Evening star., 1935-04-28

lations, the thoroughfares through
which the professions will pass are
taking on as much of the aspect of a
woodland city as pitch pine and the
labors Of infinite carpenters can give
them. The fine professional avenue
to Buckingham Palace from Charing
Cross, with st. James Park on one
side and the Gardens of Carlton House
Terrace on the other, is now lined
with the skeletons OF stands which,
when completed. will accommodate
thousands OF spectators.
The dignity and repose of Pail
Mall are distracted by the sounds of
multitudinous hammers and the ac-
tiyities of shirt -sleeved workmen en-
gagged in throwing up wooden struc-
lures in front of the palaces of club
land. And wherever the professions
are announced to 60, similar activi-
ties are in progress.
Nor are these crude evidences the
only signs Of coming events. Visitors
to London from afar are crowding
into London in readiness for the cele-
bration, and the hotels are expert
encing a boom they have not en-
joyed since the lean years of de-
preston set in. Princes and their
suites from India are coming mot
single spies, but in battalions," and
representatives of foreign powers and
ministers from far dominions are. in
the words of Gilbert, ''as plentiful as
tabby cats" though not, as he adds,
lin point Of fact too many"
In the case Of Australia, even the
Commonwealth Parliament has gone
into six months recess while the
prime minister and other members of
the cabient are away paying their
respects to the throne. In this in
stance there is, of course, little
loyalty, for Premier Lyons, like the
representatives from New Zealand. IS
much concerned about the cuts in the
meat quotas from Australia and the
future of the Ottawa policy.
There are head-shakings in some
quarters and suggestions that this
ebullition of loyalty Is artificial and
manufactured. I do not think that
is the case. The people have been
rather starved of these gayeties for
years past and their affection for the
King and Queen Is quite sincere and,
I should say, more universal and GER
tainly more intelligently based than
ever before. There Is a profound feel
ing that the Kings good sense, tried
in circumstances more difficult than
those which have faced any sovereign
In history, has established the throne
on a sounder constitutional basis than
at any time in the past and has ad-
justed the system with perfect success
to the startlingly changed conditions
of political life.
No doubt these jubilee activities are
partly responsible for the encouraging
outlook of the trade and finance Of
the country. Chancellor Chamber
lain's new budget, while it offers little
relief to the terrific burdens Of the
taxpayer, shows that the financial
position is extraordinarily stable, and
the remarkable increase in employ
ment last month suggests that the
fears that the revival Of trade had
run its course and that q reaction
had set in were at least premature.
The prospect of a really cheerful
Summer has turned speculation in the
direction of an early appeal to the
country. There is very general i'm
preston that Ramsay Macdonald
ccntemplates retirement from the
premiership when the jubilee celebra-
tions are over, and a reconstructed
government would probably be dis
posed to take advantage of the favor
able atmosphere to 60 to the polls
this Autumn rather than to risk de-
laying until the Spring.
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