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MISLAID MONEY

1

BEN NEVIS FROM CORPACH, ENTRANCE TO CALEDONIAN CANAL.

SCOTLAND

Scotland is taking off her coat to fight-and some other time-honour- ed garments as well!

When I crossed the Border into Scotland, I

naturally expected to

wild glens and rugged sea-coasts of the Highlands.

While I sat in my hotel in ono of the larger towns, the "alert". Rounded. At the call of the siren "sireen," most people In Scotland seemed to call it-scarcely a man looked up from his newspaper and the women went on knitting or strident. blust chatting. The

seemed to rush through the lounge like the scream of a High- land banshee, but not ur single soul batted an oyelash. The English would at least have smiled at one another, or have cracked a joke. But in Scot- land, I could see, this kind of thing is simply not done. It is derogatory to pay the slightest attention to danger, an insuit to oneself.

One or two hard-bitten elder- ly men even looked disdainful, "as if to say: "Oh, you're there again, are you? Well, carry on, and be hanged to you!" It was not quite Oriental, for there was nothing of kismet in the atti- tude. It was defiant and utterly contemptuous.

"Aye, there they are again, Sir," chuckled the old waiter, as he brought my coffee. The A.A. Kuns coughed. The tramcurs to a standstill. A.R.P..

came

cars rushed past.

IN WAR-TIME

by

Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

the noted. Muslin author

bomb," Crump! "You'll be said the waiter derisively, as he carefully counted out my change in threepenny pleces. Crump!' A second explosion réverberated distantly. Nobody took the slightest notice. A third crash, a little nearer this time. And

see those national mili- In Glasgow and other large head, sadly as he spoke of his then the whirring of Spitfires,

used by the fongkong Telegraph to tary emblems one reads towns people seem to be going damaged furniture. "My best tearing through the black spaces. about their daily work as though bed," he moaned, "if ye just saw aloft to do battle with the under the provisions of the Telecommun- and hears so much about the world "war" were not to be that bed! It was a grand old bit raiders. The dim crackle of and a long one sees that all see beds

yon now-a-days. silence. The United Press attociationslication by as being part of the found in the Scottish dictionary, o' stuff, mostly brass. Ye'll no riders. The serve all rights and forbid republications, traditions of the Scot- these are old or elderly people. It'll have to go for munitions.

Practically all the young men in now, I expect.' tish people-the kilt, the Scotland aye, and the young

"All Clear" I sympathised with him. "But At last the

sounded. An elderly gentleman feather bonnet, the woman too-are "in the war" nobody was hurt?" I asked.

in one capacity or another. The "Och, no! But the wife's fair near me lit a fresh cigar. In the swinging sporran-and majority are in the fighting sick about her best china. Ye glint of the match I saw an an- ranks, as all Scots prefer to be see, it had belonged to her swering gleam in his eye, bushed exposition of the Colony's financial to hear the loud strains at such a time, and those who grannie, just as my bed had be- over with thick brows, like a fire position was unhappily sague on the of the bagpipe re- are not are sweating at the longed to my grandfather."

making of munitions, or build- And then I remembered from old Scottish motto. "Wha daur reserve balance-a figure which he sounding on the even- ing ships. Scotland, in a word, a long stay in Scotland, that meddle wi' me?" the motto of a great fort-factory, the nearly every article of furniture the thistle, the national emblem. with a Widows and Orphans' Pening air. But, looking is

bristling turrets and defences in that country has been handed There is a strange "feel" in slons trust fund, which again is not out of the window at the of which are not visible. culated without actuarial investign- rather deserted station

THE Hon. Financial Secretary's,

not unimportant condition of

the

does not know because it is tied up

central fund and cannot be cal-

tion.

The present Financial Secretary

munity would have been thrashed

revenue but nothing Was done; nothing was said in rebuttal.

beneath a thicket. I recalled an

down from some ancestor or an- Scotland, as they would call it other, and that the purchase of there, the sentiment as of a household plenishings was a late people waiting, crouching for

platform, I could see There are, of course, the usual and very modern innovation, To the spring. It is the grim Inherited the complexities of this only a sprinkling of men signs of war, the odds and ends poor Chick and his wife the loss silence of the tiger lying in the of defensive scenery, shelters, of their bed and china had been jungle, couchant for his enemy, fund-which in any wideawake comin khaki, and even these sandbags, and the like. Only a double calamity. They had confident in his strength.

A farm labourer described to into solution years ago--from were wearing the trews the coast bristles with visible lost not only their household

defences, as the pictures in the goods, but their household gods! me how he had captured a Ger- man airman. "I took him in- lengthening line of Treasurers. The of the Sassenach.

evening papers reveal.

bye," he mused lazily, "and gied "Telegraph" ran few years ago

There was a tramping of feet him a cup o' tea. He was a -articles-pointing out the danger of I-called-to-a-porter. "What I got into conversation witha not separating the fund from general has happened to the kilt?" couple of elderly business men as we sat talking. A battalion great, muckle callant, saft and in. a ten-room in a fair-sized on the march. I looked out of gey fulish-like. I was fell sorry I asked anxiously.

window with my new for the cratur, he looked sac town in Central Scotland. They the It can be suspected that the reason "Whase kilt?" he replied were erst, but, like most Scots- past, accompanied by its mo-

were certainly not communica- friends, and we watched it go dune."

Scotland has always felt statement "I am afraid that the re- in the usual Scottish fashion, men, they quickly thawed, al- torised division. Rank after "sorry" for her enemies. So am wishes to meet next year's extra- that is answering a question though they remained extremely rank, the dour, stern faces 1. Courage is a sword, but con- spiked bludgeon, cautious in statement. One, passed us. These were not men tempt is a exist, though they can to a certain by asking another. "Hae ye whom his friend called "Alce" to take war lightly, to lay down Scotland has turned her back on extent be made available in an emer-lost a kilt, Mister?" looked like an elderly bank-clerk, the rifle in a hurry once they Herr Hitler,... and you would "We're in Scotland, aren't and was more or less communi. had taken it up. They did not be surprised how expressive a even whistle, They Scottish back can be. In a little, cative, while the other, whose sing or vested as it should have been and we?" I put it to him, "and name seemed to be "Chick" fronted the keen east wind and she will turn round.

was told this the drizzling rain, and plodided I should like to book a front Two officers with closed, seat for that interview. The to the huge annual contributions of there's a war on, isn't there? ("Charley", I

Well, why is nobody in the means in Scotland) was almost on.

amusingly economical of words, expressionless faces, marched thought of it appeals to me as behind, like shepherds. A piper an Afghan. For the Afghan kilt?"

"Chick," it seemed, had had stalked in front, making melan- and the Scot are brothers under his house bombed, and shook his choly music, which recalled the the skin.

why Mr Butters had to make the serves with which Mr Li Tse-fong

ordinary commitments do not morally

from the fact that the arose from gency, amount of the pensions fund cannot be calculated because it was not in-

therefore, no interest has accrued

the major portion of the Civil Ser

vice.

The contributors themselves must be blamed for extreme indifference because they irresponsibilty

and

have

Д right to be kept informed

He shook his head. "Ye'll

the fund, they have an organisation better ask the War Office,"

to represent them in such inquiries he said dolefully.

I visited most of the main

and they have a duty not only to themselves but to the people who come after them to see that the monies they pay ure properly ne- centres of Scotland and several counted for. The fact that despite of the less important byways, haphazard diversion of the fund to but during the weeks I spent general revenue a surplus is still shown, is no reason to believe that a there I scarcely ever saw the delili nek continued happy ignorance of the kilt, unless worn by a few young. real position will not result at some men attached to the Officers' future time in a defcit Instead of Training Corps. I зуды in- profit.

formed that the ancient dress Are Civil Servants then going to was expensive and difficult to be quite linppy about digging more manufacture in mass and in a deeply into their pockels to make up the balance or is the taxpayer going hurry, and that it was liable to to view with equanimity an actuarial hang about the legs in a damp investigation proving that he has ab- and claggy manner for some sorbed in general revenue money which did not belong to him and hours after being exposed to which he must now reimburse pain-rain. fully in a lump sum?

But the absence of the kilt

To any that the taxpayer has bene-does not at all detract from the fited from the use of these contribufighting qualities of the Scot. tions in general revenue is mislead Like the Oriental, he is some- ing. le lus benefited but only so long as he doesn't have to pay back. thing of a fatalist, accepting If a central fund had been established the fortunes of the battlefield

would now amount, to mililon and the interest theron would enable with a stoic calm. But if he is faced with strenuous opposition, one of the following: (a) a reduction

in contributions, (b) an Inercase in his best qualities flash out, and pensions, (c) a reduction in salury he becomes a terror Indeed. proportionate to the reduction in contribullons, thus directly benefiting

the taxpayer.

*

How are the people of Scot-

The longer the true position re- land taking the war? Well, to mains obscure the more unpleasant bo quito frank, a stranger might will be its final unravellings and see but little difference at first since a general cleaning up of do- from the usual routine of peace partments is called for, It would scemtime. That, however, would be that this is one of the things that only the exterior view of things. should first be put in order.

HOLYROOD PALACE, EDINBURGH, OVERLOOKING FIRTH OF FORTH.