The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-07
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Delos Wheeler Lovelace


sassination of Alexander nine years
young Peter Would told he had
Not AS Soon Be steady job
Beggar as King s and ne rs Is
sentful at Partisan Chief Tito for
making himself head of home gov
eminent, even temporary govern
ment.
Tito boosts himself the more
easily because young Peter quit
Jugoslavia when the Germans
crowded In. Rather he was
urged out, an 1S-year-old boy, by
his generals. They had turned
on Prince Paul, Nazi-loving re-
gent, and made Peter king at a
midnight browning, but they felt
themselves and the king too
weak to buck Hitler.
Peter is 20 now, bony and bit
bow-legged as riding breaches made
plain when he visited the United
States last year. He is long
faced, long-necked homely kid, not
too prepossessing, but repeatedly in
dead earnest. When he took the
midnight crown he quit breaking
speed limits and general fooling
around.
These days he Is In Cairo, a
nice jumping-0f place for fast
trip home when that seems SEN
sible. He could easily take q
wife with him, at least a fiancee.
She would be pretty Princess AL
exandra Of Greece. They finally
reported their engagement this
summer after a set-to with Pc
ter's advisers. Those cautious
graybeards doubted the good
taste Of announcing the happy
event while Peters subjects
were SO unhappy.
THE last time Yankee migrated
i into British parts and tried to
make everybody happy he killed off
all the knights of the Round Table
He Would Build own o go goose
9-Poinf Utopia in cooked by
Postwar Canada Merlin; With
Twain he might have done even
worse. 1t was a job to discourage
all Yankees. but here comes a
Down-easter with a program for
making another batch of Britons
"the happiest people on Gods green
earth"
The program is G. ID. H0we's,
Canada's wartime munitions
minister, and before that the
worlds biggest builder Of grain
elevators, and before that a Do
minion cabinet minister, M. p.
and professor, but before that
good steady No. 2 on the crew
Of the Waltham, Mass, high
school. -
After high school and Massachu-
sets Tech, Howe got teaching job
over the border. He returned home
for a wife. But then he went back
for keeps. He was naturalized, built
his elevators, got rich. He didn't
rise quite as high as the Connecticut
Yankee, but he was elected to par
lament, was hiked up into the cabi-
net and there ran the railroads, the
canals and the Canadian Broadcast
ing system. And when Hitler struck
he took over the job Of providing
powder and shot and related items.
Now, stocky, cheerful and 81
years old, he looks ahead. He
would build in postwar Canada
nine-point utopia on "the
broad basis Of agriculture, for
ests, mines, fisheries and" be-
lieve it or not, private enter
prise" That makes it a Yankee
utopia. That might make It
work.
+ ORD HALEY, baron Of Shapur,
~ Punjab and Newport Pagnell,
Bucks, aims to prove Twain was
wrong by fixing up the weather. At
Somebody's Going will viii try' He e
To do Something is the head
About the Weather OF a British
committee
which proposes series of stations
throughout the empire to tell the
postwar world, postwar airmen in
particular, when to look for rain,
hail, snow, heat, clouds and what
have you.
The baron is just the fellow to
take on . job like that and,
moreover, to do It up brown. He
was for years a singularly COM
petent cog in the singularly COM
petent Indian Civil Service ma
chine. He entered the service
right after coming down from
Oxford, Corpus Christi, with hon
Ors. In his heyday he made
multitudes Of Indian peasants
prosperous by building the Jhe-
lum irrigation project.