Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Will Britain Go Red?

child of the people, would you come
up to see mother, sir?"
The prince nodded. They went up
stairs, and the prince, standing there,
looked down upon that worn, still, dead
face, caught the girls hand and cried
like child.
Sees Start Of New Life.
1t CHANGED that in the early afternoon
In another village they came to row
of terrible little houses in a griny vil-
lage. They picked out one by chance
and knocked. Could he come In, the
prince asked the miner who opened the
door. The man recognized him, but
stood obviously in the doorway. Then
he said, AYE, We can, sir. But my wife'S
sick-if We understand"
The prince didn't understand until he
got inside. And then be did. In that
dreadful, little, bare room the miners
wife lay in the pangs of childbirth. For
a moment the prince stood looking at
that twitching figure under the rough
bedding
IF ye wouldn't mind, sir" said the
miner at his elbow, III We wouldn't mind
holding her hand just for a minute
she'd never forget it." The prince
stepped up, put down his hand and the
mothers sought 1t and clutched 1t.
about at hazard among the humblest Of
his people, the heir to the throne came
up against raw existence as the masses
know it. He saw death and he saw the
birth of new life.
Welcome in Little Moscow.
This sort of thing went on for four
days. They even went to Little Moscow.
Little Moscow is a notorious village,
nlAlA i,% Evva-l ~
Every miner there is a Communist.
Little Moscow welcomed the prince
DANGEROUSLY. Women In clogs and
shawls crowded around and pulled at
his hand.
How are you prince?" Rough men
reached out to pat him on the Shout
| der. Good old prince!" He trudged
through the slush. "Blimeyl" said
Little Moscow, following him, but avoid
ing the mud that he splashed through.
Catch me walking If 'ad a carl''
bill Smith would like to see yer,
prince. He's 70 and he's worked down
in the mine since he was kid, prince!"
So 1t went. Nine until Z and no
break for lunch. Not flask or o
sandwich between those three.
The tour over. the prince gripped
Curtis Bennett by the hand.
1T has been the most wonderful ex-
perience of my life"
The gloom of the station swallowed
the slim figure in the big overcoat The
tour was over. But 1t has lighted q
torch which will not go out in England
which stood at 100000 from April to
December, it shot up to close on to,
100000 in six weeks, and In every
town and village the princes exhorta-
ton. Sympathy Is not enough-there
must be continuous national effort"
was placarded.
Lance Solid Unrest.
Such men and such methods lance
the abscess of social unrest which any
way cannot put down deep roots while
the institution OF monarchy is SO as
toundingly popular. The statesman
who put through the first reform meas
ure nearly a century ago thought the
throne could hardly survive the social
unrest OF the times for more than
another generation. Thirty years later
Queen Victoria was complaining about
dangerous radicals who looked to her
suspiciously like anti-royalists. King
Edward, on the appearance Of the first
labor men in Parliament, in 1906, said
his grandson would never be king.
mig EDWARD, LOT Ill his SnreWQ tact
and diplomacy, never entered the work.
| shop. never toured the industrial area,
never associated himself with people
as his son and grandson have done
Nor did he ever understand the masses
as do King George and his heir.
The immense economic problem and
| that OF population remain. The latter
may largely be solved by the spread
OF birth control. already practiced ex-
tensively among the professional and
upper classes. Labor women are unani-
mously In favor Of a holder policy OF
disseminating information through the
masses: Labor men only hang back
through the fear of alternating the
Catholic vote, which favors them
more than 1t favors either Of the other
parties.
An astute statesman has privately
opined that it will take 10 years to get
birth control propaganda accepted, and