Miscellaneous Mentions

Harry S. New, Postmaster General, was dictating letters last week. Upon the word "Come-at-able," his stenographer was "stumped," puzzled. "Come-at-able," explained Mr. New, "means 'approachable'; it is a companion word to the old Hoosier 'get-at-able.'"

James A. Reed, Missouri Senator, tried to look puzzled as he reverted to his game of baiting the White House spokesman. "Why don't the newspapers photograph the White House spokesman?" said he to reporters. "What does this mysterious person look like? The newspapers are always printing pictures of people prominent in the news. The White House spokesman is always being quoted. He is constantly in the news. But I've never yet seen a picture of him."

Dwight Filley Davis Jr., young son of the Secretary of War, was photographed leaping high above first base as a member of the Harvard freshman baseball nine.

Samuel Untermyer, able Manhattan lawyer, now on a round-the-world cruise, stopped in Manila for two days, talked with Governor General Leonard Wood, found the Philippines "bristling with complications." Also, said Mr. Untermyer, "I found less interest among the natives than I expected on the question of independence, except among the politicians."

Ellison DuRant Smith, Senator from South Carolina, when asked last week to pick the 1928 Democratic nominee for President, said: "I should think he [the nominee 1 would be a dark horse, but not a dead horse. We have a morgue full of dead horses in our party."

Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, told the Yale Daily News that he saw no immediate need for the creation of a Secretary of Eduation, that the President's Cabinet is already too large for efficiency.

Peter Goelet Gerry, Rhode Island Senator, flew over Berlin in a large metal Junkers plane last week, landed, was impressed with the completeness of the aviation terminal.