"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Henry Cabot Lodge, able journalist (New York Herald Tribune}, setting out after his Senator-grandfather's footsteps, announced his candidacy for State Representative in Massachusetts.

On the boulders of Dogtown Common, part of Cape Ann near Gloucester, Mass., lately appeared carved legends such as "Prosperity Follows Service," "Be Clean," "Help Mother," "Get a Job," "Save." When one such marking, the simple number "31,"* was carved on a boulder on the property of Mrs. Leila Webster Adams, widow of Manhattan Architect Rayne Adams and descendant of early settlers, she rose up in protest, revealed the carver to be Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician. Explained Statistician Babson, whose family settled on Cape Ann in 1628: "The work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will take me some years to complete. ... In short, I believe young people when outdoors should see something besides advertisements to smoke certain brands of cigarets and to use certain soaps to return that schoolgirl complexion."

Upon Don Miguel Cruchaga, Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., strolling to his Embassy in a white linen suit, came Mrs-- Fred Albert Britten, wife of the Congressman. Chortled she: "Why, Mr. Ambassador, you look like a glass of milk!"

Banker John Pierpont Morgan stepped into a hole while tramping his Long Island estate, sprained his ankle.

Some 150 schoolteachers, touring the ranch of Publisher William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon, Calif., crashed through a temporary flooring into an empty, unfinished concrete swimming pool. Fifteen had to be taken in ambulances 60 mi. to San Luis Obispo.

Baron Howard of Penrith, Britain's one-time Ambassador to the U. S. (as Sir Esme Howard), fell downstairs in the House of Lords, cut his pate.

Dr. & Mrs. William H. Long of Somerville, N. J. sat in their home, contem plating the rock garden which had won a silver medal in a garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree. Out of the automobile, unhurt, stepped its driver, hulking Author Theodore Dreiser--

From his seclusion in Manhattan's Governor Clinton Hotel, where he lies for hours evolving mighty schemes without pencil or notebook, famed Scientist Nikola Tesla emerged as of old for his annual birthday interview with newsmen. Erect in a cutaway, carrying stick & gloves (although the day was hot), looking much younger than his 75 years, he chirruped spryly about two new inventions which he had made during the year: "When they are announced, one will be like the 100,000 trumpets of the Apocalypse. The other will be less sensational, but it, too, will be important. It will be like the shout with which Joseph's army brought down the walls of Jericho. . . ."-- Concerning the radio, of which his hotel has one in every room: "I know I'm its father/- but I don't like it. I just don't like it. It's a nuisance. I never listen to it. . . ."

Said hawk-nosed Dr. Robert Stephen Briffault, British surgeon, anthropologist and author (Breakdown: The Collapse of Traditional Civilization] to a reporter for the New York World-Telegram: "I have lived in this country a year but I am still impressed by the absolute cynicism of Americans. I have stopped bums on the street and asked, 'Why in God's name don't you do something about it?'** They have always answered, 'Oh, what's the use?' They live from day to day with nothing to fall back on but suicide, with no faith in the present, past or future. Yes. I think Americans are hopelessly stupefied by the humbug, hypocrisy, ballyhoo, and make-believe maintained by their leaders and by their institutions--the church, the State, and the schools."

* An index to an historical guidebook of Dogtown, compiled by Statistician Babson.

*Either Scientist Tesla or the New York Times reporter meant Joshua's army.

/-He sent wireless waves from a Colorado laboratory in 1899, the year Marconi established wireless communication between France and England. But he claims priority because he conceived his system in 1893.

**For talking in a similar vein, The American Freeman was last week declared treasonous, confiscated by the U. S. (see p. 24).

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