The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-15

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Jan. 15. It nal be bad year for kings, but it has been a good one for "Prince
 Charley" (Carlos) Hajos, self-styled heir to the throne of all the Gypsies. Prince Charley and all of his clan are now encamped in a flatWoods stretch twenty miles or more north of here, where they will spend the next few weeks swapping automobiles and | Gypsy Accessories" to native and wis
 ting Floridians.
 Prince Charley claims he is of royal
 blood, tracing his ancestry back through several centuries of Spanish
 blood to the time when there was a
 traditional Gypsy kingdom in the fath- 1 erland of Romany in 1412-which was ! in the Hungary of that day, according to Prince Charley. While the king ship of the Gypsies now is in dispute, Prince Charley declares that his fath- CT is on the throne in Cuba, and that practically all of the Gypsies in the United States, and most of those scat tered throughout Spain, Russia, the Czecho-Slav countries and Turkey, an- ually contribute to his upkeep. Two
 per cent of all the gains of all Gyp- sies for one year go to the support of his father, declares Prince Charley, and this amounts to a sum approXl- mately $1OO,00O many seasons.
 The wild hawk to the windswept sky.
 The bee to the op'ning clover;
 The Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood,
 Ever the wide world over.
 Prince Charley understands practl- caIly all of the languages of the earth, and declares he can make himself un- derstood in Siam, Turkey Moscow or Berlin. He has been across the AL alntjc six times, the trip the last sum- mpr having been his first visit to Flu rope since the World War. Contrlbu- tions sent to him by courier are re- 1aved bv the same method to his fathers "throne.' He keeps com nIate set of records and his lists bear thousands of names of Gypsies scat tered throughout the United States and Mexico. He also has record ol births, deaths and marriage that take n1ace in this country, and it requires one specially built automobile to tahe care of his bookkeeping department Although pining for the old days o1 horse trading, Prince Charley deciares that he finds the automobile much more convenient in getting arouho over the country. Originally having come from India, the Gypsles, accoro- ing to their ''prince" are tainted WILL the belief that it is no sin to cheat in q trade with anyone not a Gypsy' "One Gypsy is honest with another'
 said he "Otherwise he is an outcasI and is forced from his tribe The Ill., freouency with which solitary GypsS is found indicates how seldom cheaI- ing is practiced among our race
 There was considerably more TO- nance connected with swapping horses than there is in swapping au- tomobiles, he declared. But more things can be wrong with a car than with horse," he added
 It is rare. according to Prince Charley, that Gypsy will resort to the courts of the country in which he may be to settle differences pe- tween him and some other Gypsy. Oftentimes he may become involved Ill disputes with natives of country and when this is the case the Gypsy nrefers to take the best settlement nossihIe out of court, claiming that iuries are prejudiced against GypsleS' He declared that few Gypsies ever ap- near in courts and that when they
 do it is because of some imagined rather than real wrong. we often are charged with stealing small things in
 the locality where we camp, but l be- lieve most of our tribesmen are hon est in that respect. When it comes to trading, however, may the shreWdest ltrader win now as ever. The heads of nations trade even their people, so what's the harm?"
 | The Gypsy's theory is that trade
 means matching of wits and that 1.-the nimbler-witted of the swapping lpair is entitled to any advantage he can gain. Horse traders other than Gypsies have for years characterized various means of "doctoring" horses as Gypsy tricks" Putting a pea or. a grain of corn in the ear of a