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Show who's k NEWS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated features WNU Service.) NTEW YORK. One bright, sunny 1 day in July, 1920. King Christian Chris-tian X of Denmark, mounted on a beautiful white horse, led his troops across a Military Force boundary line fs New Problem to reclaim the c n l v northern part For Danish King of Schleswig, lost to the Germans In 1864. Den- mark had been crippled in the worm war, suffering much more than Norway Nor-way and Sweden, but somehow she had managed to save her little kingdom. king-dom. The king, addressing a cheering cheer-ing throng, hailed the organization of international law and order, under un-der which small nations could live in peace. The king, who is six feet, six inches tall, the tallest man in his kingdom, recruited a guard of the tallest and handsomest young men he could And, but none so tall as he. They were gorgeously uniformed and the ceremony of the changing of the guard might have been readied read-ied by Franz Lehar. But many times, the king reminded his people that all this was merely appropriate appropri-ate ceremonial, and that Denmark's safety lay in keeping In the vanguard van-guard of civilization, and not in armed forces. Last summer, under great nervous nerv-ous tension, he seemed to feel that the pozers of darkness were closing clos-ing in, and suffered a serious illness. ill-ness. Today, with the fate of Denmark Den-mark resolved in far-ranging and desperate issues, the old king, near-ing near-ing 70, yields to the inevitable. The New world structure of law and order or-der has fallen and Denmark is one of many casualties. At the age of 28, Christian married mar-ried Alexandrine, princess of Meck-lenburg-Schwerin. When he was crowned in May, 1912, the Danish populace was prepared to dislike him, descendant of an alien dynasty as he was, and there were some overt demonstrations against him. But he won his people with his furtherance fur-therance of a liberal, constitutional government. Although he was trained as an army officer, and had a liking for military pomp, he frequently fre-quently denounced militarism and opposed efforts to get his tiny country coun-try goose-stepping and arming. While he was proud of having the tallest and most resplendent guard in Europe, he slipped away from his bodyguards at every opportunity and enjoyed tremendously bicycling around Copenhagen. unattenrioH Into the ruck with Denmark's gains of two decades goes what probably has been the world's most succes-ful succes-ful state-sponsored industrial and agricultural co-operation. PMIL HURJA, big. Babe Ruthian political statistician and preci-sionist, preci-sionist, who greatly aided the early New Deal by charting the public Political Field la'Cold Mine' the Garner ToEmilHurja for,ces F miliarity with assaying in the gold fields inspired his system of getting the mill-run of public sentiment. He once told this reporter about his interesting "IT1- . Taki"g a start from the wilds of the Michigan peninsula when he was 18. notes from his diary di-ary might be something like this- Rode the rods on the way to Seattle. Seat-tle. Found more comfort in the cattle car. Landed in Yakima, did this and that, and finally got to Seattle. Since I had learned to set type at the age of nine. I convinced the Post-Intel Ugencer I was a newspaper man Managed to get by. but realign an education might help, so started grabbing one off the side at the On, versity of Washington. Found D Henry Suzallo. the president, was the greatest man I ever met. Dr. Suzallo said Henry Ford want d him to send somebody on his peace ship and it mignt as be me. Went on the peace ship; catm. home and rammed around the Tex oil fields and then got to AlaSk real SmUh' w"o had " real gold mine. Came bar-i, h and got into WaU Street Began assaying political mother odes; got so i could ,e 0 1 would get a string of color I found I was assistant to Mr Jam Farley, chairman of the nan 1 Democratic committee Uai Like Mr. Garner. rather live under a gove J TU'd 'e ben by Fii,P,nogsoih ru:;d;run government run like h 8 Americans." Nw with t by casting oft. but he is dir-i, for a re-exilian 0 le' 'or oroblem. Ph"'PPUir |