Miscellaneous Mentions

Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina, whose Fabian policy in the investigation of the Aiken lynchings (TIME, Nov. 29) is well known, went out of office last week with this sentence in his farewell address: "I earnestly hope that law-abiding citizens will back up the prosecutions, that the jurors will have the courage to do their duty; that the perpetrators of this horrible crime may be brought to the bar of justice and dealt with as they deserve."

There was revolt in the village of Jolo on the island of Sulu in the territory of the Philippines. Two hundred Moros, led by Datu Tahil and his wife, Princess Tarhata Kiram, who is daughter of the Sultan of Sulu and a onetime University of Illinois coed, vexed the constabulary. Not wishing to shed the blood of her people, Princess Tarhata set forth last week to talk peace with Governor General Leonard Wood at Manila, to. ask him for a Moro governor for the island of Sulu.

Warden Thomas J. Tynan of Canon. City, Col., who defied former Governor Morley with machine guns (TIME, Jan. 17), handed his resignation to new Governor Adams last week.

Charles Birger, astute badman and bootlegger of Herrin, Ill., commented last week on the bombing and burning of his gang's love-nest, "Shady Rest" (TIME, Jan. 17). Said he: "This thing would never have happened if it hadn't been for the warrant charging me with murder that kept me from being at home when the Shelton gang called."

Jan. 16, 1927, the seventh birthday of the 18th Amendment, was celebrated by 20,000 ministers with sermons on the subject: "It is the Law; and It is a Good Law."

New York State, that nest of "Big Business, led the Union in 1926 in the production of hay, onions, cabbages, potatoes.

"Why, you're just a girl," beamed Vice President Dawes, on first meeting Marion Nevada Talley, prima donna. Then, taking a long drag at his pipe, he added: "Don't acquire temperament." Miss Talley enjoyed Washington last week; Senator Capper of Kansas escorted her about the city; Senator Reed claimed her for Missouri; Senator Bruce, music lover, rushed up to be introduced; Senate page boys gaped; Mrs. Coolidge went to her concert.