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SCOTTISH LETTER. SCOTSMEN'S DINNER TO PREME MINISTER,
THE FIGHTING" MARQUIS,
of Douglas and Clydesdale came to light
It was only last year that the Marquis
as a boxer, ital, his active association with the '! noble art'' has been all for (FROM OCE OWN CORKKIFONDENT.)
the good of the sport. When he took EDINBURGH, March 8th the Scottish Championships Tast Seatamen, irrespective of party and ness, but he demonstrated that he year the Marquis showed little clever sitting for English or Scottish constituen possessed plenty of pluck, and his bouts cies, entertained the Prime Minister to were no milk and water affairs. Though dinner at the House of Commons Mrbeaten the Marquis was not discouraged. IwMacpherson-presided over com and during the past year he has spent any which included 30 Socialists, a lot of time improving his attack and Liberals, and 5-Unionists whose destra defence. He gained his reward in Glas- was to congratulate a brither:Scot"
on being Prime Minister of the first when he won the title of Afiddle Socialist Government formed in this Scotland.
weight Amateur Boxing Champion of country A Scottish baritone was pre
seat, and enlivened the proceedings with PRESBYTERIAN ANCESTORS. Scottish songs.“ which imparted a
I do not know whether "advocates of element of novelty to a Parliamentary Sunday golf may use Mr. J. E. Lawler's dinner. The mieru, as befitted the occaexperience as proof that the fates aup 8100. Was distinctly Scottish-Scotch port too. Sabbath round, but there is broth, grilled herring and watmeal, hags something almost supernatural about that gis, gigot of mutton and turnips, and a player's performance at Wembley. For fionan haddock savoury
two successivo Sundays Mr. Lawler has It was lately arranged that haggis gone out with a 13 handicap, and has on "should appear every Tuesday on the ment each occasion holed out at the yecond of the House of Commons; but on the day hole (113 yards) in one-stroke I am re before the dinner to the Prime Minister minded by this of a Sunday golf episode this famous dish was absent. The ren in my own experience. I was playing son was that the refreshment department with a friend on Muirfield one Sunday thought that Scotsmen could not take some years ago He was playing, Tery Baggis two days running with impunity. badly, and I ventured to suggest to him. GLASGOWY: THE CANCER OF EMPIRE,M that: auch was the case. * Badly! ** he The 19,000 ticketted." dwellings replied. "Badly should think so; Glasgow and its model lodging-houses for but what is a man to do when every time women again come under the lash of the wings a club ten generations of William Bolitho in the Outlook and side him, You've no right to be doing Presbyterian ancestors keep shouting in- perhaps the strongest sentence in all his powerful articles in the confession that this. You've no right to be doing this he finds no one to blame for the deplor- **
They say:- able state of affairs Personally, as YOU know from my letters to your columna, I have not the slightest sympathy with In the Councils of the Empire and in the Socialists; but often when I hear the administration of Government I people condemning Clydeside for sending think I might say that the Scotsman is a gang of "Reds to Parliament (I am never without a quorum, and once again constantly condemning them myself). we find ourselves with a Scotsman st am forced to interject the remark, You the head of affairs. The Duke of York world not wonder at Glasgow sending THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN. such men to the House of Commons if yo had ever gone through the slums of that
city.
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Tradition and innovation clashed to kens remarkable degree in an experience I Mr. Bolitho made his visit to these had a short time ago. I had reach Tibbie slums at night accompanied by an inspec Shiela's ancient hostelry after a walk in tor, and he writes, “Door after door as drenching rain round St. Mary's Loch, he knocked was opened by a shirted mame at home beside a roaring fire in the and Tibbie's hospitable successor made suddenly and softly as if impelled for wd by the overpowering slum smell be old kitchen, which has hardly changed hind him. It is this smell which is the since Scott and Hogg used to foregather most: oppressive symbol of such lives in it. My hostess commented on this choking, causeating, the smell of corrupt fact with pardonable pride, and showed swort and unnamed filthiness of body me the relies which are always produced Henceforth when asked. What deepest to visitors. She informed me that I was misery may overcrowding such as this sitting in what bad always been Sir mean, what ultimate torment is reserved Walter's favourite seat. They in almost for humanity deprived of air, light, food, the same breath and with barily as much money-space!* 1 must naswer. The as by the way she invited my oltum Imell
opinion, as to whether in that lonely wind-swept place they would be able to reach the Glasgow wireless station on a crystal seffemeie k
Regarding the women's common lodg ing-houses, Mr. Bolitho is reminded of that deep den inadequately described by Patrick Macgill in The Hat Pit
OTHER DIG AT ABERDEEN.
The listening-in joke that wins a prize in London weekly's wireless postcard competition at the week-end is an Aber- een wheeze again. An Edinburgh man
two guineas prize. Here is the joke:
On the day Aberdeen Station opened man in Edinburgh tried to pick up its ll, but for a long time was unsuccessful. Et pote at the headphones! Aberdeen He thought for moment; then rustled came through immediately. He never has difficulty now, for Aberdeen, is still calling."
There are." he avers, dozens of rate pits in Glasgow where these lone, for lorn women, who have no claims to a hame of their own. may come for da night beggar-women, rng-pickers, chartells the joke and by the way, lifts the women, the abandoned, the depraved.
Then comes the astounding fact that 3fr. Bolitho finds no one to blame for the dintressing state of affairs. As the can- cer of Glasgow housing in its effects is, be sums up, widespread, and threatens the whole political system of Britain, so in its causes it is profound and difficult to trace. In a sense no one is to blame. The roots of the sore burrow and twine deep among the very ones of our econ.WHAT CAUSED THE SPLASHING. omic life. There are rich men in Glas This libel" on Highland manners gow; new rich and war rich. They have and customs seems to be a bye-product The usual-unamiable, uncultured quite ofthe recent porridge Controversy stupid and dull life of their like all over Donald When will be seeing you to- Europe, but they have little to do with | morrow morning?" "Dugald If you the overcrowding of Glasgow. There are are passing my hoose and you bear a no great and grasping slum proprietors aploshing you'll know T'll not be ferry to be checked and punished by the public long Donald You'll be taking your confrience. The 40,000 one-roomed homes bath!" Dugald No, I'll be taking my of the city are owed by a great number porridge and milk.” of small landlords, many of them little better off than their tenants."
AN INTER-UNIVERSITY GOLF MATCH,
LISTENING IN TO HIGH: INGALE.
The Oxford and Cambridge golfers are combining for a brief visit to Scotland, Capt. Eckersley, of the British Broad- and will play past and present students casting Co, announced at a Lyceum of the Scottish Universities. This will be Club dinner, recently, that during the afresh page in gelang history, for the spring they hoped to broadcast the song Scottish Society has played the Oxford of the nightingale. They proposed to and Cambridge Society on several occa drive into the heart of Oxfordshire, sions, but never the present students carrying with them a microphone and a Mr. Manford has not been able to get a small transmitting set. The song of the tean as representative of all the Univer- nightingale would be received, if all went ities as he would have liked. It is well, at some place near a trunk telo apart from J. Gordon Simpson, largely phone line, where it would be put on to 20 Edinburgh team, but members of the the studio in London, and from there society, graduates of the other Unixer broadcast so that everyone in the whola sities, who were invited, were unable to of the kingdom would be thle to hear the play The visiting tena will have the same nightingale singing.
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egotiationer fint que sa CONSOLATION YOU DEFLATEYRING After the humiliation of ah Edinburgh. pictory over, Clasgow in the Rugby Inter City encounter this season, it is gratify ing to the Western men to be able to claim that not only is, the championship shared by two Glasgow Clubs-Academic als and High Beboel FP-hit that the total of points scored by these two clubs, the imposing figure of 1,188, is only 116 off the 1,303 claimed by all eight Edinburgh clubs put together. Of the 1,188, 605 points have been scored by Hish School, but it not unlikely that Academicals will pass that Egue is the final game with West of Scotland.
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