Show Jice Shuns High Now B Mingles y With Common People r a rys r et eta y wounded blind I I I i I I I e tX y k i 1 i 1 I I II Lydia lie chic VAloS out for a th him walk w X s t Goti down in a coal mine Shaki with tear By Dr MILTON E Sen Ire Correspondent nt LO LONDON For LONDON For DON for president of Great Edward Britain Edward Windsor of ot Wales Y I The D Britten Isles haven't yet thrown royalty overboard and the theres there's es e's no immediate prospect of England becoming a republic But Dut It If it ever should happen and the sturdy British voters should look about for tor a chief executive executive- executive Ills His royal highness I the ho ha Sc would be on odds-on favorite orito to make mako the tho campaign In other words England's dee dee- dec decorative prince J has been boen making So elt aro popular with tho the r k and file tile that ho could win tiny any kind of ot an election they cued cared to 10 hold NOTHING TO UX I The Prince o of Wales gales lias has vey c ve y little to learn from any baby kisa baby kl baby Ing Ing the rulo campaign campaign- campaigners ers rs In the American fried American tried chicken belt He lie has lias caught on to all ll the old ld tricks trick of ot cultivating popularity with the he masses and has thought up a lot of new ones You may base haic noticed a It change In the news about the prince of oC late Ite You dont don't hear h so much about hw hia fallin falling falling- oft off playing polo attending high class te s or open open- opening open Ins Ins ing state slate balls Instead you ou read of ot him go- go goIng go going ing Into coal mines shaking hands with football players going out ot of his way to dance daneo with poor Ioor girls from tho lower daises classes and with v ex service hob fobbing men Not long ago hgo go the prince an- an announced announced an announced that owing to the great greal pressure on his time he could no longer accept Invitations to din din- dinners dinners din dinners ners and luncheons luncheons given gis Inn en by Various vari vari- various various ous societies and clubs unless they happened to bo be organizations organisations of he ho wa- wa waa a member and In which Ich he took an nn active interest the he truth ruth of ot the Hie I ho matter was as III that at he ha h was getting gelling fed ced up lIes lles democratic by nature and nature hos ho's also a clever campaigner AMtS U TU Il C Elt EltOn On the heels of ot this announce announce- announcement announcement ment mont It began beean to be noticed the prince prineo was over to the very ery democratic South Side lo ot of London to 10 att attend nd dances given by byI bynn byan I Ian nn service ex-service mens men's outfit lie Ho HoI mingled l with w the former Tom Tom- Tommies I mica mies as liS an equal danced many dances with Lydia 1 Buckle Huckle ri a- a pret- pret pretty pret-ly pret I ty little restaurant cashier danced ilso also with tho the wife of ot a grocer end ind with Ith the Aster cister ot of ot a druggist Society had hardly digested this when the prince who was too busy buoy to otten attend 1 any more society functions slipped sUpped away with only an equerry la In attendance and went to the East Enst End nd where pov- pov poverty pov poverty erty reigns He had heard that the Mile End nd branch of the the Brit Brit Brit- British 1511 ish legion was giving gl a concert concertIn concertIn In a parish house and since ho he enjoys good ringing of ot popular songs he wanted to attend And he bo did tie lie about the tho hall shaking haking hands and chatting right and Ie left ct and finally perched on ona ona ona I a bench filled n i old pipe and contentedly putted puffed away while Itc e paid strict attention to the program Came an James Mead member r of ot the Stepney Borough Dorough council L and ardent sup sup- supporter sup supporter porter of ot plans plane to help the Iho ex- ex service ex-service service men owns OH 0 us liS a 0 tavern across the the the Bricklayers Arms He a approached the thc prince and asked It if his royal highness would care to step across I the tho street nn have and and have er cr have one WS IllS HIS OWN BIER BUEK The prince prince- went Into the crowded bar Iw Ice and Stead stalked Mead MeRd stalked looked and T TAe e up rubbed their yes ryes Why its it's the prince Hes a n St Stepney pney man I sport he lie is is Followed CU and a er cry Vl you ou A glass ft fot of beer sald ald the prince And Anil Ill I'll draw it m- m my myself self He lie dill did di l with great deftness Ile He drank with similar deftness Then he went back for the rest reit of ot the concert and gave la little Hettie Warner Varner 12 whole singing he es- es especially es especially liked an autograph for her album When he ho finally left the where poor tenements and frowsy pubs abound the last lie I thing bo heard was a thul chorus For 0 lies lie's a n Jolly Good GoodFellow GoodFellow GoodFellow Fellow Fellow- And there you are Prince Ed- Ed Edward Edward Ed Edward ward has learned a n thing or two Ho He has found the way to popularitY popularity larity And the tho Communists and Socialists and others who want Britain to turn republic are aro con con- confronted con confronted fronted by the amazing fact that It If it did Eddie EdlIe Windsor would probablY be bo elected president Copyright 1926 NEA Service Inc |