Show II I A YA YANKEE ABROAD tOAD I By De Witt Ma Mack Mackenzie LONDON Dec 8 8 AP AP-A AP A pair pall of kings id Ij decidedly worth drawing to three kings certainly warrant a fair fall amount of peculation provided you ou dont don't overlook the fool who has hasan hasan hasan an uncanny faculty of filling a fluh fluch with a two two card card draw four kings should cause the average man he-man to reach f for r his most Intimate bit of haberdasher haberdashery and tender it as col col- lateral But what of the lone king What Is his value to anybody All of which Is by way of backIng backing backing back- back Ing as gracefully as possible into a n. delicate quest question m which is continually continually continually ally being asked me by American n visitors In Engl England nd They view with respectful Interest the colorful horse guard In Whitehall th they y gaze with bated breath on on the splendors of Buckingham palace they look with awe on the ancient grandeur o of Windsor castle and then not a few of them come come to tome me as an American long resident In Britain and demand Just what Is the use of It all What function Is performed by this king who costs the country so many millions Has he any powers at all or Is this merely stage play A nice easy eay problem to demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate demon demon- strate strate satisfactorily Yet there may maybe maybe maybe be a certain amount of us useful tul or or at least interesting information con con- tamed in a composite reply which I I myself have gleaned from British subjects in many parts of this greatest of all empires To begin with the people love the thero ro royal al tami family That may be somewhat somewhat some somo- what beside the point so far as logical log log- ical argument Is concerned but it seems worthy of note en passant A more important fact is that the Briton Is really a sentimental person per per- son son despite despite impressions which may prevail th that t he has hasa a phlegmatic disposition disposition and and love of tradition runs strongly In his veins He has always had a monarch monar h and he le likes the idea It is a glorified extension o of his deep rooted affection for his open fire his public school chool and his university Then too British subjects will tell teU you ou that In an empire made up of so 80 many units of such diverse complexions it Is necessary to have havea a titular he head d of state who is entirely entirely en en- en dissociated from politics They will go go so far as to say that If th thre re ra were no king emperor the empire empire empire em em- pire would dissolve This Is because because be because be- be cause the multitude of races which comprise the empire can acknowledge acknowledge acknowledge edge a ruler while they might not feel that they could recognize a cen- cen by the voters of the mother coun- coun Ira government created politically try l I |