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Scottish Air-Mail Letter TRANSATLANTIC
Lord Haddington: An Ill-omened Haggis: Truth About Greenock: “Cocks Of The North": Sociable London Scottish
(Special Air-Mail Service)
Edinburgh, March.20. That suggestion that St Andrew never saw Scotland, that St George was a myth, and, that St Patrick was the only real saint of the three was made by Sir Thomas Molony at the annual dinner of the Legion of St Patrick in London on Satur-" day night.
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TELEPHONE
British End Less Efficient?
"(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, March 20
Is the British end of the Trans- emcient atlantic telephone less
than the American?
A traveller just back from the that when 500 average for the former period of States tells me
coast he 26.77in, and for the latter of 16.-miles off the American 00in, The statisties show that the telephoned to friends in Palm Island "or Inchkeith is the driest Beach. From New York his call spot in Scotland with 6.81in, for was carried by nearly 1,500 miles the 35. years' average of 2.69in for of land line. the four winter months
St George of Merrie England." | vagaries, he said, "is to a great extent a mythical personage. St Andrew of Scotland never saw Scotland, but was appropriated by our friends across the Border, who have that
wonderful desire to appropriate
everything "that is good. But St Patrick is different. St Patrick is a great reality. His history año nis writings, if they were only followed, would solve many of the troubles of to-day."
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Later, Sir Thomas said:"If we speak a little less about the wrongs of Ireland in the past and work a Ittle more for the good of Ireland in the future things might be a " little better." (Applause.)
LORD HADDINGTON Lord Haddington, who has been chairman of the British Legion in Scotland for the past five years, is
A LOW BAROMETER On the subject of the weather's a correspondent writer that 1934 has been remarkable for extreme barometric readings. On January 17 pressure was the lowest recorded for nearly two years. In February pressure was generally high, and exceptionally so in the middle of the month. The stormy weather of March has agaiır dis-
turbed the barometer; and on Thursday the low record of January 17 was surpassed. The mercury fell to 28.38 inches (uncorrected for altitude) the lowest since Novern- ber 10-11, 1931, when a reading of 28.30 was recorded.
WHO IS CHIEF OF THE GOR-
DONS?
Since the Marquis of Aberdeen's death several statements have been by made, including a reference Dr. Fleming at the burial service in St. Columba's, Pant-street to
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Reception was perfect and the charge for three minutes was $9. When within 500 miles of Eng- De- land he called up London, spite the short land-line trans- mission from Rugby to London, $15 for three the charge was minutes and reception was very
poor.
Said the ship's operator. "it is always like that Rugby is not a good station."
The difference in charges, my friend gathered, arises from the fact that England still reckons cost on a gold-standard basis, while America does not.
deen ine, which was not ennobled till 150 years after the Huntly group. point out that Lord Aber- deen was. à Gordon through and through with an unbroken male descent, whereas there has been a break in the case of the family of Lord Huntly and also of the Duke of Richmond and Gondon, both of whom race through Gordon heiresses. "#
to resign owing to pressure of other the effect that he was Chief of public engagements. His services, the Gordons." The Marquis of will not be entirely lost to the Le-Euntly, however, has even stron-
11 Sociable, London Scottish gion, as he will remain a member ger claims to this distinction
The London Scottish Territorials of the National Excutive" Council. The case of the two claimants The resignation does not take et- is interesting In the ter half are regarded in military circles as 'fect until the annual conference of the 14th century two brothers one of the most disciplined of the at Montrose in June, when his suc-held the huge estate of Strath-Volunteer forces, and at the same cessor will be appointed.
bogie, Aberdeenshire, John and Sir time one of the most sociable, and" Adam.
AN ILL-OMEND HAGGIS
A bad omen threw a shadow over
John contracted what is known as a handfast" marriage with a the London Ayrshire Society dinner Highland woman, by whom he had on Friday night. The company of two sons, the famous " Jock" and 300, which included Sir Godfrey "Tam." "Handfasting," a recog- Collins, Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, alsed Celtic custom, was held to be Mr. Kenneth Lindsay. M.P., and invalid by the Church and feudal Sir Alexander Walker, had turned | law. “Jack” and Tam thus did to watch the familiarrituar of not inherit the family estates, the entry of the haggisthe piper, which fell to thefr cousin, Elizbeth the chef bearing the dish on his Gordon, head, the waiters carrying bottles of whisky.
"COCKS OF THE NORTH “ The haggis-bearer's foot slipped, that ended any claim of the chief- Form the orthodox Celtic of view and he fell with his precious burtainship for Elizabeth or her des- den. As the piper and his men re-
chief had to cendants. As the treated for fresh supplies the con- lead in battle, the past could not pany tried to laugh it off. But its
be held by a woman. Though the umiinions significance was realised, Not a Scotsman present but fett lands, therefore, went to her, the that the Calcutta Cup was as good chieftainship, if any, went to hel "as lost.
THE TRUTH ABOUT
GREENOCK ··
consin." Jock." "
When she married she removed herself still further from true blue Gordonism. Her husband was a Does it always rain here. 'No. Seton, and though her eldest son. It sometimes snaws." is an old created Earl" of Huntly, took the story pointed at Greenock's notori name of Gordon, the line is, strict lous reputation for wetness." Locally speaking, Seton. But her de- ly there may have been a dispost- scendants became far more power tion to refute the charge, but the ful, and their defiance of the Crown official statistica of rainfall led to their being cailed the Cocks from the Meteorological Of of the North." fice in Edinburgh clearly prove that the verdict is against Greenock Taking about the per- iod of 35 years from 1881" till 1915 and the last four months from No- vember til February, those con- spicuously dry months which have much to create anxiety done so about our water supplies, Greenock On the other hand, those who easlly comes out on top with an claim that honour for the Aber-
By the same kind of token the chieftainship of the Gordons has thus been attributed to them. Cer- tain. It is the Marquis of Huntly, who is six months older than the late Lord Aberdeen, is regarded by most Scots as Chief of the Gor dons...
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gregarious. They have Old Com rades' Associations in some out-of- the-way parts of the world where no other regimental societies exist. Kenya and Selangor (in the Malay Peninsula) are two of these remo-
and places. others are Calcutta, Vancouver, Shanghai, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, seem to be and Colombo. Scots particularly good at making for themselves "a clannish home from home, STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
The comic letters from overseas (particularly from that prolific quarter, the Gold Coast) are usually a trifle suspect-too gibly funny. as it were, to escape suggestion of barefaced manufacture. But I have come across one in the cur- rent number of "The Bookseller that seems to have the authentic note of unconscious humour. It Isn't Trom Africa either, but from Zagerb, in Yugoslavia.
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