Monday, Feb. 11, 1924

(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 tn the Headlines.)

Edward W. Bok: "In headlines half an inch high, descriptive of my alleged 'invasion' of New York, The New York Herald ignorantly referred to me as Edwin Bok."

Miss Alice Robertson, onetime Congresswoman from Oklahoma: "Despatches from Muskogee stated that I am 'not worried' by my dismissal as Welfare Director of the Oklahoma Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, that I am going to be President of the Women's Coolidge-for-President club in my State. 'God will take care of me. I have always done right,' I was quoted as saying."

Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes: "At

the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, I denounced woman's struggle for 'equal rights.' Said I: 'We want the womanly woman who loves purity and motherhood.' "

Mary Garden: "I told reporters that when I die I want my body cremated and the ashes cast into Lake Michigan 'in front of Chicago.' Said I: 'Think how thrilled the bathers would be to have the ashes of Mary Garden swept up against them. . . But before I die I must get married.'"

Hoke Smith, ex-U. S. Senator from Georgia: "As a prominent tobacco grower, I attended a dinner in Manhattan of the National Council of Tobacco Salesmen of America. Attention was called to the fact that I am the only living member of Grover Cleveland's Cabinet. I was Secretary of the Interior."

Tyrus R. Cobb, professional baseball player: "I received the following mention in one of the letters of the late Archie Butt, which, descriptive of the Roosevelt Administration, are appearing serially in The New York Herald: 'I have gotten the President very much interested in Ty Cobb, the famous baseball player from Georgia. I told him I had given Ty a dinner .... and he wanted to know all about him. . . . Ty is only 22 years old and neither drinks nor smokes, neither did any of the ball players who were there. That interested the President greatly, as he saw in this the perpetuation of the game in this country and its higher development.'"

Magnus Johnson, junior U. S. Senator from Minnesota: "I invaded the Senate press gallery and made a fiery verbal attack on the correspondent of a Minnesota newspaper in whose columns I claimed to have been misrepresented. Despatches reported that I waved my fists about, used 'strong epithets,' caused my voice to resound through the corridors. Fearing we would exchange blows, other correspondents jumped between us. There were cries of 'Throw him out!' (meaning me). The correspondent stuck to his guns. Finally I walked outside with the Superintendent of the press gallery, at his request."

Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "The Municipal Council of Guaymallein, town in Argentina, voted on the name for a new street. Five of the City Fathers thought the thoroughfare should be called Vicente Lopez, in honor of the author of the Argentine national anthem. Five others voted for Luis Angel Firpo. The tie necessitated the casting of the decisive ballot by the President of the Council, with the result that the street will henceforth be known as Calle Luis Angel Firpo. When some of the Councillors later took the President to task for voting for me instead of the patriot-composer, that official exclaimed: 'Caramba! I thought you meant Vicente Lopez the tax collector, who is my enemy.''