"Be Carejul!"

"Be Careful!"

While 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor, father of 43 children, attended to such chores of state as having audience of King Edward VIII, his young fourth wife busied herself in London last week buying presents for wives No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3.

Said Son No. 1 handsomely last week of Wife No. 4, youngest of his stepmothers: "She was sorry the other wives could not come to England, but somebody had to be left behind to mind our home and our large family. She is buying just the jewelry and other things she is sure they will like. So far she has learned only two words of English, 'Be Careful!,' and she addresses them to her chauffeur every time she goes out. She and the Sultan thought at first that it must be fright at your terrible traffic which made English girls so pale."

Son No. 1 is not, as might be expected, the Crown Prince of Selangor. Because the Colonial Office dislike him, British pressure deprived him of his rank and forced in Son No. 3 as Crown Prince. Last week the Sultan of Selangor was reported somewhat feebly attempting to convince William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Malay custom was interfered with when Son No. 2 was also rejected.

Of the four Federated Malay States under British "protection," humid, sleepy Selangor is next to the smallest in area, out important because of its tin deposits. Originally the Malays were extremely virile. The Japanese people are descendants of Malay conquerors. Today the chief function of the impotent Malay Peninsula is to supply 40% of the world's tin. Enhanced is the Sultan of Selangor's glory by the fact that Kuala Lumpur, his Capital, serves as the Capital of the Federated Malay States, but this causes the Sultan to be under the thumb of His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas, K.C.M.G., C.M.G., O.B.E.

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