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

Frau Cosima Wagner, famed widow, was reported last week to have a radio in her Bayreuth bedroom.

Nicholas Longworth, dapper Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, has as one of his official privileges the use of a fine automobile furnished by the U. S. government. Last week, he quipped: "I want a Republican Congress because I don't want Jack Garner riding about in my automobile." Jack Garner is John Nance Garner, hale, hard-working and humorous Representative from Texas, who would undoubtedly be the Democrats' choice forSpeaker. He is a good friend of Speaker Longworth, as is every one else of any importance in the House.

To Westminster Cathedral last week went 6,000 people to do honor to Francis, Cardinal Bourne, famed priest. For 25 of his 67 years he has been Archbishop of Westminster. He came to the archbishopric when the cathedral was but a shell, developed it; lived to receive the red hat from Pope Pius X (1911). Last week he celebrated pontifical mass for his silver milestone as archbishop.

Sons

Their fathers and mothers having made news before them, the following sons made the following news last week:

William Block, 12, son of Publisher and Good Friend Paul Block, gave all his personal savings, $2,365, to the presidential campaign fund of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Said he: "My father is an independent in politics, but I'm a Democrat."

William Randolph Hearst Jr., 20, returned from, his honeymoon, began work on his father's favorite newspaper, the New York American, as a cub reporter. Said he: "This is no stunt."

Sir Henry Dickens, 79, only living son of Novelist Charles Dickens, flayed in London one Carl E. Bechofer-Roberts who had written a novel, Ephesian, defaming his father. Said he: "The book is so utterly unworthy of the slightest consideration . . . that I must decline to serve the author's purpose by adding to its publicity. ... If any one had dared to publish a book like this 58 years ago when my father died, hundreds of people would have arisen to give it the lie."

Theodore Roosevelt 3rd, 13, sent $10 and the following letter to Polar Pilgrim Richard Evelyn Byrd:

"Dear Commander Byrd: A little while ago I asked mother if ten dollars would be enough to come in handy if sent to you, and she said 'yes.' Therefore I decided to send you ten dollars which I earned this Summer by painting the piazza roof, washing the muresco off the walls and ceiling of the bathroom, weeding the garden and various other similar jobs. I thought you might be able to buy some extra things.

''Much love and more luck,

"TEDDY ROOSEVELT 3d."

Osborne Wood, son of the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, once made and lost a tidy fortune in Wall Street, has recently been working in an iron mine near Pecos, N. Mex. Last week he quit when a fellow workman was killed. Said he: "I have found all iron ore mines I have visited in New Mexico unsafe. There is a law regulating coal mine safety, but none relating to iron ore mines. I am going to do everything possible to get proper legislative measures in New Mexico to compel mine owners to safeguard employes."

William H. Vanderbilt is rather more than likely to be nominated and elected state senator in Rhode Island. The Republican incumbent withdrew and agreed to support Mr. Vanderbilt of Newport.

John Davison Rockefeller III, 22, was elected to the board of directors of a Negro bank (see p. 32).

John Coolidge, 22, finished the first week of his business career as file-and-claim-clerk in the New Haven offices (ugly yellow brick building) of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; salary, $30 a week; hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Said he: "I like it."

Samuel Carnes Collier, 16 , son of Capitalist Barren Collier, completed last week his third season as designer-proprietor-manager of the Overlook Theatre, at Pocantico Hills, N. Y.* Built on his father's estate, the theatre is architecturally arresting, mechanically capable of showing both vaudeville and cinema to an audience of 66. The vaudeville includes magic ("Professor Alonzo, Swindler") and skits ("The Man Who Was Legally Right''). The performers are young friends of Son Collier; they give fictitious names in the programs. Said Son Collier: "I don't act unless I have to. I have enough to do." After locking the door of his theatre, he returned to his schooling at St. Paul's, Concord, N. H.

Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 23, son of the late Emperor of Japan, Yoshihito, and brother of the present Emperor, Hirohito, arrived at Honolulu with dirty hands, dirty face, dirty clothes. He explained to the reception committee that he had been directing the coaling of the cruiser Yaktimo; asked that no photographs be taken. Then said he: "Honolulu may be called a place where the hands of peace, stretched by Japan and the U. S., grasp each other."

Drs. William James and Charles Horace Mayo, surgeons, dedicated their newest "mouse trap," a 19 story clinic building at Rochester, Minn., with a great ringing of a twenty-bell carillon hung in the tower. Their father, Dr. William Worrell Mayo, had settled in Rochester 65 years ago. When his sons hesitated in opening practice at the isolated small town, he persuaded them with Emerson's: "If you build a better mousetrap than your neighbor. . . ."

* Where John Davison Rockefeller, 89, has his favorite home.