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SCOTTISH LETTER.
MR. BALDWIN ON HOUSING. INCREASED SUBSIDY FOR:
'SCOTLAND.
NOVEMBER 10TH,
FEWER SCOTSMEN GOING SOUTH,
Have Scotsmen ceased coming to London to settle down?' This astounding suggestion, which any Englishmon would profess to regard as much too good to (PROM OCR'OWS CORRESPONDENT. Į be true, was propounded in a talk with
EDINORGE, October 7th,
an official of the Scots' Corporation.
It was characteristic of Mr. Baldwin to
This ancient body exists to help exiled pay an unofficial and unheralded visit to countrymen who have not been able to the slums of Glasgow prior to receiving keep their end up among the Sassenach the Freedom of the City. It gave him or who are old and in need. The officin an opportunity to see for himself the remarked that there was in recent years deplorable conditions amid which many a great, falling-off in the number of ap- of Glasgow's industrial workers are complications for temporary relief, die, as pelled to live, and it added significance he said, to the falling-off in the numbers to the attack which he made in his speech of working-class Scotsmen who are as the youngest burgess on the forces now-a-days seeking to better themselves that are hindering the reformation of in London. London is not the happy housing conditions: Changes in the hunting-ground for jobs it once was, and methods of building have come more the artisan out of work either stays nt suddenly than might have been expect. home or goes further afield to Canada ed Houses can now be erected which or Australia. There is, however, an do not require the labour of the brick- increase in "the number of applications layer. Yet this change is strenuously from men of the clerical class, dolés.not- resisted because of a desire on the part withstanding. The native pride" of the of the building trade to monopolise their Seat is not dead, as one incident show. skill. Progress can be made only it ed. An elderly man aaking help from the Government supported by public the Corporation was asked why he had opinion, make a determined effort to come to London. "It is easier to live induce Local Authorities to take up the by begging here," he said.
***There are new alternative methods of buildings. not so many people who know, me” That the Government are prepared to TRAVELLED scors. do this was made clear by Mr. Baldwin Those inveterate travellera, Sir Archf when he outlined a special offer which bald and Lady Edmonstone, who last the Government are now making to autumn went to China and Hongkong for Scottish Local Authorities. Mr. Baldwin a trip, are now enjoying a pleasure
has offered the Local Authorities a pre-cruise up the Amaton. Meanwhile the mium on the first 4,000 houses built in family seat, Duntreath Castle, Blaze- Scotland by the new alternative methods. £eld, has been the scene of several house In the matter of housing this country parties given by Sir Archibald's heir, Me. is in a much worse position than Eng Charles Edmonstone, and his young land. It will be years," Mr. Baldwin wife, who had the castle handed over. said,
before the building trade in to them by Sir Archibald at their wedd-; Scot and is in a position to provide evening.
to
for the normal demands, of the popula SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL LIBRARY, tion. Moreover, it should be remem- Within the next few months the. bered that there is an accumulated famous Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, deficit of 150,000 houses. These facts the private property of the Faculty of show that there, is a clear and indisput- Advocates, is to be. handed over to the able case for the neoption of alternative Nation Library, the acceptance of the sation; and will become, Scotland's methods, Unfortunately, the Local Faculty's generous offer having been Authorities have been loath hitherto to made possible by the munificence of that well-known Loazie foon," Sir Alex place contracts for buildings of the new ander Grant The Advocates Library, type. This is not because the demand which was founded by Sir George Mac kenzie, a former Lord Advocate, was for them is lasufficient-there will be no opened by him in the latter balf of the difficulty in getting tenants for steel seventeenth century, its main object. bouses-but becanse under the Housing Scottish Bar with easy access to legal. being to provide the members of the
Act the subsidy on a steel house with books and documents. The Library a life, of. perhaps, 40 years does noting the right to claim a copy of every which is the only one in Scotland enigy-. differ from the subsidy on a brick house book entered at Stationers Hall, has Jasting half as long again. Consequently always been open to any person wish the Local Authorities are afraid of mak- famous men in the worlds of art and study the volumes and many, ing a bad bargain, and are thrown back literature have browsed along its shelves upon brick houses, for the building of ment House, and hidden behind the old.
from time to time. Arranged in Parlia which the supply of labour in Scotland Cathedral of St. Giles, the Advocates' is utterly inadequate. The subsidy Library literally teems with Scottish his- available for a Local Authority house, torical associations, The Library show- built under the Act of last year, is £180,rocm. itself, was the torture chamber expressed as a capital value. Mr. Bald. where hundreds of Covenanters suffer- win proposes that for the first 4,000 houses of alternative types a Govern ment supplement of £40 per house thall be paid. The subsidy is expected to have a double effect. Not only will it encourage Local Authorities to order the new types of houses, but large orders will tend to bring down the price, and so stimulate the demand. At present there is not much difference in price be- tween a steel house and the ordinary house, but it is hoped that the Govern ment's new offer will cheapen the house by increasing the production. LONDON AND GLASGOW COMPARED.
In one respect Glasgow's sham pro- refined occupation of herring gutting, blem is simpler than that of London. had bobbed hair and wore wilk stock- The easiest method of dealing with ings and rimless pincenes. This con- slums is the homoepoathie-the sub-cession to fashion is rather hard on stitution of roomy, well-equipped, well-popular novelista What is a Charles lit tenements for unhealthy, out-of-date Beade de nos jours to make of a Christin tenements which were not only crowded Johnstone who, save for her more robust but are actually wasteful of space. The appearsace,
cannot be distinguished
at
ed under the boot and thumb-screw in the dark, turbulent days of the seven teenth century.
NEW FASHIONS AND OLD.
The old order chengeth, giving place to new, at a rate which suggests an acce- lerated film. Not so many years ago the visitor to East Coast fishing villages could still see young women in the traditional rough blue clothes, smoking clay pipes as they mended nets or gutted fish But the Scottish fisher-girls of to-day are as up-to-date as any city ladies. Some of them. who arrived at Great Yarmouth the other day for the
cannot
vast majority of Glasgow people are from a typist 1. When one has seen silk tenement dwellers by inherited instinct. stockings worn-and not ineffectively In London the new communal spirit has in combination with a bare head and the to contend with the old individualist traditional Glasgow "shawi, one spirit of the English people. The tum-wonder that the patrician girls of Edin dwellers in London whose homes are burgh have resorted to born-rimmed threatened with demolition what cot-spectacles and truculent worsted. stock- tages with separate scullerics and garings.
dens. They want, in fact, to give THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE, tical justification to the description of
London as the biggest village in the On his return to London From Scot world." If a heroic attempt were made land, somebody asked Mr. Bridgeman to meet the wishes of the slum-dwellers the First Lord of the Admiralty, what of Linehouse, there might be, au un-kind-of sport he had. The only grouse forearen solution of the land problem. For as the big village of London stretch- Rosyth grouse."
I saw or heard," he replied, was the ed further and further out, the semi. A clerical member of a Scota. Presby agricultural instincts of the people would tery which was lately discussing the strengthen, and would find more and omissions in the Draft Hymnary express- more scope, and a great system of in-Fed regret that the children's hymn, tensive cultivation of the land would" Here we Suffer Grief and Pain," had develop on the fringes of London: The. been left out. "When I was a boş,' people would find their way" back to the he said, I used to sing that brin land vil the crofts and market with great joy. gardens of the outer suburbs. In Glas gow such a development is unlikely. The Glasgow people have become more thoroughly divorced from the land than the people of any big English city. No thing wave an acute honse shortage would have induced them to make any depar ture from the tenement system. From an aesthetic point of view the benefit of that system was that it packed urban ngliness into a relatively small space, and made it easy to escape from it into open country.
A halfpenny bearing on one side the words "Frae Aberdeen" and on the other 10 why left I'ma hame" was die covered in the 'collection taken for charity by the Rotarians at their Pitlochry conference last week-end. The chairman put it up to auction. At 168. 6d. the bidding ceased, whereupon an Englishman arose and said if all the bidders would give the sums they had bid he would give £1. This was agreed to, and the halfpenny ultimately realised about £5
1925
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