The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-04
rs STANDARD OIL
TO co TO LONDOh2
Twill Recent Decision Cause
Trust to Take Headquar-
tiers from the US?

l(special Cable from the International
News Service)
London, June SIS the Standard
oil company going TO transfer it's head
Quarters to London as a result of the
recent decision Of the Supreme Court
kof the United States? You hear this
question discussed In city offices and
ION the London Stock Exchange every
day, and many prominent financiers
are convinced that before the six
months grace granted the Rockefeller
octopus has expired We shall see 1t
firmly established here. In the mag
n!ficent building at Queen Anne's Gate
which Is far more imposing than most
English government buildings in that
neighborhood, feverish hustle and
activity seems to prophecy of great
events to come. The big building Is
lit night and day, enormous quant-
! ties OF office furniture have arrived.
not only OF the ordinary kind. but
costly carpets, sumptuous hangings
and richly carved desks, tables and
chairs Of the kind which you only
find In the private offices of American
magnates. A small army of electri-
clans, many Of them Americans. are
busily wiring the building, but a silent
lot they are and reporters have in
vain been trying to find out from them
what they are doing inside the care
fully guarded structure. No sentries
are pacing the sidewalk before the i'm
bronze and oaken doors are wide open
inviting you to enter, but II you try,
you feel your progress impeded by in.
visible bars. polite attendants readily
take your card and disappear with it
into the inner sanctions. only to reap
pear with an expression of the sim
cerest regret In their honest faces to
tell you that owing to special circum-
stances II Is not possible for the head
Of the department to see you today.
You may try II again but the unfor-
tunate special circumstances are evil
IDENTIFY chronic and no matter how per-
sistent you are, you will finally come
to the conclusion that Standard Oil
In London has no more use for pub
licity than Standard Oil in America.
That the headquarters of the com.
pany will be transferred to this city.
as II has many and rs important inter-
ests In this hemisphere as in America.
In the country of its birth. besides, 1t
will have to be very careful In its
movements. years may pass before it
will dare extend its field, but with its
headquarters In London, with its mas.
ter plotters enthroned here, IL may
send Its tentacles eastward in Asia
and Egypt. because the people of the
old world are less practiced in fight
ing against trusts and their laws less
carefully framed
Nobody will bid Rockefeller's con.
Germ welcome In Europe. It's reputa-
ton has reached even the remotest
corners Of the Cars empire. and ev
eryone knows that its coming will
mean fight the like of which we
have never seen here. with victory for
'pious John DIS oily concern by no
means certain. for old world govern
ments are somehow less pliable than
Uncle Sam and an ukase Of the Car
or an edict by some other monarch
comes more quickly than United
States supreme courts decision and
Is even more difficult to evade.
Acton, a West end suburb, will be n
place to stay away from on Corona
ton night for 1t is proposed on that
night to make IL suburb OF song.
London at present is dominated by
hundreds of coronation committees
each one more determined to show its
loyalty than the other. and II all the
various schemes are carried out
Dante's Inferno would be a heavenly
pleasure resort compared to London
during coronation week. The plan
suggested by the Acton committee is
peculiarly vicious one. and am
thinking my lucky star.that l do not
have to spend the evening within its
sphere Of influence. At 1015 in the
evening the National anthem is to be
sung In every house of the borough.
Imagine the effect! Even Richard
Richard Strauss would not be able to
devise a similar cacophony.
In the faint hope that the plan
might be n canard invented by some
penny a line reporter l interviewed
Mr.. Crane. chairman of the Acton
coronation committee. but found him
In dread earnest and genuinely de.
lighted with his own ingenuity. which
he evidently hopes will be rewarded
by knighthood or at least a higher
order.
You know in these days almost ev-
cry house can boast piano or some
musical instrument" said Mr.. Crane.
land II should be a simple matter to