The other day I had a chat with William Graham, the Secretary of the Treasury, one of the mr. Edinburgh "(writes Mr.
O'Connor, m.v.). It was a very me teresting conversation, but may confess thnt to me, as an Irishman, it was somewhat humiliating, and for this reason, William Graham came from a modest, even poor, home, but his parents had that splendid passion for education which ig one of the highest qualities of the Seats race, and one of the chi factors in' producing their' extraordinary position in the world, especinily in the English-speaking world, where, indeed, banks a mainly officered by Scotsmen, His parents first gave him a good itary education; he won burs aries in one' of those excellent. ondary schools in which Scotland so rich; then his cautious mother wanted him to have the security of a place in the Civil Service, and for a year he was a clerk in the Ofice—I think his salary was 16s.
week, But the boy had bolder ideas. He returned to Scotland, became a journalist, remained at that for several years, then with the money he had saved was enabled to go through Edinburgh University, to become a graduate and a lecturer there, as elsewhere and by a natural process is now n Labour Minister, In an astonishingly short space of time he has created a big position as Secretary of the Treasury—indeed, nature and training: marked him out for the job. The gift which has most struck the House of Commons ie his extraordinary mastery of figures. He rolls them out in. an-wer to question and supplementary, question with promptitude without Pause, without hesitation, To me a miracle, for I cannot remember a name, a face, or a figure.
The Fame of Aberdeen.
The fame of Aberdeen—in one respect, at any rate—has spread to the other side of the Atlantic, Mr. Frank Mulholland, of Toledo, Ohio, who is at present making a tour the British Rotary Clubs told his Granite City friends that it would take him hours to tell all the things he had heard concerning them. doubt," he said, "if there is any' other city which has so many ston told about it. Outside the Ford ear and the Jew, I think you hold the record.
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