Carol v. A. A. A.

Mr. Charles M. Schwab was a stage driver in his youth and is proud of it. Mr. Charles M. Ward is a nephew of Mr. Schwab. Last week Mr. Ward asked the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania, at Paris, whether he would like to drive a racing automobile at the opening, next May, of the Atlantic City Speedway, which has allegedly been financed by steel-magnate Schwab.

Carol, who is one of the best royal racing drivers in Europe, replied in perfect English: "Yes."

Why indeed should not Carol pilot a supercharged space-ripper at Atlantic City? For some hours there seemed to be no answer to this question. Then Carol's secretary regretfully announced that "for unknown reasons" the American Automobile Association would not grant a racing driver's license to "M. Scarlat Mondstireanu" (Carol's incognito).

Many a prurient and self-righteous U. S. racing pilot cried: "No wonder the A. A. A. socked him with a spanner! No Roumanian wop-frog who's livin' with a red-headed Jewess in Paris while his morganatic wife sues him for 10 million francs and his real wife is Princess Helen of Greece, should ought to be allowed in an American garage. I'll say his name is 'Morry Turp'! Moral Turpitude is right!"

Saddened at these developments, Mr. Schwab's nephew sailed for home on the France with the best titled racers he could get.