Monday, Dec. 03, 1923

(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)

C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: " F. W. Wile, Washington correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, brought to light last week the fact that 1, 53, unmarried, wealthy, am sending eight of my young cousins and nephews through school. Two of them are attending Virginia Military Institute, of which I, myself, am a graduate. He stated that I am also rebuilding a church, founded by my great-grandfather, at Big Stone Gap, Va., my home town."

Walter Hampden: "While taking a leap called for in the third act of Cyrano de Bergerac, I fell and broke a bone in my left foot. I finished the performance, but later it was found necessary to put the foot into a plaster cast and to discontinue performances until probably Dec. 10. Meanwhile we were scheduled to lose the big Thanksgiving houses."

William H. Taft: "I was awakened from my sleep by innumerable telephone calls from newspapermen. They said that radio fans had picked up a report that I was dead. Said I: 'So far as I know, the report is without foundation.' Then I marched back to bed."

John Pierpont Morgan: "Some time ago Mrs. Morgan and I visited the Thistle Chapel in the Cathedral of St. Giles, Edinburgh. We were so impressed by the art of the woodcarver, Sir Robert S. Lorimer, that we asked him to do the woodwork for our little church, St. John's, near Locust Valley, L. I. This Church has seen many pretty ceremonier. While the new woodwork is being installed services are being held in a garage on the estate of William D. Guthrie."

James W. Gerard, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany: "As protest against the Lausanne Treaty, I gave a lunch to 50 distinguished men at the Yale Club, Manhattan. The sense of the meeting as reported was that if the Senate ratifies the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey, the Stars and Stripes will be trailed in the mud by the weakest and lowest of all nations."

Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " On Saturday, Nov. 24, a day of football games--Syracuse vs. Nebraska, Army vs. Navy, Yale vs. Harvard--I broadcasted the follow-ing sentiment throughout the country through the medium of the Hearst newspapers: 'Hard at work in some office, or factory, on some farm, or in some department store are young men that later will push a button summoning today's football heroes to their orders for the day.

"'The quarterback of today will find himself all the way back, ten years hence, in many cases.'"