East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-10
NEWS AND VIEWS
FROM OVER THE SEA

London, october Threat Britain
Is more interested in the controversy
between church and state in Spain than
IS generally understood. 1t is a known
fact that the Spaniards put much of
the blame for their trouble with the
Vatican upon the shoulders of Queen
Victoria, who is an English woman
by birth and training. There are GER
tain Spaniards who declare that al
though she became a Catholic before
her marriage to Alfonso, she has
never been able to dethrone the love
of protestantism in her religious af-
fections. During the lifetime of King
Edward VII, his ,Majesty's frequent
conferences with his niece led to the
belief that he guided her solely in her
actions with members of the Spanish
royal family and government, but
since the accession Of King George,
the influence of Queen Victoria is not
so noticeable about Marlborough
House. 1t is said that though His
Majesty is intensely interested in the
outcome of the controversy, he has
informed his royal cousin that it will
be impossible for him to consider the
tNiA'Aii ~ oiig way NANNpN a lelllh
outsider.
In four weeks more Parliament will
reassemble and during the recess the
conferences of the two dominant par
ties have done much toward compos-
ing the constitutional differences of
the House of Lords and the House of
Commons. 1t is very difficult to get
any one in authority to express a view
upon the matter. In fact several of
the leading members of the Cabinet
are still away on their holiday, sever
al being at their shooting lodges, but
from what can be CLEANED in a gen.
eral way 1t Is believed that the ne
gotiations will continue until a satis-
factory agreement is reached, thus
avoiding another bitter conflict when
Parliament reassembles.
Early in the season 1t was said that
King George would hold the winter
court because he is aware that the
compulsory abandonment of the sea-
son imposed very great hardship on
West End shopkeepers. Now it is
declared in equally certain terms by
those in a position to know what they
are talking about that the reason
| George is to have a winter court is be-
cause Of the intense rivalry of certain
social leaders for supremacy. They
declare that the court will be the roy
al method of announcing who are and
who are not to consider themselves in
the court circle before the coronation
takes place and the festivities of the
spring season approach. Half mourn
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Mother will not appear unless OF
course, she should defy all precedent
A club for lady servants" is about
to open in London. The main OBJ
ject of the club, according to the sec.
retary, is to give such servants an op,
portunity of enjoying the social life o.
which their social position deprives
them. People would be astonished
she says, If they knew how many la.
dies have gone into domestic service
g. in the last few years. Many of then
belong to distinguished old families
and others are the daughters of doc
tors, clergymen and lawyers. The
chief hardship in the career of a lady
who becomes a servant, it is pointed
out, is the lack of congenial society
hut she will be lonely no longer fol
she can spend her future evening.
out at the club, which will permit
male friends to done at the club ant
enjoy a quiet rubber of bridge.
Poland furnishes the latest ex
ample of the grief that sometimes
too often, indeed comes to socialistiC
enterprises in Europe. Two or three
years ago, owing to the pressure
from the socialists. working men be.
gan to run factories and mills on theil
own account Better pay, shorter
hours and a fair share of profit:
were to result from the new scheme
One by one these enterprises failed
and the latest to be added to the list
ia small glass mandatory in Czen-
tochowa. These failures have done
much to discredit the socialists am
ong the working classes, as the agi
tators promised them the profits
from all the larger factories and mills
as soon as cooperation became gen.
eral.