"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Arriving in Manila, Mrs, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 71, nodded when her son Governor General Theodore Roosevelt asked: "Do you remember when father said he would rather be Governor General of the Philippines than Vice President?"

In Madrid, because he kicked a policeman who intervened when he and his pugnacious brother Miguel were quarreling with taxi drivers, Fernando Primo de Rivera, son of Spain's late Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, was sentenced to three years, four months, eight days in prison.

Volume X of the Dictionary of American Biography was published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette.

There are 77 Johnsons (and Johnstons), 62 Joneses. Newton Diehl Baker contributes the sketch of his fellow-townsman Tom Loftin Johnson, capitalist (street railways), who was converted to the single tax by Henry George and became Cleveland's foremost Mayor (1901-09). George Jones, co-founder of the New York Times in 1851, is distinguished among Joneses and newspaper publishers by reason of having refused an offer of $5,000,000 to abandon his crusade against Tammany Boss William Marcy Tweed.

In 1696 Captain William Kidd sailed from New York to fight pirates off Madagascar, became one himself. Sentenced to death in London, he exclaimed: "My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part I am the innocentest person of them all. . . ." First the rope, then the gallows broke during his execution. He was hanged to a tree.

Actor Joseph ("Joe") Jefferson (Rip Van Winkle) began his career at the age of 4 when he was dumped out of a bag on a Washington stage to do a blackface song & dance.

Boston's Dr. John Jeffries, with Jean-Pierre Francois Blanchard in 1785, was first to cross the English Channel in a balloon. Struggling to keep the bag aloft, they cast out successively sand ballast, wings, ornaments, all scientific apparatus (except the barometer), biscuits, apples, oars, moulinet, anchors, cords, finally their outer garments.

Dr, Charles Knowlton, Massachusetts physician and philosopher, was fined and imprisoned for publishing in 1832 Fruits of Philosophy; or, the Private Companion of Young Married People, a discussion of birth control. Dr. Leslie E, Keeley made over $1,000.000 in ten years out of his cure for alcoholism and drug addiction, which he said consisted of injections chiefly of double chloride of gold. In 1895 he claimed 250,000 cures, could point with pride to 359 chapters of the Keeley League, composed of 30.000 male reformed drunkards, female temperance workers.

Michael J. Kelly was a big, shambling, jovial Irish baseballer who played with Cincinnati, the Chicago "White Stockings'' and Boston from 1879 to 1893. Awkward on the field, he was smart and nervy enough to become one of the best players of his time. He was almost uncatchable on the bases, became celebrated in the song ''Slide. Kelly, Slide." In a Boston hospital, fatally ill of pneumonia, he slipped off a stretcher. Cried Kelly: "This is my last slide." Said Mrs. John Masefield, in New York, of her crossing aboard the S. S. Mauretania with her famed husband. Poet Laureate of England and of the sea: "It was too uppy-downy, and Mr. Masefield was ill." Poet Masefield's preventive: "A cold salt water bath before each meal. It doesn't always work, though."

General Francesco de Pinedo, Italy's onetime Chief of Staff for Aviation and round-the-world flyer, announced in Manhattan that he is thinking of raising potatoes in China. Said he: "There are 400,000,000 people in China and if every Chinese eats one potato a day that would be 40,000,000 kilos a day. That's a lot of potatoes."

In Chicago. Vincent Bendix, automotive and aviation accessories man. sold the famed, ugly, reddish-brown Potter Palmer "castle" on Lake Shore Drive to a speculative syndicate. Still owned by Potter Palmer Jr. are the mansion's famed murals.

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