San Antonio Sunday Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 69, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 28, 1926 Page: 68 of 92
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LONDON. March 18.
THE Dowager Countess of Warwick
has added another dash of color to
her already picturesque career in
the formal presentation of her beautiful
estate Easton Lodge in Dunmow Essex
England as a home for the great labor
college. This splendid gift to English
labor byghe Countess once famed for her
beauty and social eminence is hailed by
English labor as a stride forward for the
British working-class movement. English
aristocracy since the great war has been
constrained to listen to the Countess of
Warwick's appeal to the landed nobility
to follow the example of the Russian
Grand Dukes and turn over all their
feudal properties to the state.
The blare of feudal hunting horns and
the fanfare of heraldic trumpets are threat-
ened with being drowned under the shriek
of factory whistles the whir and hum of
electric machines and the din of labor’s
hammers! This is the goblin that Lady
Warwick is springing on the public.
She could not be long content with
semi-obscurity. Half a dozen years ago
she startled British society with the rumor
—later proved empty—that she was about
to sell magnificent old
Warwick Castle. War-
wickshire to make of
it a club or hotel for
American millionaires.
Warwick Castle the
foundations of which
were started by a
daughter of Alfred
the Great whose
Guy's and Caesar’s
towers erected in
1394 overlook the
town occupied by the
Romans destroyed by
the Danes and re-
„ built by the English
which the Normans I
made their stronghold 1
—the castle in which I
„ Wi 11 ia m the Con- I
• queror lived while he I
superin tended the '
• building of the fortifi-
cations ! Warwick
Castle to become the
habitat of American
parvenus! Perish the
idea! What a relief
when Lady Warwick
announced:
“It is absurd to
think we might sell it.
Sooner or later I sup-
pose the State will
acquire all properties
of such historical
value as Warwick Castle but until then tuity announced the council is now rais-
we have not the slightest intention of sell- ing funds for the. construction and equip-
ing.’’ ment of the college. •
But the next stage was the suggestion It is this same original woman who was
that the castle might house American visi- a leader in the set in which Edward VII
tors to the Shakespeare country for the
Summer season. British society shook
v ith surprise therefore when they heard
the Countess saying. “Yes. we have leased
the castle now for some years during the
Summer season to American friends.”
Now comes Easton Lodge in Essex
where her father the Hon. Charles May-
nard son and heir of Viscount Maynard
at his death left her 23.000 acres. On
these ancestral acres labor will build says
the Countess “a temple of labor learning
from which the working classes will carry
away inspiration for their work.” Arthur
Pugh of the General Council of the
' Trades Union Congress in accepting the
gift of Easton Lodge which is in perpe-
EW Expeditions Hope to Fly io the North Pole This Summer
I
CAN science reach the North Pole
through the air? Eight expedition;
are now preparing to make the try
this Summer.
Amundsen nearly lost his life last Sum-
mer in hie Polar trip in two aeroplanes.
They were forced to mak< a landing on
the rough hilly ice-floes and it is almost a
tliat the machines were not
smaAed.
Night and day Amundsen’s party
worke^l with picks and shovels to clear
a smooth piace for their “take-off”-—and
from hour to hour the ice bulged up and
snowstorms filled the smooth path they
had laboriously prepared. Amundsen
will never try again to visit the Pole in an
aeroplane. This summer he will make
the trip in a big dirigible.
But it is not certain whether he will
be much better off in his dirigible. With
nobody but polar bears to stand by to help
4
Easton Lodge
in the
Distance
as Seen
from the
North Lawn.
Picturesque Entrance to the Dairy Garden of
Eaaton Lodge.
** ivouvi iii me V' V ssi "iiivil a^nwcsi'i v u
when Prince of Wales spent much of his
time. It was during this period at the
/zenith of her loveliness and charm when
she was a central figure on the race
courses at the gaming tables and in salons
of the ancient English aastles that she
gained the name of '•Babbling Brooke.”
The Countess of Warwick was then Lady
Brooke. It was her “babbling” that ex-
ploded over the English social skies the
Tranby Croft scandal. In the storm that
arose consequent to her "babbling” Sir
William Gordon-Cumming Scotch baronet
was subjected to the severest social ostra-
cism and the Prince of Wales was brought
before the public as a bad boy.
The ostensible favoritism show n her by
secure his airship he can hardly expect
to make a landing or anchor hi* a r raft
in the arctic gales. If he passes over the
Pole during one of the frequent blinding
snowstorms he will not be able to see
anything.
Here are the eight expeditions:
(1 ) The Barth tt Expedition <Amer-
ican). This will be in charge of Captain
Robert A. Bartlett who was w ith Peary
on his last successful Arctic exploration
Thi- party will use aeroplanes and beside*
having as its objective the North Polo
it will take a good look at the million
.-quare miles of unexplored area north of
Wrangel Island. If it finds land there
before any of the other expeditions do
it will raise the American flag over it
and claim possession in the name of the
United States.
(2) The Amundsen-Ellsworth Trans-
polar Flight Expedition (Norwegian).
Amundsen’s dirigible is being made in
Italy. There will be eighteen in the party.
The “Red Countess” Addressing a
Socialistic Meeting.
the Prince led the Princess Alexandra to
snub her. The Princess had accepted an
invitation to dinner and when she found
Lady Brooke’s name on the list of guests
the Princess declined to attend unless the
offensive name was removed. The rebuke
by Alexandra led to Lady Brooke’s name
being brought into the Tranby Croft
scandal.
The Prince of Wales had promised to
stay with the Duke and Duchess of Port-
land at Welbeck Abbey for Doncaster
race week and a week or so before the
races the Duke sent the Prince the pro-
posed list of guests. It was returned with
the name of Lady Brooke added. But the
The Two Aeroplanes of Amundsen s Expedition I^ast Year on
the Ice-Floe 292 Miles from the North Pole. This Remark-.
able Photograph Shows How Difficult It Is to Make a
Landing on the Rough Hilly Ice and How the Ex-
plorers Had to Work Night and Day to Clear a
Smooth Run-Way to “Take Off."
They will start from Spitsbergen and hope
to land in Nome Alaska.
(3) The French Polar Flight Expedi-
tion under control of the French Govern-
ment. Its leader is Captain Jules de Paver
and it has not yet been decided whether
aeroplanes or a dirigible will be used. It
will probably be the latter. This party
will “take-off” from Francis Joseph Land
and go straight to the Pole explore and
return to their starting place.
(4) The Hammer Polar Flight Expedi-
tion (Swedish). The organizer of this is
H. H. Hammer a well-known explorer
who has been with Amundsen in former
(C) Amffkan Weekly In
The Countess of Warwick When She Was a
Social Favorite.
Duchess of Portland sym- The scandal ruined Sir William and
pathizine with Princess this public announcement was made:
Alexandra promptly took «c-„» ?’•
it off. Because of this sir William Gordon-Cumming baronet is
the Prince declined to
stay at Welbeck Abbey and was instead
entertained by Mrs. Arthur Wilson at
Tranby Croft
Lady Brooke was of course included
among the invited but at the last moment
she had to go to Scotland because of the
death of her stepfather the Earl of Ross-
lyn. She was not therefore present when
the Wilsons accused Sir William of cheat-
ing at baccarat. But although all those
present had been sworn to secrecy Lady
Brooke was told about it. She was un-
able to control her propensity for gossip-
ing an<i the scandal became public. Con-
sequently she was nicknamed “Babbling
Brooke.”
Arctic exploration. Hammer plans to
duplicate Amundsen’s route but will use
aeroplanes.
(5) The Gram Expedition (British and
Norwegian). This will be led by Colonel
Tryggve Gram who in 1919. came to
this country with Admiral Mark Kerr of
the British Air Service and a big Hand-
ley-Page plane for the purposes of flying
across the Atlantic Ocean.
(6) The Soviet Polar Flight Expedi-
tion planned by the Russian Government
in which the airship “Lenin” is to be
used.
(7) The Detroit Arctic Expedition
nc. GrMU Britain Rights RaMrvad
removed from the army Her Majesty hav-
ing no further occasion for his services.” I
Lady Brooke’s reign in the Prince of I
Wales’s set was ended. The Prince was 1
furious at her indiscretion and if he ever i
forgave her no one ever knew it. She i
faced about anil devoted herself to activi- i
ties with which the Prince of Wales had
little sympathy. i
For twenty-five years she has been a I
Socialist during which time she has met 1
the opposition of friends and family and |
has been called the “Red Countess.” At »
sixty-two years of age she was the first of <
England’s titled women to seek election 1
to Parliament as a representative of the )
Labor Party. . <
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made up of various army navy and civil-
ian flyers.
(8) An independent expedition organ-
ized by Lieutenant Commander Richard E.
Byrd of Winchester. Va. who com-
manded the navy section of the fruitless
MacMillan expedition last Summer and
financed by American citizens among
whom John D. Rockefeller Jr. anil Edsel
Ford each have offered $20000.
Each of the expeditions hopes to find
new lands and to take possession of them
in the names of their respective govern-
ments. Comparatively a few years ago
no country could be bothered much
about taking a title to anything up in
this inhospitable and difficult region but
the possible future development of the
aeroplane and dirigible would give such
spots great value as landing stations in
across-ocean flights. Besides these lands
may contain stores of mineral wealth
that could be taken out by way of the
air when it never could be by ships.
“The aristocracy of England in its posi-
tion of hereditary landowners is on the
wane” Lady Warwick has said. “The (
only cure for the present evils seems to i
me to be State ownership the abolition
of all private property in the earth th:.t
was given to all of us in common.
“There are two classes of large land-
owners in England—the aristocracy and
the plutocracy. As a class the aristoci wy
have been good landowners within lind .
but the limits are very marked becaifs®
they have always been a narrow-min ' •!
bqdy. The average chatelaine who pl ;
the part of Lady Bountiful is to me an
abomination because her philanthropy
so closely associated with dogmatic re! .
ion personal pride and party politics.
“As for the plutocrats the men who
have not the old feudal traditions
of the aristocracy. They have been
accustomed to make business ven-
tures pay; they demand 6 per cent
on their outlay and employ an
agent who will see that they get it
। The landlord of this class isa ba I
K landlord.
5 “The old feudal landlord is an
l anachronism; the new money-spun
’ 'landlord an abomination.”
Her remark that titles may
be purchased quite as readily as
land recalls the suit of the Eng-
lish brewer Wyatt against Lady
Warwick in 1910. The suit was
settled out of court and the ex-
planation given was that Wyatt
having social ambitions was told
that by paying $lOOOOO to' the
right persons he could be created
a baron. Shortly before the list of
honors in which he expected to
be included was published a
demand was made upon him for
$60000 more. Wyatt paid over
the money. But the list came out without
his name and he brought suit against the
Countess of Warwick.
“We are not a rich aristocracy” sh->
once said in a moving public address. “We
are many of us deadly poor. We are
many of us splendid paupers.”
Her voice was filled with pathos and
many of her hearers were moved to tears
by her words. But the next morning a
farmhand with a wife and six children
whbm he was trying to support on $2 a
week was brought before the local mag-
istrate on a charge of stealing the Count-
Cl fkfiD ankl^ rtlzi^L nF ma « .
ess s $BOOO sable cloak at the very mo-
ment when she was describing herself as
a “splendid pauper.” Only a few weeks
before England had been entertained
with accounts of the Oriental magnifi-
cence of a fancy dress ball she had given
in Warwick Castle in which she appeared
as Marie Antoinette and literally blazed
with diamonds.
Perhaps the extravagance of such af-
fairs as her Sardanapalian fancy costume
ball has something to do with her em-
bracing socialism. But a few years later
the immense fortune she had inherited
seemed to have been dissipated and her
name was put up on a sign over a milli-
nery shop in Bond street.
The “Red Countess's” new gift to labor
is a fine old house and grounds and has
been the scene of many functions. King
Edward before Lady Brooke lost her
prestige with him was often a member of
shooting parties held there and the “Gar-
den of Friendship” which is one of the
features of the lodge contains plants pre-
sented by him and the late Dowager
Queen Mary.
i
Therefore while all the expeditions
are ostensibly competing for the historic
fame of being the first to fly to the
North Pole the discovery of a continent
or large islands in the unexplored area
would have an enormous practical value.
But it is doubtful whether the men in
the aeroplanes will ever know that they
have gone over the Pole—or if they do
believe they have whether they can prove
it. It is also doubtful whether the diri-
gibles are in any better case. The Arctic
Ocean is a sea of ice solid during the
Winter months but broken up and drift-
ing from April to October. It is absolutely
impossible to establish that one has flown
across the Pole by compass directions.
The magnetic currents are so strong and
erratic that the compasses simply can’t
“behave.”
It seems quite unlikely that either
’planes or dirigibles will find a place to
make safe landing and long enough stop
to make scientific observations.
have bought tit'
and lands in ithe
open market — and
the one is nearly as
readily purchased a-
the other — they 1
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