The very wet weather may have ac~ counted for the theatres, picture {houses and the Kelvin Hall being erowed. At the latter, of course, 1s the annual carnival with the wonderful menagerie and fine circus, "In order to meet the enormous demands of the public and to accommodate the big crowds wanting to seo the pertorminees, four of them are being arranged daily, from to-day and con-tineing for afew days. That proves the popularity of the circus which again declared to be one of the very best the city has ever had, The menagerie is also exceptionally fine, while the performing Hons and tigers attract multitudes of adults well as children, The side shows seem to do a roaring business and altogether our Annual Carnival can be accurately described as an unpreceented success, fnancally and other. wise, There has been no long holiday for the ut any of men working on the Queen Mary. Just a short break to commemorate New Year is all that they are gelting. The vessel fs the last word in ship building, wonderful and beautiful, with everything than a ship can have or should have, White people are complaining of the heavy rain, they do not want a repetltion of the severe cold which we had Just before Christmas: It is no ox-aggeration {o state that our eldest residents could not recall a more [severe spell of cold wintry weather had for a few days before Christmas Day. When the thaw set Ju, a3 cane realized there were umpteen pipes. bursting inal parts Jof the city with the result that 9 rear deal more water was used than normal for the time of the year. [This also indicates that many burst pipes were not repaired as quickly as was necessary and that'much valuable water was wasted, Tt was necessary for the Corporation {o issue a warning, for while the eily has excellent supplies of the best water, coming as. it docs from, Loch Katrine, yet, naturally, even Glasgow cannot afford to waste iis water, Mr, Ramsay MacDonald will be Jcandidate for the Universities at th {forthcoming bye-election, It would be wrong to pretend that a great many graduates Of our Universities are not exactly pleased about the choice of the ex-Premier. They all recognize, as indeed everyone must do, that Nr. MacDonald, has many excellent Jqualifeations to recommend him. will be a tragedy for him as well as for the present Government if he falls to secure the important seat but the ]whole affair has not been well handled Jand it ought to be a lesson to those who are responsible for pressing his Jeandidature upon the Universities this time.
If the Universities had been lett entirely to themselves in the matter it is almost certain they would not have considered the ex-Premier and there is a strong under current of fecl~ ing that they would have preferred not having the man Seaham rejected. This does not imply for a single moment any reflection upon Mr, Mac-Donald himself. vention of Americans from travelling fon their ships, The act cannot, however, be looked upon from the standpoint of what would be ideally perfect but what would "be politically practicable. There is no doubt that to the great majority of Americans the question fof right and wrong, of ood nations and bad nations docs not enter into the picture, AN they want is to keep out of war while as for food and bod nations to help mind all European nations are "bad."
Meanwhile, there is some uncertainty as fo whether or not his son Will contest the Ross and Cromarty Jconstituency rendered vacant through the regrettable resignation on the grounds of ill health of the popular Sir Ton Macpherson who figures t0- day in the Birthday Honours List, Suexpiwe, sickness in the Cameroons, both in French West Africa and French, Equatorial Africa, has been successfully combatted with the German remedy "Germanin."
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