Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-15 | Page 10 | Make New Friends, but Lose Old Ones

I MAE Mi NE V FR FES EN S BUI T LOSE LSE LD ONES I DINNER WITH KING ANGERS MANY LABOR SUPPORTERS 4 4 ft u ut aC t I II I i 4 k 4 rp S IS F q I A 1 I lilts jilts James Thomas airs Mra Jr Jack Jcl Clyn's and anel Mrs Mr's PhIl n Left Len to Right Who With Their La Labor Labor- r Husbands Dined With lIh the tue King Ring and Queen LONDON LONDO L ONDON 14 Jack Jael ck dynes Clynes was as a mill hand band In Oldham Mary Eli DIL Harper also there Ho He was as 18 IS and she site was as 16 I The They fell Cell In love lose After six siJ years earS earSCh Ch nes left the mill for a 0 better Job He lie became organizer of the Gas Worker union at 7 7 50 a aw w 1 Ihen 1 lien hen he ho married Jim Thomas started work ork on the Great Western estern rail railway ay when hen he was as nine ears old When he was making 6 SS a week eek he married Agnes Hill Hili The young couple kept hept house In tn two 0 rooms At 11 30 e eer esery er night as the oung engineer ran the mail mall train past pst his home hon le Ie used to blow a long loud blast blat on the whistle just to let his little bride know he lie was stag thinking ot 01 other her Phil Snowden had been flats He lIe had a regular Job In the go But Slut he o gaso that up to take tale a chance is as i a free freelance freelance lance In the ne newspaper spa per world orld It was as then Ihen that he met Ethel Anna Anna- Annakin kin Anna kin a pretty English school teach teach- teacher teacher er Soon afterwards ards they were ere married 4 a a aAll I All of these three couples hate have known liar hard ILard times All ha have base e known what it Is to count their means do down n to the last penny All have n Ilmo known what hat it is to run an humble home on humble resources I And the other day they put their feet under tho the mahogany in the tho magnificent tow to town ton n house of or Viscount I and Astor where here they dined with the lung king and queen I Jack Jach and ansI Jim and Phil and their wives wises ale aie still tili poor But Dut they arc are somebody The three husbands are leaders ot of the Labor party of Great Britain the second party in the th pal and e the of- of official of official opposition to the present gO go 1 Tho he present Tory government has had three recent smashing deJ de defeats teats de feats In elections by Thi e co mem- mem members mem members bers of its cabinet were ere defeated b by Labor candidates And many comfortable Tories ha had cold shiv- shiv shivers shiv shivers ers But the king Icing and queen didn't S The Tho king is above e parties and doesn t pia play politics But nut he does dols pta pia the role of oC the Ille tile constitutional monarch who HUs to meet tha th leaders of all the parties In his I kIngdom That's 1 hats hat's why he told Lady Nancy Astor Ator he would be glad to mt meet t the Labor leaders at dinner When they came they made a 0 couple of new friends but lost s a hot host of old ones British laborites dont don't seem to like the idea of their leaders bob bob- hobnobbing with Ith I loyally o alty Perhaps It was as Jealousy perhaps fear tear but the they made the three who attended the dinner do a lot of eXI Por they felt that they didn t be- be belong belon be belong long lon long And Jack Jim and Phil ern St eren t sure until they got to Vis- Vis Viscount Vis Viscount count Astor s home a a a People who dine with the Icing ansI and queen dont don't talk about what as said and done but hut I am In- In informed In Informed formed that when hen the gentlemen lingered In the dining room over their port and cigars Mary Clynes Agnes Thomas and Ethel Snowden had a great time with Queen Mary Iary Windsor talking about George Henry Hubert his his pro progress ress his brightness Who ho Is George Henry Hubert HubertHe lIe Ho Is la the queens queen's first grand grand- grandchild grandchild grandchild child the son of Princess Mary