POLITICAL NOTES: Personages

Prediction. Said 93-year-old Chauncey Mitchell Depew last week: ". . . With a ringing speech by some leading Republican, I anticipate there will be a stampede, followed by a unanimous call to Mr. Coolidge to accept a renomination. I don't believe any human being could resist such a draft.... If I remember correctly I am the only man twice invited by acclamation to address a Republican National Convention, and without a time limit. I'd like to do it once more."

Satisfied. Governor Wallace Rider

Farrington of Hawaii was in Washington last week to call on President Coolidge, confer with the State Department, refresh his memory of the capital whence comes his power, and to "talk up" Hawaii. He was asked (by pressmen) how he would like to be Governor General of the Philippines. Said he: "Why talk about impossibilities? I am building a house in Honolulu and I have a newspaper" there. I am perfectly satisfied where I am."

Annapolis '81. One plot in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., is set aside for members of the Class of 1881 of the U. S. Naval Academy. This plot was dug open last week to receive a casket from Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, containing the body of onetime (1921-25) U. S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks, who died July 12, 1926. Chief of Chaplains of the Army John T. Axton (see p. 11) read the committal service.