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Sir Walter was one type

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type. . But Burns not only understood the different

CO-OPERATION strains with his mind; he THE ONLY WAY had them all in his heart and blood. That is why he was in such a complete sense our na- tional poet, and why his poems had become the masonic symbols of the Scottish people.

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ROBERT BURNS whose toast will be drunk at the St. Andrew's Society's "Burna. Nicht” dinner at the Peninsula Hotel to-night.

a good citizen he had a keen interest

In the first place his work was

struct the literary Pantheon," Burns apt to be judged on other than must be placed among the major in the welfare of his country. poetic grounds, and he might not diotics. be given his proper place in the hierarchy of the world's litera- ture.

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second mistake is about his character. Lord Rosebery, in brought to his centenary address at Dumfries, the subject wide sympathy.

It is worth while to consider his polical Ideas, He was not partly a sentimental Jacobite and partly a sentimental Jacobin. He was pri- marily a Fittite, and the year which he always had in mind was the year 1759, the year of his birth, the year of Minden, and the taking of Quebec, und the victory of Quiberon Bay,

His political creed was that of a

He

But he was no parochial; patriot..

was equally interested in the history and welfare of the wider unit, the British Empire.

Our

We hear a great deal of talk about Scottish Nationalism, and that all to the good, for every true Scots- man should be a Scottish Nationalist in the sense that the well-being of Scotland be his Brst interest. There are many things amiss with our land to-day. We are losing some- thing

national , Idlom In thoughi and language: BOTIC of our historie institutions are de. caying: the steam roller of modern life is flattening out many of the familiar features in our landscape. We do not want to become like the Jews with no Jerusalem behind us. We want to save our nationality be fore it is too late.. There is only one

to do that, and that was Burns' why way. It cannot be done by tinkering with the mechanism of government, and still less by the cultivation of any stupid antagonism to our Southern neighbours. It can only come about if Scotsmen are more genuinely interested in their own land and realise that Scotland is not un antiquarian museum, but something real and living, worthy of the constant care and best efforts of her sons.

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THERE was a third element in his creed, the most important of all.

His genius was cesentially a unifying genlus, for he helped to blend the warring opposites of his land info one great tradition.

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As a nation we have always had that unifying power. From a long and bitter experience we learned the folly of disunion. For centuries we impoverished ourselves fighting. England, until by a happy chance we were able to set a Scotsman 21 the British throne.

More remarkable still, we man- aged to unite Highlands and Low- lands-two different soclelles with a lang reoerd of hostility behind them -we-mode Highlands and Lowlands one people.

Of this unifying impulse of our nation Burns was especially the pre- phet and the poct. By virtue of the power of his imagination and the infinite human sympathy of his heart, he interpreted Scotland England, and in no small degree England to Scotland, and, above all, Scotsmen to each other.

to

THIS, the chief of Burns's achieve- ments, still stood as an example to his countrymen.'

I do not believe that the unifying power of our race is yet exhausted.

Unity instead of strife, co-opera- tlon instead of rivalry-these are the prime needs of every people.

We need a unity of classes, we aced a more closely united Empire, we need above all things a union of the nations in a league of peace.

unity was the chief lesson which Bums can still teach us, and that to assist in its realisation the Arst duty of every Scotsman wherever on the globe his lot might be cast?

THERE were three great articles Is it fantastic to believe that such

in that creed,

plea for a reduction in arma- BUT if a poet became a tional symbol, he ran ments expenditure and the achievement of economic operation, between the various countries. It is clear that if any real coming-together is to be effected, there must be a more general abandonment of the doctrine of national exclusive-

In the second place, the different ness. Much of Mr. Eden's aspects of his character were exag- gerated by those who would claim speech was directed to Germany, him for their own conventiele. He of self- was in danger of ceasing to be a man the policy

and becoming a portent. His charac-

It is absurd to portray Burns as a suficiency was adumbrated byter was conceived as an impossible slave to futile emotions, a mere piece reasoned, spirited, and sane nation- Herr Hitler in his speech some mosaic of virtues and vices, and

alism. of moral flotsam and jetsam. Im- every kind of contrary school claimed mortal months ago at Nuremberg...It him as their own poet

songs. could not have been written by n-neurotic-weakling.- is realised that considerable diff-

The Arst thing to realise is

the In recent years we have advanced essential reasonableless and decency. T culties will have to be overcome to a truer understanding of Burns, of Burns, his strong self-respect, his in the provision of many of the both as poet and as man. and the courage, and his fastidious pride. It Burns clubs have had a great deal is fulle to attempt to draw morals raw materials she requires for to do with this happy result. So let from his life, and to condemn manufacture. Nevertheless, Dr. Burns--mistakes

me refer to certain mistakes about even to coadone. which, they Schacht has set about the task-are amended, must circumscribe his and one of the principal reasons.

greatness, he gave recently for demanding ļa Colonial Empire for Germany

PHE Arst mistake concerns she might be THE

position as a poet, Carlyle describ sovereign owner of lands where ed him as a little Vaucluse fountain," these raw materials for manu-and contrasted him with the broad facture might be freely obtained. through the country of thought. rivers of the greater poetry flowing There can be no doubt that one Henley sopke of him as "a little park, apart a unique retreat of rocks and of the chief causes of the lower-sytvan corners and healthy places." ing the living standard in.Ger-But these pleasant metaphora involve

an undue belittlement. many is to be found in her vast expenditure upon armaments.

was

arms

that

or

THE third point on which mistakes THE

should be corrected concern one particular aspect of his character his strong, practical good sense. his

He was no rootless Bohemian, but a shrewd and patriotic citizen, and us

The first was his belief in a real democracy which recognised no bar- riers between classes. He was that rare thing, true democrat, for he was against any kind of class rule-the tyranny of any class, not merely of one particular class.

The second article was his nation- allem. He absorbed the virtue of all the conflicting traditions in Scottish history, and was passionately in terested in Scotland.

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As a race we know from bitter experience the folly of division: An race we have already achieved miracles of comprehension.

Surely in the still greater problems

We may make of the future Scottish tradition an Inspiration and un example.

PAWKY SCOTS STORIES

LONDONER. who had gone

our

plate the diner stili said, "I canha cat this soup." to Looder," quoth he, exasperated. but added, "Ye've forgotten Dry think i wad be usin' yer rotten put doon a spune."

"Come into the dining-room for a contraption ava,' if I could shout ony londert

minute,

Kirsty," said a mistress to Weelum was in Court charged her new servant. with stealing sheep.

Buras. in spite of Malthew Arnold's view to the contrary, had As Mr. Baldwin pointed out in the true classic elevation, the perfec

"I canna cat this soup, and the his Mansion House speech intion

North for the shooting, and who also his first experience of the tele- waiter went through the same per- and the Justice which we call

phone, and the girl at the exchange formunce again. When he' had classic, and which we and only in thought that his ghlilie was not kept telling him to "Speak louder, brought the third London recently, money apent on the greatest literature. Poetry treating him with due respect, said,

please." is and always must be which had such perfection must "Look here, my man, you do not stand in relation to other poetry us seem to be aware that my ancestors money robbed from wolfare. something more than a wayside have been entitled to bear arms since.

deil to Once again, Mr. Eden, speaking spring to a river, or a

the time of William the Conquerori demesne. However, we may con- ut Bradford last month, held out

"Hoots, awa'!" said the ghillie, in no way subdued. "Thut's naething! the hand of friendship to Ger-

Mu ancestors ha'e been entitled to

"Have you any witnesses to call?" muny. Why should not co- but the trouble is that Germany bare legs since the warld began!"

naked the Judge, in a grave volco. operation take the place of is already so committed to self falling was his unquestionable thirst, did ye think I was gaun to steal & eddification.""

"Witnesses!" exclaimed Weelum, was approached by the minister one sleep in front o' witnesses?" day, who told him very solemnly

certain, beudle, whose great

"Look at the table. I can write my name on the dust"

"Fegs, mum!" sald Kirsty, in ad- maration. "It's a groun' thing to hac

their people. But an arms for its obvious good sense ana horse at the t'ither alde o' the wait-an let it rain, then," said she,ch, they're only filled w' furni-

| armament-fed self-sufllciency in sufliciency and to armaments

the relationship between nations? that it is difficult, for her to that he would kill him if it have bad fever, said the caller to the come to his parish, and noticed rat A very plous minister came to have did "I hear your mistress has had a ten with a family who had newly Great Britain, Mr. Eden declar- disentangle herself from their not end his evil ways. ed, is willing to take its share in many implications and even con- not even the sense of the lower servant who opened the door. "How on the sideboard there were severa!

decanters which appeared to "Weel, sir, it's no' for me to say," filled with whisky and other drinks. creating international conditions, template a return to normal animals, Tammas," he admonished is her temperature to-day?"

“If you take a horse to the

"My friend," he observed to his wherein all-nations could have trade, and ways of peaceful water and sluke his thirst, you will was the reply. "Ye scc, the deed

hostess, "It would be, belter. If you greater opportunities and could friendliness. Yet the British that he stops when he has had yesterday."

enough.

"It's rainin'," remarked Donald to avoided even the appearance of evil. thehis wife.

I do not say that you drink? raise the standard of life, for gesture was well worth making,

bendursay!"

admitted "but, gin there was neither. "Hoots!

ture polish an floor-stain," said the agreement is an indispensable good will point the only way out ter sayin', 'Here's the ye! I'll wager

was gaun to," repiled Donald, good-wife. "It's the decanters I like

they look that bonnie." mcckly. part of such a general coning of the dangerous impasse into he wad gang on!"

"Just so,” said the minister. Two Scottish worthies were visit- "I wish yo wadna' whustle at yer

even the appearance together; and it is impossible which Europe has drifted during ng London when a watering-cart waurk, Jimmy said the cobbler to repeat, avoid ex myself to a think for Britain to help Germany the last few years. For the passed them on the street. Tammas his young assistant.

got very exclted and ran after it, either financially or economically moment there may seem little shouting. "Hey, ma mannie; ve're I wasnu workin'!"

Och," quoth Jimmy, it's a' richi; from the big decanter in the mid-

dic,

A story is told of an Englishman "if the only result of our action hope of bringing Germany Back losin' ayer waitter!

and a Scot who were arguing about... "Hoots, mon; dinna show yer lg- would be a further piling up of to a policy of co-operation, but

norance, cried his companion. A country worthy was dining out evolution and the Darwinian theory. armaments and a consequent it is the business of British D'ye no, ken that's juist to keep the in state one night when he sum-"And do you believe," said the Eng- bairns frac hingin' on the back." moned the wailer and said, "I canna lishman, that we have all descended further stress and strain upon statesmen to keep the door open,

cat this soup.” “

from apes?".. the fabric of world peace and to let Germany and the

"No" exactly," said the Scotsman Another story is told of a country- "Sorry, Sir," said the waiter, ond Herr Hitler is now Bald to be world know that it will remain man who, on, his first visit to town, removed the plate. A few maments cauriously. The English micht ha'e pondering Mr Eden's overture,

was forced to go into post office to later he returned with a different descended, but the Scots ascended." send a telephone medije. It was kind of soup, but the diner reposted,

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