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SCOTTISH LETTER. THE CLYDE AND SHIPBUILDING
[rao R OWN CORRESPONDANT.]
EDINBERGA, July 9th
expensive, else we ourselves would have erased to be Scotsmen. It was qur prac tice to come to Scotland, to see our wives and families annually, if possible, and remain for so long as we and our Thusiness could afford our nåsence, not excveding five months in any year. Wa * Orders for four stenpers for Glasgow | paid income-tax on the money spent by owners have been placed with the New our wires or ourselves in Scotland, but Waterway Shipbuilding Co., Rotterdam," never on our warnings abroad. If wa This message from Holland adds a new were very fortunate we retired, and re- and serious emphasis to the question turned in Scotland Bringing the wealth which has been giving concern to every, we had male with us, and were then one interested during the post-war years: subject to the fall taxation Heavy Want is to be doar for the shipbuilding though it was, we never grumbled at that. industry, upon which Glasgow is po But now your Inland Revenue officials, greatly dependent? The tragedy of the your tribe of Zacchaeus, always short of situation is that even with the meent ad-stature saentally, bave either hoodwinked vaner, and counting the instalment dae Parliament, or some Mutt and in the Antumn, the wages of shipyard Jeff of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, employees are nothing to boast about and declare that it is the law. that if in the times. Yet it is obvious that we return to "auld Scotland" for even the industry can afford to pay no more. a single day to visit our wife and family With costs at their presens level, Clyde we shall be liable for Income Tax and, shipbuilders are finding it impossible to suppose. Super Tax, on all the income compete with tenders from foreign yards, we earn under the tropical suu. Oun you For the first time we have in the instaues imagine anything so silly and a cruel. quoted above, filesgow shipowners glae Silly, because the State must lose the ing contracts for shipe abroad-omteta; taxes on the money that foreign domiciled lost to the Clyde, whose proud recur Scotsmen and their wives, spend here, shipbuilding is acknowledged all over For, of course, we cannot come to Sent- world, and of whose pre-war shipbuilding land on these terms, and
pay taxes on we earn output twenty per cent, went to foreign the money at the place where
Apart from the question of it, and he taxed again in Scotland where netual wages, it is not, may for the ship was earn nothing. We are merely made building industry of this country, work-exiles, and our wives and families too, ing 47 hours per week, to compete with for whom we must find Coutinental re- foreign yards which put in a working sidences, and those whom we employ in werk of 50 hours. This is one aspect of Scotland or might employ have to go on that undercutting by foreign competitors the dole among the city crowd. That is which may one day influence our own where the cruelty cotnes in. The loss to Socialists and Labour men to become Scotland is considerable in money and stronger Protectionists than any, if they in men, and will become greater as this. We are the are to exist at all in the struggle with foolish law grows older. cheaper foreign, labour.
pioneers who create the trade which keeps the factories and shipping, of the old country going, and employ her people at hom. Tropical incomes like white men's lives in the Tropies are precarious, and competences must be made in a few years. They cannot stand double taxation the process of accumulation. THE STONE OF DESTINY.
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Opinion scerns divided as to whether Mr. David Kirkwood, M.P., was mared to raise the question of the return of the Funsous Stone of Destiny to Scotland by charge of sixpence to view the stone in the outrage to Senttish thrift through the
Westminster Abbey or by an honest out- barst of Scots patriotism, Certainly he A Highland steer sent south by the has given a new lease of life to Panch's" Marquis, of Gradam to the Rodeo at bang went saxpence joke that has Wembley was thrown by a cowboy nearly served Englishmen of the humorous type as heavy as itself for all its 800 lb. in so well in the past. But, that apart, it 162-5, Freonds. The story may have been is doubtful if Mr. Kirkwood's claim to disconcerted by its suiden release into have the stone returned to the "land of vast arena inged by 50,000 people, to its fathers would be fulfilled by bring- the accompaniment of a fearsome braying it to Scotland. It seems pretty clear from the band, but even taking morale that Ireland his y fairly just claim to into account was outclassed from the the stone, and its being brought back Bist by Mike Hastings, and betrayed the after over 600 years to Scotland might h confidence of its owner, who lost as a interpreted in Hirann as yet another price of his sanguineness a £10 bet. The injusting? Then, where "in Scotland context was over in a flash At most it mist it. be placed-Seone, Dunstaffange, could by the rules of the wager have last or Lona-for it appears to have rusted d only one minute. The gates of the in, all three "ere the Hammer of the steer enclosure were flung open, and Scots" ordered, its renoval to London. famidst excited cries à brown; shaggy like Further afield there might be a claim set form, seemingly all fright and bend and up, for does not legend assert that this hurus. bounded out, the cautious cow is the very stone on which Jacob pillowed bys scumpering from its path. Mike his head when he saw the vision of the Hastings and the judge followed on fine angels ascynding and descending If. mettled horses Drawing abreast the therefore, national patriotism. begins to former Aung bitself upou the strangely play around the stone, to say nothing of perplexed strer and elung grimly as in local patriotism, who knows that bat a cloud of dust it came to a standstill. some day an International cumulission. Over it went, but as game as a Scot may have to adjudiente ur the matter? should be it struggled to its feet and Whether it origitintes from the land of planted its four legs determinedly. The the Jews, pr from Spain, as some havu wrestler, lying almost goar, changed his flaimed, it sevis agreed by the early his- grip slowly, the great head turned, and corians that the stone had to be brought at last the animal thudide heavily on its from somewhere in Sentland. Of the side its four legs shooting helplessly up part played by the stone at Scone there us the judge's flag desended. The an- seus do doubt, from its name and the. nouncement of the time was drowned in fact thait Edward removed it from Scat- cheers in congratulation of the wrestler, land-probably as great an insult as he who had accomplished a truly remark could give to, the race he was determined able feat. The puzzled steer rose some to conquer. That its being in London what dazed and scumpered away! The was resented by the Scots is shown by the Graham steer was neither docile nor list-treaty between Robert the Bruce and les. An animal that signalises its an Edward 11. in which it was expressly rival at Wembley hy kicking bits out of stipulated that the stone should be restoř its stall is no domestic pet-except toed to Scone. So deep rooted has been Mike Hastings The fact is that in his the belief of the Scols in the augury patriatie fervour the Marquis of Graham attached to it that many looked upon the has done Scotiand an ill turn. The
neersion of James VI. As the fulfill-i great Highland steer which he sent up to Wen-ment of the prediction. This prediction bley to show the cowboys something which is, of course, that wherever the stone is would try their wrestling skill was roll found there shall be Scots reign, ed in the dust. It seems to have been one of the vanjost things. its conqueror ever, had to tackle. Highland eattle are among the most impressive of animals to look at, but we fear that many thousands per waters of that vast harbour of
Lobsters, lobsters: in the captain's of spectators went away with the couric the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow. Not tion that they are impressive humbugs. far away the waves lap gently over what wine-cupboard, on the table where once It is no doubt a great injustice. High appears to be a smooth-worn rock, and the glasses rang to the toast of "Der where once the baltie-charts had land cattle, we believe, are among the further on two gaunt sloped as rise Tag hex matured of the bovine trilues. 2
forlornly from the sea. They are the been spread and round, which confer
11 German buttle-erniserences bad sat making history-lobsters. Nature, which equipped them to with masts of stand a trying climate, contrived at the Hindenburg, and down in the faint green WELL DONE "CUTTY BARK" same time without intending it to ruake light of the sea-bottom, where the huge In an article in The Nautical Magazian. them look incredibly Serce and formid warped walls of steel cast standows even there is an amusing summary of the re- OFFICES able. Lord Graham put his steer forward in that shadowy place, the divers are cords held by that Clyde-built wonder in this supposed character, and he ought.
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elipper-the Cutty Sark. These *are After six are the 'monster guns are talulated as follows:- to have known better.
still sound and straight. But outwardly. 1.The number of articles in "the they have suffered a sea-change," They pipers and periodicals of all varieties;
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abroad. So writes Mr. William Kellie along their ominous throats, where shella 2-The enormous numbers of "Ielters Smith from Melfort House, Argyll, who once sped roaring, the beady eyed shell- to the Editor" on what she did or did is home from Batu Gajah, Perak, F.M.S., | 6sh kidles in search of food.
not do. in a Jetter which he has went to all mem
There are no fil down there, the divers 3. The thousands of log books ale
pro. bers of Parliament. He goes on-De Scots report, except shellfish. Whether it is dated. men have always gone abroad to push the lingering suspicion of oil, the corrod,
4.The colossal number of people who our fortunes for Scotland is a pooring iron, or the mere presence of these ailed her or knew someone who had, country, and it is difficult for a Scotsman huge alien masers that has driven away
children should, after their first few years
or had seen her or knew someone who
to make a fortune among other Scoterden. the end and the whitting, no one can had, or had met her last skipper or knew, But we always yearn, for the land of our tell. But where the German sailors them-sumeone who had. birth. and especially desire thing ourselves used to sh during their interti Is now in lavender and moth balls " in the East, be reared in Scotland yet, netting scores of" tiddlers about is the summing up of her condition in old canna raise bairns in the tropics.
the ships sides and letting down bottom-nge. We want them to be Scotsmen too, with less vital eram and lobstera remain.
lines for the larger variety, now only PERSONALIA.
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The University of Edinburgh in to' the word of God and the poems of Burns in their bones. So after they are a few years The diver in his unweildly dress and fer the honorary degree of LLD. on Sir old we make bonies for them in Scotland, great guggle-eyed helmet appears from a Frederick Whyte, President of the Indian at Delhi. Sir mainly in Highland counties. If we have batch, half-climbing, half-floating, and Legislative Assembly strack it irh enough in the torrid makes his way slowly along the quarter-Frederick Whyte is the eldest son of the tropica, we will buy some land, employ deck towards the captain's cabit He Inte Rev. Principal Whyte, Edinburgh, gardener or two, a keeper or two, and looks in at one of the large square porta He graduated M.A. with first-clas perhaps a shepherd and farm labourers and his head ways as though he were honours in Modern Languages at Edin- For climate, education, accessibility, and nodding-us well be may. Possibly be in burgh University twenty years ago.
Mr. Ramany MacDonald is to revive comfort, France, Italy, and Switzerland chuckling; for here, as everywhere, the would suit just as well. But we prefer crustacea are in possession.
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