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Show j By EARLE C. REEVES. (International News Servfcc Staff Cor-respondent), Cor-respondent), t LONDON, April 21. The court of j Engand's strenuous king, who now in ' peace time continues the Intorest in things of the people which won him I popularity during the war, will within a few days movo to Holyrood, Scot-' Scot-' land, for a resL I The royal family spent the Easter I holidays in the fortress-like castle at I Windsor, where the king gained a few days uninterrupted resu Already he I has planned that the visit to the royal J Scottish residence shall not be all pleasure. He plans a run into the industrial district of the Clyde to inspect the work which Britain hopes will put her far ahead of any possible competition In tho ocean freightage of the world. In tho accounts of kingly duties and accomplishments, as written by the pencils of English reporters, there is obviously always the note of venera-, venera-, tion for kingship, which presents tho duties of the monarch in the best possible pos-sible Hghu But shorn of this natural nat-ural pride In kingship, the chronicle of the king's day reads like anything but historic revolations of emperors of by-J The king's direct duties of government govern-ment are slight. But the social duties nnd requirements, of his position are of such magnitude as to be difficult of comprehension. When the king ol the largest empire in the world has known makes racing meets notable by his attendance, at-tendance, it is merely the expected thing, for racing has always been the "sport of kings." But there is nothing in the orthodox ortho-dox blue book of duties for the occupant occu-pant of Buckingham Palace which says he must attend tho sports of the people, the great football mutches Avhich are played before crowds of fifty fif-ty and a bundled thousand. Yet he has whirled through the dust of miles of London streets to three or four big suburban matches within the past month. Frequently, without warning, and minus all pomp, he suddenly appears ap-pears at some minor schoolboy affray, a classic annual " rag" or something ol the sort. .The ridiculous antics seem to be undampened by the pros-ence pros-ence of royalty. |