Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-04-25

NEW YORK.-One bright, sunny
~ day in July, 1920, King Chris
tian x of Denmark, mounted on a
beautiful white horse, led his troops
Military Force boundary line
Is NeW Problem to reclaim the
For Danish King n lipi s sntln paa'
lost to the Germans in 1864. Den
mark had been crippled in the World
war, suffering much more than Nor
way and Sweden, but somehow she
had managed to save her little king
dom. The king, addressing cheer
ing throng, hailed the organization
of international law and order, I'M
der which small nations could live
in peace.
The king, who IS six feet, six
inches tall, the tallest man in his
kingdom, recruited a guard of the
tallest and handsomest young men
he could find, but none so tall as he.
They were gorgeously uniformed
and the ceremony of the changing
of the guard might have been read
led by Franz Lehar. But many
times, the king reminded his people
that all this was merely appropri-
ate ceremonial, and that Denmark's
safety lay in keeping in the van
guard of civilization, and not in
armed forces.
Last summer, under great nerv-
GUS tension, he seemed to feel that
the pozers of darkness were clos
ing in, and suffered a serious ill
ness. Today, with the fate of Den
mark resolved in far-ranging and
desperate issues, the old king, near
ing 70, yields to the inevitable. The
New world structure of law and or
der has fallen and Denmark is one
of many casualties.
At the age of %, Christian mar
ried Alexandrine, princess of Neck
lenburg -Schwerin. When he was
crowned in May, 1912, the Danish
populace was prepared to dislike
him, descendant of an alien dynasty
as he was, and there were some
overt demonstrations against him.
But he won his people with his fur
therance of a liberal, constitutional
government. Although he was
trained as an army officer, and had
a liking for military ponp, he fire.
quently denounced militarism and
opposed efforts to get his tiny coun-
try housekeeping and arming.
While he was proud of having the
tallest and most respondent guard
in Europe, he Slipped away from his
bodyguards at every opportunity
and enjoyed tremendously bicycling
around Copenhagen, unattended.
Into the ruck with Denmark's gains
of two decades goes what probably
has been the worlds most success
full state-sponsored industrial and
agricultural cooperation.
FMIL HURJA, big, Babe Ruthian
~ political statistician and preci-
sionist, who greatly aided the early
New Deal by charting the public
49,. =, drift, is now
IstGold Nine the Garner
To Emil Hurja Ills e;,;es;. "a
assaying in the gold fields inspired
his system of getting the mill-run
of public sentiment. He once told
this reporter about his interesting
career. Taking start from the
wilds of the Michigan peninsula,
when he was IS, notes from his di-
airy might be something like this:
Rode the rods on the way to Seat
tie. Found more comfort in the
cattle car.
Landed in Yakima, did this and
that, and finally got to Seattle, Since
I had learned to set type at the age
of nine, I convinced the Post-Intel-
lgencer I was newspaper man.
Managed to get by, but realized
an education might help, so started
grabbing one off the side at the Uni
versity of Washington. Found DR..
Henry Suzallo, the president, was the
greatest man I ever met.
DR.. Suzallo said Henry Ford want
ed him to send somebody on his
peace ship and it might as well
be me.
Went on the peace ship; came
home and rammed around the Texas
oil fields and then got to Alaska.
Fell in with Ben Smith, who had a
real gold mine. Came back home
and got into Wall Street and poll
tics.
Began assaying political mother
lodes; got so I could tell whether
I would get a string of color, and
found I was assistant to Mr.. James
Farley, chairman of the national
Democratic committee.
Like Mr.. Garner.
r IGHTEEN years ago, Manuel
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