Glasgow, Oct. 12.
Kelvin Hall just now is the scene of our Annual Housing Exhibition, organized by the Glasgow Corpora tion, The great Hall is truly a wonderful sight and it is not sure Pr rising that large crowds go there each da} The big attractions are many and the whole exhibition shows what this big city can do in that kind of thing. The Band with the pipers are a feature of the entertainment side of the varied prowramine while the many exhibits 'a never falling source of wonder.
'The charge for admission, Gd. per head, except on Saturdays when it is increased to 9d. practically allows everybody to feel' encouraged 10 and the Corporation is to be congratulated not only upon the excel-Tent show the Annual Exhibition certainly is, but also for the splendid arrangements made for the comfort of the large crowds attending.
The Moffat murders have caused a widespread concern and rightly so mut, according to reports, the police evidently are on the track of one or more persons they feel are connected with the awful atrocities. It will be interesting to see what is the direct outcome of the police inquiries.
Those responsible for making them ai doing their utmost, working night and day to bring the courts the one or the ones responsible for the awful murders of the poor victims. For the time being Mott {is quite the centre of events as far as Scotland is concerned, Marvellous Queen Mary Remarkable progress is being made with and on the Queen Mary. Enormous crowds have gone down the river this summer to get a sight tthe great ship. Truly she is marvellous, palatial, and to stand on tone of her upper decks and to look right along, gives one the impression of looking along an immense roadway or wide pathway.
It is not surprising that here in Scotland we are smeusely proud of the vessel and that we feel there is no other place in the world where she could have been built, and fitted out as she is being done here on the Clyde. What a day it will be hen she is finally completed and yhen she sets out for her trials, There is not the slightest doubt in any of the minds of the large army of workmen engaged upon her that wot aly will she prove the most beautiful and the most stately of all ships but that she will also bring back to Great Britain the Blue ribbon of the Atlantic, Not for a number of years ha the Clyde been as busy as she is to-day. While things are not yet back to the prosperous days of the re-war years, yet it is a long while since there were so many orders for vessels as there are. to-day. Prospects appear to be better than they have been for a long while and with the Government determined as it is, to make good the nation's deficiencies in connection with its shortage of armaments, the yards on the Clyde are anticipating a big increase in employment.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancel lor of the Exchequer, is' expected here on Monday night to address a crowded gathering in St. Andrew's Hall in the evening, There has been.
tremendous run on the tickets, While not the personality that his great father was, nevertheless the country realizes that it is largely owing to his sound policy while in charge of the nation's finances, that the country has made the marvellous Fecovery it has, and it accounts for the growing influence that he to-day is exercising, not only in the ranks of the Conservative Party but through the country as a whole.
His speech will be awaited with intense interest as generally, ticipated that he will give some indication as to when the Govern: ment will make its appeal to the country. Meanwhile, in Glasgow the Moderate Party never before has been so active. It is doing its utmost to stir up the electors with a view to the Socialist majority being turned into @ minority. It is felt that the present reckless spendthrift policy, @ characteristic feature of the Socialist policy will bring about eventually the bankruptcy" of the Its strange, in fact extraordinary, how apathetic the majority citizens are in the matter of the Municipal elections. and it is hoped that this one now due, will see the citizens roused as never before to a sense of what is due from them. Many "leading business men are indeed alarmed at the growing expenditure and" of the apparent Inability of the city's Councillors 10 understand that there "must come either catastrophe or else a curtail ment in the desire to spend and spend, Sympathy for Ethopla goes without saying that, the feeling is, strong. right throughout Scotland that Signor Mussolini heartless "and unjustified in' hie attack upon Abyssinia. The Scotts People strongly sympathize. with the Ethiopian people "and. feel most Kenly" for"'them. Italy has don ltreparatie harm to her, own food mame' by her invasion of the Abys inion "people and. feeling agate the aggressors is very. strong. No
whole heartedly condemned. cee excuses: Tay. "She is stron where des one hear anything. that There is a feeling, too, that Great Britain' must 'e-arm, "It ts realised now that the polley of alsarmament fought not to have een carried {o'the extent that 1 lis been done, especially when it was being realized, was, thatthe other nations Were not following our example but the other hand were re-arming 8 fast a they could." Facts are now being faced and Unpleasant as they are, it is generally conceded that we have not been able az an Empire to make influence felt quite in the way that we might have done, had. Our armaments been more in age ord with our requirements." When the. Gov-finment. oct. to. the country "and appeals for a mandate to make good the weakness in our defences, it will fet the unanimous support of the vast majority of the citizens.
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