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Show THE KING SETTLES DOWN TO WORK Atlantic Might lakes 4d Hours Two-Wa- y IGeorge VI Faces Task of Dignifying Monarchy by Emulating Hi: Father, hut It Should Be Easy for Him. I-a- te to X v. , 4 v :.yi v - h j ' - " ' ir T-- iMKo.. VV"'"' V J if r" SgaW-(( 21 hours and two minutes and the westward fllght took 24 visited London for the coronat:on and brought back photographs andfiV cflhe coronTon cemonles. The flyers landed in NewYork 35 seconds less than five days alter they toc from Floyd Bennett field on the eastward flight. Tte eiVtwTrf paVsaw took CALLED SPAMSn Speed Mt. Riifrhmore Memorial and Queen Elizabeth, George now that the pomp and circumstance of the coronation is a thing of the past, face the task of satisfying the British heart by emulating King George V and Queen Mary. VI the reign of Edward VIII to upset the Crown of England, but it did tip ever o little. The task of the government and the present monarch is to et it straight again. ; - - CSSandr mJ V 1 Saw- - It takes more than an incident like f. v SPY of his moods. He frequently inspects By WILLIAM C. UTLEY electrical plants, cotton mills, tex- tile factories, that the coronation is over what of the telephone offices, warehouses and shipyards, and he and Their will king queen? "big day" past, they knows every industrial section, evinto that quiet dignity of family life and imperial ery slum, in Great Britain. These duty which has characterized British ruling families for have proved a valuable a hundred years, with the exception of a brief, but recent, period? course to Cambridge, for there NOW post-gradua- That is just what they will do. For that is gust what the British government intended they should do when it so swiftly moved to rid the Empire of the eldest son of George V, that his brother might be hurried to the throne. George VI and Elizabeth have a job cut out for them: That is to live and reign just as nearly as did his parents as they possibly can. Only by such a program can the Crown, greater in significance than any king who wears it, recover completely from the jolt its dignity received under Edward VIII. So long have British kings been above reproach, above even criticism or controversy, few who recognize the task now set before George VI also realize that he is not the first of his line to have faced it. Indeed, Queen Vctoria, a hundred years ago, successfully undertook to restore the dignity of the crown in the face of a far greater crisis than the present one, if the present can be called a crisis at all. Queen "Vic" had to undo the bad work of a whole series of incompetent rulers. Crown Is Symbol. In this case the Crown has only tipped ever so slightly. But for the safety of the Empire it must not be allowed to tip at all. The immense Job of promotion which the government applied to the coronation which would not have been nearly had so magnificent or it not been for the events of the preceding year was the second step in righting it. The abdication of Edward was the first. It will not do here to go into the actual meaning of the Crown itself In too great length, for that has been done time and again in the American press during the weeks leading up to the coronation. Suffice it to say that the Crown is a symbol of the emotional bonds which hold the Empire together. The dominions and territories which make up the Empire remain in it because they cherish the protection of the British navy or the advantages of British trade, or because by nature or blood they are fundamentally British. But they are government-allindependent states; the actual expression of their unity is found in their love for and allegiance to the Crown. The Crown in itself is virtually abstract. The man who wears it provides them with a real, respectable person, a concrete object for their devotion if he is the right sort of ruler. When ascended the Edward throne, the Crown had enjoyed three rulers in a row who so perfectly exemplified the British ideal that Britons had begun to believe the monarchy itself (not the monarch) was The short permanently perfect. reign of Edward jarred them abruptly out of this misconception. Such an idealistic view of the monarchy also increased the public indignation to his shortcomings all out cf proportion to their importance. Falls Readily in Line. Edward VIII became openly, sharply criticized in a manner entirely foreign to his three predecessors. The fact that the press had withheld reports of his romance with Mrs. Simpson and the impending crisis until only eight days before he abdicated only served to increase tha shock when it did arrive. The prestige of the monarchy suddenly dropped to the lowest point in many years. George V was known ns n fnther to his people, a family man, a of the court und a country gentip-j.-- : a'roiv'v 1. IT s smintl well-attende- d y s-- i:- - much like him, although he is of another generation, more progressive in many activities but all of them highly respectable and commendable. He is not destined to furnish anything new for the gossips, once they run out of wind. At forty-on- e (a fresh, boyish he has reigned six months and in that short time has returned a dignity to the throne worthy of the best efforts of a much older and more experienced man. He seems willing enough to fall in line with the idea that he should emulate his late father. He goes to church regularly and has brought back to the Buckingham Palace chapel the daily prayers that were absent during the Whether reign of his brother. prompted by the case of Edward or by the strict rules of the Church of England, he has made the slightest suspicion of divorce excuse to refuse anyone aspiring to the honors of the court. That he may have expert advice in following his father's footsteps, he has returned to the post of private secretary to the king his father's friend, Lord Wigram. Other members of the old king's household have likewise returned. The country seat of the family at Sandringham, Norfolk, will be carried on as it was under George V. The tenants who left under the "economy" of Edward are coming back. Even his father's racing stable and loft of pigeons are to remain intact. Newspapers of England have helped him to build up the resemblance to his father by calling attention to it at every opportunity, even to the statement that his signature, "George R. I.", is penned in strikingly similar fashion to the way his father wrote it, despite the fact that he prints the "It. I." while his father wrote it in longhand. Has Retiring Nature. He is expected to become, Indeed he has become, admired by Britons for the way in which he has surmounted personal handicaps. He is quite at ease in public today, delong spite the forced upon him by illness which required his quitting the na"y and by stammering which all but tied An operation upon his tongue. his stomach restored his health some time ago, until he has become an accomplished athlete, and persistent. training under an Australian specialist so corrected his stammering until today he rarely ever does it, except under the most exciting conditions. Long subjection to the more dynamic personality of his older brother as well as long periods of ill health have left him with rather a retiring nature, so that there is likely to be no more idle gossip about him than there was about George V. The raciest tales told about him concern his revealed ability to cuss when some sailors interfered with his and when the microphone failed in a public hall where he was speaking. Oh, yes, and the time at college when he was fined for smoking in the street while wearing cap and forty-o- ne), life-lon- g semi-retireme- shark-fishin- g gown. Yet in some ways he differs from his sire. He does not live quite so much the life of the court; rather would he spend the days in the country, at his preat, white house in the park at Windsor, with the queen ard his children. lie has the interest in industry thpt chru ;k'Um'' 'o ld.nd in one s he developed a real interest in the problems of capital and labor. Housing, citizenship, property and state, and welfare" were other subjects which were important among his studies. Elizabeth Follows Mary. George VI is definitely of mechanical bent. He served in the forward turret of twelve-incguns on the battleship Collingswood in the battle of Jutland. He can take an automobile apart and put it back together without having pieces left over. He is a good airplane pilot. He loves to operate model railroad systems and motion picture cameras. He has even been known to take the throttle of an actual railroad locomotive. Queen Elizabeth should do equally well in her task of filling the shoes of Queen Mother Mary. She's a gal after Mary's own heart. The fact that she is the first commoner to become queen in 250 years further endears her to the British imag- 1 h secre-tar- y The heads and shoulders of President Washington and President Jefferson, sculptured in the solid granite of South Dakota's Black Hills, receive the finishing touches as workmen begin work on the last figure, that of President Lincoln. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, recently announced that he expected to have the major work on Mount Rushmore, near Rapid City, completed by next year, leaving the finishing touches for 1939. GETS WHITE HOUSE JOB ' A Jose de Gregorio, former at the Spanish embassy in Washington whose name was mo tioned by Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota when he said that Spanish spies in this country ar seeking to "violate American Pole Vault Aces Set New Record : ination. Elizabeth's family is one of a type that every commoner knows and admires. Her brothers are not captains of regiments, but captains of industry, one of them chairman of one of Durham's largest firms. Her family rates high in Scotland, but no member of it would think of approaching her at any court function. Just as she is the first commoner queen since Henry VIII took Catherine Parr as his sixth wife in 1543, she is the first woman of Scotland to become queen since Henry I married Matilda of Scotland in 1100. Never a "modern," Elizabeth shied away from most society, was noted for her lack of interest in fancy clothes. She was small in stature and rather plump, with a flashing smile and a pleasant freshness of manner; in short, she was a simple country girl. Since becoming queen she has been observed to become more particular in her dress and more interested in coal-minin- iM (;; g "j Miss Katherine Gilligan, twenty-six- , of Lawrence, Mass., who has been named as new secretary for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, now serving as secretary tt his father. The pole vault twins of the of Southern California at Palo Alto who recently set a new University world mark of 14 feet 8'i inches in the vault event in a dual meet with Stanford. Left: Earl Meadows; right: Bill Sefton, captain of the U. S. C. team. society. Mt. Holyoke Honors Women College Heads Enjoys Boys' Camp. Like King George, she loves to visit among the people, is frequently seen at orphanages, hospitals and the like. George is particularly interested in institutions of this kind, especially when they concern boys, for he is still a boy and an active one at heart. One of the chief pleasures of the king's life is the annual summer camp for public school boys and working boys which he established shortly after leaving Cambridge. He likes to visit it himself and the year 1934 is the only one since establishment of the camp when he has failed to accompany the youngsters. Donning shirt and shorts imme- diately upon arrival, he mingles with the crowd, swaps stories with them and is a figure in the campfire gatherings of an evewell-love- d ning. These are not the only times when he has become surprisingly human. More than once, the story is told, crowds waiting for him at a railroad station have been shocked and delighted to find him alighting from the cab, grimy with grease and dirt, rather than stepping clean and white from a comfortable coach. But these things will probably occur much less often now that he has dedicated himself to becoming a carbon copy of his father. That that is certainly what he intends to do is further proved by the latest reports from London: He is reported to be growing a beard. The crown is safe! Western Newspaper t'nlon. Dr. Katherine K nnf I Gildcrslecve of r hardt of Mills col! (left C. r ur Ti Hn If - re Mr Pemhrnko college and Dr. Aurc.. ,.VL.'. ,u",!,r"1 u HCL'rppq nt ho rntonninl CC.t '.'luidiy tiuii i to nnht) u-h- r Mount Holycke col OL'r r.t SlnntU tl.,,li it. Holyoke Female S !"'' arv in 1!!.",7. 1G' in title present Lending alumnae from lion, me cum is i ". : , ..r.,::i. v t ' COl'RO w:is founded by Marv : , i 14 Vlifi" A '" atatr.'s Lvo:i returned for the center. - .is n i It" rt |