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SCOTTISH HOME RULE: LORD METHUEN'S LAST MESSAGE: OLDEST SCOTS GUARDSMAN DIES: SCOTTISH DIVORCE ACTIONS: WOMEN GOLFERS WHO RETIRE EARLY: SCOTLAND'S SHAME
- EDINBURGH, Yos. 15.
SHOES FROM JAPAN
GROWTH IN JAPANESE COMPETITION.
(Special Air-Mail Service)
Losnos Nov, 15. (Special Air-Mail Service)
The extraordinary growth of Lord Methusa's Farewell. could not imagine that even among Japanese competition in the beet The serving officers and men of those who most regretted the and shoo trade was shown by the the Scots Guards have just receiv- Union of 1707 there could be found fact that Japan came into the trade v a touching reminder of the many who would dispute that Scot in 103 and in the course of e affection for his old regiment, tish trade had been immensely for year becaune practically the largest which, to the end of his life, thered by its administration under supplier of that, class of article. amounted almost to an obsession à common set of rales emanating Before 10% a rubber footwear with the late Field-Marsha! Lord from the British Parliament. Any came in from Japan, but before the Methuen, After the stroke from one who had had experience of try end of that year nearly a quarter which he died, the Field-Marshating to conform in trade to the of the whole of our importe of that relapsed into unconsciousness, and gulations of foreign countries class of goods came from Japan, se reninined until shortly before would readily imagine what the In the case of shoes the figures were the end, when he rallied, for a few impedimenta to the trade between also extraordinary. In 100 the minutes. In those minutes of re England and Scotland would havo | Japanese_imports consisted of only. gained consciousness he motioned been if separate Parliaments had few dozen pairs; in 1930 the his nurse to bring him pencil and von legislating in the two ends of imports were 8,000 dozen and in 1033 167,000 dozeli These are only some paper, and on it wrote his last the island. message, in these words: "Good
of the instances of the extraon- Bye, Scots Guards" signing it in
seem odd to the ary affect which, is taking place his characteristically scrawling
world to-day when all in the world generally as a result hand. The message was sent to ro
towards, of the intensive exports of Japan теле movements Wrre
to secure markets on terms which Kimental headquarters, and now creating more harmonious connec- facsimile has been made and copies forwarded to all ranks serving with the regiment.
Sir Robert observed that it Banst indred nuler
tions, that people within an al- we regarded as unfair competition.
most inanitesimal area should be seeking to go back to a state of divisions which most people had believed had long ago been oblite-} rated He did not suggest that the i present system of legislation and administration could not be im- proved. The Scottish Department! of Government was comparatively young and the defoots in its or ganization had only gradually been laid
Sir William Morris. The founder and president of the League of Industry, Sir Wil lian Morris, is to be the chief guest of a business men's luncheon hich will take place in the Cen- tral Hotel, Glasgow, on November is with Sir John T. Cargill in the chair. Sir William will speak en
bare. There wore several the progress of the Lengue, which is a non-party movement repre- directions in which he was prepar sculing everyone who obtains afed to propose reforms. livelihood from industry and exist ing to formulate the industrial viewpoint on internal and publie
ninira
arki he
would take an early opportunity of laying before Parliament such sug- gestions as he had to make. Death of Dr. Jane Waterston
Woman Pioneer and Imperialist, Dr. Jane Waterston, whose death at the age of a0 is cabled from Cape Town, was a pioneer in me dicine for women, as well as
OBITUARY
MRS.. GEORGE JORDON, JUNIOR
AN AMERICAN ASTROLOGER
(Special Air-Mail Service)
LONDON Nov. 14. Evangeline Adams, the astrologer, otherwis Mrs. George E. Ford, junior--who at one time or another had among her clients the late Mr. J. P. Morgan, two presidents of the New York Stock Exchange, and many other well-known persons in business and professional life, died on Nov 30 at the age of Go in her Thousand Elephants", Studio of
in Carnegie Hall.
Miss Adams had an immense
Scottish Divorce Actions. • Scottish civil judicial statistics for 1031, show a marked increase in divorce actions compared with the number in 1030, last year's to tal of 600 being an increase champion for the amelioration of practically 20 per cent, over the native conditions, and n vigorous previous year's total of 501. En Imperialist. Dr. Waterston, who following, and her antal income both years the majority of the was born in Inverness, was said to from foes for casting horoscopes is actiona were instituted by wives, be the Empire's oldest woman doc said to have "xtended $100,000 tor and was one of three original notwithstanding that the telling of 237 in 1931 and 203 in 1030.
students of the London Medical fortunes for money is illegal in School for "Women. She took her New York. She was only once ar degree in Dublin in 1870. Later the joined the Livingstonin is rested, and then dismissed with a
ion and was the second white wo- man to work on the shores of Lake Nyasa, where she spent her life working among the natives. church of Scotland's Position Re-
A West of Scotland Firm's Help from Workere.
mere reprimand.
THE SENIOR CAPTAIN (Special Air-Man Service)
Suggestions from workers for the impitvement of methods to the number of 2,500 are annually re- ceived by a West of Scotland firm. Of these 3,000 are adopted and paid for.. The cumulative result of such
LONDON, Nov. 15. suggestion relemes, anid Mr. Sam
garding Foreign Missions, Jayor after quoting those figures
The recent retirements from and The Rt. Rev. Professor Hugh R to a public menting in Edinburgh of the Royal Scottish Society of Aris Mackintosh. D.D., Moderator of promotions to the Flag List have. was valuable to the firm, and it the General Assembly of the Church brought Captain J. 8. C. Salmond was encouraging to the employees of Scotland, when presiding at the to the top of his list. He has be to see their ideas applied in prae- rally held in the St. Andrew's come a Naval Aide-de-Camp to the
Knid thnt. everybody King in succession to Rear-A tice and to realise their part Hall,
mirel H. G. Thursfield. Captain Whe idea that a the general technical advance. Sug- understood gestion schernes were designed, 56 Christian was bound to do what Salmond was 50 years of age last added, to make available and to Christ bade him do. What the June, and entered the Navy in pay for the immense reservoirs of man of the world did not under 1800 As midshipman of the Ba
fleur he was mentioned in dispat intelligence and mechanical apti-stand was the attitude of a manches for services at Tientsin dur tude of the men engaged in the who was a professed follower t setual carrying out of the work, Christ and who, in certain kinds ing the Boxer War. He specialis lo cultivate the habit of observa of company, disparaged nissioned in torpedoes and wireless, and was granted the staff qualification tion, stimulate the creative facul work and buttoned up his pockat in 1913 while on the staff of the
for a subscription. tles, and to provide a channel for when asked
Commander-in-Chief, Home Flent. self-expression and of contac: with Again, it was often objected that During the war he served on Ad converts from heathenism werd the management.
anything but a credit to foreign miral Jellicoe's staff in the Iron Oldest Scots Guardsman Dies at 82, missionaries generally. When we Duke, and after his promotion to saw things as they were amongst the Admiralty. He resumed sea coinmander he was appointed to Fot r Quartermaster Sargeant Hawthorn believed to be the oldest ourselves and Suota Guardsman, died on Nov. 9 they might have been, we had liti service in April, 1017, in commina at the age of 0g in Windsor. Hele justification for despising the of the sloop Odin, in the Gulf of conated with the fourth class of joined the Scots Fusilier Guards beginnings of Christian moral life Aden Patrol, and in 1910 was de
in new countries. in 1850. When the word Fusilier The Vary
the Egyptian Order of the Nils. Rev. Dr. Donald
As a captain he has commanded was dropped from the title and the Fruser pointed .out that if mit became the Scots Guards, e
Naval Attache in 8. America: served in the 2nd battalion. In every member of the Church of Yarmouth, signal ship; has en
Scotland contributed que 1663, when the Scots Guards arriv
remembered what
penny
AVA PRODUCTS ARE BRITISH MADE IN LONDON ed at Tilbury Docks from Canada, por week to foreign missions the Head of the Signal School; and no band was available for their amount received would be £100,000, until August last was in command in excess of the sum asked for by of the battleship Malays, which march to London, so Hawthorn the General Assembly last May in acted as guardship at Cowes this produced his Addle and marched, connection with their appeal for: year. playing it, at the head of the bat she continuance of missionary talion. The late Lord Methuen work at its present strength. Ex-
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was an Ensign in the 2nd Scots amples of the efficacy of missionary address on November 10 to the Guards during the time Hawthors efforts in China were given by Dr. Aberdeen Business and Profes was sergeant.
T. Chalmers Borthwick (Ichang). sional Club on the. Scottish Na- He said, we could not but admit tional Dictionary, of which he is When Sir Robert Horne address that politically, socially, and re- the editor. Lord Provost H. Alex- ed bis constituents at Hillhead,ligiously, chaos aptly described the ander, acknowledging a volume, conditions in China China's remarked on Aberdeen's immense Glasgow on November 11th, he made à closely reasoned analysis story was a sad one, for one could pride in the fact that the great of the claims made for Home Rule not talk of that country without undertaking of the dictionary was
out in Aberdeen referring to such things as civil being carried for Scotland, and submitted that wars. Floods, Famine and banditry Mr. Will, however, it expressing any separation between Scotland!
had spread over the country, bring-appreciation of Dr. Grant's ad and England would be disastrous to the interests of the country ang misery, oppression, poverty, dress, emphasised the value of the whole. He said the truth-of titution. Banditry was bringing Betion on, the part of the murder, lust, vengeance, and des- Scottish tongue and referred to what he tormed the discredit. which the financial aspect was much misery and so was opium,
lustration-was that the interests
four Scottish Universities. Prizes, ho said, had been founded in be Universities for work in the ver pacular, but the response to the prizes had beers shameful-he meant it was a shame to Scotland. no more in British Champion When the dictionary was complet create insurmountable dificulties. ships, although there is a proced he hoped the students of the dent for her decision in the case of University would be able to supply Miss Joyce Whethered, who also sufficient vernacular words to com- renounced championships while
of all parts of Britain were m in- Women Golfers Who Retire Early, terlocked under the Parliamentary system which had prevailed for It was with something of a shock more than 200 years that any at that we heard of Miss Enid Wil tempt to set up separate legisla-san's declaration that she may play tive authorities must inevitably
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Finance and Trade. From the point of view of finance and trade and commerce and la still in her early twenties. It is one a poem or cay in Scots. baur, all races inhabiting Great curious fact that women golf cham-
Archbishop's Visit, Britain were inextricably united pions.seem to arrive much earlier and could only be cut apart with and depart Booner than men do It is announced that the Arch- danger to many precious tics of although Miss Cecil Leitch, who bishop of York (Dr. Temple) will mutual-support and with great in won, her last Open Championship-be-the speaker at the annual mis jury to the general wolfare. He when she was 85, is the exception aionary meeting of Diocese of denied the statements that Scot: that proves the rule. land-was-evartauod in comparison-remonde
with England and Wales and that she was ungenerously dealt with in respect of Government granta. He
Scotland's shame.
Glasgow and Galloway, Episcopal Hey Church of Sortland, in SA
d'Hall Glasgow on Novem
Dr William-Grant delivered an ber 23rd. (Continued on next columniɔ:/
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