executive Mansion to pay me a visit. I entertained them with ginger ale, ice cream and a movie show."
Seward Prosser, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bankers Trust Company, Manhattan: "I missed a trip to Palm Beach in order to act in the movies with Dwight W. Morrow and Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. The picture was for the benefit of the Englewood Hospital, so we did our best to register anxiety about the finances of the baby ward."
Henry Ford: " The men at my Detroit factory broke another record. They turned out 5,759 cars and trucks in one day, beating their former mark by sixty."
Frank A. Vanderlip: "In Pasadena I addressed the Caldron Club and told them that America's foreign policy is in the hands of amateurs and that the United States should enter the League of Nations."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: " When interviewed in regard to my proposed trip to America, I remarked that Americans are too interested in table-tipping and other material phenomena and not in the real mes- sage of spiritualism."
Myron T. Herrick, Ambassador to France: " In an article which I wrote for The New York Times I said that the French are a race of investors, two out of every five having a savings account."
Secretary of the Navy Denby: " While watching the old ship low a go down in naval target practice off Balboa, I said: ' She served her country in dying as she served it living. God bless her!"
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: "My
wedding gown of chiffon moireU, with silver thread and pearls, is being made in the famous Nottingham factories. The train will be made of tulle and beautiful old lace, lent me by Queen Mary."
Princess Yolanda of Italy: " Fascisti ideas of economy have come even into the palace. I am making my own bridal dress for my wedding on April 7."
Mrs. Anne U. Stillman: "I intend to have my hat-shop running by July. 'Fifi Potter Stillman. 379 Madison Ave., Hats.' The Ritz is just across the street."
"Uncle Joe" Cannon: " Cigar manufacturers of New York presented me with the largest smokeable cigar ever made. It was twenty-eight inches long and a foot in circumference. It weighed five pounds. Just the thing for a heavy smoker."
John J. McGraw, Manager of the World's Champion New York Giants: " Some of my ball players have been throwing gin parties on the southern training trip. I fined and threatened to suspend Jack Scott and Earl Smith."
Herman H. Kohlsaat, author of From McKinley to Harding: " I spent my 70th birthday at the Biltmore, Manhattan, receiving the congratulations of old friends. The New York Times gave a luncheon in my honor and presented me with a birthday cake with 70 candles."
President Livingstone Farrand of Cornell: " After touring the country I stated that in my opinion our politicians are generally engaged in framing prohibitive statutes, tyrannical in their restriction of personal liberty."
John D. Rockefeller: "I played around the Ormond Beach golf course with my grandson, John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, who is a student at Loomis Institute in Windsor, Conn."
President Ebert, of Germany:
" My daughter is engaged to Wilhelm Jenecke, a young man in the Foreign Office. She has an ex-saddler for a father and her fiance's father used to make the Kaiser's boots."