Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday Morning, July 18, 1935. The New Immortals THE Hall of Fame is a unique institution admirably conceived and anonymously endowed to memorialize great Americans. It began in 1900, when 50 names were placed on tablets in the shrine at New York university. Every five years names are added. The committee on nominations has recently submitted to the college of electors the following six names from a list of 76 persons considered to be most worthy of consideration: Grover Cleveland, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Henry George, Cyrus H. McCormick and Henry D. Thoreau. It is very difficult to decide the relative greatness of men. For that reason it is necessary to wait until they have been dead for some time, for only thus can their achievements be seen in perspective. Society, moreover, is jealous of its chief gift fame, an intangible reward, to be sure, but one which most people prize very highly. Societies differ, however, in their methods of rewarding greatness. Consider, for instance, the time honored method of canonizing a saint. Whenever a great character is so venerated (which is never less than 50 years after his death) a formal ceremony is held at the Vatican, over which his holiness, the pope, presides. These unique ceremonies were employed a few weeks ago when Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher were canonized. These men, it will be recalled, were beheaded by command of Henry VIII in 1535 for refusing to subscribe to the act of supremacy by which the king wished to make himself supreme head of the church. One of the biographers of Bishop Fisher has said that, as a champion of the rights of conscience and as the only one of the English bishops that dared resist the kings will, Fisher commends himself to all. It was Sir Thomas More, then lord chancellor, who made the famous statement that no parliament could make a law that God could not be God; no more can parliament make the king the supreme head of the church. The recent canonization of Thomas More calls attention, also, to his unusual literary work, especially the Utopia. This essay, originally published in Latin in 1516, was the first of a series of dissertations on various aspects of social reform by all sorts of writers. The word utopia is now a common word in our language and signifies any ideal society. Mores Utopia was an isolated island where the ideal of the greatest good to the greatest number became a reality. Everyone was required to work for at least six hours a day. The disagreeable tasks were assigned to persons convicted of crime. All had a voice in government and a perfect democracy existed. Children were required to attend school and those who displayed special talents were given advanced training for social leadership. Competent and Deserving MISS MOLLIE G. LAMB of Omaha, vice chairman of the western division of the National Federation of Business and Professional Womens Clubs, during a stopover in Salt Lake City en route to the biennual convention at Seattle, declared that there are many women who are capable of filling the job of president of the United States, but I dont believe one could poll enough votes to be elected. In almost every line of business, women have made splendid records according to the opportunities available. In the professions they are winning recognition, not only because of their ability and success, but by reason of the numbers so engaged. In the United States women who are physicians or surgeons number 6825; veterinary surgeons, 111; chiropractors, 2713; osteopaths, 1563, and dentists, 1287. There are some lady jurists and 1738 women lawyers. They are found in about every line of human endeavor, including other professions than those named. Women teachers in the United States number 635,207; musicians, 72,787; preachers, 17,787; artists, 14,617; editors, 5730, and chemists, 1714. As to barbering, whether it be listed as a trade, art or profession, there are 33,246 women so employed. Not long ago, Miss Lillian D. Rock, vice president of the National Association of Women Lawyers, predicted that, within ten years, there will be a female vice president of the republic. As a matter of fact, there is a league, with headquarters in Brooklyn, whose mission is to put women in the executive offices as president and vice president of the United States. Miss Hock declares the brain that can solve the economic problems of the home is certainly keen enough to play a leading part in politics. Far be it from any discreet male to dispute this sententious observation by an obviously unmarried lady who may have heard her maiden aunts discuss household economics; but a woman can play a leading part in politics, without knowing how to keep house. It has been demonstrated many times. If it were not for an admission of the first lady of the land that the country is not nearly ready for a woman president, men might be tempted to work for repeal of another constitutional amendment. WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY