The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
WHO WILL PRINCE. OF WALES MARRY?. ALL ENGLAND ASKS.
Young Man Himself Not Wor- ried Over His Single
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 ated Press s.)-The tumult and the shouting attending the marriage O: the Duke of York-the second royal wedding in England within as many years-is dying away while the bridal couple are quietly honey incoming in Surrey, and the general public is awakening to the realiza = tion that. after all. the significant topic for the moment is not that King Georges second son is married but that the Prince of Wales is now approaching his twenty ninth birthday and is still a bachelor.
 Not that the succession to the sary young Harry Lasceles, Princess Mary's son, might some time take over that onerous duty If none O.. the Kings sons have heirs, but be- cause, fl there was ever prince to whom the people were devoted. 1t is the present heir-apparent to the British crown, and everybody is most anxious to see him happily married
 Fully a decaA ago the amateur match makers who specialize in roy alty were scanning Europe from the winter palace, where dwelt the beau tiful Titana, to the shores of the sunny Mediterranean, the home of Yolanda, daughter of the Italian soveregns, for a possible bride for young Wales. But the World war changed all that and now there is not princess in all of Europe who match makers are busying them- selves informally in England itself, vainly trying to settle upon the girl who is likely to be led to the altar of Westminster Abbey and later to the throne.
 Wales himself seems not in the least worried about the future. He is participating wholeheartedly in steeple- chasing and foX-hunting and impatiently awaiting the opening of the polo season.
 WORKS 60 YEARS
 The oldest working journalist ir England is Sir John Lesage, man. aging editor of the Daily Telepragh. who on Monday last celebrated h1- eighty-sixth birthday. He might . have retired any time in the last 20 years, but has declined to do so. He puts in full working day at the office six days week. and commands the admiration of his juniors for his alert mental work
 Sir John was member of the com bined staff of war correspondents of the Daily Telegraph and the New York Herald which reported the Franco -Prussian war in 1870. and so far as known he is the only surviv- ing correspondent of that war.
 Within few months Sir John will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the commencement of his service with the Daily Telegraph and there is a suspicion in newspaper circles that he may consider that date an opportune one on which to retire.
 DISCUSS BABY RACE
 Public sentiment in England seems to be that the use of the London-to Brighton highway as a sporting course has been overdone, the last straw being race over the 5O-mile route of a number of mothers wheel ing their infants in peramulators.
 One of England's sporting features for some years has been the annual work of stockholders over this route, but these are grown men trained for the event. Since the war, several companies of infantry in heavy and tested the stretch and those also were considered legitimate stunts. Then came race Of one-legged sol- diers. which was regarded as pain full exhibition rather than good sport. The climax was the perambulator race. which required more than 12 hours with the infants meanwhile in imminent peril from passing motor cars, according to critics of the af- fair
 The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children brought pro- ceedings in the Brighton police court against the participants and Mrs. Ed wards of Manchester one of the en- tries, and also the promoter of the race. was summoned to appear, in court this week with her husband. They failed to present themselves, however.
 The prosecuting attorney for the society said strong view was taken of the matter. For child to be subjected to such suffering" he de- clared, could not be called sport. The Edwards baby, he pointed out, IS only four months old, but was 14 hours on the road.