The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-06
COURT CIRCULAR
NOT EFFECTIVE
Contains Merely Few Society squibs
About Royalty But Does
Net Boom RusI-
ness.
PRINCE GOES TO OXFORD ORD
Edward viii Enter University In a
Few Days But Will Not Join
the Football
Team.
PRINCE GOES TO OXFORD
[By Ed. L. Keen. London Correspond
ant az the United Press

ent Of the United Press.l
LONDON, Oct. 5.-"If the growth /
of republicansim in England is to be
checked Buckingham Palace must or
ganize thoroughly efficient public
ity bureau" is the latest cry of the ar
dent imperialists who now form the
bulk of the conservative party, and
they are trying hard to get the court
| officials to fall into line with their
| views.
The Court Circular" is issued as
the nearest approach to a publicity
bureau that the Lord Chamberlain
department possesses, and usually
runs something like this: The Duke
of So-and-So had the honor of dining
with their majesties," THE prime
minister had an audience of his majes-
J ty today" or Her majesty, the queen
honored Lady This-and-that with her
company at tea" The whole thing
suggests that the editor is ashamed of
the job, and as a result the monarchy
4 boomsters have to employ unofficial
reporters to chronicle such items as
Her Majestys Sympathy for the wild
ows,' THE kings friendly chat with.
a pit boy" and so on This is cost
4 ly business and 1t Is not every mon
archist who owns a newspaper IN
which to publish such stuff when he
hears about 1T.
Just now the monarchy in general
and King George in particular, need
a good deal Of advertising. 1t is not
that the king has any particular
vices-the public would probably be
more inclined to forgive him ii he had
but he has coloIless personality
\ Royafists argue that if, as they
: think it is, the throne is necessary for
! the solidarity of the British empire,
{ it should be advertised on business
: lines. Since the king is untitled for
doing it the only alternative is the
| proposed publicity bureau. The
} great dominions, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand. and even British sea-
, side resorts have orncial publicity
< bureaus which supply all information
! to intending visitors, immigrants, in
, vestors, and the public at large.
| Political advertising has developed
T enormously during the past decade
: the liberal administration of advertis-
1 ing and explaining the meaning of
1 various laws, has undoubtedly come
t to stay. Woman suffrage, prohibition
Y anti-vivisection, socialism, etc, and
even anarchy are extensively adyer-
f tised the world over, SO why not the
, monarchy, they ask.
a Their greatest difficulty lies with
S the people who Immediately associate
i with the royal family, for they are
!, men and women, mostly very estimable
. people in their own way, who have
a been taught from their earliest years
r that advertisement is wholly wrong
e a sin to be ranked with eating peas
: with knife, dropping an "h" or
/ wearing flannels at a state banquet.
i, While the courtly and exclusive Bob
: bie'' (EarD Spencer was lord cham
: berlain 1t was hopeless to expect any
v thing in the way of modernism but il
V they cannot get the present holder of
2 the post-the Earl of Sandwich-to
q meet lHelT VIEWS, {Eey are gong 10
$ make certain OF having progress
& sive" peer for the job in the next con-
g servative government.
9 Edward, Prince of Wales, will COM
: mence his university career in few
. days at Magdalen College, Oxford. OF
0 course the heir to the throne cannot
r be expected to put up with ordinary
i undergraduates digs" SO his rooms
$ have been specially fitted up for him.
8 Bathrooms and other conveniences
t make the suite entirely self-contained,
9 and SO that England's future king
9 shall run no risks the entire sanitary
9 system of the college has been recon
structed. His private tutor Henry
l Hansell, will be in immediate attend
/ ance, and he will be allowed valet,
> instead of the college Jan'tor, who
) does the chores for less exalted "un-
dergrads," or ''freshers''
0na thing Ouean Marv hoe irsis@od