"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

James John Davis (U. S. Secretary of Labor) addressed graduating high-school students at Follansbee, W. Va., where he once worked in a steel mill. He declared that because of his love for the "the romance of steel he would return to his old job--but for being a member of the Cabinet.

William Lyon Phelps (professor-critic) wrote in his department, As I Like It, in June Scribner's magazine: ". . . Sometimes in solitude I explode with laughter; sometimes I wake up in the night to laugh at some memory. How can one help laughing in and at a world like this?"

Dr. Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President of the U. S.

Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein (onetime convict for complicity m a $5,000,000 bond theft; husband ot Actress Fanny Brice) visited Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested.

Clairenore Stinnes (German steel heiress, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes) roared out of Frankfurt Germany, at the steering wheel of her specially built Adler automobile with two wirehaired fox terriors. She was headed for Constantinople, via the Balkans--the first leg of a proposed motor trip around the world. In a second car went a chauffeur, a camera man. Last year Fraulein Stinnes won the women's reliability tour (500 miles) of South Germany. Asked if she had no fear of the wilds of Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, China, North America, she replied: Not the slightest. I shall be absorbed.