Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1937, Page 6

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The decision of Republican Chair- man John D. M. Hamilton to break { his silence on political affairs fore- cast a change today in the party's recent policy of letting Democrats argue national issues among them- selves. Hamilton said he would deliver on | Saturday night the first of four radio | speeches in successive weeks. “I have done a great deal of listen- | ing in the last six months,” he said. “All over the country I find the old lines of political allegiance shifting and new lines forming. “Political developments since the election have been rapid and impor- tant. It seems to me the time has come to look at the new political pic- ture, to re-examine the old and to discuss the position and attitude of the Republican party in the changed set-up.” Opposed Party Issue in Court. Hamilton was one of the Republican leaders who counseled against any ef- Pproposal a partisen issue. Consequently, the 16 Republican | Senators and 88 Republican Repre- sentatives have made only occasional criticisms of the measure, although | nearly all have indicated they would vote against it. Some party workers predicted Hamilton’s speeches might | result in more vigorous opposition to | the bill. Republican legislators have been more outspoken on President Roose- | velt’s economy appeal than on almost | any other subject this session. | They indorsed his demand last week | for a reduction of Government ex- | penses, and some—notably Represen- i tative Taber, Republican, of New | York—urged a flat 10 per cent cut in | departmental appropriations. Senator | Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, | is the author of a similar proposal. Minority members of the House have conflned speechmaking, in fact, largely to administration spending | policies. Nearly every week Repre- sentatives Gifford of Massachusetts, Rich of Pennsylvania or some other Republican has criticized Government fiscal methods. On many bills the House Repub- ADVERTISEME&'T. " Avoid Embarrassment of | FALSE TEETH Dropping or Slipping Don’t be embarrassed ag: your false teeth slip or drop when you laugh or sneeze. Just sprinkle eat, talk. a little FASTEETH on vour plates. This | new. extremely fine powder glves a wonderful sense of comfort and se- curity. N ¥ feeling. FASTEETH _today | Peoples or any other drus store. v. Kooey taste er| licans have voted virtually as a unit. They held a special caucus to decide | to support the Gavagan anti-lynching bill, which also was backed by North- ern Democrats. It passed over the opposition of Southern members. Action by the handful of Repub- lican Benators this Spring has been less concerted, although most of them have spoken individually against the oourt bill. 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They and others have been con- ferring with Hamilton on raising funds and laying the groundwork for the 1938 State and congressional elec- tions. Hamilton, calling for a rebirth of party effort 4n an address last month at Bridgeport, Conn., saic “The breakdown of the Republican party didn’t happen in 1936, but it began 25 years ago. It has sat and watched the parade go by.” night, his other speaking dates are May 8, 16 and 23. The first and sec- ond addresses will be delivered over the red network of the National Broadcasting Co. from 9:30 to 10 pm. and the third and fourth over the Columbia network frum 10 to 10:30 pm. B — |MISS LAURA B. GORDON DIES HERE AT AGE OF 76 Miss Laura B. Gordon, 76, of Be- thesda, Md, retired Government Printing Office compositor, died today in Garfield Hospital. She had been ill about three months. Miss Gordon came here about 40 Years ago from Saginaw, Mich, and she retired from the Government sev- eral years ago, after 33 years’ service. She was a member of Columbia Typo- graphical Union No. 101. She lived with her sister-in-law, Mrs. C. C. Gordon, and a niece, Mrs. J. R. Currey, in Bethesda. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Gawler's chapel, 1750 Pennsylvania avenue. Burial will be in Rock Oreek Cemetery. NEW for the Peoples Drug Stores NEWS REVIEW With Robert Horton Now at 10:30 P.M. Over WJSV (Formerly Heard et 5:30 P.M.) forts to make the President’s court | Besides Hamilton’s talk Saturday | THE EVENING S 'AR, The Stone of __S_cone Most ‘Ancient Symbol of British Royalty in Use for Seven Centuries. Imbedded beneath the seat of this chair is the Stone of Scone, brought from Scotland by Edward I in 1279. The chair is the oaken one in which King George VI will be crowned in the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. Beside the chair are the great two-handed state sword and shield of Edward 111, dating back to the fourteenth century. —A. P. Photo. (This is the second of a series of articles on symbolism and sidelights of the coronation ceremony.) BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | OR nearly seven centuries all { monarchs of England, with one | 3 I exception, have been crowned | | upon the “stone of Scone.” This block of red sandstone, inclosed | in an oaken chair, is the most an- | cient symbol of British royalty. It| | supposedly has served as the corona- | | tion seat of the Kings of Ireland, i Scotland and England—in that order | —for at least 3,000 years. The Celtic and Germanic tribes of | northern Europe before the Christian | |era appear to have attached great | significance to ‘“stones of govern- ment"—so much so that when one of these stones was removed the in- dependence of the tribe was supposed to have gone with it. It was sym- bolic of rulership. When a tribe was | beaten in battle the King's stone was | one of the chief spoils of the con- queror. | Thus this particular stone in West- | minster Abbey is a symbol of the gov- | | ernments of England, Scotland and | | Ireland together. It is a direct link between the monarch of today and the half-savage chieftains who ruled before the Roman conquest on the | | Hill of Tara in Ireland, and from the | Pictish tribal headquarters at Scone | in Perthshire. Wherever the stone goes | there, symbolically, goes the seat of government of the triple kingdom. History Is Baffing. The actual history of the “stone of | Scone” is baffling to antiquaries, but | | deal of tradition has grown up around it. One legend attached to this stone is that it is the identical rock upon which the patriarch Jacob slept at Bethel. Itewas carried into Egypt, so the tradition goes, by the Lsraelites and came somehow into the possession of Pharoah’s daughter, the “Fairy Prin- cess” Scota. She married a Greek named Galethus, who established a colony in Spain and used the stone as his “seat of government.” From Spain, according to the leg- end, King Simon Brech about 700 B. C. He placed it on the Hill of Tara, where for nearly 400 years all Irish monarchs were crowned upon it. Around 300 B. C. it was removed to Scotland by the ancient King Fergus the First. From this point there is a gap of nearly 1,000 years in the chronology and the stone does not appear again until well into the time of recorded history—about 850 A. D. Removed to Scome. Presumably it had remained, how- ever, &n object of great reverence in 8cotland. In the middle of the ninth century it was removed by King Ken- neth the First from Dunstaffnage Castle, where it had been built into & doorway, to the monastery church at Scone in Perthshire. In this church all the succeeding Kings of Scotland were crowned up to the time of Rob- ert Bruce, nearly 500 years. After Edward the Firat, “Long- shanks,” defeated Willlam Wallace, Scotland lay at his feet and he pro- ceeded to loot the country of its treas- ures. Says the old Scotch historian, Hector Boece: ‘“Besyde mony other crueltis done be Kyng Edward Lang Shanks the said chiar of mervyll wes TIME | finally deposited it was brought to Ireland by | naturally through the centuries a great | | taikin be inglismen and brocht out of scone to London and put into Westmonister, quhaer it remains to our dayes.” Longshanks left the stone as an offering at the shrine of Edward the Confessor. In the King's accounts there is a record of “100 shillings for & chair in wood” to enclose the stone and of “1 pound, 19 shillings and 7 pence for the wages of carpenters and of the painters and for colours and gold employed; also for making of & covering to cover the said chair.” ‘Moslem subjects of the empire are not greatly impressed with the legendry of the stone's migrations. They maintain that Jacob's stone was in the temple at Jerusalem and still is preserved in a mosque there. Neither are geologists. The reddish- purple sand stone, they say, is sus- piciously close in structure to the rocks of Perthshire. It is a kind of rock unknown, or very rare, in Pales- tine or Egypt. It may, however, have come from the hill of Tara, although | this is improbable. It has the shape of an irregular | oblong, 26 inches long, 16% inches !in breadth, and 10!2 inches thick. At each end is an iron ring attached to another iron ring set in the stone itself. There is a deep groove on one surface, The weight of evidence seems to be WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY that the stone came from Perthshire and that it probably was the corona- tion stone of the ancient Pictish king-* dom, which embraced southern and central Scotland at the time of the Roman oonquest. ‘The oak chair which contains the stone s the identical seat made for Edward the Pirst. It is covered with cloth of gold for a coronation and has become greatly disfigured through the centuries. Not the least of these dis- figurements in the legend: “P. Abbot slept in this chair July, 1800.” The story is that “P. Abbot” was a daring schoolboy who hid in Westminster Abbey and remained there overnight to win a bet, Crowned Chair for 450 Years. ‘With a single exception every mon- arch of England for 450 years has been crowned in this chair. The exception was the first Queen Mary. A devout Catholic, she feared the coronation paraphernalia had been spiritually pol- luted by the Protestantism of her father, Henry the Eighth, and her un- fortunate brother, Edward the Sixth, whom she succeeded. She was crowned in a chair sanctified for the purpose by the Pope. At the same time she objected to the anointing ofl. It smelled bad, she said, having been pol- luted by her brother’s heresy. Only once have the chair and stone been removed from Westminster Ab- bey. This was for the inauguration of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector, For this purpose it was removed to the Parliament Building. Contemptuous of most of the trappings of royalty, even Cromwell was loath to flout the “stone of fate.” o Speculation (Continued From First Page.) gested the President's adoption of this policy. At the Civil Service Commission President Mitchell of the commission said he could not answer this ques- tion. He stated that so far as he knew it is prompted by no specific cases of speculation of the part of employes, and that no particular case or individual was involved. From his viewpoint, it is merely a matter of & general policy being adopted by the President. President Mitcheli and the other two members of the Civil Service Commission had a long conference with the President last week at which time it is believed this policy wu} agreed upon. President Mitchell said KING ! APRIL 26, 1937. after that White House conference that he and his associates discussed with the President various matters for the improvement of the classified service. President Roosevelt’s newly adopted policy of putting a ban oa employes speculating in the stock and ocom- modity markets is expeoted to have widespread effect. In the first place, there are more than 800,000 Govern- ment employes of whom 510,000 are in-the classified service. It is natural to assume that the President’s warn- ing will greatly reduce speculation among employes inasmuch as the lat- ter would not care to run the risk of losing their jobs or else having their ratings affected. Sees Warning Against Inflation. Although no explanation is forth- coming at the White House as to the reasons for the President’s sudden adoption of this policy it is believed to be in line with his design to knock down commodity and stock prices. In other words, the President’s new policy is interpreted by some as an- other warning against price inflation which he fears may thwart economic recovery. It is recalled that the President at & press conference a few weeks ago, gave & lecture on what he considered the excessively high prices on durable goods. A few days ago the Depart- ment of Justice announced the filing of a suit against the Aluminum Trust which is expected by many to have its | K effect on other corporations. In this Special TREAT for 4 o'clock Nibblers | CRoss s Blackuell CROSSE & S BLACKWELL'S date & nut Bread Ready to slice and serve. Alwavs tresh. Extra Good with Sweet Butter Cream Cheese or amy sandwich filling Now selling at a greatly reduced price ASK YOUR GROCER King John of England won the per- manent hatred of his Irish chief- tains by pulling their beards! If our face is sore at whisker-pulling lades, switch to Gem—their keener edges are kind to tender skins! SMOOTH SAILING! 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