Carol & Things

Things done last week by Carol II, last reigning Hohenzollern, "by the Grace of God King of Rumania":

He Ordered from Indianapolis a 265-h. p. Duesenberg. (His new-car-of-the-month for September was a front-drive Cord.)

He Cabled to George V, received a reply--the first personal message sent to Rumania's new king by Great Britain's old one, who did not receive him when he was last in England with his henna-haired mistress, Magda Lupescu.

In his cable Carol II thanked George V for the courtesy visit in Rumanian waters of a British cruiser and two destroyers. In reply the King-Emperor said nothing but said it with marked cordiality--happy omen of the new, better Anglo-Rumanian entente now forming.

He Appointed Professor George G. Mironescu to be Prime Minister, succeeding Professor Iuliu Maniu who resigned with his Cabinet "because of poor health".

He Enraged the professorial and student class, distinctly a factor in Rumanian politics, by announcing, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, that from Jan. 1, 1931 the pay of all officers will be increased 5,000 lei per month ($30)--subject to Parliamentary approval which His Majesty seemed cocksure of obtaining last week.

Wrote the New York Sun's observant F. E. Stevens from Bucharest:

"Rumanian officers, especially young lieutenants, are wild with glee and parading about with the air of the nouveau riche.

"Students assert that with this large salary the young lieutenants will be able to hog the whole of Calea Victoriei--the great after-tea promenade--and run away with all the pretty girls. . . . Students interviewed gave scores of cases of their lycee comrades who failed in the early periods of their work and who are today officers looking forward to the big increase while these students aren't half way through the university."

Bearded professors bitterly compared their $70 a month salary with the prospective $150 monthly pay of "hoggish" second lieutenants.

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