Miscellaneous Mentions

A bill to establish a "Summer White House" somewhere west of the Mississippi where the President can "breathe the air of the West," will be introduced by Representative Lester J. Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa.

A boom for Senator James A. Reed for President which is rumbling around Kansas City, Mo., caused Publisher William Randolph Hearst to pause in that city and say: "I will be glad to get back in line with the Democratic party if they will nominate a real Democrat like Reed." Senator Reed said nothing, remembered that Publisher Hearst's friendship had been poison to many another candidate.

A visitor came last week to the U. S. He was Widgery Thomas, 87, onetime U. S. Minister to Sweden, who has spent most of his life on the southern tip of Scandinavia's peninsula and hopes to die there. He said: "What President Coolidge should do in order to assure that we get the right type of citizens is to wink both eyes at the number of Swedes that come to the United States and forget the restricted immigration quotas."

Frederick O'Byrne, wary New York commissioner of jurors, announced that citizens who failed to vote in the November elections would be placed on a "preferred list" of jurors.