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In the first place, it will be neces sary to prevent quibbles about the technicalities of international law from obscuring generally ac- cepted axioms of common sense. There is no exact precedent for
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THE CASH VALUE OF A The Very Idea!
SCOTS ACCENT
By ERIC LINKLATER
am told on competent authority men are wonderful. They would
I
that a Scots accent is, in Eng-shoot on hearing. tory that practically the whole land, a possession of grant value. City, but the same kind of thing hap
Once this was in a bar in Panama
ing. instantaneously complied.
A ploy
unpleasant oxcursion;
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[NOW BRING OUT YOUR PRIZE-FIGHTERS:
By Edward Kelly, Pug..
the
AS an enthusiastic admirer of Mr. Edward Kelly, the I am willing to believe this. An
pens everywhere—I observed a typical world has condemned military American friend of mino-a mimic demonstration of the power of the well known half wit, Mr. aggression by refusing to recog-of some ability-always assumes a Scots accent. The barrian had shown Edward Kelly is frequently heavy stage-Scots accent to reply great diflculty in understanding a nise its conquests. The refusal to beggars and others who accost fairly orthodox English speech, but called upon to punch sarcas- of recognition has not arisen him in the street. And his non-wide hoveled manne in who find tic critics on the nose.
invariably qualie most dishevelled loud-
the ly demanded, Glo's a glass of watter "It is a regrettable fact about from any disapproval of Man-portunate. A Scots No has Ichuria and its people. The world moral force of centuries behind it.Tho barman, immediately comprehend-listening to comments on
But there are, of course, more Then the stranger, addressing no way this column is run that would be pleased to see an auto-serious opportunities for the Nor one in particular, remarked, "I'd sooner or later someone has to nomous Manchuria, and the thorn tongue, and the reasons for nothing for m' supper last night, and be punched on the nose.
its usefulness are very interesting. the same for m' breakfast the morn
Therefore, in our endeavours Lytton Commission' recommend- The explanation is largely to be And m' denner'll no get could for a
to be considered a humourist, we CLANNISH SCOTS. ed its establishment. No single found, I think, in certain peculiari-very guid reason."
have been taking lessons in none- ties of the English rather than of
This confession drew into conversa- country should be permitted to the Scottish character.
tion another Scot, one hitherto silent punching. All we want now is INSULAR ENGLISH. take advantage of the complex
To study famous Englishmen island little given to talking with a nose,
attracted If we can't make people laugh legal situation which has arisen not the way to discover the English strangers, but irresistibly
For Scotamen, through Japan's rejection of the character. The famous ones achieved a voles as reminiscent of his youth at our column by reading what
fame because they were exceptional. ful
aare sentimental creatures ready to by socking them. recommendations of the League One may think of Cour de Lion especially when drinkding and abroad, wo write, we can make 'em laugh
his kingdom to go on pawning
twa has palddied in the
In pursuit of this last refine- claim of Nations. The present regime dangerous and
of Grenville chewing a wine-glass on burn" with anyone who can in Manchuria cannot be recognis- his death-bed to show the Spaniards acquaintance with an odd ben or two ment of Kellysian humour, we
and .I only remark, as a curiosity, that it lum. ed, because international wrong he wasn't worrying; of Cromwell's do not decry this mild patriotism. recently visited a local gymnas-
warta and Nelson's blind eye
As a specimen for a physical. imperturbability and flourishes most abroad.
And as there are many Scots in for culture Institute, let us tell you cannot be rectified by approving Wellington's
one la filled with awa.
unusual corners of the earth, a Scots accent But these wore very its consequences. But the world
almost porfect example of the class. In Treatment" can insist that neither Japan ner citizens, and their type is not likely is a very useful thing to go abroad right here and now that we are an
to recur under the auspices of com- with: quite në good as a Masonic griP: "Before
useful as travellers' any other country can use the pulsory education and the Adult and almost as
kind of cheques. On this occasion my dis- fact, we have been offered prince- Suffrage Act. The other
Who ruefully hevelled countryman did very well out ly sums for the use of our photo peculiar legal status of Manchu- Englishman, however,
paid for Cœur de Lion's jaunts, and of his chance encounter: and truly his as an advertisement.
We entered the gymnasium with kuo as a shield for illegitimate thought Grenville an appalling rumian, voice carried with it a welcomo re-
and bashfully kopt out of the way minder of the splendour and rough- an inferiority complex but they designs and operations. The doc-of Cromwell and Nelson and Wellingness of Scotland that deserved some soon belted that out of us. Then Later in the day I came across the for about ten minutos we proceed- trine of non-recognition has its ton, still survives in great numbers. recompense.
And so far from being bloody, bold, value, but it also has its limita- and resolute, ho fa a rather, mlid, sturdy vagabond again, and now heed to acquire some local colour,.
pleasant, and timid Individual-and was in trouble with a small but hostilo principally in the vicinity of the
crowd. Hero again his mother tongue eye.
them After the instructor cracked our tions. We may refuse to speak essentially Insular.
Because of his insularity he is apt proved useful, for he lashed to a certain person when we meet to credit foreign nations with ex-with such Doric scorn and northern thighbone over our left jaw, and him on the street, but this does aggerated qualities. Spies, anarch- vituperation that they were soon will- vice versa, with some wrestling were half ists, and gunmen, priests, pictures, ing to let him go. For invective, instructions, he told us to have a not indicate that we think he and twins, all become more remark-commination, deprecation, or deprecia- go at the bars. We
tion the vernacular of Scotland is able, sinister, or attractive when one JAPAN AND
enjoys immunity from the law. tacks on to them the adjectives. Ger- almost unrivalled. The large rude way across the road to the Hong- words roll down the argument like kong Hotel, before we discovered MANCHURIA
In refusing recognition to a man, Russian, American, Egyptian, boulders in a Highland areant, and our mistake.
Scots
We know all there is to know French, and Siamese. So do
about American Clubs, Hongkong Álthough Japan protests occa-country, the world does not in-policeman, a Scots minister, and a very sentence is as shaggy as High-
Scots engineer transcend their kind by land cattle,
It been observed that to call Clubs, Cricket Clubs and other sionally, as for instance when tend to make it an area within the mere fact of their allen birth-aghes outsides, fusionless, local Clubs, but we didn't know un- and by their accent shall ya know the League of Nations spoke of which violence and lawlessness them. Every rich guttural, sach howless craitur" is almost certain to til we started physical training something beyond your ken, and so who cares to explore the resources of Hongkong. The patron of the were given to banning Manchukuo from the can go unpunished. A nation careful vowel, is the trade mark of have the desired effect; but anyone that there were Indian Clubs in
Beata literature may find phrases that Indian Club, we Olympic Games, it is probable cannot be outlawed. All nations mysteriously superior to your
produce. And perhaps the English- detonate a hundred times as loudly; understand, is Gandhi.
Read the
of Dunbar and Nabon knows what b-l£ |
Anyway, believe it or not, we that the refusal of the world to are within the law. They are man's instinct is right; but it is not
part of Scotland that, admirable in of it means, but the mere sound it came back to the office after our recognise the independence of all under the sway of universal for me to say so, for I come from a Kennedis."
telligence. Barracking In such aably ft. above all for Its modesty.
language would defeat any team on We were so fit, as a matter of Manchukuo is not altogether dis-right and justice. Manchuria is a multitude of ways, is admirable appals the senses and shocks the in-course of training feeling remark- BLESSING OF ACCENT. earth and for ever displace the leg-fact, that, without human or agrecable to Japan. The result not a really no-man's-land. Its
To recur for a moment to police-trap as a weapon of offence.
liquid aid, we were able to sit position; and
men: their possession of a Scots
GOLDEN, ADVERTISEMENT. down at our typewriter and punch of the League decision has been geographical
In view of these circumstances, and out to-day's Edward Kelly. They to place Manchurin in a peculiar Japan's conquest of it, have accent is indeed a blessing, for in the midst of English voices that slide like! vague and boneless things among the many others, Scotsmen are probably carried him away on a atretcher.
ill-advised to shed their native speech" situation from the viewpoint of made it everybody's business.
dilapidated remnants of a language, the rumbling moles of Scotland's when settling in England. Yet many international law. Since the le-
speech is truly magnificent. Scots of them do, and presumably reap some gal existence of the Manchu
And so Red Riding Hood pack- policeman are usually country-bred-benefit by conforming to the prevail- the accent of Scots towns is often nong mode. Chinese pirates also dis- state is not recognised, the argu-
pleasanter than that of English towns, guise themselves as peasants before ed a pork-pie and a finek of tinned forth to visit Grandma. It wasn't ment has been put forward that
It seems hardly fair that an And perhaps, in considering the ad- embarking in the vessel they mean to soup in her little basket, and set
vantages of a Scots tongue, one should capture. it cannot be bound by the great age which shows-an unparallel pay more attention to the English Many really successful Scotsman, that she thought the old wretch to fondness for dictators should man's asthetle taste, and say that he however doctors, for example-care- actually needed food, but-some- international conventiona
Glasgow has the rich filt of portant feature of their personality pillowcase full of Savings Certi- which other nations have sub- have taken to abusing the great-appreciates it for its robust melody, fully preserve their accent as an im-where in that cottage there was a
They wear the Darle as another man scribed. For example, if the est dictator of all. Yet it can comedy in its throat.
The most deplorable aspect of the will wear a button-hole or a beard, cates, and grandmothers can't not be denied that the reputa-
reforms that Lord Trenchard proposes and for the same purpose; to present] live for over.
On her way she met the Wolf, Disarmament Conference pro- tion of Julius Caesar is not what for the Metropolitan Police is surely a distinguishing mark in the midst of duces a general agreement for it was. Shakespeare described the standardisation of speech that will uniformity. Nonconformity of this and in her childish way told him result from recruiting in the pubile kind is excellent, for it requires a where she was going. You never limitation and reduction to him as "the foremost man of all schools. Think of inquiring the way certain bravery and reveals a definito know. Maybe the Wolf might go She arrived in the cottage and which Japan is a party, Manchu--this world" and only a few to Bloomsbury and being answered in pride in one's own person or achieve- and bite Grandma.
the tones of Bloomsbury! Think of monts and a delight in one's in-
immediately sald to tho. figure in kuo cannot be expected to ad-months ago this opinion was con-naking the time that query honoured dividuality.
firmed by Col. John Buchan. by time itself and hearing Robert ro. The consciously preserved accent the bed: Why what large oyes
a reliable advertise here, for other countries in re- More recently Prof. R. S. Con-ply in the voice of a B.B.C. announcer, then, is often
"Yes," anorted the old lady fusing to recognise its existence way has revealed, all sorts of de- with all his vowels ironed flat and his ment--an advertisement more difficult you have Grandma."
consonants manicured for the evening to counterfeit than a Bank of England
the corners alit." have virtually denied its right to fects in Cæsar's character, and performancet No more would Trans ver. But not because of its water-Ive just paid difty guineas to have "And what large ears you have, Grandma," be a signatory. Japan, therefore, into the breach which he has atlantic visitors remark, "Your pollen-mark,
might consent to reductions of
Caesar for Journalists.
effected in Caesar's reputation many other accusers have not
its own armaments in the ex-refrained from hurling them- pectation that strong military selves. The correspondence and naval forces could be created) columns of the London Times in Manchukuo, over which no have bristled with attacks even international control would be upon Caesar's literary style. He is alleged never to have written exercised. These forces, of anything comparable with the course, would be virtually part star passages of the great his of the Japanese military, naval torians, like Livy's account of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps, and air establishment. Again,
or Prescott's story of Cortez's Japan has recently adhered to conquest of Mexico with a more the 1991 convention limiting the handful of followers. Cæsar manufacture and distribution of could not write like Macaulay narcotic drugs which becomes or Segur; his style was un- effective next July. Manchukuo, emotional, unexciting matter of fact. Cæsar did not think in In its present state of legal non-headlines; he was not constantly existence, cannot be expected to on the watch for slogans. He Adhere to this convention. Japan, did not exaggerate every trifling which has always been one of incident he described into an the leading manufacturers of event of world-shaking Import- ance, in the fear that if he did narcotic drugs can therefore
not invest it with a sham catn: transfer its operations in this clysmic significance no one would field to Manchuria and continue care to read about it. Ho did to flood China with drugs from not choose from out of his com this base in no-man's-land. Re-prehensive experience the most unpleasant incidents, and dwell ports by the Genova authorities
on these to the destruction of all indicate that this transfer has perspective. Cæsar might well, already commenced. Several in fact, be made compulsory things can be done, of course. reading in schools of journalism.
J
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own
"I can't help thinking how I would feel, if I were a horse
and couldn't have every thing I wanted to eat."!
*
ANOTHER FAIRY TALE.
"I know, drat it. That was when I had my face lifted. The stitches drag, and that's what's pulling the ears forward."
"And Grandma, what lovely large teeth."
"Yes, darling. My new set, and the confounded things don't at. I aneozed them out last night, and they bit my big toe. Put that spoojao stuff down, and give me a cigarette."
And the Wolf? Nobody knows, but next time Grandma went out in her baby car she was wearing.
a now set of furs,
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COMEDY ON BUS,
Personao Dramatae: A ductor and a Passengor.
Passenger tenders a dollar. Conductor: No change. Passenger: No change7.
Con-
Conductor, tapping his haver- sack, suggests the passenger alight- and take the next bus when it is possible be may get change for. his dollar.
Passenger: I shall be getting off very soon in any event, and it will be a free ride for me if you can't change that dollar.
Conductor la plainly distressed by the information. At the next. stop, holding up the bus, he dashes to the nearest shop and presently returns with an air of having performed a feat, a look of tremendous, relief on his face,
To counted 90 cents:into the palm of his hand and then looked for the passenger, who was gónol