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addition of signatures representative of the East and other parts of Scotland. 1 gather that the desire is not to have some- thing after the fashion of the Scottish Labour College, which in part consista of classes on a narrow Marrian argu- ment, but rather to have the ad and spirit of Ruskin College at Oxford. The latter is residential, and it is mainly the ship that is in mind. The promoters most pressing of our social-political pro-
have the prospect of a suitable place in blems and its solution is specially urgent in Scotland. During the past few one of the country districts in Banark months a way out of the difficulties seem shire, which might house sixty or seventy ad to have been discovered. 'Steel houses students, although in all probability were proved to be a paying proposition. finance would necessiate somewhat and the Afinister of Health and his ad-suller beginning. It is thought "that visory committee visited Glasgow and the work of one or two resident tutors approved of Lord Weir's scheme. Now, of good standing might be supplemented however, when a fair start with the new by that of visiting lecturers who were method of construction seemed possible, recognised authorities in their subjects. the building trade unions in Scotland At this stage the details of the scheme have come forward. endearouting to im are necessarily incomplete, but an effort is being made to secure assistance of pose what may be a veto by insisting that
leading Parliamentary members, Trade labour employed on work corresponding Unionists, Scottish educationists, and co- to the joiner-work, plumbing, slating. etc., in ordinary building shall be re-operators.
garded as subject to the same conditions WIRELESS, BOOKS, AND CONVERSATION.
Wireless broadcasting is seriously as ordinary joiners, plumbers, and slaters employed. on ordinary house threatening the life of libraries all over building What this means may caSeatland, and the remarkable fact is that be conceived. In ciuch of the work the biggest falling away is in intellectual volved in the erection of this new cities such as Edinburgh, Glasgow, of house skilled labour is not required. Aberdeen, and St. Andrews, which justly Nor, indeed, would it be obtainable in boast of their flourishing Eniversities. sufficient quantity. Scarcity of skilled Subscriptions for 10 are down to labour is the main cause of the housing great extent, subscribers apparently pre- culture in shortage. And the object of new designsferring to look for their of houses is not to compete with' ordi-
the tabloid form of the radio. Even the nary building, but to provide a very
art of conversation in the family circle necessary supplement to it by invoking is in danger, as it is largely reduced to the productive resources of factories and approving gods. Young people now in. providing nationally useful work for a
sist upon nightly dancing to the broad-j large number of those who are at present casted strains of the Savoy Jazz Band- unemployed and to whom the ordinary said to be the finest in the world. In regulations of the building trade could Edinburgh in particular it was wont to not possibly apply.
be a Fashion to carry two book's under have bouseS. In response to that need the arm: now the practice is rare, so the new types represented by Lord Weir's, scheme have been designed. And now, apTHE SCOT ABROAD. parently, it has been decreed that we are
The aution must
The destruction by fire of a bagpipe
to be deprived of most of the advantages factory in North London brings to light accruing from such inventions by the in-several interesting facts. According to position of conditions which," applied, the proprietor, the yearly output from would delay construction and wipe out the factory is about 300 sets, and the the expected margin of saving.
only place they are never sent to is Scot land. Further, Scotsmeh who come to London buy these Metropolitan pipes. yet there is not a single Scotsman em
is a good export trade to the Colonies and the Dominions. These facts seem to warrant the conclusion that the Scot abroad is more anxious than the Scot at home to preserve the national character- istics.
It is obvious that the cost of houses under the new methods can only be kept low if every possible part of the steel house, including angle irons and board.ployed on the staff of the factory. There ing, are cut by machinery on the re- petition process. Lord Weir is gas of the foremost advocates of mass produc- tion, and again and again during the war ne vastly increased production in munitions. When Mr. Lloyd George selected him, for example, in 1918 to be responsible for the output of machine- guns, never once after the arrangements were completed was the output unabir to meet the demand both from the War Office and the Air Force.
LORD MACLAY AND CHINA.
NOT TREASURE TROVE.
Exciting short stories might le based un two incidents that have just been re- ported. One is the loss of tube of radiam, worth about £400, from an in- frmary. The other is the disappearance of a bag containing various poisons and It is entirely due to the Maclay dangerous drugs which a veterinary sur- The conse family that China should have at Hang.geon had left in" a train. chow the best built and equipped medical quences to ignorant finders in either case mission school buildings in the Far East, are apt to be more serious than those with the exception probably of the Rockhich followed the theft of a human fuller building in Peking, writes heart from the tail-pocket of a medical respondent of the Glasgue Herubl. It is provided in memory of Lord Maclay's 801, Ebenezer, who died of wounds in France. The Maclay family gave £10,000 to cover the cost. The opening ceremony was of more than local interest, as some
student who was crossing a park in Edin- burgh one foggy right. A year or two inter, when he was an assistant physician in a hospital, a male patiant confessed to him that he had stolen the heart. And it's been on my conscience ever
of the chief participants were at one since," he said, for I saw you were time or another associated with Glasgow a peor young man, and I suppose it was and Edinburgh Universities. Dr. Dun- your next day's dinner ate my supper can Main, who is in charge, is an Edin-that night."
bargh University man. Mr. S. D. Main, SERASTOBOL VETERAN'S DEATH,
late of the same University, is now che
mistry lecturer in the school. The set-
Eure.
Lirat.Col. G. A. Ferguson of Pitfour,
tlement official. Mr. Wu, was educated in Aberdeenshire, who has passed away at Glasgow Cniversity. The school is at the age of 900, was one of the few re striking example of Chinese archites. maining veterans of the Crimean War. uside, it is thoroughly up to As an other of the Grenadier Guards be date on Western lines. The new and the went through the whole of the cam old buildings have 500 beds. and nearly paige, being present at the fall of Sebas 40.000 patients annually have been at topol, and later served with his regiment in Canada. There was great rejoicing tending for treatment
Buchtui when the gallant young soldier returned home after his arduous Sir John Anderson, East India mercampaigns. His wife, who died some 18 a grand-niece of Lord chaut, has died at his residente, East months ago, wag cote Place Pinner, in his 73rd year. Nelson. Born Kothesay in March, 133, he PRESTON AND THE BACPIPER was taken to Singapore at the age of Preston has heard the Highland bag- seven, and spent there more than 30 year pipes on two or three famous occasions. He was educated as the Raffles Institu but apparently it docan't want to hear tion, and entered the Government ser-
THE LATE SIR JOHN ANDERSON,
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vice, but resigned in 1871, and began his them again. The Chief Constable of the business career with Messrs Gutherie town said that the tone of the pipes Lauisance to Co., East India merchants, an associa. Plaged by our itinerant musician jarred
On the nerves and was tion which continued till his death. became head of the firm in 1900. Hshopkeepers, and the piper was requested served two terms as member of the Lezis by the Magistrate to take his music else- where. It is the second or third time lative Council of the Straits Settlement.
this sort of thing has happened within and was for 30 years Siamese Consul- the last few weeks. Indian and African General at Singapore. One of his most regiments have adopted the Highland important services in the Straits Settle bagpipe: the new nations of Europe are ments was as ebairman of the pin sounding it in the cars of their former Commission early in this century Lit
1912, when he was knighted, he came back ppressors; the Irish Free State has a bas imitation of it, which it declares to. England (sars the Times) and acted to be the true original. England alone as attorney in London vi Messrs remains churlishly unresponsive to the Guthrie & Co. He was actively inter charms of pibrochs, laments, and Strath- ested in various oil, plantation rubber speys. Are we to lie down to this insult? and tin companies, and he was settled We gave England a royal dynasty, we in the City in good time to reap the full benefit of the great rubber boom of the and abe received with gratitude our great close of the first decade.of this century gift of whisky.
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