The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-18
THE SERIOUS PURPOSE OF THE
PRINCES VISIT
Chicago Journal of Commerce.

(CnlCagO journal OF COmmerce)
The visit Of the Prince of Wales
to the United States is a serious
matter. The prince did not come
here because he wanted to. He
had no desire to be stared at.
rushed around, fawned upon, and
have his time stolen from him by
people who wearied him to death.
What he wanted was liberty, and
time for little fun. His choice
of Will Rogers for companion is
an indication Of his actual tastes.
But what the prince wants and
what the prince gets are widely
different things. The prince il not
his own man. He is England's
man. Until he becomes England's
king, he is to be England's am
bassador at large to the world
The world has taken to the prince
for a number of reasons: partly
because he is good-looking and ap-
parently unspoiled, and partly be-
cause there is a legend abroad that
he is enjoying himself; for the
world loves a man who seems to
be having good time.
And then there is the pre-emi-
nent reason: snobbishness. The
people between the covers of New
York's Social Register are now
fighting one another with tooth
and claw for the privilege of mee'-
ing the prince. And these people
are simply representative of the
entire country. Great crowds of
the plain, simple inhabitants of
this plain, simple, democratic
country sent up a cheer for the
prince when he landed; another
great crowd awaited him when he
reached Washington.
SnObbishness is an almost uni
versal emotion, and there are none
more snobbish than those who
continually rail at it. The British
foreign office knows that the Brit
ish royal family represents the
topmost aspiration of all the
snobbishness in the world.
THE love of ceremony born in
the heart of everyone has helped
to fix the eyes of the world upon
the English court and to make it's
exclusive circles a worldwide
goal" writes Miss Jane Grant in
the Saturday Evening Post. But
more important, probably, is the
psychological need for some final
tribunal for society. Whatever
the reasons, the English court is,
socially, the world court, and it is
the supreme court, its decisions
carrying with it acceptance by the
great, and personal Differences
and attentions without limit"
And elsewhere Miss Grant de-
clares, ''Not a civilized woman
alive, be she of either hemisphere.
would forego the privilege and ex-
perience of curtsying to their ma
jesties"
That statement may be too
sweeping, but it's pretty nearly
true. The British foreign office
knows that. Britain accordingly
sends the English court around
the world to receive the worlds
curtsies.
The Prince of Wales is the Eng
lish court or tour. He draws well
Ill f1uSCl ala anu lAuld anu SoAAut
and thereby strengthens the ties
of the mother country with her
daughters.
At present the prince is in the
United States for limited engage
ment, hardly more than a one
night stand. 1t may be fun for his
audience, but it's work for him
II his train should stop at Po-
dunk at a. M, the cheering OF
the simple, democratic village
folk would cost him his nights
! sleep.
But duty calls. He is in Amer
lea because the British foreign
office intelligently believes that
the American people will like Eng
land better if its royal heir ap-
parent drops into pass the time OF
day.