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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT:
EDINBURGH, February 24th Professor Graig, of the Celtic Chair in Columbia University, has issued an appeal on behalf of the American Iona Society, formed recently for the study effected on a male sufficient to pay for and support of Boottish Gaelia. He the foreign-grown food required by points out that while several campaigns 45,000,000 of happy but hungry citizens for the promotion of education and cul. the resolutioners have forgotten to men- ture in Ireland have been carried to tion. They have also omitted to state successful conclusion in the United States
how the taxes necessary for unemploy- during the past ten or fifteen years, the ment schemes are to be raised in a cour proposals of the American Iona Society try where private property has been seem to ba the first effort in that direction
abolished and its former owners, if they on behalf of Scotland. As already could not work, put on the national stated in this "Scottish Letter,” two
pension list. public spirited Scotsmen,-Mr Angus Robertson, President of An Comunn
There are people still living who can Gaidhealach, Glasgow, and Mr. Richard remember the beginning of the Highland M Montgomery, President, American Railway and its first arrival at Inver- Iona Society, New York are devotingness. Since then the line has been vastly moat unselfishly their time and means improved. The war and the importance to the promotion of this patriotic move of Scape in the extreme north neces ment The Iona Society was created in sitated doubling it wherever practicable. Scotland, and the American branch was Since the London, Midland, and Scottish incorporated according to the laws of the Railway took it over many now improve State of New York, with the lofty aim ments have been made, and all doubtful of erecting and endowing a college in sections modernised. Now the old high Scotland, preferably in Iona, to give road that runs parallel to the line-the instruction in Gaelic, and to collect and one and only highway to the north-is preserve records of the Gaelic language to be repaired and renovated. Indeed, and civilisation before they have dis- it is being made anew and modernised, appeared. At the prescat time courses and its completion will mean a new life Fin Celtic are offered though somewhat to the Highlands. Several thousand sporadically-in the Universities of Glas- men will be engaged on the work when gow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen.
spring comes, and the northern capital SOCIALISM DREAMS A NEW EARTH.
According to modern educationists, the overworked student may derive much bereft from an occasional indulgence in light fiction. The student of politics and economics, however, does not need to resort to novels. He will find that the tonic of fiction is provided for him in the course of his own studies. A notable place among works of fancy, if not of imagination, is occupied by the agendas of the annual conferences of the LLP. in which your Clydesiders take so pro-
In Scotland and in England on Satur minent a part. It is true that, like the in-day Cup tie football ruled, and in both terminable romances of the seventeenth countries further proof was afforded century, they tend to be didactic and a that, however excellently the League little monotonous, and bear a very strong
competitions have served modern re- resemblance to one another. Still, it is quirements, the older institution holds a relief to pass from the depressing way with enthusiasts. To two Cup realities set forth in trade returns and games in Scotland and in one in Eog- the utterances of captains of industry land record attendances were made, not- to the alluring visions opened up by the withstanding that thousands failed to preliminary agenda of the LLP. confer- gain admission and despite the fact that ence. The Britain of the future that is two of the grounds involved are amongst revealed to us is singularly unlike the the most commodious and up-to-date Britain we inhabit. It recalla rather the enclosures. At Tynecastle, Edinburgh, Land of Cockaigue of mediaeval fancy the gates were closed fully half an hour in which the rivers were of wine, the prior to the advertised hour of starting. houses were built of cake and barley. The crowd inside, owing to the extreme sugar, "the shops gave away.goode pressure on the terracing, was forced on for nothing, roast fowls ran about to the playing pitch, and the start of inviting people to cat them, and play was delayed until mounted police buttered larks fell from the sky had cleared the arena sufficiently, an upon streets paved with pastry, Bat operation that was made possible only the mediaeval Cockaigns was meant by the extreme orderliness of the specta as a satire on poetical" idealists, whereas tora, who were manifestly anxious to the contributors to the ILP. agenda assist, in having the game carried evidently believe the magic wonders through. The attendance was a record Never before was there anything like it, or are its marrallons properties likely ever to which they sing. In the brave new one for an Association football match in be equalled in diseases aring from impure blood. 14 sestubes out and expels from the world which they body forth the burden Edinburgh, and only exceeded in a foot-scrofulous and glandular wallings, Endings, abscesses, ulcers, eczema, gout, rheums- vital current every lurking fance of poisonous matter, curing blood and skin diseasca, of the National Debt will have been ball connection by that at the Scotland- dissipated by means of a capital levy, England Bugby game at Murrayfield last workers of all kinds will have a year. At Falkirk a record crowd also minimum wage and a 44 hours' week, turned out. those of the unemployed who are no MARRIAGE. absorbed by a lavish scheme of national. In London, on 18th February, Edward works will receive full and liberal J. Nathan, B.A. (Cantab.), O.B.E., of benefit and will be awarded adequate Tientain, North China, eldest son of pensions at 60, mothers, and children Colonel Sir Frederic L-Nathan, K.B.E., will be endowed, and our vacant couu and Lady Nathan, 37, Cornwall Gardens, |-- trysides will be colonised by happy London, 8.W. 7, to Isabel Mitchell WATHONIANA IN TER FAR KAST agricultural communities enjoying cheap! Macphail, MA, youngest daughter of credits and stabilised markets. And Mrs. Macphail, Cadzow- Lodge, Hamil intimated that two Watson and in the Donald Macphail, M.D., and the late Golf Club, Mr. W. Gordon Brown
At the annual dinner of the Watsonian SIMPLE that music will echo o'er, a smiling land, ton, Lanarkshire. may be gather from a resolution to ex OBITUARY,
Far East, Mr. Hugh Martin, an old pedite the promised Book of Tunes.
international footballer, and Dr. J T. for the Labour Hymn Book. A little February, Isabella Campbell, of Mary- a silver cup to the Club, and Dr. Brown At a nursing home, Glasgow, 20th Brown, his own brother, had offered touch of pretended realism is necessary rille, Wallies Street, Dumbarton, dearly the trophy, to the captain. Mr. D. H. to the enhancement of our enjoyment of kong, and third daughter of the late Golf Union, who occupied the chair, so beloved wile of William D. Bell, Hong. More, S.S.C., secretary of the Scottish amid applause, afterwards handed over
passages of pure fancy. This canon of
John Barr and Mrs. John Barr, Leven art has not been forgotten by the com
Htreet, Dumbarton.
cepted the trophy, and thanked Dr. pilers of the agenda. Since, they say. The Kin Burns Club has agreed to UNFORTUNATE CHURCH ADVERTISEMENTS,
Brown, saking him to convey the Club THE COWAL BURNS STATUE.
greetings also to Mr.
Martin "higher wages would be worthless with accept Sir Harry Lauder's gift of £1,000 out the power to control prices, the de- towards the erection of a monument to
When the Church goes in for advertising mand for a living wage necessitates (a) Robert Burns on a site near Cowal, and it should be very careful. A Glasgow the establishment of a national banking have appointed a special committee. The church had recently, the evening service. system, with the control of currency and intention is that the statue shall be given as "Hell, and underneath was credits for national purposes, and (b) colossal size, and dominate the entrance added.Visitors Cordially Invited THE the nationalisation of food and raw to the Clyde somewhat after the fashion This is terse compared with a similar materials," and, naturally, of everything of the statue of Freedom at the approach utice in a neighbouring town: Subject, included under the all-comprehensive to New York Harbour,
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