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that a proof-of-a civilised crowd! We may lose our hate, but we do not lose our heads. Even in the scramble in tea- rooms for sustenance after the match we do not lose our tempers. The refereo is safe from us; the criminal statistics, of ARE THEYA PÄILURE:

Edinburgh remain undisturbed by our coming and going. Still, it we do not APATHY OF ELECTORS, break windows, corsing, nor wave aggres- sive flags in the faces, of strangers, we ENROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. Į still make greac day of it. Let the best men win, we say (meaning the EDINBURGH, March 25th.

Scots, of course). Let the game Hourish, While there were about 60,000 people And we go home full of the satisfaction at Murrayed to witness the inter- of having been participants-in-an-im- national Hagby match between England portant social celebration, one combin- and Scotland, only 18,000 took the ing the inimitable virtues of athleticism trokåle to record vote in the election and gentlemanly conduct one that on the previous day for a new Educa unites friends and gives a better excuse tion Authority for the burgh of Edin for a motor run, a huge lunch and a burgh. Roughly speaking, Murrayfield hearty cheer than anything else in the housed as many Edinburgh citizens around of the year, visited the polling booths, There was It is curious that a game so demo- also rival attraction at another Edin ceatie in Wales and in the industrial burgh football ground, where, there were towns on the Scottish Borders should 30,000 spectators. & considerable number stili indir great Northern cities be of whom would be on the electoral" roll classy in its appeal, and be regard for the burgh. Thus do we draw a fine ed with indifference by the vaster malti- distinction between our amusements and tude who are passionate over the Asso- our public duty; determining that wheelation game. Rugby, with its much more ther or not we discharge our obligations dangerous-looking serums and tackling, as citizens and clestors, we shall at least might naturally be expected to have the specrators, to whom not miss the gratification of cheering our greater attraction to: team to victory! This apathy charac- the vicarious enjoyment of rough con- There is at lenst terised the whole General Election, as it fict, is congenital. may be called, which deterraines the edu- quite as much "science"-in one ame cation given to children over the length as in the other, and it only requires the witt and breadth of Scotland. What is the Rugbian to familiarise himself " effect of this state of matters 7 It plays Soccer, and the Association fan into the bands of sectional interests, and give some sympathetic study to Rugby, in particular into that of the Roman to realise that both games are of the Catholic Church. This would not be the highest sporting interest. game if the electors as a body could be thing almost like a political gulf divides interested in the work of the dust roughly, the game of the Universities.

in Scotland. games

Rugby is. tion Authority. But the majority are not interested, and this enables any well- the Academics, the professional classes,

that social CILSTA which

dova organised group to obtain a dispropor- and

While the not take high tra nor start work tionate share of the seats. success of the Roman Catholics in Glas-before nine in the morning. gow and Edinburgh is striking, it is not ciation. while it has its own more remarkable than the continued tees even from these ranks, has been failure of the Socialists. In Edinburgh raised to pre-eminence as by far the the Socialists put forward 12 candidates, most popular athletic sport in Scotland and only two were successful, In Glas- by the favour of the masses, who re- carrying code as a mystery gow they had 17 candidates, of whom 19 gard the failed to find favour. This is surprising comprehensible only to athletic high- when regard had to their Parliamen-brows. The introduction of profession tary, and even municipal representationalism in Association football unquestion- in Glasgow. The inference that the sup- ably did much to separate football porters of the Socialist party are not enthusiasts into two camps. interested in education is irresistible.always seemed to the. Rugbians that The party, as a whole, does not share football as a national sport was morally the enthusiasm of its lenders-or of some degraded by the payment of players and of its Teaders for education; and if it the commercialisation and exploitation was in the power of the Parliamentary of clubs and individual players: is bas Socialist party to introduce the pro- always been the argument of the Soccer gramme which they have outlined. they follower that the science of the game would almost certainly experience trouble bas treble since professionalism was in persuading the great body of their introduced, and that amateur football supporters to accept the new cotipul players were as indifferent to look at as the division sions, It becomes a timely question amateur actors. And so whether we should persist in the experi- has continued and increased in width ment of an elected Education Authority. and depth until now it is quite unbridge- It is now clear beyond dispute that the able. vast majority of the public do not want it. From 73 to 80 per cent of the electoratz. proalaia their wished in the matter by refusing to function in the election. I these circumstances what results is not real demperatic election, We have in-effect Board nominated by

those

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Great interest is being taken in Scot land in the Court of Inquiry which is considering whether the operations in the factory constrqetion, and erection of the new, Weir steel houses come within the category of building trade operation,

a quarter or less of the electors, and Not on our housing shortage greater

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OF GREAT RUGBY FESTIVALİ

than is the case.in England. but Lord

it is to be a nominated Board we might well adopt a lass cumberous way Weir is a West Country Scot, and he forming it. We might at the same time

It has bebis factories ready in Glasgow which find a more democratic way. come increasingly certain, that there i could provide material for thousands of new houses in the course of a year. The newhere enough local interest to building trade, including the employers, vitality to more than one Board engaged demand that skilled rates shall be paid- in the administration of local affairs, and On the other hand, Lord Weir maintains the attempt to maintain three of them that in the production and erection of is reacting upon all in making them un Weir houses unskilled labour only need responsive to the workings of the public be used; he proposes, however, to give mind. The general experience is that in electing a member of Parliament from preference to unemployed skilled men in trades that have suffered most from To to 80 per cent of the public take a the depression. ix to eight workers, active part; in electing a Town Council he says, could put a house together and from 4 to 75 per fent, and in electing & deliver it in eight days. The process Parish Council or Education Anturit appears to be ezinently simple, and in from, 20 to 30 per cent. The last two are striking contrast to what are usually nos wanted by the public, and there would known as buikling trade operations. It gain in representative value by is well known that the building trade transferring their functions, in the large capot cope alone with our housing towns, at any rate, to the Town Coun-needs. Though the rate of house-build-

ing is now 150,000 houses per annum- 90,000 more than in pre-war years-this due to private enterprise A new chapter in the historyofis mainly Scottish Rugby was opened at the end schemes ander which brick-layers build greater rate than is considered of last week. Without formal Temony at a the oval football was kicked off in the proper in the best Trade Union circles, Murrayfield district, Edinburgh, in the In justice to the bricklayer, howeven it: centre of , vust enclosure capable of should be said that his output is now accommodating over ninety thousand about equal to his pre-war performance,, or twice as many bricks as. Ee was will- people. When loverleith was built a quarter of a rentury age it was amplying to lay just after the war--a faet sufficient for the crowds attending the which shows the extent of his profiterz big games but rid growth of the ing. Even so, the building trade cannot popularity of Rugby Football in recent build sufficient houses, years compelled the Scottish, Rugby Union to find a larger ground, and Murrayfield-probably the finest enelo

The number of persons on March 9th- sure of its kind in the British Isles-is recorded on the registers of Employment the result. At the international match Exchanges in Great Britain was 1,220,700. between England and Scotland. the This was 14,918 less than a week before, leading event of the Rugby year, Glas but 100.875 more than a year previously. gow and Edinburgh for the time being The Secretary of the Ministry of Labour sink their jealousies, and in fraternal draws attention to a discrepancy in the [DR] same hard benches return due to a large decrease shown

the spirit whooping-or 租期 near whooping as in certain of the detailed returns which gentlemanly followers of the game of were received late. There was actually Rugby may-the play of the Young Gen- a decrease of 447 on March 2nd as com tlemen of Great Britain. It is the oc-pared with February 23rd, instead of an casion of a great track by road as well increase of 1,633 as previously announced. as by rail towards the Capital, especially from the West Country; but of a totally! different type, from that of the football

"fans" who ga chara-banging after THE WORLD'S FOREMOST famous Socceer teams. To rank as a reputable follower of Rugby in Scotland involves observance of a certain ritual.

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about Rugby. A seat in the stand is a THE GREEN token of exclusiveness, and to live in the wrong avenue either in Edinburgh or Glasgow is to have a poor chance of obtaining one. Social, proprieties have actually a considerable bearing on the proper enjoyment of the day. The absence of song is symptomatic: there ure to choruses either on the motors, or on the football field. High spirits, modified within' reasonable bounds, give the prevailing note. We celebrate in a well-ordered and polite way; and is not

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