Samuel M. Ralston, U. S. Senator from Indiana: " In reporting an interview that one of their reporters had had with Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer, the New York Tribune ignorantly referred to me as ' Senator James Ralston'."

Henry Ford: " By selective breeding at Dearborn, I plan to evolve a ' more efficient, two-in-one' cow-- the milk-producing propensity of Jersey, Holstein or Guernsey coupled with the beefy lines of Hereford, Black Angus or Shorthorn."

Israel Zangwill, Englishman of letters: "The Jewish Tribune printed a list of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world, as chosen by vote of its readers. Albert Einstein, German physicist, was considered relatively the most outstanding. Chaim Weizmann, mann, English chemist, perfector of TNT, head of the Zionist movement, was second. I was third.

"My mother is Edith Ayrton Zangwill, daughter of a professor and herself an authoress. But I attended only elementary schools and am practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting Pot are more representative of my numerous novels and plays. I have lectured in Great Britain, Ireland, Jerusalem, Holland and the U. S. I am nearly 60.

"Following me came the remainder of the first twelve, in order: Louis Marshall, famed New York lawyer and authority on constitutional law; Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, first Earl of Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, ' holding the highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim N. Bialik, Russian, the great Hebrew poet; Stephen S. Wise, Manhattan rabbi; Henri Louis Bergson, the great French philosopher, member of the French Academy and Commander in the Legion of Honor; Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian, 'supreme in the field of belles-lettres.'

"Others who received votes enough to warrant their inclusion in the first 50 were:

"Sir Herbert Samuel, Nathan Sokolow, Oscar S. Straus, Baron Rothschild, Samuel Untermyer, Felix M. Warburg, Sigmund Freud, Simon Flexner, Julius Rosenwald, Irving Lehman, Julian W. Mack, Leon Trotzky, Max Lieberman, Adolph S. Ochs, Ahad Ha'am and Abram I. Elkus, Albert A. Michelson, Henrietta Szold, Jacques Loeb, Luigi Luzzati, Leopold Auer, Cyrus Adler, Herman Bernstein, Lee K. Frankel, A. I. Kook, David Belasco, Samuel Gompers, Israel Abrahams, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Rosenblatt, Sir Alfred Mond, Milton J. Rosenau, Jakob Wasserman, Jascha Heifitz, Maximilian Harden, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Otto Warburg, Jacob Epstein, Joseph H. Hertz.

"Mischa Elman, Leon Kamenev, Albert D. Lasker and Pugilist Leonard were among 33 more who received scattered votes.

"To a European it cannot but seem that American Jews have received too much preponderance in this list. Yet Henry Morgenthau, quondam U. S. Ambassador to the " Sublime Porte, received no mention."

John D. Rockefeller: "The Chicago Daily Tribune ran the headline: MRS. MAX OSER TO MAKE JOHN D. GREAT-GRAN'DAD. The news came from Lake Neuchatel, Switzer land, where Mathilde McCormick Oser, my granddaughter, and her husband, a Swiss riding master, have a chateau. The interesting family event is expected soon after Christmas."

Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook us."

Fritz Kreisler, violinist: "In Berlin I convalesced after the loss of a great toe, accidentally injured while I trained Austrian troops in 1914."

The Bishop of London: " Investigators of a public morality society of which I am President spent ten nights in London public parks collecting data. They found 746 cases of impropriety, indecency, immorality. I then wrote a letter to the papers complaining of widespread immorality and at once became the center of a storm of indignant protest. The papers--particularly the Daily Express--inveighed against me for sending ' paid spies' to interfere with ' innocent courtships' and ' harmless wooings.' The papers called attention to the fact that I myself am a celibate."

Governor C. A. Templeton of Connecticut: "Tagging a runner between second and third base in our annual family baseball game, I fell, injuring both elbows and both knees. Six X-ray pictures showed that I sustained no serious hurt."

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist-actor: "Interviewed, said I: 'The atmosphere of New York is perfectly delightful . . . You can have no idea of the terrific mental pressure which exists in Europe today. In London we hear nothing but the Ruhr, morning, noon and night. In the theatre lobby we talk of reparations. And over our bacon and eggs in the morning we wrangle as to who can pay and who can't.' "

David Lloyd George: "In a signed article on the Italo-Greek controversy for the Hearst newspapers, I said: ' The Treaty of Versailles is being gradually torn to pieces by countries which are not only its authors, but have most to gain by its provisions. ... It would have been a more honorable course for the nations to pursue if they had followed the example of America by refusing to ratify the whole Treaty.'"

Alexandre Millerand, President of France: " Various political interpretations were placed by Parisians on a report that Pope Pius XI intends to confer the Order of the Golden Rose upon my wife, and also present her with a golden rosebud insigne."

Royal S. Copeland, U. S. Senator from New York: " Speaking before the Advertising Club (of Manhattan), I recommended that the U. S. Government return to Monticello the 10,000-volume library of Thomas Jefferson, which it took him more than 50 years to collect and which he transferred to Congress for only $23,950 after the British burned the City of Washington in 1814 and destroyed the library there at that time."

Owen Johnson, novelist: "I won first prize (a silver cup) at the Stockbridge (Mass.) Grange Fair for best display of farm products, vegetables, flowers. Norman H. Davis (financial adviser to President Wilson at Paris) won in the six variety class in vegetables."

Mrs. Irene Castle Treman: "Eighty-two residents of Fort Worth, Tex., signed a petition to have the name of Fort Worth's widest street changed from ' Vernon Castle Boulevard' back to ' Boulevard,' its original name. My former husband was killed at Fort Worth in an airplane crash February 15, 1918."

Sherwood Anderson, novelist: "My wife Beanie home from Italy and was surprised to find Americans had not learned how generally castor oil discipline was administered by the Fascisti. To a reporter she said: ' Every Communist found was compelled either to sip or gulp a pint of castor oil. It was amusing to see Fascisti, wearing black shirts and looking very earnest, bottles sticking out of their hip pockets, chasing wildly down the street after a shrieking Communist. Then the capture, the terrible assault, hurling the luckless Red to the sidewalk, injecting the bottle into his mouth to the muffled accompaniment of blasphemy of all the gods and devils in the universe'."