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Show ! Nobody Wants to Be a King "If I were king!" used to be said, years ago, with a sigh nf desire. Today it's said if at all with a shudder. This reflection is drawn from two current' news-items. One says that King George of England is to get a new motor car,, the : old one being five years of age and slightly creaky in the joints. The other item tells how the king's daughter, Princess Mary, is traveling around Irehnd "in a bullet-proof armored car." A quaint way to have a good time, we think. No American workingman. with a new car every other year, and a daughter, who goes everywhere safely and comfortably, com-fortably, sighs to be -a king, in 1928. And thus progresses (the world. |