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D'Annunzio and the victory Of Premier
sured.
While the cabled reports to the effect
that King Victor Emmanuel has ban
ished the Duke of Aosta from Italy
are without doubt an exaggeration 1t
Is fairly well known that the monarch
has suggested to his cousin that he
would do we'll to avail himself of the
present time to visit his extensive es-
tates in Belgium and to make a stay
of some duration there. The Duke Of
Aosta and his two brothers. the Count
of Turin and the Duke OF the Abruzzi,
are very rich indeed. each having in
herited vast fortunes from their
mother, who was one Of the greatest
heiresses OF her time. She was Marie,
daughter OF Prince Charles DIAL Poz7c
della Cisterna, head of one Of the great
est houses of the italian aristocracy,
and was Indebted for her wealth to her
own mother, a member OF the Belgian
princely house Of de Merode.
The Duke of Aosta, who greatly dis
tinguished himself during the war
being destined to figure in It's annals
as the victor Of Gorilla, was until the
birth Of the now fifteen-year-old Prince
Of Piedmont the next heir to the
throne. Moreover, as senior agnate OF
the reigning house he would be called
upon 10 assume the role OF Regent In
the event of the boy Prince succeeding
to the crown while still a minor. He
enjoys the unusual distinction 'of
having in his own youth been he'll
apparent to another throne, that OF
Spain. For his father. the late Prince
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with surgery he said It would be posi-
BILE to lower mortality and increase the
percentage Of cures.
"It Is probable" tho doctor oo-
served, '.that there u q measure OF
immunity against cancer in all per-
sons and that this Il sufficiently great
In some to prevent them from having
the disease. have on several occa-
sions been unable to remove all or
cancerous growth. and to my aston
ishment the patient has remained well
for a term OF years. A search for the
cause of such immunity and means
of increasing 1t Is greatly to be de-
sired"
Turning from the consideration OF
concer, DR.. Mayo spoke In general
terms of tho struggle against all types
OF disease. He said that In the great
war medicine was triumphant as for
the FIRST time In military history the
number of deaths from casualty was
greater than the lumber OF deaths
from disease. He sai that SSH per
cent OF the injured soldiers were able
to return to the fighting line and 3
per cent. more were made fit for spe-
c!al or limited military duty In areas
In the rear. In the civil war nearly
half the soldiers were out OF the war
permanently after injury and a high
percentage were II al times too III
from dAssass - ssndSs snoasns ssr-
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Amadeus, Duke OF Aosta, reigned at
Madrid from 1870 TO 1873, and through
out that time the present Duke was
styled the Prince of the Asturias,
which is the official title of the eldest
son and heir OF the rulers of Spain.
The Duke of Aosta and his wife.
Princess Helene of France, who was at
the head of the italian Red Cross and
ambulance services throughout the
war, will find in Belgium her eldest
brother, Philippe, Duke Of Orleans,
head of the historic French dynasty
of Bourbon, and who, now that the
Germans have been driven out of-Bel-
GUM, has been able to take up his
residence there once more.
King Shows Consideration,
King Victor Emmanuel Ill. in di-
recting his cousin, the Duke of Aosta,
| to visit his estates in Belgium, has
shown him a far greater degree Of
| consideration and indulgence than he
| himself experienced at the hands of
his father, the late King Humbert
prior to his accession. Victor EN-
manuel entertained a most pronounced
distrust and distaste for the late Fran
cesco Crispi He objected to that
Premier's colonial ventures, so costly
to Italian life and treasure. He OBJ
jected to Crispi's domestic policies. He
objected to Crispi's private life. He
objected to Crispfs submission to tn,
influence OF Prince Bismarck and L
his complete subordination of the in.
terests Of italy to those of Germany
Further than this. he detested Crisp
because the latter had taken advan
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deprived ner OF the use OF the royaI
hveries, ana IN one case Whlcn hao
given him particular annoyance ne
issued orders that for q certain length
OF time she should be denied those
military honors that are among tne
most cherised prerogatives or royalty.
As for the old Duchess or Genoa
mother Of Queen Marguerite, when
tome years after the death or her hrst
husband, the good looking Duke Fer
dinand of Genoa, she surprised every
one by contracting a matrimonial al
lance with her chamberlain, Niccolo.
Marquis Rapallo, without the sanction
OF his brother, Victor Emmanuel H.,
that monarch was 30 indignant that
he deprived her for the time being of
the care and, custody Of her two chill
dren. the present Duke of Genoa and
Queen Marguerite, and bsnished her
to Saxony, the land OF her birth. Nor
was 1t until several years afterward
that he permitted them to return to
his dominions to live in considerable
retirement on the shores of Lake
Como, where he eventually allowed
her daughter, Princess Marguerite. 10
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ments are furnishing through their
laboratories, the diagnostic aid which
gives the average practitioner expert
reports and enables him to apply in
the care OF his patients the data which
he personally has neither the time nor
the training to develop.
"The State also furnishes, free Of
charge, diphtheria antitoxins and vac
cine for smallpox and typhoid This
important work OF the State should be
extended. Certainly so per cent. Of all
sickness is preventable and It is the
duty OF the State to guard the healh
of its citizens through the prevention
of disease,
"rhe people should lie made TO I'M
derstand that the State is culpable II
Its citizens are allowed to become III
through manifest neglect. It is prob
able that such an understanding by
the people would result In greater
good through new legislation than all
the work and all the sacrifices Of the
medical profession who have secured
the present laws"
The frightening of life's span
therefore, as demonstrated by Dr.
Mayo, depends In the future not only
upon the efforts of the physician, but
upon the attention of the State to pub
lie health matters and upon the intelli-
gent understanding Of every citizen OF
the work being done In his bshalf b
the authorities in ooopssatisn with a
altruistie profssstoA
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Crown TO dissolve the Parliament.
months ago, and to decree a general
election. which will be held next
month. That will afford to the people
of Italy an opportunity to voice at the
polls their decision as to whether they
are prepared to indorse D'Annunzio's
mutiny, his defiance Of the authority
of the Crown, and to submit to the In
evitable consequences of an economic
and political character at the hands OF
the United States and Of the other
Powers of the Entente, or whether
they will support the King and his
Government ana maintain friendly re-
lations with those allied Powers who
are not only ready. but even anxious,
to assist Italy In her task Of economic
reconstruction.
How wise Nitti has been in this, how
thoroughly he understands his fellow
countrymen, Il apparent from the fact
that a very marked reaction against
D'Annunzio already has set In. His
popularity Is distinctly on the wane.
The people of italy are beginning TO
blame him for having placed obstacles
in the way OF material assistance from
abroad at the moment when 1t was
most urgently needed for the revival
of the trade and industry OF the coun-
try. They have become alive to the
atmosphere of distrust created in for
eign lands by the mutiny .incited by
D'Annunzio, as we'll as to the fact that
he has harmed them by his coup in
stead of benefiting them in any way
in the eyes Of other nations Unless
all signs are misleading, the defeat OF
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vice in battle. In the Spanish-Amert'
can war one man died from gunshot
wounds u thirty who died from dis
ease.
"The public" he observed, has been
almost unconscious OF the growth OF
preventive medicine and public hy-
giene and but little has been accom-
plished along these lines In comparison
with all that may be done.
"Of all cooperative enterprises
public health L. the most important
and gives the greatest returns. 10
obtain necessary legislation we must
depend uDO0 Nc eoG alton OF the
public, and this, / am glad to say, is
rapidly progressing. That there Ia
much opposition to legislation for
public health measures and that such
opposition Is always from the same
group OF obstructionists whose preJu-
dices are believed by them to be prin-
oiples Is well known. Such opposition
Is not entirely harmful; the asitators
at least attract an audience before
whom the truth can be placed. People
as a whole are more interested In
their own individual affairs than in
movements to enforce public health
measures, and unless sickness actually
exists in their own families or unless
they are in the midst OF strange
epidemic they pay very little attention
to such matters
I'm the last generation the whole
trend of thought has been Individual
istio. Rsmsdiss As~ seu01A - Do
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tage of his position as Primo Minis
ter to force the now widowed Queen
Marguerite, under the menace OF a
Cabinet crisis, to receive his notorious
wife, a woman of the most question
able and stormy antecedents. Victor
Emmanuel, while devoted to his
father. repeatedly quarrelled with him
on the subject of Crispis pro-Ger-
manism. On one occasion, when the
quarrel had been of unusual violence,
Humbert even went to the length of
ordering his only son to three months
Imprisonment In fortress.
King Humbert had other means at
his disposal for the purpose OF dis
cipling refractory members OF his SOW
ereign house. Thus he had frequent
occasions to find fault with his sister
in-law, the Duchess Letitia Of Aosta,
who was likewise his niece. She In
herited from her father, the late Prince
Jerome Bonaparte, all'the latter's I'M
conventionality and indifference &c
popular comment and criticism. and
allowed her conduct to be swRyed by
Bonaparte caprice and by impulse
rather than be governed by the rules o.
court etiquette. She totally disre
| garded the rules which require
that any member of the roya
| family 'saving the kingdom should
obtain permission from the sover
e.gn. and Mortified some of he
relatives. notably the late Duchess o.
Genoa, by the somewhat daring ma
ture Of her costume. in the days whei
bicycling was all the rage in Europe
King Humbert never subjected her Il
arrest. But on several occasions h
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profitable options brought TO my at
tention was engineered by a farmer
whose humble possessions happened to
be on the principal automobile road
from Wichita Falls to the Burkburnett
field. The roads leading into the field
are very difficult to navigate during
a wet spell and even during the dry
season there are often treacherous
mud holes and bogs. The farmer in
question not being provided by Jupiter
Pluvius with a convenient mud hole
dug a nice deep one in the road in
front of his property and filled 1t with
water. Thus equipped he posted his
boy with a team OF mules alongside
the mud hole to await business. Also
he posted a notice which announced
that for the rifiing sum OF 81 he
would tear down a section OF his line
fence and permit the autoists to drive
through his front yard and thus avoid
the mud hole. Those who did not de-
sire to pay for the privilege of driving
through his yard could exercise their
option OF attempting 10 drive through
the mud hole, and in case Of their
failure to make the voyage, his son
with the team Of mules would tow
them out for IS. II was a very happy
scheme, and the farmer In time grew
adept IN insolence. 30 that the oil
hunters preferred to take the So
chance rather than pay the 81 tribute,
He had built mp q good business at
the time was there, and was think
ing of capitalizing his mudhole for
800. 900 and establishing other mud
holes at convenient points Throughout
the field.
1t is ut my desire to give the i'm
preston that oil activity in Texas Is
superficial or secondary. Far from
that. The wells are constantly going
down and the production OF oil Is
quite in excess, I am told. of the abil-
ity of the pipe line connections to carry
Il from the fields.
Hundreds Of new companies are be-
ing organized and each company starts
out with a feverish desire TO get tc
drilling. The first thing company
does after It is christened properly and
has fortified itself with supply Of
blue print gushers is TO make q drill
ing contract. II the organizers hav'
any money to begin with, which is no
always the case, they put up derrick
| Nothing is moro attractive to thu
prospective buyer OF oil stock than thu
| knowledge that q derrick is already II
pos sscn On ne properly into which h
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them upon a Philadelphia adventures
with whom he was infatuated.
There are two other penalties to
which rulers have in times past--aye,
and in quite modern times-had re-
course to check the members Of their
house and to punish them for offences
of which they have rendered them
selves guilty. The most dreaded Of the
two is RELOCATION to an insane asylum
or confinement in some castle on
charge of lunacy, not by virtue of q
judicial commitment obtained in open
court but on the strength of an arbi-
trary decree of the sovereign, against
which there is no legal appeal.
Duchess Philip of Coburg, the ex-
Crown Princess of Montenegro. the
former Grand Duchess of Oldenburg
and many other scions of reigning
houses Of both sexes whom I could
enumerate here have been called upon
to endure this particularly cruel form
Of punishment.
Finally there is expulsion, pure and
simple, from the ranks of the sover-
eign house to which the offender be-
longs by birth. The most notable in
the consort of the ex-King of Saxony,
who, after being divorced by him. was
expelled from membership of the then
reigning dynasty of Saxony and also
from the ranks of the imperial and
royal family of Hapsburg--divested,
therefore. Of all her status as Prin-
cess of the blood. Her brother, Arch
duke Leopold, and her gifted uncle,
Archduke John, who afterward dis
appeared from view, near thirty years
ago, on a voyage around Cape Horn,
were subjected to the same punish
ment, to which was added that OF per-
petual exile. Still another instance
was that of Prince Hermann of Sake
Weimar, who became involved in such
number OF disgraceful scandals at
home and abroad that he was cash
tered from the German army, banished
from the empire, expelled from MEM
bership of the reigning house of Sake
Weimar. Invested of all his royal
status and prerogatives and reduced
to the rank of an ordinary nobleman
under the name of Count Ostheim.
which he has since repeatedly dragged
IN the gutter.
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Texas Oil Boom at First Hand

the big operators are not above fling
ing a wicked blue print. II is worth
trip to Texas to witness the
dexterous manner in which an oil
man can unfold a blue print.
There Is a touch of magic about
1t that never grows dull.
An oil stock salesman explained TO
me just how an oil map must be
folded to open instantly. He empha-
sized the importance of making each
fold as carefully and studiously as a
balloonist preparing his parachute for
an emergency jump OF 5000 feet. The
reason for this solicitude becomes ap-
parent when It is remembered that a
parachute has several hundred feet in
which to blossom forth, while a pros
pective buyer of oil stock may walk
away from you If your blue print
doesn't open fast enough to suit him.
The SILK Shirt Again.
Although I didn't do any better at
Ranger than I did at Wichita Falls I
ike 1t better, because the Ranger oil
men are not so insistent upon silk
shirts. Quite naturally. a silk shirt
will take you a long way toward sue
| cess even in Ranger, but there Is
something more substantial in the
Ranger modes OF dress. A successful
oil man there Is dressed somewhere
between a Brigadier General and Stan
ley in Africa. He must wear army
trousers, leather puttees and black
alpaca coat. Soldiers returning from
France found themselves all lifted out
for entry into the oil business from the
waist down-ell they needed was an
other kind of coat
It is perhaps unfair for me to COM
| plain because my recent journey did
not pay me greater dividend. I went
! into the field, as | have explained. to-
| tally ignorant of the customs and
haberdashery of the country and was
brought into competition with men
who talked geology like a high school
professor and wore silk shirts with the
ease and abandon OF q mems furnish
ings salesman. But am not discour-
aged. The oil is there and I'm think
ing seriously of going back TO try Il
again. This time I will not be a mere
novitiate but a seasoned veteran. APP
propriately shirtod, geologically in
formed. rubber booted and ready for
eventualities II do not succeed on
my next venture I am willing 10 be
classified In that broad category of tho
unsuccessful which the oil men pic
turssquely call the Showed IN suok-
j ers.s
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II. This the man was utterly unable
to do, the tight fitting coat, the high
leather stock and the numerous belts
and straps with which he was ham
pered rendering II impossible for him
to bend his body sufficiently to get the
coin.
"Stubenarrest' means confinement
to ones apartments. the prevention
from fulfilling any engagements, from
being seen out of doors or even from
receiving visits or entertaining friends.
A minor penalty of the same kind is
'IIausarrcst," that is to say, confine-
ment to the house and grounds.
There are few princes or princesses
among the sovereign houses of con-
tinental Europe who have escaped
punishment Of this kind at one time
or another of their existence.
Russian Punishment.
Several members Of the formerly
reigning house of Russia, who had In
CURED the displeasure Of the chief OF
their family, and Of their sovereign,
the Gar, by marrying without his con-
sent and in defiance of his wishes,
were disciplined by being deprived OF
their civil list as we'll as Of their mill
tary dignities and were ordered to live
abroad where the Muscovite ambas-
sailors were directed to notify the
courts and the governments Of the
countries in which they took up their
residence, that they were no longer
entitled to the honors and distinctions
which would otherwise have been &C
corded to them as scions of a reign
| ing house. The late Grand Duke Paul
Alexandrovitch, Duke Michael Mich
aelovitch and the late Emperor's
brother and heir, Grand Duke Michael
AleYandrovitch, who according to some
stories has survived his alleged muir
der, were all disciplined in thi:
| fashion. They were more fortunate
in this respect than that other Crane
duke, Nicholas Constantinovitch, who
was confined for many years In
fortress in the Caucasus and after
ward in the Trans-Caspian distric
| cor having in a moment of alteration
stolen. not only the Jewels of hi
mother, but likewise those OF the I'm
perial Chapel at Petrograd. to bestoV
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is about to precipitate some Of his
money. A photograph OF the derrick
in position, with the chief promoter
leaning languidly against it, smiling
nonchalantly the while, lends eclat TO
any proposition dealing with oil,
After agreeing with myself that
there was very slight chance of
amassing millions in the Burkburnett
district, left Wichita Falls to Invade
the Ranger field. l had been told
that the Ranger field was the big
mans field and it occurred to me that
big men would be so intensely in
terested in the larger operations that
it might be possible for me to grab
small, but needful competence and
get away before the big men observed
my presence.
AS soon as 1 got to Ranger my
plans were to rush hastily up to the
leading hotels and, making use OF the
geology l had learned in Wichita
Falls, to take some step or another
that would result in my immediate
financial betterment. The thing that
stood between me and the accomplish
ment OF my hearts desire was the
principal street of Ranger.
violate no confidence when l say
that Ranger was a bit muddy when l
was there. It was so tenaciously
muddy, in fact, that It required all
| ones energy, concentration and mental
equilibrium to pass from one side OF
the street to the other. Rubber boots
we're essential to unimpeded progress
and was nattily attired in nifty white
canvas shoes with a checked suit Of
great visibility. In this outfit /
| afforded the inhabitants OF Ranger
greater amusement than anything
since the first gusher.
Just Mud.
am creditably Informed that
| Ranger is building streets and l have
even learned that the mud has dried
up and is no more, but ] feel that l
do not indulge in hyperbole when /
say that It was muddy when l was
there. My checked suit stands as a
mute, but muddy witness to the fact
and my white shoes, II I had them,
would also testify to the adhesive quail
ity of Rangers liquid real estate. But
l threw the shoes away as / entered
a sleeping car bound for Fort Worth.
Unfortunately I did not find It i'm
modately possible to do much FOR my
self even in Ranger. / watched Tor
my opportunity, but II probably came
along when I was threading q difficuli
way through a bypath OF mud. But
Twas oDservant enough 70 see shss s-ss
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Discipline for Royalty
Usually in Form of Exile

Sending the Duke of Aosta Belgium by the King of Italy
Following the Fiume Incident Recalls Many Famous
Cases of the Past In Other Nations.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-23
GENERAL pERsuIN0 COMING

Gen. John I rershing tho commander In
chief of the A r. r., will be In Oklahoma city
February 10. The capital is making prepara-
tions to welcome and entertain the distinguished
guest In manner suitable TO the occasion
The generals visit TO this state la in tn. limo
OF duty. hc being on a tour OF inspection Of tho
various army posts Nevertheless there IL
some politics connected with ~ for General Per
shng is sti a presidential possibility whether
he admits It or not
There is considerable sentiment for pershing
for president And tho distinguished gentleman
himself Is dcportinE himself In a manner that ls
increasing his popularity. Ho may not he
candidate; hg may not be either schooied in
politics or knowingly playing a political game
But he Is an American. and as such politics IL
somewhat OF second nature
Stranger things have happened For these
reasons the generals visit TO Oklahoma will
attract n great deal Of attention and very largo
crowds For In addition Go the very natural
curiosity concerning the man who led tho ma
uonal forces during the war there will be some
anxiety to get close to this presidential possI.
bihty for tho purpose ~ looking him over
oklahoma city will have plenty OF visitors
February 10.