Arsenal left winger, has joined the London Scottish Territorials as a private. In many respects his career has been a remarkable one. His father, who was a United Free Church minister in Glasgow, died at a comparatively early age; and, in order to be able to pursue his medical studies the Major joined he Glasgow Rangers F. C. Notwithstanding the severe calls made upon him by professional football engagements, he worked hard, and was eventually successful in obtaining his degree. For two years during the war, Major Paterson acted as medical officer of the London Scottish in France; but of course in now joining the regiment, he had to follow the strict rules laid down for its recruits, and he is only Private Paterson. Needless to say his appearance in the ranks of the men in hodden grey has been received with great enthusiasm.
Jews anp Scots.
The other day, the London "Times" dealt editorially with Jews and Scots, its remarks being based on the Lord Chief Justice's objection in a recent case to an attempt to discredit a witness by asking him if he were a Jew. Mr. Justice Darling tried to broaden and sweeten the argument by recalling that on the previous week, in a Glasgow case, he had himself admitted Scottish nationality, to help a witness who was charged with the same to his disadvantage.
The "Times" says there is one curious distinction between the Jew and the Scot when they have prospered in England. The Jew is inclined to proclaim himself an Englishman with an undue vehemence; the Scot is convinced that he has retained all the characteristics of his race except its accent. "But the common ground of complaint against both," we are told, "is closely similar. Both are supposed to have an almost diabolical acuteness in money matters, expressing itself, according to the character of the individual, as meanness, hard bargaining, or even dishonesty."" The "Times" adds that both races also throw up a type wildly reckless in material things, almost extravagantly idealistic in the things of the mind. England and the world owe much to what we sometimes call the "orientalism of Jews, and to what a medieval Pope described as "ingenium perfervidum Scotorum.""
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