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Glasgow,--The question is--Has the Spirit of Wallace departed from land? The patriots say it has. "here 'Was a gathering of them re- mtly "at Robroyston, near (ilas- ov. Jeelebrating the betrayal of allace to the English. Why they should wish to keep afresh in the memory of the country a great be- trayal, and to make the little place notorious every August as the place where Wallace 'was handed oyer to his enemies, nobody seems able to explain--mot even the pa triots themselves. It would have been better to have allowed Rob- royston to live in peace and quiere ness, and made some excuse for selebrating something about Wal« lace at some other time and place. For, after all, a betrayal is not a pleasant episode in the history of a country, and it was a -Scot who betrayed Wallace. The English were only carrying out war in. the way it was then understood when they eaptured their most dangerous @énemy.. So by celebrating the bee trayal the patriots are only keeping een the wrong doing of a Scot. er ats not convicting the Ens= Hsh of that day of doing wromng, nd they are not paying any trib- e to the memory of Wallace. Be« sides, they are not interesting the public.' Fer Robroyston betrayal anniversary celebration drew small erowds. Recently there were omy about a hundred people. That was why the original speaker alleged that 'the spirit of Wallace had left Scotland. But the small attendance proved no such thing. It only prov- ed that the people were not inter- ested in that particular brand of patriotism, ? Mentality of Scotsmem " The mentality of Scotland, said this speaker, was sinking into dif- ferism. The Scot was becoming soft, and was not now a hard-head-~ ed man; with backbone of steel, lke his ancestors. He was not less strong physically, but he was less manly. In Wales there was a Na- tional Party that was standing up ike men, and stating that they would not be governed by the Enge lish. for ever. When he was in Wales recently they told him they were to start a secret society, such as the Trish had before they got Home Rule, and fight. He bellev- ed the only solution of Scotland's troubles was for the people of Scotland to take the whole matter out of the hands of the government in London and set up a Parliament of their own in Edinburgh. An- other speaker said the people of Scotland, after 222 years of ad- ministration for London, had be- come servile. Why, he asked, did the Labor government accept office if they knéw, as they did, that Scot- tish affairs could not be properly managed from London? All this is very sad; but, somehow, nobody geems to be sorrowing, except, per- haps the patriots. The fact is that very few, if any, people in Scotland believe what the patriots say about the -degenaration of the nation. Most people believe that Scots were mever more 'manly, more patriotic, more enterprising or more sensible #han they are today; and believe also that it is much better to con- 'tinue co-operating with England in the government of the island gener- ally than to set up a little govern= ment. of their own, The patriots do not give the people credit for this opinion, but it is what explains their hundred of a crowd at Rob- royston. Other Patriotism The Royal Caledonian Curling Clubs are by way of being patriots, Jbut of another kind. They believe in Empire patriotism. They have held thejr annual meeting, , and their principal item of business was the invitation from Canada. The eouncil of the club had issued a gircular stating that last year 'branches in Canada had asked that & team should be sent across, ana the previous general meeting had authorized acceptance of the invi- tation. Then, however, much to the Fegret of the council, a team cow not be found. Now the invitation had been renewed, and the council did hope that a strong team would to ewan. The chairms | (Sir Henry Ballantyne, of Hadd: Ja team this year, and he suggest~ Scotia, and work 'their - ton) said it was one of the great disappointments of last season that they were not able to- was a great pity that Seotland not sent out curlers to compete for | the Strathcona Cup. But they lived jin the hope that they would raise ed that the Earl of Stair should be chosen as captain. A most enjoy- able feature of last year was the init or. outlets from Sweda. These ad shown themselves to jolly good fellows and fl. Bd ther curlers. Then the club agreed to set aside a sum of £200 out of their funds towards the expeases of the Canadian tour--if it comes off --and elected the Earl of Stair as president. sisi : 3 . Probléms of Union i Who will be parish minister sf- ter October? That is one of the union' problems arising out of the forthcoming union of . the Estab lished and United Free Churches. In the large cities and towns there are already many Established churches, and in each case one of these is recognized as "the" parish church, and its minister is "the" parish minister. In Glasgow, for example, it is the Cathedral and the minister of the Cathedral who take precedence; and in Edinburgh | it is St. Giles 'Cathedral and its minister. In all parishes where there is more than one Establishes ed Church, all except one are '"'par= ish" churches only by courtesy, and only one minister draws his sti pend or salary from the heritors or property owners: The question of who is really 'parish minister will not mean so much in the bigger places, where there are many churches, as it will mean in coun- try places, where there is at pres- ent just one Established and one United Free Church. After Octo- ber these will be both in one de nomination--both Church' of Scot- land--and one of the ministers will' have no more right than the otner to. the title 'Parish' minister. Some people suggest that the term should be abolished altogether, ana that such each church should "be given a distinctive name. But many' of the Auld Kirk folks object to this. They insist on retaining the' names "Parish Church" and "Par- ish Minister," without considering the feelings of the churches that are to unite with them. It seems a small matter, but it may cause a good deal of heartburning. Trade With Russia The Scottish herring trade sent a deputation State for Scotland and the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries aske' ing if something could be done for the re-opening of trade with Rus- ¢ia, and also in the way of help'ror' fishery harbors. The deputation] gave the ministers lots of informa- tion about the value, before the war, of the Russian market for Scottish herring. That marker, they said, took 75 per cent of the Scottish catch. Now it was taking very little--not more than 800,000 barrels each year. Instead, Russia was getting its supplies from Nor- way. So they argued strongly that the Government should get on the' friendliest possible relations with' the Government of Russia, so that' the Russian merchants and people might be encouraged to come back to Scotland for their herring. Aas for the harbors, some of these were practically closed because of condi- tions arising out of the war, and something should be done by the Government for relieving them of some, at least, of their debts. The ministers said In reply that the statements made to them would re- ceive their most careful considera tion, and that already the question for easing the burden of harbor debts in necessary cases was being sympathetically considered. These are exactly the replies that are nearly always glven by Government departments and Cabinet Minis- ters, no matter what political party may be in office, and it will be in- teresting to see if they mean any- thing worth while when they are made by Labor. VISITOR DECLARES QUEBE LIKE CUBA Cuban Minister of State Finds Common Culture Montreal, Aug. 20--Canada and Cuba have many things in common, whether in the cultural or in the material order, according ot Senor a team for a Canadian hie i THE OSAAWA DAILY, TIMES, TO ol , EVELYN FEHR ARMSTRONG ' (Left) Detroit, pro-swimmer, now training for women's Wrigley V on swim, who came sec- ond in. Port Dalhousie two-mile grind (Right), Her daughter, ,"' who will be three yea old next month, ; favored treatment in the matter of customs tariff. "Our government is now negotiat- ing at Washington to see that the new tariff regulations now being dis- cussed by the American Congress do not hurt our trade relations with them. We hope that these negotia- tions will be . successful, for the American' capital invested in Cuba would be the first to suffer from an adverse tariff... Our government has also been negotiafing a treaty of commerce with ' France, which will probably be concluded within the next few weeks." ... On Prohibition Speaking 'of | prohibition in the United States . and its effects on Cuba, Senor Garcia stated all that he could say, without' meddling in the gpeat republic's business, was that avana, in particular, was favored with the visits of thousands of American tourists, who seemed sat- isfied to find liquor in the local hotels and taverns. "The Cuban people are not a drinking race and it can- be said, without exaggeration, that most of the liquor in Cuba is consumed by strangers," he added. Senor Garcia said that the Cuban government is spending much money on road building and on the improve- ment of hotel accommodation in all arts of the island, so that tourists rom: Canada need not be afraid that they won't be comfortable in Cuba. The visitor, who is on his second visit to Canada, will spend two weeks visiting Montreal and the province, U.3.A. CONFIDENT OF ses FINAL OUTCOME OF NAVAL DISCUSSIONS Limitations Parleys Will Be Handled By State Department WITH GREAT BRITAIN Rumors That Navy Is Ig-|} nored Hotly Denied At Washington Washington, Aug. 20.--In the and sceptical face of pessimism head-shaking from some groups hereabouts, the administration ap- pears to be confident something will come of the naval limitations discussions initiated between Presi- dent Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald, This conference rests at the mo- ment on hope, rather than on re- sults, because the best information is that an agreement is some dis- tance off. * For instance, the Navy General Board, it was disclosed Friday, nas reached no decision on vital questions of tonnages. - It has not been decided whether special allow- ance should be made for cruisers used in colonial police work rath- er than in national defence, Britain having a large number of cruisers on such duty. Many technical questions are yet to be decided. Direct Control However, there were plain indi- cations that the administration, while leaving many details in the hands of the navy, intends to keep the public discussion largely in the hands of the State Department. Secretary of the Navy Adams' stat- ed that all announcements relating to disarmament would come from the State Department. This development indicated that it had been decided to confine naval experts to technical work and to discourage them from public discussion of the question in the hope of avoiding the impasse which tempt is to be made to show that the president had no authority to order such postponement. Curiously, naval 'officers say they have received no official orders regarding postponement of cruiser work and that all they know about it is what they read in the news- papers. Drafting of plans for the cruisers is continuing, it is said, and contracts for materials are to be let within a short time unless orders to delay are issued to the Navy Department. The navy has just let a contract for gun-making tools to be used in the nayy yard here, which is work- ing on guns for the cruisers to be built in private shipyards not af- fected by the halting order. GIRLS USE RADIO T0 CAPTURE MEN Tokio, Aug. 20.--Wireless sta- tions in Japan have begun new matrimonial announcements, in which Japanese girls boast in flow- ery language of the charms of their figures and faces. The following is a typical exam- ple of how a would-be bride sets forth her charms and announuces that she is in search of a husband: "I am a very pretty girl. My hair is wavy like the clouds. My com- plexion has the brilliance and the bloom of a flower. My face is us mobile as the leaves of the weep- ing-willow. My brown eyes are like two moon-crescents. "I have possessions enough to pags my life in happy ease With my lover. If this appeal is heard by an intelligent young man who SE -- London -- The United States sent one of the biggest contingents, to the number of 1,500 to the Boy Scout Jamboree at Birkenhead, Yet, but for the action of a London boy scout, our cousins: "dciess the pond" might still be wondering + vaguely what scouting for boys really is," says G. N. 0, writing in the Echo. ; But for: W, D: Boyce, a big game who was «doing his good turn:for the day --'which iis what 'all scouts do -- there might not have been | 816,658 scouts in America today. 'The U.S. Founder. It.was Mr. Boyce, recently deceas- ed who founded the: scout movement in the United States." In 1910 he was visiting London and found himself in the midst of a typical London fog. Endeavoring to make his way along Fleet street he became hopelessly lost and sought the help of a newshoy. Quickly and efficiently the boy pil- oted the traveller to his destination. Mr. Boyce was about to offer the lad a reward when, to his surprise, his young guide explained that he was a scout and did at least one good turn every day, and could take no reward. Mr. Boyce was so interested in the spirit of such a movement that he bought a copy of the Chief Scout's handbook "Scouting for Boys," and, when he returned to America, promptly put his lesson into opera- tion. More than three million boys in the States have come under the in- fluence of scouting, and all because a London newsboy remembered that he was a scout one foggy evening. The "Great Unknown" At Gilwell Park, the training cen- tre for scout officers, there stands a permanent memorial to this "Great Unknown" in the form of a bronze bison, which was presented by the scouts of the United States to their brothers in England in grateful re- membrance. Here is a story of a country nearer home, Scotland to be precise. The 4th Caithness Troop recently determined to earn enough money to send three scouts to the Jamboree and the remainder to the annual summer camp. Unfortunately the amount earned did not permit of both objects being schieved. The sequel was that fifteen gallant scouts decided to forego their sum- mer holiday in order to send five of their troop to Arrowe Park. There are at least fifteen good scouts in Scotland who bravely obey the 8th Scout Law, "A scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties." is amiable and comely, I will unite myself to him for life. And when we are dead we will rest forever in tomb of red marble." Appeals of this sort are sent' forth daily and this method of mar- riage-making is apparently proving a real success. Pacific Coast ports of Canada have broken all previous records for shipments of grain this year. 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Size. 11-2 Ricardo Garcia, Minister of State and ex-plenipotentiary of Cuba to Montevideo and Beunos Aires, who is on a visit to' Montreal with the Senora Garcia. He was interviewed at the Windsor Hotel. "Here in Canada you have, in the Province of Quebec, a French culture which is ours in most respects: You have also in Quebec the Napoleonic] code of laws, which we have in Cuba, an inheritance from the Spanish dom- ination which we preserve with care. Futthermore, Cuba owes a great part of its material development to the co- operation of Canadian capital. I may therefore say that a Cuban finds many things in Canada, and particu- larly in the Province of Quebec, that remind him of his" home." 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