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

Dr. William James Mayo, famed surgeon of Rochester, Minn., sailed last week from Montreal to attend a British medical convention. Said he: "Canadian affairs feel the influence of a billion dollars of American capital, but American affairs feel the influence of ten billion dollars worth of Canadian brains. . . . At Rochester, 20% of our staff is Canadian, and I remember that 10% of the American Surgeons' Association is Canadian too. In all matters except politics, and particularly in science, the two countries are one."

Andrew J. Volstead of St. Paul went last week to Rochester, Minn., underwent the famed, hyper-inquisitive physical examination of the Mayo clinic. The reputed Volstead ailment: kidney trouble.

The will of the late General William Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army, probated last week in London, showed an estate of $4,565.

The inventory of the estate of the late great Samuel Rea of Bryn Mawr, Pa., onetime president of Pennsylvania R. R. and many another line, was filed last week, valued at $427,693.56.

The will of Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, onetime Governor of Ohio, was filed last week. Chief bequests: $50,000 to the Herrick Public Library of Wellington, Ohio,* for the construction of a children's library wing; $20,000 for the optional use of the library trustees; a $15,000 endowment fund to the American Hospital at Neuilly, just outside Paris. Estimated net value of the Herrick estate: $750,000.

Oswald Garrison Villard of Manhattan, editor of The Nation, was bequeathed the residuary estate (more than $100,000) of Mrs. Harriet C. Flagg of Brookline, Mass., when she died a few years ago. He maintained that the bequest was a trust, to be contributed by him to humanitarian causes advocated both by himself and Mrs. Flagg (famine relief, laborers' welfare, Negro social advancement, free speech, printing and assemblage). Flagg relatives contested that the "trust" was too indefinite, that they were entitled to the property. Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the bequest had been made outright to Mr. Villard, to do with as he wishes.

Mrs. Thomas O. Marvin, wife of the U. S. Tariff Commissioner, told last week how, upon entering a Boston antique shop, she found $3,000 worth of bric-a-brac which had been stolen early in June from the Marvin summer home near Portsmouth, N. H.

Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, lean, native U. S. baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was last week arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles. Next day, still jolly, he stood outside a cafe, squirted a hose on the cafe manager's automobile and on passersby, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt the younger, hunting in Asia, grew a beard, as revealed in photographs brought home by his brother Kermit. Also, he wrote a 64-line religious poem, roughly approximating the Kipling manner, sent it to Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who published it in full on July 4 in his syndicated "Sportlight." Excerpts:

The Wanderer's Shrine

The folks who travel are many;

You may find them everywhere,

From the man who scales the mountains

To the farmer who jogs to the fair.

And most, when they go a-wandering,

And leave both hearth and home,

Would like some kindly providence

To guard them while they roam.

That is the reason, I take it,

That, in rainstorm or in shine,

If you tramp the Old World highways

You come to a wayside shrine. . . .

Poet Roosevelt then described wayside shrines he had seen in Picardy ("when I was marching with my regiment plodding behind"), in the Argonne, in Asia. He concluded:

So whether it be to the Virgin

Or some Taoist deity,

To Allah, Brahma or Buddha

Or a Chinese trinity,

When I see a shrine by the roadside,

Bedded in sand or grass,

I, though a Dutch Reformer,

Bow my head as I pass.

Fortnight ago the plump Marchioness Townshend, Mayoress of Lynn, England, arrived in the U. S. with her small son to attend the 300th anniversary of the founding of Lynn, Mass. Last week she jocularly said she had received every possible souvenir except a ton of coal. A Lynn coalman promptly sent her a truckload. She gave it to charity.

Publisher William Randolph Hearst last week gave 400 acres of land at Silver Lake to Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.), where once Son John Randolph Hearst studied, where Publisher Hearst in 1927 received the degree of Doctor of Laws, where he has already disbursed $30,000.

Count Ilya Tolstoy of Russia, son of the late great novelist Count Leo Tolstoy, last week told, in St. Louis, the following joke on himself: Chicago professors, wishing to tender the Count a luncheon, had wired his manager, who replied that the Count would gladly accept--for $50. John Dollard, assistant to the University of Chicago's new young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, wired the Count's manager: HOW DO YOU GET THAT WAY WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO AFFORD BREAKFAST OR A CHOCOLATE SODA WITH THE COUNT WHAT IS YOUR SCALE FOR TEA AND TOAST WITH TOLSTOY DOES THE COUNT BUY HIS OWN LUNCH ALSO GO JUMP IN THE LAKE.

*Established by Mr. Herrick as a memorial to his parents.