"How Small a Place. . "

They laid Frank Bartlette Willis to rest in Delaware, Ohio, the town he had set out to make as famed as Marion. Congressmen and captains of industry attended the funeral. A Willis memorial fund was begun. Messages of condolence continued pouring in on Mrs. Willis, especially long ones from her dead husband's colleagues in the Senate. No message moved her more than a Senate message which came, not from a Senator, but from Richard L. ("Deacon") Riedel, a religiously-inclined boy commonly recognized in the Senate wing of the Capitol as Senator Willis' favorite Senate page.

Wrote Richard Riedel:

"I was lonely to-day at the Senate with the thought that I shall never again in this world see those liquid brown eyes, that radiant, pure and majestic face or hear the cheery voice of the Senator I loved. . . .

"How small a place the Presidency of the United States would have been compared to the exalted position he now occupies. . . ."