| Show MODERN KNIGHT SAlliES FORT FOI I Sir William Hull Takes Tal Tak s U Up Gage Gage a of I Battle in a Novel Nove Crusade TO PRESERVE KNIGHTHOOD Impostors Believed to be bo Shattering The Dignity of Various Eng English English Engh lish h air Orders Special Correspondence London Lon on Nov No 13 In the old days Knights wore were crusaders who went forth to do battle for fair tall ladles ladies or to rescue the holy hol sepulcher from born the tine infidels The modern knight In England at least Is usually a 3 successful business businessman man who has gained his honor by heavy contributions to charities or to the cam campaign campaign fund fetid of ot one of the political cal par tires tics tI In Sir William Hull however Eng Hag England England Hagland land has today toda a knight who combines the qualities of successful business businessman businessman businessman man and crusader Sir William Is the tho th head hend of o one ono of ot tho the largest firms of so 50 solicitors In London a solicitor be It is known being a rr member of the tho lower grade of oC tho the profession proCession of tho the law and andIn andIn andin In addition to attending to his legal business ho Is always engaged In some crusade clu ad His most famous crusade crusado Is Js that to maintain the dignity of the knighthood which he feared was waa becoming obscured by the carelessness of oC the public and of tho the knights themselves not to speak of tho conduct of persons calling rolling them themselves themselves themselves selves knights who have no right to the th title Sir William came Coune to the front and anti formed the Society of Knights Bachelor of at which ho Is registrar for forthe forthe the purpose of protecting the dignity of oC the knights and exposing the impostors A Knight Bachelor Is a 3 common or garden gaiden knight who does not belong to toone toone toone one of tho the great orders of or knighthood like the Garter or the tire Bath honors which are generally reserved for tor great noblemen or successful soldiers Tho The orders all have havo their official resistors registers so 50 that an impostor claiming to be a member of oC one of them would soon be exposed but there is no record of oC the tho knights bachelor except the simple an announcement announcement announcement in the tho official gazette ette on the tho day da after aCter they have hae been dubbed by b the king Sir William is agitating for tho the creation of ot an official register which shall contain the name nano of oC every everyone everyone everyone one entitled to call himself a knight HAS WRITTEN BOOKS He Ho has hns also written a couple of or books bookson on the history of knighthood tracing It back to the time of ot Charlemagne and proving It to be the tho oldest dignity aft after after er cr royalty in existence The king Wong has accepted a copy of oC tho books and has expressed his Isis thanks to Sir William for Isis his researches Sir William rill lam also has hns proved that for hundreds of years knighthood was tho only dignity con conferred conferred conferred for personal service to the sov sovereign SO sovereign or to tho the state In the old days there thero were no hereditary titles of no nobility nobility and their first appearance in Eng England England England land was vas as when whon the tho feudal and terri tern territorial terrItorial tonal and purely military title of or baron became hereditary Sir Williams latest crusade is against socialism which ho believes is a menace menaco to society and the state and liko Uko a true tru crusader ho he Is endeavoring to enlist the support of ot women Ho He has lias offered through the newspapers a series of scholarships to women who wish to qualify as ant lecturers which will 11 be sufficient to support them during the tho period of oC study stud and as a leading member of oC the league he rte promises that there throne will be bo plenty pIcot of or work worle for them when they are qualified Women he Ire believes arc aro the most effective propagandists and he declares that with an ass efficient army of women lecturers he will kill tho the Social Socialist Socialist 1st movement in England Englana before many man years |
