Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-26
TITLES GALORE ADD
ECLAT TO NAMES OF
EUROPEAN ROYALTY
Monarchs Have Many Oh
solete Distinctions as Trail
ers to Official Dignity.
Sultan Outdoes His Fellow
Potentates.

When Theodore Roosevelt and the
King of Spain recently met, a striking
contrast was afforded those who happened
to think of the titles which the two men
bore. 1t was a contrast arising from
the opposition of democracy and mon
archy and dependent upon the great
claims which royalty levies upon
grandeur-loving people.
The American, who had been the
Chief Executive of a land beside which
Spain was a fraction, was known as
plain Colonel" Perhaps some of the
more dignifed mobiles presented him as
the "eX-President of the United States"
but usually he went by the title of
Colonel. King Alfonso. on the other
hand. is the proud possessor of AZ inde-
pendent and separate titles. His list
of suffXes would form the major part of
almost any letter which he might write.
Whatever his predecessors might have
been, whatever claims they made in their
dignites, he has preserved them as trail
ers to his Individual name of Alfonso.
ALFONsO's HIGH SOUNDING TITLES
Incongruous Is his claim to territories
which have long since passed from under
the Spanish domination. For instance,
he is, along toward the last of his
fictitious titles, king of the East
Indies" "King of the West indies"
King of Gibraltar" king OF India"
and with a bombast and sweeping mag
nlfcence. "KIng of Oceania" Such pre-
tensions lend an almost opera-bouffe
flavor to the resonant terms such as
king of CASTLE" king of Aragon,"
King of Navarro and King OF
Galicia."
To the Spanish don this pomp and
show appeal with JUNCTION. Nor Is 1t
peculiar to the Romance nations, this
worship of grandeur. The Emperor of
Austria boasts 81 extra titles and the
Sultan of Turkey So.
The Sultan has by far the most laugh
able list of names. He starts out by
being High Prince and Lord of Lords.
Then he specifies in great detail practi-
cally all of the States and cities and even
districts of the Orient, and explaining
after each of the various names that he
is ruler of "al the forts, citadels
purlieus and neighborhood thereof"
Nothing is presumed to belong to any one
else. 4 land may have never belonged to
Turkey, except in some transient raid
or invasion. but that matters not to
the Sultan; he adds 1t to his string, calm
and Indifferent to the progress of other
ligious prominence. Head of the Faith
full" Supreme Lord OF All the Follow
ers of the Prophet" "Dlrect and Only
Lieutenant on Earth of Mahomet." are
some of his most extravagant phrases.
His more nearly valid title of "King of
Jerusalem" is also claimed by his more
civilized brother rulers. The Emperor of
Austria and the Kings of Spain and Por-
tugal all announce in their titles that
they have under their thumbs the Holy
Land.
KAIsER's STRING OF NAMES.
The Kaiser with his love of publicity.
has 70. Most of the States of Germany
are included In the list of the Prussian
King. and have been ever since the |
Union OF the States.
King George has very modest outlay |
in comparison. 1t merely reads: George |
v, by the Grace of God of the United |
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
and of the British DominiOns Beyond the |
Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, EN- |
peror TO India" Some of the lesser |
mobiles in Britain boast of long lists. the |
Duke of Argyll leading, with q titles.