"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Paroled from the North Carolina State Penitentiary after serving 23 months of a six-to-ten year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. in 1930 was Colonel Luke Lea, 57, onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, long a potent Tennessee publisher & politician. With Son Luke Lea Jr., who spent 79 days in jail after a similar conviction, he scurried off to Nashville by automobile.
There citizens read newspaper extras announcing Lea's parole, ran wild, yowled: "Praise...
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