The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-12-08
FORCE A KINGS HAND
Portugal Nay Ignore Carlos
and Call Parliament.
GEN. BOOTH LIKES AMERICANS
Holds Them Superior TO English, Al
though money Mad" and Given to
Suicide-WireIess Telephone May
Span AtIansic-CIaimant Appears
for Page Fortune in England.

London, Dec 7.-Portugars antigoYern-
ment leaders will meet tomorrow 10 de-
eide whether Parliament shall gather in
January in defiance Of King Carlos re-
fusaI to call it together
An affirmative decision will amount
practically TO a declaration Of the coun-
try's independence. II will then be a
question whether Carlos can prevent the
houses from assembling. Failure to do
so will surely mean his deposition and
probably the establishment OF republic.
The King was disposed a week ago 70
send representatives TO to-morrow's gath
ering in the endeavor TO effect a compro-
mise. Since then he has changed his
mind and reafiirmed. through Premier
Franco, his declaration that the cerrup-
ton Of Portuguese politics does not war
rant an election at present: that none
will be called until conditions are inn
proved, and that in the meantime the
existing dictatorship viii continue
The impression prevails in Lisbon that
this change of front is due TO francois
conviction that he succeeded IN setting the
opposition leaders so thoroughly by the
ears that they can agree on no pro-
gramme. That the military may try 20
suppress tO-morrow's gathering is deemed
not unlikely.
Which are the better people-Amer-
leans or English?" Gen. Booth OF the
Salvation Army. was asked this week.
People are pretty much alike the world
over" was the response. but compared
with this country. America is more siren
uous. both for good and evil.
In some respects Americans are better
than the English They have more re-
Iigion Even an American who is not
religious is willing to admit that religion
is good thing
There's a difference in the life, too.
man arriving in America doesn't SLOUGH
about as ne may have done here. He
soon begins TO pull himself together. 10
find that he wants TO be smart
But there's another side. America is
a human maelstrom. An Englishman who
makes a Thousand a year probably buys a
villa and settles down to rest. An Amer
leans sole thought IS 20 turn his one
into two thousand. and his two thousand
into ten. Then there's more frantic eff
fort, and finally he cuts HIS throat
In America there's a suicide every
ninety minutes and a murder every sew
enty"
Valdemar Pulsen, Of Copenhagen. says
Denmark and England will soon be talk
ing with one another by wireless tele-
phone. and he hints that it won't be 50
long before he VIII b sending messages
across the Atlantic lie is installing ap-
paratus now at Lynby, five miles from
Copenhagen.
with our new microphones. wireless
telephony has already been proved sue
cessful over long distances he says,
but l don't want 20 be In too great "a
hurry.
Every day brings progress. but We do
not wish TO begin wireless telephoning
and telegraphing between Denmark and
England or America until we are able 70
do as we'll as the cables"
BY the time the bruce case is disposed
Of George Horton Morris, Of Australia,
viii be ready 20 begin his battle FOR an
other big estate-the vast properties left
by Henry Page. who died without direct
heirs in 1850.
Page left land holdings extending for
forty square miles north and west from
Marble Arch The tract has been admin
istered by trustees since 1899. and its value
can only be estimated in millions sterling.
Morris says he is Pages nephew. He
worked his way from Australia 10 Eng
land as a ships steward seven years ago
TO prosecute his claim.
Last March he heard that Parliament
was considering passing the estate TO the
nation in default Of q demand for il. and
organized a $4,000 stock company TO pre-