Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1935, Page 14

A—14 w» LAWRENCE LEGEND DEAR TO BATISH England Still " 'With Rumors of Hero Despite His Death. This is one of a series of articles by Mr. Fawcett, written in the course of a recent trip to Europe and recording his impressions and observations. Other articles in this series will appear from time to time in The Star. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. The tragic death of Lawrence of | Agabia has not demolished the legend | which centers in his name. On the | contrary, he is immortal. His cult, | lige those of King Arthur, the Cid and Napoleon Bonaparte, will con-| tinue to prosper. In him were sum- | marized the romance and color of his | age; he personified the aspiration of millions and already hi; career is the | subject of the curious embroidering | which is the inevitable lot of every | distinctive yet ideally representative | life. | England just now is brimming with rumors about him. The mystery which always surrounded his objec- tives and his methods has been en- larged and enhanced by his passing. He is not understood, doubtless never will be. But he has a tight hold on| the imagination of his country. His ngme is magic and mere mention of him instantly prompts discussion.and debate in any group of people. Who was he. really? What was he trying to do and why? Did he succeed or fail? Such are the questions which average men and women wish answered conclusively. Official ex- planations, they say, are not enough. They want the truth, the whole truth end nothing but the truth. The power of the man may be illus- trated by a single incident. A few weeks before he died Lawrence pub- lished a letter which he had written to David Lloyd George. The text was an argument in behalf of the merits of the “youngest generation” of Brit- ish poets, and the name of Cecil Day Lewis was mentioned as that of a writer of verse destined for eternity. Instantly the public responded. Lewis, like Lord Byron, “woke to find him- self famous.” His books, utterly n lected hitherto, became “best sellers.” | Lawrence had “made him” once snd! for all: \ Hailed by King George. | And yet King George V, in a tele- | friendship, his time, his brains, his | gram to the adventurer’s brother, re- | ferred to him as a character whose | when he had it, but unwilling to ac- | “bulk” in fruits and vegetables, as life was “still so full of promise.” The | cept service or gift from others, a| princely giver, but a chary receiver.” | monarch, apparently, considered him fated for a future greater and more important than his past. Had he survived the motor cycle crash which terminated his strange pilgrimage in the world he might have earned brighter laurels. Yet he had an in- | come of only about $500 a year—a | fact which seems to indicate that the | state was not making much use of |cerity of appeals frequently made to | Made by Kellogg in his services and which suggests that, | him to take a more active part in work | Battle Crezk. for some obscure reason, he was “on the shelf.” The public asks why he was ol Brimming | *% | press to be popular, why he was not actively and helpfully employed. Such genius as his, such courage and such ascetic disregard for self, constituted him a national asset. Yet those whose re- sponsibility it was failed to take ad- vantage of his availability. He was “forgotten by those who were duty- bound to remember” him. And that circumstance contributes to the mys- ¢ his funeral ii Moreton church- vard only one floral tribute was to be scen, It was a bunch of lilacs and forgel-me-nots and bore a card in- scribed: “To T. E. L., who should sleep amongadthe kings.” But Lawrence was net invited to rest his bones in West- minster Abbey, nor were his remains invited to St. Paul's Cathedral. He lies, instead, in distant Dorset, far from the arena of officiailsm which never quite knew what to do with or about him. But Lawrence himself must share whatever blame there may be. His was a peculiar personality, a curious temperament. He was not easy to work with. There were quirks in his nature which interfered with normal fellowship and hindered the free give- and-take of intimate friendship. He preferred to be isolated from the commonplace, matter-of-fact worlde His temperament did not “fit in.” Like | his American contemporary, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, he wasg'a lone eagle.” Small wonder, then, that few were willing to assume the task of | directing or guiding him. He made his own rules, played the game ac- cording to his own standards—and, though chivalrous and gallant always, was unique in a strange, difficult, irri- tating fashion. Spurned a Commission. He changed his name arbitrarily, calling himself “Mr. T. E. Shaw.” His commission as lieutenant colonel in the British Army he traded for re- enlistment as a rookie private. A clerk in a quartermaster’s depot, he spent two years handing out clothing and equipment to tank corps personnel. Letters to him were destroyed unread. Society he avoided, politics he eschew- ed. Even the soldiers who were his chosen companions-in-arms never penetrated his reserve. Col. Es F. Lawson summed him up in the words: “The first impression of him was not very convincing. A rather weather-| beaten little man in fancy dress. But! when he spoke one knew that one was talking to a great man.” He was 5 feet 2 inches tall, compactly and somewhat heavily built. His face was red. and he could be drastically choleric. As recently as four months ago he issued a hot demand to the “ignored.” Yet coin- cidentally’he resented being “passed | over.” But, it must be explained at once, he did not want any recogni- tion he had not merited. An Oxford acquaintance wrote of him: “Law- rence was always giving himself, his possessions, and especially money His principal complaint appears to have been that his Arab followers were “let down” at the Peace Confer- ence and afterward. He did not seem to realize that without his help they would have been treated still more shabbily. Nor did he comprehend the sin- in which he would have been welcome. Winston Churchill applied to him in vain “to quit his retirement.” Lord DAUGHTER SO WHOLE 4 Wl DLy Lloyd decided: that “the post-war re- yersion from action and risk into caution and compromise, hesitation, argument and inaction galled his spirit. . . . His end would have pleased him.” But in sober fact there can be no end for Lawrence. His books are be- ing reprinted, & monument is to be raised to his memory, a motipn picture biography of him is being made, and his legend—mysterious as ever—will endure. One tribute to him is that of the people who refuse to believe that he is dead and persist in their faith that he is “up_to something” in"Ger- many or in Abyssinia. DRINK BAN IMPOSED Louis Officials Curb Liquor Use by Waitresses. ST. LOUIS, August 29 (#).—Excise | Commissioner Thomas L. Anderson ruled today that waitresses in taverns may not drink with customers or even by themselves, while they are on duty. Anderson said violation of the regu- lation will result in suspension of the tavern owner’s license, probably for 10 days. Subsequent, offenses of a similar nafure may result in revocation. Anderson said the ruling was to prevent disorderliness and added that the Waitresses’ Union favors the rul- ing. 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