NOTES AND COMMENTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 43, 30 November 1937, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

GETTING FLAVOUR FROM WORK. Hope of achievement gives flavour to work, lightens drudgery, and elevates the routine task 19 a position of importance, asserts Miss Ella H. Hay, writing in the “Christian Science Monitor.” The mother loves her work; hope in her child gives joy to the task. The writer works overtime; his hope is to find audience for his ideas and perhaps achieve repute for himself while enlightening mankind. The inventor us not a clock watcher; and many a man who owns his business takes less time for recreation than his humblest employee. There is little desire for prolonged leisure when one has learned that there is more flavour to be extracted from work than from play. THE “CLAN SCOTLAND.” Regrets sometimes expressed at the lack of some unifying aim on the part of British youth, and wishes that some purpose could be found that would give young people in England the happy activity of such countries as Holland and Denmark, together with a national pride (not inane patriotism), are dis cussed by a. Scotsman writing to the says, to learn that we in Scotland already have an organisation known as the “Clan Scotland,” which seeks to supply this long-felt need of some higher purpose to which Scottish youth may devote its latent energy and everincreasing leisure. Very briefly, the Clan Scotland ideal is that of a nation organised not as a regiment, but on the principle of a team. Such an or ganisation gives scope for both individual “play”, and considerable selfdiscipline. Every member of the Clan Scotland is pledged to be a good citizen of and loyal to Scotland, Great Britain, the British Commonwealth of Nations and the whole civilised world. It is the Clan Scotland’s self-imposed duty to investigate economic, social and cultural • conditions in 'Scotland, and by consulting expert opinion—especially conflicting expert opinion—endeavour to arrive at a true diagnosis of our difficulties and to suggest, and, indeed, by constitutional methods, actually introduce, reforms which it considers essential. All members of the Clan Scotland are Christians, and pledged to support Christianity, which is a basic force in the movement. The Clan Scotland hopes to regain for Scotland the high physical, cultural and economic position among the nations of the world which she once Held, so making her a fitter partner for England in a Greater Britain, which perhaps some day may lead the nations of the world toward a higher and more peaceful civilisation.