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MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930.
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SENSELESS VANDALISM IN LIMERICK.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
A bronze statute commemorating the heroism of Viacount FitzGih
month.
A popular English literary week-bon, who fell in the charge of the ly recently offired prizes for the Light Brigade at Balaclava, was best one-act ys submitted to blown to pieces at Limerick last
The response was inter-
The statute, which had stood on esting, but no less was-the-fact that the Sarsfield Bridge for over WAR completely out of the 3,400 entry, only one play seventy years. by a Scot, or by someone living in Scotland, was deemed worthy of meption, and that, for the purposes of elimination all "dialect" plays
Windows in the neighbourhood had been ruled out by the adjudica-were shattered by the force of the They, put Scots plays first on explosion. No theory is offered as this list, so presumably there was a
to the motive for the outrage. large entry from North of the Tweed.
tors.
But what is one to think of this exclusive rule when it transpires that the winning entry is in large part written in French or pidgin French? Is the French language
wrecked. All that remains of what was one of the finest examples of the work of the great Irish sculptor John Hogan is the left leg of the figure.
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There is surely something worth examining in this decision of the ad- judicators.
.. Two Kinds of English. Cockney is no more pure English than the dialect of East Lothian; both parts of the country have been settled by the English-speaking tribes for the same length of time. The only difference is that the one has been speaking London English while the other has been speaking Lowland English,
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The fact that the brothers Mayo, of the two leading surgeons America, are stated to have de- dicated more than 2% millions to medical education and research, will add colour to the much too popular illusion that Medicine is an easy road to riches and that all doctors are men of wealth.
Ignore the English Claim. But if the English tongue is to,
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poraries the world over were rub- DESTRUCTIVE HAILS be regarded as the exclusive posses- BRONZE AGE TOMB DISCOVERED
bing their eyes in amazement at their daring at ever having at tempted to perform the first of them. If the two Mayos have each made the colossal fortunes which they are said to have massed, they have done it by their pluck and initiative, their sound business methods and their insistence that even the surgical labourer is
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sion of the people south of the Tweed, what, then, ought to be the attitude of a good Scot towards the language he uses in daily speech?
Should he consciously ignore the
English claims for the' exclusive' possession of "English"?
Geneva, June 9.
A remarkably well-preserved
tomb of the Bronze Age has been
unearthed near Morges, a small town between Lausanne and here.
The skeleton is in a good state of preservation, and is of great stature. A beautiful earthenware discovered by the ex-
vase was
According to official figures hall
Or should he recognise the claim, storms are revealed as perhaps the most costly of all weather misfor-as he has done tacitly in the past
and Jump all Scottish variations of During 1929, in the United English speech under the one head- States, 225 severe hailstorms were ing of "Scots," with the feeling of cavators near the head. The right
estimated the Mayo reported with
total Inferiority that comes from speak shoulder of the skeleton bears damage of over $10,000,000. Yet ing in a disclaimed tongue?
traces of copper, which are thought Americans visiting Britain forto show that the bearer was buried In the world do physicians 1929 was not a year of exceptional- and surgeons spend the best part ly severe hall.
the first time have declared that the with a bronze brassard (or kind off of each day and the best part of In lown losses from hallstorms feature that struck them as most shield) fixed on the shoulder. The While universally heknowledged their professional lives, carrying in 1928 were nearly three times amazing in this country was the skull bears three distinct scars, as twn of the most distinguished on, in hospital wards and operat-greater than in 1929. The torna-diversity of dialects in so small an and is judged to be that of a Burgeons whose names have ever
warrior of about forty-five years of graced the annals of the surgeon's ing theatres, the most laborious does, usually regarded as
Why should it be, for instance, age. art, the Mayo brothers, throughout and heavy-responsibility attending more destructive than hailstorms,
duties for the performance of were represented in 1929 by 158 that in a country the size of the which they receive not a single storms causing something less than United States there should be an
$8,000,000 damage.
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The year's. tornadoes were speech, while in the comparatively non-existence of what may responsible for the loss of 258 minutely restricted area of Scotland termed a "central Scots." All the
very seldom cause. lives; something which hailstorms there are, at a rough guess, at least world recognises that there is such
a thing as an ideal or central. eight different main dialects?
round which the The only general explanation that English tongue,
dialects various English
group can be given is that in the one case.
Their surgical clinic is the most wonderful place of its kind in the world. No hospital is more, if indeed, as perfectly equipped. munerative in that so much of a looking for records of anything that of America, there exista a themselves, but such a thing as an doctor's work is done free, gratis approaching such princely fees heterogeneous collection of nation-ideal Scots exists probably only in tion, Every case treated therein is a paying one.
and for nothing, and unremunera- being paid to British-practising alities all shaping themselves to a the mind of Mr. C. M. Grieve. The tive in that there is no other pro-
Mr. Grieve has attempted to Im- richest millionaire and the work fession which has, every year, to
members of the medical profession. uniform, ideal whole, while in the Of 72 practices for sale advertised composition of Scotland one sees the pose that ideal on the nation; but ing-man are equally catered for.
natural law. The amount which a patient is bad debts.
wipe off such a large proportion of in the medical papers recently segregation of several. races who he fights against the charged is assessed by a staff of
the average gross income of each bave each zealously protected their A nation expresses itself vitally in Art only in the tongue which it uses Compared with those of the Law, was £820. experts according to that patient's the plums of Medicine are
From this sum there own individuality.
in daily speech, not in a tongue have to be deducted practice ex
· Many Scots, "income, Irrespective of the sum
negligible quantity, Sir John penses-surgery, rent, wages of
which is dead or which has been which he, or she, is called upon Simon's announced Intention of re-surgery attendant, running costs sed nonsense written and spoken
That is where so much general-manufactured. to pay. the skill of every member auming practice at the Bar has and upkeep of a car, a telephone, about Scots "character falls to the
The very great majority of Scota of the clinic, the use of every brought to light some interesting and a dozen other unavoidable out ground. There is not one Scot: express themselves to-day, as in the article in its equipment, is at the
lays of which the public know there are many. Scata.
past, in English; it le part of their service of every patient at any
nothing, but all of which have to must confess, for instance, that heredity, except in the ancient heredity, as much à part of their time those in immediate charge of
be met before the doctor can put a the "pasky Scot" was a complete Gaelic kingdom, as it is that of the that patient's case may think it
penny of that £820 into his own stranger to me until I visited Sir Englishman's desirable to enlist them for the
pocket, proper treatment of that case.
J. M. Barrie's "Thrums and an A Matter of Minc True, there have been Instances encounter with the "bang goes Actually, the difference between of British doctors dying and leaveaxpence" type was delayed until ing behind them fortunes running last year when I ran up against an the average Scotsman and the even into six figures. But these isalated specimen from Inverness. Englishman in tongue is no greater men had either Inherited money, or
In the same way people who write than the difference that exists be
„Huge Salary.
figures regarding the income he was reputed to be making at the time he accepted the chairmanship of the Indian Statutory Commis- alon. According to a legal cor- respondent in The Sunday Times, by his withdrawal from profes A clinic which can pay its chief sional work in order to preside of the staff a salary of £20,000 a over that Commission he has fore year must have tremendous gone an income of between £50,000 popularity and huge clientele, and £75,000 a year.
hid other sources of income. Their and talk about a "Scots Müse tween the Somerset man and the and be run on very sound business. The distinction of receiving the wealth was not the outcome of declare themselves on something Lancashire man in the same respect. lines to be able to do go. The highest fee ever paid to a King's their practice of the bealing art, that does not exist, and rosy very Where the real difference between moving spirits behind this vast or Counsel is said to be held by Sir Few wills published in the papers wall never exdet as representing the the Scot and the Englishman exdate ganisation are the two men who Leslie Scott, K.C., who, during, the are read with uplifted eyebrows whole of the pation. The dramas of 18 In the mental attitude, and there were responsible for its inception three months he was in India ad- more often than those of doctors "John Brandane, for instance, are the difference is profound. There and for building it up into an avising the Indian Princes as to one has known, and whom one had no more "Scots than the poetry of is definitely an English cast of mind sired success the brothers Mayo their legal and constitutional post thought were very wealthy men. Charles Murray, Each may repre- and a Scot. cast of mind, and the themselves. It was their money tions with regard to the Indian It is not as an advertising stunt sent a part of Scottian life and threat to the nationality of the which started it. It was their skill States Committee, is understood to but with good cause that the Councharacter, alive or past, nothing Scot does not lie, as so many people which earned for it is enviable re have been briefed at 50 006 ell of the Medical Practitioners more unless the author consciously seem to think, in the decay of his putation. It was their enthusiasm gulness, with a daily refresher of Union have Just come to an ar or uncons which has developed it into the 200 guiness. In 1921, in connec rangement with one of the largest dialect no. largest and most famous surgical tion with the case of a wealthy Insurance Companies whereby, on that whi clinic in the world.
Armenian accused of murder at notification of Me death of a mendala Bagdad, 10,000 guinend was the fee ber being made at the Union.hand marked on the brief of Mr. F. quarters, the sum of fifty, gginess Barrington Ward KC who ap will t be sent to that peared for the defence. E
widow, or representativ
fich must be met f
But the Mayo brothers are men in a million. They attempted operations that other surgeons shad naver aver dreamed of. They were
tona:
the
docts but in the loss of his char
down to actonistically, individual way, ní.
thought P
Nor need those, who desire to foster a national) Hterature look fur- ther for a foundation TRA
Scotland has a birthright in the English « tongue--and thould ~ not allow herself to be cheated out of it our either by pursuing tartan chimerAS forget in the by English acquisitive
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