Industrial re-organization is the only cure for our ills. The endow. ment of research; the cons ation and wise use of our national ces; the perfecting of our technical education; the elimin tion the innumerable parasites and deadheads of the present selling and distribute system; the bringing of} the worker into active and genuine' partnership with Great Britain, Ld.; the scrapping of our obsolete plant, and last but not least, the reduetion of interest on our rus national debt. The last suggest may sound revolutionary, rhone who has studied the stifle ing effect of this enormous burden on our enterprise,'and the growing resentment of the masses who have to work to pay it off fully re-liza that there will soon have to be some relief or worse things will happen.
An air of gloom appears to have hung over the annual meeting of the Kilt Society at Inverness. A {lack of enthusiasm for the garb of eld Gaul was reported not merely among the public but among the members of the Society themselves. It held a "Ceilidh" last, Hallowe'en, most of those who attended sine garbed like mere Sassenachs in breeks. A letter was read from a Canadian correspondent bewailing, this lethargy, and pointing out that more kilts are seen in Canada than in Scotland. "Why was it," he asked, "'that in Scotland boys did! not wear the kilt as a school dress there was no dress more econom or picturesque?"" These are difficult questions, though not beyond! all conjecture. ' The Scotsman who goes oversea suffers a sea change and becomes more Scottish the farther he goes from Scotland. In San Francisco a Kft is essential A feature of ocean tours to-day the liner transformed into a yacht. It has the advantage of Providing. comfortable second cla accommodation of which a good many people wisely avail themedves, "On one of these lines Yecentiy & sweepstake on hovserace was held. When the result was known by wireless and the winners ware declared, a Uitle girl ran to har mother and said "0 mummy, what do you think? The firat prise hap gous to a person in the second class; the second prize has also gone to a person in the second class, and only the third prize has gone to-4 passenger in the fret doos, But" (reflectively) "dant it mice that the mosey has gee where it must be
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