Mass Production

(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: "The New York Tribune sent a special photographer to the White House, asked me to pose. Later they widely advertised the fact that they would publish the picture (suitable for framing) in their Sunday rotogravure. When the picture appeared, the caption ignorantly referred to me as CALVIN C. COOLIDGE."

Eugene V. Debs: " Addressing 2,000 Chicago Socialists I prognosticated war for America as a result of the Italo-Greek conflict and also said: ' I am going on a speaking tour through California and other far western states, and if you hear of me being jailed out there, don't be surprised . . . But no jail can close my mouth. They tried that. It did not work.' "

Colonel Alvin W. Owsley, National Commander of the American Legion: " Without passing through the lower grades of ' knight' and ' officer', I rose suddenly to the rank of ' commander' in France's Legion of Honor. This distinction came to me at the joint recommendation (unique for a foreigner) of President Millerand and Marshal Foch. I was notified at the Eiffel Tower restaurant, 300 feet in the air above Paris, and soon after pledged the American Legion's support, a million strong, to the French and Belgian Ruhr policy."

Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, personal physician to ex-President Wilson: "At Saratoga Springs, N. Y., my three-year-old bay gelding, My Own, won the Fort Edward Handicap, thus qualifying for the National Trial Sweepstakes, from which will be picked an American defender to meet Papyrus, the English challenger, in October.

" William Z. Foster, radical labor leader: "At Chicago, as I addressed 3,000 garment workers, three men stole into the rear of the hall, fired a dozen shots in my direction, fled down the fire escape unrecognized. Unhurt, I calmed my audience with prompt words of reassurance, continued my address."

John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: "At Coney Island, N. Y., a bather was arrested and fined $5 for wearing the shirt of his bathing suit inside his trunks. Having paid the fine, he pulled from his pocket a well known Palm Beach view of me, and said: 'Mayor Hylan is supposed to be the chief representation of the laws and morals of the city. If he can wear his bathing shirt tucked inside his trunks and even have a picture of himself so attired printed in millions of newspapers which are read by women and children, I do not see why I should be arrested for following the style set by him!' The magistrate (who had been with me at Palm Beach when the picture was taken) observed the photo, made no comment."

Cyril Maude, English actor: "My engagement in Aren't We All? and perhaps my whole career, escaped termination by six feet when three bullets from the small gun of two small boys just missed me as I hunted for a ball which I had driven out of bounds at the Apawamis Golf Club, Rye, N. Y."

Marion Davies, Hearst cinema actress: "An actor in Yolando, my film now in the making, was thrown from a castle window into a moat. His hands caught in his flowing sleeves, he could not swim, he struggled, he was sinking. Instantly I threw him my scarf, but he could not grasp it. He was saved by a brave policeman."

Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of Rev. Edward W. Hall, murdered in New Brunswick, N. J., a year ago: Miss Sally Peters, who after the murder of my husband and Mrs. Eleanor Mills was my confidante and spokeswoman, returned from resting in Europe and opened her campaign for the Republican nomination for the New York State Assembly from the Ninth Assembly District, where her family has lived for over a century."

Luther Burbank, horticulturist: "I discontinued the nursery business. My Sebastopol, Cal., farm is for sale. I will now turn my attention to the world distribution of my improved seeds, thus insuring the permanency of my life's work.

Interviewed by a Christian Science Monitor reporter, said I: 'When I sell a mulberry seedling to a merchant in Formosa for silkworm culture, or my spineless edible cacti to the East Indian Government,

I know that much careful work . . is bringing blessings to all mankind. I am wealthy, healthy and happy in my work.' I have been represented as a very tired, disgruntled old man, neglected by an unappreciative world.' I characterized such as '"Sob stuff'."

Captain Charles Nungesser, French ace: "My bride (who was Miss Consuelo Hatmaker of Manhattan) and I cut short our honeymoon so that I could start on a spectacular tour of official flying exhibitions throughout France. In my veteran Nieuport plane, I will exhibit fighting tactics and stunts I used in the war. The tour is avowedly propaganda to recruit pilots."

Lady Eleanor Smith, 19-year-old daughter of Lord Birkenhead, now in the U. S.: " Said I, describing the Prince of Wales: ' He works so hard he doesn't have a lot of time for pleasure and, really, he is nice. I mean, not a bit conceited over the the idea that lots of girls like him.' "