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Show BRIGHT NEW HANDLE TO NAME UP FOR SALE TITLES AT BARGAIN RATES WORRYING CONSERVATIVES Bf MILTON BRONNER. LONDON, Aug. 10, 'Ah, goo 1 morning sir. would you like a nice new- handle to your name'' We have some nice new fresh knight Moods, baronetcies and pe rages bright and dean from Ihe factory and going cheap this week." And the salesman hands you this prlei I tst Knighthood $ 50,000.. P.aronetcy 200.000 Baron 400.000 Viscount 4 50,000 Earl 500,000 Marquis ....... 600,000 It doesn't happen just like that but I conservative Britons view the present pres-ent wholesale selling of title! in tli it light FUSS KICKED DP. The latest fuss has been kicked cp over a list of knighthood! and pierages pier-ages handed out last June on I lo 01 caslon ol the kings blrthdaj Some of the recipients were ae- cused of being war profiteers The Old tale 'tbout sale of honors was whispered about. It has long b'-en believed, no mar-! ter which party was in power, thai the iiurt way for a rich man to get' IP '3 a handle to his name was to pour money into the political campaign chest of the party running the government gov-ernment li,vv- ver it remained for the Du'e of Northumberland, s Tory of tno Tories and ine greatest coal mine. 1 owner in Britain to come down to I actual figures. In a recent speech j in the house of lords he spoke of ; letters he had seen In which men! I specifically mentioned that for 10-I 10-I 000 to lLooo thej could obtain al knighthood for an aspirant. while; I baronetcies cost from 35,00n to; I c-to.ooo. I The dirke didn't spectficaiiv say whether he really believed or disbo-I disbo-I lleved these statements LORDS DISCREDITED. I The whole thing has served still further to discredit the already much I discredited house Of lords. Which Is I becoming largely a rich man's club. I Lome ago mine on.- derisivelv sail the upper house of parliament was no longer the peerage, U'it the "beer- oge " This was 11 reference to tin lords of the beer tradt who found .1 place In the upper chamber. But Since then there have been added many other trades. so that among the peers by birth and descent de-scent and the peers ecclesiastical, there al-.o sit, so to speak: The Marqut! of Whisky. The Karl of steel. The Viscount ot QrocSries. The Baron of Fish. |