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EDINWURGH, Novemba
The European people during recent centuries had established their dominion
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The use of rubber as a road surface was prophesied some years ago, although the technical difficulties involved have not yet been surmounted; and it was only the other day that an authority on transpart declared that the time will coms when our trains will run on rubber" tracks. The diminution of jolting "and" vibration by this means would no doubt over eight-ninths of the habitable land be considerable. An interesting device of the globe, but during the past twenty-with the same purpose is that which is in five years that domination find had use on a large part of the LM.S. line, and serious set-back. The danger was not of has now been introduced in the Dubblane a military conquest of Europe, but, dwing and Stirling area. Between the sleepers to the collapse of European administra and the chairs which hold the rails is placed thick layer of felt. Rails lined tion in tropical lands, of the failure of in this way are said to make for much the necessary raw materials and smoother and quieter running, as a part markets." This is the considered opinion of the vibration is absorbed by the felt. of Professor J. W. Gregory; of Glasgow,
Ia St. Columbia's Hospital, London, on University, the well-known traveller, who Oct. 27th, Nina Henrietta Heath, M.B., lately explored the border lands between Ch.B., Edinburgh, for 20 years missionary Burma and China. The narrowing of the of the Presbyterian Church of England in world by improved transpart, the level-Col. Jean Henry Beath, C.B, RA.M.C., Swatow, China, daughter of the late Lt-
ling of mankind by the spread of educa-Stirling. tion, and the increase in wenith and rise At a cursing home, Musselburgh, ex the 2nd lust, Eliza Mary Scott, eldest it uncial position of the negroes in various daughter of the late Walter Scott Bid.. countries were in his judgment threaten- dell, of the Hongkong and Shanghai ing civilisation with the danger of inter- Banking Corporation. racial conflict, and the stift inėze serious į At Glen Lodge, Auchamore "Road, evil, tho demoralisation of colour pre-roon," on 2nd instant, James Thom- judice. Professor Gregory says thatxon, aged 19, manager, China and Japan there was 'cvidence that the re Trading Co., Ltd., Manchester. sults of inter-breeding between the TILD SHIPS NOW I' three primary races of mankind was un- satisfactory,
Trade forecasts are-maro hopeful than That view was supported by the analogy from the breeding of they have been for some time past, but domestic animals and plants in which the problem is,How shall we carry over it was found that the cross-breeding of the intervening interval of dullness? varieties that were nearly akin often pro. Shipbuilding authorities on the Clyde- duced superior off-spring, but the hybrida 900 of the most depressed industrial dis produced from parents that were very tricts, be it noted, in the whole of Scot dissimilar were inferior. In the course of land, are putting forward an interesting a review of the racial problem in three proposal-it is that shipowners should continents, he points out that during the place orders for new craft at the present past 50 years in North America there had moment, and they support this with They say that it is been an effort to hold the negro in sub- strong arguments. jection; this policy had led to such in difficult to imagine a more favourable creasing difficulties that it was regarded time tha the present for placing con- by many authorities as hopeless. It tracts for ships, likely to arise because might break down owing to the fusion of everything points to the fact that the the negroes in the population of the heyday or undercutting by Continent United States. The effect of cross-becedyards has passed. The German firms ing between the three primary races of which have been scoring ever our own, a Con- recently, are now complaining that they Dankind was also shown on tinental scale in South America, and the themselves are having to pay the piper Therefore they are not likely to call the result was generally regarded as a warm-
ag. South Africa illustrated the. difi-old tune. The present labour troubles in culty of maintaining an adequate stand the Dutch yards are said to be due large- ard of life for the less efficient members to the demands of the workers there of one race when hving as a minority for wages and working hours more nearly among another race. South Africa was approximating the British standards, so that there may be less. inducement to go at present struggling to overcome its
On the other difficulties by the policy of segregation to Holland for ships, Australia had no colour problem, and by hand, at the present moment our own n great experiment it had own that shipbuilders are content to accept con- while people could live and work in the tracts, often with no margin of profit, tropics under even such extreme condi-just to keep their yards open and their tions as those of the sugar plantations. workers employed; and, in the circum The results supported experience else-stances, prompt delivery "is practically where, that under conditions by which sourcil Whatever,benefits accrue from present sit. the standard of living was maintained the joint inquiry at the white race could live healthily in the ting both masters and men hope to tropics. In summing up the result of his share in these; which, therefore, cannot investigations, Professor Gregory ex wholly be passed on to owners who wait until then cre placing orders. From all pressed the opinion that the hatred be- tween different races was the result of this, it is argued, now is the best time jealousy and fear. Those whose stand-to order ships. ards of life were threatened by the cheap CARUSO AND THE DAOPLPES. labour of the negro could not feel for Of musical matters, when I met him hin the affection held by those who had Signor Caruso could not be persuaded enjoyed his loyal and intimate service, to speak writes Ann Aidic. Only upon The most hopeful policy available ap the subject of Scotland was he voluble peared to be segregation in mass with and enthusiastic. At that time Signor full opportunities for such individual Caruso had not heard the bagpipes, but intercourse as would enable the different he intimated that if they came up to ex races to be mutually helpful without rais-pretation be intended to take a pipe ing that physical repulsion inevitable home with him to his estate in Italy. when people of dissimilar cuures meet with. jarring friction in competition for their daily bread.
DE. KANSEN AND ST. ANDREWS
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The result of broadcasting this intention was that when he arrived at an Edin- burgh station he was heralded as he step- ped from his compartment with the skirl The Rectorial election at St Andrew's of a pipe band. I was not privileged University and the affiliated College of to hear the famous singer's opinion of Dundee resulted in the election of Dr. our national instrument; but judging by Nansen, the Arctic explorer, by a the description given by an onlooker of majority of 56 over M. John Galsworthy, his precipitate flight from the band's on- do not think bagpipes-nor, for slaught, the novelist and play-wright. There was very little ragging" by the students, that matter, a piper would be included and the approaches to the ballot-box in the collection of Scottish were for the most part quiet and orderly Signor Caruso took home. Alone among the Scottish Universities, THE LATEST.
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St. Andrews struns political candidates, This week an Edinburgh man stole a preferring to honour distinguished perambulator, and tried to sell it, wit
uthors, soldiers, and educationists. As all its contents, but bolted at full speed result some of the Rectorial addresscs when it was pointed out to him that have beenotable, more more so than these included a baby several months- Barrie's dissertation on "Courage" (and old. auconnachie !). It is not often that the students of a Scottish. University are found going outside these islands, to dhoose a Lord Rector. During the war, however, the students of Glasgow select cd as their Lord Rector M., Raymond Poincaré, President, and more recently Prime Minister of France. There is an
BOLSHEVIK NEGROES.
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An attempt to beguile American Negroes into Communistic organisations has been recognised by the American Federation of Labour, which, through its president, Mr. William Green, has
other precedent in the case of St A draws itself; the election of Mr. James Russell Lowell, the American poet, who at that time was Ambassador of the United States in this country. Mr. Lowell had been offered nomination in warned its Negro members to be on their succession to. St. Theodore Martin, bad guard
Agitation reached fever pitch in recent accepted, and had been duly elected to weeks in anticipation of the opening in the office, when it was discovered that Chicago of the American Negro. Labour he was ineligible for the post According Congress. Pauphlets were circalated to some old-standing rule in connection among Negroes throughout the country. with the administration of S. Andrew's signed by Mr. Lovett Fort-Whiteman University, the Lord Hector was invested said to be a Negra delegate to the Third with financial responsibility in regard to International, urging upon the Negroes the University funda. Legal advice was "the awakening of revolutionary signi taken regarding Lowell's relation to this fience
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rile, and it was held that as Ambas Mr. Green denounced the Congresa, sadors woro considered to be beyond the saying it will not be held for the Inws of the country to which they are benefit of the Negro, but to instil into neeredited, therefore, the American Am bassador in London could not be elected the lives of that race the most pernicious Lord Rector of St. Andrews, This doctrine of race hatred."
Reports from Chicago said that no what James Russell Lowell humorously referred to when in a letter on the secret was being made of the fact that the congress is figanced from Moscow, and matter after he had withdrawn his name unusual efforts are being made to enlist Whiteman, who had just returned from ho wrote that the malversation of office could not be brought home to him in the American Negroes in the cause of Hussin,
Bolshevism. Mr. William Z. Foster and Mr. Fort-Whiteman says that the the Scottish Courts, Anyhow, Lowell, Robert Minor, formet Labour leaders, Negroes intend to have their social de- was never inaugurated, as Lord, Rectora
Dr. Nansen, of course, is not now an who were convicted of Communism, were manda recognised, including racial sepa Ambassador. That should make his to address the congress with Mr. Fort ration, full political enfranchisement, and reign at St. Rule secure.
(Continued at foot of neat Column,)Government action to stop lynching.
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