Evening star. [volume], May 01, 1937, Page A-6, Image 6

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ENGINE TROUBLE
DELAYS PRESIDENT
Roosevelt Cruises Down
Gulf Coast on Destroyer
Moffett.
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. May 1—With
plenty of bait and an old spotted fish
ing outfit awaiting him on the U. S. S.
Potomac off Corpus Christi, Tex.,
President Roosevelt cruised down the
gulf coast on the Destroyer Moffett
early today.
Meanwhile, members of his White
House office staff were en route to
Galveston, Tex., from New Orleans to
set up headquarters in the Galvez
Hotel, after spending nearly 36 hours
In this city.
Marvin H. McIntyre, a secretary,
planned to send a plane to the Poto
mac with official mail from Washing
ton as soon as he arrived in Galveston,
on the gulf coast north of Corpus
Christi. In the mail pouch will be
the neutrality bill passed by Congress
to replace the temporary law expiring
tonight.
Word of the President's signature of
the measure, which gives him discre
tionary authority to restrict trade w ith
warring nations, was expected before
nightfall.
The vacationing President, under
original plans, was to have trans
ferred from the Moffett to the Po
tomac early last night. But engine
trouble and a decision to spend Thurs
day night off Pilot Town, at the
mouth of the Mississippi, after repairs
had been made, set back his schedule
about 12 hours.
The Moffett developed a clogged
Oil line, but a message to McIntyre
said it was soon fixed and the voyage
resumed after daybreak. The big de
stroyer steamed through Southwest
Pass into the gulf shortly after break
fast yesterday.
While communication with the de
stroyer was maintained by McIntyre
In New Orleans through local Coast
Guard headquarters, the destroyer
Schenck will be the radio contact
between ship and shore after office
headquarters are set up in Galveston.
WELLES TO ADDRESS
LAW BANQUET HERE
Assistant Secretary of State and
Others on International
Group's Program.
Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary
ef State, heads the list of speakers
who will address the thirty-first an
nual meeting of the American So
ciety of International Law at its ban
quet tonight at the Carlton Hotel.
Ambassador Colon Eloy Alfaro,
(Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, and
Percy E. Corbett of McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, also are to speak.
The banquet closes the three-day con
vention of the society.
The delegates nominated officers
for the coming year at a session this
morning. Last night they heard dis
cussions by Robert R. Wilson of Duke
University of recognition of insurgency
and belligerency, and by Fred K.
Nielsen, former solicitor of the State
Department, of insurgency and mari
time law.
White—the Omen of Evil
Charles the First Flouted Purple and
Came to a Bad End.
(This is the seventh of a series of
articles on symbolism and sidelights
of the coronation ceremony.)
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
WHEN the Druid priests pre
pared for a human sacri
fice they robed their in
tended victim in white.
Thus the color came to have an
unlucky significance in English tradi
tion. From the days of Arthur there
was a legend that some day England
would have a white King who would
be a tragic figure in the realm’s
history.
Charles the First was arrayed for
his coronation in a robe of pure white !
instead of the robe of royal purple i
worn by all of his predecessors. Why
he did so nobody knows. Some claim
that there w;as not enough purple
cloth available to make a robe, others
that he was advised to do so by his
evil genius, William Laud, Archbishop
of Canterbury.
Laud placed the crown of St. Ed
ward on the new monarch's head.
“Sirs,” he said to those attending
the ceremony, “I present you your
King. King Charles."
It was the traditional cue for a
general acclamation of "God save the
King.” So dumfounded were the
people at the ill omen that they re
mained silent.
The Sermon Was Worse.
Even worse was the coronation ser
mon. The preacher, the Bishop of
Carlisle, took for his text "I will give
thee a crown of life.” It was a text
ordinarily used for funeral sermons.
Charles was anointed by the
Archbishop of York, who insisted on
his prerogative in spite of grave ec
clesastical doubts as to whether he
had any right to take part in such
a ceremony. A few weeks before he
accidentally had killed a game keep
er. However innocently, the prelate’s
hands were stained with human
blood.
Such was the most ill-omened coro
nation in British history. Even the
date had been selected against the
advice of the royal astrologers.
A few years later the ill-fated
King’s headless body was carried to
its grave. The funeral procession
started under a clear, sunny sky, but
almost immediately snow began to
fall, and the coffin was robed entirely
in white as it was lowered into the
grave. Thus passed the long-herald
ed “white King.”
utner coronations nave oeen almost
as ill-omened. Perhaps no man ever
was called upon to swallow his pride
more than was that merry monarch
Charles the Second when he was
crowned at Scone in Scotland while
the Commonwealth still held power
in England. The Scotch were as
bitter in their Puritanism as the
English. Charles was just an excuse,
and he knew it. In the coronation
sermon, to which he was obliged to
listen respectfully, his father was
cursed by the minister as a scoun
drel and his mother as a woman of
the streets. There was nothing for
him to do but sit there and take it.
When he was restored to power over
the United Kingdom he got some
satisfaction by sending the Earl of
Argyle, who had placed the crown on
his head, to the chopping block.
Two Disgraceful Coronations.
Perhaps the most disgraceful coro
KING CHARLES I.
From a Portrait by Vandyke.
nations were those of two of England’s
worst Kings—John of Magna Charta
fame and George the Fourth. Both
men, it is reported, got royally drunk
for the solemn occasion. John roared
with laughter throughout the cere
mony. When, as part of the investi
ture, a spear was placed in his hands
he was so shaken with merriment
that he let it drop. He refused to
receive holy communion.
Almost as ill-omened as the corona
tion of Charles was that of John's
brother, Richard. To sanctify the
day and make his coronation pleasing
to the Lord the valiant crusader
ordered the massacre of all the Jews
in England.
Although the act was generally ap
proved by England's devout Chris
tians, there were those who felt that
Richard should have waited a day
or two and not stained his corona
tion with so much blood, even in
the service of God. These attached
significance to an evil omen. Dur
ing the coronation services a black
bat flew through the door of the
abbey and flew around the King’s
head several times.
In the middle of the ceremonies the
bells of London began to peal. No
order had been given for their ring
ing. Some said it was a miracle at
testing God’s gratitude for massacre
of the Jews, others that an angered
Satan had sneaked into the belfries,
and that the pealing was his threat
of vengeance.
Richard Crowned Himself.
Richard himself—strange to say he
seems to have been a fairly decent
sort of fallow in many ways and the
first heavyweight boxing champion in
British history—had no doubts about
the sanctity either of himself or his
acts. He took the crown away from
the Archbishop of Canterbury and
placed-it on his own head—the only
British monarch to crown himself.
He was more sanctified than the
bishop, he said. Richard was the
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only King of England to be crowned
twice. When he came home after
his captivity—his kingdom was near
bankruptcy after raising his ransom—
he was recrowned lest some of the
divine authority might have evap
orated during his long absence, in
spite of all the Saracens he had
slain in battle and the Jews he had
butchered.
One wonders, however, if on heav
en’s books drunken John, who bored
out a little boy's eyes with a red
hot iron, had quite so many black
marks as his brother, who was so
confident he was a saint. John,
after all, may have sneaked by the
pearly gates. Tradition has it that
he was conscience stricken toward
the end of his life and gave orders
that his corpse be wrapped in a
monk's robes and buried between two
saints. He thought God might mis
take him in the rush on judgment
day.
One King, Henry the Third, had to
go without his supper on the evening
ot his coronation day. The royal
outler, whose duty it was to prepare
the meal, was mad at the Archbishop
of Canterbury and Issued orders that
if the prelate was caught hunting in
his private forest the gamekeepers
should kick him out. The arch
bishop retaliated by excommunicat
ing the butler and thus barring him
from any part in the coronation
procedures.
Elaborate but Disgraceful.
The coronation of George the
Fourth was the most elaborate ever
held in England and also one of the
most disgraceful. “The first gentle
man in Europe” surrounded himself
with his merry companions, barred
his wife from the abbey and sur
rounded himself with a body guard
of all the prize fighters he could
muster in gay regalia, headed by the
American Negro, Richmond the Black.
As part of the coronation ceremony
various dignitaries of the realm were
supposed to kiss the King on the
I cheek. Perspiration rolled down the
fat monarch's face. It was a dis
gusting necessity.
He made it worse by openly ridi
culing those whom he did not like
as they made the humiliating ap
proach.
On the whole, this coronation dis
gusted England. When George died
after a short 'reign chiefly distin
guished by his elevating to the
knighthood an Irish prizefighter, the
Whigs were in power and were de
termined the scene should not be
repeated.
They went to the other extreme
and were so stingy that a crown had
to be rented from a London jeweler.
Jailbird Sues for Pay.
Because his jail earnings were cut
33 Vi per cent under the Australian
depression legislation figure a former
habitual criminal is going to test the
legality of the reduction in the court
at Sydney. He has filed suit for the
difference between what he received
and what he claims he contracted for.
BALLOTING ON ART
ENDS TOMORROW
Voting Heavy to Determine
Most Popular Picture in
Corcoran Exhibition.
Balloting by the public in the ref
erendum to determine the most popu
lar picture in the Fifteenth Biennial
Exhibition of Contemporary American
Oil Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art will end tomorrow at 6 p.m.
Voting has been unusually heavy,
gallery officials said today. The artist
whose picture receives the most votes
will be awarded a $200 prize by the .
gallery.
The gallery will be open from 2 to
6 p.m. tomorrow for those who wish
to inspect the exhibition and cast
votes in the referendum. A ballot
will be handed each visitor as he
enters the building.
Two more paintings included in
the show have been sold, the gallery
announced. Miss Florence Bascom
of the United States Geological Sur
vey purchased "Orlando,” a work of
Lucille Blanch. Mrs. Herbert M.
Lloyd of Montclair, N. J., bought
"Green Pitcher,” by Paulette Van
Roekens.
More than 36,000 persons have
visited the exhibition since it opened
Easter Sunday. The show will con
tinue through May 9.
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