TAFT NOW IS AN EXCELSIOR.
William Jewell Society, Nearly 70
Years Old, Frames Acceptance.
LIBERTY, MO., April 26. -- President William Howard Taft today accepted honorary membership in the Excelsior Literary Society of William Jewell College. His letter of acceptance is framed and hung in the society hall, together with one of Robert E. Lee, who was made an honorary member in 1868. The society was founded in 1940, and has turned out many noted men.