Miscellaneous Mentions

In Birmingham, Ala., a Republican Vice President appeared on a platform with a Democratic Senator who will seek reelection in 1926. Mr. Dawes spoke in praise of Senate rule which would permit a majority to close debate. Then, turning benignantly to Mr. Oscar W. Underwood: "The leading proponent of this great reform is Senator Underwood, who has been for years a standard-bearer in a courageous fight for the reform of the Senate rules on the floor of the Senate itself."

On the dunes at Southampton, L. I., is a little bungalow of perhaps 20 rooms--property of Mrs. Henry R. Rea, widow--leased for the summer by Andrew W. Mellon. There the Secretary, if he wills, may romp directly from his dressing room into the surf.

Heroes, statesmen, scientists crowned with honors, are exalted by the lofty shafts of monuments. Even so on Cardiff Hill, at Hannibal, Mo., will be raised a shaft to crown the honors of the heroic gemini--Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn.

Senators, Representatives received circulars. They bore a return address indicating a building on Capitol Hill, close to the House Office Building. They offered the services of a "personal publicity bureau" in obtaining publicity "where you most need it and where it will be most effective."

The Marion Star, last week, set apart a Warren G. Harding Memorial Room --lined with pages of newspapers describing the late President's rise in politics.

One Professor William S. Meyers of Princeton University listed the nine greatest Americans in order: Washington, Hamilton, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Coolidge, John Marshall, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Cushman,*Asa Gray./- In addition, he named William Jennings Bryan as "The Apostle of Morons."

Col. James A. Logan, American observer abroad, who has peeped for the U. S. at many important diplomatic conferences in Europe, announced his resignation and his affiliation with Dillon, Read & Co., recent purchasers of the Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co. (TIME, Apr. 13, 20, May 4, BUSINESS). Two weeks ago, Col. Logan and Clarence Dillon went abroad on the same ship.

Bids were opened at Washington for an elevator to travel 250 ft. a minute, to replace the 100 ft. a minute elevator in the Washington Monument. The old elevator has been out of order; and at present the 553 ft. shaft is a "walk-up."

* Actress famed for her Lady Macbeth, her Meg Merrilies. She won a great reputation as a tragedienne when she toured the U. S. with Macready in 1845.

/- Asa Gray, famed botanist.