Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-08
MarConi Makes Greater Hit
ThanPrinCe With Americans

three or four long "e's." Feet ees
steel" ct cetera.
His royal highness looked the part
that he Is, scion of the ruling house
OF Italy. Il direct descendant OF King
iiumbert. lie wore elaborate solid
gold shoulder straps-or shoulder
pads-they were as large as an ordi-
nary saddle, and across his shoulder
was green sash that would have
sent envy into the heart OF any son
of the Emerald Isle-otherwise he
looked just like any other ordinary
Italian we see every day selling de
be-nan."
There was rctinue of AZ pages ac-
cempanying the prince - many of
them fine looking fellows. decked in
brilliant uniforms of variagated col
orings and trappnigs.
But DrOll Champ Clark had sur
prise in store for the congressman
and the galleries, and 1t was Il wei
come surprise.
Ovation for Marconi.
There was "a slender little hand
some faced young man sitting just Ill
front of the prince as he was speaking.
lie didn't look like a product Of sunny
italy. sun there was something In hi,
look that denoted that he was a
"furrener"
When the applause had died away,
by a rap Of the naiiet, the spoaKc'
said:
II know everybody here will ln,e 70
see and hear the man who gave 70
the world wireless tclesraphy," and i
cloudburst OF applause broke forth az
this little man stepped up and shook
hands with the speaker -Marconi.
He received such a tremendous
prqatipu g chat ggNarp1 NJ tho nriuea-
albertcd members Of the party plainly
showed their distress as his reception
1elng greater than that Of the prince.
II was That Is Characteristic Of the
American spirit. Royal robes do not
count for much TO an American when
there is standing before him man
who has accomplished something i'm
the world, other than choosing his
grandfather. In Italy Marconi X
merely scnator-a subject Of the
Prince Of UdiEe. and il Is not likely
he would havo spoken at all had t
been ir Italy, hut he was in America.
and he knew AmerioG-he lived nero
for many Yeas, and he didn't hest
tate to say. right in the presence or
the prince that had II not been for the
justice and sQuare-dealing Of Amer
lea his work never could have sue
ccedcd While the congress and the
galleries admired and respected His
Royal Highness. they rovcred Mar
conf and showed IT, That's the
American way-the democratic way.
Italy Deserves Credit.
Italy, however. has never been given
the credit it should be given in this
world war. one need only look at
the political and geographical map of
Italy to know her dangerous position
with Austria and Germany. She has
four million men in arms now, and
has lost a million She has been COM
PEELED to haul guns ten thousand feet
high and mount them on the apex of
the Alps to contest with the enemy
She was neutral for a long time and
could just as easily have aligned her
self with Germany and been safe had
she not stood for the same human
and democratic principles that prompt
France, England and the United
States. Italy's soul is in this war. and
full credit should be given her as our
ally.
After closely observing six visits of
the foreigners TO the American CON
gresses-the English, French and Ital-
ians each 10 the senate and each to
the house-one cannot help but being