The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
LABOR REGIME
 TAKES THROW AT SWEEPSTAKES
Home Minister Henderson :. Says Law Will Be
 Enforced


 Press s.)-Having kept the British em pire running fairly we'll for the last six months, the Labor government is going to turn its hand to really diff fieult job and try to suppress sweep stake betting on the horse races.
 Home Minister Henderson the other night told the House of Commons that the law against sweepstakes would be enforced impartially. He was i'm mediately reminded that 37 labor party organizations should then be the first to be punished, for all had sweeps on the derby.
 It was also suggested that Mir. Hen derson might find means of prosecut- ing the whole country at once and be done with it, for nearly everybody buys a sweepstake ticket or two at derby time.
 The sweeps are organized for all sorts of charitable and benevolent pur- poses.
 Parties At Cliveden
 Cliveden, ancient country estate of Lord and Lady Astor, situated on the be. the scene of two large garden parties to visiting Americans during the com ing month.
 On July 19 the Astors will enter tain the delegates to the Advertising convention and their families, and on the 27th they will stage a similar party for the delegates to the Bar association convention.
 During the week end following the latter affair the Astors will have as house guests at Cliveden Secretary of State Hughes, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and other American notables who will on that occasion have the op- portunity of striking up friendly ac- quaintance with some of the leaders in political life of Great Britain.
 Lord Astor's racing stables, which are among the largest and most sumptuous in the country, are at Cli- veden and form one of the private show-places of Buckinghamshire. It was on this estate several centuries ago that a mansion, part of which still forms a section 0 fthe present great structure, was built for the then heir to the throne.
 A few hundred yards from the man. sion is a small natural ampitheatre where, according to county legend, "Rule, Britannia" was first sung, the occasion being a royal garden party.
 The first Lord Astor erected a chapel on an estate nearby which over
  the bodies of British, Australian, Canadian and American soldiers who died during the World war in the hos pital conducted at Cliveden.
 Royal Ascot Week
 Royal Ascot week, commencing next Tuesday, June IT, will be probably the most brilliant race week and society function this season, with a record at- tendance, in view of the many Ameri- can and colonial visitors here for the British Empire Exhibition. The king and queen will entertain select circle of guests at Windsor Castle, from which they will drive daily through the Great Park in their mo- 1 to landaus, proceeding in semi-state behind four horses and with gentlemen outriders through the race track and right up to the royal box.
 As the Epson races on the open downs are principally for "the people" Ascot is reserved for the society folk, who have to pay for the privilege of getting into the race course and also big prices for seats in the stand. There is such a rnsh for these reservations, at from 15 to 30 guineas, that all were sold a week ago, while the tickets to the royal enclosure have long been al- loted.
 After the daily races, at which the women vie with each other in the mat ter of dress, there is a continuous round of entertainments and house parties in the big establishments near by.
 It is hoped by sporting men that the French cracks, Epinard and Sir GaIlahad, will be sent to the post, despite the big handicaps in the matter of weights imposed on them.
 Prince Philosophical
 The Prince of Wales is developing the philosophic mind. Everybody is always talking or writing about what fine young man the prince is, but his ideas of other folks seldom get printed. They would be more interesting than some of the well-worn tributes to the Princes good looks and manners if his recent comment about somebody he knows has been correctly reported. 'tEvery day that blessed so-and-so gets royaller and royaller, and every day I get commoner and commoner," Wales is said to have remarked about this person.
 Premier DOns Plus-FOurs
 On almost every weekend that he spends at Chequers Court, Ramsey Macdonald puts on his plus-fours, but up to the present he has been unable to take enough time off from his two jobs of premier and foreign minister to indulge in golf which is his only out door recreation aside from the good old fashioned exercise called going for walk
 During the extended parliamentary recess over Whitsuntide, however, the premier went out to Scotland with his golf bag and. partnered with former Provost Archibald of Buckle, played in a foursome N.ith his son, Alistair and Baron Thomson, the air minister. The latter pair was victorious.