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Soon buglers sounded the calls requested by the Archbishop; but most touching of all was the playing by Scotch bagpipers of an old lament which was the favorite of Britain's greatest War hero, the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, Laird of Bemersyde (TIME, Feb. 6, 13). Softly the pipers played "The Flowers of the Forest"; and British lips repeated afterwards the motto of the House of Haig: What e're betide, What e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde...
...give the people from the other side a chance to know that the Americans are "Real." Pick on "Tom" he can stand a little picking, there is lots of him, but respect his Mother, as you would want yours respected. This scribble is from a good bit-O-Scotch in California...
Pennies pinched by Scotch employers since the War have turned many a braw Sandy and honest Wully to Communism. Scotland's shipyards on the Clyde and Scotland's dreary coal mines are the new cradle of British Reds. Last week the British Coal Miners' Federation Conference met at Llandudno, Wales, and was bearded by five Scotch Reds, executives of the Scotch Communist Miners' Union, which was recently expelled from the parent Federation. "Tyrant!" bawled the Scots at Federation President Herbert Smith, 65, "we demand a hearing...
Numerous aristocratic but decadent Scotch shooting lodges have been leased this year by the Cunard Line for release to rich U. S. sportsmen...
Despatches from Scotch sources independent of the line told, last week, that nearly all the leased lodges have had to be replumbed or plumbed for the first time and equipped with latest built-in-tub bathrooms...