Monday, Nov. 19, 1923
(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)
Calvin Coolidge: "In Washington, the crew of the Presidential yacht Mayflower were enrolled for membership in the Red Cross. In making receipts it developed that the name of the ship's cook was A. Cake."
Dr. Emile Coue, day-by-day man: "According to an announcement by the Director of the National Coue Institute at No. 276 W. 70th St., Manhattan, I am to return to the U. S. for 'more clinics' on Jan. 12, 1924."
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: "Two students of Keystone School, an experimental institution which Mrs. Pinchot has organized in Harrisburg, are credited with co-authorship of the following school yell:
"Sock 'em in the eyeball,
Sock 'em in the jaw,
Keystone, Keystone!
Rah, Rah, Rah!
"The co-authors are Gifford Pinchot, Jr., and ' Steve' Stahlnecker, son of my secretary. The pupils, most of whom are between seven and nine years of age, practice the yell while on their way to and from school."
Mrs. Gifford Pinchot: "Sustaining my husband's position on prohibition, I addressed the members of the League for Political Education, at Town Hall, Manhattan. 'Regardless of what the women of Philadelphia or New York City may think,' said I, 'the women of the Main Streets of the villages throughout the United States are back of the enforcement of the law.' I said that I was opposed to the proposed 'equal rights' Amendment to the Federal Constitution (see page 4). 'Such a change,' said I, 'would nullify laws protecting women in many states.'"
Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate of England: "The press reported that I had 'broken my long silence' and had given to the world the following message for Armistice Day: 'On all sides we see pleasure-seeking, indulgence and extravagance. A sense of duty will bring us that full and true happiness which a little amusement did provide.
'"Gentlemen, courage, wisdom and endurance;
" 'These are the seals of our most firm assurance--
" 'These are the spells by which to reassume
"'An Empire over this disentangled doom.'"
Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish poet-author: "I made speeches in Manhattan. Said I: 'There is very little of honor, justice or dignity in this country as compared with England. You are also vulgar. . . . You have no shame, no sense of humor. . . . The opinion of a prize- fighter is sought regarding the merits of a judge to be elected and is printed in four-pound superlative waste in your papers.'"
Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary: " In an address in London, I stated that I had ' groaned throughout my lifetime under the cruel brand of an undergraduate gibe.' Years ago while I, as President of the Oxford Union, conducted university debates, a classmate hurled at me a five-lined rhyme which began:
"My name is George Nathaniel Curzon
And I am a most superior person.
"This rhyme has frequently appeared of late in the public prints. And it has sometimes been supplemented by the information that the motto appearing on the Curzon arms is 'Let Curzon holde what Curzon helde', and the statement that our crest is described in heraldry as 'a popinjay rising, wings displayed'."
The Earl Birkenhead: " Said I in a speech to Glasgow University students: 'The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout arms and sharp swords, and it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future nations will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race. It is for us, therefore . . . to maintain in our own hands adequate means for our own protection and, so equipped, to march with head erect and bright eyes along the road to our imperial destiny'."
Charles M. Schwab: "In Budapest, the husband of Mrs. Schwab's niece, one Titus de Bobula, an American, was arrested on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the Hungarian Government."
Albert Cabell Ritchie, Governor of Maryland: "In a speech at Hagerstown, William F. Anderson, M. E. Bishop, of Ohio, described Governor Smith of New York and me as 'anarchists.' 'That,' said he, 'is the only term to apply to men who openly try to defeat a constitutional law!'"
Sir James M. Barrie, British playwright: " In London, attention was called to the fact that three plays by me--What Every Woman Knows at the Apollo, The Will (one-act) at the St. Martin's, Rosalind (one^act) at the Criterion--are running simultaneously, and that a fourth, The Little Minister, would soon be revived. "
A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard University: "After their football victory at Princeton, some of my students sang a new paean:
"The Harvard throng is marching,
Thund'rous are the voices;
A hundred thousand footsteps
Sound in measured tread.
All Harvard's sons are gath'ring
On Harvard's day of triumph.
The crimson banners flourish
Above fair Harvard's gates.
"My sister, Miss Amy Lowell, is a poetess. But she did not write this."